Haynes Boone is pleased to welcome Insurance Recovery Partner Carrie DiCanio to the firm’s Denver and New York offices. DiCanio joins Haynes Boone from Anderson Kill, where she spent her entire legal career and most recently served as managing shareholder of the firm’s Denver office and a shareholder in its New York office.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP has appointed Ingeborg Wind-Middel as a partner. She will focus on administrative law, environmental law and real estate. With her arrival, the firm strengthens its position as one of the leading legal players in the Dutch real estate sector.
Ingeborg Wind-Middel brings years of experience in complex administrative and environmental law issues, with a special focus on area development, permitting and enforcement. Her transfer marks a next step in the strategic expansion of the practice group.
Sharmistha Das, who most recently served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as deputy chief of staff and deputy general counsel, has rejoined Crowell & Moring as a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts Group. She also joins the firm’s Regulatory and Policy Department and will play a leading role in Crowell’s National Security practice, drawing on her experience at DHS working on highly sensitive intelligence matters.
Alston & Bird is pleased to announce that Drew Rolle, a former deputy chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, has joined the firm’s White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Group as a partner in the New York office.
Akin announced that M&A partner Joshua La Vigne and investment management partner Jessica Pan have joined the firm from Mayer Brown in Chicago. Following the recent additions of investment management partner Wendy Dodson Gallegos and infrastructure M&A partner Jason Wagenmaker, Joshua and Jessica further expand Akin’s growing presence in Chicago and add depth to the firm's market-leading real estate fund formation and M&A practices.
International law firm Withers has announced that experienced commercial disputes lawyer Mohammed Reza has joined Withers KhattarWong LLP, the Singapore member of Withers, as a Partner and Head of International Arbitration for Singapore.
Kristy Rogers recently joined Dentons Davis Brown as a shareholder in the Litigation Division. Kristy’s practice focuses primarily on guiding energy sector clients through trial and appellate litigation and complex state and local permitting processes, including those required to develop and construct large-scale renewable energy projects.
Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced the appointment of disease and workplace stress claims specialist Barbara Goddard as a partner in its London office.
Barbara joins the firm from DAC Beachcroft where she headed up their London disease team. She brings with her more than 25 years’ experience in handling all aspects of injury and disease claims, particularly complex, high-value employers' liability claims and public and product liability cases.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that private funds lawyer Debra Franzese has joined the Firm as a partner in the Asset Management Department. She is based in New York.
“Debra is recognized as a trusted adviser in the private funds space and we are delighted to welcome her to Willkie,” said Phil Isom, Chair of Willkie’s Private Funds practice group. “She brings diverse transactional and regulatory experience and a results-oriented approach to addressing day-to-day as well as complex issues for clients that align well with our global team’s growing capabilities.”
Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice with the addition of Alberto Sepúlveda as a partner.
Sepúlveda was previously the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Head of Legal and Corporate Security at Wal-Mart de Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V., the publicly listed Mexican subsidiary of Walmart Inc., the world's largest retailer. He rejoins the Firm's Mexico City office, where he was a partner from 1995 to 2013.