Gregory Chin has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in its San Francisco office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Chin was a partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
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Vinson & Elkins has bolstered its white collar and government investigations practice with the addition of experienced in-house counsel, chief compliance officer and former federal prosecutor Michael Ward as partner in its San Francisco office.
Before joining V&E, Ward had a distinguished career building enterprise-wide compliance programs at top companies including Target, Adobe, Cisco, McKesson and most recently Juniper Networks, where he served as Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Tracy Shapiro has rejoined the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. She was previously an attorney in the firm’s privacy practice for six years.
Most recently, Shapiro was a partner in the data protection, privacy, and security group at DLA Piper in San Francisco. Previously, was a member of Wilson Sonsini’s privacy practice for six years, first as associate and then as Of Counsel.
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Leading international law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that transaction lawyer Peter Healy has joined the Corporate and Transactional practice as a partner based in San Francisco. Healy joins the McDermott from the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP.
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Global law firm Goodwin announced today that Jennifer Fisher joined the firm’s Litigation and Cannabis practices as partner in the San Francisco office. Fisher joins the firm from Duane Morris LLP.
Doug Mandell, one of the most well-known advisors to founders and CEOs in Silicon Valley on personal legal issues and the former first General Counsel to companies such as LinkedIn and Nauto Inc., has joined Withers in San Francisco as a partner. Doug will head the firm’s Founder Practice, advising entrepreneurs, CEOs, VCs and other C-Level executives.
Schiff Hardin LLP today announced the addition of two partners in its New York and San Francisco offices, who together will significantly expand the firm’s international practice.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Braden “Brady” Berg has rejoined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. He will be a member of the firm’s emerging companies practice.
Most recently, Berg was general counsel at Cylance, a next-generation AI-based cybersecurity software company, from 2015 to 2019, where he helped guide the company through rapid growth and a global expansion, as well as an IPO process and eventual sale to BlackBerry in 2019.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Karen Spindler has joined the firm’s San Francisco office. Spindler, formerly a partner at Goodwin Procter, will continue to focus on advising life sciences companies on complex corporate, commercial and intellectual property transactions.
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