Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced today that Christian Mammen has joined the firm as a partner in the intellectual property practice, resident in the San Francisco office. Chris joins from Womble Bond Dickinson where he served as office managing partner of the firm’s San Francisco and Walnut Creek offices and co-founded its artificial intelligence practice.
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With Los Angeles in the midst of a massive wave of infrastructure megaprojects involving the 2028 Olympic Games, Am Law 100 law firm Cozen O’Connor today announced litigator Theresa Nolan — who brings extensive experience managing technically complex multi-party litigation involving major commercial and infrastructure projects — has joined its North American Construction Law Group. Nolan, who comes to the firm from Gowling WLG in Calgary, Alberta, joins Cozen O’Connor as a member and will work out of its Los Angeles office.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, announced that Sean Suber has joined the firm as a partner in its Chicago office. Suber joins Quinn Emanuel from Winston Taylor, where he was a partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
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Gibson Dunn announced today that accomplished trial lawyers Kimberly Branscome, Yahonnes Cleary, and Jonathan Tam have joined the firm’s premier Mass Torts and Product Liability Practice Group as partners, with Kimberly joining as Co-Chair. The team brings significant first-chair trial experience in some of the country’s most consequential product liability and mass tort litigation, particularly in the pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer product, and industrial sectors. Kimberly and Jonathan practice in Los Angeles, and Yahonnes practices in New York. The trio come to Gibson Dunn from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced today that David Avery-Gee and Sarah Flaherty will join the Firm as partners in its London office. Widely regarded as leading M&A practitioners in the London market, Mr. Avery-Gee’s and Ms. Flaherty’s arrivals continue the growth of S&C’s London platform and strengthen its European and broader global M&A capabilities. The duo arrive at the firm from the London office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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Nima Darouian, an employment litigator with more than 15 years of experience handling sensitive employment disputes, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Group in Los Angeles. His practice focuses on wage and hour class actions and representative matters under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Darouian joins Crowell from Ballard Spahr, where he handled large wage and hour class actions and other employment litigation matters, including cases involving as many as 25,000 employees.
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Willkie today announced that it has added a leading data center and digital infrastructure team, including four real estate partners based in Willkie’s Dallas office. The partners are James Grice, Bruce ‘Eddie’ Lowry, Michael McKinley, and Thu Pham. The group significantly expands Willkie’s capabilities in the sector and further strengthens the Firm’s broader infrastructure and real estate platform. The team joins from Akerman.
Tags: Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | DallasSullivan & Cromwell LLP today announced a major step forward in our global strategic plan to enhance and expand our U.S. and global private equity practice, with the appointment of four leading private equity M&A partners. Hamed Meshki, Luke Guerra, Guirgis Nasief and Y. Michael Chung, will join our Firm as partners in the Los Angeles and New York offices, adding exceptional expertise and experience advising private equity sponsors, asset managers and their portfolio companies on their most significant and complex transactions. All four partners join after departing Kirkland & Ellis.
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Alexander H. Southwell has joined Jones Day as a partner in its global Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection Practice. He is based in the Firm’s New York Office. Mr. Southwell is a nationally recognized technology-focused litigator and investigations lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising top global companies on their most complex cybersecurity, privacy, and data innovation and AI issues, and leading white-collar, SEC defense, and internal investigation matters. Southwell arrives at Jones Day from McDermott Will & Schulte LLP.
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Baker Donelson has added Kimberly Lopez as a shareholder in the Firm’s Orlando office and a member of its Financial Services Litigation & Compliance Group. She joins the Firm with nearly two decades of experience representing financial institutions and businesses in complex litigation and regulatory matters. Ms. Lopez joins from Akerman LLP, where she practiced for 18 years and developed a national financial services litigation practice.
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