Mayer Brown announced today that a three-lawyer team led by partner Leah Samit Robinson has joined the firm in New York, significantly expanding its State & Local Tax (SALT) group and further strengthening its global tax capabilities. The team previously practiced at Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP in New York. Ms. Robinson is joined by counsel Amy Nogid and an associate. More >>
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King & Spalding announced today that Jim Woolery has joined the firm’s Corporate group in New York as a partner and head of the firm’s M&A and Corporate Governance practices. Woolery will lead a team advising clients on a wide variety of corporate issues, including activist defense and complex transactions. More >>
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BakerHostetler today announced that Carole S. Rendon, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in the Cleveland office. Rendon served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the past seven and a half years as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and, since Feb. 6, 2016, as the United States Attorney, a position in which she was a nationally recognized leader in confronting cybersecurity challenges and the opioid epidemic. Rendon was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on July 14, 2016. She, along with her remaining U.S. Attorney colleagues, resigned at the direction of the Trump administration on March 10, 2017. Rendon joins former colleague Steven Dettelbach, providing BakerHostetler with one of the strongest White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations practices in the country. More >>
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce the addition of six leading energy partners as founders of the firm’s newly opened Houston office. They were all former partners with Baker Botts L.L.P. They join the two renowned oil and gas transactional partners who are also founders of the Houston office and joined earlier this year. Gibson Dunn’s new Texas-based energy team has the full range of transactional experience and abilities to serve energy clients in their most important and complex transactions. More >>
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Morgan Lewis has announced that Chris Warren-Smith and Melanie Ryan are joining the firm as partners in London, strengthening the firm’s robust global team of white collar litigation and investigations lawyers. They will come to Morgan Lewis from the London office of another law firm, where Mr. Warren-Smith was global head of investigations. Mr. Warren-Smith will serve in a global leadership role in Morgan Lewis’s global white collar, corporate investigations, and sanctions practice. More >>
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Eric W. Sedlak as a corporate partner in the Tokyo office. Sedlak joins K&L Gates from Jones Day. More >>
Tags: K&L Gates LLP | TokyoThe New York office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Eden L. Rohrer as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice. She joins K&L Gates from Crowell & Moring LLP. More >>
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Intellectual property lawyer Robert S. Hill has joined Holland & Knight’s Dallas office as a partner. He was previously of counsel with Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles. More >>
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that leading corporate crime and investigations partner Simon Airey will join the London office on 2 May. Mr. Airey joins from DLA Piper, where he was one of the six original members of the firm’s Global Investigations initiative. More >>
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Goldberg Segalla has named Chandran Iyer Chair of the law firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in New York. More >>
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