The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Michael Hazzard has joined the Firm as a partner in its Government Regulation Practice. Mr. Hazzard, who will be based in the Firm’s Washington Office, comes to Jones Day from Arent Fox, where he was a partner in that firm’s Communications, Technology & Mobile Group. More >>
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Paul Patrow has joined Faegre Baker Daniels’ tax and corporate practices as a partner in Chicago. More >>
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Herbert Smith Freehills has appointed corporate lawyer, Rudolph du Plessis, as partner in its Johannesburg office. Rudolph, who has spent his entire legal career in South Africa, will be the firm’s first M&A partner in the Johannesburg office. More >>
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Bob Mendenhall has joined Holland & Knight’s Charlotte office as a partner in the firm’s Tax Credit Transactions Practice. Most recently, he was a partner with Mayer Brown LLP in Charlotte. More >>
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Dentons, the global law firm, today named Scott DeMartino as a partner in the Real Estate practice and as a member of the tax-advantaged investment sector. He will be resident in the Washington, DC office. More >>
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W. Kent Carter has joined Gordon & Rees as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. He is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice group. Carter joins the firm from Clark Hill PLC’s Chicago office. More >>
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Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 firm, announced today that Alessandra Murata has joined the firm’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the ERISA & Executive Compensation Practice. More >>
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BakerHostetler is pleased to announce that Partner Walter Van Dorn, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official, has joined the firm resident in the New York office. He comes to BakerHostetler from Dentons, where he led that firm’s U.S. securities and public companies practice. More >>
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Kevin M. Ryan has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP’s Chicago office as a partner in the firm’s Finance & Bankruptcy practice. Ryan joins from Winston & Strawn LLP to further expand Sheppard Mullin’s growing alternate and bank finance practice. More >>
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Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Bruce Blefeld as a partner in the firm’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Group in Houston. Blefeld was most recently a partner at K&L Gates. The addition of Blefeld follows closely on those of Nic Barzoukas and Josh Davis, partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Information & Innovation Practice Group, who joined the Houston office in March. Reed Smith’s Houston office, which opened in 2013, currently has 52 attorneys and is one of the firm’s fastest-growing offices. More >>
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