Holland & Knight welcomes prominent environmental lawyer Jeff Porter as a partner in the firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group in Boston. Most recently, Mr. Porter was a partner at Mintz, where he served as chair of the firm's Environmental Law Practice.
Jon Welner joins Crowell & Moring’s Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Group as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. He brings more than 25 years of experience addressing environmental regulatory challenges and resolving land development disputes for businesses and local governments in California.
Yilin Xu has joined Cooley as a capital markets partner based in the firm’s Beijing office. Xu arrives from Skadden, where he was a partner in the corporate group.
Xu focuses on Hong Kong and US listings, public company compliance and governance work, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other corporate matters, concentrating in the technology, life sciences, consumer electronics, and food-and-beverage industries. Xu was listed as a Next Generation Partner for equity capital markets by The Legal 500 Greater China 2024.
DLA Piper is pleased to welcome John Frantz as a partner in the Telecom Practice. Based in New York, Frantz brings to the firm substantial litigation, regulatory and legal experience, coupled with industry business knowledge based on more than two decades of leadership roles at Verizon.
Partner Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska has joined Dentons’ Warsaw office with a team of four lawyers, who will form a dedicated Projects team to advise clients across all stages of infrastructure projects. The Firm has also recruited five lawyers specializing in infrastructure and energy finance, including counsel Aleksander Haleniuk.
International law firm BCLP announced that Philip Hecht will join the Abu Dhabi office as a partner in the Real Estate team.
Bracewell LLP announced that Bryan L. Clark has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in both the firm’s oil and gas and energy transition practice groups. Clark is returning to private practice after serving for over a decade as the primary midstream counsel at Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. He also served as lead counsel on energy transition matters, including wind and solar development, for the Fortune 200 company, which is now part of ExxonMobil Corporation.
Global law firm Squire Patton Boggs has hired Jonathan Brohard into its Real Estate Practice. He is rejoining the firm as a partner, having most recently served as Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel of Lat33 Capital, a specialty real estate finance company.
Leading international law firm Proskauer is pleased to welcome regulatory specialist Nathan (“Nate”) Schuur as a partner in its Private Funds Group. Nate joins from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) where he served as counsel to a Commissioner, providing legal and policy advice on rulemaking, enforcement, litigation and other matters, with a special focus on investment management issues. He also served in the rulemaking office of the Division of Investment Management.
Proskauer, a leading international law firm, is pleased to welcome Christine Harlow as a tax partner in its New York office, expanding the Firm’s dedicated private funds tax capability. Christine brings more than two decades of experience in advising private funds on tax law, including hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds and joint ventures, with a deep expertise in credit funds.