Orrick announced that private equity M&A partner Justin Yi has joined the firm’s rapidly growing Santa Monica office.

Justin focuses on leveraged buyouts, reorganizations and minority investments for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as general corporate and securities law matters. He has acted for PE funds such as Diversis Capital, Clearlake Capital Group, Siris Capital, Z Capital Partners and Cerberus Capital Management, as well as Vivendi S.A. and its affiliated companies, Burford, Pinnacle Foods, See Tickets and Open Road Films.

The Minneapolis office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues its strategic expansion with the addition of Alexander J. Kim as a shareholder in the firm’s Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. He joins Greenberg Traurig from Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C. where he was a partner.

Baker McKenzie continues to grow in Sydney with the appointment of 2 new partners. Lynsey Edgar commences as a partner in the Competition law practice from Dentons and Alastair Gourlay joins the Firm from Clifford Chance as a partner in the Firm's Banking and Finance group. The Firm has seen a spate of new partner appointments this calendar year (2019), including today's announcement raising the total to 12 new partners.

DLA Piper announces the appointment of eight new lawyers in its Warsaw office into three key practice areas of Corporate, Finance & Projects (F&P) and Litigation & Regulatory. These hires follow the recent appointment of corporate partners Marek Sawicki and Jakub Marcinkowski from CMS.

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, has strengthened its Bratislava office with the recruitment of Juraj Gyarfáš as a partner. He will add to the Firm’s capabilities in Corporate and M&A, Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Competition and Antitrust.

International law firm Bird & Bird appoints tax expert Benjamin Lichtle to lead the firm's tax practice in France.

Marques Peterson, a well-regarded government contracts lawyer with a focus on international government contracts and the defense sector, has joined Pillsbury as a partner in the firm’s award-winning Government Contracts & Disputes practice. He joins from Vedder Price P.C., where he was a shareholder, and will reside in the firm’s Washington, DC office.

King & Spalding announced that former senior Justice Department official Alicia O’Brien has joined as a partner in the firm’s Government Matters practice group in the Washington, D.C., office.

O’Brien brings extensive experience advising Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and CEOs on government investigations and oversight, as well as internal investigations and public policy crisis management challenges. She was previously a partner in the Washington office of Venable.

Deepening its local reach, global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added noted Philadelphia lawyer, A. Michael Pratt, to its Philadelphia office as a shareholder. His complex commercial and financial services litigation practice further augments the 50-attorney office.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Christian Riis-Madsen will join the firm’s Brussels office as a partner in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group.  Riis-Madsen joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers.