Phyllis Young, an accomplished transactional lawyer who advises public and private companies, commercial banks and investment funds in financing transactions and has extensive energy industry experience, has joined McGuireWoods’ debt finance practice as a partner in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices. She joins McGuireWoods from Akin Gump. More >>
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Global law firm Reed Smith today announces the hire of Stephanie Chan as partner in its litigation practice in its Hong Kong office. Chan joins from Ashurst and she specialises in commercial litigation, contentious regulatory matters and international arbitration. More >>
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King & Spalding has added Karl Heisler as a partner to its Government Matters practice in Chicago, where he will be part of the Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) team. Heisler was previously a partner and co-head of the Internal Environmental Investigations and Incident Response practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. More >>
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Rob Patterson, an energy lawyer who represents clients in complex transactions across the globe, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the London office. Rob previously worked at Vinson & Elkins for about two decades, serving as a partner in the firm’s Energy Transactions & Projects Practice. More >>
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Eversheds Sutherland has recruited Giles Dennison, a highly respected corporate partner with over 20 years’ experience, into its London M&A practice. Giles joins Eversheds Sutherland from Simmons & Simmons where he was head of the UK corporate group, advising on corporate matters, including private and public M&A, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, corporate governance and general corporate support. His clients include UK and US corporates from the TMT, consumer, diversified industry and healthcare sectors. More >>
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading technology and energy law firm, announced today the addition of Cheryl A. Cauley, a prominent trial, technology and commercial litigation lawyer, as a partner in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Ms. Cauley comes from respected Bay Area litigation boutique, Taylor & Patchen. More >>
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International law firm Bird & Bird grows its Energy & Utilities team with the appointment of Roger van Buuren as a finance partner in The Netherlands. With 20 years of experience, Roger specialises primarily in project finance in the energy and utilities sector as well as, acquisition and real estate finance. He previously worked as a finance lawyer at several leading Dutch law firms and ABN AMRO Bank. More recently, he returned to private practice as a partner at the Dutch firm Bond Advocaten where he advised lenders and borrowers on finance transactions. More >>
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We are pleased to announced that a team of motor and general insurance lawyers from Withers KhattarWong in Singapore have joined us, making us one of the largest local providers of volume defence work and one of the largest motor insurance teams at any law firm in the country. Patrick Yeo and fellow partner Lim Hui Ying were both in the insurance practice at Withers KhattarWong, and have joined us as partners. They are supported by their team which includes an associate, Joyce Ooi, a paralegal, Azizah Roslan, and support staff. More >>
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Mayer Brown today announced that finance lawyer Bernina Butt has joined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in Frankfurt as a partner. Bernina was previously at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More >>
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Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that Kevin Walker has joined the firm’s Morristown office as shareholder. Walker joins the firm from McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter in Morristown, where he was a partner. More >>
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