Alice Ahn, a leading intellectual property litigator, has joined WilmerHale as a Partner in its San Francisco office. Ms. Ahn brings significant expertise in computer science, electrical engineering, and complex intellectual property matters, further enhancing WilmerHale’s capacity to serve leading technology clients and advance its strategic growth on the West Coast. Ahn joins the firm from Covington & Burling LLP in San Francisco.

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Fox Rothschild welcomes Evan D. Winet to the San Franciso office as a Partner in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department. Prior to joining Fox, Winet was of counsel at Weintraub Tobin.

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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to strategically expand its market-leading Real Estate Practice with the addition of Ann (Seung-Eun) Lee as a shareholder in its San Francisco office. She joins the firm from Goodwin Procter LLP.

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In a move that further enhances its Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that Mike Pestana has joined the firm as a partner in San Francisco. Joining from Wilson Sonsini, Pestana focuses largely on company-side representation at all stages of development, from newly formed startups to pre-IPO companies.

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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Gabriel (“Gaby”) Jackson, Peter Renstrom, Stephen Jenkins, and Todd Thacker to its San Francisco office as partners in the firm’s Products Liability Practice. These attorneys, who join Lewis Brisbois from Goldberg Segalla, have several decades of legal experience among them. They successfully manage complex, high-exposure matters on behalf of clients, including at the highest appellate levels.

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Alex S. Kaufman has joined Mintz as a Member of the Corporate Practice, with a focus on middle-market private equity, strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growth equity, and venture capital. He will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and San Diego offices. Prior to joining Mintz, Alex was a partner in the Global Private Equity Practice at Paul Hastings.

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Reed Smith today announced that Saba Shatara has joined the firm’s national State Tax practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. Formerly with Drinker Biddle & Reath, Deloitte, and the California State Board of Equalization, Shatara brings a mix of private practice and state agency experience in a wide range of tax controversy matters before state and local tax agencies.

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