Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Nicole Islinger has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group and as a member of the Aerospace, Defense & Government Services (“ADG”) and Technology industry teams. She brings deep transactional experience centered on mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), with substantial experience in government contracting, technology, and private equity. Nicole, who began her career as an associate at Blank Rome, rejoins the firm from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Thoreau Bartmann as a partner in its Washington, DC office. He joins the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he formerly served as Co-Chief Counsel of the Division of Investment Management (IM). He has also held a variety of other positions at the Commission, including as Senior Policy Adviser to the head of the Asset Management Unit of the Division of Enforcement and as a Branch Chief for the Rulemaking Office.

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Vinson & Elkins today announced that Jennifer Zucker has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner and co-head of the firm’s nationally recognized Government Contracts practice. Zucker joins from Greenberg Traurig, where she was co-chair of the firm’s Government Contracts practice.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Veronica Onyema, former assistant chief of the Defense, Industrials, and Aerospace Section at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, has joined the firm’s Litigation and Antitrust practices as a partner in Washington, D.C.

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Sidley is pleased to announce that Peter Malyshev has joined the firm’s Regulatory and Enforcement practice in Sidley’s office in Washington, D.C. Mr. Malyshev joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he was Head of the commodity derivatives and the CFTC practice and a partner in the Financial Services Group.

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Jenner & Block is pleased to announce that Glenn Leon has joined as a partner in its Washington, DC, office, where he will play a key role in the Investigations, Compliance, and Defense Practice. Glenn joins Jenner & Block following service as Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the US Department of Justice (DOJ). In this role, he oversaw the nation’s most significant corporate criminal investigations, including, healthcare fraud, commodities, securities, procurement fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement. Prior to his tenure as Fraud Section Chief, Glenn served as Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Ryan Danks, former Director of Civil Enforcement for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, has joined the firm as a partner in its industry-leading Antitrust and Competition Group.

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