In a move that further enhances its Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that Mike Pestana has joined the firm as a partner in San Francisco. Joining from Wilson Sonsini, Pestana focuses largely on company-side representation at all stages of development, from newly formed startups to pre-IPO companies.
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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Gabriel (“Gaby”) Jackson, Peter Renstrom, Stephen Jenkins, and Todd Thacker to its San Francisco office as partners in the firm’s Products Liability Practice. These attorneys, who join Lewis Brisbois from Goldberg Segalla, have several decades of legal experience among them. They successfully manage complex, high-exposure matters on behalf of clients, including at the highest appellate levels.
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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Michael Podolny has joined the Palo Alto and San Francisco offices as a partner in the firm’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital (ECVC) practice. Prior to joining Sidley, Mr. Podolny was a partner in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins LLP.
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Alex S. Kaufman has joined Mintz as a Member of the Corporate Practice, with a focus on middle-market private equity, strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A), growth equity, and venture capital. He will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and San Diego offices. Prior to joining Mintz, Alex was a partner in the Global Private Equity Practice at Paul Hastings.
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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.
Tags: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | Philadelphia | San FranciscoThomas 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.
