Baker McKenzie hires White & Case partners Rob Mathews and David Becker

Baker McKenzie has hired leading capital markets partners Rob Mathews and David Becker to join its growing Corporate Finance practice in London. Both join the Firm from White & Case this month and will play a key role in further developing the Firm’s full service leveraged finance practice, together with lateral partner hires Matthew Cox, Haden Henderson, Bevis Metcalfe, Geoff O’Dea, Nick O’Grady and Matthew Smith. More >>

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Ben Singer, Former Head of DOJ Securities and Health Care Fraud Units, To Join O’Melveny

O’Melveny today announced that Benjamin D. Singer, a former senior prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, is joining the firm as a partner in its White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations practice. Mr. Singer was head of the Criminal Division’s Securities & Financial Fraud Unit and the Health Care Fraud Unit, and directed some of the Justice Department’s most significant investigations of the health care, financial services, and automobile industries. He will begin working at O’Melveny effective July 1, 2018, and will be based in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. More >>

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Leading Energy Transactions Partner Jerry Farano Joins Gibson Dunn in Denver

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Gerald (Jerry) P. Farano has joined the firm as a partner in the Denver office. Farano, formerly with Jones Day, will continue his energy transactions practice. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Farano was a partner at Jones Day in the D.C. office. Previously, he was also a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>

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DOJ Fraud Chief Joins Quinn Emanuel

Quinn Emanuel added power to its white-collar defense lineup Monday, tapping Sandra L. Moser for a key leadership role in the firm’s criminal defense, investigations and crisis practice areas. Moser, a 12-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice, has been for the last two years at the helm of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section – a job she left last week. More >>

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