Sidley is pleased to announce that Enrique Conde will join as a corporate partner in the firm’s M&A and Private Equity practice in Miami. He joins from Holland & Knight, where he was a partner in the Corporate, M&A and Securities and Latin America Practice groups. Prior to Holland & Knight, he served as the Deputy General Counsel of the SoftBank Latin America Fund and as a partner in the legal team of SoftBank Group International. Mr.

McGuireWoods bolstered its formidable financial services litigation capabilities with the arrival of Pittsburgh partner Christopher J. Soller, who comes to the firm after serving as a senior legal officer at BNY. Soller is the third partner to join McGuireWoods’ Pittsburgh office this year.

King & Spalding announced that energy lawyers Dan Giemajner and Matt Hardwick have joined the firm’s Corporate practice group and its Energy industry team as partners in London.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Samuel Breeze as a partner in its Intellectual Property practice. He joins the firm’s Seattle office from Lee & Hayes, PC, where he served as chair of its design practice group.

Breeze advises some of the world’s leading innovators on how to protect their brands by securing intellectual property on the ornamental aspects of their inventions. He focuses his practice on the protection of the industrial design of electronic devices, graphical user interfaces, sports equipment, apparel, and other ornamental inventions.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Litigation Practice with the addition of Sarah Runnells Martin as a shareholder in the Delaware office. She joins the firm from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP.

Brown Rudnick announces the appointment of Matthew Sharp as a contentious tax partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice, based in London.

Dentons is delighted to welcome white-collar crime and investigations specialist Joanna Dimmock as a partner to its Disputes, Regulatory and Investigations team in London. Joanna joins Dentons on 24 February 2025.

Jo joins Dentons from Paul Hastings, and prior to that White & Case, where she led several high-profile investigations before building up her own successful white-collar crime and investigations practice.

Haynes Boone is pleased to welcome a distinguished group of capital markets lawyers to the firm’s London office led by Partner Nick Davis, the newly appointed co-head of the firm’s London office. The lawyers joining from Memery Crystal also include Partners Edward Baker, Robert Bines-Black and Nick Heap, who collectively bring decades of experience advising on high-profile deals across various markets in the United Kingdom and globally. Haynes Boone is also welcoming three Corporate Associates as part of the team, further strengthening the group’s depth.

Emanuel “Manny” Grillo joins Orrick as a partner on its Chambers Band 1-ranked New York Restructuring team.

Manny is a leading advisor to renewable energy and other investment funds focused on distressed energy investments (including upstream oil and gas, oilfield services and electric power) in in-court and out-of-court proceedings.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Allison Scher Bernbach to its New York office as partner and head of the US private equity fund regulatory practice. Allison advises investment funds and private equity sponsors in the increasingly complex regulatory landscape, including through US Securities and Exchange Commission examinations, private fund formations, the full structuring of compliance programs, and investment manager acquisitions.