Reed Smith today announced that Saba Shatara has joined the firm’s national State Tax practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. Formerly with Drinker Biddle & Reath, Deloitte, and the California State Board of Equalization, Shatara brings a mix of private practice and state agency experience in a wide range of tax controversy matters before state and local tax agencies.
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Zachary Fallon brings significant experience advising companies, investors, and market participants in the crypto and digital assets space on federal securities law compliance. Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Zachary Fallon has rejoined the firm’s Bay Area offices as a partner in the Emerging Companies & Growth Practice. Fallon represents companies, investors, and market participants navigating the intersection of federal securities laws and innovative financial technologies. His experience spans multiple sectors, with a focus on technology, fintech, crypto, and the digital assets space.
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Faegre Drinker announced today that three powerhouse female former federal prosecutors, partners Carolyn McNiven and Jessica Natali and associate Brittany Fisher, joined the firm’s litigation group in San Francisco and Philadelphia. With a national white collar defense practice spanning both the East and West Coasts, the trio moved as a team from Greenberg Traurig where they defended a variety of private and public companies and individuals primarily in the health care, life sciences, and financial services sectors in government enforcement matters.
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Thomas Earnest has joined Mintz as a Member of the Corporate practice in the firm’s San Francisco office. Mr. Earnest has more than a decade of experience providing strategic legal and business guidance to clients ranging from start-ups to late stage private and public companies. Primarily serving private and public technology, video gaming, digital media, and retail and consumer products companies, he regularly counsels clients in a range of mission-critical transactions, including company and entity formation, venture and private equity financing, and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Earnest arrives from Matterhorn Legal, LLP.
Emma Mann-Meginniss joins Cooley’s San Francisco office as a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice. She arrives from Goodwin Procter, where she was a partner, and will continue her focus on representing private technology and digital health companies and investors.
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Michael Burshteyn joined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s San Francisco office as a shareholder in the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice. Burshteyn arrives at the firm from Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Global law firm Goodwin today announced that Patrick Gunn joined the firm’s Complex Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice as a partner, resident in the San Francisco office. Gunn arrives at the firm from Cooley LLP.
Amid growing scrutiny of how companies use and protect consumer information, Pillsbury has recruited highly regarded data privacy and technology partners Jeewon Serrato and Shruti Bhutani Arora to the firm’s San Francisco office. Both join Pillsbury from Baker Hostetler.
Mintz announces that Laura M. Franco has joined as a Member of the Intellectual Property practice group in the firm’s San Francisco office. Laura is an internationally recognized trademark practitioner specializing in trademark prosecution, brand enforcement and protection, and IP licensing. Prior to joining Mintz, Laura was a partner at Winston & Stawn LLP, where she managed the Trademark Prosecution & Brand Protection group and co-chaired the firm’s Latino lawyers affinity group.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that prominent patent litigators Robert Benson and Jeffrey Johnson have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department in the San Francisco and Houston offices, respectively, as partners. Both partnerts arrive at Baker Botts from Orrick.
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