Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Dallas

• Bracewell & Giuliani gets white collar crime and regulatory defense partners Patrick K. Craine and Terence J. Hart from Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, where Mr. Hart was leader of that firm's white collar criminal defense group.

Chicago

• Baker & McKenzie gets white collar litigation partner Robert W. Tarun from Latham & Watkins, where he was the co-chair of that practice.

Hamburg

• Bryan Cave will be opening an office headed by Dr. Michael Leue of the Hamburg firm Buse Heberer Fromm.

London

• Covington & Burling gets corporate partner Martin Wright from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Mr. Wright will head the firm’s European corporate practice.

New York

• Butzel Long acquires 10-lawyer Manhattan firm of Hollyer Brady Barrett & Hines, thereby opening its New York office.
• Dewey Ballantine gets corporate reorganization and bankruptcy partner William H. Schrag from Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
• Greenberg Traurig announces the move to its New York office of Chicago business reorganization and bankruptcy partner Nancy A. Mitchell. Ms. Mitchell will head that practice in New York.
• Heller Ehrman gets intellectual property partners Kevin J. Culligan, W. Edward Bailey and John P. Hanish from King & Spalding.
• Kelley Drye & Warren gets white-collar criminal defense partners Don Buchwald, Alan R. Kaufman and James Keneally are joining from Buchwald & Kaufman.
• LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae announces a New York-based entertainment practice, led by L. Londel McMillan, who is joining LeBoeuf from his own firm, the McMillan Group. Mr. McMillan is joined by corporate partner John Quiñones, intellectual property counsel Bernard H. Jackson and two associates.
• Pryor Cashman gets corporate partern John J. Crowe from Seyfarth Shaw, and real-estate partner Joseph Brasile from Rosenberg & Estis.
• Stroock & Stroock & Lavan gets insurance-structured finance partners Boris Ziser, Albert J. Pinzon, and Thomas R. Weinberger from Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels.
• Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt gets construction law partner Kenneth M. Block from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman

Silicon Valley

• Goodwin Proctor announces the opening of its Palo Alto office, headed by relocated partner Kevin Dennis and Kathy Fields.

Washington, D.C.

• Arnold & Porter gets five international arbitration and transactional attorneys from Winston & Strawn. The group is headed by partner Paolo DiRosa, who is joined by partner Gaela Ghering Flores and two associates.