Joseph T. Walsh has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Trial Practice Group in its Houston and New York offices. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Walsh was assistant general counsel at Exxon Mobil Corporation.
Fried Frank announced the addition of three new partners to its global Restructuring Department, based in New York. Rachel C. Strickland joins the firm as the new global chair of the Restructuring Department, along with partners Daniel Forman and Andrew Mordkoff. All three partners join from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where Strickland served as chair of the firm’s business reorganization & restructuring department, while Forman and Mordkoff served as partners within that practice.
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Kaitlin Betancourt has joined the firm’s Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice as partner in the New York office.
Holland & Knight has strengthened its Financial Services Team with the addition of Nneoma Maduike as a partner in New York. Ms. Maduike was previously a partner with Otterbourg P.C., where she was co-head of the Lender Finance practice.
Kirkland & Ellis is excited to announce that leading M&A lawyer Dr. Tobias Larisch will join the Firm as a partner. Dr. Larisch will be based in Frankfurt, where Kirkland will open a new office to support the Firm’s growing transactional practice in Germany.
Garrigues brings Karen Werner on board in Santiago de Chile as partner in charge of the Dispute Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration practice. Her appointment is pending ratification by the next Garrigues Partners’ Meeting.
Werner has 16 years’ experience in advising companies and institutions in local and international lawsuits and arbitration proceedings in sectors such as energy, mining, infrastructure, construction, financial services or real estate, among others.
We are expanding our fraud practice with the appointment of partner, Ruth Needham. Joining from Keoghs, Ruth will be based in our Manchester office where she will lead a team of more than 20 legal professionals.
A fraud specialist with over twenty years’ experience, Ruth has specialised skills and industry expertise across sectors including motor, organised fraud, casualty, property, large loss and disease.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig Germany, LLP is strengthening its Data Protection Practice with new Partner Philip Radlanski. Radlanski joins from Morrison Foerster, where he helped shape ground-breaking projects and proceedings in Berlin and New York over the past eight years.
In a move that unites two Chambers Band 1-ranked environmental litigation practices, Paul Hastings LLP announced preeminent litigator Brian D. Israel has joined the firm as a partner and co-head of the firm’s environmental litigation practice. He will work out of the firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices.
Charles Russell Speechlys announces the appointment of Partner, Dan Pollard, to the Firm’s UK Employment team. Dan joins from GQ Littler and his arrival marks the seventh Partner to join the Business, Advisory and Transaction Services (BATS) division this year.