Charles D. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in patent prosecution, portfolio review and strategic advice, ex-parte and inter-partes reexaminations, interferences, non-infringement and invalidy analyses and opinions, due diligence reviews for companies and investors, pre-litigation [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
K&L Gates has announced the addition of two partners. Wilson Chu joins in Dallas from from Haynes and Boone, where he will concentrate his practice on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions. Chu represents clients in a broad range of industries, including the Internet, software, information technology, and health care. He is highly regarded for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cleveland, Ohio’s Squire Sanders has partnered with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s El-Khoury & Partners, as part of an effort to expand into the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 2005, El-Khoury has offices in Riyadh and Beirut, and employs lawyers fluent in Arabic, English and French. The Saudi firm focuses on mergers and acquisitions, finance, communications, private/public [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Morgan Lewis has brought on five partners and six associates from Bingham McCutchen’s banking & leveraged finance group, including a former co-chair of the practice. All 11 will join Morgan Lewis’ Boston-based Business and Finance Practice, which spans the United States, Europe, and Asia, with nearly 400 transactional lawyers who focus on a wide variety of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
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Greenberg Traurig has launched a London office, a new UK firm called Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Paul Maher joins from Mayer Brown as founding member and office chair. He will also co-chair the firm’s global mergers & acquisitions practice. Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international, full-service law firm with more than 1,800 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Two key partners at New York’s Skadden have jumped ship to Kirkland & Ellis. David Fox is leaving after more than 20 years with Skadden. He is joined by Daniel E. Wolf. According to Fox: Daniel and I are energized by this unique opportunity to grow our practices. While we will always fondly remember our time at Skadden, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Germany’s Gleiss Lutz will launch a new Dusseldorf office in August, headed by corporate partner Thomas Menke, last of Baker & McKenzie. Menke handles international mergers & acquisitions and real estate transactions. He will work with an unnamed associate, formerly of Freshfields’ Dusseldorf office. Gleiss Lutz is a German law firm founded in Stuttgart in 1949 by Alfred [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 17, 2009
Miller Canfield announced it is launching an office in Monterrey, Mexico, which is that nation’s automotive manufacturing and business center. The office will focus on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate and commercial transactions, labor & employment, tax, litigation and intellectual property law. The Miller Canfield Mexico Practice Team is led by Alberto J. Murga, Otto H. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 2, 2009
David Gitlin, finance partner and chairman of dissolving Wolf Block’s corporate and securities practice, is leading a group to the New York office of Blank Rome. Gitlin will join the firm as a partner in its mergers & acquisitions and private equity group. He brings with him associates Ephraim Schmeidler and Shaun Snitman. Gitlin’s practice is focused [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Nixon Peabody has launched a new 23-lawyer South Asia practice. The practice will advise the firm’s South Asian clients on banking & capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, intellectual property, and labor & employment. Anjali Chaturvedi will lead the group from the firm’s Washington office. Chaturvedi says the group includes a number of people [...]
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