Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announced today that prominent lawyer Eric W. Cowan joined its Corporate practice as a partner. Cowan focuses his practice on representing companies, boards of directors and special committees on complex financial transactions and in sophisticated cross-border and M&A transactions. More >>
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Baker Donelson continues to expand its Government Enforcement and Investigations Group with the recent addition of prominent white collar lawyers Jonathan Biran and Ty Kelly. Mr. Biran and Ms. Kelly, both former Assistant U.S. Attorneys for the District of Maryland who are consistently recognized as leading white collar defense attorneys in the Baltimore-Washington area, are joining the Firm as shareholders in Baker Donelson’s Baltimore and Washington, D.C. offices. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the national expansion of the Tax Practice Group with Partners Colleen Calkins in Los Angeles and Mary Samsa in Chicago. More >>
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Respected Texas corporate standout Carlos Treistman has joined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Houston. He joins from Orrick, where he was Co-Chair of the Latin America Practice and one of the founding partners of the Houston office, and served as the original Office Leader. More >>
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Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced today that Markian B. Silecky has joined the firm’s New York Office as a Shareholder in the firm’s Corporate and Transactional practice. His primary practice focuses on international corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and compliance. More >>
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Cozen O’Connor today welcomed Kelly T. Kindig — a litigator who represents public and private employers in a broad range of employment-related disputes, including cases involving discrimination, harassment, and retaliation — to its nationally recognized Labor & Employment practice. Kindig comes to the firm from Ballard Spahr where she was of counsel in that firm’s Litigation and Labor & Employment practices. She joins Cozen O’Connor as a member and will work out of its Philadelphia office. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP continues to expand its Houston office with the addition of new partner Byron Romain. Romain will be part of the Firm’s Global Project Development and Finance Practice and will work closely with its Global Oil & Gas Industry Group. Romain joins White & Case from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he was previously the head of its North American oil & gas A&D practice. More >>
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Pillsbury today welcomes partner Jorge Medina, who joins the firm’s Tax practice and Energy Industry team in Los Angeles. Following closely on the hires of corporate and project finance partners in New York and London, his arrival supports the firm’s aggressive focus on providing a market-leading, international service platform to clients in the energy industry. Medina is particularly well-known within the renewables community, coming to Pillsbury from a post as Associate General Counsel at Tesla, Inc., after previous stints at Dewey LeBoeuf and Sidley Austin, where he handled a wide range of U.S. tax matters, particularly those in the renewable energy, equipment leasing, securitization, tax equity and other special project matters. More >>
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Mayer Brown announced that Fritz Lark has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice as a partner in New York. Mr. Lark was a partner at Bracewell. More >>
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Robert Evans III, who most recently served as a senior official in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, has joined Locke Lord’s New York office as a Partner in the Firm’s nationally recognized Corporate Practice Group. Evans is a veteran corporate and securities lawyer who will expand Locke Lord’s capital markets capabilities in New York and across the Firm. Evans was a Partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP for more than two decades in the firm’s capital markets practice. More >>
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