Mayer Brown Adds Leading M&A Lawyer Allison Lee to Corporate & Securities Practice in Asia

Mayer Brown announced today that Allison Lee has joined its Corporate & Securities practice as a partner. With 15 years’ experience advising public and private companies and private equity firms in connection with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, distribution arrangements and secondary sale transactions across Asia, Ms. Lee joins from Debevoise & Plimpton where she was a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, and Private Equity and M&A Groups in Hong Kong.

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Squire Patton Boggs Adds New Litigation Partner and Team for Madrid

Squire Patton Boggs has announced the appointment of Javier Izquierdo as a partner in its Madrid Litigation Practice. He joins from Pérez-Llorca Abogados, where he was co-head of the Litigation Practice. Mr. Izquierdo, who arrives with a three-lawyer team, is the latest partner to join the firm in Madrid, following the recent addition of Corporate partner Carlos Blanco Morillo and Competition partner Gorka Navea.

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M&A Partner Valarie Ney Joins Hunton Andrews Kurth in Washington

Valarie Ney, an experienced corporate and M&A attorney, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C. Ney represents clients from a broad array of industries, including the government contracting, pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, technology and manufacturing sectors. Ney joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Holland & Knight, LLP, where she was a partner.

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Freshfields Continues Strategic Growth With Dispute Resolution Partner Appointment

Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) today announced that Ludovic Malgrain, a leading litigation practitioner specialising in white-collar crime, has joined the firm’s dispute resolution practice as a partner in Paris. Malgrain joins from Malgrain Avocats, a Paris boutique dedicated to white-collar crime, following ten years as partner at White & Case, where he most recently led its white-collar crime and regulatory practice in the French capital.

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