Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired private equity partner Vince Ferrito following the recent arrivals of David Schultz and Matthew Hinker to its US Private Equity and Restructuring and Insolvency practices. All three partners joined from O'Melveny.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Elizabeth “Liz” Stotland Weiswasser and Anish R. Desai will join the firm as partners in its Litigation Department, resident in New York. Liz, who will be co-chair of the Litigation Department, and Anish are nationally recognized for their success representing life sciences and technology clients in their most significant complex commercial disputes.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Codrina Constantinescu will join the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice as partner in the Luxembourg office.
Erik Woodhouse, formerly the deputy assistant secretary for the Division for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions at the U.S. Department of State, has returned to Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s International Trade and Financial Services groups.
Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons welcomes Rena L. Scott to the partnership in the Middle East.
Rena is an arbitration specialist in construction disputes internationally and comes with a focus on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Rena will join the team in Riyadh where she will head up the construction advisory and disputes practice.
Specialising in international arbitration and dispute resolution, Rena has a particular focus on complex and high-value disputes involving major construction, energy and infrastructure projects including consortia and joint ventures.
DLA Piper is strengthening its German real estate practice with the appointment of Dr Gerold Jaeger as partner in its Dusseldorf office, effective 1 January 2025.
Dr Gerold Jaeger has worked for Clifford Chance since 2004 and was appointed partner there in 2013. He primarily advises clients on real estate transactions and general real estate law matters as well as non-performing loan and portfolio transactions. He also specialises in the transfer of real estate portfolios, project developments and real estate financing.
Addleshaw Goddard has appointed to partner Grace Wyatt who joins from Hogan Lovells LLP, further strengthening the Financial Services Regulatory team at the firm, following recent appointments including Tess Kelly, Lisa Lee Lewis and James Greig.
Grace Wyatt is an experienced financial services regulatory lawyer, with a particular expertise in payments, e-money and digital forms of money (CBDCs, tokenised deposits, stablecoins). She advises on all aspects of operating a business in this sector. in respect
Craig B. Bleifer, a nationally recognized healthcare and life sciences attorney who served as general counsel for two global pharmaceutical companies, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in New York.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Dr. Timothy (Tim) Best as a partner in its Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group in Los Angeles. Tim is a trial lawyer whose patent litigation work focuses on biotechnology and life sciences and spans various technological fields, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, image processing, semiconductor manufacturing, and business methods.
King & Spalding announced that Olivier N. Antoine has joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as a partner in the firm’s New York office.