Licensing And Collaborations Partner Adam Bellack Joins Goodwin’s Life Sciences Platform

Global law firm Goodwin announced today the addition of Adam Bellack as partner in the firm’s Life Sciences practice, resident in the Washington, D.C., office. Before joining Goodwin, Bellack practiced at international law firm Hogan Lovells, where he served as Americas co-head of the firm’s life sciences transactions team.

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Greenberg Traurig Adds Chia-Feng Lu as Shareholder in Health Care & FDA and Life Sciences in Washington, D.C.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has added Chia-Feng Lu as a shareholder in its Health Care & FDA Practice and Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group. He will spend most of his time in Washington, D.C. and the Tokyo/Osaka area, but will also regularly visit the other parts of the U.S., such as Boston; as well as European countries. Lu focuses his multi-national practice on guiding life sciences companies and emerging technology companies in non-life sciences fields through the regulatory and transactional law that applies to their products, technologies, services, and business strategies. He worked on several products based on Nobel-winning science in the past two decades respectively, and one of them has successfully reached the blockbuster status. Lu comes from Baker McKenzie.

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Perkins Coie Expands National Environmental, Energy and Resources Practice With Prominent Project Development Lawyers in Washington, DC

Perkins Coie announced today that Edward (Ted) Boling and Stacey Bosshardt are joining the firm’s Environment, Energy & Resources practice in the Washington, D.C., office. Ted and Stacey will expand the firm’s nationally prominent project development and infrastructure practice. Ted will be joining Perkins Coie from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), where he served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) lawyer. Stacey joins from the DOJ where she served as an assistant chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division and was a leading litigator for the federal government.

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Squire Patton Boggs Continues Expansion of International Disputes Resolution Practice

Squire Patton Boggs continues the global expansion of its International Disputes Resolution (IDR) Practice with the addition of Michelle Glassman Bock, who joins the firm as a partner from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Splitting her time between the firm’s Brussels and Washington DC offices, Ms. Bock is the latest addition to the firm’s IDR practice, which has recently hired team members in New York, London, Singapore, Dubai, and Milan and consists of more than 140 practitioners across 20 countries.

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Dentons Adds former White House Policy Advisor and SBA Regional Administrator Ashley Bell

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, today announces the addition of Ashley Bell as a partner. Bell joins the Firm’s award-winning Public Policy practice from his most recent post as policy advisor for the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council in the Office of American Innovation and as regional administrator for the Small Business Administration (SBA). He will be resident in Dentons’ Atlanta office, and maintain a strong presence in Washington, DC, working closely with the firm’s real estate, corporate, capital markets and public finance practices.

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Orrick Again Expands Tech Transactions Team

 
Orrick announced today that Tech Transactions advisor Colleen McDuffie has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C. Colleen is the third addition to Orrick’s Tech Transactions team this month, following the arrivals of Life Sciences licensing advisor Shana Solomon in Boston and technology transactions rising star Faraaz Samadi in London. Colleen joins from Arnold & Porter.
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