International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Ben Cheatham to its energy & project finance practice as a partner in Washington, DC. Ben will work with clients leveraging the federal clean energy and other tax credits provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), an area in which McDermott is leading deal activity across the industry. Cheatham arrives from Invenergy LLC, where he served as Senior Director and Tax Counsel.

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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, announced today that Hugh Hollman, a leading international competition expert, has rejoined the firm’s Litigation Department from A&O Shearman as an Antitrust partner in Washington, D.C.

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Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Michael Wise as a partner in Washington DC, where he will serve as the firm’s US Antitrust Practice Leader. He joins from Paul Hastings LLP where he was partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice and led the team handling antitrust regulatory issues.

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Skadden is pleased to announce that Joyce Chang has joined the firm as a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure Projects Group. Based in the Washington, D.C. office, she will advise clients on all aspects of project development, financing and M&A. Most recently, she was executive vice president and general counsel of Summit Ridge Energy, where she worked closely with the executive team on strategic financings, acquisitions and investments involving solar assets and battery energy storage systems, and helped grow the company significantly.

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Polsinelli is pleased to welcome Tyree P. Jones Jr. in Washington, D.C. as a shareholder in the firm’s Employment Litigation Practice. An accomplished trial lawyer and business advisor with more than three decades of success handling complex employment-related disputes, Jones also served as the chair of an Am Law 40 firm’s global labor and employment practice. Jones arrives at the firm from Reed Smith in DC.

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Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that David L. Attanasio has joined the firm’s Business Litigation Practice as a partner in Washington, DC. Attanasio focuses on international arbitration and cross-border litigation, with extensive experience representing clients in the energy and natural resources sector and disputes relating to Latin America. His international arbitration advocacy has been recognized in leading legal directories, including Chambers USA, Who’s Who Legal, and Legal 500 US. Attanasio arrives at the firm from Dechert.

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Kara M. Ward, a former attorney and advisor with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, has joined Baker Donelson as a shareholder in its Washington, D.C., office. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Ms. Ward was general counsel and managing director at Falcon Capital Advisors, LLC, where she advised clients on key financial services policy issues.

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Cooley has strengthened its global communications regulatory practice based in Washington, DC, with the addition of Tony Lin, Ronald W. Del Sesto and Tamar E. Finn. The three new partners enhance the firm’s long-standing position as a leading adviser to many of the world’s top telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) companies. Del Sesto and Finn join Cooley from Morgan Lewis. Lin arrives at the firm from DLA Piper.

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