Crowell & Moring announced that partner Elaine Taussig is joining the firm’s Corporate group and partner Tom Williams is joining the firm’s Corporate and IP groups in Chicago from Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg. They will unite with their long-time colleagues John J. Koenigsknecht and David S. Stone, who recently joined Crowell in corporate practice leadership positions to continue the firm's strategic growth of its transactional capabilities.

Haynes and Boone, LLP is excited to welcome Partner Kelsey Schmidt to the firm’s Denver office and Labor and Employment Practice Group. Schmidt joins from Fox Rothschild, where she has practiced for the past four years.

Schmidt gives employment advice and counsel to employers of all sizes, often representing them in litigation. Her practice covers a wide array of issues within the workplace, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, hiring, handbooks, absences, terminations and union avoidance.

Sidley is pleased to announce that Rebecca Stuart has joined the Palo Alto office as a partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment practice. She joins Sidley from Wilson Sonsini.

Akin is pleased to announce that private equity partner Andrew Lehman has rejoined the firm as a partner in Akin’s Houston office. The addition of Lehman not only adds to the firm’s private equity practice, but also further strengthens the firm’s energy sector experience in Houston.

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has announced that trade disputes attorney Justin Becker has joined the Firm as a Partner in Washington, DC. Justin brings with him extensive experience with trade remedy proceedings as well as investigations before the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and the International Trade Commission (ITC), strengthening the Firm's IP litigation and trade remedies capabilities in the nation's capital.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Ro Spaziani has joined the firm’s New York office, where she will serve as a partner and a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions, Global Financial Regulatory, and Global Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Groups.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that James “Jim” Langston has joined the firm as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice in the Corporate Department, resident in New York. Langston focuses his practice on public and private merger and acquisition transactions, activist defense M&A, and corporate governance.

Global law firm Clyde & Co announced the appointment of Elizabeth Evans as partner in its New York office. Evans joins the firm from K & L Gates and her hire is the latest expansion of Clyde & Co’s Global Aviation Practice Group.

Evans has over 30 years’ experience in the fields of aviation, project, transportation and aerospace finance. She has worked on a variety of complex structured finance transactions and her experience includes leveraged leasing, syndicated loan facilities, and private and public offerings of debt and equity.

Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Sylvain Bélair as a partner in the Montréal office.

With extensive expertise in municipal planning and administrative law, Sylvain brings over 35 years of experience representing clients in high-profile complex matters, involving urban planning, expropriation and municipal taxation issues. 

Fabio Fauceglia joins Orrick’s M&A and Private Equity team in Milan.

Fabio advises many of the leading private equity investors in Europe, as well as international companies, family offices and entrepreneurs on domestic and cross-border M&A, including competitive auctions, takeovers, joint ventures, and carve-outs.

He previously led the Italian M&A practice of Shearman & Sterling, where he practiced more than two decades, and joins with a team of six lawyers, including Leonardo Pinta, of counsel, and five associates.