Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Robert A. Kindler, Global Chair of Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and one of the world’s leading M&A advisors, will join the firm as a partner in the Corporate Department and Global Chair of M&A, resident in New York. Rob will advise clients on a full range of M&A, activist defense and corporate matters, including complex transactions, strategic issues and corporate governance.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Ron Feldman as a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Fieldfisher LLP, where he served as the leader of the hedge fund team.

UK law firm TLT has appointed economic crime and compliance specialist Ben Cooper as a partner in London, heading up its economic crime compliance team and working closely with the firms’ financial services regulatory, investigations and disputes practice.

Ben’s experience working in-house at a major bank, as well as his consultancy experience, will help further bolster the level of support TLT offers to financial services firms and corporates.

Full-service law firm Hill Dickinson has introduced a new Funds and Financial Regulation practice with the lateral hire of investment funds and regulatory partner James Kaufmann.

International law firm Bird & Bird has expanded its Corporate team in London with the arrival of Corporate and Tech & Comms partner Jee Ha Kim from Arm.

Arm, a long-standing client of Bird & Bird, is a world-leading semiconductor IP and design company headquartered in Cambridge and one of UK’s largest and most successful technology businesses.  

Global law firm Clyde & Co has announced the hire of 13 lawyers in its global Corporate & Advisory practice, including partners Nora Al Muhamad, Darren Harris, and Alan Wood.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice in the Chicago office with the addition of Reena R. Bajowala as shareholder. Bajowala joins from Ice Miller, where she was a partner and chair of the Data Security & Privacy practice.

Chad Shear, Betsy Flanagan and Geoff Biegler have joined as partners in Cooley’s market-leading intellectual property litigation practice within the firm’s global litigation department. Arriving from Fish & Richardson, the group brings extensive trial experience, having successfully represented early- to late-stage life sciences companies in complex patent disputes across district and appellate courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that L. Kieran Kieckhefer will join the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner.

“We are delighted to welcome Kieran to Gibson Dunn,” said Ernest Hsin, Co-Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.  “She is an accomplished first-chair trial lawyer whom clients regularly hire to handle their most important patent and trade secret cases, particularly in the tech industry.”

Mayer Brown announced that William “Bill” Patry, a distinguished copyright lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property practice in New York. Bill is the latest in a recent string of additions to the New York office, which now numbers nearly 300 lawyers, and will solidify the firm’s standing as a leader in federal copyright litigation as well as its growing reputation in royalty-setting proceedings, including before the Copyright Royalty Board.