John-Paul Motley has joined Cooley as a Los Angeles-based partner in the firm’s public companies practice group. Arriving from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was chair of the firm’s capital markets practice and formerly served as a member of its policy committee and as managing partner of its Los Angeles office, Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Lauren Giovannone will join the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Giovannone, formerly a partner at Paul Hastings LLP, will continue her real estate practice, which concentrates on all transactional matters associated with the hospitality sector.
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Holland & Knight has bolstered its nationally recognized Private Equity Team with the addition of Scott Syverson as a partner in the firm’s Orange County and Los Angeles offices. Mr. Syverson represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their businesses, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He was previously a partner with Kirkland & Ellis.
Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Paul Navarro as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Group (ECVC) based in Los Angeles. Mr. Navarro brings extensive experience representing start-ups, emerging growth companies, and investors in a variety of corporate and technology transactions covering all stages of the ECVC life cycle, in the United States and Latin America. Mr. Navarro joins Morrison & Foerster from Perkins Coie LLP, where he was a member of the ECVC practice.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Saul Breskal has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in our nationally recognized Real Estate practice. Representing hospitality and entertainment clients in real estate transactions and ground-up development both domestically and internationally, Saul joins Blank Rome from Glaser Weil and is the latest addition to Blank Rome’s growing Real Estate group, which recently welcomed leading partners Christy Reuter, Sonia Kaur Bain, and J.J. Broderick, of counsel Kerri Alessi, and associates Kaitlyn West, Christina Preminger, and Matthew Crawford.
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Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Houston and Los Angeles offices with Labor and Employment Practice Group partner Mishell Parreno Taylor. Parreno Taylor focuses her practice on employment litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies across the country. Parreno Taylor comes to the firm from Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Arent Fox LLP and Schiff Hardin LLP completed their merger, effective March 1, 2022. The new firm operates under the name ArentFox Schiff and is led by Chair Anthony V. Lupo and Firmwide Co-Managing Partners Cristina A. Carvalho and Joseph J. Krasovec III. The newly combined firm is home to more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals and serves as a destination for an international client base of corporations, governments, private individuals, and trade associations.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Joe Kaczorowski has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, where he will be part of Willkie’s leading Private Equity Practice Group. Joe is based in Willkie’s Los Angeles office. He was previously Special Counsel at Cooley LLP, and Assistant General Counsel at Platinum Equity. His arrival follows the addition of private equity partner Ray LaSoya, who joined Willkie’s Los Angeles office earlier in February.
Accomplished litigator Andrew Russell has joined McGuireWoods’ Labor & Employment Department as a partner in Century City, California, bringing more than a decade of experience representing national and global companies in high-stakes employment matters. He joins McGuireWoods from Fox Rothschild.
