Reed Smith has added two partners to its corporate and securities group in New York. Michael Smith, whose practice focuses on corporate and securities law with regards to international financing moved from Patton Boggs. Kenneth Regensburg, who moved from White & Case, has a practice focused on M&A, public capital markets, private equity, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
Five securities litigation lawyers started working at Schulte Roth in Washington today after leaving Mayer Brown. The team is led by Richard Morvillo, who had been the chair of Mayer Brown’s securities enforcement practice group. Peter White and Pat Conti are also joining as partners, while Jeffrey Robertson and William Mann join as [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Arthur Don and Nancy Schimmel have joined Greeberg Traurig as partners in the firm’s Chicago office. Don and Schimmel are both part of the coporate and securities practice group. In Atlanta, Cindy J.K. Davis is a new partner in the financial institutions and business reorganization & bankruptcy practices. Arthur Don comes to Greeberg from [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, has announced its intent to make all of its offers to law students for summer of 2010 on September 22nd of this year. This goes against the grain of many other law firms, who have been holding off making staffing decisions until later in the year when they [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Foley & Lardner, which announced three hires earlier this month, has brought on three more lawyers in New York. Barry Mandel joins from Merrill Lynch as a partner in securities enforcement & litigation and white-collar defense. He was co-head of global litigation, employment, and regulatory affairs at the global financial services firm. Howard Margulis and Ellen Wolchek, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Atlanta-based Morris, Manning & Martin, which last month fired incoming associates, is launching a new office in Beijing, China. The firm just opened an office in Taiwan. Morris’ Asian offices will deal with patent prosecution and potential litigation, as well as corporate and securities matters. Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, is 175-lawyer firm with offices in Atlanta, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Berman DeValerio’s San Francisco office seeks to add two junior or senior associates to the 10-lawyer office. The associates should have experience in antitrust or securities litigation. The firm was recently appointed co-lead counsel in a Bear Stearns securities class action. Berman DeValerio prosecutes class actions nationwide on behalf of individuals and institutions, chiefly victims of securities fraud [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, February 7, 2009
Miami’s Greenberg Traurig has announced the addition of top securities litigation attorneys Paul R. Bessette, Michael J. Biles and Jesse Z. Weiss. Bessette joins as a national co-chair, and Biles and Weiss join as shareholders in the Securities Litigation Practice. All three join from the Securities Litigation Group at Akin Gump, where Bessette headed that group. Bessette [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 18, 2009
Nixon Peabody has recruited as its China practice chair a former general counsel of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. Henry Liu, who will be based in Nixon Peabody’s Manhattan office and travel frequently to China, served as the CSRC’s top lawyer from 1995 to 2000. He was instrumental in drafting China’s first national securities law in [...]
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