Troutman Pepper Locke has welcomed Jennifer Gullotti East as a partner in the firm’s Private Equity and Investment Funds Practice Group, bringing significant fund capabilities and supporting the continued expansion of its private equity platform. East joins Troutman Pepper Locke from Kirkland & Ellis, where she counseled institutional fund sponsors on structuring, negotiating, forming, and operating private investment funds and related management companies.
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Corporate M&A Attorney Ken Lewis Joins Foley Hoag
Foley Hoag announced today that Ken Lewis has joined the firm's Business Department as a partner. Lewis has more than three decades of experience advising clients in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast on a wide range of corporate, transactional, and securities matters. Lewis was with Maynard Nexsen as Shareholder and Senior Counsel for over a decade prior to joining Foley.
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Former White House Information Governance Director Kenya Parrish-Dixon Joins Baker Donelson’s Commercial Litigation Group
Baker Donelson has added Kenya Parrish-Dixon, who previously served as director of White House Information Governance for the Executive Office of the President, as a shareholder in the Firm's Commercial Litigation Group. Ms. Parrish-Dixon joins the Firm with a practice that spans commercial litigation, cybersecurity, data privacy, information governance, crisis management, and education matters.
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Squire Patton Boggs Welcomes Corporate and Capital Markets Partner Reid Avett
Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that F. Reid Avett has joined the firm as a partner in its global Corporate Practice in Washington, DC. Mr. Avett joins from Womble Bond Dickinson.
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Willkie Adds Leading Nuclear Energy Attorney and Former Deputy General Counsel Raphael Kuyler as Partner in Washington, DC
Willkie today announced that leading nuclear energy attorney Raphael (Ray) Kuyler has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, DC office. Ray was most recently Principal Deputy General Counsel at Westinghouse Electric Company, a large U.S.-based global nuclear power provider. His arrival strengthens Willkie’s global energy capabilities at a time when nuclear power is experiencing a resurgence as a cornerstone of clean energy strategy worldwide.
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Foley Hoag announced today that Brandon Cuffy has joined the firm’s M&A and Private Equity practice groups and its Private Capital industry group as a partner in its Washington, DC office. Cuffy arrives at Foley from Miles & Stockbridge P.C
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Wilson Sonsini Strengthens Leading National Security and Trade Practice with Veteran Ted Posner
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Theodore (Ted) Posner has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office, bringing more than 30 years’ experience in government and private practice advising on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), trade law and policy, and related regulatory matters involving the cross-border movement of goods, services, and capital. Posner joins from Baker Botts, where he led that firm’s National Security and Trade Risk Mitigation group.
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Squire Patton Boggs continued the expansion of its Global Public Policy Practice with the addition of Nick Rockwell and Chris K. Crawford as Principals in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
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Shooks Expands Privacy & Cybersecurity Group with Washington, D.C. Partner Catherine Muir
Shook, Hardy & Bacon is pleased to announce that Catherine Muir has joined the firm as a partner in its Privacy & Cybersecurity practice group. Based in Washington, D.C., Muir brings significant experience advising clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues, investigations, regulatory enforcement matters, and matters involving the Federal Trade Commission. Muir joins the firm from Sidley Austin LLP.
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Laura L. Wallerstein Joins Shumaker, Strengthening Franchise M&A and Real Estate Capabilities
Partner Laura L. Wallerstein has joined Shumaker in Washington DC, bringing with her more than 15 years of counsel to complex business and real estate transactions. Her addition expands the firm’s capabilities in franchise mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and real estate matters. Ms. Wallerstein comes to the firm from McDonald Hopkins LLC.
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