Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Yi-Chin Ho has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Ho is a high-stakes general commercial litigator with broad experience advising on antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property and white collar investigation matters for clients in Asia and the United States.

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SNR Denton announced that John J. Harris has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Oil and Gas practice and the firm’s Energy, Transport and Infrastructure sector team.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), in connection with an increase of its revolving line of credit with BMC to $110 million. BMC is one of the nation’s leading providers of building materials and construction services.

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Today, Pillsbury announced that Michael McDonough has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. McDonough comes to Pillsbury from Bingham McCutchen, where he was a partner in the firm’s environmental law practice.

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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced that Susan Alker has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the corporate practice. Ms. Alker practiced for 10 years at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles and after that at Reed Smith. Her practice focuses on representing major banks, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds in corporate transactions. The move reunites her with several former O’Melveny & Myers attorneys who have joined Winston & Strawn to form a corporate practice in Los Angeles.

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Venable LLP announced today that Ronn Davids and Jennifer Cappelletty have joined Venable’s Los Angeles office as members of the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Davids and Ms. Cappelletty, previously members at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, have developed vibrant national practices working with middle-market and emerging growth companies in distressed and non-distressed situations, with a special focus on representing private equity firms. Mr. Davids joins as Partner and Ms. Cappelletty joins as Of Counsel.

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David A. Randall has joined the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, joining from Dickstein Shapiro.

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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Thomas F. Hanley, III has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Real Estate Department. Previously, Hanley was a partner at Dykema Gossett, where he led the firm’s Los Angeles Real Estate Practice Group.

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Cooley LLP announced today that C. Thomas Hopkins and Ian Smith have joined the firm’s Business department as partners in its Los Angeles office. Both Hopkins and Smith join Cooley from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. Hopkins joined Sheppard as a partner in 2001, and co-chaired the firm’s global corporate practice group. Smith also joined Sheppard in 2001 and became a partner in 2008.

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced today that the Firm has expanded its West Coast corporate practice with the hiring of leading attorneys Michael S. Ringler and Rick C. Madden. Mr. Ringler will join the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco office and was previously a mergers and acquisitions partner in the San Francisco office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Mr. Madden will join as a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and was previously a corporate partner in the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

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