Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Andrew Tauber as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office and as a member of its firmwide Appellate & Critical Motions practice. Tauber comes to the firm from Mayer Brown LLP.
Fox Rothschild’s National Labor & Employment Department Welcomes Powerhouse Duo Lori Armstrong Halber and Kirsten White
Bolstering its Labor & Employment Department in the Northeast region, Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome Lori Armstrong Halber and Kirsten B. White as partners to the firm. Armstrong Halber and White were previously partners at Reed Smith LLP and Schwartz Hannum PC, respectively.
Baker Botts Welcomes Former High-Ranking EPA Lawyer in Washington, D.C.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Alexandra (Alex) Dapolito Dunn, the former Assistant Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, has joined the firm’s Environmental, Safety & Incident Response (ESIR) Section of the Litigation Department in the Washington, D.C. office.
Faegre Drinker Adds Veteran Department of Justice Trial Attorney Dylan Carson to Growing Antitrust Practice
Faegre Drinker announced today that Dylan Carson has joined the firm’s Denver and Washington, D.C. offices as partner in the antitrust practice of the firm’s litigation group. Carson was previously a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Media, Entertainment, and Communications section of the Antitrust Division, and a leader of three of DOJ’s most recent merger trials in federal court.
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Former U.S. DOJ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit Chief & Mueller Prosecutor Joins Morrison & Foerster as National Security and Global Risk and Crisis Management Co-Chair
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Brandon L. Van Grack as a partner in its National Security, Global Risk and Crisis Management, and Investigations + White Collar Defense Groups in Washington, D.C. Mr. Van Grack joins the firm after more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit and previously served as a lead prosecutor in the office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Pillsbury Adds White Collar and Cross-Border Investigations Firepower
Patrick Hovakimian is joining Pillsbury’s Litigation practice as a partner. Hovakimian comes to the firm after serving in various senior positions at the Department of Justice, including as Associate Deputy Attorney General, directing DOJ’s counter-transnational crime efforts.
Group of Distinguished Healthcare Transactional Lawyers Ankur Gupta, Sam Wales, Ben Kirschner, and Krista Kay Lewis Join Sidley
Leading Financial Services Regulatory Partners Join Cooley
Obrea Poindexter and Sean Ruff have joined Cooley as partners in the firm’s financial services regulatory practice group, bringing extensive experience advising clients on the complex and rapidly evolving fintech and financial services regulatory landscape. They previously served as co-chairs of Morrison & Foerster’s fintech group and are based in Washington, DC. The prominent duo has established a destination payments and lending practice. Their arrival marks the latest in a string of Cooley’s strategic additions on the East Coast, as the firm continues to bolster its capabilities across its practices.
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Prominent International Antitrust Leader Joins McDermott
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Andrew J. Lee has joined the Firm’s Regulatory practice as an antitrust partner based in Washington, DC. Andrew is an esteemed advisor in antitrust issues and regularly represents Korean and Japanese electronics, engineering and shipping clients facing high-profile antitrust activity enforcements. He is highly respected globally for his work in cartel defense and merger review proceedings for international corporations based in Asia. Prior to joining McDermott, he was a partner at Hogan Lovells LLP.
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Former Senior SEC Official Raquel Fox Joins Skadden in Washington, DC
Skadden is pleased to announce that Raquel Fox, a former member of the senior staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has joined the firm as a partner in its Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Fox is a member of the firm’s SEC reporting and compliance practice and will assist clients on a full range of securities, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other SEC-related matters.
