Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced that Jindrich Kloub has joined the firm’s antitrust and competition department as a partner in the Brussels office. Kloub’s more than 10 years of service at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and his most recent Hong Kong Competition Commission (HKCC) role illustrate the range of his enforcement agency experience and connections.

Winston & Strawn LLP announced the addition of Partner Bobby Malhotra in the Los Angeles office. Bobby joins the Litigation Department; he brings a particular emphasis on eDiscovery, information governance, analytics, and artificial intelligence.

The global law firm Jones Day announced that W. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker have joined the Firm as partners in the Minneapolis Office. Mr. Folk joins Jones Day’s Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice, and Ms. Parker joins the Firm’s Labor & Employment Practice.

Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced that Jackie Cohen has joined the firm’s 500-lawyer New York office as a partner in the firm’s mergers & acquisitions practice.

O’Melveny announced that leading bank regulatory lawyer Jarryd Anderson has joined the firm as a partner based in Washington, DC. He will advise financial institutions, banks, fintech companies, and their investors on transactional, regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement matters.

King & Spalding has hired private funds partner Stephen Sims to the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in London.

Sims, who joins the Private Funds and Alternative Capital Team, has more than 20 years of experience advising in the funds sector. He has a broad fund formation practice covering private equity, real assets, infrastructure and energy funds as well as capital raising, fund-related M&A at manager/group level and ongoing ‘house’ work and secondary transactions in fund interests.

Anna Aryankalayil will join the firm Nov. 14 as a partner in our Antitrust and Competition practice

Until recently, Anna served as attorney adviser to former Commissioner Noah Phillips of the Federal Trade Commission. She focuses on antitrust regulation for the tech, life sciences, and energy sectors, including M&A clearance and litigation, government conduct investigations and compliance

She is Orrick’s 14th hire in DC since the beginning of 2021, including the addition this year of antitrust partners Eileen Cole and Craig Falls 

Jones Day has announced that Gary Kaplan has joined the Firm as a partner in the Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice in New York.

International law firm Bird & Bird welcomes back Wilfred Ng as a partner in the Tech & Comms team, based in Hong Kong. He started at the firm on the 1st of November.

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has hired energy and infrastructure partner Jannie de Villiers in its Johannesburg office.

Jannie specialises in advising public and private energy and infrastructure clients on corporate transactional work. This includes complex M&A, joint ventures, corporate and commercial property law, and black economic empowerment transactions.

Jannie regularly advises investors, funders, and developers across Sub-Saharan Africa.