Chris Molen and Chad Werner have joined McGuireWoods’ Atlanta office as partners, bringing deep knowledge of the leveraged finance and asset-based lending markets to the firm’s nationally respected Debt Finance Department. Molen and Werner, both highly regarded in the Atlanta bar, come to McGuireWoods from King & Spalding. More >>

King & Spalding today announced that Matthew W. Nichols has joined the firm as a partner with the Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in the Atlanta office. Nichols joins from the public finance practice at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein, after spending the first 25 years of his career at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan. More >>

King & Spalding announced today that Aaron Lipson, former Associate Director for Enforcement in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Atlanta Regional Office, has joined the firm as a partner on the Special Matters and Government Investigations team in the Atlanta office. More >>

FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest cloud-based law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Thomas Walker as a litigation partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. More >>

As demand for immigration counsel continues to grow for Polsinelli, the firm is expanding its capabilities. The Am Law 100 firm announced today the addition of veteran immigration attorney Raazia “Roz” K. Hall, who joins as a shareholder in the firm’s national Immigration and Workforce Mobility practice, along with immigration associates Katherine “Kate” Smith and Terra Martin. More >>

Alston & Bird has expanded its privacy and cybersecurity capabilities with the addition of former federal prosecutor Lawrence “Larry” Sommerfeld as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. A former assistant U.S. attorney (AUSA) and head of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Unit for the Northern District of Georgia, Sommerfeld led one of the top cyber-crime investigation and prosecution units in the country. He was also a member of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Working Group, where he advised the DOJ on emerging cybersecurity and privacy issues. More >>

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, is expanding its investment management practice to the firm’s Atlanta office with the strategic hire of Shareholder Terrence O. Davis. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs has bolstered its recently opened Atlanta office with the addition of partner Dara Mann, an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on class action, product liability and environmental disputes. More >>