Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes health care attorney Paul D. Squire as Shareholder in the firm’s New York City office. Squire joins Polsinelli’s national Health Care Alignment and Organizations Practice, bringing over 30 years of experience in health care law. Squire joins the firm from Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP.
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Allen & Overy today announced that Sapna W. Palla has joined the firm as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice, based in New York. Sapna joins from Wiggin & Dana LLP, where she led the Life Sciences intellectual property litigation team for seven years and helped build out the firm’s IP litigation service offerings.
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Tim Walsh as Global Chair of the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice resident in the firm’s New York office. Tim brings over 30 years of experience advising U.S. and international clients on all aspects of restructuring transactions. Walsh joins the firm from McDermott, Will & Emery.
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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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