Cooley is further expanding its global presence with the launch of an office in Singapore. It is the firm’s 16th location worldwide, following openings in Brussels and Hong Kong last year. Ferish Patel, partner in charge of the new office, and Matthew Bartus, co-chair of Cooley’s global emerging companies and venture capital practice, who is relocating from Silicon Valley, will serve as the firm’s first resident partners in Singapore. More >>
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King & Spalding today announced that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joins the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner on its Special Matters & Government Investigations team. Rosenstein is the latest high-ranking Justice Department official to join the firm’s Special Matters & Government Investigations team; he will work closely with a deep bench of former federal prosecutors and senior government officials to help clients with their most challenging litigation, enforcement and reputational issues.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that leading executive compensation and employee benefits attorney Rob Fowler has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a partner. Mr. Fowler joins Kirkland from Baker Botts LLP. More >>
Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that Lisa Stevens has joined the Firm’s London office as a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group. Ms. Stevens focuses her practice on special situations financings and financial restructurings for a wide range of stakeholders including individual lenders, steering committees, sponsors, borrowers and officeholders. In addition to the arrival of Ms. Stevens, associates Hannah Brown, Henry Ellis and Krista Sirola have joined Kirkland’s London restructuring team from Herbert Smith Freehills, Milbank and Norton Rose respectively. Ms. Stevens joins Kirkland from the London office of Latham & Watkins.
Mayer Brown announced today that James Schell has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities practice in New York. Previously, he was a partner at Skadden, serving as the head of that firm’s interdisciplinary private equity funds team in the Investment Management group.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its international oil and gas practice with the addition of David Pang as a partner in the firm’s office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Before joining Hunton Andrews Kurth, Pang most recently was senior counsel at Bracewell in Dubai, working with private and public companies, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds based both in the Middle East and outside the Middle East looking to invest in the region.
Pillsbury has recruited Robert Grados, a prominent leader in the area of real estate finance—particularly repurchase credit facilities, warehouse lines of credit and loan originations—as partner in the firm’s real estate practice. He joins the firm’s New York office from Jones Day, significantly expanding Pillsbury’s firmwide real estate finance capabilities. More >>
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Lance J. Phillips has joined Eversheds Sutherland’s M&A and Private Capital teams in its Chicago office. Mr. Phillips is the second M&A partner, and fifth partner overall, to join Eversheds Sutherland in Chicago since the firm opened an office there in 2019. Mr. Phillips joins from Skadden’s corporate group in Chicago and advises public and private clients on all aspects of domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions, divestitures, controlling and noncontrolling equity transfers, corporate finance, SEC and other regulatory compliance matters, share¬holder activism and corporate governance. More >>
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Paul H. Tzur, former Deputy Chief of the Narcotics and Money Laundering Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, has joined the Firm’s Chicago office as a Partner in the White Collar Defense & Investigations group. Blank Rome opened its Chicago office last June and moved to 444 West Lake Street in September. Last week, the office also welcomed leading corporate and finance partner Craig Culbertson to the team. More >>
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International law firm Bird & Bird today strengthens its Real Estate practice with the appointment of Peter Nicholson as partner in London. Peter joins from Russell-Cooke where he was a partner in the firm’s Real Estate team. His expertise includes acquisitions and disposals, investment, landlord and tenant, security and finance, as well as development and tax restructuring. Peter’s practice spans two key sectors: hotels, entertainment and leisure as well as office and industrial investment. Peter was named in the Legal 500 in both 2018 and 2019. More >>
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