Eversheds Sutherland has strengthened its financial products and payments offering with Partner Tony Anderson, Associate Charlie Clarence-Smith and Consultant Henry Burkitt. All three join Eversheds Sutherland later this month from Pinsent Masons, where Tony led the Financial Products and Payments team.

Tony is highly experienced in all aspects of payments work including product portfolio reviews and remediation, liquidity and debt finance transactions and payment, settlement and clearing structures and regulation.

Dusseldorf—Global law firm Dentons has recruited Dr. Lars Kutzner and Dr. Florian Wiesner as partners in its new office in Dusseldorf, the Firm’s fourth location in Germany. Kutzner will bolster the cross-border compliance and white-collar offering of Dentons’ Public Policy and Regulation practice. Wiesner will strengthen the Firm’s well-established Competition and Antitrust team.

London—Dentons has bolstered its UK Asset Management team with the addition of partner and investment funds specialist, Ted Craig, to its London Corporate practice.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Georgia C. Ravitz and James ""Jamie"" R. Ravitz have joined the firm's life sciences practice as partners in the Washington, D.C., office. They will focus on FDA regulatory, healthcare, and consumer products innovation and compliance.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Wanda Woo has joined the firm's corporate and securities practice as partner in the Hong Kong office.

Woo advises issuers and underwriters in equity and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, share placings, rights offerings, bond offerings, and other corporate compliance work associated with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (HKSFC).

Global law firm White & Case LLP continues to expand its Houston office with the addition of new partner Ryan Hopkins. Hopkins will be part of the Firm's Global Project Development and Finance Practice and Global Construction Group and he will also work closely with its Global Oil & Gas Industry Group.

MinterEllison has welcomed Simone Mitchell and Nigel Lokan as Partner's in the firm's growing IP practice.

Prior to joining MinterEllison, Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Lokan were both Partners at K&L Gates where they led the firm's IP Patent practice.

They will both be based in MinterEllison's Sydney office.

Stewarts is expanding its Tax Litigation and Investigations team with three new lateral hires; James Le Gallais, Sarah Stenton and Lisa Vanderheide.

The department will shortly have seven partners or equivalent, making it one of the largest specialist tax disputes teams in London.

Vinson & Elkins has significantly expanded its Real Estate Practice as well as its New York presence with the addition of a nationally recognized Real Estate team that includes three partners, three counsel, nine associates and three paralegals.

Partners Wallace Schwartz, Adam Endick and Julia Sanabria bring to Vinson & Elkins a broad-based and sophisticated real estate and real estate finance practice that includes acquisitions, capital markets and leasing transactions. Each was previously a partner with Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Hershel Wein has joined the firm's energy and infrastructure practice as a partner in the New York office. He will also be a member of the firm's structured finance practices.