WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Brendan McGuire has returned to the firm as a partner in its New York office.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that John Patten, a specialist in intellectual property and technology transactions, will be joining the firm in the Corporate Department, resident in London. Patten advises clients on the technology, IP and data components of a variety of complex commercial and corporate transactions, as well as on data protection compliance in relation to European data privacy laws.

Global law firm K&L Gates welcomes Kevin Gustafson as a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds practice area. He joins the firm’s Chicago office closely following the arrival of ETF partner Hazel Doyle in Dublin last month.

As part of its ambitious growth strategy, law firm Shakespeare Martineau has appointed leading corporate partner Daniel Banton.

With more than 15 years’ post-qualified experience, Daniel has returned to private practice almost three years after co-founding and developing a European litigation business.

Before this, he spent over 10 years in Howes Percival’s corporate team, working his way up from solicitor to partner and, eventually, leading the corporate, commercial, and banking department – more than doubling its headcount.

Global law firm Goodwin announced that David Lynn joined the firm as chair of its Public Company Advisory practice, and partner in its Capital Markets practice. He is resident in the firm’s Washington, DC office.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that Michael Rome, a leading investigations attorney and former regulatory and litigation counsel at Google, has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department and member of the Investigations & Enforcement practice. Michael is based in Willkie’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. His practice is focused on government investigations, enforcement and complex commercial litigation with a particular emphasis on privacy and consumer protection matters. 

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Banking & Finance Practice with the addition of Luke Lado as a new shareholder in the firm’s London office.

Lado represents lenders and borrowers in direct lending transactions, leverage finance transactions, special situation debt financings, restructurings and crossover credit financings. His client base includes European and U.S. banks, direct lending and special situations funds, and corporate borrowers.

Locke Lord is pleased to announce that Jon Daly has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a Partner in the Corporate and Transactional Practice Group. Daly brings a broad range of experience in corporate and financing transactions, particularly energy capital markets, that will further diversify the Firm’s existing capabilities in Texas. He joins Locke Lord from Sidley Austin LLP.

In a move that further strengthens its growing global funds offering, Paul Hastings LLP announced that leading investment funds lawyer Anna Rips has joined the firm as a partner in New York from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Linklaters is pleased to announce that Michael Rodgers has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a Partner in the Energy & Infrastructure and Tax practices. He continues a string of major hires for Linklaters’ U.S. Energy & Infrastructure group in the past year, following the arrivals of Partners and Co-Heads of Energy & Infrastructure in the Americas Ron Erlichman and Marius Griskonis in New York, and Senior Counsel Lauren Bachtel and Diana Jeschke in New York and Washington, D.C., respectively.