King & Spalding today announced that Zuzana Ikels has joined the firm as a partner on the Healthcare team in the San Francisco office.

Ikels’s practice focuses on fraud and abuse litigation and commercial disputes for healthcare entities and healthcare technology companies. She has particular expertise in handling cases brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and similar federal fraud and abuse statutes, as well as state law-based fraud and abuse statutes such as the California False Claims Act (CFCA) and the Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (IFPA).

Jason L. Behrens and David C. Miller bring extensive experience with private equity and real estate fund sponsors and a variety of institutional investors
The new hires further strengthen the firm’s New York investment funds capabilities
Linklaters is pleased to announce that Jason L. Behrens and David C. Miller have joined the firm’s New York office as partners in the Investment Funds group.

Davis Polk today announced that Robert Cohen will join the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in Washington DC.

Eileen Marshall has joined Cooley as partner and member of the tax practice group. She arrives from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and will divide her time between Cooley’s Washington, DC, and Palo Alto offices.

DLA Piper announced today that Stephen Ballas has joined the firm's Corporate practice as a partner in Los Angeles.

Our employment practice has welcomed a few changes – a new head of team as well as senior hires.  
Phil Pepper has become head of the employment team taking the baton from Mike Hibbs who has served as the team lead for six-years. Offering a wealth of knowledge from his 17 years’ experience advising a range of businesses, Phil has a reputation for providing clients with excellent and pragmatic advice.

We're pleased to announce the appointment of Alison Dennis to the partnership*. Alison will be the new International Co-Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare leading the team with Michael Stein, who is based in Germany.

Alison joins the firm from Fieldfisher where she has led the life sciences group and sat on their Executive Committee for a number of years.

A specialist in life sciences regulatory and transactional work, Alison acts for medical device, pharmaceutical and biotech companies helping them to expand in Europe and other jurisdictions around the world.

Hogan Lovells LLP is pleased to announce that Robert Underwood and Kristin Connarn will join the firm’s Boston office as partners in its Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology (IPMT) practice. They are joining from McDermott Will & Emery.

""We are delighted that Bob and Kristin are joining our team,"" said Celine Crowson, Hogan Lovells’ IPMT Practice Group Leader for the Americas.  ""We are strategically expanding our life sciences IPMT capabilities in the Americas to meet an increase in demand from our life sciences clients for core patent and IP capabilities.""

Global law firm Hogan Lovells announced today that Krista Schwartz and Patrick Michael have joined the San Francisco office as partners in the firm’s Intellectual Property, Media, and Technology (IPMT) practice. They both joined the firm from Jones Day.

""We are excited to have joined Hogan Lovells,"" said Schwartz and Michael. ""With the firm’s global presence and its commitment to the Northern California market, we have an incredible opportunity to build and support an elite IP practice and present our clients with additional on-the-ground services.""

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP continues its Texas growth with the addition of a four-lawyer intellectual property (IP) team to its Austin office. The three partners and one counsel join K&L Gates from Conley Rose, P.C., where one of the partners, Stewart Mesher, served as the chair of the firm’s highly ranked litigation practice group and the leader of its Austin office. Accompanying Mesher in the move are fellow partners Darlene Ghavimi and Henry Pogorzelski (who also practices from Houston) as well as counsel Adam Stegge.