Akin is pleased to announce that projects and energy transition partner Vanessa Richelle Wilson has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Previously she was U.S. head of the energy and natural resources sector at DLA Piper.
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Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome Debbie Y. Chin to the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department. Prior to joining Fox, Chin was partner at Donahue Fitzgerald LLP.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Banking & Finance Practice with the addition of Luke Lado as a new shareholder in the firm’s London office. Most recently, Lado served as Counsel in the London office of Weil, Gotshal, & Manges LLP.
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Paul Navarro, a veteran emerging companies and venture capital lawyer, is rejoining the firm’s growing Los Angeles office, where he will advise entrepreneurs and technology startups and lead a growing practice serving Latin America. Paul returns to Perkins Coie from Morrison Foerster LLP.
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Kilpatrick announced today that John Pierce, one of the nation’s leading energy attorneys, has joined the firm’s Seattle office as a partner. Mr. Pierce will be a member of the firm’s nationally recognized and expanding Energy Practice. He was previously a partner at Stroock.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Yvonne M. Saadi has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation group in Pittsburgh. Yvonne has more than a decade of civil and criminal litigation experience, including serving for nearly five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (“AUSA”) in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Yvonne will focus her practice on counseling clients in litigation and white-collar matters and investigations.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Michael Rome, a leading investigations attorney and former regulatory and litigation counsel at Google, has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department and member of the Investigations & Enforcement practice. Michael is based in Willkie’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. His practice is focused on government investigations, enforcement and complex commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on privacy and consumer protection matters.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition of Phillip Sacks as a partner in Dubai. Phillip joins White & Case from Dechert, where he was a partner and head of the Middle East investment funds practice.
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Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Justyna Regan has joined the firm as a partner in the Business & Commercial Transactions practice in Chicago. Formerly with Miller Canfield, Justyna brings significant experience with cross-border and international transactions, specifically in Europe.
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Malek Al Rifai has joined King & Spalding LLP as a real estate partner in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice. Al Rifai is based in the UAE, but will focus on a combination of UAE, Saudi Arabian and other matters across the wider MENA region with support from the firm’s real estate lawyers in the Middle East, Europe, UK and U.S. offices. Al Rifai comes to the firm from
