Cooley is continuing its growth in the Asia-Pacific region with the addition of corporate partner Ferish Patel, who will join in Hong Kong. He arrives from Gunderson Dettmer, where he served as head of the firm’s Singapore office. Cooley intends to continue its expansion into Southeast Asia and will pursue setting up a Singapore office to be led by Patel. The opening of such an office will be subject to obtaining regulatory and other approvals. More >>
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Stockford as a Partner in the Commercial Dispute Resolution practice. Claire will join the London team from Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP in August 2019. More >>
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Continuing the strategic expansion of Pillsbury’s international M&A capabilities, the firm has announced Augusto Lima as the newest partner to join its flourishing Corporate practice. Lima, who comes to Pillsbury after holding prominent in-house leadership roles at Novartis, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Sealed Air Corporation, will be based in the firm’s New York office. More >>
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As it continues to advance its global strategy to expand upon a world-class financial services practice, Reed Smith announced that consumer banking regulatory and litigation lawyer Christina Vitale has joined the firm’s Financial Industry Group as a partner in Houston. Prior to joining Reed Smith, Vitale was a partner at Morgan Lewis. More >>
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Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that David Lay, Andrew White and Gary LeClair will join the firm’s Corporate Section as partners, effective Aug. 5. All three formerly worked at LeClairRyan as partners on their corporate team. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of Grace Fan-Delatour as a partner in Beijing, along with local partner Shaohui Jiang. The pair join White & Case from the Beijing office of K&L Gates. More >>
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Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Mark Mao will join the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner, helping to expand and lead the firm’s data privacy practice nationally and internationally. Mao is one of the country’s leading experts in the privacy field, particularly in emerging technologies. He is well-known for helping organizations worldwide at all stages of growth leverage their intellectual property while mitigating their privacy risks. Mao joins Boies Schiller Flexner from Troutman Sanders LLP, where he led the Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Information Governance practice. More >>
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Jarrett Reed has joined the firm’s Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office. Reed joins from Norton Rose Fulbright. More >>
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Am Law 100 firm, Polsinelli, welcomes Andrew L. Wool to its Securities and Corporate Finance Practice in Chicago. Wool joins the firm from the Chicago office of Chapman and Cutler LLP. More >>
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that former JCPenney director April Goff has joined the firm as a partner in its Tax, Benefits & Compensation practice. April joins the firm in Dallas after serving as Senior Counsel at J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc. where she oversaw all employee and executive compensation matters as well as cybersecurity and data privacy issues. More >>
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