Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced Jennifer L. Gray has joined the firm as a partner in the Consumer Financial Services practice in its Downtown Los Angeles office. She was formerly a partner in the Los Angeles office of LeClairRyan. Gray has a broad commercial litigation practice, but her primary focus is on defending financial services institutions in consumer finance class actions. More >>
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FordHarrison LLP, one of the country’s largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that Michael (Mike) C. Harrington and Elizabeth (Beth) M. Smith from LeClairRyan have joined the firm’s Hartford office. Mike joins as a partner and Beth joins as counsel. More >>
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Eileen Marshall has joined Cooley as partner and member of the tax practice group. She arrives from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and will divide her time between Cooley’s Washington, DC, and Palo Alto offices. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the growth of its Real Estate Finance Practice with the addition of Beau Baker and Christopher McCranie in Jacksonville. They bring significant experience in secondary market portfolio and single asset loan sales and acquisitions, joint venture and preferred equity investments, and commercial real estate capital markets. The pair join from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP. More >>
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Partners Mary Craig Calkins and Helen K. Michael, Of Counsel Daniel H. Rylaarsdam, and Associate Sarah L. Edri, along with additional professional staff, have joined the Firm’s nationally recognized Insurance Recovery group. Helen is based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office, and Mary, Dan, and Sarah are based in the Los Angeles office. With decades of combined experience, the team joins from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP where Helen served as former co-chair of the firm’s insurance recovery practice and Mary led the firm’s West Coast insurance practice. More >>
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Matthew L. Biben has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Biben, formerly a co-lead of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s Banking Industry Group, will serve as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Financial Institutions Practice Group and continue his financial institutions practice with a focus on complex regulatory and litigation matters. More >>
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Morgan Lewis today welcomes corporate lawyer Ayesha Waheed, who focuses on international energy and infrastructure transactions, as a partner resident in London. Ayesha has significant experience throughout Europe and in emerging markets in Africa and Asia, particularly Southeast Asia. She arrives from Latham & Watkins. More >>
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Thomas Jensen, a nationally recognized environmental and natural resources law attorney, has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Environment, Energy & Resources (EER) practice. Tom joins Perkins Coie from Holland & Hart LLP. More >>
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Baker McKenzie has added highly regarded M&A lawyer Leif King in Palo Alto, as the Firm continues to rapidly expand its transactional practice within the key Silicon Valley market and globally. Leif joins Baker McKenzie from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he served as head of that firm’s corporate/M&A practice in Silicon Valley. More >>
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Dechert LLP has strengthened its private equity, corporate and investment funds capabilities with the hire of Philip Dowsett as a partner in the firm’s Dubai office. Dowsett joins the firm from the Abu Dhabi Office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. More >>
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