Faegre Drinker announced today that health care partner Randy Peak and counsel David Rose have joined the firm in Dallas. Peak and Rose will also serve as vice presidents of Innovative Health Strategies, Faegre Drinker’s procurement and outsourcing consulting firm. Peak arrives from Haynes & Boone, Rose joins the firm from his General Counsel role at ProPath.
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Weil is delighted to announce the arrival of Céline Domenget-Morin as a partner in its Restructuring practice in Paris. Céline joins Weil from Goodwin Procter LLP, having practiced earlier at White & Case LLP.
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Haynes and Boone, LLP is delighted to announce the addition of Litigation Partner Elizabeth Weldon to the firm’s growing Orange County office. Elizabeth joins from Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., where she spent over 20 years in commercial and business litigation with a specialty in franchising.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP strengthened its global Hospitality and Restaurant Industry practices with the addition of Shareholder Brandon Roos, who re-joined the firm’s Las Vegas office. Roos was most recently in-house counsel at hospitality, restaurant, and nightlife powerhouses Hakkasan Group and TAO Group, launching the general counsel role for the former and managing legal matters for a portfolio of more than 60 restaurant, nightlife, and lounge venues worldwide.
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With insurance disputes continuing to rise throughout North America, Cozen O’Connor has further expanded its rapidly growing international Insurance Coverage practice with the addition of litigators Julie E. Van Wert, David M. Berke, Jerome P. Doctors, and Rangi Perera in Los Angeles and Christopher Tramonte in Houston. These attorneys represent a wide array of insurance clients — from primary and excess insurers, to brokers, agents, and independent adjustment companies — in every line of business.
Vinson & Elkins announced today that it has expanded its corporate and finance practices in London with the addition of leading practitioner Chris Taufatofua, who joins the firm from Milbank.
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s leading litigation practice continues to attract sought after talent with the addition of experienced litigator and trial lawyer David T. Klapheke as a partner in its Louisville office. With a storied career spanning several decades, David’s credentials include numerous successful verdicts, outcomes and appeals across a wide variety of cases. Klapheke joins Dinsmore from the Louisville office of Boehl Stopher & Graves, LLP.
Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired corporate M&A partner Cephas Sekhar in its Houston office. Sekhar’s appointment sees the Houston team grow to 11 partners following its opening in June, which marked the expansion of the firm’s global Energy & Infrastructure team in the US. Sekhar arrives at the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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Linklaters expands its Antitrust & Foreign Investment practice with the appointment of Bruce Kilpatrick in London. The practice is known for its market-leading reputation globally across all aspects of merger-control, competition, foreign investment, competition litigation and cartel work, with this appointment further bolstering its position. Bruce returns to the firm from Addleshaw Goddard where he has led the Competition and Regulatory team for over a decade.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed George Tsai as a shareholder in the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice, where he will work closely with the firm’s Corporate and Private Equity M&A Practices. Joining Polsinelli’s Denver office, Tsai is an experienced adviser in the highly complex and technical practice area of employee benefits and executive compensation. Tsai joins the firm from Shearman & Howard LLC in Denver.
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