Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has expanded its Washington, D.C. office, welcoming partner Ivan Bilaniuk to the firm. Bilaniuk joins the firm’s litigation department and international business practice group and will focus both on international arbitration and litigation as well as international compliance. More >>
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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continues the rapid expansion of the M&A and Private Equity Practice in New York with experienced corporate partner Michael O’Brien. He brings more than three decades of experience in advising a wide range of public and private companies, with an emphasis on the private equity, life sciences and fintech sectors. O’Brien is the third New York partner to join Akerman’s national M&A and Private Equity Practice in the last four months, following the team’s continuing national expansion across major U.S. business centers. More >>
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Global law firm Reed Smith has today announced the appointment of Howard Womersley Smith as a partner in its IP, Tech & Data practice in the London office. Howard was previously a partner at Taylor Vinters. More >>
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Lisa Rushton has joined Womble Bond Dickinson’s Raleigh office as a Partner. A Chambers USA ranked, veteran environmental transactions lawyer, Rushton guides corporate clients, including multinational and global corporations, real estate developers, financial institutions, energy developers and providers and investment funds through environmental regulatory challenges in complex commercial transactions. She assists buyers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, debtors, landlords and tenants in understanding and apportioning environmental liabilities and drafting and negotiating contractual provisions covering environmental aspects of business and real estate transactions and proceedings. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today that Kevin Grant has joined the firm’s Corporate practice as a partner in Short Hills, New Jersey. More >>
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, is expanding its investment management practice to the firm’s Atlanta office with the strategic hire of Shareholder Terrence O. Davis. More >>
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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that market-leading financial services and regulatory partner Arun Srivastava will join the London office from Baker McKenzie, where he is head of the Financial Services Regulatory Group. Srivastava will lead Paul Hastings’ London regulatory and fintech and payments practice. More >>
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Nicholas Dent has joined Locke Lord’s London office as a Partner in the Firm’s Labour & Employment Practice. Dent’s focus on advising clients in the financial and professional services and media sectors on the full range of their employment issues, including high-value discrimination and bonus claims, adds depth to the Firm’s Labour & Employment team and its growing London office. More >>
Tags: Locke Lord LLP | LondonAkerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued its rapid growth of the Los Angeles office with the hiring of partner Marissa Alguire in the Labor and Employment Practice Group. Alguire is the sixth management-side employment lawyer to join Akerman’s Los Angeles team since January, expanding the office’s bench strengths in all aspects of California employment law. Nationwide, headcount for Akerman’s Labor and Employment Practice Group has more than doubled in size from 21 to 50 lawyers since 2016. More >>
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Shareholder Aaron O’Donnell, Associate Lauren Ortega Focus on Transaction Work. Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, welcomes two new attorneys to the firm’s Real Estate practice group in Chicago. More >>
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