Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of Taimur Malik as a partner in its Middle East corporate practice. Taimur will be based mainly in the firm’s Dubai office and support clients across the region and in Pakistan. Taimur joins from US law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle where he was a partner in the Dubai and Muscat offices. More >>
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, today announced that David Ramm has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice as a partner, based in London. Dr. Ramm joins Baker Botts from Morgan Lewis. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today continued the national expansion of its corporate, finance and private equity practice with the addition of partner Barbara Edwards in New York. She joins the firm’s Corporate Finance and Lending Practice. More >>
Tags: Akerman LLP | New YorkAkerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the continued expansion of the Consumer Financial Services Practice Group with partners Eric Goldberg and Erica Goldman. Goldberg joins the firm from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he served as Managing Counsel for Regulations, and Goldman joins from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., where she was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. More >>
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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce Alfredo Raúl Ramos has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a Partner in the Oil and Gas Practice Group. Immediately prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Ramos was a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Houston. More >>
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Gowling WLG is pleased to welcome Sébastien Gardère as a partner in its Montréal office and member of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Advertising & Product Regulatory groups. More >>
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FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest distributed law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Nathan as a partner in the firm’s Boston office. More >>
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Clifford Chance today announced that James Gouwar has joined its Tax, Pensions & Employment (“TPE”) practice as a partner in New York. Gouwar joins from Morgan Lewis. More >>
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Mr. Grant focuses his practice in the areas of commercial and business litigation, financial services litigation, and tax litigation. He has represented banks, businesses, and mortgage lenders/servicers in litigated matters before state and federal courts in Michigan and Illinois. He also has extensive experience representing broker/dealers in actions before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and in representing manufacturers in products liability matters. Mr. Grant’s tax litigation experience includes achieving a unanimous victory on behalf of Detroit Public Schools in the Michigan Supreme Court on a contested tax issue (Briggs Tax Services v. Detroit Public Schools, 485 Mich. 69 (2010)).
Mr. Grant is admitted to practice in Michigan, Illinois, and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Holocaust Memorial Center of Metropolitan Detroit, where he serves on the Center’s Executive Committee. Mr. Grant has been recognized as a leader in his field by Michigan Super Lawyers as one of its “Rising Stars.” He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes James Cross as a partner in the private equity and corporate practice of its London office. Cross joins K&L Gates from Reed Smith LLP, where he co-founded and served as the coordinator of the firm’s dedicated London private equity practice. More >>
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