Latham & Watkins Expands Leading Fintech Practice with Prominent Washington, D.C. Hires

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Mitchell Rabinowitz and Jenny Cieplak have joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as partners in the Financial Institutions and FinTech Industry Groups within the Corporate Department. Leaders in the FinTech space, their practices are at the intersection of technology and financial services and focus on joint venture and consortia transactions involving top-tier financial institutions creating and investing in novel technology and industry solutions for market infrastructure deployments. Rabinowitz and Cieplak join Latham & Watkins from Crowell & Moring LLP. More >>

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Greenberg Traurig Strengthens Infrastructure Team With Martin Borning From Linklaters

Martin Borning from Linklaters is joining Greenberg Traurig as counsel in Germany and will strengthen the infrastructure group from June on. The team advises projects in the areas of transport and mobility, renewable energies as well as network and communications infrastructure. Martin Borning has many years of experience in advising companies in the energy and transport industries and has worked, inter alia, in the legal departments of E.ON SE and ENGIE Energie Deutschland AG. More >>

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Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr Further Strengthens Its Litigation Practice with Addition of Timothy J. Pastore

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP today announced that Timothy J. Pastore has joined the firm as a litigation partner, resident in the New York office. Before joining Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, Mr. Pastore was a shareholder at a national firm and, more recently, a partner and the chair of the Litigation Department at Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, a prominent commercial real estate boutique. More >>

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Reed Smith Expands its China Practice with Appointment of New Global Regulatory and Investigations Partner

Global law firm, Reed Smith, today announced that Dora Wang has joined as a partner in its Global Regulatory Enforcement practice, and will be based in the firm’s Shanghai and New York. Dora joins Reed Smith from Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and brings more than a decade of experience in regulatory affairs in the US and Asia with also significant experience in international negotiations and crisis management. More >>

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Dentons Bolsters Real Estate Practice With Addition of Scott Thompson

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces that Scott H. Thompson joined its Real Estate practice as a partner in the Kansas City office. Thompson focuses his practice in the areas of banking and finance, real estate and corporate law and represents banks, institutional lenders, private equity funds and large publicly traded companies in debt financing and other credit vehicles. More >>

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