Vinson & Elkins today announced that Tigist Kassahun has joined the firm as a Corporate partner. She will start in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office before soon transitioning her practice to New York. Kassahun joins Vinson & Elkins from Debevoise & Plimpton, where she was a counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions practices.
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With an eye toward growing innovative technology in the Life Sciences & Medical Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Space realms, global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Dr. John E. Wehrli as shareholder in the San Diego office. He joins the firm from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and previously was an equity partner at Jones Day and Latham & Watkins, and started his law firm career at Cooley.
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Jonathan Vance has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as a Partner in the Firm’s Finance & Restructuring group in Dallas, the international law firm announced today. He comes to Dorsey from K&L Gates LLP, where he was a partner.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, announced it has expanded its San Francisco office with the addition of a prominent team from Venable, led by Friedemann Thomma, the former co-chair of its Transactional Tax Group. He is joined by fellow partner Becca Chappell.
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Building on recent growth in the Pacific Northwest, national law firm Wilson Elser has today welcomed seventeen accomplished attorneys to its Seattle, Washington, office, including eight new partners. Mary Butler, Lorianne Hanson, Nicole Jackson, Dan Mooney, Daniel Park, John Versnel, Evelyn Winters, and Steven Wraith join as partners.
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Polsinelli is pleased to announce that Philip Piecuch has joined the firm’s national Real Estate Practice in Chicago as a shareholder. Arriving on the heels of another recent real estate shareholder hire in Chicago, his addition reflects the firm’s continued investment and momentum in the market and further builds on Polsinelli’s real estate joint ventures bench. Piecuch arrives from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
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Cooley has expanded its life sciences corporate partnering and licensing practice with the addition of partners Sarah Hogan and Jenna Ventorino in the Boston office and partner Stephen Abreu in the San Francisco office. The three new attorneys enhance Cooley’s established position as a leading strategic advisor across the life sciences industry. Hogan and Ventorino join from WilmerHale, and Abreu joins from Sidley Austin.
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