King & Spalding announced today that energy and construction lawyer Terra Cothran has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. Cothran joins the firm from Bechtel Energy, where she was the Commercial Manager and Senior Counsel in charge of negotiating and advising on a wide variety of upstream, midstream and downstream EPC contracts for energy projects.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Alicia Hawley as an of counsel in its Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice area. Hawley joins the firm’s Chicago office from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
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Holland & Knight has strengthened its nationally recognized Real Estate Capital Markets Group with the addition of Cara Houck, a partner in the Chicago office. Ms. Houck focuses her practice on litigation and commercial real estate foreclosure workouts. She was most recently a principal with Miller Canfield and began her career as an associate at McGuireWoods.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome a leading team of five attorneys to the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations group in New York, bolstering the firm’s litigation capabilities. Led by partners David Spears, Linda Imes, and Chris Dysard, the group includes associates Michael Donohue and Rebecca Orel, as well as four business professionals. Prior to joining Blank Rome, the group practiced at the acclaimed litigation boutique Spears & Imes LLP.
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Dentons announces today that partner Clay Taylor has joined the Firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy (RIB) practice in the Dallas office. Taylor represents clients in a wide range of asset acquisitions, divestitures, financings and restructurings. Before joining the firm, Taylor was with Bonds Ellis Eppich Schafer and Jones LLP in Fort Worth.
Tags: Dentons | DallasDechert announced today the addition of Cynthia Beyea as a partner in its global financial services group, further bolstering the firm’s capabilities in registered funds. Ms. Beyea will be based in Dechert’s Washington, D.C. office. Beyea arrives from Eversheds Sutherland.
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Akin is pleased to announce that Jacqueline Ingram joins the firm’s London office as a partner in its market-leading financial restructuring practice. Jacquie joins Akin from Milbank.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | LondonKing & Spalding announced today that international employment lawyer Tessa Cranfield has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Human Capital and Compliance Practice. Cranfield joins the firm’s London office. Cranfield joins the firm from the London office of Seyfarth Shaw.
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Sidley is pleased to announce that David D’Urso and Elazar Guttman have joined Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice in New York. They join Sidley from Akin where Mr. D’Urso was head of the U.S. PE M&A practice.
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Mayer Brown announced today that private equity lawyer Robert Pohlus has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice as a partner in New York. Pohlus arrives from Proskauer Rose in New York.
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