Weekly Wrap-Up (Memorial Day Version): Notable Lateral Moves

New York

• Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis gets corporate partner Stephan Mallenbaum from Jones Day.
• Pepper Hamilton gets tax (international and private-equity) partner Steven D. Bortnick from Dechert.
• Lovells gets bankruptcy partner Robin Keller from Stroock. Ms. Keller will head Lovells international business restructuring and insolvency practice, based in New York.

San Francisco

• DLA Piper gets corporate and securities partners Dale Freeman and Garth Osterman from Reed Smith.

Mergers

• Texas-based Locke Liddell & Sapp and Chicago-based Lord Bissell Brook have announced merger plans, pending partnership approval, effective August 1. The new firm will operate under the name Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell .
• Davis Wright Tremaine gets San Francisco IP boutique Parsons Hsue & de Runtz. James S. Hsue and K. Alison de Runtz join as partners; Gerald P. Parsons joins as of counsel.