Leading Financial Services Regulatory Partners Join Cooley

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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

Thursday, January 21, 2021

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

Thursday, January 21, 2021

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.

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Clifford Chance Boosts US Trade Control and CFIUS Practice With Lateral Hire of Partner Rene Latour

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Clifford Chance has today announced that leading international trade regulatory and national security expert, Renée Latour, will join its US litigation, regulatory and enforcement practice as a partner based in its Washington, DC office.
Latour adds her nearly 15 years of experience in matters involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) economic sanctions, to a leading US team that has been involved in many of the most significant trade controls cases in recent years. Latour joins from Greenberg Traurig.

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Mark Mansour Joins Dykema’s Washington, D.C., Office

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Mark Mansour to its Regulated Industries Department, Food & Beverage Industry Group, and Health Care Practice Group as a Member in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Mansour, who joins Dykema after practicing at Locke Lord LLP’s Washington, D.C., office, previously served as in-house counsel for two major multinational food companies.

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Former Chief of DOJ’s Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit Brian K. Kidd Joins Morrison & Foerster as a Partner in Washington, D.C.

Monday, January 11, 2021

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Brian K. Kidd has joined the firm as a partner in its Investigations + White Collar Defense Group in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kidd joins Morrison & Foerster from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he most recently served as Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds (MIMF) Unit in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, having joined the DOJ in 2009. In this senior role, Mr. Kidd supervised a team of roughly 40 federal prosecutors investigating and prosecuting complex securities, commodities, and other major corporate fraud cases. Mr. Kidd oversaw cross-border and corporate prosecutions involving market manipulation, spoofing, insider trading, money laundering, bribery, cryptocurrency, accounting, and procurement fraud.

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Dechert Welcomes IP Litigation Duo in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley

Monday, January 11, 2021

Dechert LLP announced today that Howard Levine and Jennifer Swan have joined the firm in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley, respectively, as partners in the Intellectual Property group, further expanding Dechert’s global life sciences capabilities. They both come to the firm from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

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