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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Adds 4 Partners

joshua — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:19:29 +0000

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced today it has added four new partners, effective July 1.

Helen V. Cantwell will be based in the firm’s New York office as a member of the Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, SEC investigations, complex civil litigation and internal investigations.

Sophie Lamb will be based in the firm’s London office as a member of the Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, commercial and investment treaty arbitration and public international law.

Paul M. Rodel will be based in the firm’s New York office as a member of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on equity and debt capital markets transactions for issuers and underwriters in the U.S. and Latin America, particularly Brazil.

Jeffrey E. Ross will be based in the firm’s New York office as a member of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on corporate transactions, including complex leveraged financings.

Founded in 1931, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a leading international law firm with nearly 750 lawyers, representing a wide range of clients around the world. The firm has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Law Firm Hirings, Firings and Promotions

joshua — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:30:34 +0000

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson has added Alasdair Balfour as a partner in its antitrust practice in London. He most recently was a partner at Olswang LLP and prior to that spent 10 years with Freshfields. Balfour’s practice has a particular focus on merger control and cartel work…

Chadbourne & Parke added Lori S. Hoberman as a corporate partner in its newly-formed emerging company/venture capital team. Hoberman previously was with Fish & Richardson. Her practice focuses on venture capital, private equity and general counseling for emerging and later-state publicly-traded companies…

Corporate and civil defense litigation firm Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog has added two partners to its corporate and civil defense litigation firm. They are Katherine Hilkey-Boyatt and Dawn Lane. Boyatt’s practice focuses on medical malpractice and professional negligence and Lane defends employers and insurance companies for CSH…

Crowell & Moring has added partner Mark A. Egert to its New York office. Egert, who joins the firms’ corporate and financial services group, has spent 15 years as in-house counsel.

Litigator Rudy Perrino has joined Fulbright & Jaworski from Dole Food Company, where he served as director of litigation since 2004. Perrino bring experience in handling “bet-the-company” cases, particularly those involving cross-border and international mass tort claims.

Debevoise & Plimpton Hires Partners from Goodwin Procter

Erik Even — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:27:18 +0000

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 Kini joins as banking practice co-chair in Washington, DC. He was a member of Goodwin’s Financial Services Practice.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a prominent international law firm based in New York City. Founded in 1931 by Eli Whitney Debevoise and William Stevenson, the firm currently employs about 680 lawyers in eight offices throughout the world.

Lovells Adds Four Lawyers in Italy

Erik Even — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:15:23 +0000

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 firm with over 300 partners and around 3,200 employees operating from 26 offices in Europe, Asia and the United States. It is one of the largest international legal business practices in the world.

Seyfarth Shaw Brings on Team from Alston & Bird

Erik Even — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:20 +0000

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 was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He will work from both Atlanta and Seyfarth’s Washington DC office.

Shawn K. Baldwin, who joins in Atlanta, focuses on strategic corporate transactions. He got his JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to the Georgia Bar.

S. Joel Cartee, who also joins in Atlanta, handles complex global transactions and matters relayed to the Kyoto Protocol. He is a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia. He received his JD from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in Georgia.

Chicago’s Seyfarth Shaw LLP is a full-service law firm founded in 1945. It has ten offices.

BuckleySandler Adds More Lawyers

Erik Even — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:56:38 +0000

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 his JD at Fordham University Law School, where he served as Editor of the Fordham Law Review.

Robert Cook joins as of counsel from Countrywide Financial, where he was deputy general counsel. He was previously special counsel at the Federal Reserve Board.

BuckleySandler is headquartered in Washington DC, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It represents clients in the financial services industry, such as banks, mortgage lenders, and credit card companies.

Cozen O’Connor Brings on Lawyers

Erik Even — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:17:37 +0000

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 the defunct Wolf Block as of counsel in the corporate group. He was a co-founder of Wolf Block’s New York office. He handles corporate law, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions. Fischer earned his JD in 1954, from Yale Law School.

Cozen O’Connor PC is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm was ranked 114th on the AmLaw 200 Survey in 2008, and ranked 89th on the National Law Journal’s list of the 250 Largest American Law Firms in 2007. It has expanded to 23 offices employing over 500 lawyers.

Clifford Chance Litigation Team Lands at Gibson Dunn

Erik Even — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:31:50 +0000

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 the Litigation Practice and a member of the firmwide Global Management Committee. He graduated from Yale University Law School.

Cohen was head of Clifford Chance’s US Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice. Before that he practiced at Greenberg Traurig. He graduated in 1988 from Duke University School of Law.

Joralemon graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where he served as Editor of the Boston University Law Review.

Gibson Dunn has approximately 1,000 lawyers and 15 offices, including Los Angeles, New York, Washington DC, London, Paris, Munich, Brussels, Dubai, Singapore, Orange County, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Century City, Dallas and Denver.

Senior Partners at Tods Murray Defect to Anderson Strathern

Erik Even — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:22:13 +0000

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 Quay; it also has offices in Glasgow.

