Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Edward S. Wei has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Wei, previously a partner with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, joins as a member of Gibson Dunn’s Tax Practice Group. More >>

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that John J. Busillo, a 30-year real estate veteran, has joined the New York office as a partner in the Real Estate Practice group. Mr. Busillo joins Eversheds Sutherland from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. More >>

Morgan Lewis today welcomes back David C. Schwartz, a lawyer who focuses on capital markets and corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law matters primarily in the life sciences, healthcare, and technology industries. He is resident in the firm’s Princeton office. Before rejoining Morgan Lewis, David was as a partner at another global law firm, resident in Short Hills, NJ. More >>

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Sarah Paul has joined the Litigation Practice Group in the New York office as partner. Ms. Paul was most recently an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division. More >>

International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP is pleased to announce that Shevon Rockett has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Products Liability practice group in New York. Prior to joining Dorsey, Ms. Rockett was a partner and practiced in the Philadelphia office of Goodell DeVries. More >>

Armstrong Teasdale is proud to announce the addition of Partner Dale J. Degenshein to the firm’s Financial and Real Estate Services practice group in New York. Degenshein has more than 30 years of experience in cooperative and condominium matters, both as a litigator and transactional attorney. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Robert Katz has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices. Katz has significant experience advising clients on both negotiated and unsolicited public and private M&A transactions, including tender and exchange offers, leveraged buyouts, takeover defense strategies, joint ventures, divestitures, and cross-border transactions. Katz joins Latham & Watkins from Shearman & Sterling in New York. More >>

We are pleased to announce that financial lines specialists Maurice Pesso and Greg Steinberg have joined as partners in the US. The duo join from White and Williams LLP where they were partner and counsel respectively. Maurice Pesso will be based in our New Jersey office and Greg Steinberg in New York. More >>

Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced today that Patrick Doherty has joined the firm in New York as a Shareholder in the firm’s Corporate and Transactional practice. More >>

McGuireWoods is bolstering its formidable litigation team in New York with the addition of partner Stephen Foresta, who brings more than three decades of experience representing clients in business disputes, insurance recovery matters and product liability actions. Foresta joins McGuireWoods from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he led its global business litigation unit from 2011 to 2016 and chaired its life settlements working group. He represents investors in life settlement-related disputes, including cost-of-insurance rate increases, enforcement of contestability clauses, and claims of elder abuse, fraud and unfair competition. More >>