International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Elai Katz to its Regulatory Practice Group as a partner in New York City. Elai is a highly sought-after advisor to Fortune 100 companies navigating significant antitrust hurdles. Katz arrives from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes James Wyatt to its Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources practice area. He joins K&L Gates’ London office from Avonhurst, a boutique advisory business he co-founded in 2019 after practicing in the energy and infrastructure groups in the London offices of two Magic Circle law firms.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP expanded its Litigation, Aviation, and Appeals & Legal Issues practices with the addition of Andrew Barr as a shareholder in the Denver office. Barr joins the firm from Cooley LLP where he managed a large docket of civil litigation, regulatory, and arbitration matters.
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Global law firm Clyde & Co has today announced the hire of corporate lawyer Elias Matni as a partner in its Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. Elias will be based in the firm’s Doha office and is joining Clyde & Co’s Global Corporate & Advisory practice. Elias joins Clyde & Co from K&L Gates in Doha. Prior to joining K&L Gates Elias spent over nine years at Simmons & Simmons.
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Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce that Samantha Banks and Edward J. Sholinsky have joined our Litigation Department as partners in the Philadelphia office. Prior to Fox, Banks and Sholinsky were partners at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP.
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Global law firm Reed Smith today announced the appointment of Dr. Germar Enders as partner in its Munich office. Enders will join the firm’s Global Corporate Group on 1 August from McDermott Will & Emery (McDermott) where he was counsel.
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Holland & Knight has bolstered its nationally recognized healthcare practice with the addition of attorneys Summer Martin, Susan Banks and Rebecca Merrill as partners. They join the firm from Dentons, where the trio focused on healthcare regulatory matters and where Ms. Martin also led the U.S. healthcare mergers and acquisitions team. Ms. Martin and Ms. Merrill join the firm’s Atlanta office, and Ms. Banks joins the firm’s Denver office.
Continuing its expansion in Texas, O’Melveny announced today that a duo of experienced, decorated litigators—Travis Sales and John Anaipakos—has joined O’Melveny’s Houston office as partners in the firm’s acclaimed General Litigation Practice Group. Sales and Anaipakos come to O’Melveny from the Houston office of Baker Botts, where they practiced together for nearly three decades and served in senior leadership roles: Sales as chair of the ERISA Litigation Practice, and Anaipakos as former chair of the Houston Litigation Department.
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Dentons Hong Kong LLP is further expanding its banking and finance, capital markets and corporate finance capabilities with the addition of veteran, highly respected and well known practitioner, Nicholas Chua, as a partner. Prior to joining the firm, Nicholas was the Head of Legal of CIMB Bank in Hong Kong and the Global Head of Legal, Investment Banking of CIMB in the region, having worked in the banking industry for some 20 years. While moving back to private practice, Nicholas will continue to assist Dentons Hong Kong and the Dentons Regional and International platform, further enhancing the firm’s reputation as a leading banking, finance and corporate finance global law firm. The team managed by Nicholas was previously named in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Hong Kong Teams and he was part of the team that was recognised as Team of the Year – Banking, Asia at the Inhouse Community Counsels Awards.
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Philip Mace, an experienced corporate lawyer whose practice is focused on energy and upstream oil and gas transactions, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in London. Mace joins the firm from Clyde & Co., where he had been a partner since 2009.
