DLA Piper continues the expansion of its West Coast litigation practice with the addition of partners John “Jake” Loftus and Christine Ellice in Los Angeles.
Loftus and Ellice bring extensive experience to DLA Piper in financial services litigation matters involving equities, bonds, mutual funds and countless other investment products, as well as representing underwriters in securities class actions.
Linklaters is pleased to announce that Ron I. Erlichman has joined the firm as a partner and Head of Energy & Infrastructure in the Americas, based in New York.
Ron advises lenders, sponsors, private investment funds and developers on all phases of the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, including renewable energy and carbon neutrality projects. He also advises on matters related to the purchase and sale of these projects and interests therein, including tax equity investments in renewable projects.
Fragomen, the world’s leading provider of immigration services, is pleased to welcome Darren Gibson as partner. Gibson, a leader in workforce planning and global mobility, will work as part of a team to advance the firm’s growth through expansion efforts, and drive its focus on relevant broader global mobility initiatives. Fragomen recently announced new co-chairs-elect and is strategically poised for even greater growth through geographic expansion, continued significant investment in technology and talent acquisition across broad segments in a fast-evolving industry.
S. Andrew Pharies and Ellen H. Whelan have joined as partners and Michelle C. Glasser, Gretchen Tomanek Shaffer, Erin E. Norberg and Liliana Menzie as special counsel in Duane Morris LLP’s Private Client Services Practice Group in its San Diego office. The attorneys join Duane Morris from DLA Piper.
Ben Higson joins the firm as a corporate partner and new head of the Corporate practice for the London office
Vinson & Elkins announced that Ben Higson has joined the firm as a partner in London, where he will add valuable leadership and experience to the firm’s Corporate practice.
In addition, Higson will take on the role of head of the Corporate practice for the London office. He joins Vinson & Elkins from Hogan Lovells.
Cementing its leadership position in securities enforcement defense, global litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced that C. Dabney O’Riordan has joined the firm as a partner, resident in the Firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. O’Riordan joins Quinn Emanuel from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she led the Division of Enforcement’s Asset Management Unit (AMU) for over six years.
Benjamin Cooper, an experienced project finance attorney who recently served as an associate general counsel at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has returned to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner* in the firm’s energy and infrastructure practice.
Sidley is pleased to welcome Michiel Visser as a partner in the M&A and Private Equity practice in New York. He joins after almost two decades at White & Case where he worked in that firm’s New York, Doha, Dubai, and Paris offices as a member of their Global Mergers & Acquisition and Private Equity practice groups.
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced that Peter Cheng has joined the firm’s securities and capital markets practice as a partner in Hong Kong.
Cheng practices primarily in the area of equity capital markets offerings with a focus on Hong Kong IPOs, and has led on matters relating to Hong Kong Listing Rules compliance, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. He has extensive experience in the technology, media and telecom sector.
Stacy Kray joins the firm as a partner in San Francisco.
Stacy brings extensive environmental law experience in M&A, project development and finance, and a wide range of other corporate finance transactions, at a moment when government incentives on green energy, climate change and ESG are changing the regulatory landscape.
She joins Orrick from Skadden.