Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Dvir Oren has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he will be part of Willkie’s market-leading Private Equity Practice Group. He is based in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Oren was previously an equity partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that partners Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte have joined the firm’s expanding Intellectual Property (IP) practice in the Washington, D.C., and New York offices, respectively. Ngai and Drew counsel on strategic patent prosecution with a focus on the software and financial technology sectors. Ngai and Drew join from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where they were members of the Intellectual Property, Patent Counseling, Prosecution & Litigation, IP Audits & Strategic Planning, and Post-Grant Proceedings groups.
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Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Virginia K. Trunkes as a construction partner in the firm’s New York City office. Her addition further strengthens the firm’s position among the top five Construction practice groups in the country and propels the firm’s strategy to deepen and expand the firm’s capabilities in the northeast. Trunkes joins the firm from Robinson & Cole LLP.
Derek Soller, an active member of the international arbitration community with significant experience in Latin America, has joined Pillsbury as partner in the firm’s New York office. He comes to the firm from Baker McKenzie.
Kennedys continues to deepen its bench of offerings with the addition of partner Judith A Selby to its New York office. Joining from Hinshaw, where she was a partner on the data privacy and cyber team, Judy’s practice focuses on all aspects of data privacy and cyber exposures in a variety of industries.
Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that Seth R. Merl has joined the Global Corporate Group as a partner in the New York office. Merl will bolster the firm’s middle-market private equity and strategic M&A practices across a broad range of industry sectors, including financial, consulting and asset management services, consumer products, business services, real estate, transportation, energy, technology, insurance, pharmaceuticals and health care. He joins from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.
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Holland & Knight has added securities and corporate litigator Martin Seidel as a partner in its New York office. Mr. Seidel previously was a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Prior to joining Willkie, he was chair of the corporate litigation practice at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that James J. Farrell has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Farrell, formerly a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, will continue his complex civil litigation practice, with an emphasis on securities and professional liability litigation.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Intellectual Property Practice with the addition of Peter Armenio, a leading intellectual property and life sciences patent litigator, as a partner in New York. Armenio joins White & Case from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, where he was a partner and co-head of its global life sciences practice.
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of Steven Beer and Richard (“Rip”) Beyman to its New York office as partners in its Entertainment, Media & Sports Practice. Mr. Beer will also become co-chair of the firm’s national practice, along with Jonathan Pink, the firm’s long time Entertainment Practice chair. The pair arrive from Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C.in New York.
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