Orrick has added a trio of partners to the firm’s Chambers Band 1 Energy platform: Matthew “Matt” Nesburn, Jeff Quinn-Cane and Charles “Chase” Armbrust.
Matt, who joins in Santa Monica, advises global energy companies, sponsors, independent power producers and funds on tax equity and other credit monetization transactions. He also brings deep experience in debt finance and energy M&A transactions.
Morgan Lewis is pleased to welcome partners Heather Egan and Hannah Levin in an expansion of the firm’s cybersecurity, incident response, privacy, and information management practice. Arriving from Orrick, Heather previously served as global head of the Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement Business Unit and former chair of the unit’s Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Group.
King & Spalding announced that Paul Watford, who served for 11 years as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as a partner. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Holland & Knight welcomes Mike Wakefield as a partner and Joseph Sopcisak as a senior policy advisor in Washington, D.C. They are members of the firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group, as well as the National Security & Defense Industry Group, which debuted in January. Most recently, Mr. Wakefield was senior counsel and a professional staff member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and Mr. Sopcisak was a technical director at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to expand its Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice with the addition of Kathryne (Kate) C. Dickerson as a shareholder in the Washington, D.C. office. Dickerson joins from Wiley Rein.
Aalok Virmani has joined Cooley’s Chicago office as a tax partner in the firm’s fund formation practice group.
Cleary announced that David Herman joined the firm as a partner in the U.S. Real Estate Group, advising on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions across the full spectrum of asset classes.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm that Mark Castillo-Bernaus has joined the firm as a Global Projects partner and co-chair in its Project Finance group. Based in the London office, Mark is a leading lawyer in the project finance sector and brings a wealth of experience in handling large-scale project financings, with expertise in energy, oil and gas, power, renewables, mining, and infrastructure sectors. Mark Castillo-Bernaus previously served as the Global Head of Project Finance at a leading global law firm.
Knights has strengthened its Family team in Sheffield with the appointment of Demelza Wrigley as a Partner.
Demelza brings more than 20 years of experience in Family law. She has built a strong reputation for delivering pragmatic, clear, and commercially focused legal advice to her clients
Demelza has built a reputation for working with clients on a wide range of challenges, including divorce and financial remedy, grandparent rights, domestic abuse cases, and specialist advice on the Children Act.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells has announced that Andrea Pretti is joining the firm’s Corporate & Finance team as a partner in Milan.
His arrival demonstrates the firm’s ongoing commitment to supporting clients in Italy and follows quickly on the heels of seven partners joining the Corporate & Finance team in Italy in January. Hogan Lovells has welcomed over 50 people to its Italian practices in the last 12 months.