Global law firm White & Case LLP continues to expand its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice and Global Real Estate Group with the addition of Jennifer Iacono and Jason McCoy as partners. Iacono joins the Firm’s New York office and McCoy, a Georgia-qualified lawyer, joins the Firm’s Houston office. They both arrive from Paul Hastings.
Mayer Brown announced today that Camila Panama has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice in the New York office as a partner, where she will focus on public company M&A transactions. Ms. Panama joins from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and prior to that she spent five years practicing with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP is pleased to announce that David Tang has joined Dorsey as a Partner in the Investment Management practice in New York. David joins Dorsey from the Investment Management Group of Seward & Kissel LLP, where he founded and led the firm’s regulatory compliance consulting business providing legal counsel and outsourced support to investment managers.
Holland & Knight has strengthened its national public finance practice with the addition of Faust Bowerman as a tax partner. He will work in both the New York and Austin, Texas, offices at the firm. Mr. Bowerman was previously a partner at Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP.
KPMG International’s Global Head of Tax Dispute Resolution & Controversy and the Co-Principal in Charge of KPMG LLP’s U.S. Tax Dispute Resolution Practice, Sharon Katz-Pearlman, joined Greenberg Traurig’s Global Tax Practice. Katz-Pearlman, known for her role in developing the tax controversy practice at the Big Four accounting firm, joins Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in its New York City office to assist clients worldwide.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that leading digital asset attorney Kari Larsen has joined the Firm as a partner. She will serve as co-head of the Willkie Digital Works practice based in the firm’s New York office. Kari is a pioneer in the digital asset industry with more than two decades of private practice, in-house and government experience advising financial technology, digital asset, crypto and blockchain clients on some of the industry’s most innovative technologies and products. Kari joins Willkie from Perkins Coie, where she was co-lead of the Blockchain, Digital Asset, and Custody group within its Fintech practice.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Ellen Friedman has joined its Global Projects Department as a partner in New York. She joins the firm from Nixon Peabody, where she was Co-Head of the Energy and Infrastructure Projects team.
Seyfarth announced today the arrival of partner Jason Polevoy to the firm’s Real Estate practice in New York. Polevoy is a broad-based real estate practitioner with comprehensive transactional experience in virtually all practice areas, and first chair acquisition/disposition, leasing, and financing experience. Polevoy joins Seyfarth from Patterson Belknap.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Kathryn (Katy) Linsky as a partner in its Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group. Katy joins McDermott in New York from an in-house senior privacy counsel role at Apple. Her practice is focused on counseling companies on data protection throughout the information lifecycle, including compliance with national and international regulations and data processing in product development and emerging technologies.
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