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 >>

Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that attorneys Andrew Hulsh and Todd R. Kornfeld have joined the firm’s New York office. Mr. Hulsh is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group and Mr. Kornfeld is of counsel in the Financial Services Practice Group. More >>

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that William J. McCabe, Gene W. Lee, and Martin E. Gilmore have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) practice in New York. Bill and Gene, formerly of Ropes & Gray LLP, join the firm as partners; Martin joins as senior counsel from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. More >>

Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Domenick Pugliese has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Financial Markets and Products Group. With more than 25 years of experience, Dom focuses on the investment management business. He advises investment companies, investment advisers, and independent directors of investment companies. Dom joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP, where he was a partner. More >>

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP continues to bolster its leading investment management, hedge funds and alternative investment practice with the addition of Derek Steingarten as a partner in its New York office. Steingarten, who joins K&L Gates from Goodwin Procter LLP, is the office’s third new partner in the investment management area in the last six months. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP welcomes Rosanna Michelle Fox to the Business Immigration & Compliance Practice as it continues to grow its New York Immigration Practice. Fox, previously a partner at Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP, joins as a shareholder. More >>

Nick Marchica has joined Baker & McKenzie’s North American Corporate & Securities Practice as a partner in New York, bringing extensive experience in advising global companies on corporate transactions, with an emphasis on those involving the Asia Pacific region. More >>

Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that Jonathan A. Olick, who practices in the areas of real estate and structured finance and public-private partnership finance, has joined its New York office as a partner in the Real Estate practice. He previously was a partner at Duane Morris LLP. More >>

Leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed David Almroth to the partnership. More >>

Reed Smith LLP today announced that Andrew Callahan and Robert Scheininger have joined the firm as partners in the Corporate & Transactional Advisory Group in New York. The addition of Callahan and Scheininger (who come to Reed Smith from Sidley Austin) follows on the recent addition of partner Danielle Carbone, who joined the firm this week from Shearman & Sterling. Counting these new partners, the firm’s New York office has grown by almost 20 percent since the beginning of 2015. More >>