Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Law Firm Incorporation Watch

• Major Australian Law firms Blake Dawson Waldron and Freehills have confirmed that they are considering incorporation.

Atlanta

• Seyfarth Shaw gets real-estate partner Carl E. Westmoreland Jr. from Powell Goldstein.

Boston

• Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo gets corporate partner Len J. Nannarone from Greenberg Traurig.

Chicago

• Duane Morris gets corporate partner Corinne Carr from DLA Piper.
• Jones Day gets corporate-M&A partner Patrick Belville from Bell, Boyd & Lloyd.
• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker gets real-estate partner Daniel Perlman from Katten Muchin Rosenman.

Dallas

• DLA Piper gets intellectual property partner Robert Kantner from Baker Botts.

Los Angeles

• Dykema Gossett gets patent litigation partner Allan Gabriel from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner.
• Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal gets insurance regulatory partner David F. Hauge from Lord, Bissell & Brook, where he was the managing partner of that office.

Munich, Germany

• Howrey gets intellectual property partner Michael Knospe from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

New York

• Akin Gump gets investment funds partners J.P. Bruynes (from Akin Gump) and William Sturman (from Debevoise & Plimpton – where he was a counsel).
• Heller Ehrman gets corporate-securities partner Jeffrey S. Marcus Morrison & Foerster.
• Heller Ehrman also gets patent litigation partners Kevin J. Culligan, W. Edward Bailey and John P. Hanish from King & Spalding.
• Jenner & Block gets white-collar criminal defense partner Katya Jestin. Ms Jestin was previously the deputy chief of the organized crime and racketeering section of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
• King & Spalding gets patent litigation partner Ethan Horwitz from Goodwin Proctor, where he was the former chairman of that firm’s IP practice.
• Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis gets finance partner Sean E. Hayes from Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
• LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae gets real-estate partner Stuart Saft from Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, where he was chairman of that firm’s real estate department.
• Loeb & Loeb gets patent litigation partner Mark Waddell from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
• McDermott Will Emery gets private-equity partner John Herbert from Gibson Dunn
• Nixon Peabody gets complex business and integrity issues partner Harold Ruvoldt from Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge. Mr. Ruvoldt will head up the new practice.
• O’Melveny & Myers gets another bankruptcy partner from Stroock, Stroock and Lavan. Shannon Lowry Nagle joins former Stroock colleagues Michael Sage, Gerald Bender, Doron Lipshitz and Patricia Perez, all of whom moved to O'Melveny from Stroock last month.
• Orrick gets real-estate partner Alan J. Pomerantz, a former partner and head of the real estate practice at New York's Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and most recently at the private equity real estate investment company ERE Advisors LLC, where he served as co-chief executive officer and president.
• Pepper Hamilton gets employee benefits partner Stephen G. Gorell from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where Mr. Gorell was a counsel.
• Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal gets corporate partner Glen W. Roberts from Dechert, where Mr. Roberts was a counsel.
• Sidley Austin gets insurance-transactional partners Jeff S. Liebmann, Jonathan L. Freedman and Jonathan J. Kelly, from Dewey Ballantine.
• Stroock & Stroock & Lavan gets environmental counsel Andrew E. Skroback from Hunton & Williams.
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges gets employment litigation partner Gary D. Friedman from Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.

Riyadh

• Allen & Overy opens an office, in association with Abdulaziz AlGasim Law Firm. A&O partner Julian Johansen will be a full-time resident.

Silicon Valley

• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe gets intellectual property partner Steven Baik from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Washington D.C.

• Foley Hoag gets international litigation and arbitration partner Ronald E.M. Goodman, together with associate Geraldine R. Fischer, from Winston & Strawn.
• Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson gets finance partner Ghassan M. Atiyah from Hogan & Hartson.
• Fulbright & Jaworksi gets white-collar litigation partners Richard Smith, Alexandre Rene, and Guy Singer from Akerman Senterfitt.
• Jones Day gets ERISA partners Evan Miller from Hogan & Hartson and Steven J. Sacher from Kilpatrick Stockton.
• Venable gets telecommunication partners James U. Troup and Tony S. Lee from McGuireWoods.