Cozen O’Connor today announced Kurt Konrad Lunkenheimer, a trial lawyer turned federal prosecutor in Miami, has joined its White Collar Defense & Investigations group. The firm’s first White Collar Defense & Investigations lawyer to be based in Florida, Lunkenheimer joins Cozen O’Connor as a member and will work out of the Miami, Fla. office. Lunkenheimer joins from the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in the Southern District of Florida.
International law firm Clifford Chance today announced the arrival of real estate partners Kris Ferranti and Jonathan Y. Newman in its US Real Estate practice. Ferranti and Newman bolster the firm’s US and global Real Estate offering comprising 600 attorneys, including 193 partners, across five continents. The pair arrive at the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP.
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Eric S. Aronson, a widely respected trial lawyer with broad experience in trial and appellate courts across the nation, has joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group in New York. Aronson joins Crowell from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.
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Global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (‘Freshfields’) today announced that Ludovic Malgrain, a leading litigation practitioner specialising in white-collar crime, has joined the firm’s dispute resolution practice as a partner in Paris. Malgrain joins from Malgrain Avocats, a Paris boutique dedicated to white-collar crime, following ten years as partner at White & Case, where he most recently led its white-collar crime and regulatory practice in the French capital.
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Susan L. Shin, a highly regarded and nationally recognized complex commercial litigation and trial attorney, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in New York. Shin joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, where she was a partner in the complex litigation practice. She was previously a partner and member of the policy committee at Arnold & Porter, LLP.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP has announced the continued growth of its Investigations and White-Collar Defense practice and New York office with the addition of Andrew C. Adams, the former Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, the first Director of Task Force KleptoCapture, and former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Dentons announces today that Louis Anthony (“Tony”) Pellegrino has joined the Firm as a partner in its Commercial Litigation practice. Pellegrino, a former Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York with prominent positions in both the Civil Division and Criminal Division, brings with him a unique background and extensive experience leading high-profile matters through investigation, prosecution and trial, particularly in the financial services area.
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Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Martin De Luca has joined the firm as a partner. Martin counsels high-net-worth individuals and corporations in complex multijurisdictional disputes, developing offensive and defensive strategies to manage the criminal and civil litigation often associated with high-profile government investigations. De Luca comes to the firm from Kobre & Kim LLP.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice with the addition of Peter Mason as a partner in London. He joins White & Case from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a senior associate, and brings more than ten years of experience.
Wendy R. Stein—an intellectual property litigator who represents corporations and individuals in patent, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition matters—has joined Ballard Spahr’s Intellectual Property Department and Intellectual Property Litigation Group as a partner, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today. Ms. Stein will be resident in the firm’s New York office. Stein comes to Ballard Spahr from Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC.
