Dentons, Canada’s Global Law Firm, announces the expansion of its team in Edmonton with the addition of Tari Hiebert in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group.
Sophie advises companies and investors (international sponsors, family offices, institutional investors, portfolio companies, etc.) as part of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and private equity transactions, at every stage of the investment cycle, both in France and abroad. She has developed specific experience in the technology, software, consumer, business services, and automotive sectors.
DWF, the global provider of integrated legal and business services, has recruited Jayne McGlynn, partner, and Richard Wood, head of legal due diligence services, in its growing corporate team in London.
Jayne McGlynn joins DWF after 11 years at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where she spent the past three years as a partner.
Javier Ferrero's appointment to the CMS Grau team comes amid the firm's continued growth and success in the national and international arbitration market.
International law firm CMS is strengthening its Corporate/M&A practice in Poland. Partner Ryszard Manteuffel and counsel Robert Semczuk have joined the firm’s Corporate/M&A practice, led by Sławomir Czerwiński. The practice will be further strengthened over the course of the next few months with the arrival of senior associate Zuzanna Sapocińska and associates Łukasz Duchiński and Piotr Wójcik. The new team specialise in M&A and capital markets transactions and bring unique experience in advising private clients to the firm.
Paul Hastings LLP announced that David Broderick, a leader in complex real estate transactions, has joined the firm as a partner in New York.
Broderick’s diverse experience ranges from debt and equity transactions and workouts to structured financings, including mortgage, bridge, and mezzanine financing, construction lending, debt syndication, and preferred equity. He has advised financial institutions, real estate investment trusts, and asset managers including Apollo’s real estate credit business, Walton Street Capital, Macquarie Capital, and BrightSpire Capital.
Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired US partners Brian J. Lohan and Maja Zerjal Fink, further strengthening its global Restructuring and Insolvency team in New York. Their practice covers all aspects of corporate reorganizations, distressed situations and bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings for US domestic and international clients.
The international law firm ADVANT Beiten strengthens its Hamburg office in the tax and corporate criminal law practice with a team of three from Ernst & Young Law. Martin Seevers, former Financial Services Tax Controversy Leader in Germany and EMEIA at EY Law, joins ADVANT Beiten as Equity Partner. Salary Partner Julian Niederlein and Senior Associate Guido Storck are joining with him.
As Pillsbury continues to expand in the Bay Area, the firm is excited to announce the hire of veteran labor and employment partner JoAnna Brooks in its San Francisco office. Brooks, who focuses on high-stakes employment litigation, workplace investigations and related counseling matters, comes to the firm from Littler Mendelson.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that Don J. Macbean has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. Don, who focuses on energy and commodities and other complex structured transactions, is based in the Firm’s New York office.