Merger Talks
- Chadbourne & Parke is in preliminary merger discussions with the London-based firm Watson, Farley & Williams.
- Lebouef Lamb Green & MacRae gets litigation partner Alan Salpeter from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.
- Lovells gets dispute resolution partner Jürgen Witte, counsel Kim Mehrbrey and at least one associate team in
- Dewey Ballantine gets capital markets and structured products partner Dr. Walburga Kullmann from from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
- Linklaters is getting M&A partner Giovanni Pedersoli from the local M&A boutique Pedersoli. Mr. Pedersoli joins, at Linklaters, his former partners Andrea Arosio and Dario Longo, who joined earlier this year.
- Dickstein Shapiro has added gets litigation partners James Turken and Amy Rubinfeld (together with associates Chanda Weber and John Tuell) from Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner.
- Fulbright & Jaworski gets energy partner Les Lo Baugh from Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro.
- Herbert Smith gets financial services regulatory counsel Patrick Buckingham from Lehman Brothers.
- DLA Piper announces the launch of a
- Crowell & Moring gets tax partner Viva Hammer from the US Treasury Department.
- Dewey Ballantine gets antitrust and trade regulation counsel James F. Lerner (from Weil Gotshal & Manges), and restructuring and bankruptcy partner William H. Schrag from Morgan Lewis and Bockius.
- Katten Muchin Rosenman gets real-estate attorney Bernadette Herward Davida from Skadden Arps Slate Meghar & Flom. She joins as a partner.
- Milbank Tweed Hadley & McLoy gets compensation and benefits partner Paul Wessel from Dewey Ballantine, where he headed that practice.
- Orrick gets tax partner Isabelle Chauvet from Shearman & Sterling.
