O’Melveny Welcomes Leading Intellectual Property Litigator Robert F. Shaffer to its Washington, DC Office

O’Melveny announced today that leading intellectual property patent litigator Robert F. Shaffer has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. and IAM 1000, Shaffer comes to O’Melveny from Finnegan, where he most recently served as the firm’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Practice Group leader and co-chair of the Life Sciences Practice.

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Wilson Sonsini Adds Former SEC Official Tamara Brightwell to Public Company Practice

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Tamara Brightwell has joined the firm as a corporate partner in Washington, D.C., where she will be a member of the Public Company Representation practice. The move reflects Wilson Sonsini’s continuing efforts to offer expansive resources and advice concerning securities law and Securities and Exchange Commission compliance to its more than 300 public company clients, as well as late-stage pre-IPO companies. Brightwell joins the firm after almost two decades at the SEC. 

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Balch & Bingham Strengthens Work Environment Counseling, Investigations & Enforcement Depth with addition of Lewis Csedrik to Nuclear Energy Practice in Washington, DC

Balch & Bingham is pleased to announce that Lewis Csedrik joins the Washington D.C. office to expand the firm’s globally ranked Nuclear Energy Practice. Lewis brings over 20 years of experience representing clients in the nuclear industry, counseling clients on work environment issues, investigations and enforcement matters, whistleblower litigation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of Energy, and other state and federal regulatory agencies, as well federal courts.

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Perkins Coie’s Investment Management Practice Expands its Team of Former SEC Regulatory Lawyers

Perkins Coie has further expanded its bench of former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawyers with the addition of Aaron Washington, former assistant general counsel at Citadel Securities, to the firm’s Investment Management practice in the Washington, D.C., office. The move brings together a growing group of former SEC lawyers and colleagues who have deep legal and industry experience from working at the financial market regulator.

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Former US Deputy Secretary of State and Ambassador to Russia John J. Sullivan Rejoins Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown announced today that former Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, who also served as the Acting Secretary of State and, most recently, as the US Ambassador to the Russian Federation, returned to the firm as a partner, resident in the Washington DC and New York offices. Ambassador Sullivan will advise clients on issues important to their business operations, including global risk, US sanctions and export controls, international trade disputes and regulation, and foreign investment.

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Eversheds Sutherland Welcomes Corporate Partner Joshua Shapiro

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Joshua L. Shapiro has joined as partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in Washington DC. Mr. Shapiro’s practice is focused on counseling clients through the regulatory review of mergers and acquisitions, from deal inception and risk assessment to clearance by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ). Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Shapiro was a partner in the Antitrust, Competition & Distribution practice group at Thompson Hine. 

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