Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Andrea Wahlquist Brown is joining the firm as a partner in the Executive Compensation practice, resident in the New York office. Andrea focuses on compensation and benefits aspects of public company M&A and private equity transactions, as well as related corporate governance matters.
Dechert LLP announced that Nisha Patel Gupta has returned to the firm as an intellectual property partner based in Silicon Valley. The addition of Ms. Gupta strengthens the firm’s intellectual property capabilities in California and internationally. Ms. Gupta joins from Dechert client, LinkedIn.
Full-service commercial law firm Hill Dickinson has started its new financial year with the appointment of three new partners in its London City office.
Private Client partner Hed Amitai, Healthcare partner Ros Foster and Corporate partner Monica Macheng are the latest in more than 15 lateral partner hires announced across the firm in the past 12 to 15 months.
International law firm Withers has grown its Swiss practice, based in Geneva, through the addition of new partner Berry Bloomberg, who joins the firm from Burges Salmon.
Berry is a tax and trust specialist, representing clients on asset holding structures, the taxation of offshore trusts and companies and negotiating tax disclosures with tax authorities. His clients include internationally mobile individuals and families, trust companies and financial institutions and he has a particular focus on helping clients with US connections.
Anthony “Tony” Phillips, a former Director and Associate General Counsel for Integrity at Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.), has joined Pillsbury as a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He is the latest addition to Pillsbury’s prestigious Technology Industry practice, which is consistently ranked among the most active practices in the world. Phillips brings experience as a former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section. He began his career as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) Officer—a military lawyer—in the U.S. Air Force.
We have appointed our first head of responsible business to help the firm achieve its ambitious sustainability goals.
Kate Hursthouse is former senior manager for responsible business at Slaughter and May, where she spent the past 11 years developing and overseeing the firm’s work to integrate responsible business into the firm’s operations, as well as building its community, diversity and inclusion, and pro bono programmes.
Simon Garbett joins Mills & Reeve’s Birmingham office with a breadth of existing knowledge and experience in the marketplace.
He joins from Squire Patton Boggs and is a high-profile commercial disputes lawyer with an expertise in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution.
Simon will continue to maintain and grow commercial disputes in Birmingham following the retirement of Steve Allen, partner and a leader in dispute resolution in the region. Simon will continue to deliver outstanding services to our clients.
Global law firm Ashurst announces a significant investment in its energy and infrastructure offering, with the hire of five partners across the UK and Asia as the firm responds to client demand driven by the accelerating transition to net zero.
Winston & Strawn LLP announced that former partner Erin (Kartheiser) Weber has returned to the firm’s Chicago office. She rejoins as a member of the firm’s Transactions Department and the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (EBEC) Practice.
Erin was a partner at Winston and worked at the firm for nearly 19 years. She returns after serving as Senior Vice President of Total Rewards and ERISA Counsel at Reyes Holdings, a global leader in the production and distribution of food and beverage products.
In a move further bolstering the strength of its global finance platform, Paul Hastings LLP announced that the three-partner finance group of Marc Lashbrook, Josh Zelig, and David Barash has joined Paul Hastings as partners in New York from the Band 1 practice at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
The trio is known for their top-of-market transactional work in size and complexity for clients including J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, and Barclays, as well as dozens of other banks and direct lenders across from the world’s leading private equity firms and public and private companies.