Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP today announced that it will be opening a new office in Silicon Valley with seven founding partners. Leading corporate lawyers Sarah Solum, John Fisher and Maj Vaseghi, together with litigators Boris Feldman and Doru Gavril, will join as new partners. They will launch the office with U.S. capital markets partner Pamela Marcogliese and antitrust partner Alan Ryan, who will return to the U.S. from his current base in Brussels.

Chicago Partner-in-Charge Marc Benjamin is quoted in this article by the Daily Report on the lateral trio recently joining the firm's Real Estate Practice Group in Chicago.

The new hires grows Eversheds Sutherland's Chicago real estate team to six attorneys, making up half of the office’s 12 attorneys. While the real estate industry has slowed globally because of pandemic-related shutdowns, Marc said adding the three real estate lawyers was a good opportunity.

DWF, the global legal business, has boosted its real estate offering in Poland with the appointment of partner, Joanna Wojnarowska, and senior associates, Weronika Roesler and Ewa Lewandowska.

BLAKE MORGAN HAS ANNOUNCED THAT DOV KATZ HAS JOINED THE FIRM AS A PARTNER IN ITS LONDON CORPORATE TEAM. DOV JOINS FROM GREENWOODS GRM AND WAS PREVIOUSLY A PARTNER AT TEACHER STERN AND HOWARD KENNEDY.

Skadden is pleased to announce that Deputy United States Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish will rejoin the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its CFIUS and National Security Group, effective August 2020. Ambassador Gerrish will focus on helping clients navigate challenges and barriers in international trade and investment, including trade agreement and supply chain issues, market access issues and trade barriers, reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), export controls matters and trade litigation.

Linklaters has announced that David Irvine will join its Banking practice in London as a partner later this year. David will be returning to Linklaters after spending five years as partner in the debt team at Kirkland & Ellis’ Hong Kong office.

Gideon Moore, Firmwide Managing Partner at Linklaters comments:

Hogan Lovells is strengthening its Corporate & Finance practice in Greater China with the hire of three Corporate partners, Don Williams, Tony Mou and Cheng Xu.

 Michael Malfettone has joined Locke Lord’s Austin office as Partner in the Firm’s Energy Practice Group. Malfettone will also build upon the Firm’s Renewable Energy Section, bringing experience in a wide range of corporate and financing transactions. Malfettone will relocate to the Firm’s New York office in coming months.

Former CFPB policy and enforcement official joins the firm’s Global Litigation Group as partner.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP announced that former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) official Rachel Rodman has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, DC, strengthening the firm’s ability to counsel clients in connection with consumer-focused litigation, compliance and investigation matters.