Debevoise & Plimpton has hired two banking partners away from Goodwin Procter. Gregory Lyons joins Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner in New York. He will be Co-Chair for the Americas of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group. He was co-chair of the Financial Services Practice at Goodwin, and chair of its banking practice in Boston. Satish [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Lovells has brought on two partners from Simmons & Simmons for its Milan office. Federico Del Monte and Corrado Fiscale specialize in structured finance and securities work, and will co-head Lovell’s Italian capital markets practice. They bring with them two associates. Del Monte and Fiscale came to Simmons in 2004 from Clifford Chance. Lovells is an international law [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 2, 2009
Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird. Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. is an outsourcing lawyer who co-founded Alston & Bird’s energy infrastructure team. He received his JD from the Vanderbilt University Law School, where he [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 24, 2009
BuckleySandler, founded in March when two Skadden partners left the firm’s Washington DC office, has grown to 55 lawyers with the addition of two lawyers. Stephen Ambrose Jr. joins from GE Capital, where he was general counsel of the consumer finance unit. He will be managing partner of the firm’s new New York office. He earned [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cozen O’Connor added two lawyers to its New York office last week. Angelo Savino joins from Mound Cotton as a partner in the global insurance group. He handles matters involving directors and officers, professional errors and omissions, and corporate indemnification. Savino earned his JD in 1981 from the Fordham University School of Law. Robert Fischer joins from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The speculation is over. Mark Kirsch, former head of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice, has landed at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, bringing along Joel Cohen and Christopher Joralemon. Kirsch joins Gibson Dunn as co-chair of its more than 500-lawyer Litigation Practice Group. Kirsch joined Clifford Chance in 1995, most recently serving as Global Chair of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Two senior partners at Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray have quit to join crosstown rival Anderson Strathern. John Biggar, a former chairman of Tods Murray, and partner John Fulton left the firm last month. Tods Murray LLP was founded in 1856 as Tods Murray & Jamieson. It is based from an award winning modern office at Edinburgh [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
DLA Piper is both bringing on new partners, and letting others go. Five partners have left the firm in the last month, from the real estate, tax, corporate and projects practices. Twenty-five partners have left so far this year, while 32 new partners have been appointed. In May, DLA Piper laid off 24 lawyers and 100 support [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Mayer Brown has brought on two attorneys for its Global Projects Group. Robert H. Edwards, Jr. joins from Hunton & Williams as a partner in Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office. He handles project finance and development, with particular strength in projects and policy issues related to renewable energy, climate change, the development and financing [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
McKool Smith, which brought on two new partners in March, has now hired five attorneys for its New York office. Eric P. Berger joins from Quinn Emanuel in New York. He handles intellectual property matters, including electrical engineering patent litigation. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, before graduating [...]
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