Womble Bond Dickinson announced that Alidad Vakili has joined the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group as a partner in San Francisco. Vakili brings extensive experience in advising entrepreneurs, founders, emerging growth and established companies, and investors on a range of corporate and transactional matters, including entity formation, governance, commercial transactions, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financing.

Travers Smith LLP is delighted to announce the hire of Jeremy Dennison as a partner in the Private Equity & Financial Sponsors (PEFS) group, further strengthening its market leading Private Equity offering.

Jeremy Dennison rejoins Travers Smith from Livingbridge where he was a Partner & General Counsel with responsibility for overseeing all legal, compliance and ESG matters.  Jeremy started his career at Travers Smith and worked at the firm for over eight years before joining Livingbridge in 2018.

International law firm DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce that its newly formed New York office continues to grow with the addition of another widely respected insurance coverage team.

Partner J. Gregory Lahr and lawyers Jacinda Chen-Nguyen and Vitaly Vilenchik will work alongside partners Lawrence Klein, Gilbert Lee, George Vogrin and Mike Frimet, all of whom joined DACB in January 2025.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its market-leading Global Antitrust Practice with the addition of Rahul Rao as a partner in Washington, DC.

Steptoe LLP has announced the significant expansion of its global investigations, business and human rights, and anti-corruption capabilities with the addition of partners Jonathan Drimmer and Yousuf Aftab, senior counsel Timothy Dickinson, and their substantial team of lawyers and advisors. Both Jon and Tim join Steptoe in Washington, DC, and Yousuf joins in New York.

Continuing the expansion of its global transportation and aviation practices, Morgan Lewis welcomes Jennifer Trock as a partner in Washington, DC. Arriving from Baker McKenzie, where she served as chair of its global aviation group and led its advanced air mobility team, Jennifer will continue to advise commercial aviation and transportation clients on complex regulatory, commercial, transactional, investigation, and compliance matters.

Haynes Boone is pleased to welcome Partner Lesley Gregory—a highly regarded corporate lawyer with vast experience in cross-border transactions—to its London office. Gregory joins from Memery Crystal, where she held extensive executive management roles and built a reputation as a leading adviser on public and private M&A and capital markets transactions.

As of 1 March 2025, Dr Alexander Thomas has joined the Corporate practice group of Osborne Clarke as a Partner at the Munich office. Christina König will also join Osborne Clarke as a Senior Associate as part of his team.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Brian Burke as a partner in the Corporate Practice. He will be based in the Northern Virginia (Reston) office.

Burke advises high-growth companies and investors in connection with early stage, venture capital, growth equity, private equity, and M&A transactions. He frequently works with his clients on day-to-day corporate matters as outside corporate counsel, having worked with hundreds of companies and investors throughout the US across a wide range of industries.

Ropes & Gray announced that former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Joshua Levy will rejoin the firm on March 31 as a partner, expanding the capabilities of the firm’s award-winning litigation & enforcement practice with his impressive case experience in health care fraud, white collar, public corruption and government procurement.