Venable LLP announces the addition of leading intellectual property litigator Susan E. Hollander as partner. Ms. Hollander brings with her a team of seasoned IP professionals, including Jocelyn Belloni, counsel; and Sharoni Finkelstein, associate. Two paralegals will join later this week. Ms. Hollander and her team join Venable from K&L Gates. More >>

Thomas A. Zimmer has joined Vedder Price as a Shareholder on the Global Transportation Finance (GTF) team in the San Francisco office. More >>

Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 law firm, announced today that Koray Bulut has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Labor & Employment Group. Bulut, who will also spend significant time in the firm’s Silicon Valley office, will head up Goodwin’s California employment practice. More >>

Continuing the expansion of its San Francisco footprint and intellectual property capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that William B. Kezer, Ph.D., an experienced patent prosecutor formerly of Kilpatrick Townsend, has joined the firm as a Member in the San Francisco office. With a breadth of experience in life sciences and pharmaceuticals, he marks the latest significant addition to the firm’s nationally prominent IP practice, which last year attracted a group of 18 former Edwards Wildman attorneys. More >>

Colleen H. McDonald has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Finance and Bankruptcy practice group, based in the firm’s San Francisco office. McDonald joins from Reed Smith. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Stephen Hibbard has joined the Firm as a partner in its Financial Institutions Litigation & Regulation (FILR) Practice and will be based in the Firm’s San Francisco Office. Mr. Hibbard was previously a partner in the San Francisco office of Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice. More >>

Holland & Knight today announced that Robert Haight has joined its San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Section. Mr. Haight specializes in municipal and public finance matters, in particular Mello-Roos CFDs and Infrastructure Financing Districts. Most recently, he was a partner with Goodwin Procter. More >>

Holland & Knight today announced that Faith Bruins has joined its San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Syndication Group. She was previously a partner with Nixon Peabody. More >>

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Dana Hayter has joined the firm’s Technology Transactions & Privacy practice as a partner in the firm’s newly-expanded San Francisco office, where he will focus on patent and licensing strategy. Dana most recently served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Intel Corporation.

“Dana’s significant experience with sensitive and strategically-important patent licensing work in the semiconductor space is a valued commodity in supporting high-value technology transactions for our clients,” said Marcelo Halpern, co-chair of Perkins Coie’s Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. “The lawyers at Perkins Coie have worked with Dana as a client for many years, and have long recognized and respected Dana’s world-class licensing talent. We and our clients are now fortunate to have access to those talents to further enhance our industry-leading licensing practice.”

Dana was a leader in Intel’s patent and licensing strategy during the rapidly-evolving convergence of PCs and mobile devices. He was a key contributor and driver of strategy in transactions involving multiple billions of dollars, and his skills landed him a spot on Intellectual Asset Management’s (IAM) lists of “Top 40 IP Market Makers” and to the “IAM Strategy 300: The Worlds’ Leading IP Strategists.” His insights have been in high demand for such organizations as The Hoover Institution, the Licensing Executives Society, IP Law and Business, and the Practising Law Institute.

“Our new office in the technology heart of San Francisco illustrates our commitment to providing innovative and collaborative support to our clients and Dana’s arrival offers another important component to the team,” said Barbara Schussman, Perkins Coie Office Managing Partner. “The rapid pace of the Bay Area’s booming tech sector generates substantive opportunities for our firm that involve increasingly sophisticated IP matters. Dana is a highly valued resource of consequence for counseling clients on these deals.”

Dana earned his J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law, his M.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.S.M.E (cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

The attorneys in Perkins Coie’s Technology Transactions & Privacy practice represent leading and emerging technology companies, retailers, manufacturers and other businesses in connection with transactions spanning virtually every segment of the technology industry, including information technology, Internet/e-commerce, mobile, software (developers, publishers and distributors), privacy and data security, gaming, emerging payments, virtual currencies, social media, hardware and medical device and biomedical engineering.

Michael P. A. Cohen has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition practice group, based in the firm’s San Francisco office. Cohen joins from Paul Hastings, where he co-founded and subsequently chaired the firm’s global Antitrust and International Competition practice. More >>