Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce Kevin Masuda has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Formerly a partner with Munger, Tolles & Olson, he will continue his corporate practice, which largely focuses on transactions in the entertainment and technology industries. More >>
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Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Nikolaos Paschos will join the firm as a partner in the Düsseldorf office. Paschos is among Germany’s most experienced M&A practitioners, with vast expertise advising multinational companies and boards on complex mergers and acquisitions, including public takeover and defense, and high-end corporate law, including group reorganizations and stock corporation law. He also has substantial experience advising on corporate governance matters, in particular on complex regulatory and compliance issues as well as special committee engagements. More >>
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that an internationally recognized group of partners will join the Firm’s global Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, London and Hong Kong. Asheesh Goel, Zachary Brez, Marcus Thompson, Kim Nemirow and Cori Lable will join the Firm as partners this week. All were former partners of Ropes & Gray LLP. More >>
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BakerHostetler is proud to announce that leading attorneys Leif Sigmond, Michael Gannon and Jennifer Kurcz have joined the patent litigation team as partners, resident in the Chicago office. The team comes to BakerHostetler from McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. More >>
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Akin Gump today announced that Courtney S. York has joined the firm as a partner in its corporate practice in Dallas. Ms. York, previously a partner at Baker Botts, is a seasoned M&A practitioner with a strong industry focus in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) industries. More >>
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Thompson & Knight LLP today announced lawyer Brandon L. Bloom has rejoined the Firm’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Tax Practice Group. Mr. Bloom practiced law at Thompson & Knight for more than seven years before becoming Managing Tax Counsel at Vistra Energy Corp. (f/k/a Energy Future Holdings Corp.). More >>
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Morgan Lewis today welcomes Jenny Austin, a skilled federal tax controversy lawyer and seasoned tax litigator, as a partner in Chicago. Ms. Austin’s arrival follows that of her former colleague, Tom Linguanti, a top tax controversy and transfer pricing litigator who joined Morgan Lewis from the same global law firm earlier this month. More >>
Tags: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | ChicagoDentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP, part of the world’s largest law firm, Dentons, is pleased to announce that Kunal Kapoor has joined the Firm as a partner in the energy, infrastructure and project finance group. Kunal joins from Ashurst and prior to this, Kunal was with Ince & Co. More >>
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The Boston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added James A. Wright III as a partner in the restructuring and insolvency practice. Wright previously practiced with Ropes & Gray LLP. More >>
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