Vinson & Elkins announced today that Kara Kuritz has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., adding depth to the firm’s Antitrust Transactional practice in the areas of merger control and foreign filings. Kuritz joins the firm from Goodwin Procter.
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Megan K. Hall has joined the Tax Practice Group as a partner. Resident in the Washington DC office, Ms. Hall further strengthens the firm’s international tax capabilities with a particular focus on transactional matters, cross-border employment and global mobility. Hall arrives at the firm form Mayer Brown LLP. |
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that H. Keeto Sabharwal has joined the firm’s Washington office as a partner on its Intellectual Property Litigation team. He will practice as a member of the firm’s Healthcare, Life Sciences & Education industry group. Sabharwal joins Husch Blackwell from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where he was a partner in that firm’s Intellectual Property group.
Vinson & Elkins has added a team of eight litigators to its Energy Regulatory practice. Led by partner William Scherman, the team includes partners Jeffrey Jakubiak and Jason Fleischer, counsel Laura Swett, Jennifer Mansh and Thomas Kirby, senior counsel Judge John Dring and associate Phillip Washburn. The addition of this team, which formerly practiced at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, significantly strengthens V&E’s already established energy, regulatory and litigation practices.
Katten announced today the launch of its ESG Risk and Investigations practice led by partners Johnjerica Hodge and India D. Williams. The two will leverage their considerable experience in environmental, social and governance (ESG), corporate compliance and internal investigations to further build on the firm’s capabilities in the ESG space, which focuses on adopting environmental and social policies that promote sustainability and mitigate risk in a manner that creates long-term value for clients and investors. Williams joins Katten from Kirkland and Ellis.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Matt Leggett, former minority chief counsel with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. He joins the firm’s Public Policy and Law practice, which also recently added former U.S. Congressman Mike Doyle in Pittsburgh and former chief majority counsel and deputy staff director for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee Mike Evans in Washington, D.C.
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the continued expansion of the firm’s premier Tax Practice Group with the arrival of David Blair, David Fischer and Dwight Mersereau as partners. Seated in Washington, the nationally recognized trio brings sophisticated federal tax controversy and tax planning experience, with extensive combined federal tax litigation and trial experience. They regularly represent both US and international clients before courts and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and across a broad range of industries, including energy, financial services and insurance. The trio arrive at the firm from Crowell & Moring LLP. |
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP added Noah Pollak as a new key member of the firm’s growing Energy Project Finance & Development Practice. Pollak will be located in the Washington, D.C. office and joins the firm’s substantial Energy & Natural Resources Practice. Pollak joins from Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Timothy Heaphy and Soumya Dayananda will join the Firm as partners in the Litigation Department, where they will be members of the Compliance, Investigations & Enforcement Practice. Tim and Soumya will be based in Willkie’s Washington, DC office.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Ann M. O’Brien has joined the firm as a partner and co-leader of the Antitrust & Competition practice group. She will also lead the firm’s Criminal Antitrust and Cartels team. Based in Washington, D.C. O’Brien was most recently the leader of the Cartel and Government Antitrust Investigations Task Force at BakerHostetler.
