King & Spalding has recruited Adam Spicer, a trial lawyer who focuses on complex pharmaceutical and life sciences matters, as a partner in the firm’s Trial & Global Disputes practice group in Atlanta. Spicer was most recently a partner at Butler Snow. Spicer has extensive trial experience with high-exposure cases involving complex. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the arrival of infrastructure development and finance partner G. Scott Rafshoon, who joins the firm’s Global Corporate Practice, resident in Atlanta. Mr. Rafshoon arrives from Hunton Andrews Kurth. More >>

Lewis Brisbois has grown its Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation Practice in Atlanta, bringing on accomplished environmental law attorney Martin A. Shelton as a partner. Mr. Shelton brings nearly a quarter century of experience counseling clients on the environmental issues involved in real estate transactions, Brownfield remediation and redevelopment, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Shelton joins the firm from Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C. in Atlanta.
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King & Spalding today announced that Erik Belenky has joined the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group as a partner in the Atlanta office. Belenky was previously a partner at Jones Day. More >>

Lewis Brisbois’ Atlanta office has brought on experienced trial lawyer Daniel C. Norris as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practice. Mr. Norris will also work with the firm’s Class Action & Mass Tort, Intellectual Property & Technology, and Products Liability teams. Norris was previously with the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird LLP before joining Lewis Brisbois. More >>

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced that Anne Marie Garavaglia and Kinan Obeidin have joined Akerman’s Real Estate Finance Practice in Atlanta. Garavaglia and Obeidin join Akerman from Nelson Mullins LLP, where they led practices representing institutional lenders, REITs, and equity partners in the negotiation and closing of complex structured finance transactions. Their additions to the firm bolster the team’s strategic expansion in 2019. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its global Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice with the addition of Alison Elko Franklin as a shareholder in the firm’s Atlanta office. Franklin, who joins from Dentons, will advise clients on a broad range of restructuring matters, including corporate reorganizations, municipal reform, creditors’ rights litigation, and distressed acquisitions. More >>

Womble Bond Dickinson has strengthened its Product Liability Litigation practice in the firm’s Atlanta office with the addition of Sara Tucker, a veteran mass torts litigator with deep experience in medical device and pharmaceutical litigation. Tucker comes to Womble Bond Dickinson from Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Atlanta office, where, she distinguished herself as an elite trial lawyer defending high-stakes mass tort and multi-district cases. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its Immigration & Compliance Practice with the addition of Jay Ruby as a shareholder in the Atlanta office. Ruby joins the firm from Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP. More >>