Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced the expansion of its San Francisco Bay Area presence with the addition of tax partner Maureen Linch and intellectual property, technology transactions and privacy partner Marcela Robledo, as well as the official opening of its San Francisco office.

After entering the Bay Area with a senior team of antitrust, litigation and M&A partners in November, this new growth in key transactional areas quickly establishes California as a cornerstone for the firm’s U.S. and global offering.

Maureen Linch

Global law firm Baker McKenzie has added Lane Morgan to its Tax Practice as a Partner in the Firm's Dallas office, further expanding Baker McKenzie's market-leading tax M&A capabilities.

Lane's practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, tax-free spin-offs, restructurings, public offerings and other financings.

National law firm Weightmans has appointed seven new members to its healthcare team as it continues to strengthen its UK-wide healthcare offering.

Partners Angela Kirtley and Robert Rushton, principal associates Andreja Harrison and Katherine Lund, associates Jennifer Preston and Suniel Sandhu and legal secretary Katie Spence all join from Ward Hadaway.

Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce that asset finance expert Simon Collins has joined the firm in Hong Kong as Partner as of 1 May 2022. He was previously a Partner at White & Case in the same city.

Erik Goldsilver, a lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience helping mining companies through the full lifecycle of their projects, has joined Gowling WLG’s international Mining Group.

Based in the firm’s Toronto office, Erik has an extensive background in matters involving mining and natural resources, both domestically and internationally. His practice focuses principally on mining law, including in-depth experience with streaming transactions and royalty agreements.

The Dentons law firm announces the entry of the lawyer Enrico Troianiello , as a partner in the Italian department of Corporate M&A, which thus has 31 professionals.

With the new partner, the associate Giacomo Pino also joins Dentons. Both will be based in the Milan office.

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces that Glynis A. Ritchie has joined the Firm’s Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice as a Shareholder in the Pittsburgh office of Dentons Cohen & Grigsby P.C. 

ADDLESHAW GODDARD'S PARIS OFFICE HAS LAUNCHED A NEW PRACTICE DEDICATED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND NEW TECHNOLOGY WITH THE ARRIVAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, TECHNOLOGY AND PERSONAL DATA EXPERT ELISABETH MARRACHE.

Elisabeth, who joins as a partner, regularly advises international companies and start-ups in the health, telecoms, publishing, financial institutions and e-commerce sectors. She and her team regularly also work on complex digital law transactions including IT contracts, outsourcing transactions, and internet law. 

Mayer Brown announced that it added market-leading leveraged and syndicated finance lawyer Andrew Vouziers to its Banking & Finance practice as a partner in Chicago, where he will co-lead the firm’s Americas Lending group. Mr. Vouziers is the latest in a series of high-profile partners to join this practice in recent years. He joins from Sidley Austin LLP.

Highly-respected real estate lawyer Simon Jackson has expressed his excitement at returning to the Yorkshire market after national firm Bevan Brittan confirmed he had joined its expanding Leeds team.

The Leeds-born development and investment specialist has moved to Bevan Brittan as a Partner, joining from listed law firm Knights shortly after its takeover of Shulmans, where Simon had worked for more than 30 years and been a member of its management board.