International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Bernard P. Grondin has joined the Firm as a partner in its top-ranked Health Industry Advisory practice group, based in the Miami office.

Richard Sharpstein, a nationally prominent white collar criminal defense lawyer, has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in the Litigation Practice Group and will be based in Akerman’s Miami office.

Peter Quinter has joined GrayRobinson, P.A. as a Shareholder in the firm’s Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices, along with Associate Melissa Groisman. With over 23 years of experience in legal matters involving international trade, Quinter will chair the firm’s newly-formed Customs and International Trade Law Group with Groisman’s support.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, announced the addition of James G. Sammataro as a Partner in the firm’s Entertainment group in Miami, effective immediately. Courtney Caprio will also be joining Stroock as a Senior Associate in the firm’s entertainment group.

Hunton & Williams LLP announces Fernando Margarit has returned to the firm as a partner in its global corporate group. Margarit has a broad-based practice, which involves cross-border M&A transactions and infrastructure projects. He has had experience in the telecommunications sector and has worked on significant matters for the telecommunications industry around the world. Margarit’s corporate M&A and project-related cross-border work has focused on Latin America, where he has developed a network of business relationships. Margarit rejoins the firm in the Miami office, where he practiced from 2001 to 2010. Most recently he had been a partner at Greenberg Traurig.

Akerman Senterfitt recently represented Trivest Partners L.P., a private equity fund, in the acquisition of Confiance IP Solutions by Onepath Systems L.L.C., a Trivest portfolio company.

Foley announced today that Arturo (Art) Requenez II has joined the firm as a partner in the Miami office, working with the Private Equity & Venture Capital, Transactional & Securities and Latin America Practices. Previously, Requenez was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP in Miami.

DLA Piper today announced that prominent health care lawyers Joshua Kaye and Michael Austin have joined the firm as partners in the Miami office.  Kaye joins the firm’s Corporate practice and Austin joins the Litigation practice.  Kaye will also serve as co-chair of the firm’s interdisciplinary Health Care sector.  They are also joined by of counsel Adam Rogers, and associates Valerie Novales and Matthew Grosack. The group previously practiced together in Miami at McDermott, Will & Emery LLP.

Carlton Fields is pleased to announce that Julie C. Ferguson, Sasha Westerman-Keuning and Anastasios G. Kastrinakis joined the firm’s Corporate, Securities & Tax practice group in Miami. Ferguson is a shareholder and Westerman-Keuning and Kastrinakis are associates.