Daniel M. Bagatta, Richard H. Freeman and Jennifer A. McLaughlin were made partners of NY-firm Cullen and Dykman. Mr. Bagatta, a commercial lending attorney, is in the Manhattan office. Mr. Freeman, a trusts and estates attorney, practices in Brooklyn. Ms. McLaughlin, a commercial litigator, works on Long Island.
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Recently there has been a lot of moving for New York lawyers. Herrick Feinstein has gained two to their sports & entertainment practice. Philip A. Haber has joined Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham as a partner in the finance practice, and George F.A. Parnell left Holland & Knight to be a partner in the corporate and securities group of Schiff Hardin. Paul H. Shur and Peter A. Antonucci have also joined Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross as partners.
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Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner announced the opening of its first European office – a four-lawyer branch in London. The new office will focus largely on real estate finance and will be staffed by lawyers from the firm’s U.S. offices. The announcement comes after the Dec. 1 merger between Thelen Reid & Priest and New York-based Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner. The new office will be the second international office for Thelen Reid, who already has a location in Shanghai as well.
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Pittsburgh’s Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Seattle’s Preston Gates & Ellis are set to merge, effective Jan. 1. The new 1,400 attorney firm will be named Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, the larger of the two, has about 1,000 lawyers in offices in Pittsburgh, Washington D.C. and London, and New York. Preston Gates & Ellis has offices throughout the Northwest, in Asia and in Washington, D.C.
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Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Mawe named 26 new partners effective Jan. 1. Six of the new partners are in New York. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has also recently promoted three attorneys to the partnership.
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With the acquisition of litigation boutique Engel McCarney & Kenney, D.C. firm Howrey opened a New York office. Partners Thomas Engel and James McCarney will be managing this location which will include six associates. Once known primarily as an intellectual property boutique, Howrey has grown into a general-practice firm with 600 lawyers. The firm also recently announced it was opening an office in Munich, Germany.
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William M. Flynn joins the energy and telecommunications industry team as partner at the Albany, N.Y. office of Harris Beach. Moreover, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae adds Yves Huygh de Mahenge as a partner in the financial restructuring practice of their Paris office. Lastly, previously partners at Dewey Ballantine, Earle H. O’Donnell and Donna M. Attanasio join the energy, infrastructure and project finance practice as partners in White & Case’s Washington office.
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Eight attorneys recently made partner at NY’s Sullivan & Cromwell. Baker & McKenzie also adds four new lawyers to its New York office as partners. Similarly, in firms across the country such as Winston & Strawn (Chicago) and Miller & Chevalier (Washington), attorneys are making lateral moves and joining new firms as partners.
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Hodgson Russ of Buffalo and Birmingham’s Whatley Drake & Kallas are opening new offices in New York. For Whatley Drake & Kallas, fifteen attorneys now call the 37th floor of 1540 Broadway home; Hodgson Russ has 31 lawyers in their 24th floor office. Drawn to the tower for its views of Time Square, both firms have 10 year leases on their new spaces.
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Crowell & Moring of Washington D.C. has added the boutique firm King Pagano Harrison and ten partners from the intellectual property boutique Morgan & Finnegan to its New York office. The office opened in September with only two partners, so the moves increase the total number of New York lawyers for Crowell & Moring to 15. Nationwide, Crowell & Moring has around 300 lawyers.
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