Alston & Bird Adds Former FTC Official Alexis Gilman

Alston & Bird announced today that Alexis Gilman, the former head of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition unit responsible for reviewing mergers and acquisitions in industries such as health care, retail, and consumer products, has joined the firm’s Antitrust Team as a partner in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he was a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP.

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Veteran Litigator Richard Weber Joins Haynes Boone as Chair of Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement Practice

Haynes Boone is delighted to welcome Partner Richard Weber as chair of the firm’s Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement Practice, bolstering the firm’s capabilities in white-collar defense, government enforcement and financial crimes compliance. Weber will be based in the firm’s New York office. Most recently, Weber was a partner and co-chair of the Financial Crimes Compliance practice at Winston & Strawn LLP and held senior executive positions at Deutsche Bank and UBS, leading anti-financial crime efforts across the Americas.

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King & Spalding Continues Expansion of IP, Technology Litigation Capabilities with Addition of Partners Andrew Ong, Amadou Kilkenny Diaw

King & Spalding announced today that intellectual property and technology litigators Andrew Ong and Amadou Kilkenny Diaw have joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as partners. Ong is based in San Francisco, and Diaw is based in Washington, D.C. Ong and Diaw join from Goodwin Procter, where they were partners and practiced with Neel Chatterjee, who joined King & Spalding in July as partner and co-leader of the firm’s IP team.

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Chambers-Ranked Securities Litigation Attorney Aric Wu joins BakerHostetler as Litigation Practice Group Partner in New York Office

BakerHostetler announced today that nationally recognized trial lawyer Aric Wu has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Practice Group and as a member of the White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team in the New York office. Wu arrives at the firm from Cooley LLP.

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