Freshfields Expands US Antitrust Practice With Addition of Partner Meghan Rissmiller in Washington, D.C.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP (“Freshfields”) announced today that Meghan Rissmiller has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. as a partner in its leading US antitrust practice. Ms. Rissmiller specializes in advocating before the US antitrust agencies and guiding clients on the clearance of M&A transactions. Rissmiller makes the move to Freshfields from Hogan Lovells, where she had spent the last eleven years with their antitrust practice group.

More >>

Tags:  Freshfields LLP | Washington

Willkie Expands Asset Management Practice with Addition of Partner Chip Lunde in Washington

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Marvin (Chip) C. Lunde, III has joined the Firm as a partner in the Asset Management Group in Washington. Mr. Lunde advises insurance companies, investment companies, investment company boards, investment advisers and broker-dealers on federal and state securities and insurance compliance and regulatory matters. Mr. Lunde was previously a shareholder at Carlton Fields, where he served as co-chair of the firm’s Securities and Investment Companies Industry Group.

More >>

Tags:  Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP | Washington

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.

More >>

Tags:  Goodwin Procter LLP | Washington

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.

More >>

Tags:  Greenberg Traurig, LLP | Washington

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.

More >>

Tags:  Perkins Coie LLP | Washington