Holland & Knight has strengthened its Public Policy & Regulation Group with the addition of John Vaughan as a partner in Los Angeles. Mr. Vaughan previously led the Product and Corporate Counsel legal teams and served as Interim Chief Privacy Officer at Verily, an Alphabet Inc. company.
A&O Shearman is expanding its market-leading global Debt Finance practice with the hire of Filippo Crosara as a lender-side leveraged finance partner in London.
Filippo joins from Barclays Investment Bank, where he was a managing director and leading member of its global leveraged finance execution team with an industry-wide reputation across the London market.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced that Jason Downs, who served as Chief Deputy Attorney General (AG) for the District of Columbia during the tenure of former D.C. AG Karl Racine, has joined as a partner in the firm’s Washington D.C. office. Downs joins from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he co-chaired the firm’s State Attorneys General practice group, as well as Brownstein’s Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) group.
International professional services firm gunnercooke has continued its rapid growth in the second quarter of 2024, welcoming 48 new colleagues in the UK, Germany, Austria and USA. This includes 27 Partners, four Operating Partners, three associates, four paralegals and ten other support staff. This brings the total number of new starters to 98 since the beginning of the year.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the expansion of its White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice with the addition of Tracy S. Combs in the San Francisco office. During Combs’ eight-year tenure at the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), she served in a variety of roles in Salt Lake City and San Francisco, most recently as director of the SEC’s Salt Lake Regional Office, where she oversaw some of the office’s most high-profile enforcement actions that had impact throughout the United States.
Dentons announces that Jill Nicholson has joined the Firm’s Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice as a partner resident in its Chicago office. Nicholson brings extensive experience in commercial bankruptcy and insolvency matters, creditors’ rights, out-of-court workouts and restructurings, and complex multidistrict financial services litigation.
Leading international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Jaime Bofill as a partner in the disputes practice to join the insurance team, led by Alejandra Galdos, in its Madrid office.
Jaime joins from CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo where he headed the Insurance, Reinsurance & Innovation department at its Spanish office. Three new associates join with him in his team: Jorge Etreros, Guillermo Ruiz Barrilero and Sara Piñero, also from CMS.
International law firm Bird & Bird appoints finance experts Federico Del Monte and Corrado Fiscale as partners, based in its Milan office, bolstering the firm?s strategic growth in Italy. Federico and Corrado will join Bird & Bird along with a team of five associates (Pietro Castoldi, Diego Del Principe, Pietro Grieco, Anita Lucchini and Federico Mariani).
UK & Ireland law firm Browne Jacobson has strengthened its Welsh private sector offering with the appointment of Corporate Partner, Tom Saunderson, in the firm’s growing Cardiff office.
Tom joins the firm from Acuity Law. His expertise covers a broad spectrum of M&A and investment work, with a particular focus on early-stage & high-growth companies.
Browne Jacobson has strengthened its government and infrastructure team with the appointment of a partner specialising in public procurement law.
Bradley Martin joins the UK and Ireland law firm from Addleshaw Goddard, where he was Legal Director.
Consistently recognised as a ‘rising star’ by the Legal 500 directory, Bradley bolsters Browne Jacobson’s growing Manchester team, while he will work with clients across the UK.
He said: “It’s hugely exciting to join Browne Jacobson at a time when the firm’s profile is growing both nationally and in the North West.