Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Bart Turner as a partner in its construction and infrastructure practice. He joins the firm from Andrews Myers, P.C.

The global law firm Jones Day has announced the arrival of three lawyers to the Firm's Washington Office. David Applebaum and Michael Oblon both join the Firm as partners in its Energy and Intellectual Property practices, respectively, while Amie Colwell Breslow comes to Jones Day as of counsel in the Tax Practice.

The global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP (BCLP) today announced that William Campbell, Eugene Balshem and Justin Steinmark have joined the firm as partners in the Real Estate Department. Campbell will reside in the firm’s New York office, and Balshem and Steinmark will reside in the firm’s Miami office.

Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its Houston office and its global transactional offering with the hire of energy partner Fernando Cano-Lasa.

Fernando specialises in transactional work within the energy and infrastructure sectors, and joins HFW's Houston office on 22 April from Squire Patton Boggs.

He is the second transactional energy partner to join HFW in Houston in the past eight months, after Derek J. Anchondo arrived in September 2018 from Greenberg Traurig.

DLA Piper announces the appointment of Caoimhe Clarkin as a Litigation & Regulatory partner in the firm's Dublin office. This is the seventh partner hire for DLA Piper in Dublin this year.

DLA Piper announced that Carl Wessel has joined the firm's Litigation practice as a partner in Washington, DC.

Wessel joins from Pfizer, where he served as senior vice president, associate general counsel and chief litigation counsel. In this role, Wessel was responsible for managing all of Pfizer's litigation on a global level. This included antitrust litigation, product liability cases, general commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, government investigations and employment law.

Clifford Chance announced that Sharis A. Pozen is joining the Firm as a partner and will co-chair the Global Antitrust Group. She will be based in Washington, DC.
Pozen comes to Clifford Chance from General Electric, where she was the company's vice president for Global Competition Law and Policy. In that role, she was responsible for leading GE's global merger clearance on numerous significant, transformational deals, steering global antitrust investigations to positive conclusions, antitrust compliance and other related issues.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Commercial Litigation Practice with the addition of Diane Lamarche as a new partner in Paris.

International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced that Anne-Sophie Noury will join the Firm as a Business Finance & Restructuring partner to work alongside Weil Business Finance & Restructuring partner Jean-Dominique Daudier de Cassini. Ms. Noury is a well-recognized lawyer who advises companies, sponsors, investors and creditors in their most challenging turnaround matters, whether in- or out-of-court. She will be based in Weil’s Paris office.

Ropes & Gray has announced that Eve Ellis, an experienced regulatory lawyer with a focus on fund formation, will join in London as a partner in the firm’s asset management practice. Our global practice, comprised of more than 250 of the industry’s most skilled attorneys, advises clients on a full array of complex asset management questions in Europe, Asia and North America.