Global Finance Practice Expansion Continues at Paul Hastings with Recognized Restructuring Partner Addition in New York

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Pedro Jimenez, a recognized bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer with extensive cross-border experience, previously with Jones Day, has joined the firm as a partner in the Restructuring practice in New York. His arrival continues the firm’s investment in its market-leading Restructuring and Finance practices. Between the two practices, the firm has more than twenty individuals listed worldwide in the Chambers 2018 rankings and the Finance practice was recently named “Finance Team of the Year” by The Lawyer magazine in London. More >>

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McGuireWoods Continues Private Equity Team Expansion With Addition of Stuart Rasley in Dallas

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Accomplished deal lawyer Stuart Rasley has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Dallas, continuing the strategic expansion of the firm’s highly ranked private equity industry team. Rasley comes to McGuireWoods from Squire Patton Boggs. Before graduating with honors from the University of Texas School of Law, he was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas. More >>

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Leading Antitrust Partner Joins Latham & Watkins in Madrid

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that José Maria Jiménez Laiglesia has joined the Madrid office as a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department. Jiménez Laiglesia is widely regarded as one of Spain’s leading antitrust lawyers, with vast experience advising domestic and international companies, financial institutions, and private equity firms on a variety of competition and regulatory law matters. Jiménez Laiglesia joins Latham & Watkins from DLA Piper in Madrid. More >>

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King & Spalding Adds Amy Peters as Corporate Partner in Chicago

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

King & Spalding today announced that Amy Peters has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in the Chicago office. Peters joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis. She received her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.  Peters will focus on representing credit funds, banks, investors and borrowers in a variety of leveraged finance transactions, as well as recapitalizations, workouts and restructurings. More >>

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Greenberg Traurig Continues Strategic Growth of Litigation and Trial Practices, Adds J. David Bournazian in Orange County, California

Thursday, August 30, 2018

The Orange County office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added J. David Bournazian as a shareholder. He joins the firm’s Litigation, Trial, Real Estate Litigation, Construction Law, and Retail Practices. A nationally recognized trial attorney, Bournazian joins from Troutman Sanders where he was a partner. More >>

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