Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Cologne

• DLA Piper gets international energy law partner Michael Cieslarczyk from White & Case's Düsseldorf office.

Dusseldorf

• Allen & Overy is opening an office in Duesseldorf, to be headed by ex-Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer local chief Thomas Austmann.

London

• Baker Botts gets East-Europe capital markets specialist Andrei Yakovlev from Dewey Ballantine.
• White & Case gets East-Europe and emerging markets capital markets specialist Carter Brod from Baker & McKenzie.

New York

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld gets tax partner Geoffrey E. Secol from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.
• Bracewell & Giuliani gets finance partner Jonathan D. Wry from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where Mr. Wry was a counsel.
• Katten Muchin Rosenman gets commercial finance partner Janu Sivanesan from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
• Loeb & Loeb gets intellectual property litigation partner Warren MacRae from Bryan Cave.
• Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo gets public finance partner Jeremy Spector from Blank Rome,

Paris

• Shearman & Sterling gets banking and structured finance partner Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand from Jones Day.
• White & Case gets leveraged finance leveraged finance partner from Allen & Overy (A&O), where she was a counsel.

Shanghai

• Shearman & Sterling opens an office headed by project finance partner Andrew Ruff.

Silicon Valley

• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman gets securities litigation partner David Furbush from O'Melveny & Myers. Mr. Furbush will serve as co-leader of the firmwide securities litigation specialty team.

Tokyo

• Latham & Watkins gets M&A and corporate finance partner Ryan Dwyer, from DLA Piper.
• Nishimura and Asahi gets capital markets and securitization partner Mitsuhiro Yasuda from Linklaters. Nishimura and Asahi is the newly merged entity combining the Nishimura Law Offices and Asahi Law Offices, and is the largest firm in Japan with 325 lawyers.

Washington, D.C.

• Townsend and Townsend and Crew establishes a new office, focusing on patent prosecution and patent litigation, and staffed by three former Kenyon and Kenyon litigators: Gary Morris, Neil McCarthy and John McGroarty as well as former McGuireWoods patent chair Richard Meyer who will be in charge of East Coast litigation from that office.

Legal Media

• Incisive Media Plc acquires American Lawyer Media, the publisher of many key U.S. legal trade journals, including the American Lawyer and the National Law Journal. Incisive media also publishes the UK legal trade journal, Legal Week.