Holland & Knight has bolstered its leading corporate practice with the addition of Paulo Varnieri as a partner in Washington, D.C. Mr. Varnieri represents clients in connection with cross-border and domestic corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity investments and financing, particularly in the infrastructure and transportation sectors in the U.S. and Latin America. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, he was General Counsel for CCR USA.
Nicholas Davis has joined Cooley’s mergers & acquisitions practice as a partner in Seattle. Arriving from Perkins Coie, he will play an integral role in supporting Cooley’s companies platform and its growing buy-side practice.
Tags: Cooley LLP | Chicago | Seattle
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that the global law firm is expanding to Chicago as its 12th US location and 53rd office worldwide. Norton Rose Fulbright will be the first major law firm to base itself in Chicago’s vibrant Fulton Market District. The new office will be a modern and progressive workspace with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Focused on technology transactions, intellectual property and privacy and data security, the group of Daniel Farris, Chrisotpher Hines, Joe McClendon, Francesca Cardillo, Erica Cook, Alex Katsulis, Nidhi Narielwala, Meghan Tierney, Ross and Schmidt-Iverson join from K&L Gates. Coming from DLA Piper, Sameer Ghaznavi joins the firm’s world-leading projects practice. Andrew Cripe and Mary Kathryn Curry arrive from Polsinelli with decades of experience in employment and labor law.
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Jonathan Ishee, a health care data privacy attorney with extensive knowledge around the intersection of technology and health care, has joined Troutman Pepper’s Health Sciences Transactional Department as a partner. He joins the firm from McGuireWoods.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charlotte Jacobsen will join the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Intellectual Property Practice Group. Jacobsen, formerly a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP, will continue her patent litigation practice, focusing on life sciences, pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent and licensing disputes.
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Dechert LLP is pleased to announce that William C. Robertson has joined the global finance team as a partner based in New York. Mr. Robertson’s arrival continues Dechert’s major U.S. private equity and private credit expansion, which includes the growth of the firm’s capabilities in California with the recent hire of Nicole Macarchuk. Mr. Robertson joins Dechert from Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Rita Piel has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s mergers and acquisitions team in Baltimore as a partner from Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC where she served as a partner in the Business and Commercial Transactions and Sports Law, Gaming and Facilities practice areas.
