Paul Hastings LLP announced that leading structured finance lawyer Shawn Kodes has joined the firm as a partner in New York and co-chair of its asset-backed finance practice.
Kodes advises clients in all aspects of domestic and cross-border complex structured finance transactions across asset types. He joins from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Akin is pleased to announce that real estate partner Avi Feinberg has joined the firm’s New York office. Feinberg adds significant real estate experience to the firm’s global platform of asset manager clients, including credit, private equity, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and other institutional investors.
Akin is pleased to announce that energy transactions partner Ian Goldberg has joined the firm’s Houston office. Previously he led the Energy Transactions practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Goldberg advises clients on a broad range of energy transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, project development and financial transactions involving oil and gas assets, energy transition investments and rare earth mineral deposits.
Akin is pleased to welcome Jason Prince, immediate-past Chief Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Prince will help lead the firm’s top-tier, multijurisdictional economic sanctions practice.
Kirkland & Ellis is pleased to announce that Sarah Mallett has joined the Firm as a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group.
DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has appointed Gary Walkling and Franco D'Andrea as Partners to expand its Global Risks practice in London, led by David Abbott.
Alston & Bird has further strengthened its mergers and acquisitions practice by adding partner David L. Shaw to the firm’s New York office. David guides public and private companies through complex business transactions and general corporate matters. He advises on a variety of transactions, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, and majority and minority investments.
Brad Wright has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Phoenix as a Partner in the Real Estate group, the law firm announced. Dorsey’s Phoenix office has experienced exceptional growth since opening in 2022, expanding from three to 29 attorneys.
King & Spalding announced that Jennifer Recine, Sarmad Khojasteh and David Kupfer have joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as partners. They are based in the firm’s New York office.
Sidley is pleased to announce that John C. Godfrey has joined Sidley’s M&A and Private Equity practice as a partner in New York. Mr. Godfrey joins Sidley from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP where he served as a member of that firm’s M&A and PE practices. This follows the addition of a team of 11 lawyers from Paul, Weiss in the last 10 months.