Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, today announced that it is opening an office in San Francisco. More >>

Hunton & Williams LLP continues its West Coast expansion with the arrival of J. Tom Boer in San Francisco as a partner with the firm’s environmental practice. Boer, whose practice focuses on complex environmental law and litigation, has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies in a wide range of environmental litigation, enforcement defense and counseling matters. More >>

International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP welcomes Donald S. Davidson, who joins the firm as a Securities Litigation shareholder in its San Francisco office. Davidson represents clients in litigation and in regulatory inquiries involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Department of Justice (DOJ), state securities regulators, and foreign securities regulators. Before joining the firm, Davidson worked as a partner at Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>

Goodwin Procter, a leading Am Law 50 and Global 50 law firm, announced today that William Growney is joining the firm as a partner in its Technology & Life Sciences Group and will be resident in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Growney has more than 20 years’ industry experience working as both in-house and outside counsel, and advises technology and other start-ups on matters involving financing, M&A, corporate governance, licensing/IP and privacy and data security. More >>

McKeen focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on the real estate industry. This includes real property law, environmental claims, business torts, trade secrets, unfair competition, Uniform Commercial Code, bankruptcy proceedings, and partnership disputes. In addition, his general commercial litigation experience includes working in the areas of IP, financial institutions, environmental, and trade secrets, and with a range of companies across industries. More >>

Troutman Sanders LLP announced today that Hsiao (Mark) C. Mao has joined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. He is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice. He joins the firm from Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, where he was a Co-Chair of the firm’s Technology Practices Group and the Vice-Chair of the Financial Services Practice Group. More >>

King & Spalding announced today that technology and life sciences lawyer Geoffrey P. Leonard has joined King & Spalding’s San Francisco office as a partner with the corporate practice group. More >>

O’Melveny & Myers LLP is pleased to announce that Scott D. Elliott has joined the Firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Transactions Department and co-head of the Firm’s Life Sciences Practice. More >>

Further expanding its West Coast business transactions team, Venable LLP announced that Friedemann Thomma, an international tax attorney who represents early-stage and large companies in a wide range of corporate and technology transactions, has joined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. More >>