Global law firm Goodwin announced that Thiha Tun will join the firm’s Private Investment Funds practice as a partner, resident in the London office.

Skadden is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Gonzalez-Sussman to the firm as a partner in the M&A Group and head of its shareholder engagement and activism practice. Ms. Gonzalez-Sussman will join the New York office in September and will advise clients around the globe on how best to anticipate, prepare for, respond to and defend against activist campaigns.

Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrivals of Bindu Donovan, Todd Krause, and Alyssa Monsen as partners in the firm’s market-leading IP Litigation Group, based in the New York office. Donovan, Krause, and Monsen bring more than six decades of combined experience litigating high-stakes IP matters in the life sciences sector.

Morgan Lewis has added veteran trial lawyer and litigator Stacie Hartman to deepen the firm’s investment management and disputes capabilities. Stacie represents clients in regulatory and other government investigations and complex litigation focusing on financial markets and the financial services industry. She will also continue her group leadership by taking on a leadership position in the firm’s multidisciplinary derivatives and commodities practice. Stacie joins from another international law firm, where she served as the financial services group chair.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Kelly Terribile as a partner in its Corporate practice. She joins the firm’s Wilmington office from Greenberg Traurig LLP.

Terribile has extensive experience advising on complex transactions involving Delaware corporations from inception to exit, including corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions.

Having spent her entire legal career in Wilmington, Terribile uses her “chapter and verse” knowledge of Delaware corporate law towards context-specific solutions to complicated Delaware legal issues.

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Pedro Rufino Carvalho has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in the Project Development & Finance and Latin America Practices. Rufino Carvalho joins from Patria Investments, where he was Managing Director, Global General Counsel. He has significant experience advising clients across Latin America, Africa, and Europe, with a particular focus on Brazil, on a variety of high-profile financings, project development, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures within the energy and infrastructure industry.

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has announced that Marjolein Dieperink has joined as partner in its well-established energy team in Amsterdam.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has strengthened its German and international Dispute Resolution (DR) practices with the hire partner of Dr Andrea Pomana in its Frankfurt office.

Joining from another global law firm, Dr Andrea has wide experience advising on European and German antitrust and competition law, foreign direct investment and foreign subsidies regulation. Her expertise includes complex cross-border transactions and merger control proceedings – including those before the EU Commission and Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO).

International law firm Withers has continued to grow the capabilities of its US corporate team and its Latin America practice with the addition of partner Rosa M. Ertze. Rosa joins the firm in New York from Duane Morris. 

DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has announced the appointment of Rupert Dowdell as a senior real estate partner in the business' London office.

With over 20 years of extensive experience in commercial real estate, Rupert joins DWF from Dentons where he was a partner for nearly eight years. He specialises in all aspects of commercial property including acquisitions, development and landlord and tenant work in the office, industrial, logistics, retail and hospitality sectors.