Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce the addition of six attorneys to the Philadelphia office, including three Partners, two Partners Of Counsel and one associate. The attorneys specialize in banking and financial services and litigation and will enhance the service offerings to clients. Each of the new attorneys fits Philadelphia Managing Partner Richard O’Halloran’s strategic vision for growth. More >>
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Davis Polk is advising BofA Merrill Lynch as financial adviser to Western Digital Corporation in connection with its approximately $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk Corporation. The transaction, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2016, is subject to approval by shareholders, receipt of regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions. More >>
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Orrick announced today that Christopher Wilkinson, the former Associate Solicitor for Civil Rights and Labor Management at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), has joined the firm as a partner, resident in Washington, D.C. More >>
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Hunton & Williams LLP continues its West Coast expansion with the arrival of J. Tom Boer in San Francisco as a partner with the firm’s environmental practice. Boer, whose practice focuses on complex environmental law and litigation, has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of environmental litigation, enforcement defense and counseling matters. More >>
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International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to grow its Corporate, Energy, and Restructuring practices with the addition of Allan D. Reiss as shareholder in the New York City office. Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Reiss was a partner at Morgan Lewis. More >>
Tags: Greenberg Traurig, LLP | New YorkInternational law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP welcomes Donald S. Davidson, who joins the firm as a Securities Litigation shareholder in its San Francisco office. Davidson represents clients in litigation and in regulatory inquiries involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Department of Justice (DOJ), state securities regulators, and foreign securities regulators. Before joining the firm, Davidson worked as a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>
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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Geoffrey Levin has joined the firm in New York as a partner in Sidley’s Private Equity practice. He concentrates his practice on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as strategic M&A and governance matters involving corporate clients. More >>
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP today announced that Andrew S. Boutros has joined the firm as a litigation partner and co-chair of its White Collar, Internal Investigations, and False Claims Team. A distinguished trial attorney and litigator with extensive experience handling Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, Boutros joins the firm from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), where he successfully investigated and prosecuted some of the nation’s largest and most complex multi-district, international corporate fraud and cybercrime cases. Boutros will be resident in Seyfarth’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices. More >>
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Herbert Smith Freehills today announces that it will be significantly strengthening its Africa practice with the launch of an office in Johannesburg, South Africa, alongside the hire of two leading South African partners. Brigette Baillie is a highly respected energy and infrastructure finance lawyer and Peter Leon is one of the top twenty mining lawyers in the world. More >>
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Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 law firm, announced today that William Growney is joining the firm as a partner in its Technology & Life Sciences Group and will be resident in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Growney has more than 20 years’ industry experience working as both in-house and outside counsel, and advises technology and other start-ups on matters involving financing, M&A, corporate governance, licensing/IP and privacy and data security. More >>
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