Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Michael Stepek will join the firm as a partner in its International Arbitration Practice in London. Mr. Stepek, who focuses on international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration, comes to Winston from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. More >>
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In a noteworthy expansion of its Intellectual Property practice, Venable LLP announces the addition of first chair IP litigator Robert M. Isackson as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Isackson joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he was also a partner. More >>
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that three structured finance partners will join the firm in London. The partners, Michael Smith, Diala Minott and Cameron Saylor, will join the firm from Ashurst LLP. More >>
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Oil and gas transactional lawyer Kevin Atkins has joined Locke Lord as a Partner in the London office. Atkins has extensive experience working on complex cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, asset level farm-ins and farm-outs and joint venture structures for international oil and gas companies as well as representing clients across the energy sector seeking to raise capital whether by way of private equity investment or accessing equity capital markets or debt and project finance facilities. More >>
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The Chicago office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Joshua J. Yang as a partner in the firm’s investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice. He joins K&L Gates from Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Oliver Rochman has joined the firm’s London office as partner in its Corporate practice. Mr. Rochman comes to Morrison & Foerster from Proskauer. He brings to the firm strong expertise in international private investment funds. More >>
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Clifford Chance has boosted its investment funds team with a high-profile lateral hire. Sonya Pauls, a market leader in advising on private equity fund-raisings, joins Clifford Chance from King & Wood Mallesons as of 1 October 2016. More >>
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International law firm Proskauer announced today the arrival of M&A lawyer Eleanor Shanks as a partner in the Firm’s London office. More >>
Tags: Proskauer Rose LLP | LondonAndrews Kurth, an international business law firm with market-leading practices in energy, finance and technology, announced today that it has entered into an agreement that will allow it to bolster its intellectual property and technology practice by adding 55 lawyers from Kenyon & Kenyon. Kenyon is a top-tier intellectual property and technology firm long recognized for its global legal work in patent, trademark and copyright litigation, counseling and prosecution for Fortune 500 companies. The firm will market its intellectual property and technology practice and certain offices as Andrews Kurth Kenyon. The transaction is scheduled to close, and the Kenyon & Kenyon team would join the firm, in early September. More >>
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Akin Gump today announced that Igor Krivoshekov will join the firm as a partner in its cross-border transactions practice in London. Mr. Krivoshekov is expected to join Akin Gump in December 2016 from Dentons, where he is one of the leaders of the UKMEA private equity practice. He has practiced extensively in the United States and Russia and has particular experience in the oil and gas sectors. More >>
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