Morgan Lewis continues to strengthen its global litigation and labor and employment capabilities with the arrival of Shawn Regan, Torsten Kracht, and Christopher Pardo as partners in the firm’s New York, Washington, DC, and Boston offices, respectively. The trio joins from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and brings a collaborative, trial-ready team with extensive experience representing businesses in complex commercial, employment, and regulatory matters across key industries.
Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Andrew (“Andy”) Goldman and Benjamin (“Ben”) Loveland have joined the firm’s Financial Restructuring practice as partners in the New York and Boston offices, respectively. Andy will also serve as co-chair of Goodwin’s Global Financial Restructuring Group. The pair arrive from WilmerHale.
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Global law firm Clifford Chance has strengthened its corporate, private capital and M&A tax capabilities with the addition of Adriana Zhan as a partner in its Tax, Pensions and Employment (TPE) group. Based in New York, Zhan will help accelerate the firm’s strategic expansion of its transactional platform in the US market. Prior to joining the firm, Zhan served as Partner at White & Case LLP.
Tags: Clifford Chance LLP | New YorkMorgan Lewis is pleased to welcome a three-partner tax and transfer pricing team in New York—Julia Medynskaya, Daniel Rosen, and Brendan Sponheimer—along with Joshua Nixt, who joins as a Principal Economist. Arriving from Baker McKenzie, the group brings deep, multidisciplinary experience across tax controversy, transfer pricing, international tax planning, and cross-border M&A.
Polsinelli is pleased to announce that David J. Karp has joined the firm as a shareholder in New York and will serve as co-head of the firm’s Special Situations & Alternative Investment Practice, further advancing the firm’s strategic focus on private credit, distressed investing and complex restructuring matters. He will also lead the firm’s Distressed Debt & Claims Trading team, which provides advice in connection with U.S., European and emerging market debt, claims and complex secondary portfolio trading. Karp becomes the seventh shareholder to join Polsinelli’s New York office in the last 12 months, marking a significant period of strategic expansion for the office. Karp arrives from McDermott Will & Schulte.
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King & Spalding announced today that Daniel Nam has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate practice group. He is based in the New York office. Nam joins King & Spalding from White & Case, where he was a partner.
Continuing to strengthen its premier global funds platform and ability to advise the world’s leading asset managers on their most significant transactions, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that Rachel Shepardson has joined the firm as a partner in New York. Arriving from the Chambers Band 1-ranked practice at Paul, Weiss, Shepardson brings more than a decade of experience representing major fund sponsors across a variety of investment strategies, including private equity, credit, real estate and infrastructure funds.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Douglas Gansler to its Washington, D.C., office as co-chair of the nationwide State Attorneys General Practice. He joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he led that firm’s State Attorneys General Practice. Gansler also has served as Maryland Attorney General, Special Deputy Attorney General for Pennsylvania, and President of the National Association of Attorneys General.
Tags: Greenberg Traurig, LLP | New YorkGoodwin today announced that Olya Kurilovich has joined the firm’s Private Equity practice as a partner in the Investment Funds group in the New York office. Kurilovich arrives at Goodwin from Clifford Chance LLP.
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Fried Frank announced today that Rhett McPhie and Nathan R. Pusey have joined the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Practice in London and New York, respectively, further strengthening the firm’s transatlantic capabilities across private capital, secondaries and asset management M&A.
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