K&L Gates Adds Tokyo And Moscow Offices

sara — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:31:28 +0000

On Tuesday K&L Gates became the first Pittsburgh based firm to enter Russia and Japan as it opened offices in Moscow and Tokyo. The firm is continuing to expand agressively after opening three new offices last year and hitting the $1 billion mark in revenues.

The Tokyo office will focus on corporate and international finance, mergers and acquisitions, banking private equity, licensing and distribution arrangements and general corporate and employment law areas. J. Ryan Dwyer III and Takahiro Kawaguchi were hired at the Tokyo location.

Corporate partners Robert Langer and William Reichert, Counsel Marina Lebedeva and three associates will work at the Moscow office. The Moscow office will focus on general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, private equity, capital markets and securities transactions, banking, real estate, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications and information technology.

K&L Gates has over 1900 attorneys in locations including Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, New York, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Berlin. K&L Gates formed on January 1, 2007 by the merger of Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham with Seattle-based Preston, Gates & Ellis.

Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Announce Nashville Office

todd — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:34:10 +0000

Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP revealed today that they will be opening an office in Nashville, bringing in Nashville attorneys Natasha L. Blackshear and Dennis Nunez.

This will become the 13^th office nationwide for the firm, which is well known for being one of the country’s largest minority-owned law firms.

“I am pleased to join forces with such a respected minority-owned law firm,” said Blackshear. “Gonzalez Saggio & Harland brings the considerable resources of a nationwide law firm to bear on public and corporate finance matters in Nashville, Memphis and across the state of Tennessee.”

Blackshear worked as a venture capitalist at Council Ventures LP for five years and as a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Corporate Valuation Consulting division.

Registered patent attorney Dennis Nunez brings four years of experience in intellectual property law to the firm. Nunez graduated with honors from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, specializing in intellectual property law.

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K&L Gates Adds Tokyo And Moscow Offices

Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan Announce Nashville Office