McGuireWoods Bolsters Securities Enforcement Team With Accomplished Broker-Dealer Regulatory Lawyer John Ayanian

John V. Ayanian has joined McGuireWoods’ securities enforcement and litigation team as a partner in Washington, D.C. Bringing more than two decades of experience advising large financial institutions on broker-dealer and securities markets regulations, Ayanian will anchor the firm’s broker-dealer regulatory counseling practice. Ayanian joins McGuireWoods from Morgan Lewis, where he co-chaired the firm’s financial services industry initiative and served as the D.C. office practice leader for the investment management practice. 

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Key Government Contracts Partner Joins Cooley

David Fletcher has joined Cooley as a partner to lead the firm’s government contracts practice group in Washington, DC. Fletcher returns to the firm after a tenure as a partner at Perkins Coie, before which he served for nearly a decade as a special counsel with Cooley. He brings 20 years of experience advising sophisticated technology, life sciences and investor clients in the regulatory issues that animate today’s business dealings with government customers.

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Dentons Continues Rapid Expansion of US Venture Technology Group With Addition of Allison Bender in Washington, DC; Enhancing the Firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Strength

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces today the continued strategic growth of its Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice with the addition of Allison J. Bender as partner, resident in the Washington, DC, office. Bender was previously with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

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David Harbach, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and DOJ Prosecutor, to Join O’Melveny

O’Melveny today announced that David V. Harbach, II, a former senior prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice and Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia and in the Southern District of New York, will join the firm on November 1 as a partner in the White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations practice, based in Washington, DC.

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