Juan has extensive experience in advising national and international clients in acquisition finance, real estate, project finance and restructuring transactions.

With this addition, Baker McKenzie strengthens its transactional practice and reaffirms its leading position among international law firms operating in the Spanish market.

Juan has extensive experience in advising national and international clients in acquisition finance, real estate, project finance and restructuring transactions.

Schulte Roth & Zabel is proud to announce the addition of James McCann as a partner in the Tax Group in New York.

Jim has extensive experience with the tax aspects of structuring, launching and operating private investment funds, including advising on transactions and matters relating to management companies and their principals. He also works with numerous family offices associated with current and former private fund managers, and advises clients on tax issues involving transactions, financings and reorganizations, with a particular emphasis on cross-border matters.

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has appointed leading investment funds lawyer, Ravi Longia, as a partner and UK Head of Investment Funds in its Corporate group.

Ravi joins DWF from a leading UK law firm where he was a partner as Head of Investment Funds.  

His practice primarily advises private fund sponsors and asset managers active in the alternative investment space, with a focus on private equity, venture capital and real estate strategies. 

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons continues the expansion of its structured finance team with the appointment of partner Igor Zyskind in its London office.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced that its intellectual property practice has added partners Adam Rehm and Rhiannon D’Agostin as well as counsel Zack Cleary. This team of lawyers joins the firm’s patents practice from Polsinelli.

Manaf Triqui joins Orrick’s French finance team as a partner.

He brings deep experience advising investors and issuers in connection with private debt and debt capital markets transactions.

He also represents investors and fintechs and other growth companies on venture debt issuances, and will collaborate with Orrick’s venture capital team, which ranks No.1 by volume in France and Europe (Pitchbook).

Manaf previously led the French Debt Capital Markets practices at global law firms.

Akin is pleased to announce that energy transactions partner Trent Bridges has joined the firm’s Houston office. He joins the firm from Sidley Austin and previously served as vice president and assistant general counsel for Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is thrilled to welcome Partner Jeff Morton to the firm’s Orange County office and Intellectual Property Practice Group. Morton joins from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where he was leader of the Life Sciences Group and co-leader of the Licensing and Technology Transactions Practice.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Chelsea N. Darnell has joined the firm as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Darnell advises public and private companies and private equity firms on M&A, corporate governance matters and activism defense issues.

“We are pleased to welcome Chelsea, who has worked with leading public and private companies on some of their most high-profile transactions, to our partnership,” said Paul, Weiss Chairman Brad S. Karp.

Continuing the transatlantic expansion of its private equity practice, Cleary Gottlieb announces the arrival of Alexander van der Gaag and Joanna Roberts, who are joining the firm’s London office.

Alex is a debt finance partner advising private equity firms and corporates on leveraged finance acquisitions, private credit and syndicated lending, infrastructure, and real estate finance. He has worked on some of the largest and most high-profile leverage buyouts over the past decade.