Mayer Brown announced today that Dasha Sobornova has joined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London as a partner. Her appointment enhances the firm’s structured finance team and builds on its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) offering in London. Dasha was previously at Paul Hastings. More >>
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Financial services lawyer Douglas Youngman has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Youngman focuses his practice on derivatives, complex financial transactions and structured products. Most recently, he was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery in New York. More >>
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Chris Molen and Chad Werner have joined McGuireWoods’ Atlanta office as partners, bringing deep knowledge of the leveraged finance and asset-based lending markets to the firm’s nationally respected Debt Finance Department. Molen and Werner, both highly regarded in the Atlanta bar, come to McGuireWoods from King & Spalding. More >>
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BakerHostetler announced today the addition of a seasoned business and employment litigation attorney as a partner in its Costa Mesa office. Daniel F. Lula joins the firm from Payne & Fears LLP. More >>
Tags: Baker & Hostetler LLP | Silicon ValleyBakerHostetler announced today the addition of Teresa M. Goody to its Washington, D.C. office, where she will continue her broad-based securities and corporate law practice that includes defending SEC investigations and assisting clients with securities litigation, as well as serving as general securities and corporate counsel. She joins from the firm The Goody Group PLLC, where she was founder and CEO. More >>
Tags: Baker & Hostetler LLP | WashingtonMcGuireWoods is expanding its patent litigation capabilities with the addition of New York partners Benjamin Hsing, Wanda French-Brown and Irene Hudson, who bring a wealth of patent litigation experience for life sciences industry clients. All three join McGuireWoods from BakerHostetler. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that lawyers Michael Kelly and Douglas Paul have joined the firm as partners in the Washington, D.C. office, deepening its national litigation bench, particularly in the areas of white collar crime and compliance. Kelly and Paul, a former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) branch chief, bring decades of experience advising individuals and companies involved in government investigations, and criminal and civil enforcement actions, including matters related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), securities fraud, and other U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and SEC investigations. More >>
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Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Lindsay M. Cummings has joined the firm as a senior associate attorney in the Grand Rapids office.
Cummings is a member of Bodman’s High Net Worth Practice Group. She represents individual clients in connection with estate planning and estate administration matters including trusts, wills, powers of attorney, guardianships, conservatorships, and trust and probate administration. She helps individuals and families build sound plans that protect their loved ones from generation to generation.
Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kurtis T. Wilder has rejoined Butzel Long, where he practiced earlier in his career. He rejoins as Of Counsel.
Justice Wilder served on the Michigan Supreme Court following his appointment by Governor Rick Snyder on May 9, 2017. Prior that time, Justice Wilder served as a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals from December 1998 to May 2017 and a judge of the Washtenaw County Trial Court from March 1992 to December 1998.
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King & Spalding’s London office has added experienced real estate partner David Cox to its ranks. Cox, who joins the firm’s Corporate, Finance & Investments (CFI) practice, was previously a partner at White & Case in London. More >>
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