Reed Smith today announced that Brian Bewley is joining the firm as a partner and Kaitlyn Dunn as counsel in its Life Sciences Health Industry Group. Formerly with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, the duo served previously in the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG). Bewley will work from the firm’s D.C. office, while Dunn will be based in Chicago. The team has worked together for more than five years.
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Ken Cestari, the former deputy chief counsel of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has joined Holland & Knight’s Public Policy & Regulation Group as a partner. Mr. Cestari helped lead the legal department of the LPO from 2015 to 2022 and worked as an attorney in the department beginning in 2009.
Following the recent arrival of a six-partner team from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP), global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has added six non-partner lawyers and a senior consultant from the same firm to further strengthen its corporate insurance and technology transactions practices.
Anthony “Tony” Phillips, a former Director and Associate General Counsel for Integrity at Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.), has joined Pillsbury as a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He is the latest addition to Pillsbury’s prestigious Technology Industry practice, which is consistently ranked among the most active practices in the world. Phillips brings experience as a former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. He began his career as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) Officer—a military lawyer—in the U.S. Air Force.
Christine K. Lane has joined Crowell & Moring as co-chair of the Tax Group, expanding the firm’s ability to handle the U.S. federal tax aspects of complex business transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. Lane joins Crowell after spending a decade at Hogan Lovells where she represented a wide range of clients across industries, including Fortune 50 and 100 clients.
Adding to its unmatched capabilities in white collar criminal defense, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced today that Samuel P. Nitze has joined the firm as a partner. Nitze will be based in New York City, where until recently he served as a high-ranking official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to welcome antitrust partner Ryan Tisch to the firm’s regulatory practice in Washington, DC. Ryan is a strategic advisor to Fortune 100 company clients across a range of complex antitrust issues with a proven track record in mergers and acquisitions, merger clearances and related litigation. Tisch arrives at McDermott from Crowell & Moring LLP.
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Venable LLP is pleased to announce that Saminaz Akhter has joined the firm as a partner in the Corporate Practice in the Washington, D.C., office. Ms. Akhter focuses her practice on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on acquisition and divestiture transactions in a variety of industries. Akhter arrives from Blank Rome LLP.
Barbara Harding has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. She joins as a partner from Jones Day, where she was also a partner.
