Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that leading mergers and acquisitions attorney Eric Schiele has joined the New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Schiele joins the Firm from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he was a partner in the corporate department. More >>
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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Christopher K. Veatch has joined the firm’s White Collar & Investigations practice group as a partner in the Chicago office. Chris joins the firm from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was most recently Chief of the National Security & Cybercrimes Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. More >>
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Vinson & Elkins further expands its global corporate practice with the addition of acquisition and leveraged-finance partner Paul Simcock in London. With nearly two decades of experience in leveraged finance, Simcock joins V&E from Jones Day where he worked with clients on multi-billion dollar matters across a variety of leading industries, from retail and real estate to life sciences and mining. More >>
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Squire Patton Boggs, one of the world’s largest law firms, announced the opening of an office in Atlanta. Wayne Bradley, Petrina Hall McDaniel and Ann-Marie McGaughey will join the firm as partners, bringing extensive transactional, litigation and cybersecurity expertise to what will be the firm’s eighteenth office in the United States and forty-seventh worldwide. More >>
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of Daniel Turgel as a new partner in London. He joins White & Case from Linklaters, where he trained, and brings more than 11 years of experience. More >>
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Mayer Brown JSM announced today that Kayal Sachi and Ian Roebuck have joined the firm as Banking & Finance partners in Singapore. The new hires, who are joining from Allen & Overy, will focus on acquisition and leveraged finance, event-driven finance, corporate lending and restructuring transactions in South East Asia and India on behalf of regional and global financial institutions, corporates, private equity funds and debt funds. More >>
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The London office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has strengthened its investigations, enforcement and white collar practice with the appointment of Paul Feldberg as a partner. He joins K&L Gates from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm and the largest international firm in Japan, is pleased to announce that Jesse Gillespie has joined the firm’s Tokyo office as a partner in its Corporate practice. Mr. Gillespie comes to Morrison & Foerster from Sullivan & Cromwell. He brings to the firm strong expertise in cross-border capital markets transactions. More >>
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Kimberley Chen Nobles has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in the firm’s Orange County office. Nobles is a member of the Intellectual Property, International Law, and Privacy and Data Security practice groups. More >>
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