Sidley is pleased to announce that Vadim Brusser has joined as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust practice with a particular focus on merger clearance work for the firm’s growing Private Equity practice and for strategic corporate clients. He joins Sidley from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he counseled numerous private equity and strategic clients on U.S. and international competition issues.
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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that E. Patrick Gilman has joined the firm as a partner in the Washington DC office. A former federal prosecutor in the United States Army and a seasoned trial lawyer, Mr. Gilman will enhance Eversheds Sutherland’s global corporate crime and investigations capabilities, and will help lead the firm’s national security practice. He was previously with Brown Rudnick.
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Lewis Brisbois today announced that Daron Watts has joined the firm as a partner and will be national chair of the firm’s Government Affairs and Public Policy Practice and a member of the Administrative and Regulatory, Life Sciences, Health Care and Complex Commercial Litigation Practices. Watts will work from the firm’s Washington D.C. office. Mr. Watts joins Lewis Brisbois from The Watts Group.
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Dentons announces today that Michael Franzinger has joined the Firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice as a partner in its Washington, DC, office. Franzinger offers clients extensive experience in patent, trade secret and IP litigation, with a focus on the administrative law aspects of intellectual property protection, particularly Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission (ITC) and inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Franzinger served as Partner at Sidley Austin prior to joining Dentons.
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Akin is pleased to announce that Ryan Fayhee, Roy (Ruoweng) Liu and Tyler Grove have joined the firm as partners in the Washington, D.C. office, further strengthening Akin’s cross-border compliance and investigations capabilities in an expanding criminal and regulatory enforcement environment. The trio intend to continue their focus on economic sanctions, export controls, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering compliance and investigations. The team arrives at Akin from Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Erin Kelly to the Firm’s Healthcare Practice Group as a partner in Washington, DC, where she will focus on innovative care delivery models and the intersection between payors and providers. With more than a decade of in-house experience within national healthcare organizations, Erin brings a diversity of transactional, contracting, regulatory and compliance experience. Erin most recently served as senior vice president, deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer at Signify Health.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes partner David Easwaran and a team of six patent agents and technical specialists to the firm’s Intellectual Property practice area. Easwaran and his colleagues join K&L Gates from Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, with Easwaran resident in K&L Gates’ Charlotte office and others from his team based in Boston, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C.
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Stinson LLP is pleased to announce that Kim D. Larsen and Tobias F. Ziegler have joined the firm as partners in the Corporate Finance Practice Division. Larsen joins Stinson in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, and Ziegler joins Stinson in the firm’s New York office, which recently relocated to a larger space to accommodate the firm’s growth. Prior to joining Stinson, Ziegler served as both principal and chair of Bressler, Amery & Ross P.C.’s corporate and commercial transactions practice group. Larsen served as principal at the firm.
Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce the addition of Principal Adam F. Hensel-Briscoe to its Government Investigations & White Collar Practice in Washington, DC. Hensel-Briscoe joins the firm from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Mintz is pleased to announce that Steven Shparber has joined the firm as a Member of the Energy & Sustainability Practice in the Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining Mintz, Mr. Shparber was a partner at Clark Hill PLC, and, before that, at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.
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