Anderson Strathern was formed in 1992 when J&F Anderson merged with Strathern & Blair. It has offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. Anderson Strathern has 48 partners.

DLA Piper Trims Partner Headcount

Erik Even — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:02:57 +0000

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 staff across its UK offices.

DLA Piper is one of the largest law firms in the world, and is the only firm with more than 3,700 lawyers in North America and Europe. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities. Together, the organization operates in 28 countries and 66 offices throughout the world.

Mayer Brown Hires for Global Projects Group

Erik Even — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:51:33 +0000

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 of independent power projects and “inside the fence” energy projects.

A 1990 graduate of Stanford Law School, Edwards holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University.

Robert S. Goldberg joins the Houston office from Chadbourne & Parke, as a partner. Goldberg advises lenders, investors, sponsors, developers and other participants in domestic and international project finance and corporate matters, including acquisition and divestiture work.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Mayer Brown is one of the largest global law firms both by number of lawyers and revenue. The firm has over 1,800 lawyers in key business centers across the Americas, Asia and Europe

McKool Smith Hires 5 Lawyers in New York City

Erik Even — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:09:56 +0000

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 cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law.

Virginia Iglesia joins from Greenberg Traurig in Miami. She graduated from Emory University School of Law and holds a master’s degree in communications from Florida International University.

John F. Petrsoric joins from Goodwin Procter. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law, and has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Katherine B. Thornburgh joins McKool Smith from Howrey. She represents clients in government investigations, internal investigations, commercial litigation and intellectual property matters. She earned her law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Benjamin J. Warlick joins from Paul Weiss. He handles patent and antitrust litigation. He has a JD from the New York University School of Law and a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of California Berkeley.

McKool Smith has offices in Dallas, Austin & Marshall, Texas; plus New York City and Washington DC.

Jones Day Brings on Partners

Erik Even — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:43:25 +0000

Jones Day, which last month brought on seven bankruptcy lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, has hired two laterals.

Partner Ronald Johnson joins from Akin Gump. He represents railroads in litigation and regulatory matters.

Lily Claffee joins as a partner from the Commerce Department, where she was general counsel. She will work in Jones Day’s government regulation practice.

Jones Day is an international law firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1893 by Judge Edwin J. Blandin and William Lowe Rice. Jones Day is the 8th largest law firm in the world by revenue. It is currently the second largest law firm in the United States, with approximately 2,400 lawyers and gross annual revenue in excess of US$1.5 billion.
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Virtual Law Hires 5 Partners

Erik Even — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:26:04 +0000

Virtual Law Partners hired five new partners this week.

Ari Kahan was previously general counsel at United Microelectronics Corporation and Prophet Financial Systems. He represents publicly-traded semiconductor companies and Internet start-ups.

Michael Powlen was a founder of virtual firm Global Law. He handles federal and state taxation matters.

Andy Toebben joins from Gunderson Dettmer, and specializes in corporate and securities law.

Brian Swanson counsels health care and technology clients on domestic and international transactions.

Geoff Ossias joins from Cooley Godward Kronish. He focuses on venture finance and public securities in the technology, biotechnology, and life sciences industries.

The term “virtual law firm” refers to a group of lawyers with diverse expertise, connected via web technology rather than a shared office space, to provide a suite or services to its clients. The term was used as early as 2004.

Founded in 2008, Virtual Law Partners is a distributed, web-based law firm that goes beyond the constraints of brick & mortar law firms to provide legal services at rates lower than those of conventional law firms. Powered by a digital infrastructure, VLP eliminates costly physical offices and minimizes environmental impact, while significantly lowering administrative costs and overhead.

Akin Gump Brings On Litigation Partners

Erik Even — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:46:53 +0000

Akin Gump has announced the hiring of partners Nicholas Porritt and William White for its litigation practice in Washington DC.

Porritt comes to Akin Gump from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He handles SEC and commercial litigation matters.

White spent the last 10 years at WilmerHale. Before that, he was with the Enforcement Division of the SEC.

In March, Akin Gump laid off 47 associates and 57 paralegals & staff.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP was founded in Dallas in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 900 attorneys and advisors in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Irell & Manella Partners to Found New Firm

Erik Even — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:59:48 +0000

A tipster informs us that three top partners are leaving Southern California’s Irell & Manella, an intellectual property litigation and general business litigation firm, to hang out their own shingle.

The new firm, Kendall Brill & Klieger, consists of Richard B. Kendall, Laura W. Brill, and Robert N. Klieger.

The partners intend to maintain a “strong relationship” with their former firm.

Richard Kendall has been honored by the Century City Bar Association as its “Litigator of the Year.”

Laura Brill, a former law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a recipient of People for the American Way Foundation’s Defenders of Democracy award.

Robert Klieger has been named by Los Angeles Magazine to its Southern California “Super Lawyers” list for five consecutive years.