King & Spalding announced today that leading intellectual property lawyer Alfonso Chan has joined the firm as a partner in its Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group. He is based in the firm’s Austin office. Chan joins King & Spalding from McKool Smith.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP announced today that litigator Gemma Anderson is joining the firm as a partner. Gemma was previously at Morrison & Foerster where she was a partner specialising in complex, cross-border disputes.
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Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Amanda Gill joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice and Life Sciences group as a partner, resident in the New York office. Gill arrives from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that prominent energy and infrastructure lawyer Mona Dajani has joined the firm as a partner in New York. She will become Global Co-Chair of Energy Infrastructure and Hydrogen and Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy Sector. Dajani joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling, where she was Global Head of Renewables; Global Head of Energy & Infrastructure (Projects); Head of the Hydrogen and Ammonia Practice (Americas); and Co-Head of the U.S. Energy team.
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Skadden is pleased to announce that Sebastian FitzGerald will join the firm’s London office as a partner in its Banking Group. FitzGerald arrives from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in London.
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Buchalter proudly welcomes David Mainzer as the newest Shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Mainzer joins the corporate practice group, bringing over 25 years of invaluable experience in advising investment management firms and funds. Mainzer arrives from Ballard Spahr LLP.
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Gerald A. Stein, a former attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, and a highly skilled litigator and counselor in private practice, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the firm’s New York City office. Stein brings decades of experience advising on and litigating antitrust and commercial matters for healthcare, media, technology, retail, and consumer products clients, most recently at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice and Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition of Omar Hemady as a partner in Boston. Hemady arrives from Pathlight Capial LP, where he served as General Counsel.
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP further expands its national Appeals & Legal Issues Practice with the addition of Chief Justice Lorie Skjerven Gildea as a shareholder in the global law firm’s Minneapolis office. Justice Gildea joins Greenberg Traurig after having served as Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court for 13 years. She is the second woman to hold the position and the third longest-serving chief justice in Minnesota history.
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Lorie Soares Lazarus and Peter David Ballance have joined the firm as partners in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental practice group in Silicon Valley and Century City, respectively. They were most recently at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.
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