Cravath announced that Nicole M. Argentieri, who formerly served as Acting Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, will join the Firm as a partner.

Ms. Argentieri will advise corporate and individual clients on civil and criminal matters, within Cravath’s Litigation Department as a member of its Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice. She will be based in Cravath’s New York office.

Kristie Gurley, most recently with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of General Counsel, has rejoined Covington as a partner in its Health Care Practice and Life Sciences Industry Groups, and is based in the Washington office.

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie announced that capital markets attorney Andrés Barroso has joined its Transactional team as a Partner in Mexico City. Andrés joins a growing team in the Firm which has added 50 partners over the past two years globally, including a strong presence across Mexico and Latin America.

Alston & Bird’s Finance Group continues to bolster its nationally recognized private credit practice with the addition of partner Adam Heasley in New York. Adam advises private credit lenders, borrowers, and sponsors in financing transactions with a focus on acquisition and recapitalization credit facilities and asset-based lending. He also guides his clients in structuring bespoke intercreditor arrangements and through complex workouts and restructurings.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its maritime, trade and offshore finance practice with the addition of partner Linda Roxburgh. Linda joins the firm in London from Wikborg Rein LLP, having previously spent more than a decade at magic circle firm Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman).

gunnercooke has appointed a team of five Corporate Partners as part of its expansion into Chicago, Illinois. This launches the firm’s presence in a second US state following its New York launch in 2022.

Andrew Geier, Nicholas O. Isaacson, Kelley L. Smith, Randall Schwartz and Shannon M, Geier are a leading corporate and transactional team augmenting the firm’s corporate, private equity, funds, finance, and transactional capabilities.

Alex joins the global law firm’s London office from US multinational law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he was Counsel in its private capital team.

Prior to this, Alex trained as a solicitor at Eversheds Sutherland, later moving to international US law firm, Latham & Watkins LLP as an Associate in 2018 where he spent four years.

Dentons announces that Aidan M. McCormack and Mark L. Deckman have joined the Firm’s Commercial Litigation practice as partners in the New York office. Both are leading lawyers in the insurance industry with decades of experience representing insurance and financial services industry clients in a wide range of matters, including their most complex exposures, on the national and global level.

Dentons is delighted to welcome experienced securitisation and structured finance lawyer Alex Moezi to its Debt Capital Markets, Structured Finance and Derivatives team in London. He joins the firm as a partner.

Alex joins Dentons from A&O Shearman and has a background in securitisation and structured finance that covers a variety of consumer assets and trade receivables, acting for major international investment banks, private equity firms, specialist lenders and corporates, focusing on the consumer and SME sectors.

International law firm Bird & Bird is expanding its team in Japan with the addition of Aya Saito, who joins the firm from Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”) where she served as Legal Lead for Northeast Asia.

With over 15 years of commercial experience, including in-house roles at BCG and Accenture, Aya brings substantial capability across the full spectrum of cross-border technology and outsourcing transactions, in particular regarding system integration and business outsourcing projects, as well as data privacy, AI and other regulatory and compliance matters.