Allen & Overy is expanding its global Corporate practice with the appointment of Tess Fang, a partner in the Hong Kong office. A native Mandarin speaker who is New York, Hong Kong and PRC-qualified, Tess’s practice will focus on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions in China and globally.
ADDLESHAW GODDARD HAS HIRED TECHNOLOGY EXPERT DR NATHALIE MORENO FROM LEWIS SILKIN INTO ITS MARKET-LEADING DATA AND INFORMATION PRACTICE BASED IN LONDON, ADDING NEW INTERNATIONAL CAPABILITIES.
Nathalie is an experienced commercial lawyer, who advises technology-enabled businesses, from multinational clients to start-ups, on IT transactions, commercial agreements and privacy both in Europe and globally.
Leading trial lawyer Michael Murphy joined as a partner in Winston & Strawn’s Houston office on Tuesday, following the additions of Michael Blankenship and Eric Johnson to the office as partners in January. Michael spoke with Texas Lawyer to discuss why he chose to move his practice to Winston and what he’s looking forward to as he joins a new team.
Brown Rudnick LLP added Oksana Lashko as a partner in the New York office. She joins as a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. Lashko was formerly an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
With nearly 12 years of experience practicing bankruptcy law at international law firms, Lashko represents debtors, secured lenders, ad hoc creditor committees, and other significant parties in major U.S. and international bankruptcies.
International law firm Brown Rudnick LLP has continued to add to its international restructuring and finance practice with the appointments of Richard Obank and Colin Ashford as partners in London. They both join the firm’s European restructuring team from DLA Piper.
The appointments follow the hires of partners Charlotte Møller and Monika Lorenzo-Perez to the restructuring practice in London earlier this month, as well as the significant expansion of its Paris based restructuring team last year.
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced that Steven Marenberg, a top media and entertainment litigator, has joined the firm as partner and Chair of its Entertainment and Media Litigation Group. He will be joined by Josh Gordon, who joins as of counsel. Marenberg and Gordon will be based in the firm’s Century City office.
Gareth Rees QC and Hayley Ichilcik join firm’s highly respected global Investigations + White Collar Defense practice, highlighting continued growth of London office
Cooley is growing its market-leading intellectual property litigation practice group with the addition of partners Sanya Sukduang and Jonathan Davies, who will be based in Washington, DC. Arriving from Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Sukduang’s and Davies’ practices focus on life sciences with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals litigation, including Hatch‐Waxman Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) litigation.
Bruce Hoffman, until recently the Director of the Bureau of Competition at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, has joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, focusing on global antitrust and litigation.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology and energy law firm, announced today the arrival of Nicole Perez as a partner in the Corporate Department in New York, to bolster the firm’s service to clients in the telecommunications, media & technology (TMT) sector. Ms. Perez is the fourth lateral partner to join Baker Botts’ New York office since early August.