Dinsmore & Shohl LLP welcomes Daniel R. Flynn to the firm’s Chicago office. Flynn, a litigator focusing on environmental issues, brings decades of experience and enhances the services offered in Chicago. Prior to joining Dinsmore, Flynn practiced at Leech Tishman as well as Seyfarth Shaw. More >>

Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce Matt Stevens has joined the firm as partner in the Corporate Department. Mr. Stevens, who will be based in the firm’s Chicago office, brings experience advising clients with respect to a wide variety of corporate transactions, particularly focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, and has significant cross-border experience throughout the world. He also regularly advises publicly and privately held companies with respect to general corporate matters and complex commercial engagements. More >>

Schiff Hardin LLP today announced the addition of Kevin M. Nelson as a partner in its rapidly growing Intellectual Property Group. Nelson has joined the Chicago office, where he is a member of the firm’s Pharmaceuticals and Biologics Patent Team. Nelson has more than 15 years of experience representing generic drug manufacturers in patent litigation brought under the Hatch-Waxman amendments. More >>

Polsinelli welcomes two new shareholders to the firm’s Real Estate practice in Chicago. Michael Ostermeyer and Karen DaCosta Perzan bring with them deep experience in advising clients on commercial real estate matters, adding to the already-deep bench strength the practice offers its clients nationwide. More >>

Global law firm Reed Smith today announced that William (Bill) Lewis has joined the Global Real Estate Group as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office. Over the past 22 years, Lewis has developed an extensive nationwide practice in commercial real estate law, with a focus on leasing, acquisition, and disposition. Most recently, he was Chair of the Real Estate and Land Use Group at Vedder Price in Chicago. More >>

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued the expansion of its Chicago office with a team of leading real estate, land use and zoning partners headed by veteran lawyer John “Jack” George. A former assistant attorney general and assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago, Jack George served as president and board member of his former Chicago law firm. Akerman also welcomes Kathleen “Kate” Duncan, Chris Leach and Meg George. More >>

Freeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that Thomas F. Bush has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a Partner and member of the Litigation Practice Group and Insurance/Reinsurance Industry Group.

“We are enthusiastic about welcoming Tom to Freeborn and to our team serving the insurance and reinsurance industry,” said Freeborn’s Co-Managing Partner Michael A. Moynihan. “Tom brings to the firm decades of experience handling diverse litigation and other matters for insurers and reinsurers.” More >>

Tim Callahan, an accomplished project development and finance lawyer who has closed more than 100 renewable energy project deals in his nearly 30-year career, has joined McGuireWoods’ energy industry team as a partner in Chicago.

Callahan joins McGuireWoods from Paul Hastings, where he led the firm’s North American project finance group. He advises clients in all aspects of the development, financing, acquisition and disposition of energy and other infrastructure projects, including wind and solar facilities, as well as nuclear, gas-fired and coal-fired power plants. He also counsels clients on production and investment tax credits and renewable portfolio standards. Callahan has earned global and nationwide rankings as a leading lawyer from Chambers and Partners. More >>

Katherine Gillespie, Laurette Petersen, Andrew Ratts and Christine Hoefliger have joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners in the firm’s Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance team. Gillespie, Petersen and Ratts, along with special counsel Katarzyna Levecke join the firm’s Chicago office, and Hoefliger joins the firm’s San Francisco office. The group joins from Winston & Strawn LLP. More >>