Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its Immigration & Compliance Practice with the addition of Jay Ruby as a shareholder in the Atlanta office. Ruby joins the firm from Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP.

Ruby focuses his practice on representing U.S. and international business clients across a broad spectrum of immigration matters relating to temporary and permanent work visa solutions, immigration-related corporate compliance, and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.

Global law firm Goodwin announced today that Lauren King has joined its Private Investment Funds practice as a partner in the New York office.

Global law firm Goodwin announced today that Ali Ramadan joined its Technology practice as a partner in the London office.

Commercial Contracts and Franchise heavyweight Iain Bowler has joined national law firm, Freeths, in their London office, from DLA Piper.

Dentons is pleased to announce that Sean Fairhurst has joined the Firm as a partner in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution group.

Based in Calgary, Sean’s practice will focus on commercial and employment litigation for a wide range of clients, from family-held businesses, to large multi-national corporations and municipalities.

Baker McKenzie, the leading global law firm, has announced that Raymond Lou has joined the Firm as a partner, working from the Sydney Office.

Raymond Lou is an M&A specialist with an industry focus on the infrastructure, energy and resources sectors. Raymond is also a native Mandarin speaker with a wealth of China and cross border-related experience.

Raymond joins Baker McKenzie from Norton Rose Fulbright in Sydney where he led the China M&A team and has worked on some of the largest cross-border transactions in Australia.

Mike Clifford is the fifth Partner in three months to join the firm’s Birmingham office as Midlands offering continues to grow.

National law firm Weightmans has appointed specialist corporate and healthcare Partner Mike Clifford.

Mike acts for major corporates, private companies and investors on their M&A, joint venture, due diligence and re-organisation mandates. He has particular experience in providing corporate and commercial legal services to private, public and third sector organisations in the healthcare and care industries.

DLA Piper announced that Adam Tope has joined the firm's Finance practice as a partner in the New York office.

DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Ulf Andresen will be joining the firm as a partner in its Tax practice, based in Frankfurt. Ulf will be joining the firm from PwC, where he headed the Frankfurt Transfer Pricing Group since 2015 and also the German Financial Services Transfer Pricing Group since 2013. He previously spent more than 11 years with another big four firm in Germany. Ulf will be joined by counsel Thomas Gericke and associate Thore Holtrichter.

DLA Piper is pleased to announce that Sami Rintala has joined the firm's Intellectual Property and Technology (IPT) practice as a partner based in Helsinki, Finland. Sami advises clients on a broad range of matters in the information and computer technology (ICT) space, such as complex commercial contracts, technology transactions and outsourcing, as well as on data protection.