Holland & Knight has bolstered its Intellectual Property Group with the additions of Kris Reed and Edward Ted Mayle as partners in Dallas and Denver, respectively. They were previously partners at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.
Macfarlanes is pleased to announce that Victoria Hills joins the firm as a partner. Victoria joins from Freshfields.
Victoria has extensive private capital experience, specialising in private equity, M&A and joint venture transactions in the real estate and hotels sectors, and she is joining to play a leading role in the development of Macfarlanes’ private equity real assets team.
Eileen Pathiraja has been appointed as partner to lead on construction risks in the London insurance disputes service.
Eileen joins from Beale & Co., bringing extensive experience and a proven track record in the construction insurance sub-sector.
Construction risks is a crucial part of the insurance disputes service, with approximately half of this work led from London. This involves professional indemnity defence for contractors and construction professionals and their insurers, as well as advising insurers on coverage issues.
Mishcon de Reya has announced that Mark Kaye has joined the firm as a Partner in its Employment department, having spent his entire career to date at BCLP and its legacy law firms.
Mark’s focus is on transactional, non-contentious and advisory employment law matters, with a particular emphasis on US-related transactions. His key practice area is working alongside corporate, commercial and real estate colleagues in managing the employment aspects of a wide range of sales, purchases, outsourcings, mergers, takeovers and acquisitions.
National law firm Bevan Brittan has recruited four legal specialists to its growing Energy & Resource Management Group, after seeing a marked rise in new instructions from across these sectors.
New Partner Gemma Glasspole has joined the firm’s Birmingham office from Pinsent Masons, while new London-based Legal Director Tim Kittow arrives from a role as Senior Legal Counsel at Trinzic, a renewables investment and asset management business.
International law firm Bird & Bird further boosts its Corporate practice with the arrival of new partner Giovanni Gazzaniga in Milan.
David Martin Connelly, a nationally recognized energy regulatory lawyer with more than 25 years of experience representing electric utilities and other industry clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and U.S. Courts of Appeals, has returned to McGuireWoods as a partner in Washington, D.C.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that financial regulatory lawyer Prem Mohan will join the firm as a partner and head of European Financial Services Regulation, resident in London. Mohan advises on the regulatory aspects relating to the structuring and formation of private funds and M&A and private equity transactions.
Skadden is pleased to welcome Friven Yeoh to the firm as a partner and leader of the firm’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group in Asia. Mr. Yeoh most recently spent eight years as co-leader of the Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy group at another global law firm, where he oversaw the practice from Hong Kong and Singapore. He will split his time between Skadden’s Hong Kong and Singapore offices.
Alston & Bird has bolstered its IP Litigation Group with the addition of partners Edward Poplawski and Olivia Kim in the firm’s Los Angeles office. With extensive intellectual property and complex patent litigation experience, Edward and Olivia have practiced together for over 20 years and bring a breadth of knowledge to the firm’s existing bench of strong IP litigators.