Morgan Lewis today continues its expansion in Asia by welcoming corporate partners Motonori “Moto” Araki and Mitsuyoshi “Mitsu” Saito, resident in Tokyo. Moto has also been appointed Managing Partner of the Tokyo office. More >>
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Rafael Molina has joined the Madrid office as a partner in the Real Estate Practice. Molina specializes in high-end real estate transactions, restructurings, and distressed transactions for private equity and international investment funds, often with a focus on real estate as an asset class, and related big-ticket finance work. More >>
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Baker Botts, L.L.P., a leading international law firm today announced that Euan A. Pinkerton has joined the firm’s Global Projects Department as a Partner. Mr. Pinkerton will be based in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has dramatically grown its Chicago office with a team of 13 real estate lawyers, including six partners: Eugene “Gene” Leone, Marc Benjamin, Michael McKeever, David Pezza, Aaron Potter and Ruth Schoenmeyer, as well as five associates and two counsels. This new group joins the Firm as part of its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice and Real Estate Industry Group. The group joins White & Case from Pircher, Nichols & Meeks, a top boutique law firm specializing in real estate. More >>
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O’Melveny announced today that Dr. Hassen A. Sayeed has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. Sayeed is an experienced litigator who counsels life sciences companies in all aspects of complex patent litigation. He is one of the few intellectual property lawyers in the United States to hold a medical degree. More >>
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Jay R. Deshmukh has joined Kasowitz as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Deshmukh brings over 20 years of Hatch-Waxman Act experience to the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation group. More >>
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Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has continued to grow its European energy and competition policy law practices with the appointment of leading energy and competition law expert, Christopher Jones. He joins the Firm’s Brussels office as a Principal on 1 October 2018.
Christopher was Deputy Director for Energy following a career spanning more than 30 years at the European Commission. He was previously Deputy Head of the Cabinet for the Energy Commissioner and spent 18 years designing and implementing Europe’s energy policy.
Christopher is also an expert on competition policy having spent 11 years in the European Commission’s DG Competition where he occupied key positions in the Cabinet of the Energy Commissioner dealing with mergers and antitrust, and as personal Policy Assistant to two Directors General. More >>
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Real estate finance lawyers Sean O’Brien and Allison Driscoll have joined Holland & Knight as partners in the firm’s Boston office. They previously practiced at Seyfarth Shaw, where Mr. O’Brien was co-chair of the Boston Real Estate Practice Group. More >>
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Eversheds Sutherland has boosted its corporate capability with new lateral Partner Maximilian Findeisen. Maximilian joins the global legal practice’s Dusseldorf office today (1 October 2018). He was previously at MKRG Mütze Korsch, and has worked for Hogan Lovells and Hengeler Mueller. More >>
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Dentons, the leading global law firm, today announces the expansion of its award-winning patent and commercial litigation capabilities with the addition of Timothy J. Carroll, Manny J. Caixeiro and Steven M. Lubezny as partners. Carroll and Lubezny join the Intellectual Property and Technology practice and are resident in Chicago, while Caixeiro joins the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and is located in Los Angeles. More >>
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