Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Rafael Ribeiro has returned to the firm’s Miami office as a partner following an in-house position as Assistant General Counsel with the Global Ethics and Compliance Management team at The Walt Disney Company.

Ribeiro will rejoin Hogan Lovells’ Disputes practice group in the firm’s Investigation, White Collar, and Fraud practice area. He also joins our Sports, Media, and Entertainment industry sector.

The international law firm ADVANT Beiten has expanded its Dusseldorf office at the turn of the year 2022/23, welcoming on board Dr Jochen Pörtge for the Compliance and White Collar Crime practice.

Pörtge has worked at Pinsent Masons before joining ADVANT Beiten as Equity Partner.

Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg is pleased to announce that Audrey Jarreton, Banking & Finance expert, joined our team as Partner.

Audrey, who started her career as a junior lawyer with Loyens & Loeff, has more than 15 years of experience as a banking and finance lawyer in Luxembourg and is now joining us from another Benelux law firm. She will add more strength to the firm’s already robust Luxembourg banking and finance team consisting of 22 lawyers.

Johannes Blassl will join Heuking’s Frankfurt office as Equity Partner. The crypto and compliance specialist joins the firm from Ernst & Young Law where he practiced as Senior Manager, Financial Services in banking and capital markets law.

Johannes Blassl (37) advises banks and companies on capital markets law and regulatory issues while also focusing on the use of blockchain technology in the financial markets. In addition, he advises companies on all legal issues relating to compliance, in particular on major cross-border transactions.

DLA Piper (Canada) LLP is pleased to welcome Derek Van Doorn as Partner to the ‎Corporate group in our Toronto office. Derek has a practice focused on mergers and ‎acquisitions, banking and ‎finance, private equity, securities law and ongoing advice ‎on business law matters. ‎

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome New York-based partner Oliver Wright to the firm’s Project and Energy team within the Finance group.

Oliver focuses on mining and metals and energy transactions, regularly taking the lead on project development, financing and M&A transactions. He represents clients in relation to deal structuring, investment risks, joint venture management, offtake arrangements and other operational matters, new country entry, and relations with host country governments.

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance announced that Jill Concannon Christie will be joining the firm on 1 March as a US securities and high yield partner, based in London. Jill joins from White & Case where she focused on US capital markets and leverage finance transactions. She has extensive experience representing prominent investment banks, corporates and private equity firms on leveraged finance and acquisition finance transactions, as well as other debt and equity capital markets transactions.

Global law firm Goodwin announced that Jacqueline Eaves will join the firm’s Private Equity and Private Investment Funds practices as a partner, resident in the London office.

McGuireWoods continues the expansion of its nationally recognized energy regulatory capabilities with the arrival of partner Brian Franklin in Charlotte.

Franklin spent 15 years at Duke Energy, most recently as managing director of regulatory affairs for North Carolina. In that role, he led a team that handled regulatory matters for subsidiaries Duke Energy Carolinas (DEC) and Duke Energy Progress (DEP), which serve a combined 3.7 million electric retail customers in North Carolina.

Katten announced that Harold Davidson has joined the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity practice in New York, strengthening the team of industry-leading attorneys who handle complex business transactions.

"We are delighted to have Harold join Katten's leading middle-market practice. His experience in strategically advising clients on challenging, high-value deals enhances our capabilities and reputation of being at the forefront of sophisticated transactions," said Kimberly T. Smith, global chair of Katten's Corporate department.