Greenberg Traurig Germany Grows by Adding Employment Team

Greenberg Traurig wins the renowned employment partner Kara Preedy who will join mid-May 2019 from Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law. She will change together with Konradin Pleul and Holger Faust, who are both counsel. The team starts jointly with Dorothee von Einem, senior associate at Greenberg Traurig, and plans to further grow at associate level. More >>

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DWF Further Strengthens in Europe With two Strategic Partner Hires

Global legal business DWF has announced the appointments of banking and finance partner, Paul Cesar (Paris) and EU competition partner, Christian Peeters (Brussels). Paul joins from DLA Piper France and specialises in banking, finance and debt capital markets. He brings in-depth expertise across debt restructuring, finance as well as in various regulatory and derivatives issues. At DWF, Paul will lead the banking and finance practice in Paris. More >>

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Accomplished Litigator Stephen Foresta Joins McGuireWoods as New York Partner

McGuireWoods is bolstering its formidable litigation team in New York with the addition of partner Stephen Foresta, who brings more than three decades of experience representing clients in business disputes, insurance recovery matters and product liability actions. Foresta joins McGuireWoods from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he led its global business litigation unit from 2011 to 2016 and chaired its life settlements working group. He represents investors in life settlement-related disputes, including cost-of-insurance rate increases, enforcement of contestability clauses, and claims of elder abuse, fraud and unfair competition. More >>

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Morgan Lewis Adds four Lawyers in Dallas, Including Two Veteran Partners

Morgan Lewis welcomes Janice Davis, a leading corporate lawyer with decades of transactional experience representing clients in an array of industries with a focus on healthcare and technology, and Robert Sheeder, a veteran labor and employment litigator, as partners resident in Dallas. They arrive from the same national law firm, where Janice co-led the firmwide technology transactions practice and Bob chaired the firmwide labor and employment practice. Janice and Bob will be joined by five team members, including an of counsel and associate. They join the firm from the Dallas Office of Bracewell LLP.

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