Mayer Brown Expands German Banking & Finance Practice With The Addition of Martin Heuber and Holger Schelling

Monday, April 4, 2016

Mayer Brown announced today that the firm is strengthening its German Banking & Finance practice with the addition of Dr. Martin Heuber as a partner in Frankfurt. Mr. Heuber will enhance the firm’s debt financing capabilities. He joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Furthermore, Dr. Holger Schelling from DZ BANK AG joins the German Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement practice as a counsel. More >>

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Driven by Global Client Demand, Goodwin Procter Extends International Private Equity and M&A Platform into France

Monday, April 4, 2016

Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 law firm, announced today that a top-ranked team of French private equity and M&A lawyers will extend the firm’s international practice into Paris, France. Partners Maxence Bloch, Christophe Digoy, Jérôme Jouhanneaud and Thomas Maitrejean will open Goodwin Paris following completion of their notice periods. More >>

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Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group Continues Expansion

Monday, April 4, 2016

Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the addition of partner Rob Burton to the firm’s internationally recognized Government Contracts Group in Washington, D.C. A 30-year veteran of procurement law and policy development, Burton is the former Acting and Deputy Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), the nation’s top career federal procurement official. Burton joins Crowell & Moring most recently from Venable LLP, where he was a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts Group. His arrival comes on the heels of the addition of partner David Robbins, a former government Suspending and Debarring Official and Procurement Fraud Remedies Coordination Official, who joined the group in February 2016. More >>

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Former U.S. prosecutor Eric Snyder joins Jones Day’s white collar practice in São Paulo and Washington

Thursday, March 31, 2016

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Eric Snyder, a former Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Southern District of New York with significant experience in Latin America, has joined the Firm’s Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice, and will divide his time between Jones Day’s São Paulo and Washington Offices. Mr. Snyder joins from the United States Department of State, where he was Senior Counsel and has been leading the Department’s response to the Congressional investigation into the attack on an embassy facility in Benghazi, Libya. More >>

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IP Duo Joins Reed Smith in Houston

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Nicolas (“Nic”) Barzoukas and Joshua (“Josh”) Davis as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Information & Innovation (“IPII”) Practice Group. Both will join the Houston office, and both practiced most recently at Baker Botts. The addition of Barzoukas and Davis follows closely on the addition of IP partner Lisa Chiarini, who joined the firm’s New York office last month in February. More >>

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