On 15th September 2020, Haanee Khan joined CMS Daly Inamdar as a partner in the firm's Corporate / Commercial Department. Haanee joined the firm from IKM Advocates which is part of DLA Piper Africa.
Mayer Brown announced that international arbitration lawyer Luiz Aboim has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in London, strengthening the firm’s Latin American and Lusophone Africa international arbitration capabilities. Luiz joins Mayer Brown from White & Case.
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces the growth of its Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation group with the addition of Rhonda Johnson as partner.
Rhonda provides trusts, estate planning and estate administration solutions advising individuals, trustees, business founders, including assisting clients with assets in BC and Alberta. Her practice includes drafting inter vivos and testamentary trusts, First Nations Trusts, multiple wills planning, incapacity planning, charitable giving, wealth transfer strategies and multi-generational planning.
PITTSBURGH - Reed Smith announced the addition of Ryan T. Purpura, chair of McGuireWoods’ energy practice, as a partner in the firm’s global Energy and Natural Resources Industry Group.
Orrick announced that Tech Transactions advisor Sarah Schaedler has joined the firm as a partner in San Francisco. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis.
Addition of industry-recognized bankruptcy litigator further strengthens the firm’s preeminent Business Restructuring + Insolvency practice and broader litigation capabilities; arrival also underscores the continued expansion of the firm’s New York office
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Bonita K. Black as a partner in its corporate practice. Black joins K&L Gates’ Charlotte office from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, and also will continue to serve her clients throughout Kentucky.
Matthew Z. Leopold, former general counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s nationally recognized environmental practice as a partner.
Based in Washington, D.C., Leopold will focus his practice on assisting clients with high stakes environmental litigation, emerging environmental policy and regulations, navigating federal and state permitting, and chemical licensing.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, has added Chia-Feng Lu as a shareholder in its Health Care & FDA Practice and Life Sciences & Medical Technology Group. He will spend most of his time in Washington, D.C. and the Tokyo/Osaka area, but will also regularly visit the other parts of the U.S., such as Boston; as well as European countries.
Global law firm Goodwin announced the addition of Adam Bellack as partner in the firm’s Life Sciences practice, resident in the Washington, D.C., office.