Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Wessely has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group and Cross-Border practice. He is based in the Firm’s New York office and comes to Blank Rome from Withers Bergman LLP. More >>

Leading trusts and estates attorney Amy Heller has joined the firm’s Trusts and Estates Group as a partner in the New York office. More >>

King & Spalding announced today that former partner Jennifer Daly has returned to join the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Finance practice. She was previously chief operating officer and chief compliance officer of Hunter Peak Investments, a hedge fund based in New York. More >>

Akin Gump today announced that Seth D. Slotkin, a highly regarded trusts and estates lawyer, has joined the firm’s tax practice in New York, where he will be a partner in its private client services group. Mr. Slotkin was previously a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. More >>

Prominent real estate lawyer Paul Shapses has joined Pillsbury’s New York office. A well-known dealmaker, Shapses focuses on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including financings, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, real estate development and leasing deals. He comes to Pillsbury from Herrick Feinstein. More >>

Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Patrick D. Dolan, an experienced structured finance and securitization lawyer, has joined the global law firm’s New York office as a partner. He comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Dechert LLP. More >>

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Dennis Jenkins, a financial restructuring lawyer with 20 years of experience, has joined the firm as a partner in its New York–headquartered Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group. Mr. Jenkins comes to the firm from WilmerHale. Mr. Jenkins is the fourth new business restructuring and insolvency partner to join Morrison & Foerster over the last year, following the arrival of Jonathan Levine in New York, and Peter Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff in London. More >>

Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Constance M. Boland, a seasoned litigator focusing on the financial services and insurance industries, has joined its New York office as a partner in the Business Litigation practice. She previously was a partner at Nixon Peabody LLP. More >>

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP is pleased to announce that Katherine Goldstein, who will be stepping down at the beginning of the new year as Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force at the United States Attorney’s Office, will be joining the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. More >>