Holland & Knight Adds Project Finance/Energy M&A Attorneys Timothy Moran and Philip Corsello

Project finance/energy M&A attorneys Timothy Moran and Philip Corsello have joined Holland & Knight as partners in its Washington and New York offices, respectively. Mr. Moran will chair the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure M&A/Finance Team and co-chair its Energy & Natural Resources Industry Sector Group. Most recently, he was a partner at DLA Piper, where he was U.S. co-chair, Projects and Infrastructure; U.S. chair, Renewable Energy; and U.S. chair, Energy M&A. Mr. Moran and Mr. Corsello practiced together at DLA Piper and prior to that at Sidley Austin and Dewey & LeBoeuf. Most recently, Mr. Corsello was with Schiff Hardin.

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Rimon Welcomes International Transactions and Data Privacy Attorney Sarah (Xiaohua) Zhao as a Partner in its Washington D.C. Office

Rimon is proud to welcome Sarah (Xiaohua) Zhao as an International Transactions and Data Privacy Partner in its D.C. office. Ms. Zhao is the firm’s 30th new partner this year. She joins from Baker Hostetler, where she was a Partner. She had also previously served as the Managing Partner of the Beijing office of Holland & Knight.

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Mayer Brown Adds Five-Lawyer Banking and Finance Team to Leading Renewables Energy Practice

Mayer Brown announced today that a five-lawyer team led by partners Eric Pogue and John Tormey has joined the firm’s Projects & Infrastructure practice, adding to its existing power and renewables capabilities. Mr. Pogue will be based in New York, and Mr. Tormey will be based in Washington DC. They join from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where Mr. Pogue served as a co-chair of that firm’s Renewable Energy practice.

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International Nuclear Power Project Development Attorney George Borovas Joins Hunton Andrews Kurth

George Borovas, a leading international nuclear power projects attorney who advises governments, sponsors and lenders on the development of civilian nuclear power programs and the financing and construction of nuclear power plants, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner. Borovas joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP.

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Cozen O’Connor Makes Strategic Move Adding John D. Shire to Washington, D.C. Health Care Practice

Cozen O’Connor today added John D. Shire in a strategic move bolstering the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Health Law Practice and Health Care & Life Sciences Industry Group. Shire, who brings a deep understanding of federal and state health care regulations and has been instrumental in several of the most well-known transactions in the health care space, will co-chair the practice alongside R. Christopher Raphaely. Prior to joining Cozen O’Connor, Shire served as a partner at Seyfarth representing public and private companies in buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial contracts, private capital transactions, and impact investments. 

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Former Democratic Senator and State Attorney General Mark L. Pryor Joins Brownstein

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that Mark L. Pryor, a former two-term U.S. senator and Arkansas attorney general, joined the firm today as a shareholder in the Government Relations Department in its Washington, D.C., office. Pryor will play a leading role in furthering the firm’s State Attorneys General and Congressional Investigations groups as well as the federal government relations practice. Most recently he served as a partner with Venable Law Firm in Washington, D.C., and was a co-chair of its Attorneys General Group and Congressional Investigations practice.

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Talented Project Finance Leader Rejoins Latham

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that David Penna has rejoined the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices as a partner in the Finance Department and member of the Project Development & Finance and Latin America Practice Groups. He represents sponsors, lenders, developers, multinational corporations, and government entities on all phases of project development and financing in the US and globally, with a particular focus on energy, power, and infrastructure assets. Penna most recently served as Senior Vice President in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).

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