Sidley is pleased to announce that Michael Resch has joined the firm’s Litigation group as a partner in Sidley’s office in San Francisco, and Smitha Stansbury has joined the firm’s Food, Drug, and Medical Device practice in Washington, D.C. Mr. Resch and Ms. Stansbury join from King & Spalding LLP, where they were partners in the FDA and Life Sciences practice.
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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today that leading secondaries practitioner Mary Lavelle is joining the firm as a partner in its Private Fund Transactions and Investment Management Groups in London. Prior to joining Debevoise, Ms. Lavelle was Global Co-Head of Private Funds and Secondaries at Freshfields.
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Vinson & Elkins today announced that Loren Finegold and Ed Comber have joined the firm as New York-based partners in its Structured Finance and Securitization practice, with Finegold serving as head of the practice. Finegold and Comber join from Latham & Watkins, where Finegold served as global vice chair of the firm’s Structured Finance practice.
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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.
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