International law firm Pinsent Masons today announced plans to open an office in Frankfurt, its third location in Germany. Frankfurt is one of the world’s most important financial centres and Germany’s financial capital. The Frankfurt office will focus on the technology, energy and real estate sectors initially as well developing a financial services offering. More >>
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As of January 2019, Baker McKenzie expanded its Capital Markets team with Ulrich Weidemann as Counsel. Ulrich Weidemann joined Baker McKenzie from Memminger LLP. Prior to joining Memminger LLP, Ulrich Weidemann worked in the capital market practices at US law firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in Frankfurt (2013 to 2017) and at Freshfields Bruckhaus Dering LLP in Frankfurt and New York (2004 to 2013). More >>
Tags: Baker McKenzie | FrankfurtBaker 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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Bodman PLC is pleased to announce that Joseph G. Nuyen, Jr. has joined the firm as a member and chair of Bodman’s Health Care Practice Group in the firm’s Detroit office.
Nuyen has more than 35 years of experience serving as general and special counsel to businesses and nonprofit organizations, particularly those in the health care industry.
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Michael Best is pleased to announce it has added Jennifer L. Ciralsky to its Milwaukee office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Relations Practice Group. More >>
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Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of Peter Greatrex as a Partner in its Real Estate & Hospitality practice. Based in Dubai, Peter will be responsible for further developing the firm’s wider Middle East offering, with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia and Oman. Peter is a real estate expert with over 10 years’ experience in the Middle East. He has spent over 12 years with Trowers & Hamlins, progressing to the role of partner. Peter relocated to Bahrain in 2008 and has been in Dubai since 2017 to lead the UAE and Oman real estate offering. More >>
Tags: Clyde & Co LLP | DubaiMichael Best Strategies is pleased to announce that Brian Taffora has joined the firm as a principal in the Wisconsin office, where he will provide strategic guidance to clients on a variety of public policy, government relations, regulatory, and legislative matters. More >>
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Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that David Beller has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices. Beller has a broad mergers and acquisitions practice encompassing both public and private acquisitions, dispositions, tender offers, co-investments, joint ventures, carve-outs, and general corporate matters, including corporate governance and takeover defense. Beller joins Latham & Watkins from Paul, Weiss in New York. More >>
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Thomas M. Davis III, who served 14 years in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Northern Virginia’s 11th District, has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Public Policy & Regulation Group in Washington, D.C., and Tysons, Va. He was previously with Deloitte, where he was a director of federal government affairs. More >>
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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Rich Goldberg to its New York and Philadelphia offices as a partner in the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. Goldberg comes to Lewis Brisbois from the U.S. Department of Justice, where for over 20 years, he served as a cyber attorney in the national Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section program. More >>
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