New York, NY. Nixon Peabody is expanding the firm’s energy and infrastructure project finance and development capabilities with the arrival of new partner Ernest W. Chung. More >>

King & Spalding announced today that construction disputes lawyer David Kiefer has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner with the international arbitration practice. Kiefer joins King & Spalding from Dentons, where he was a partner. More >>

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that Warren S. de Wied has rejoined as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm’s New York office. In addition, Scott B. Luftglass will join as a partner in the Litigation Department, also resident in the Firm’s New York office. More >>

McDermott Will & Emery announced today that experienced capital markets lawyer Gary Emmanuel has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate Advisory Practice Group in New York. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Robert Grados has joined its New York Office as a partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Practice. Mr. Grados arrives from the New York office of Allen & Overy where he was a partner in that firm’s real estate group. More >>

Hogan Lovells announced today that Mark Eagan has joined the firm’s New York office as Head of Real Estate for the Americas. More >>

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, today announced that Chris Gavin joined the firm as a partner in the Capital Markets Group in New York. His practice focuses on U.S. and international structured finance transactions covering consumer and corporate debt , including residential mortgage loans. More >>

Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm with an extensive nationwide Intellectual Property practice, welcomes Pete Thurlow to the firm as shareholder where he will practice nationally from the firm’s New York City office. Thurlow moves to Polsinelli from the New York office of an Am Law 10 firm, where he was a leader in their global patent prosecution practice. More >>

Heidi J. Sorvino, formerly of Hodgson Russ LLP, has joined LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the firm’s Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Practice Area Team. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Manhattan office. More >>

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Norm Champ will join the Firm’s New York office as a partner in the Private Funds Group on Feb. 1. Mr. Champ is the former director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management and a lecturer on investment management law at Harvard Law School. More >>