Mayer Brown announced today that Gary Wilcox has joined its Tax Controversy & Transfer Pricing practice as a partner in Washington DC. Before coming to Mayer Brown, Mr. Wilcox held leadership positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and another international law firm, and served as the Deputy Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). More >>

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP is pleased to announce that Joseph Hall has joined the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group as a partner in the Washington DC office. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland (US), Mr. Hall served as partner and co-chair of Dorsey & Whitney’s Energy Industry Group. More >>

DLA Piper announced today that healthcare and life sciences compliance lawyer John Rah has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in Washington, DC. Mr. Rah, who previously was a partner at Morgan Lewis, is the latest addition to the firm’s growing Litigation practice in Washington, DC, which recently welcomed Matthew Graves, Raphael Larson and Louis Ramos. More >>

Thomas Repke, who has extensive M&A private practice and in-house experience, has joined Covington as a partner in its Mergers and Acquisitions practice in Washington. More >>

Mark F. Dever and Eduardo R. Guzmán have joined the Squire Patton Boggs Communications Practice Group in Washington DC as partners from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. More >>

The law firm Miles & Stockbridge today announced that highly-regarded health care lawyers Robert Zinkham, Lisa C. Keenan and Molly E. G. Ferraioli have joined the firm’s expanding health care practice. All were most recently with the health care group at Venable LLP. More >>

King & Spalding is pleased to announce that Steven Kupka will join the firm as partner in the Government Advocacy & Public Policy practice in the Washington, D.C., office. He will focus on advising clients on international trade promotion, foreign regulatory issues and foreign asset recovery efforts. More >>

The Washington, D.C. office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has added Steven Barringer as a shareholder in its Government Law & Policy and Environmental practices. Barringer, who served two years as a Special Assistant to the Solicitor in the U.S. Department of the Interior, has counseled clients for more than 30 years on federal legislative and agency strategy, and on issues related to toxic chemicals, hazardous substances and hazardous waste, and water quality. More >>

Michael Best is pleased to announce that John Sheehan has joined its Environmental & Natural Resources Practice Group as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Sheehan, who joins from a national firm in Washington, previously served as a senior trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice in its Environmental and Natural Resources Division for over 13 years during which time he also served as a special counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and as a special advisor in EPA’s Office of General Counsel. More >>