Daniel E. Schnapp has joined the New York office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the Entertainment and Digital Media practice and as co-leader of the firm’s Technology Transactions Team. Schnapp joins from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP where he was Chair of the firm’s New Media, Entertainment and Technology practice. Joining Schnapp are former Hughes Hubbard associates Alexis Robinson and Genevieve Perez. More >>

Latham & Watkins LLP continues to add firepower to its litigation bench and strengthen its team of esteemed trial lawyers in New York, welcoming partners Joseph Serino and Eric Leon to the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department, in the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice. Both are seasoned litigators, with wide-ranging experience in complex commercial litigation as well as antitrust, securities and trade secret matters, among others. Serino and Leon join Latham from Kirkland & Ellis in New York. While most of their representations are defense-side oriented, Serino and Leon have also together handled several high-profile plaintiff-side cases and won VerdictSearch Top 100 jury trial awards in back-to-back years. More >>

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Jared Rusman has joined the Firm as a tax partner in the New York office. Mr. Rusman joins Kirkland from the Dallas office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he was a partner in the tax department. More >>

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced that Alexandra Poe joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate Department. Poe joins from Reed Smith, where she was the co-chair of the Private Fund Formation and Counseling practice in that firm’s Global Corporate Group. More >>

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Daniel J. Doron has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate practice. Doron, who represents clients in connection with labor and employment-related aspects of M&A transactions on both the buy- and sell-side, will be based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Doron Joins Katten Muchin from Goodwin Proctor. More >>

Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Karen Mangasarian has joined the firm’s Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice as a partner in the New York office. Prior to joining Foley, Mangasarian was a partner at Ropes & Gray LLP. More >>

To fuel the continued growth of its Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice (FRI), global law firm White & Case LLP has added two new lateral partners in its New York office–Philip Abelson from Proskauer and David Turetsky from Skadden. More >>

Russell (Chip) A. Gaudreau III has joined the award-winning Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder in the firm’s New York City office. He joins from Reed Smith where he had been a partner since 2010, and member of the firm’s Life Sciences and Health Industry practice group. More >>

Polsinelli announced Frank T. Spano joined as a shareholder in its New York office. Spano brings extensive domestic and international consumer class action and arbitration experience to the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice.  Prior to joining Polsinelli, Spano was a partner in the law firm Hogan Lovells. More >>

Clifford Chance today announced that Michael Sabin has joined the Firm’s Corporate team as a partner in New York. Sabin’s practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds on structuring and formation matters. Sabin joins Clifford Chance from Debevoise & Plimpton, where he acted for a variety of fund sponsors, including buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure and credit opportunities funds, and hedge funds. He also has advised on fund restructurings, management joint ventures, the funds portion of asset manager M&A and management carried interest arrangements. More >>