Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has strengthened its data privacy, intellectual property/technology transactions, and cybersecurity practices through the addition of a team of lawyers in its Chicago office. Partners Daniel L. Farris and Christopher L. Hines and associates Joe McClendon and Nicole Poulos join K&L Gates from Fox Rothschild LLP. More >>
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Orrick announced today that Michael Masri has joined the firm as a tax partner in our New York office. Mike is a leading tax lawyer with experience in the financing, development and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects with a particular focus on the tax incentives available for renewable energy projects. He joins Orrick from Norton Rose Fulbright. More >>
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Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Marga Caproni as a partner in its Labour & Employment Practice in the Brussels office. Ms. Caproni joins the firm from Loyens & Loeff, where she was Counsel in Labour Law and Head of the Pensions Team. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global International Arbitration Practice with the arrival of Silvia Marchili as a partner who will focus on the Houston market and be based in due course in Miami. Marchili has expertise across a variety of sectors including oil & gas, power and construction. She joins White & Case from King & Spalding, where she worked as a partner in its international arbitration practice. More >>
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Further expanding its global energy platform, Pillsbury today welcomed highly-regarded Gavin Watson as partner in its London office. Watson, who advises clients on cross-border corporate and commercial transactions in jurisdictions around the world, comes to the firm from Dechert LLP where he was Co-Head of the International Oil & Gas Group. More >>
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Barnes & Thornburg has rolled out an enhanced parental leave policy, effective January 1, 2019, which helps to set the bar for “one for all” parental leave policies in law firms across the U.S. Under the new policy, all firm employees – legal and non-legal alike – will be provided 16 weeks of parental leave at 100 percent pay. This includes parents who are starting a family through adoption.
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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 >>
Tags: Baker McKenzie | LondonSquire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of corporate partner Anthony Chan, who has joined the firm from the Hong Kong office of Stephenson Harwood. More >>
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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 >>
Tags: O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | WashingtonLeading global law firm Baker McKenzie has appointed Dera Nevin to join its IPTech Practice Group. More >>
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