Dentons announces that former Surface Transportation Board (STB) Associate General Counsel Theodore (Ted) Hunt has joined the Firm’s Federal Regulatory and Compliance practice as a partner. Hunt offers clients a wealth of experience in transportation and environmental regulation and litigation.
National law firm Irwin Mitchell is expanding its Real Estate Disputes Team with the recruitment of a new partner, William Scott, who will be based in the firm’s London office.
The appointment takes the specialist disputes team to 25, including four partners and four senior associates, based in offices across the UK. The team is jointly led by partners Danny Revitt and Tim Rayner and sits within Irwin Mitchell’s Property Division which will now number 29 partners and over 150 qualified lawyers.
Schulte Roth & Zabel is proud to announce the addition of John Nowak as a partner in the Litigation Group in New York.
John has a robust enforcement practice, representing private equity funds, hedge funds, broker-dealers, corporations, boards of directors, principals and executives in internal investigations, government inquiries and litigation. He also provides advice to investment advisers related to trading and compliance issues and insider trading.
Womble Bond Dickinson announced that Carol Lee has joined the firm as a partner in the Business Litigation group. A trusted advisor for multinationals navigating U.S. legal matters relating to internal and government investigations and commercial litigation, Lee is adept at resolving regulatory issues regarding export controls, economic sanctions, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, anti-money laundering, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She joins Womble from the Washington office of Clifford Chance.
Claire Crawford joins Mills & Reeve to grow the RPCD team’s reputation in the Midlands.
Claire joins the firm from Capsticks where she led the corporate commercial division team in Birmingham. She has extensive experience of acting for and advising both contracting authorities and economic operators in all aspects of contentious procurement matters.
She has previously acted for GP Partnerships and independent medical, care and housing sector clients.
Watson Farley & Williams is pleased to announce that energy and infrastructure expert Paul Simpson has joined the firm as a Partner in London. He joins from CMS where he was Partner in the Energy, Infrastructure, Project and Asset Finance team and had previously worked at Shearman & Sterling and White & Case.
DLA Piper has appointed Anna Dias, an experienced International Trade partner, to its Brussels office. Anna starts on July, joining from a major international firm, where she spent the last 12 years and was a Partner. Prior to that, Anna worked for the Brazilian Mission before the World Trade Organisation in Geneva (Young Lawyers Progamme) after spending four years at a major Brazilian law firm.
International law firm RPC announced that experienced M&A lawyer, Kenneth Leong joins the firm as Partner to bolster and lead its corporate team in Singapore, expanding the firm's internationally recognised corporate practice. He joins with a team of Associates.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Erin Kelly to the Firm’s Healthcare Practice Group as a partner in Washington, DC, where she will focus on innovative care delivery models and the intersection between payors and providers. With more than a decade of in-house experience within national healthcare organizations, Erin brings a diversity of transactional, contracting, regulatory and compliance experience.
Dentons announces that Christopher Tillson is the latest partner to join its Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice in Miami. Tillson assists clients with commercial and transactional work at the intersection of technology, innovation and energy on a global scale.