Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Joseph Alexander has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices. Alexander represents financial and strategic investors, including private equity firms and public corporations, in connection with mergers and acquisitions and related financing matters. His deep experience spans numerous industries, including energy and infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer products, and technology, among others.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced that Apple Inc.’s Chief Privacy Officer, Jane Horvath, has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner.  Horvath will become Co-Chair of the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group alongside Ahmed Baladi in Paris, Ashlie Beringer in Palo Alto and Alexander Southwell in New York.

Cadwalader announced that Andrew Carlon has joined the firm’s Tax Group as a partner in New York.

Carlon’s practice focuses on assisting clients with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. He regularly advises on private company acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, taxable and tax-free public company transactions, cross-border restructurings, and spin-offs, including pro rata spin-offs, split-offs, Morris Trust spin-merge transactions and IPO-spin combinations.

Global law firm Baker McKenzie announced that leading US Food and Drug Administration regulatory lawyer Xin Tao has joined the Firm as a partner in Washington, DC. For more than a decade, Xin has advised companies on how to navigate evolving regulatory environments with innovative legal strategies that support their commercialization of consumer products made with emerging technologies.

Jon Ornolfsson has joined Baker McKenzie's Finance & Projects Practice Group as a Partner based in Tokyo. Jon brings a wealth of experience advising market-leading multinational and Asia-based clients on energy and infrastructure projects around the world and will have a pan-Asian practice, working across the region for the Firm's clients.

We are pleased to welcome Anne Buan, Alf Amund Gulsvik and Henrik Nordling as new partners in CMS Kluge.

Anne comes from the position of associate partner in Simonsen Vogt Wiig and has extensive experience in major IT and technology projects and public procurement. In CMS Kluge, she will be part of our team within TMC (technology, media and communication). Anne will strengthen our investment in technology law and technology procurement.

European law firm Fieldfisher has announced the appointment of international arbitration specialist Ania Farren as a partner in its Dispute Resolution practice in London.

Gowling WLG has welcomed a new partner, Jason Freedman, to its commercial litigation team in London.

Jason specialises in insolvency litigation, with a particular focus on complex multi-jurisdictional fraud and asset recovery investigations. He also advises on litigation funding arrangements.

Over the last 15 years Jason has advised on several high profile fraud matters, working for English and foreign office-holders, as well as boards, individual directors and stakeholders at all levels. Prior to joining the firm Jason was a partner at Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Stephen D. Gillespie, an accomplished corporate attorney with a focus on technology licensing and collaboration transactions, has joined the firm as a partner in our San Francisco office.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is significantly expanding in the Middle East, with the opening of an Abu Dhabi office in the Abu Dhabi Global Market and the hire of a seven-lawyer team in the United Arab Emirates.