Freshfields announced today that Sanjay Murti has joined the firm’s corporate department in New York, expanding the firm’s US M&A capabilities. Murti arrives at the firm from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
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James Billingsley has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice Group in its Dallas office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Billingsley was a senior partner at Polsinelli PC.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP – already a market leader in Japan – further expanded its Japan real estate capabilities with the addition of four highly regarded lawyers from White & Case in Tokyo. Mizuho Yamada, who previously led White & Case’s Japan real estate practice, and former White & Case Partner Ayako Kawano join Greenberg Traurig as Real Estate shareholders in the firm’s Tokyo office. Local Partner Kazuo Kasai, and Counsel Hiroshi Hara are also joining the firm.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Katlin McKelvie has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, where she will practice in the firm’s FDA and Health Care Practice Group. Katlin was previously Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and served in senior roles at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and on the U.S. Senate HELP Committee.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed Richard Miltimore as a shareholder in the firm’s growing Nashville office and to the Real Estate & Financial Services Department. Miltimore is an experienced real estate attorney and former business owner in the payment processing space. He is the 12th shareholder the department has added in the past 12 months and the fifth new shareholder in Polsinelli’s fast-expanding Nashville office in the past year. Polsinelli moved into a new office space in Nashville in October last year to accommodate the firm’s exceptional growth in Music City.
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Enhancing Morgan Lewis’s trial, business disputes, and crisis management capabilities, Aliza Karetnick, who most recently led Ballard Spahr’s commercial litigation and dispute resolution group and co-led its manufacturing and consumer products and class action litigation teams, joins as a partner in Philadelphia. Aliza will continue to represent clients in complex commercial, class action, and other litigation.
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FisherBroyles, LLP is pleased to announce that William F. Dolan has joined the firm as a Partner in Chicago. He previously worked at Jones Day, where he was a Partner.
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Skadden is pleased to announce that Michelle Scheffler has joined the firm as a litigation partner in our Houston office. Ms. Scheffler’s practice focuses on advising major oil and gas companies, publicly traded and privately owned independents, and private equity investors at trial and in other complex disputes in the energy sector. She has extensive experience leading matters related to mass and class action royalty litigation, leasing conflicts, operating agreements and title disputes, among other areas of controversy, and regularly represents clients in high-stakes lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide. Scheffler arrives from Haynes & Boone LLP in Houston.
Tags: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | HoustonAm Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed two new shareholders to its growing Miami office. Joining Polsinelli from a boutique firm, but each coming with years of experience at their prior Am Law 50 firms, Albert Diaz-Silveira and Cristina Quintero are two seasoned corporate attorneys and have joined the firm’s Corporate M&A Practice Group to anchor and build out the practice in South Florida. Polsinelli has had steady growth in its nationwide Corporate M&A Practice over the past year, adding four shareholders and significantly expanding in adjacent practices such as Private Equity and Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies.
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