Latham & Watkins is pleased to announce that Pedro de Rojas will join the Madrid office as a partner in the Finance Department and the Restructuring & Special Situations Practice. Highly regarded in his field, de Rojas focuses on advising financial institutions, sponsors, and companies on a broad range of leveraged finance matters, including corporate refinancings, restructurings, and private equity investments.
Veteran intellectual property litigation attorney Steve Levitan has joined Womble Bond Dickinson as a Partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office.
DLA Piper announced that Austin Brown has joined the firm’s Litigation and Regulatory practice as a partner based in Washington, DC.
Linklaters has announced the hire of Florent Mazeron, a leading Private Equity expert, as Partner. He will also be one of leaders of Linklaters’ global Financial Sponsors group. Florent will be joining the firm in Paris from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he has been a Partner since 2016. Prior to that, he spent almost ten years working at the French boutique firm Bredin Prat.
Global law firm Ropes & Gray announced that private equity fund formation lawyer Bryan Hunkele has joined the firm’s asset management practice as a partner in New York.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Denver office with the addition of Carl F. Berglind as a shareholder in the Corporate; Health Care & FDA; and Food, Beverage & Agribusiness Practices. Berglind is a seasoned corporate attorney with 20 years of experience spanning national law firms, senior in-house practice, and executive business positions. He formerly served as the CEO of Livestock Labs, an agriculture technology company with applications for the animal health sector.
White & Case is making a major expansion of its London-based European infrastructure practice with the recruitment of a rival team from fellow US law rm Shearman & Sterling.
Tim Sheddick and Katie Hicks (pictured) have joined White & Case as partners and will work alongside Caroline Sherrell, Sandra Rafferty and Simon Caridia, the law rm announced on Tuesday (13 April).
Their move comes after they both joined Shearman & Sterling from Baker McKenzie at the same time just over two years ago, to lead a push into European infrastructure.
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced that Hillel Jacobson has joined the Firm as a partner in the global Tax practice. Hillel is based in Weil’s New York office.
“Hillel brings a deep understanding of complex federal income tax matters that will benefit many of our sophisticated clients, particularly within the private equity sector,” said Weil Executive Partner Barry Wolf. “He shares our values of collaboration and excellent service, and we are very happy to welcome him to the Firm.”
McDermott Will & Emery announced the addition of Simon Airey to its growing Dispute Resolution practice in London. Simon’s appointment further enhances the Firm’s litigation and investigations proposition in the UK and globally.
Mishcon de Reya has announced that Ashley Winton and Helen Conlan will be joining the Firm as Partners in the newly formed Innovation department.
The new Innovation department brings together some of Mishcon de Reya's fastest growing and most innovative practices for the first time. The new team features 20 Partners and Legal Directors and 27 Managing Associates and Associates.