Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that five public finance attorneys—James S. Normile, William F. Dudine, Patricia A. Mollica, Alexander Deland and Catriona M. Morgan—have joined the firm’s New York office from the Public Finance group of Winston & Strawn LLP. The move signifies Katten’s commitment to expand its public finance presence on the East Coast and across the country. More >>

International law firm Proskauer has announced today the arrival of Private Client Services partner Stephanie E. Heilborn in the firm’s New York office. More >>

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP today announced that Henry Lebowitz has joined the firm as a partner in New York and a member of the Corporate Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Lebowitz’s practice will focus on IP and technology aspects of mergers and acquisitions, financings and capital markets as well as data licensing, healthcare and life sciences licensing, joint ventures and other IP transactions. More >>

Knobbe Martens, one of the leading intellectual property law firms in the United States, announced today it will open an office in New York City. The new office is the firm’s eighth, joining offices in Washington, D.C., Seattle, and throughout California. More >>

Timothy J. Kelly and Jessica Hiney, experienced intellectual property attorneys with a focus on trademark and copyright portfolio management and enforcement – both with significant domestic and international experience – have joined McCarter & English, where they will bolster the firm’s already-robust intellectual property practice.

Kelly and Hiney, colleagues earlier at the New York office of an intellectual property boutique, are both partners resident in McCarter’s midtown Manhattan office. More >>

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. continues to enhance its nationally recognized Litigation and Sports Law Practices with the addition of Anthony Mulrain, who, in addition to representing publicly and privately held companies, also represents a number of high profile athletes and entertainers in litigation and arbitration matters. He will serve as a Member in New York. More >>

Danielle Conley, who concluded her service as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States in January, is returning to WilmerHale as a partner in the firm’s Regulatory and Government Affairs Department. She will be a member of two firm groups: Strategic Response and Government and Regulatory Litigation. Ms. Conley will also co-chair WilmerHale’s civil rights and anti-discrimination practice with Partner Debo Adegbile, who was recently appointed to the US Commission on Civil Rights. More >>

Sills Cummis & Gross is pleased to announce that David B. Newman has joined the Firm’s Litigation Department in the New York office. More >>

Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Parik Dasgupta as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in New York. Dasgupta was most recently a partner in the New York office of King Wood Mallesons (KWM). The addition of Dasgupta complements Reed Smith’s addition of 50 former KWM attorneys who joined its London, Munich, Frankfurt and Paris offices in January. More >>