Simmons & Simmons has announced that Marc Fèvre is to join its London office on 12 April as a partner in the firm’s energy, natural resources & infrastructure group.

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Jonathan A. Sambur has joined the Tax Practice Group as a partner, expanding the firm’s tax practice with a focus on advising global financial institutions. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Sambur served as a partner in Mayer Brown’s tax transaction practice.

Cooley continues to strengthen its public companies practice and New York presence with the addition of partners Rupa Briggs and Nicolas Dumont to the firm’s business department. Briggs and Dumont are the latest in a string of prominent hires driven by client demand, adding significant depth to the firm’s comprehensive and diverse capabilities to support the day-to-day needs of its maturing public companies client base.

Sonia Wadhwa Nath has joined Cooley as a partner in the firm’s business litigation and healthcare regulatory practice groups, further strengthening its life sciences counseling capabilities and regulatory presence. Based in Washington, DC, Nath arrives from the US Food and Drug Administration, where she served most recently as senior counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel, handling enforcement efforts across the range of products regulated by the agency.

Akin Gump announced the addition of a pair of top energy transactional lawyers, with Wesley P. Williams and Jessica Hammons joining the firm as partners in its Dallas and Fort Worth offices. Ms. Hammons and Mr. Williams come to Akin Gump from Thompson & Knight, where Mr. Williams served as firmwide leader of the corporate and securities practice.

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Donald Walker as a partner in the health care practice. He joins the firm’s Houston office after serving as director and senior legal counsel at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH).

Leading technology and fintech lawyer, Prakash Kerai (PK) has joined Shoosmiths’ London office as a commercial partner.

Over the last fifteen years, Prakash has advised on technology and fintech arrangements at a top 30 UK law firm, becoming its head of fintech.

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces that Luis F. Torres joins its highly regarded Energy practice as a partner. Resident in the Washington, DC, office, Torres focuses on project finance and structured finance transactions.

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Jeffrey W. Guise has joined the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group as a partner, resident in the San Diego office, further strengthening the firm’s IP Biotechnology and Life Sciences team in both the patent prosecution and patent litigation areas.

Dr. Guise brings nearly 30 years of extensive experience to the firm, and while resident on the West Coast, serves a client base that is multinational, including clients based in Europe and throughout the US. Previously, Dr. Guise practiced for 17 years at Wilson Sonsini.

Leading global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Huneiza Goolam to join its market leading global corporate practice as a partner in Johannesburg.

Huneiza specialises in both M&A and equity capital markets (ECM), with sector expertise in financial services, mining and telecommunications. Her experience is pan-African as well as domestic. She has spent the majority of her career at Werksmans Attorneys, following which she joined Webber Wentzel as a partner in 2015. Huneiza was in a number of in-house and consulting roles prior to joining the firm.