Katten announced today that Christopher D. Beatty has joined as a partner in the Commercial Litigation practice in the Los Angeles office, adding to the group of recognized litigators on the West Coast. Beatty joins the firm from Miller Barondess LLP in Los Angeles.
International law firm Clifford Chance expands its German IP practice led by Claudia Milbradt with two renowned IP lawyers: On 1 January 2023 Tobias J. Hessel and Stefan Richter will join the firm in the Düsseldorf office and further strengthen the German and European IP practice with their specialist expertise and market experience. Both come from the European IP boutique Hoyng Rokh Monegier. Counsel Thomas Misgaiski will join them.
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Cementing its leadership position in securities enforcement defense, global litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP today announced that C. Dabney O’Riordan has joined the firm as a partner, resident in the Firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. O’Riordan joins Quinn Emanuel from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she led the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit (AMU) for over six years.
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Faegre Drinker announced today that Leila Vaughan has rejoined the firm as a partner in the investment management practice group in Philadelphia. Vaughan comes to the firm from Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld.
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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.
Mayer Brown announced today that Vincenzo Feldmann re-joined the firm as a partner in the Employment & Benefits practice in Paris. He joins from Gide Loyrette Nouel, where he was a counsel for three years.
Benjamin Cooper, an experienced project finance attorney who recently served as an associate general counsel at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has returned to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner* in the firm’s energy and infrastructure practice.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Jindrich Kloub has joined the firm’s antitrust and competition department as a partner in the Brussels office. Kloub’s more than 10 years of service at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and his most recent Hong Kong Competition Commission (HKCC) role illustrate the range of his enforcement agency experience and connections. His addition fortifies Wilson Sonsini’s acclaimed antitrust and competition practice in the United States and Europe. Most recently, Kloub was executive director of operations at the HKCC, where he was responsible for all antitrust enforcement since 2017.
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