Financial Services Partner Timothy Spangler Joins Dechert

Dechert LLP is pleased to announce that Timothy Spangler has joined the firm as a partner in the financial services practice group. He advises clients on the structuring and formation of, and investment in, international and domestic private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds and fund-of-funds. More >>

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Ogletree Deakins Adds Renowned Employment Litigator to Dallas Office

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, continues to build its ranks in Texas with the addition of renowned labor and employment litigator Gary Eisenstat, who joins the firm’s Dallas office as a shareholder. Eisenstat comes to Ogletree Deakins from Figari & Davenport, where he practiced for nearly three decades and represented management in all aspects of employment law. More >>

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Tax partner joins Nixon Peabody’s Washington, DC, office

Washington, DC. Nixon Peabody is expanding in Washington, DC, with the arrival of new partner Sean P. Clancy. With almost two decades of experience counseling clients on a broad range of tax and business planning and tax policy matters, Sean represents public and private companies on mergers & acquisitions, corporate tax and executive compensation matters. More >>

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Pillsbury Adds High-Profile Team to Its Leading National Insurance Recovery Practice

Building on its momentum from an extremely successful 2015, Pillsbury’s Insurance Recovery practice has announced the addition of a nationally renowned team of insurance litigators to the firm’s Washington, DC, office. The group of seven — led by partners Mark Plumer, David Klein and Alex Lathrop — joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where Plumer served as chair of Orrick’s national insurance practice and Klein was deputy chair. More >>

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