Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has expanded its Washington, D.C. office, welcoming partner Ivan Bilaniuk to the firm. Bilaniuk joins the firm’s litigation department and international business practice group and will focus both on international arbitration and litigation as well as international compliance. More >>
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Norton Rose Fulbright today bolstered its Global Cyber Risk Group with the addition of three prominent privacy and cybersecurity lawyers: Chris Cwalina in Washington, DC, Jeewon Serrato in San Francisco and Steven Roosa in New York. Cwalina joins as the firm’s Global Co-Head of Cyber Risk and Serrato as its Head of Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity in the United States. Roosa will head up the firm’s data lab, enhancing Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Risk Advisory offering. More >>
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Mayer Brown announced today that two highly regarded lawyers have joined the firm to enhance its service to Japanese clients. Mr. Murase and Mr. Ito join from Morgan Lewis. More >>
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Securities and commercial litigator Eric A. Kuwana has joined Cooley as a partner. Based in Washington, DC, and New York, Kuwana joins from Katten Muchin Rosenman, where he was partner and co-chair of the firm’s securities litigation and enforcement practice. More >>
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Orrick announced today that Geoff Willard has joined the firm’s Technology Companies Group as a partner in Washington, D.C. With Geoff’s addition, we have added over a dozen partners to our global Technology Companies team since 2016. He joins Orrick from Cooley. More >>
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Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Sarang (Sy) Damle will join the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in September. Damle expects to practice in the Washington, D.C. office. More >>
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Global law firm Reed Smith today announced the addition of a 15-person team from Norton Rose Fulbright to its Life Sciences Health Industry Group (LSHI). As part of this expansion, Reed Smith will open an office in Austin, Texas, its second in Texas and 28th worldwide. More >>
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Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Brendan M. Dunn, formerly policy advisor and counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), will join Akin Gump as a partner in its public law and policy practice. Mr. Dunn, who served as chief advisor to Majority Leader McConnell and the Senate GOP leadership on tax, trade, financial services and pension matters before Congress, was the key staff architect of the successful effort to secure the passage last year of the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He is expected to start at the firm on May 24. More >>
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that George Stamas, Mark Director, Andrew Herman, and Alexander Fine have joined the firm as partners. Stamas will work in the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices, while Director, Herman and Fine will be based in the Washington, D.C. office and also will work regularly in the New York office. They all join from Kirkland & Ellis, continuing their corporate, mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices. More >>
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Morgan Lewis today welcomes Ryan M. Kantor, former assistant chief of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Healthcare and Consumer Products Section, as a partner. He will be resident in the firm’s Washington, DC, office. More >>
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