Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed five dynamic partners to its Mergers and Acquisitions group this week—four in the national firm’s Detroit office and one in Chicago. The team is led by Joseph DeVito, who served as chair of Corporate, Finance and Real Estate at Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC. Also joining Dinsmore in Detroit as M&A specialists are partners Jeffrey Hoover, Evonne Xu and Ian Larkin. The team is rounded out by Jane Hahn, who is joining Dinsmore in Chicago.
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Herbert Smith Freehills has further strengthened its Disputes Practice in London, after hiring Will Glassey to join its partnership. This will enable the firm to further bolster its successful solicitors’ professional indemnity and regulatory practice, as well as its professional negligence offering more broadly. Will joins Herbert Smith Freehills from Mayer Brown, where he was Head of Insurance Disputes in London and Global co-Head of Insurance. Before moving to Mayer Brown in 2000, he was an associate in legacy Herbert Smith’s Disputes team in London.
Morris S. (Mo) Bauer has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group in its Newark, N.J., office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Bauer was a member at Norris McLaughlin, P.A.
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Global law firm Ashurst is pleased to announce that Robert Child has joined as a partner in the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice, based in Singapore. His addition follows the recent arrival of senior project partner Andrew Roche in the Singapore office. Joining from Clifford Chance, Robert has advised on complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings and insolvencies in both Europe and Asia.
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Reed Smith today announced the addition of pioneering data privacy, advertising, and brand protection partner Robert Newman. Formerly the co-chair of Privacy, Security & Data Innovations at Loeb & Loeb LLP and co-leader of the Global Privacy & Data Security Task Force at Winston & Strawn LLP, Newman has joined Reed Smith’s global Entertainment & Media Industry Group as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office.
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Mayer Brown announced today that Francisco García-Naranjo González has joined the firm’s Mexico City office as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice. Mr. García-Naranjo joins from White & Case LLP.
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Benji Barron has rejoined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. Barron most recently served as Associate General Counsel for Targa Resources, a leading provider of midstream services and one of the largest independent midstream infrastructure companies in North America.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Anthony S. Fiotto to its Litigation Department in Boston, where he will serve as the office’s litigation head. Mr. Fiotto brings to the firm thirty years of broad litigation and arbitration experience, including extensive first chair trial experience. His arrival highlights the firm’s commitment to further expanding its capabilities in Boston. Mr. Fiotto’s addition also underscores the further strengthening of the firm’s litigation capabilities on the East Coast, following the addition of five partners to the firm’s Litigation Department in Washington, D.C. since the start of 2021. Fiotto joins the firm from Goodwin Procter, LLP.
