Latham & Watkins Adds Three Prominent Corporate Partners in Tokyo

Latham & Watkins1 is pleased to announce that Ivan Smallwood, Noah Carr, and Stuart Beraha have joined the Tokyo office as partners in the Corporate Department. With the addition of this formidable team, Latham stands poised to capitalize on the strong and growing outbound M&A market in Japan. Smallwood, Carr, and Beraha join Latham & Watkins from Morrison & Foerster LLP in Tokyo. More >>

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Greenberg Traurig Germany Grows by Adding Employment Team

Greenberg Traurig wins the renowned employment partner Kara Preedy who will join mid-May 2019 from Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law. She will change together with Konradin Pleul and Holger Faust, who are both counsel. The team starts jointly with Dorothee von Einem, senior associate at Greenberg Traurig, and plans to further grow at associate level. More >>

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DWF Further Strengthens in Europe With two Strategic Partner Hires

Global legal business DWF has announced the appointments of banking and finance partner, Paul Cesar (Paris) and EU competition partner, Christian Peeters (Brussels). Paul joins from DLA Piper France and specialises in banking, finance and debt capital markets. He brings in-depth expertise across debt restructuring, finance as well as in various regulatory and derivatives issues. At DWF, Paul will lead the banking and finance practice in Paris. More >>

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Accomplished Litigator Stephen Foresta Joins McGuireWoods as New York Partner

McGuireWoods is bolstering its formidable litigation team in New York with the addition of partner Stephen Foresta, who brings more than three decades of experience representing clients in business disputes, insurance recovery matters and product liability actions. Foresta joins McGuireWoods from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he led its global business litigation unit from 2011 to 2016 and chaired its life settlements working group. He represents investors in life settlement-related disputes, including cost-of-insurance rate increases, enforcement of contestability clauses, and claims of elder abuse, fraud and unfair competition. More >>

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