Eversheds Sutherland has enhanced its South African presence with the recent appointment of Head of Mining and Infrastructure Warren Beech, Partner Nicholas Veltman and senior associates Eben van Zyl and Refiloe Vengeni. More >>
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Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Jeremy D. Sosna as a shareholder in its Minneapolis office. Sosna, who joins from Maslon LLP, practiced as an attorney at Littler from 1998 to 2003. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Ke Huang, Ruomu Li, and Lucy (Qiong) Lu have joined the firm as partners. Mr. Huang joins Morrison & Foerster’s Hong Kong office in its Capital Markets practice. Mses. Li and Lu both join the firm’s Corporate practice, and are based in the Shanghai and Beijing offices, respectively. Between them, Mr. Huang, Ms. Li, and Ms. Lu bring to Morrison & Foerster a wealth of combined experience across Hong Kong and U.S. capital markets, and People’s Republic of China (PRC) corporate and Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE/VC) transactions. More >>
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Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the hire of corporate tax lawyer Ed Denny as a partner in the firm’s London office. Ed, who most recently served as head of Orrick’s London tax department, will support Winston’s domestic and cross-border corporate and finance practices. More >>
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Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers, welcomes James (Jim) C. Sullivan as a partner in the firm’s Kansas City office. Jim joins from Polsinelli, where he practiced in the firm’s complex commercial and employment litigation practices for nearly 30 years. More >>
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Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Robert Katz has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices. Katz has significant experience advising clients on both negotiated and unsolicited public and private M&A transactions, including tender and exchange offers, leveraged buyouts, takeover defense strategies, joint ventures, divestitures, and cross-border transactions. Katz joins Latham & Watkins from Shearman & Sterling in New York. More >>
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Andrew G. McBride, a former federal prosecutor and nationally recognized trial and appellate lawyer with more than two decades of experience representing corporate clients and individuals, has joined McGuireWoods’ Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department as a partner in Washington, D.C. More >>
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, one of the largest in the United States, announced that effective July 1, 2019, it will combine with its longstanding ally Santa Maria Studio Legale, a truly elite Italian boutique, and simultaneously add stars in the real estate and finance fields from Freshfields in Milan. The result will be Greenberg Traurig’s 40th office worldwide and its fifth in Europe, located in Milan, Italy. More >>
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Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that Stephen Chan has joined as a partner in its litigation practice in the Hong Kong office of Reed Smith Richards Butler. Stephen was previously a dispute resolution partner in the Hong Kong office of Oldham, Lie & Nie. Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2013, Stephen was with McVeagh Fleming in New Zealand. More >>
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Trial and appellate lawyer Joshua C. Prever has joined Holland & Knight’s Fort Lauderdale office as a partner in the firm’s South Florida Litigation Practice. Mr. Prever works with Fortune 100 and 500 companies on complex commercial litigation matters involving financial services disputes, torts and securities litigation, with a significant emphasis on regulatory and compliance matters. He was formerly with Morgan Lewis in Miami. More >>
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