Holland & Knight has added Government Contracts Attorney Christian B. Nagel as a partner in its Tysons, Va., office. Mr. Nagel previously led the government contracts litigation team at an international law firm in Tysons and Washington, D.C. More >>

Holland & Knight’s Private Wealth Services Group has added Cynthia Gausvik as a partner in the firm’s Tysons, Va., office. She previously was a partner at Blank Rome. More >>

Offit Kurman continues to expand its presence in Tysons Corner with the addition of Daniel M. Casto. Formerly associate general counsel to a publicly traded company, Mr. Casto joins the firm’s Business Law and Transactions Practice Group as a principal-level attorney. He is the eighth lawyer to affiliate his practice with Offit Kurman in October. More >>

Dentons today named James H. Williams, previously the Manager of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Integration Office, as a Principal in the Firm’s Public Policy and Regulation Practice. In this role, Williams will advise clients on aviation technology, regulatory, and compliance issues with particular emphasis on the military, consumer, and commercial use of unmanned aircraft. He will be resident in the Firm’s Tysons Office in McLean, Virginia.

Williams joins Dentons following more than 25 years of distinguished service with the FAA where he held a Top Secret security clearance. In 2012, he was selected to serve as manager of the FAA’s newly-created Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office, the single agency focal point for all UAS-related activities, to develop and coordinate solutions to the challenges presented by drones across the FAA and external organizations. In this capacity Williams was instrumental in improving inter-agency cooperation to expand unmanned military and commercial aircraft access to US airspace and served as the agency’s spokesperson on all UAS-related issues. This includes briefing congressional members and their staff on the FAA’s activities related to unmanned aircraft as well as preparing the FAA Administrator for congressional hearings and testifying before the House Aviation Subcommittee Congressional Roundtable and the House Science Committee. More >>

Dentons announced today that prominent defense industry and aerospace lawyers Giovanna Cinelli and Kenneth Nunnenkamp have joined Dentons as partners in its US Export Controls and National Security practice. With their arrival, the Firm will open an office in Tysons Corner, Virginia, an area recognized as a thriving business center and considered to be the heart of Washington’s technology corridor, where Cinelli, who will chair the practice area, and Nunnenkamp will be resident along with current Dentons lawyers and professionals.

Cinelli and Nunnenkamp are widely regarded as one of the foremost international trade and national security legal teams in the country. They advise a highly diverse client base on export controls and national security before Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS). They, and other Dentons lawyers, have numerous clients who will benefit from the geographic proximity of the Firm’s new Tysons office, located at 8300 Greensboro Drive, in McLean, Virginia. More >>

Holland & Knight recently completed the sale of Zeta Associates, Inc. to Lockheed Martin. Zeta, which specializes in software technology that powers critical national security missions, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin’s Corporate Space Systems business area. More >>