Knights has strengthened its Intellectual Property team with the appointment of Sarah Simpson as a Partner in Manchester.

Sarah joins Knights having gained significant experience as an Intellectual Property law expert in the City and will lead on non-contentious IP matters for the business’ growing commercial team.

Having previously led an Intellectual Property and Data Privacy team, Sarah will deliver premium legal advice to Knights’ clients nationwide on all things brand protection, copyright and design rights.

DLA Piper is pleased to welcome Frances Mosley as a partner in the Corporate Practice. She will be based in the Palo Alto office.

Mosley’s practice focuses on a wide range of transactional and corporate matters, with an emphasis on life sciences and healthcare. She advises startups and venture investors on corporate issues, board governance, operations, securities law compliance, venture capital and debt financings, and mergers and acquisitions. Her clients span various industries, including technology, software, life sciences, healthcare, and logistics.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced the addition of two prominent partners in Boston: Zachary Hafer has joined the Government and Internal Investigations Practice and Yonatan (“Yoni”) Levy has joined the Private Funds Practice.

Orrick has added a trio of partners to the firm’s Chambers Band 1 Energy platform: Matthew “Matt” Nesburn, Jeff Quinn-Cane and Charles “Chase” Armbrust.

Matt, who joins in Santa Monica, advises global energy companies, sponsors, independent power producers and funds on tax equity and other credit monetization transactions. He also brings deep experience in debt finance and energy M&A transactions.

Morgan Lewis is pleased to welcome partners Heather Egan and Hannah Levin in an expansion of the firm’s cybersecurity, incident response, privacy, and information management practice. Arriving from Orrick, Heather previously served as global head of the Strategic Advisory & Government Enforcement Business Unit and former chair of the unit’s Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Group.

King & Spalding announced that Paul Watford, who served for 11 years as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as a partner. He is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Holland & Knight welcomes Mike Wakefield as a partner and Joseph Sopcisak as a senior policy advisor in Washington, D.C. They are members of the firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group, as well as the National Security & Defense Industry Group, which debuted in January. Most recently, Mr. Wakefield was senior counsel and a professional staff member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and Mr. Sopcisak was a technical director at the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to expand its Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice with the addition of Kathryne (Kate) C. Dickerson as a shareholder in the Washington, D.C. office. Dickerson joins from Wiley Rein.

Aalok Virmani has joined Cooley’s Chicago office as a tax partner in the firm’s fund formation practice group.

Cleary announced that David Herman joined the firm as a partner in the U.S. Real Estate Group, advising on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions across the full spectrum of asset classes.