Addleshaw Goddard has hired Clarissa Smith as a partner in its fast-growing construction and engineering team. Clarissa, who primarily specialises in cross-sector disputes for clients within the construction industry, previously worked as a partner at Trowers & Hamlins. Her practice has focused on all forms of alternative dispute resolution, adjudication, meditation and the resolution of claims under the pre-action protocol for construction and engineering disputes. Previous clients have included some of the UK’s largest developers, contractors, sub-contractors, consultants and local authorities.
Tags: Addleshaw Goddard LLP | LondonW. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker join Jones Day as partners in Minneapolis
The global law firm Jones Day announced today that W. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker have joined the Firm as partners in the Minneapolis Office. Mr. Folk joins Jones Day’s Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice, and Ms. Parker joins the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice. Mr. Folk spent the last four years at the Department of Justice, initially serving as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota and later as the Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota. Parker joins Jones Day from Stinson Leonard Street LLP.
Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyer Suzanne M. Utke Joins Marshall Dennehey’s Health Care Department in Philadelphia
Highly accomplished medical malpractice trial lawyer and licensed nurse, Suzanne M. Utke, RN, BSN, MHA, J.D., has joined Marshall Dennehey’s Philadelphia office as a shareholder in the Health Care Department. Previously, she was a partner at Weber Gallagher.
K&L Gates Adds Hong Kong Debt Capital Markets Finance Partner
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Jay Lee as a debt capital markets finance partner in its Hong Kong office. Lee joins K&L Gates from the Hong Kong office of Simmons & Simmons.
Jones Day Welcomes Gary Kaplan as Partner in Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice
King & Spalding Adds Fund Formation Partner Stephen Sims in London
King & Spalding has hired private funds partner Stephen Sims to the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in London. Sims was previously a partner and the European Head of Investment Management at Skadden and more recently a fund formation partner at MJ Hudson.
O’Melveny Welcomes Leading Bank Regulatory Lawyer Jarryd Anderson
O’Melveny announced today that leading bank regulatory lawyer Jarryd Anderson has joined the firm as a partner based in Washington, DC. He will advise financial institutions, banks, fintech companies, and their investors on transactional, regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement matters. He comes to O’Melveny from WilmerHale, where he served in the Financial Institutions Group and the Bank Regulation and Enforcement Practice.
Tags: O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | WashingtonEversheds Sutherland Makes Second Financial Services Partner Hire In a Month
Eric T. Hawkins Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in Atlanta Office
Steptoe Expands Antitrust and Competition Practice with Addition of Former Chief of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division’s Civil Conduct Task Force, Lee Berger
Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Lee Berger, former Chief of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division’s Civil Conduct Task Force (CCTF), has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office.