Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that the firm is expanding its presence in Texas with seven new partners based in Dallas. The move deepens Katten’s award-winning practice that handles sophisticated corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and transactional capabilities for its clients in numerous industries across the country and overseas. The new partners were all previously with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP in Dallas. More >>
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James B. Insco II joins Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the Pittsburgh office. Insco is a member of the firm’s Environmental/Toxic Tort and Tort & Product Liability practice groups. He was previously with the law firm of K&L Gates in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. More >>
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International law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Michael Holzhäuser as partner in its competition practice, based in Frankfurt. Michael joins from DLA Piper, where he is managing partner of the firm’s Frankfurt office, having joined there in 2012. Michael has also previously been head of the German antitrust & regulatory practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges. More >>
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Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of eight energy and infrastructure lawyers to the firm’s New York, Washington, D.C., and Houston offices. The highly experienced team consists of five partners and three of counsel who join from Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. Their arrival to Winston will enhance the firm’s transactional and regulatory capabilities in the electric power, oil and gas, commodities and infrastructure sectors. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP continues to strengthen its Global Commercial Litigation Practice by appointing Hannah Field-Lowes as a new partner in London. Field-Lowes joins White & Case from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where she was co-head of the International Dispute Resolution department in London. Hannah also played key roles in the firm’s diversity efforts as Vice-Chair of the Weil Global Diversity Committee and Head of London Diversity and Inclusion Committee. More >>
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Highly regarded antitrust lawyers Hill Wellford and Darren Tucker have joined Vinson & Elkins as partners, bringing to the firm a combined four decades of government and private practice experience, with a focus on the technology, media, telecom, standard-setting, energy and pharmaceutical sectors. More >>
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Morgan Lewis today continues its substantial growth in Houston over the last year as it welcomes M&A and corporate partner Sameer V. Mohan. Mr. Mohan, who arrives from another global law firm, expands Morgan Lewis’s services to energy and healthcare clients involved in complex domestic and cross-border transactions. More >>
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Will Becker has joined Locke Lord’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Firm’s Tax Department. Becker is well versed in federal income, Texas franchise and sales and use tax matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, REITs, real estate joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and restructurings. Becker, who joins the Firm from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP where he was a Partner, assists clients in analyzing a variety of tax matters and their impact on corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate investment trusts, hedging transactions and other derivative transactions. More >>
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International law firm Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce today that it has appointed Mark Lubbock as a partner in the Technology & Intellectual Property Group in its London office. More >>
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All three lawyers join DLA Piper from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP, where Katz served as chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment practice, as well as on the firm’s management committee, and Hoffman co-headed an interdisciplinary mergers and acquisitions dispute team. Katz will serve as the Dallas office managing partner. More >>
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