Polsinelli Grows Labor Relations Practice with New Shareholder Denise Delcore

Denise Delcore joins Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli as a shareholder, expanding the firm’s national Labor Relations Practice. Delcore, located in Polsinelli’s Kansas City, Mo. office, is nationally-recognized as a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and as a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP). Ms. Delcore joins from Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP.

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Ashurst Expands Corporate Practice with Hong Kong Partner Hire

International law firm Ashurst is bolstering its international equity capital markets/US securities and M&A practices with the appointment of Melody He-Chen as a partner in Hong Kong. Melody joins from DLA Piper and has significant experience advising investment banks and corporations on capital markets and corporate matters in Asia and the United States. 

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Corporate, M&A and Private Equity Partner Returns to Pillsbury in DC

Nicole Islinger, an accomplished dealmaker with wide-ranging transactional experience that spans M&A, private equity, emerging company and government contracts work, has joined Pillsbury’s corporate practice in Washington, DC as a partner. She was previously a shareholder at Vedder Price in the Corporate and the Finance & Transactions groups.

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Pinsent Masons Hires Leading State Aid and Public Procurement Partner in London

International law firm Pinsent Masons has hired Dr Totis Kotsonis to lead the firm’s State aid and public procurement team within its Competition, EU & Trade Group.
Totis joins from Eversheds Sutherlands where he led the firm’s procurement, State aid and EU regulatory practice with a focus on transport, construction and energy. Totis had previously worked at Norton Rose Fulbright for 13 years.

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Blank Rome Continues Expansion of Nationwide State and Local Tax Group in New York

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome five new attorneys to the Firm’s Tax, Benefits, and Private Client group in the New York office: Senior Counsel Irwin M. Slomka; Of Counsel Matthew F. Cammarata, Eugene J. Gibilaro, and Kara M. Kraman; and Senior Attorney Michael A. Pearl. The leading group joins from Morrison & Foerster LLP and adds to the Firm’s growing Nationwide State and Local Tax practice, which recently expanded with the addition of prominent partners Craig B. Fields, Holly L. Hyans, Nicole L. Johnson, and Mitchell A. Newmark to enhance the Firm’s capabilities to litigate state and local tax matters and counsel clients on state and local tax planning throughout the country.

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