Veteran data privacy lawyer Dominique Shelton Leipzig has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice in Los Angeles, continuing Mayer Brown’s strategic expansion efforts on the West Coast. Ms. Shelton Leipzig will serve as the lead for Global Data Innovation as well as Ad Tech Privacy & Data Management. She is one of the country’s top privacy and data lawyers; and her considerable experience helps clients navigate the evolving legal compliance issues related to privacy and data security for their digital data initiatives.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Douglas S. Horowitz will join the firm’s New York office as a partner.  Horowitz, formerly a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, will lead Gibson Dunn’s leveraged and acquisition finance efforts.

Dechert announced  that Nicole Macarchuk will join the firm’s corporate and securities group in San Francisco; she will serve as a key addition to the firm’s private equity M&A and private credit teams. Ms. Macarchuk will be the sixth partner to join Dechert’s San Francisco office in the past year as part of the firm’s strategic plan to bolster its interdisciplinary corporate, litigation, and financial services capabilities in California.

Experienced financial services and capital markets attorneys Laura E. Hoag and Joseph J. Ricotta have joined the firm’s Washington office as partner and of counsel, respectively. Laura focuses her practice on domestic and international financings, debt restructurings, and commercial business transactions; Joe focuses his practice on transactional law and debt finance.

Charles Russell Speechlys has appointed tax and trusts specialist Tom Henderson as Head of Trusts, responsible for the Firm’s significant trust administration business.

Tom is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser with over 25 years’ experience advising private clients and trustees. He joins Charles Russell Speechlys from Rawlinson & Hunter where he established the firm’s Zurich office and started its Swiss Trust Company. 

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP strengthened its investment funds capabilities with the appointment of Julien Vandenbussche as partner in its Paris office.

Irwin Mitchell has announced the appointment of two new partners to its London Family Law Team. Claire Filer and Fran Hipperson both join from BP Collins LLP where they were family law partners, bringing with them a wealth of experience in a range of specialist family matters. These appointments will take Irwin Mitchell’s Family Law practice to 12 partners and over 50 fee earning lawyers – remaining the largest family law team in the country*.

International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) announced that Anne Friedman has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Santa Monica office. Anne is well known for her work in outsourcing, technology, commercial deals and contracts. She joins from DLA Piper.

Simmons & Simmons has announced the arrival of IT specialist Éric Le Quellenec to the firm’s corporate & commercial practice in Paris, headed by Christian Taylor.

DLA Piper is continuing to grow its Regulatory & Government Affairs practice with the arrival of James Sullivan as partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Sullivan will be part of the Data Protection, Privacy & Security subgroup of the firm’s Regulatory & Government Affairs practice.

Sullivan has extensive experience in both the government and private sector. His practice focuses on ensuring the cross-border flows of data, finance, services, goods, and people, running the full gamut of industries and sectors.