Fisher Phillips, one of the country’s preeminent labor and employment law firms representing employers, is pleased to announce that Susan Maupin Boone has joined the firm’s national Wage and Hour Practice as a partner in Columbia, SC.
Intellectual Property Partner Hean Koo Returns to Pillsbury, Boosting High-Tech IP Offering
Hean Koo, a highly-skilled patent prosecution lawyer immersed in cutting-edge technologies, has rejoined Pillsbury as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice. He joins the firm from Mannava & Kang and will be based in Pillsbury’s Northern Virginia office.
K&L Gates Further Strengthens Intellectual Property Practice with Addition of Seasoned Litigation Partner in Chicago
Following the recent additions of its IP Agency in China, a team of intellectual property (IP) lawyers in Japan, and new IP partners in Melbourne, Portland, Orange County, Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago, global law firm K&L Gates LLP has now added Jeffrey R. Gargano as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice. Gargano joins K&L Gates’ Chicago office from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
Herbert Smith Freehills Bolsters Corporate Practice in Germany With Double Partner Hires
Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Jan Eltzschig and Heike Schmitz as corporate partners based in the firm’s Düsseldorf office in Germany. Jan and Heike join from DLA Piper in Cologne, where they were a partner and a counsel in the firm’s corporate group. Both partners will start on 1 October 2021. They will join together with Senior Associate Marjel Dema and Associate Janis Rentrop.
Experienced Energy, Infrastructure Attorney Prem Malali Joins Nelson Mullins in New York
Prem N. Malali has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as a partner in its New York office. He joins from Murtha Cullina, where he was a partner.
K&L Gates Continues Growth of Technology Transactions/Privacy Practice with Additions of Seattle Partner and Associate
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Whitney McCollum as a privacy partner in the technology transactions, privacy, and sourcing practice. McCollum joins the firm’s Seattle office from multinational engineering firm AECOM, where she served as vice president, assistant general counsel, and chief IP and data protection counsel. She is the latest in a series of recent additions to the firm’s technology transactions and privacy practice, including Seattle associate Jane Petoskey in August and Seattle partner Jake Bernstein in May, among others. They join more than 20 lawyers across the firm’s technology transactions practice with privacy experience, along with other privacy practitioners in K&L Gates’ litigation, financial services, and health care practices.
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Cooley Expands Public Companies Group in New York
Sarah Sellers has joined Cooley’s public companies practice group as a partner in New York. Arriving from WilmerHale, Sellers has extensive experience advising public companies on a broad range of corporate, securities, transactional and governance matters.
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Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Investigations Team Adds High-Profile Litigator in New York
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Sandeep Savla, who holds a reputation as a leading litigation and investigations lawyer in both the US and UK, has joined its New York office as a partner. Joining from Latham & Watkins, Savla is the eighth US lateral partner to join the firm’s global investigations team this year, following Tim Byrne, Celia Cohen, Tom Coulter, Jay Dewald, Chris Pelham, Julie Searle and Brian Sun.
Ian McGinley, Former SDNY Assistant US Attorney and Co-Chief of Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, Joins Akin Gump
Akin Gump today announced that Ian Patrick McGinley, former Co-Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), has joined the firm as a partner in New York in its white collar defense and government investigations practice. Mr. McGinley spent the past decade as a federal prosecutor, during which time he also served as a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.
New Shareholder Rafael A. Santos-Hernández Joins Polsinelli’s Real Estate Finance Practice
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes real estate attorney Rafael A. Santos-Hernández as shareholder in the firm’s New York office. Santos-Hernández joins the firm’s national Real Estate Finance Practice, having a deep background in representing borrowers and lenders in numerous forms of real estate finance transactions. Santos-Hernández joins the firm from Reed Smith in New York.
