Fish & Richardson announced today that Helen Baca, Ph.D., has joined the Boston office as a principal in the firm’s life sciences group. Baca joins Fish from Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP, and previously served as in-house counsel at Sandia National Laboratories.
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Continuing to expand its global Corporate Practice, Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Kyle R. Junik to its Boston office as a shareholder. Junik joins the firm from Proskauer.
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Christian Pugaczewski, a structured finance attorney with nearly two decades of experience developing innovative financial products and documenting derivative transactions, including hedging contracts for securitizations and energy project finance, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in New York. Pugaczewski joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was a member of that firm’s derivatives and structured products practice.
Shamis Beckley has joined Cooley as the most recent partner in a series of additions to Cooley’s elite business litigation practice. Based in the firm’s rapidly growing Boston office, Beckley arrives from McDermott Will & Emery with a deep knowledge of complex civil litigation and appeals, in addition to a significant background managing False Claims Act investigations. She will focus her practice on complex civil litigation, white collar criminal defense, government investigations and appellate matters.
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Rob advises clients on transactions focused on the exploitation of IP rights and technology across various industries, including fintech, cleantech, AI, software, hardware, media and digital health. He counsels companies at all stages of growth, particularly startups and emerging companies, on a variety of complex commercial agreements, including development, distribution, strategic alliance, supply, and IP license agreements. Rob also assists clients with IP issues arising from strategic corporate transactions, such as financings, mergers and acquisitions. Parr joins the firm from Wilson Sonsini.
Jordi de Llano, an experienced federal prosecutor, has joined Troutman Pepper’s national White Collar and Government Investigations Practice Group. De Llano most recently was the Deputy Chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, the state’s top federal law enforcement agency.
Cooley’s litigation department continues to expand its East Coast presence with the addition of former federal prosecutor and US Department of Justice leader Zachary Hafer, who joins the firm as a partner in Boston. He arrives from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, where he served as chief of the criminal division. Hafer’s significant trial experience complements several recent additions who have joined the firm’s elite, next-generation litigation practice. He will focus his practice on complex litigation, white collar defense and investigations, and trial work.
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Mintz is pleased to announce the addition of experienced capital markets and mergers and acquisitions lawyer Jason S. McCaffrey as a Member in the firm’s Corporate Practice in Boston. Mr. McCaffrey represents domestic and international public and private clients in a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, energy, and financial services, in connection with corporate, securities, and regulatory matters. McCaffrey joins from Brown Rudnick LLP.
