Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Todd Chelius has joined its tax practice as a partner in Houston. Joining from Dorsey & Whitney, Chelius has significant experience negotiating tax and commercial aspects of mergers, acquisitions, financings, partnerships and joint ventures, often with international components.
Mayer Brown announced today that Jared Wilner has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities practice and Global Insurance Industry Group in New York. He joins from Locke Lord LLP.
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Huhnsik represents clients in a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters, while also resolving complex disputes that arise in the insurance industry. He advises on insurance-related matters involving formations and capitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, portfolio transfers, insurance-linked securities, investments, commutation agreements, and restructurings and receiverships. Huhnsik also advises on risk mitigation and exposures arising from transactions and investments, global licensing issues, tax matters, and representations and warranties policies on both the buy and sell side. In his dispute resolution practice, Huhnsik has served as lead counsel in more than 70 insurance, reinsurance, and commercial proceedings. Huhnsik joins ArentFox Schiff from Carlton Fields, PC, where he was a shareholder and served as co-chair of the firm’s Fintech and P&C Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice and the Blockchain and Digital Currency Practice.
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Rishi Sodhi has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its Taxation Practice Group, bolstering its transactional tax capabilities for a broad range of transactions. Sodhi is the latest in a string of laterals to join the firm in California and builds upon Foley’s ongoing commitment to growth and expansion on the West Coast. Sodhi arrives from DLA Piper.
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Katten announced today that Emily K. Watson has joined as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity practice in Chicago, building on the deep bench of experienced and skilled attorneys structuring and closing middle-market deals. Prior to joining Katten, Watson was a partner in the corporate group at Levenfeld Pearlstein and a corporate transactions and private equity partner at McDermott Will & Emery where she spent the majority of her legal career.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today the appointment of partner Guillaume Panuel and a team of associates including Houda Bourrich, Agathe Marcelin and Bréa Kamtcheu, into its Private Equity practice in France. The team arrives at McDermott from Dentons in Paris.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the strategic expansion of its Mexico office, with the addition of a tax team. Eduardo Medina Zapata, a leading tax lawyer with more than 25 years of experience, joins as a shareholder from the Jáuregui y Del Valle law firm.
Paul R. Hogan, a highly regarded mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and private equity attorney in Chicago, has joined Holland & Knight as a partner. He was previously with Eversheds Sutherland and, prior to that, served as secretary and general counsel of a publicly traded holding company. Mr. Hogan joins the firm shortly after the arrival of a nationally recognized team of nine energy-focused partners, also from Eversheds, who are located in Atlanta, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C.
Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that the firm has expanded its immigration footprint into Northern California with the addition of shareholder Yvonne Toy in the firm’s San Francisco office. Toy joins the firm from Corporate Immigration Partners, where she was a co-founder and partner. With Toy at the helm in San Francisco, the firm’s immigration practice is expected to grow quickly across northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
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