Holland & Knight announced today that a nationally recognized team of nine partners with extensive experience in the energy industry have joined the firm from Eversheds. The team is led by energy and renewables partner Ram Sunkara in Houston and tax partner Amish Shah in Washington, D.C. The group also includes partners Jackson Allen and Kyle Wamstad in Atlanta; Joshua Belcher and Ronnie Dabbasi in Houston; Madeleine Tan in New York; and Alexander Holtan and Susan Lafferty in Washington, D.C.
Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP has expanded its national Corporate Practice Group with partners Jonathan Beckham in Atlanta and Michael Fulks in Winston-Salem. They are the fifth and sixth partners to join Akerman’s national corporate team this year after New York partner Cristina Gonzalez, Atlanta partner Bryan Reese, Winston-Salem partner Steven “Will” Walker, and Los Angeles partner Peter Hurm. Beckham comes to the firm from Greenberg Traurig while Fulks previously practiced with MIchael Best & Friedrich.
Barnes & Thornburg has added Loretta Freeman as a partner in the Atlanta office, where she joins the Intellectual Property Department and concentrates her practice on patent and trademark law. Freeman joins the team from Merchant & Gould PC
Tags: Barnes & Thornburg LLP | AtlantaProminent real estate lawyer Nellie Shipley Sullivan has joined Holland & Knight’s Atlanta office as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Section, one of the largest in the country. She handles a broad variety of transactions involving commercial real estate and helps clients that are relocating or expanding participate in economic development programs. Ms. Sullivan, who is admitted to practice law in Georgia and North Carolina, was previously a partner with Womble Bond Dickinson.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Atlanta Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice with the addition of Shareholder Matthew W. Nichols, who joins from King & Spalding.
Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Steven H. Lee to its Atlanta office as a partner and vice chair of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice. Mr. Lee has served as a federal prosecutor for the last six years, representing the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in criminal matters involving healthcare fraud, national security violations, trade secret theft, and other economic crimes. Prior to his time at the DOJ, Mr. Lee worked as an assistant attorney general for the Georgia Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. His current practice focuses on government and internal corporate investigations, as well as white collar criminal defense, with an emphasis on healthcare fraud matters. In his role as practice vice chair, Mr. Lee will lead the Atlanta office’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense team.
Tags: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP | AtlantaInternational law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of three partners to its transactions practice: Luc Jansen and Prem Amarnani in New York and Nathan Mihalik in Atlanta. Luc and Prem will support global clients in fund formation as demand from private equity, real estate and private client work continues to grow, while Nathan will bolster the Firm’s global mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance and securities practice in the Atlanta market, additional key areas with significant demand and strong market momentum. Luc joins from Kirkland & Ellis, Amarnani joins from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and Mihalik previously practiced with King & Spalding.
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