DLA Piper announced today that Michael Enzo Furrow, Ph.D., and Brian David O’Reilly have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice as partners in New York. The two are experienced litigators who counsel life science companies in all aspects of complex patent disputes. More >>
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Poupak Anjomshoaa has joined the Baker Botts’ Litigation and International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practices as a London based partner. Poupak has over twenty years’ experience in both disputes and transactional matters across the energy, infrastructure and construction sectors. Poupak joins from Norton Rose Fulbright. More >>
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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce the continued growth of its banking and financial technology practices with the addition of Erin F. Fonté as partner and co-head of the firm’s financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice. Fonté is based in the firm’s Austin office. More >>
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Chai R. Feldblum, most recently a commissioner of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and a leading voice on workplace diversity, inclusion, harassment prevention, and disability rights issues, and her former chief of staff, Sharon Perley Masling, are joining Morgan Lewis as labor and employment partners and directors of the firm’s workplace culture consulting and training practice, resident in Washington, DC. More >>
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McGuireWoods continues to grow its nationally recognized debt finance practice with the arrival of Margaret Seurynck, who brings more than 15 years of experience advising clients, including national and multinational banks and private equity firms, in complex financings. More >>
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Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Jeremiah Wagner has joined the London office as a partner in the Finance Department. Wagner’s practice focuses on advising banks, private equity funds, asset managers, insurance companies, and pension funds on a variety of complex structured finance, securitization, and derivatives transactions. Wagner joins the firm from Cadwalader’s London office. More >>
Tags: Latham & Watkins LLP | LondonLatham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Ivana K. Rouse has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Investment Funds Practice. Rouse’s practice covers a broad range of private funds, including private equity-style energy, credit and mid-market funds, cryptocurrency funds and hedge funds. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Rouse was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Houston. More >>
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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Matthew Sperry is the newest member of the Trusts and Estates department at the firm, which recently was named by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® as Law Firm of the Year in Trusts & Estates Law. Previously, Sperry led the global private client practice at McGuireWoods. More >>
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Herbert Smith Freehills has further strengthened its New York offering with the hire of Partner Barbara Roth, a highly regarded employment litigator. Barbara joins the firm from Hogan Lovells, where she was a Partner and the Global Head of the Employment practice, a position she held since 2010. More >>
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Elizabeth “Heidi” G. Bloch, a prominent Texas appellate lawyer, has joined the Austin office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder. The addition of Bloch to the firm further extends the depth and experience of Greenberg Traurig’s Texas Appellate Practice while also strengthening the firm’s already robust foothold of more than 125 attorneys in Texas. Bloch previously headed the Appellate Section and served as a partner for nearly three decades at one of Texas’ oldest law firms, Brown McCarroll, which later merged with Husch Blackwell LLP. More >>
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