Weil’s Antitrust team is representing Actavis in the just announced sale of its Branded Respiratory Portfolio to AstraZeneca, a transaction valued at $600 million. The transaction is subject to antitrust regulatory approval as well as customary closing conditions, and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015. More >>

Polsinelli welcomes well known FDA attorney Stuart M. Pape to its Washington, D.C. office as a shareholder. With extensive knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and food and drug safety regulatory bodies worldwide, Pape will lead and strategically grow Polsinelli’s FDA Practice. Joining Pape and the FDA group are two highly experienced colleagues: Shareholder Carey B. Nuttall, and Of Counsel Anne D. Spiggle, who together will assist Polsinelli in serving clients with FDA matters. More >>

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that a group of attorneys, formerly of Womble Carlyle, has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice. Led by Dr. Chris Jeffers, the group is based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office More >>

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of a Chemistry and Life Sciences Team to its DC office. Partners Justin Krieger, Keith Fredlake and Jeffrey Gendzwill, along with Counsel, Rodney Rothwell, and Associates, Nicoletta Kennedy and Troy Petersen, have joined the firm where they bring a preeminent chemistry and life sciences IP practice and additional expertise to the firm’s growing DC office More >>

George J. Terwilliger III, a leading Washington lawyer who served in an array of top Justice Department posts, and two new partners are joining McGuireWoods, where Terwilliger will co-chair the firm’s white-collar practice.

Terwilliger comes to McGuireWoods’ Washington office from Morgan Lewis along with accomplished litigation partner Robert J. Bittman and government contracts, litigation and enforcement partner Todd R. Steggerda. Terwilliger co-chaired the White-collar Litigation and Government Investigations practice at Morgan Lewis. More >>

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Katherine Winfree has joined the Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the State Attorneys General practice group. Winfree previously served as chief of staff for the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement Bureau.

With more than 30 years of government experience, Winfree has served in multiple high-level roles in state and federal government. As chief of staff in the Enforcement Bureau of the FCC, she was a key policy advisor to the bureau chief and provided oversight and guidance on a broad array of projects relating to communications and technology law and regulation. She previously served as the chief deputy attorney general for the state of Maryland, the second-highest law enforcement officer in the state, where she was responsible for the supervision of 32 divisions, including antitrust, consumer protection, criminal, environment, public safety and transportation. Winfree also served as a federal and state prosecutor, including 19 years as an assistant United States attorney in the District of Columbia, where she tried several high-profile cases. More >>

Kimberly Frank, an electricity regulatory attorney who regularly appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has joined McCarter & English’s Environment and Energy Practice Group as a partner. From the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, she will continue to represent clients in a broad array of regulatory matters, including the design of wholesale electric power markets, and in appellate matters arising from agency decisions. More >>