A prominent group of white collar and corporate attorneys have joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Washington, D.C., office in the firm’s Litigation Department More >>

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Marc S. Martin has joined the firm as a partner and chair of the firm’s Communications practice. He was previously a partner at K&L Gates. Joining with him as senior counsel in the Communications practice is Brendon Fowler More >>

Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that James Koukios, who served in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), most recently as Senior Deputy Chief, has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Securities Litigation, Enforcement & White-Collar Criminal Defense Practice Group More >>

Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that Hans P. Dyke has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities Group, resident in the Washington, DC office. Hans brings substantial experience handling transactional, regulatory, commercial, and development matters for clients in the energy sector. In particular, he advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, equity investments, and financings throughout the electric power and oil and gas industries More >>

WilmerHale is pleased to announce that former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen, Jr., is rejoining the firm as a partner in the Investigations and Criminal Litigation (ICL) Practice, further enhancing the firm’s roster of trial and white-collar lawyers. As United States Attorney, Mr. Machen earned a reputation for investigating and prosecuting corruption and fraud involving financial institutions, government contractors, healthcare companies and public officials. He was the longest-serving US Attorney in nearly four decades while leading the nation’s largest US Attorney’s office. More >>

Adding a major talent to its financial enforcement and regulatory bench, Venable LLP announced that Michael J. Bresnick, former Executive Director of the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, who also served as Assistant Chief in the Fraud Section of U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, has joined as a partner in the firm’s Washington office. Mr. Bresnick will serve as Chair of the Financial Services Investigations and Enforcement Practice.

Mr. Bresnick arrives from a nationally-recognized Washington, D.C., law firm, where he chaired the Financial Institutions Practice Group, advising clients on a wide range of financial services, government enforcement actions, consumer protection, BSA/AML, securities matters, and congressional investigations. More >>

The Washington, D.C., office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) deputy enforcement director for litigation Ori Lev as a partner in the firm’s consumer financial services practice. More >>

Van Ness Feldman is pleased to announce that Mona Tandon has rejoined the Firm as a partner.

Ms. Tandon advises clients that own and operate crude oil and products pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and electric utilities on federal and state regulatory matters, transactional issues, general corporate matters, and legislative issues. She also represents clients in federal and state administrative litigation, and counsels energy companies on compliance with federal and state requirements, including corporate governance, infrastructure security, and risk management. She also assists clients with issues regarding project development and acquisitions. Ms. Tandon is an active participant in the firm’s pro bono practice and a member of the diversity committee. More >>

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp welcomes new partner, Jay Rosenthal, to the Washington, D.C. office and the Entertainment and Intellectual Property practice groups. Jay is the former Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA). In Washington, D.C., Jay has been involved in significant policy initiatives relating to Copyright reform, net neutrality, internet governance and data privacy issues, media consolidation, cell phone regulation, international treaty obligations, satellite radio, FCC matters, piracy (domestic and international), and other federal legislative and regulatory matters. More >>

Arnold & Porter LLP recently obtained a definitive victory on behalf of the Republic of Colombia in a US$17 billion U.S. federal court dispute originally filed in 2010 by the U.S.-based maritime salvage company Sea Search Armada (SSA). The litigation, which involved two separate federal cases, related to alleged rights to the treasure aboard a Spanish galleon, the San José, which sank more than 300 years ago off the coast of present-day Colombia. SSA claimed that it had a contractual right to salvage the vessel and to a part of the gold and silver coins and bullion aboard the ship, and assessed at US$17 billion the value of its alleged stake. More >>