Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Alicia J. Batts has joined the firm as partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice, based in Washington DC. Ms. Batts joins from Proskauer. More >>
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Reed Smith Pumps Up IP Practice in New York
Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Lisa Chiarini as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Information & Innovation (IPII) Group in New York. Chiarini was most recently a partner at Fish & Richardson. The addition of Chiarini follows closely on that of Rich Tannenbaum, who joined the firm recently from GE Capital. New York remains one of Reed Smith’s fastest-growing offices, adding 38 lawyers over the past year. More >>
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Morrison & Foerster Adds Another New Partner To Its Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Jonathan Levine has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Mr. Levine comes to the firm from Andrews Kurth, where he represented ad hoc bondholder groups, indenture trustees, and creditor committees. His addition follows the recent arrival of Peter Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff as business restructuring and insolvency partners in London. More >>
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Mayer Brown Boosts its Global Energy Capabilities With Addition of London Partner Mathew Kidwell
Mayer Brown announced today that it has appointed Mathew Kidwell as a partner in London to further boost its global Energy group. More >>
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FaegreBD Strengthens International Corporate Practice With Ted Cominos and Cristina Audran-Proca
Faegre Baker Daniels has added experienced corporate partner Ted Cominos, in Chicago, and counsel Cristina Audran-Proca, who joins in the firm’s London office. Both attorneys come from Locke Lord LLP. More >>
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Polsinelli Adds Well-Known Senior DOJ Official and White Collar Defense Attorney Bill Mateja to Dallas Office
Polsinelli welcomes well-known, white collar defense attorney William B. Mateja to its Dallas office as an equity shareholder. With extensive knowledge in a variety of white collar defense matters, and an emphasis on health care and securities enforcement, Mateja joins the firm’s national White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Practice Group, and will also focus heavily on health care fraud and abuse matters. More >>
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K&L Gates Strengthens Corporate/M&A Practice with Houston Partner Addition
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added two new partners in its Asia practice. Corporate lawyer Ian Liao joins K&L Gates’ Shanghai office from Jones Day, while disputes lawyer Glenn Cheng — who arrives from Nabarro LLP — is based in the firm’s Singapore office. More >>
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Bracewell’s New York Office Welcomes Tax Partner Michele J. Alexander
Bracewell LLP announced today that Michele J. Alexander has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the tax practice. Alexander counsels clients in mergers and acquisitions, securities and capital markets, funds and joint ventures, bankruptcy, real estate, and compensation matters. More >>
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Sheppard Mullin Adds San Francisco Finance Partner Colleen McDonald
Colleen H. McDonald has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Finance and Bankruptcy practice group, based in the firm’s San Francisco office. McDonald joins from Reed Smith. More >>
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Orrick Announces Seven More Houston Office Partners
The international law firm Orrick today announced seven additional partners in the firm’s new Houston office: Carlos Treistman, Bill Parish, Rodrigo Dominguez, Jonathan Ayre and Joe Roger all join from Morgan Lewis; and David Ronn, who will join the firm tomorrow, and Barbara de Marigny join from McGuireWoods. This team brings talent and depth in M&A, capital markets, tax, and energy and infrastructure transactions and projects, including substantial experience in cross-border transactions throughout Latin America. More >>
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