Laura Bagarella joins Orrick’s Compensation & Benefits group as a partner.

Laura advises on the design and implementation of cash and equity-based incentive arrangements and the negotiation of executive employment and separation agreements.

Laura brings extensive experience in the compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions, including supporting private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

Charles Russell Speechlys announces the addition of a new international tax team to its Singapore Office, bolstering its existing international tax advisory capacity in Asia. This strategic expansion aligns with the Firm’s commitment to providing international legal services to its clients globally. 

The new team will be based in Singapore, and consists of two Partners, Kurt Rademacher and Ivan Lu, a Legal Director, Timmoney Ng and Senior Associate, Hara Kee. 

Dentons continues its rapid growth in 2024 with the addition of Melbourne Banking & Finance Partner, Yechiel Belfer.

Yechiel is an experienced banking and finance lawyer who primarily focuses on the regulation of financial services and consumer credit.

Dentons continues to deliver on its growth strategy with the addition of Debt Financing and Investment Funds Partner, Charles Yim, to its Hong Kong office. Charles focuses his practices on bond issuance, structured notes offering and liability management of corporate bonds for investment banks, securities firms, trustees or corporate issuers and bilateral loan, club deal and syndicated loan projects for commercial banks and corporate borrowers.

Amid growing scrutiny of how companies use and protect consumer information, Pillsbury has recruited highly regarded data privacy and technology partners Jeewon Serrato and Shruti Bhutani Arora to the firm’s San Francisco office. Both join Pillsbury from Baker Hostetler.

In a move that significantly strengthens its presence in Texas and overall global platform, Paul Hastings LLP announced that an elite eight-partner global finance team from the Band 1 practice at Vinson & Elkins LLP, including the current and former practice co-chairs, has joined the firm.

DLA Piper continues to expand the Investment Funds Practice with the arrival of Terrence Davis as a partner in the Atlanta office. He is joined by of counsel Tanya Boyle in Atlanta and senior attorney Justin Tait in Miami.

Scott A. Schlager has joined Locke Lord’s Boston office as a Partner in the Real Estate and Finance and Litigation Practice Groups. Schlager’s diverse real estate acquisition/disposition, finance and complex litigation experience combined with a strong network in the real estate sector will enhance the Firm’s real estate capabilities across the United States.

Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrivals of Boris Segalis and Kaylee Cox Bankston as partners in the firm’s market-leading Global Privacy + Data Security Group, which is comprised of more than 60 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Segalis and Cox Bankston join MoFo from another leading global firm and bring 30 years of combined experience and a prominent data privacy and cybersecurity practice to the firm.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Andrew Walker as an Austin-based partner in the firm’s Private Equity Practice.

Walker’s practice focuses on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, the creation of new business platforms, and serving as outside general counsel.