DLA Piper is pleased to welcome New York-based Lily Wound as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice.

Wound represents pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and other life sciences companies in a wide range of complex commercial, corporate, and licensing transactions, including those involving gene therapy, gene editing, engineered cell therapy, and genomic testing. She has worked on some of the most complex life sciences collaborations in the industry and has handled transactions at every stage of the product life cycle.

International law firm Simmons & Simmons has announced that it will strengthen its Middle East practice by opening a new office in Riyadh.

Building on Simmons’s strong presence in the region, the move will create its first office in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) – one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and the largest economy in the Middle East.

Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, is pleased to welcome five new professionals to the Ottawa office, strengthening the Firm’s Municipal Planning, Land Use, and Development Law client offering in Ontario.

International law firm Brown Rudnick announced the appointment of Paul Feldberg as a partner and head of the U.K. White Collar Defense, Investigations and Compliance practice in London. Feldberg’s appointment marks the continued expansion of the Firm’s presence in London, which has included the arrival of several new partners in recent months.

Continuing the momentum of litigator Tony Weibell’s arrival in Northern California earlier this month, Mayer Brown announces the arrival of Sophia (Sophie) Mancall-Bitel as a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner in Los Angeles. Sophie joins from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

“Sophie’s experience in technology litigation is a synergistic fit for our premier litigation offerings, and we are thrilled to welcome her to our expanding team,” said Richard Spehr, the leader of Mayer Brown’s global Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery welcomes Julia Boyd as a partner in its Transactions Practice Group in New York. Julia is well known in the New York private equity space and regularly advises on a variety of cross-border transactions.

“We expect a very busy 2024 for private equity transactions across several industries, including healthcare, energy and technology,” said Harris Siskind, global head of McDermott’s Transactions Practice Group. “Julia brings experience in these ‘power alley’ areas, and we’re thrilled she has chosen McDermott.”

Mae Morter joins Orrick as a partner in London. She advises financial institutions, funds, sponsors and corporations on domestic and cross-border leveraged finance transactions, private credit, acquisition finance, venture financings and debt restructurings at all levels of the capital structure.

Mae brings a strong skill set in leveraged finance, the debt aspects of venture financing and private credit and will collaborate with Orrick’s No. 1 ranking European venture capital team (Pitchbook) and its private credit practice, which is one of the most active in the market.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher announced that Michael Li-Ming Wong has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, and as Co-Chair of the firm’s national White-Collar Defense Group. He is based in the Firm’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. Michael is a prominent litigator who focuses his practice on white-collar criminal matters, complex civil litigation, data privacy matters, and internal investigations. The former Chief of White Collar Crimes at the U.S.

Fried Frank announced that Cameron Mitcham has joined the firm as a partner in the Finance Practice in London. He joins from a leading Australian law firm and prior to that he was a partner at Dechert LLP in its global finance team in London.

Mitcham’s practice is focused on securitization, structured finance, asset-backed lending and credit funds, with an emphasis in structuring transactions and funds to be compliant with EU risk retention rules.

Arnold & Porter announced that environmental justice attorney Stacey Sublett Halliday, a former Special Counsel in the Office of General Counsel (OGC) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has joined the firm’s Environmental practice as a partner, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.