Prominent capital markets Partner Xavier Mangino has joined Holland & Knight’s Mexico City office along with Senior Counsel Elena Ibarrola and Associates Adolfo Obregon and Alejandro Briceño Suárez. The team, which also includes two law clerks, joins from DLA Piper.
Eversheds Sutherland Opens San Francisco Office
Global law firm Eversheds Sutherland announces today the opening of a San Francisco office, expanding its US presence to one of the top business, technology and legal markets in the country while creating new opportunities to strengthen its capabilities and worldwide footprint. Baird D. Fogel, a highly regarded and experienced transactional attorney, has joined the firm from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as Partner in Charge for the new San Francisco office. |
Womble Bond Dickinson Adds Capital Markets Duo in Washington
Experienced financial services and capital markets attorneys Laura E. Hoag and Joseph J. Ricotta have joined the firm’s Washington office as partner and of counsel, respectively. Laura focuses her practice on domestic and international financings, debt restructurings, and commercial business transactions; Joe focuses his practice on transactional law and debt finance. Laura and Joe join Womble from Squire Patton Boggs’s Cleveland office.
Nixon Peabody Adds a Team of Four Litigation Partners to its Los Angeles Office
Nixon Peabody LLP is in growth mode on the West Coast, expanding its Los Angeles office with the arrival of four new partners: Complex Disputes partner Carlos Becerra, and Labor & Employment partners Richard J. Frey, Robert H. Pepple, and David M. Prager. The group joins the firm from the Los Angeles office of Epstein Becker & Green P.C.
Anthony Cavanaugh Bolsters Real Estate & Hospitality Litigation Practice
Anthony Cavanaugh, a trial lawyer with extensive experience in complex real estate, construction and hospitality litigation, has joined Pillsbury’s growing litigation practice in Washington, DC. He joins from Miles & Stockbridge, where he was a principal.
K&L Gates Broadens Corporate Practice with Raleigh Partner Addition
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Courtney B. Thomas as a partner in the corporate practice. He joins K&L Gates’ Raleigh office from communications networks software and services provider Trilliant Networks Inc., where he was senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary.
Leading Bankruptcy Partner Seth J. Kleinman Joins Morrison & Foerster
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Seth J. Kleinman as a partner in the firm’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group (BRIG). He will have a dual presence in New York and Chicago. Kleinman joins from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and brings close to two decades of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency experience to Morrison & Foerster.
Fashion Industry Attorney Danielle Garno Joins Holland & Knight in Miami
Danielle Garno, a transactional and litigation attorney who focuses on issues facing the fashion community, has joined Holland & Knight as partner in the firm’s Miami office. She provides clients with start-up phase and commercial advice and handles matters related to intellectual property and brand protection, new media and technologies, social media marketing, advertising and anti-counterfeiting, as well as general business litigation. She previously was a partner at Reed Smith.
Real Estate Partner Beatriz Azcuy Joins Sidley
Cooley Strengthens Global Antitrust & Competition Practice in Brussels
Jonas Koponen has joined Cooley’s Brussels office as a partner in the firm’s global antitrust & competition practice group. He arrives from Linklaters, where he served as global head of the firm’s antitrust and foreign investment group and as global co‐head of its life sciences and healthcare sector team. Koponen is a highly regarded competition lawyer with a practice spanning complex transactional work, investigations and litigation.
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