Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Bart Vanderstraete as a partner in the Global Corporate Practice in Brussels. Mr. Vanderstraete joins from the Brussels office of Clifford Chance where he has been in practice for more than 16 years. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today that Andrea Chambers, who has over 20 years of experience working with energy-sector clients, has joined the firm’s Finance practice as a partner in Washington, DC. More >>
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Orrick announced today that leading litigator Charles Allen has joined the firm as a partner in its complex litigation and dispute resolution practice in Hong Kong. Charles joins Orrick from Sidley Austin, where he led the firm’s Hong Kong commercial litigation practice. More >>
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Mayer Brown JSM announced today that Doo-Soon (Doos) Choi has joined the firm as a Hong Kong-based partner in the Banking & Finance practice. Doos comes to Mayer Brown JSM from the Hong Kong office of Ashurst. More >>
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that John A. Squires has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Formerly a partner with Perkins Coie, Squires will continue his intellectual property practice, with an emphasis in IP transactions. More >>
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Goltsblat BLP, the Russian practice of the international law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), announces that Sergey Milanov is joining the firm as Head of Asia Practice in Moscow and Partner in Banking & Finance Practice. Georgy Daneliya is also joining the team as a Senior Associate. More >>
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Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that Amanda Persaud has joined the private investment funds practice as a partner in the firm’s 300-lawyer New York office. More >>
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Maritime and energy attorney Julia Palmer has joined Holland & Knight’s Houston office as a partner. She was formerly a shareholder with Gray Reed & McGraw, P.C. More >>
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) veteran, Bernadette M. Rappold joined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office in the Environmental and Litigation practices. Rappold served 15 years at the EPA, most recently as Director of EPA’s Special Litigation and Projects Division in the Office of Civil Enforcement. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the expansion of its Los Angeles office with key additions to the firm’s Real Estate, Land Use, Corporate and Litigation Practices. Land use partners Ellen Berkowitz, Lisa Kolieb and Brady McShane, as well as senior urban planner Ellen Castillo join Akerman’s Real Estate Practice Group; partner Mark Liu joins the Corporate Practice Group, and partner Michael Weiss joins the Litigation Practice Group. With the addition of these five partners, Akerman has doubled the size of its Los Angeles office to 24 lawyers since 2015. More >>
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