Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, announced that Steven Tran has joined the firm as a partner in its Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups in Singapore. His arrival further strengthens and deepens the firm’s Asia and global private equity offerings. Morrison Foerster is ranked in Band 1 for Private Equity in the latest edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific. Tran’s addition also highlights the continued expansion of Morrison Foerster’s global private equity capabilities in recent years.

Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, added Michael Guasco as a shareholder and Jennifer Wai-Shing Maguire as of counsel in its San Francisco office. Guasco, who joined from Buty & Curliano LLP, marked Littler’s eighteenth shareholder-level addition in the second half of 2022. Maguire joined the firm from Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani LLP.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Intellectual Property Practice with the addition of first-chair litigator Anna Naydonov as a partner in Washington, DC.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice with the addition of Ian Ivory as a partner in London.

International law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has hired Benjamin Pique as a Tax partner in Paris to work alongside Edouard de Lamy. He will be joining the Firm at the end of this month.

After having graduated from SKEMA Business School and from Lille Catholic University, Benjamin started his career at EY in Paris and in New York, and was promoted to partner in 2018. Benjamin has solid expertise in structuring Private Equity and M&A transactions and will enhance Weil’s premier transactional tax practice.

The former Federal Minister of Justice and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs will become a partner of the corporate law firm GSK Stockmann at the beginning of 2023 and will be based in Berlin.

Dr Christoph Willi will join our firm as a new partner, and will further develop our expertise in Life Sciences & Healthcare.

He is engaged in advising companies that provide medical services or manufacture and distribute pharmaceutical products and medical devices in Switzerland. Due to his more than 20 years of experience in advising medical service providers, Christoph is expert in the specifics of the highly regulated Swiss healthcare system. Additionally, Christoph is an elected part-time judge at the Swiss Federal Patent Court.

National law firm TLT has appointed public law and regulatory specialist, Nicola Mead-Batten, as partner, joining the UK-wide regulatory team as part its strategic plans to expand this practice area.

TLT has appointed a new partner to its banking and finance team in London, further cementing the firm’s position as a leader in banking and financial services.

Mark Thomas who joins from Squire Patton Boggs, where he headed up the structured finance practice, brings significant expertise in structured finance, real estate finance, securitisation, specialist lending and supply chain finance. Mark has been a partner for over 17 years, having previously led the structured finance practice at Addleshaw Goddard.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Martha (Marty) Groves Pugh as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. She joins the firm’s Tax and Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources practices, which also added a leading, multi-office renewable energy team earlier this year. Pugh joins K&L Gates from McDermott Will & Emery LLP.