With the appointment of Tam Huynh as a Australasian partner and patent attorney Dentons solidifies its market leading position in the region.
Based in Sydney, Tam will add further strength and expertise to Dentons’ Australasian Patents team which operates from Sydney, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand.
Global law firm Dentons announces the recruitment of Arnaldo Bernardi as a partner in the White-Collar Crime team within the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice.
Arnaldo Bernardi joins Dentons’ Milan office after having practiced for 13 years for international law firms in Milan, New York and Paris.
Triple-qualified, he is admitted to the Milan, Paris and New York State bars. He advises clients in the oil and gas, luxury, retail, telecommunications, and financial sectors on internal investigations, corporate compliance and business and human rights.
DLA Piper has appointed leading corporate lawyer, Jon Ireland, as Head of the Australian Funds practice. Jon specialises in asset management, financial services and investments and commenced with the firm.
“Jon is an important addition to our thriving investment management and funds (IM&F) offering in Australia and globally,” said Amber Matthews, Australia Managing Partner, DLA Piper.
“He combines strong technical knowledge of the local legal environment and global market, with a solution-driven approach,” she said.
DLA Piper Canada is pleased to announce that Rajeev “Raj” Dewan has joined our Toronto office as a partner in the Capital Markets group. Raj is a leading business lawyer with a thriving capital markets and cross-border practice. He acts on behalf of emerging growth companies and entrepreneurs in key growth sectors, including eSports, fintech, healthcare, mining, and technology, providing them with strategic advice on a variety of matters, including going public transactions, financings, cross-border M&A, international joint ventures, and corporate governance.
Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to welcome Grant Esposito and David Fioccola as partners in its Litigation Department. With decades of experience in complex commercial disputes, Grant and David will bolster the Firm’s bench of first-chair trial lawyers and will join the Commercial Litigation and Trial Strategies Groups, respectively. They will be based in New York.
Alexis Finkelberg Bortniker has joined Cooley’s San Diego office as a partner in the firm’s global life sciences and healthcare regulatory practice group. Bortniker arrives from Foley & Lardner, where she co-chaired its healthcare transaction group and its healthcare and life sciences sector’s payer/provider convergence area of focus. Her practice focuses on health regulatory counseling and transactional matters advising technology-based innovators and disruptors shaping the new healthcare landscape.
Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Jennifer Ezring has rejoined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Banking Practice. Ezring has significant experience advising commercial and investment banks on leveraged finance and asset-based lending transactions.
Baker McKenzie has recruited transaction lawyer Katja Persson as a lateral partner. Katja has experience from law firms in both Stockholm and London, and adds bench-strength to the Firm's global M&A Practice Group. She joined Baker McKenzie's Stockholm office.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced that John Hawk has rejoined the firm as a partner in the Business Litigation Group. Previously with Womble from 2006 to 2021, Hawk is the first partner addition to the Denver office since it was opened last month by leading global energy and natural resources team Scot Anderson and Ana Maria Gutiérrez.
Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has strengthened its commercial litigation practice with the arrival of partner Trudy Feaster-Gee, who joins the firm in London.