Polsinelli Bolsters Real Estate Finance Practice with Shareholder Duo in Atlanta

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has added two highly accomplished real estate finance attorneys to its growing Atlanta office. Joshua F. Reif and Aleksandra Strang have joined Polsinelli’s Real Estate Finance Practice Group as shareholders, continuing the firm’s growth in the Georgia capital and in one of the firm’s leading national practice areas. Both join Polsinelli from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP where they were partners in the Real Estate Capital Markets and Corporate Leveraged Finance practices focused on commercial mortgage warehouse and repurchase financing facilities.

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BakerHostetler Continues Strategic Growth, Adding a Multi-Partner Insurance M&A and Regulatory Business Group Team

Friday, April 14, 2023

A full-service team of mergers and acquisitions and insurance regulatory attorneys, comprised of partners Tony Roehl, Lori Bibb and Joe Holahan, have joined BakerHostetler’s Business Practice Group. Roehl will also become the firm’s Insurance Transactions and Regulatory team leader. Roehl and Bibb are based in Atlanta; Holahan is based in Washington. They join from Morris, Manning & Martin and help strengthen BakerHostetler’s leading corporate, M&A and regulatory teams.

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Womble Bond Dickinson Adds Corporate Partner in Atlanta

Friday, March 3, 2023

Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Douglas W. Butler has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate & Securities group. He will be based in the Atlanta office. Butler joins Womble from Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, where he was a partner and led that firm’s Captive Management and Insurance Regulatory group.

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Lewis Brisbois Adds Six Nationally Recognized Attorneys to Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Lewis Brisbois is pleased to announce the addition of six attorneys to its Data Privacy & Cybersecurity (DPCS) Practice. This nationally recognized team includes Jackson, Mississippi-based Partner Robert Walker, CIPP/US, Associates Erica Lloyd and Rachel Pitts, as well as New Orleans-based Partner Ross Molina, Atlanta-based Partner Tawana Johnson, and Houston-based Associate Ryan Cook. These attorneys, who bring to the firm more than 50 years of combined experience in the data privacy space, will assist clients with, among other things, responding to data breaches, complying with data privacy requirements, addressing pre- and post-incident cybersecurity, and responding to state and federal regulatory investigations. The team will bolster Lewis Brisbois’ DPCS Practice and further the firm’s commitment to excel and serve clients at the highest level. The group arrives from Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP.

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Private Funds and Real Estate Partner Gibbs Fryer Returns to King & Spalding

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

King & Spalding announced today that private funds and real estate lawyer Gibbs Fryer has rejoined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Fryer rejoins the firm after co-founding and serving as a principal for Evergreen Medical Properties, a real estate operating company investing in healthcare facilities across the U.S.

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Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice David Nahmias Will Join Jones Day as a Partner in Atlanta

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

David E. Nahmias, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, will join the Firm as a partner based in the Atlanta Office. He will lead the Investigations & White Collar Defense team in Atlanta while also working with the Firm’s Issues & Appeals Practice.

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Greenberg Traurig’s Salt Lake City Office Nearly Doubles with Leading IP Team

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has hired a group of 19 Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice attorneys and patent agents, more than half of whom will be in the firm’s Salt Lake City office, which first opened less than three years ago. New Shareholders Bryan K. Hanks and Jonathan R. Lee, both registered patent attorneys with electrical engineering backgrounds, will spend time in the firm’s Salt Lake City and Phoenix offices. Eleven of the attorneys on the team will be based in Salt Lake City, nearly doubling the number of attorneys in that office. The 31-person team, which includes specialist engineers and business staff, joined from FisherBroyles LLP.

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