The global firm Jones Day announces that Thomas M. Devaney has joined its New York Office as a partner in the Firm’s Private Equity Practice. Devaney joins the firm from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. More >>
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Matthew Dixon Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in the Chicago Office
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Matthew P. Dixon as a partner in the Insurance practice group in the firm’s Chicago office. Dixon was previously with Querrey & Harrow, Ltd. in the firm’s Chicago office. He grew up and attended college in Iowa and will be returning there in January 2020 to lead the firm’s Des Moines, Iowa office. More >>
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Clyde & Co Expands Global Law Firm Liability Practice With New York Team Hire
Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the appointment of three leading legal professional responsibility, malpractice and disciplinary defence lawyers in New York. Janis Meyer, Anthony Davis and Rick Supple will join from Hinshaw & Culbertson and form part of Clyde & Co’s global Law Firm Liability, Regulatory and Investigations Group. More >>
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Baker Donelson Expands Georgia Health Care Practice with Addition of Michelle Williams
Baker Donelson is pleased to announce it has added health care attorney Michelle Williams as a member of its Baker Ober Health Law Group resident in the Firm’s Atlanta office. Ms. Williams, who joins as a shareholder, focuses her practice on the regulatory and structuring aspects of hospital mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Her experience includes obtaining attorney general and federal approvals for complex transactions and/or conversion from non-profit to for-profit status, and issues of successor liability. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, she was a partner with Alston & Bird.
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John Gore Returns to Jones Day from DOJ Civil Rights Division as Partner in Firm’s Government Regulation Practice
The global firm Jones Day announces that John Gore, who most recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, for the U.S. Department of Justice, returns to Jones Day as partner in the Firm’s Government Regulation Practice and is based in its Washington Office. Mr. Gore joined the DOJ in January of 2017. More >>
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Baker Botts Continues Bay Area Growth With Addition of Emerging Companies and VC Partner Michael Torosian
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology and energy law firm, announced today the arrival of Michael Torosian. He joins Baker Botts’ Emerging Companies and Venture Capital (ECVC) Practice as a member of the Corporate Department. Mr. Torosian, who is the fifth lateral partner to join Baker Botts’ Bay Area offices since early October, will work out of the San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. He joins Baker Botts from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where he was a corporate partner in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. More >>
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Clifford Chance Strengthens its Restructuring Practice With The Arrival of Delphine Caramalli as a Partner
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance announced today that Delphine Caramalli is to join the Firm’s global Restructuring and Insolvency practice as a partner in the Paris office.
Delphine is specialised in financial restructuring, insolvency proceedings and mergers and acquisitions related to reorganisation and reversal operations. She works alongside domestic and international investors, private equity funds, hedge funds and other lenders. She also advises shareholders or buyers in their restructuring or external growth operations. She began her career as a lawyer in 2001 in the mergers and acquisitions department of Fried Frank, successively in London, New York and Paris, and joined Weil Gotshal & Manges in 2005. Delphine moved to STC Partners as a partner in 2008 and then joined Bremond & Associés in 2012.
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Dechert Boosts Global Fund Formation Capability with Paris Hire
Dechert LLP has added to its market-leading global funds team with the strategic hire of Cyril Fiat as a national partner in Paris. Mr. Fiat, an experienced private fund formation lawyer who has most recently worked as in-house counsel for the World Bank Pension Fund in Washington DC, will complement the firm’s 200 lawyer-strong investment funds capability in France and internationally. More >>
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Reed Smith Continues Dallas Growth With Addition of Corporate Partner Chauncey Lane
Reed Smith today announced that Chauncey M. Lane has joined the firm as a partner in its Global Corporate Group in the firm’s Dallas office. Lane is the fifth lateral partner to join the firm since the office opened in May with 16 lawyers. The Dallas office has doubled in size since its opening and now has 31 lawyers. Lane was formerly a partner in the Dallas office of Husch Blackwell, and before that was an attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission. More >>
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Simmons & Simmons Expands its Banking Practice with Partner Hire
International law firm Simmons & Simmons announced today the recruitment of banking specialist Kirsty Barnes, who will be joining as partner in our international banking practice on 12 November, based in London. Her arrival follows the recent appointments of James Taylor, Jens Golz and Michaela Sopp who joined teams in London, Frankfurt and Munich earlier this year, boosting the firm’s international banking and finance offering. Kirsty joins the firm from Gowling WLG where she was a partner and head of banking and finance in the UK. More >>
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