Vinson & Elkins announced today that C.J. Polito has joined the firm as a Washington, D.C.-based partner in the firm’s Energy Regulatory Practice. Polito joins from Sidley Austin, where he was an Energy Regulatory partner.
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that David Higbee, Ben Gris and Djordje Petkoski, three of the nation’s leading antitrust advisors, are joining the firm in Washington as partners in the Antitrust Practice. Higbee, Gris and Petkoski provide strategic antitrust counseling and advise on merger control matters, government and internal investigations, and complex litigation. Their experience spans multiple industries, including energy, technology, financial services, life sciences and defense.
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Morgan Lewis continues to expand its international trade, sanctions, and global investigations capabilities with the arrival of Michael Huneke, who most recently served as co-chair of the sanctions, export controls, and anti-money laundering practice group at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, as a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
Jennifer Kennedy Gellie, a veteran national security and white-collar enforcement attorney who most recently served as Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has joined Pillsbury as a partner in its International Trade group in Washington, D.C., which is consistently ranked by Chambers and Legal 500 as among the elite practices worldwide for International Trade and National Security matters, including the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign investment, customs compliance and enforcement, export controls, economic sanctions, trade remedies, trade policy, and high profile investigations.
Tags: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | WashingtonKing & Spalding announced today that David Hoskins has joined the firm as a partner on its Healthcare team in its Government Matters and Regulation practice group. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Hoskins is the former Deputy Associate General Counsel for Litigation in the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) division.
Andrew Knudsen, an accomplished litigator at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Defense Section, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Washington, D.C. Before joining the DOJ in 2020, Knudsen was an associate at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where he counseled clients on environmental compliance and represented them in administrative rulemaking and permit proceedings, federal environmental litigation and civil tort suits involving environmental issues.
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Former U.S. Department of State official Ambassador Nathan Sales has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its Public Policy & Regulation Group, as well as National Security & Defense Industry Group. Immediately prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ambassador Sales was the founder and principal of Fillmore Global Strategies LLC, where he provided clients in the U.S. and abroad with legal and strategic advice on a range of national security and international issues.
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Proskauer is pleased to welcome partner Richard Westling to its Litigation Department and Health Care Group in the Los Angeles and Washington D.C. offices. Richard continues the strategic expansion of the Firm’s litigation footprint both in Los Angeles and firmwide. Westling arrives at Proskauer from Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
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Alston & Bird announced today that Alexis Gilman, the former head of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition unit responsible for reviewing mergers and acquisitions in industries such as health care, retail, and consumer products, has joined the firm’s Antitrust Team as a partner in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he was a partner at Crowell & Moring LLP.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Adam Greenfield has rejoined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Greenfield is a first-chair trial lawyer focused on patent and trade secret litigation involving cutting-edge technology. Greenfield joins from White & Case.
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