Winstead Expands with the Addition of Leading Airline Finance Attorneys and Opens New York Office

Winstead PC is pleased to announce that highly regarded airline finance practitioners, Jaeyong (Jae) So and Jaesuk (Jay) Yoo, have joined the firm as shareholders as Winstead opens a New York office.

The addition of So and Yoo, who both came to Winstead from a leading international law firm, bolsters Winstead’s preeminent airline practice, which represents some of the largest airlines in the world. The New York office is the firm’s eighth nationwide. By opening an office in New York, the hub of financing transactions for airlines and their financing parties, Winstead positions itself to better serve not only its airline clients but other clients who are based or conduct business in New York and the Northeast. The duo joins from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York.

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Freshfields Hires Top Brussels Litigation Team Strengthening its Global Disputes Practice

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (‘Freshfields’) announced today the addition of a top litigation team in Belgium, led by highly respected litigation lawyer Nathalie Colin, in a move that will further enhance the firm’s global dispute resolution practice and establish its litigation offering at the top of the Belgian market. Nathalie will be joined by principal associates Alexandre Hublet and Nino De Lathauwer. The team will be based in the firm’s Brussels office, providing advice to clients globally, and will work particularly closely with Freshfields’ leading disputes practices across continental Europe. The team will join the firm from the Brussels office of White & Case LLP.

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Hogan Lovells Continues Expansion of Australian Practice with the Addition of a Finance Partner in Sydney

Hogan Lovells announced today that Bryan Paisley will be joining the firm as a partner in the Finance practice later this month, based in the Sydney office. He will be joining from Baker McKenzie in Sydney where he has been a partner for 13 years. Prior to joining Bakers, Bryan worked at Lovells (as it then was) in the London office from 1997 to 2005 including a secondment in Frankfurt in 2000 following the Boesebeck Droste merger.

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King & Spalding Recruits Construction Partner Ingrid Myers to its Corporate, Finance and Investments Practice

King & Spalding today announced that Ingrid Myers has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its Houston office. Myers’s practice focuses on the drafting and negotiation of construction-related contracts for the development of energy and other major infrastructure projects. Myers joins the firm from Morgan Lewis.

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Perkins Coie Announces New Office in Austin

Perkins Coie, an Am Law 50 firm known for representing innovative companies and industry leaders, announced today that it has opened an office in Austin, marking an expansion of its Texas operations. Establishing an office in Austin furthers the firm’s momentum in building a strong tech-based practice in Texas and broadens its ability to counsel companies across the state, including those in computer electronics and other technology industries as well as those in the retail, transportation, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries, as they increasingly adopt technology-related platforms and applications. Perkins Coie welcomes three new partners, joining from Vinson & Elkins and Wilson Sonsini, to help establish a foothold in the Texas capital.

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BCLP Strengthens Insurance Practice with Addition of Industry Leading Three-Partner Group in Kansas City

The global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner has announced the addition of a three-partner group of highly regarded transactional and regulatory insurance lawyers. The group includes the global co-leader of Dentons’ Insurance Sector practice, Bruce Baty, and his longtime colleague, Jodi Adolf, as well as Kelly Sullivan, a leading insurance transactional and regulatory partner from Polsinelli. They will be resident in the firm’s Kansas City office. Baty also will become a co-leader of BCLP’s Insurance Sector practice. Additionally, the group includes Fred Heese, who formerly served as chief financial examiner and director of the Division of Insurance Company Regulation for the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance.

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Greenberg Traurig Continues Strategic Growth of New Jersey Office

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is deepening its capabilities in New Jersey with the addition of Galit Kierkut in the Labor & Employment and Litigation Practices, and Paul Schafhauser in the Litigation Practice. Ms. Kierkut joins from Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., while Mr. Schafhauser comes to the firm from Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC. Both join the office as shareholders.

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Mintz Continues Corporate Growth, Adding Prominent Capital Markets Attorney Andrew Thorpe

Mintz has strengthened its Capital Markets Practice with the addition of Member Andrew Thorpe to the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Thorpe started his legal career at the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and has become a seasoned capital markets lawyer in private practice over the last two decades. Prior to joining Mintz, Mr. Thorpe practiced with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the Bay Area.

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Powerhouse New York Securities Litigation Group Joins Seyfarth

Vincent Sama, widely respected as one of the nation’s most effective litigators of high-stakes securities and commercial disputes, has joined Seyfarth. Sama comes to Seyfarth from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, together with his longtime, accomplished partners Catherine Schumacher and Daphne Morduchowitz. All join as partners in Seyfarth’s growing New York office, and Sama will serve as co-chair of the firm’s national Commercial and Securities Litigation practice.

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