DLA Piper is pleased to welcome New York-based partner Joe Stefano to the firm’s Finance group.

Joe has over 25 years of extensive experience structuring and restructuring a broad range of secured and unsecured financings in connection with corporate finance, trade and export finance, big ticket asset finance and project, energy and infrastructure finance transactions, including with many bespoke or first of their kind structures.

Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Mauricio Llamas has joined the firm as a partner in our Global Regulatory & Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology (IPMT) practice group, as member of our Environment & Natural Resources practice and ESG committee, based in Mexico City.

Global law firm Reed Smith announced the appointment of financial services regulatory partner Jill Wong.

Wong joins from Howse Williams where she was a partner specialising in banking and securities regulatory and compliance matters for financial institutions and international companies. She has also previously worked at Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, and King & Wood Mallesons, in addition to experience in-house with Credit Suisse and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has expanded its Leveraged Finance and Private Credit team with the addition of leading finance partner Smridhi Gulati in London.

Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Alexander “Stefan” Rieger will join the firm’s Frankfurt office as a partner in the M&A and Private Equity Practice. Rieger advises infrastructure funds, pension funds, private equity investors, project developers, and insurance and other companies on a variety of complex, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure, including digital infrastructure, gas and renewables, transportation, utility, and industrial parks sectors.

Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Alastair Young is joining the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice and Energy and Natural Resources Group, as a corporate energy partner in London. He joins from Bracewell where he has been a partner since the firm opened its London office in 2013 and co-chaired the firm’s oil and gas practice group. 

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the appointment of Fabio Cozzi as partner and head of its Milan litigation practice. Responding to an increased demand for dispute resolution advice, Fabio brings extensive domestic and international arbitration, compliance, cross-border litigation, international trade and financial crime and sanctions experience.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced that Laura K. Lin will join the Firm as a Partner in the Litigation Department and will be based in the Palo Alto office.

“Clients rely on Simpson Thacher’s premier Litigation Department to develop creative strategies for a wide range of high-stakes and often multijurisdictional disputes, and Laura’s diverse litigation practice will help to bolster our capabilities in California and across our global platform,” said Alden Millard, Chair of Simpson Thacher’s Executive Committee. “We are very pleased to welcome her to the Firm.”

Fragomen, the world’s leading provider of immigration services, welcomes William Baird as Partner. Baird, a 15-year veteran of the immigration and global mobility space will join this summer and is the latest in a string of Partner hires in the past six months as the firm looks to expand its footprint and further enhance its service and technology offerings.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced that entertainment transactions lawyer and former media executive Andrew Kramer has joined the Firm as a partner, based in Willkie’s Los Angeles office. Andrew will serve as Chair of the Motion Picture, Television and Entertainment Finance practice group. With over 30 years of legal and business experience, Andrew has held a number of high-level positions in major film and television production and distribution companies and has also served as a lawyer in private practice.