Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has announced that Samuel R. Ramer, who most recently served as Senior Associate Counsel to the President at the White House, has joined its Washington, DC office as a partner.
Phoenix—Dentons, the world's largest law firm, today named four partners, two counsel and three associates to its Phoenix office as members of its Litigation and White Collar practices. Karl Tilleman, Paul Charlton, Erin Bradham and Quintin Cushner join Dentons as partners. Doug Janicik and Jason Sanders join the Litigation practice as a counsel. Three associates also join the Firm.
Montréal—Dentons is pleased to announce that Manon Jubinville has joined the Firm as a partner in our Tax group.
Based in Montréal, Manon’s focus will primarily be to grow and lead the national team specialized in indirect taxes. She works with both public and private companies in the financial, retail, manufacturing, distribution, transportation and service sectors. She has extensive experience in the financial industry.
Mills & Reeve has expanded its corporate practice with the appointment of Kristian Shearsby in London
Kristian is a corporate lawyer who specialises in advising clients in the life sciences sector. His work includes venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other securities issues. Kristian has worked with companies at all stages of development, from early-stage through to listed public companies and investment funds and banks.
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce that renowned corporate energy lawyer Jimmy Vallee has joined the firm’s Houston office. Jimmy joins Winston from Paul Hastings where he was a partner in the Corporate Department. He has advised clients in more than $100 billion worth of global energy transactions.
Morgan Lewis announced that John Klauberg, Charles Vandenburgh, and Michael Espinoza have joined the firm as partners. John, Charlie, and Mike focus on the electric power and gas industries and have led numerous high-profile merger and acquisition transactions in the power and utilities space.
They arrive from a national law firm where John served as co-chair of the power projects practice. John and Mike are resident in the New York office; Charlie is resident in Hartford. It is anticipated that they will be joined by several associates resident in New York.
King & Spalding has announced that Rachael Trummel has joined the firm as a partner in its Trial and Global Disputes practice group.
Trummel’s practice focuses on class action defense and other complex litigation, and includes counseling and representing clients in the automotive, banking and financial services, consumer products, oil and gas, healthcare, real estate, and franchising industries.
Teena Sankoorikal has joined Covington as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice in New York.
Ms. Sankoorikal is a commercial litigator who has handled many high-profile, complex civil cases in the areas of patent, trade secret, copyright, and other intellectual property disputes, business torts, antitrust, breach of contract, and fraud. Over the course of her career, Ms. Sankoorikal has handled matters for clients such as Alarm.com, American Outdoor Brands, IBM, Qualcomm, Vannin Capital and Warner Brothers Records.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, has announced that Drew G.L. Chapman has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice as a Partner. Mr. Chapman will be based in New York.
Drew brings more than 20 years of experience advising hedge funds, credit funds, private equity funds and other alternative investment firms in connection with complex transactions, M&A, special situations, governance, and SEC regulatory and enforcement issues. Drew also represents companies in mergers and acquisition and other business transactions.
Gowling WLG is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Roode as a partner in the firm’s Toronto office.
Widely respected in his field, Roode focuses his practice on corporate and commercial transactions in the payments and fintech sectors. He regularly acts for payment networks, banks, merchants, processors, startups, service providers and other industry participants in a variety of complex commercial transactions. These include joint venture agreements, licensing arrangements and commercial contracts.