Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Eric D. Greenberg has joined the firm’s Technology Transactions & Privacy and Mergers & Acquisitions practices as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office. Eric was previously a partner at Paul Hastings LLP where he practiced media and technology deals, for which he was a winner of The Financial Times’ 2016 award for innovative lawyers. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Mitchell Rabinowitz and Jenny Cieplak have joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as partners in the Financial Institutions and FinTech Industry Groups within the Corporate Department. Leaders in the FinTech space, their practices are at the intersection of technology and financial services and focus on joint venture and consortia transactions involving top-tier financial institutions creating and investing in novel technology and industry solutions for market infrastructure deployments. Rabinowitz and Cieplak join Latham & Watkins from Crowell & Moring LLP. More >>

Andrew G. McBride, a former federal prosecutor and nationally recognized trial and appellate lawyer with more than two decades of experience representing corporate clients and individuals, has joined McGuireWoods’ Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department as a partner in Washington, D.C. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day announces that former U.S. Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe has joined the Firm’s Washington Office as a partner in the Investigations & White Collar Practice. Mr. Sharpe comes to Jones Day after serving as U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands from 2009 through 2017. More >>

The Washington, D.C., office of K&L Gates LLP has added Stephen M. Humenik as a partner in the investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments and derivatives and structured products practices of the global law firm’s financial services practice area. He joins K&L Gates from Covington & Burling LLP, where he led the global futures and derivatives practice. More >>

Lewis Brisbois is excited to announce the addition of four attorneys to the firm’s Environmental & Administrative Law Practice in its Washington, D.C. office. Jane C. Luxton and Karen C. Bennett join as partners and co-chairs of the newly expanded practice. The group also includes William J. Walsh, who joins as a partner, and Amanda L. Tharpe, who joins as an associate. More >>

Clifford Chance today announced that Sharis A. Pozen is joining the Firm as a partner and will co-chair the Global Antitrust Group. She will be based in Washington, DC.
Pozen comes to Clifford Chance from General Electric, where she was the company’s vice president for Global Competition Law and Policy. In that role, she was responsible for leading GE’s global merger clearance on numerous significant, transformational deals, steering global antitrust investigations to positive conclusions, antitrust compliance and other related issues. More >>

The global law firm Jones Day has announced the arrival of three lawyers to the Firm’s Washington Office. David Applebaum and Michael Oblon both join the Firm as partners in its Energy and Intellectual Property practices, respectively, while Amie Colwell Breslow comes to Jones Day as of counsel in the Tax Practice. More >>

Alston & Bird has expanded its Corporate Transactions & Securities Practice with the addition of Alex Park as partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.

Arriving from Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, Park is a seasoned corporate and securities transactional attorney with a finance and accounting background. His career also includes co-founding a technology-based startup and serving as its general counsel and chief operating officer. More >>

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Samuel R. Ramer, who most recently served as Senior Associate Counsel to the President at the White House, has joined its Washington, DC office as a partner. More >>