Sidley is pleased to announce that David D’Urso and Elazar Guttman have joined Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice in New York. They join Sidley from Akin where Mr. D’Urso was head of the U.S. PE M&A practice.

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Mayer Brown announced today that private equity lawyer Robert Pohlus has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities practice as a partner in New York. Pohlus arrives from Proskauer Rose in New York.

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Akin is pleased to announce that James Munsell has joined the firm as a partner in its market-leading investment management practice in the New York office. He joins from Sidley Austin, where he was a partner.

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Leading banking, finance, and restructuring lawyer Kalyan “Kal” Das joined Greenberg Traurig, LLP along with Sharan Calay and Andrew Silverstein. They join from Seward & Kissel, where Das has spent over three decades and was head of its Global Bank and Institutional Finance & Restructuring Practice. He will be based in the New York, London, and Bridgehampton offices. Calay and Silverstein, also previously at Seward & Kissel for more than two decades, will be based in New York. They join as shareholders.

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Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP today announced that Cathy Mulrow-Peattie has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Formerly with Loeb & Loeb, Mulrow-Peattie brings a mix of in-house and private law practice, with significant experience in regulatory aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, cybersecurity, and digital media and advertising.

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Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Amanda Gill joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice and Life Sciences group as a partner, resident in the New York office. Gill arrives from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that prominent energy and infrastructure lawyer Mona Dajani has joined the firm as a partner in New York. She will become Global Co-Chair of Energy Infrastructure and Hydrogen and Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy Sector. Dajani joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling, where she was Global Head of Renewables; Global Head of Energy & Infrastructure (Projects); Head of the Hydrogen and Ammonia Practice (Americas); and Co-Head of the U.S. Energy team.

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Gerald A. Stein, a former attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, and a highly skilled litigator and counselor in private practice, has joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the firm’s New York City office. Stein brings decades of experience advising on and litigating antitrust and commercial matters for healthcare, media, technology, retail, and consumer products clients, most recently at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.

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Rebekah Donaleski has joined Cooley’s New York office as a partner in the white collar defense & investigations practice. Donaleski arrives after nearly a decade at the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where she was chief of the office’s public corruption unit and led many of the office’s most significant investigations and prosecutions – including those of US Sen. Robert Menendez, Ghislaine Maxwell, Michael Avenatti and Lev Parnas. Donaleski will focus her practice on sensitive internal and government-facing investigations, complex litigation, crisis management, and trials, working closely with Cooley’s deep bench of former federal prosecutors and commercial litigators to advise and defend Cooley’s innovative and disruptive clients.

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