Bronwyn L. Roberts has re-joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group in its Boston office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Roberts led the Boston employment group at Cooley LLP. Before her time at Cooley, Roberts was both a partner and an associate at Duane Morris for 18 years.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce the appointment of Shaohui Jiang as a partner to the firm’s M&A practice area in Greater China. Shaohui is recognised as a leading practitioner in APAC with a broad practice covering M&A transactions and private equity investments. He brings with him two members of his existing team.
Commenting on his appointment, James Doyle, Global Head of the Corporate & Finance Group said:
Travers Smith LLP has announced the hire of Joel Grossmark as a partner in the Funds group, further strengthening its market-leading retailisation practice.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced that its regulatory, investigations, securities and compliance practice has added a 12-lawyer team, highlighted by four new partners: Jeff Kalinowski, Eric Martin and Jeff Ziesman in St. Louis and Laura Perlov in Denver. These dozen lawyers join the firm from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
International law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, has welcomed back Cassandra Lim, previously a senior corporate lawyer in its Malaysia office, as a Corporate Partner in the firm's new Singapore office.
Cassandra worked for Trowers from 2016 to 2022 and was one of the first Malaysian associates to join the firm’s Kuala Lumpur office after Trowers opened there, as the first law firm to be granted a Qualified Foreign Law Firm licence to practise in Malaysia, in 2015.
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that experienced patent litigator Chris Marando has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Patent Litigation practices as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Chris’ arrival follows IP partner Zach Hong, who started in New York in April.
Arnold & Porter announced that Matthew Micheli has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice as a partner, resident in Chicago. Micheli’s arrival builds upon the Chicago office’s continued growth. In the last five years, the Chicago office has added 16 new partners and counsel, including the promotion of three partners, and now consists of over 50 attorneys.
Cooley has expanded its compensation and benefits practice with the addition of partners Michael Bergmann in Washington, DC, and Scott McCall in San Diego. Together, they bring more than five decades of experience advising public and private company clients on their complex compensation and benefits needs. Bergmann joins Cooley from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and McCall joins from Wilson Sonsini.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continued the strategic growth of its Environmental Practice with the addition of Shareholder Seth Goldberg and two assistant directors, Darci Ferrer* and Nicholas Skoulis*, in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Ellen Snare as a partner in the Transactions Practice Group in New York. Ellen represents some of the largest private equity portfolio companies, corporate borrowers, traditional lenders and private credit funds in various financings and restructurings. She joins from King & Spalding.