Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that private equity fund formation lawyer Bryan Hunkele has joined the firm’s asset management practice as a partner in New York. Hunkele joins from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP.
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Brian Krause and David Tarr are joining the firm as partners in the New York office. Mr. Krause will be a partner in the Tax Department; Mr. Tarr will be a partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice Group. Krause joins the firm from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Tarr was previously with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.
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Judy Kwok, a leading tax attorney in the renewable energy and sustainability areas, has joined Troutman Pepper as a partner in New York. Most recently, Kwok served as a partner at Mintz Levin. Prior to Mintz she served as vice president, Tax Planning and Tax counsel for GE Energy Financial Services.
Cooley continues to strengthen its public companies practice and New York presence with the addition of partners Rupa Briggs and Nicolas Dumont to the firm’s business department. Briggs and Dumont are the latest in a string of prominent hires driven by client demand, adding significant depth to the firm’s comprehensive and diverse capabilities to support the day-to-day needs of its maturing public companies client base. Briggs and Dumont join from White & Case and Fenwick & West respectively.
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Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces the addition of Nick Williams as partner. Williams joins the Firm’s Corporate practice from his most recent role as co-head of a global high-end insurance practice. He is resident in the New York office and focuses on mergers, acquisitions and capital market transactions in both the property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance industries, and cutting-edge work in emerging areas such as cyber insurance. Williams joins the firm from Clifford Chance LLP in New York.
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Crowell & Moring and Kibbe & Orbe have joined forces effective today to provide expanded service offerings to clients in the financial services industry. Twenty-four lawyers from the storied financial law firm are now part of Crowell & Moring’s New York, London, and Washington, D.C. offices, including Jennifer Grady, managing partner and chair of the firm’s executive committee, who will co-chair Crowell & Moring’s Corporate practice; three founding partners, Jonathan Kibbe, William Orbe, and Michael D. Mann, and the managing partner of the London office, Andrew M. Martin.
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Distinguished white collar and investigations attorney Adam S. Hoffinger has joined the White Collar Defense & Special Investigations Practice at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a shareholder. Hoffinger is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and continues to practice in New York, as he has for many years. He joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he was co-chair of its White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Group.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Avner Bengera has joined its New York office as a partner in the Corporate Department, where he will act as the firm’s Co-Head of Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions. He joins Baker Botts from Hughes Hubbard & Reed in New York, where he was the Chair of the M&A Group.
