King & Spalding announced today that Brian Betancourt has joined the firm’s New York office as partner in the global finance practice. Betancourt joins King & Spalding from Alston & Bird. More >>

Herbert Smith Freehills’ New York Office has again strengthened its hub of the firm’s global Latin America offering. Edward J. Dougherty is relocating to New York from São Paolo, Brazil, to join the firm as a Partner focusing on project finance, trade finance and syndicated lending in the infrastructure, mining, power, oil & gas and financial sectors across Latin America. More >>

WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Hallie B. Levin has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office and member of the Litigation/Controversy Department. More >>

Reed Smith LLP today announced that Jodi Schwimmer is joining the firm as a partner in the global Financial Industry Group (FIG) in New York. Schwimmer was most recently a partner at Dechert and brings with her two associates integrated into her practice, Samantha Chertoff and Carla Moore. The addition of Schwimmer to FIG follows closely on new partners Maria Earley, an experienced Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) attorney based in Washington, D.C.; Daniel Winterfeldt, a leading U.S. securities practitioner based in London; and Diane Roberts, a highly experienced restructuring and insolvency attorney also based in London. More >>

The New York office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Martin F. Gusy and Matthew J. Weldon as partners in the international arbitration practice. They join from Cozen O’Connor, where Gusy was chair of the international arbitration practice group. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that Rachel Ehrlich Albanese has joined the firm’s Restructuring practice as a partner in New York. More >>

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance today announced that Kevin J. Lehpamer has joined the Firm’s Corporate team as a partner in New York. Lehpamer’s practice concentrates on M&A transactions and corporate governance matters. More >>

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has added four partners to its Corporate practice group: Richard A. Friedman, Jeffrey J. Fessler, Andrea Cataneo and Stephen A. Cohen. The group joins Sheppard Mullin’s New York office from Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP’s New York office. More >>

Global law firm White & Case LLP has strengthened its Global White Collar Practice with the addition of Virginia Chavez Romano as a partner in its New York office. Romano joins the Firm from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where she was an Associate Deputy Attorney General and Executive Director of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF). More >>