Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global White Collar Practice with the addition of Dr. Thomas Helck as a partner in the Frankfurt office. He joins White & Case from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was counsel, and previously worked for five years as a public prosecutor in Munich, prosecuting a wide range of white collar cases including market manipulations, insider trading and tax fraud. More >>
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Prominent capital markets lawyer Claire Keast-Butler has joined Cooley as a partner in London. She arrives from the London office of Latham & Watkins. More >>
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Miriam Harwood has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution (IDR) practice group and as Co-Head of Investment Arbitration, based in New York. She joins from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, where she practiced for over 25 years, specializing in international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. More >>
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Mayer Brown is pleased to announce the expansion of its Corporate & Securities practice with the arrival of Steven Tran as a partner in Hong Kong. Mr. Tran, who was previously a partner at Kirkland & Ellis and was most recently a partner at Hogan Lovells, is an accomplished private equity and M&A lawyer who has been based in Asia for nearly 20 years. He represents private equity funds, major financial institutions and corporations in a wide variety of complex multi-jurisdictional deals throughout the Asia-Pacific region. More >>
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Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Anne Kleffmann will join the Munich office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department and member of the Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice. Kleffmann regularly advises leading companies and private equity firms on a variety of individual and collective employment law matters, with a particular focus on restructurings and reorganizations and M&A. Kleffmann will join the firm from Watson Farley & Williams. Kleffmann graduated from the University of Münster. More >>
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Shearman & Sterling is delighted to announce that partner Anna Salek joins the firm today. She will be based in the firm’s New York office. Anna joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis where she was a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group in New York and was previously at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. More >>
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Butzel Long has added Steve Ratliff as the firm’s new Chief Information Officer. In addition, Vanessa Crocetto has been promoted to Chief Marketing Officer; Joanne Klimko is now Chief Administrative Officer; and Lori Thomas has been promoted to Chief Human Resources Officer. More >>
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Well-known international tax attorney Seth Entin has joined Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a partner in the firm’s Private Wealth Services Group. He was formerly a principal shareholder with Greenberg Traurig, where he practiced for more than 20 years. More >>
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Global law firm Goodwin announced today that four partners are joining the firm’s international Life Sciences practice in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Michael Shuster joined in San Francisco, and Sam Zucker and Deepa Rich joined in Silicon Valley. In addition, Kevin Kabler will join the firm in the San Francisco office. More >>
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