Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced that Salil Gandhi has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. He will be a member of the firm’s emerging companies practice.
Vinson & Elkins has added George Howard as a partner in the firm’s nationally renowned Restructuring & Reorganization practice.
Howard, who joins V&E from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, represents companies, banks, secured lenders, distressed debt investors, asset purchasers and other significant constituencies in distressed situations, with an emphasis on out-of-court restructurings, chapter 11 reorganizations, secured financing transactions, distressed M&A and cross-border insolvency proceedings. He will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its Sovereign practice and its Energy and Infrastructure group with the arrival of Nicholas George as a partner in Paris.
Nicholas George has 25 years’ experience in international project development and finance, PPP and cross-border M&A transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has significant experience in emerging markets, with a particular focus on French and English-speaking Africa.
Global law firm Reed Smith announces the hire of Thierry Lautier as partner in its IP, Tech and Data Group practice in the firm’s Paris office.
He joins the firm from French law firm August Debouzy. His practice covers all issues relating to patents and trade secrets, with a primary focus on domestic and cross-border patent litigation.
Gowling WLG has welcomed new partner Nath Curtis to its banking and finance team in London.
With more than 14 years' post-qualification experience, Nath specialises in complex, multi-source debt and equity investments into a wide range of sectors, but particularly energy and infrastructure assets. He has acted for clients investing in major domestic and international renewable assets and advised on the financing for rail, waste, oil & gas and data centre projects.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced that Bill Isaacson and Karen Dunn are joining the firm as partners in the Litigation Department, resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Both are nationally recognized trial lawyers who have tried and won numerous high-stakes cases for some of the nation’s largest companies.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted to announce Richard Hughes, real estate finance specialist, has joined the firm in London. Richard joins us from Pinsent Mason’s real estate finance team (prior to which he was a Partner at Simmons & Simmons).
Multinational law firm, Pinsent Masons, has appointed Banking & Finance partner Matthew Escritt to lead the firm's Banking & Finance practice in the Middle East, based in Dubai.
Matthew joins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he has been for the past 19 years, with the past eight spent as partner in the banking and finance team. During this time he has worked in London, Moscow, Bahrain, Singapore and Dubai.
ADAM HASTINGS, THE FORMER UK HEAD OF CAPITAL MARKETS AT SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS, HAS JOINED ADDLESHAW GODDARD'S LEEDS-BASED CORPORATE PRACTICE, ADDING SPECIALIST LISTED COMPANY EXPERTISE TO ITS PRE-EMINENT REPUTATION IN M&A, PRIVATE EQUITY AND FINANCIAL SERVICES. HIS ARRIVAL BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CORPORATE PARTNERS IN LEEDS TO SIX, THE LARGEST OF ANY LAW FIRM IN THE LOCAL MARKET.
Effective June 1, Rahel Skau will join Heuking and assume the position of Head of Legal Tech and Digitalization. The newly created position takes account of the increasing digitalization of legal advisory services and is intended to further increase the law firm’s innovative strength and implementation speed at the interface of advisory offerings and business processes.