Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Banking Practice with the addition of Fernando Navarro as a partner in Madrid. He joins White & Case from Ashurst, where he was a partner and Co-Head of the Spanish Finance Team, and brings more than 25 years of experience. More >>
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes Donald J. Manikas, previously with Locke Lord LLP, to its Real Estate Department in Chicago. More >>
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Clark Hill PLC today announced the addition of Russell Duncan as a Member of the firm’s Litigation Business Unit in its Washington, D.C. office. Duncan was formerly a shareholder at Shulman, Rogers where he served as Chair of the White Collar, SEC Enforcement, and Government Investigations Group and Deputy Chair of the Litigation Department. More >>
Tags: Clark Hill PLC | WashingtonAm Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes Robyn C. Axberg to its Corporate and Transactional Practice in Chicago. Before Joining Polsinelli, Axberg was an attorney in the Chicago office of Holland & Knight LLP. More >>
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King & Spalding has added real estate lawyers Scott Levine and Christine O’Connell as partners in the Corporate, Finance & Investments (CFI) Practice Group in New York. The pair join from Arnold & Porter, where they were both partners. More >>
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Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its Corporate practice with the recruitment of Dr. Predrag Maksimovic and Frank Tepper-Sawicki as partners in its new office in Dusseldorf. With their extensive transactional experience in M&A, private equity and venture capital, they represent an essential pillar of the service offering in Dusseldorf, which also comprises Competition and Antitrust, Employment and Labor, Public Policy and Regulation, Real Estate and Tax. Maksimovic joins Dentons from IKB Deutsche Industriebank, Tepper-Sawicki moves to Dentons from PwC.
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Dechert has further expanded its market leading global finance practice with the hire of real estate finance partner Aparna Sehgal. Ms. Sehgal joins Dechert’s London office. Prior to joining the firm, Sehgal was a partner in the London office of Sidley Austin LLP. More >>
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Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Claiborne (Clay) W. Porter has joined the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Practice as a partner based in the Washington DC office. Mr. Porter formerly served as the Acting Principal Deputy Chief of the US Department of Justice’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS) and as Chief of the MLARS Bank Integrity Unit. He most recently was Head of Investigations in the Global Investigations & Compliance Practice at Navigant Consulting. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Bethany J. Hills has joined the firm in the New York office as a partner in the Life Sciences Group. Ms. Hills has a full-service Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory and compliance practice. She brings to Morrison & Foerster extensive experience in the products and processes regulated by the FDA, including food, dietary supplements, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, healthcare technology, diagnostics, and software. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Hills served as chair of the FDA practice at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. More >>
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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed Christopher Lyon, a new commercial litigation partner, in its San Diego location. He rounds out the office’s strong team of litigation attorneys and is the firm’s third litigation partner in the city. Lyon has specialized in defense of insurance companies in personal injury cases, which he predominantly worked on for the last 10 years as house counsel for Progressive Insurance. At Dinsmore, he’ll lead a team of attorneys working on product liability and breach of warranty claims. More >>
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