Eversheds Sutherland Continues to Strengthen Premier Tax Practice Group with Prominent Federal Tax Controversy Trio

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the continued expansion of the firm’s premier Tax Practice Group with the arrival of David Blair, David Fischer and Dwight Mersereau as partners. Seated in Washington, the nationally recognized trio brings sophisticated federal tax controversy and tax planning experience, with extensive combined federal tax litigation and trial experience. They regularly represent both US and international clients before courts and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and across a broad range of industries, including energy, financial services and insurance. The trio arrive at the firm from Crowell & Moring LLP.

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Greenberg Traurig Continues to Strengthen Energy Project Finance Capabilities with Addition of Noah Pollak in D.C.

Monday, February 13, 2023

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP added Noah Pollak as a new key member of the firm’s growing Energy Project Finance & Development Practice. Pollak will be located in the Washington, D.C. office and joins the firm’s substantial Energy & Natural Resources Practice. Pollak joins from Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP.

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Leading Antitrust Lawyer Ann O’Brien Joins Sheppard Mullin in Washington, D.C.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Ann M. O’Brien has joined the firm as a partner and co-leader of the Antitrust & Competition practice group. She will also lead the firm’s Criminal Antitrust and Cartels team. Based in Washington, D.C. O’Brien was most recently the leader of the Cartel and Government Antitrust Investigations Task Force at BakerHostetler.

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O’Melveny Welcomes Leading Intellectual Property Litigator Robert F. Shaffer to its Washington, DC Office

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

O’Melveny announced today that leading intellectual property patent litigator Robert F. Shaffer has joined the firm’s Washington, DC office as a partner in its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. Recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. and IAM 1000, Shaffer comes to O’Melveny from Finnegan, where he most recently served as the firm’s Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Practice Group leader and co-chair of the Life Sciences Practice.

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Wilson Sonsini Adds Former SEC Official Tamara Brightwell to Public Company Practice

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Tamara Brightwell has joined the firm as a corporate partner in Washington, D.C., where she will be a member of the Public Company Representation practice. The move reflects Wilson Sonsini’s continuing efforts to offer expansive resources and advice concerning securities law and Securities and Exchange Commission compliance to its more than 300 public company clients, as well as late-stage pre-IPO companies. Brightwell joins the firm after almost two decades at the SEC. 

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