Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown announced that Diego Miguita has joined the firm as a partner in the Tax practice in São Paulo, Brazil, with a focus on the energy sector. He joins from VBSO Advogados.

Further strengthening its market-leading financial restructuring practice and continuing its strategic expansion in Texas, Paul Hastings LLP has added restructuring lawyer Charles Persons as a partner in Dallas. The firm has more than tripled its Texas headcount in the last year and expects to have more than 100 lawyers in the Lone Star State by Q1 2025, up from 25.  

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Bianca Levin-Soler has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity groups. Levin-Soler’s practice focuses on representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a wide range of transactions.

Continuing an ongoing expansion of Pillsbury’s global litigation, construction and energy capabilities, the firm announced the addition of construction and energy litigator, Derrick Carson, as partner. Carson, who brings deep experience in the region and throughout the world, joins the firm’s Houston office. He comes to Pillsbury from Locke Lord LLP, where for the last five years he served as chair of its energy litigation practice group having previously served as chair of its construction law practice group.

Skadden is pleased to welcome Quyen Ta to the firm as a partner in our litigation practice in Palo Alto. She joins from another global law firm, where she led its trade secrets practice and California consumer class action team. Additionally, she served as co-chair of the firm’s First Generation Professionals Affinity Group.

Fragomen, the world’s leading provider of immigration services, announces that Carter Bovard has joined as Partner in its Amsterdam office.

Bovard, who previously worked at Fragomen for nearly a decade, returns to the firm with extensive global mobility and immigration experience in managing complex, multinational client engagements across the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Prior to rejoining Fragomen, Bovard held senior positions at several professional services firms, where he successfully led the growth and expansion of their immigration services.

Holland & Knight welcomes Rachel Gartner as a partner, resident in New York, representing clients in regulatory matters before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Most recently, Ms. Gartner was counsel at McDermott Will & Emery.

Holland & Knight continues to strengthen its national Financial Services Team with the addition of Eamonn Moran as a partner in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Moran was a senior counsel at Norton Rose Fulbright.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has enhanced its technology and outsourcing capabilities with the addition of Sally Samadi as partner. She joins the firm's international IP, tech and data practice group in London.

Winston & Strawn LLP announced that Louis J. Jenull has joined the Dallas office as a partner in the Transactions Department and the Tax Practice.

Louis advises clients in all phases of federal income taxation with an emphasis on a range of tax credits, renewable energy, oil and gas, mergers and acquisitions, environmental, safety and health issues, real estate lending and development, and the structuring and formation of complex partnerships with tax-exempt, U.S. taxable, and foreign investors.