Greenberg Traurig has announced that Anne P. Van Buren has joined its Albany office. Van Burn is a Governmental Affairs attorney and will be the Albany office’s Associate Director. She joins Greenberg Traurig from The Business Council of New York State, where she was the Director of Energy and Telecommunications.
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Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that tax partner Edouard S. Markson will join their New York office. Markson was most recently employed with Credit Suisse as the director of their Tax Advisory Group. He specializes in investment banking, alternative investments and global structuring.
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Heller Ehrman LLP has announced that Suzanne Hawkins, previously of Huron Consulting Group, Inc., will join the firm’s New York office as the firmwide Chief of Practice Excellence. This is a new position designed to facilitate the development of firmwide training systems which are intended to improve service to clients. Hawkins, who has 25 years of legal experience, is expected to flourish in the new in-house position.
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Nixon Peabody LLP has announced that it has hired Peter Swartz and Matthew Moses as partners for its energy practice in Rochester, New York. Both attorneys come from transactional backgrounds and join the firm as part of Nixon Peabody’s ongoing energy and environmental practice expansion
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Jenner & Block has acquired a new partner in its New York office: Richard F. Ziegler, a former General Counsel with the 3M Company, will join the firm’s corporate litigation practice. Ziegler was formerly Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel for 3M in St. Paul, and oversaw the work of more than 150 attorneys. He was also a partner at Cleary, Gottlied, Steen & Hamilton’s New York office for over two decades.
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Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced that it has established a Tax-Exempt Bond Controversy Resolution Practice Group. Drawing from their own Public Finance, Securities, and Litigation practices, the group will be made up of over 20 associates. The new group has been founded as a reaction to clients dealing with audits and reviews of tax-exempt bond transactions. The group will be headed by Jeremy Spector of the firm’s New York ofice.
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Dreier’s New York office has recruited a five attorney patent group from Greenberg Traurig. The group, which consists of Albert Jacobs, Daniel Ladow, Gerard Diebner, Elizabeth Lapadula, and Michael Bauer, left Greenberg Traurig in large part because they were unsatisfied with the collegiality and morale at the firm. Ladow says that the move clears up some potential client conflict at Greenberg Traurig, although states that that was not the reason for the move.
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Reynolds Richards lost four attorneys to Anderson Kill & Olick’s New York office. The attorneys, Herbert J. Hummers, dennis A Zagroba, Christopher C. Gerard and Patrick A Suarez have joined the firm’s trusts and estates practice.
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Patton Boggs LLP has announced the hire of transportation and project finance specialist R. Jay Fortin, who will join the firm’s Manhattan office as a partner. Fortin has over two decades of experience in project finance, aircraft, and railcar leasing and financing, secured lending, structured trade and commodity finance, and cross-border investment. A representative for Patton Boggs says that the addition of Fortin is part of a larger growth plan for the firm’s New York branch.
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Dewet Ballantine LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP have announced that they will merge to create a new firm called Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Dewey & LeBoeuf will have major offices in New York, Washington DC and Lopngon, and well as offices throughout the US and eleven other countries. Steven H. Davis will head the combined firm, which will have equal representation from Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf Lamb on the executive committee. Representatives from both firms say that the merger is particularly complimentary as both firms have been focused on growth in the recent past.
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