Paul Hastings LLP announced that preeminent finance lawyer Morgan Bale has joined the firm’s premier global finance practice as a partner in New York.

Mayer Brown announced that Jared Wilner has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities practice and Global Insurance Industry Group in New York. He joins from Locke Lord LLP.

Gowling WLG is pleased to welcome Andrew Lamb to its Energy Group as a partner in the firm’s Calgary office. 

Andrew has an extensive background in energy law, with an emphasis on complex corporate and commercial transactions. His practice encompasses acquisitions and divestitures, as well as secured lending, commodity and financial transactions. He also has significant experience advising clients on joint venture, shareholder and partnership agreements; tax reorganizations; incorporations and goods and services agreements.

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced the appointment of partner Guillaume Panuel and a team of associates including Houda Bourrich, Agathe Marcelin and Bréa Kamtcheu, into its Private Equity practice in France.

The team adds deep fund structuring experience to the Firm’s Paris office and will develop secondary transactions capabilities in collaboration with McDermott’s existing Private Equity team comprising 10 partners and nearly 50 lawyers in Paris.

Leading national law firm Mills & Reeve has appointed Kate Newman as a partner to spearhead the launch of its competition law team.

Kate joins Mills & Reeve after 14 years at Eversheds Sutherland where she has led the competition, EU and trade practice in the regions across the UK since 2016. Kate will be based in the Leeds office and will develop the firm’s competition law offering to help corporate clients pursue their growth strategies.

Jerrob Duffy has joined the Government Investigations & White Collar (GIWC) practice at global law firm Squire Patton Boggs as partner following a 20 year career at the Department of Justice, where he most recently served as Chief of the Litigation Unit in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.

DLA Piper is expanding its international offering and strengthening its international Austrian Litigation & Regulatory practice with the appointment of Ricardo Gardini de Andrade. He joins the Vienna office as a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a core member of the firm’s Brazil Group for 13 years.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the strategic expansion of its Mexico office, with the addition of a tax team.

Eduardo Medina Zapata, a leading tax lawyer with more than 25 years of experience, joins as a shareholder from the Jáuregui y Del Valle law firm. Erika Baez Elizondo, an accountant and financial specialist who previously worked at Chevez, Ruiz, Zamarripa y Cía, S.C. for more than 15 years as a tax consultant, is joining as a local partner in the Mexico City office and will work as a senior tax advisor.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP announced the addition of financial regulatory partner Alix Prentice in the firm’s London office.

Prentice was previously with Cadwalader as a special counsel from 2008 to 2012, and she now re-joins from King & Wood Mallesons, where she was the firm’s Head of EUME Regulatory Practice.   

WilmerHale is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Burger as a partner in the firm’s UK white collar defence and investigations practice, effective January 2023.

Burger joins from another international law firm where he was co-head of the Corporate Investigations practice. At WilmerHale, he will advise both corporates and senior executives in their defence of regulatory investigations/prosecutions, as well as on governance, close supervisory enquiries, and non-financial misconduct across multiple jurisdictions.