Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Atlanta

• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker gets restructuring partner John Douglas and counsel Chris Daniel from Alston & Bird.

Boston

• Foley Hoag gets mergers and acquisitions and private equity partner Douglas A. Zingale from Greenberg Traurig.
• LeClair Ryan launches a Boston office with ten lawyers Donovan Hatem.

Charlotte

• Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman get financial services partner Kent from Helms Mulliss & Wicker of Charlotte.
• Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal gets litigation partner Jonathan A. Vogel. Mr. Vogel was previously a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Western District of North Carolina, and also served as deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Education.

Chicago

• Reed Smith gets tax, wealth planning and benefits partner Mary C. Downie from Jenner & Block, and of-counsel Judith Rea Heck from The Northern Trust Co. of Chicago.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Duane Morris opens offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Houston

• Porter & Hedges gets energy and real estate partner Greg Barker from Fulbright & Jaworski.

London

• Eversheds gets India specialist Gauri Advani from Denton Wilde Sapte.

New York

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld gets tax partner Geoffrey E. Secol from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy where Mr. Secol was a counsel.
• Crowell & Moring gets tax partner Viva Hammer from the U.S. Treasury Department.
• Dorsey & Whitney gets litigation partner Steven R. Schoenfeld from Torys.
• Heller Ehrman gets intellectual-property litigation partner Joy Arnold from King & Spalding.
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel gets environmental partner Charles S. Warren from Bryan Cave. Mr Warren, who will become chairman of the firm's environmental group is a former regional administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Loeb & Loeb gets corporate partner Stephen Cohen from Morgan Lewis where Mr. Cohen was a senior counsel.
• Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw gets corporate partner Sterling M. Dorish from King & Spalding, where Mr. Dorish was an associate. Mr. Dorish had been previously associated with Mayer Brown’s Chicago and London offices.
• Reed Smith gets bankruptcy partner Edward J. Estrada from LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae, where Mr. Estrada was an associate.
• Shearman & Sterling gets back tax partner Tammy P. Bieber. She was formerly senior adviser to the chief accountant of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Rome

• Lovells gets competition partner Gianluca Belotti from SJ Berwin and corporate partner Paolo Tannoni from E&Y Law.

Stamford, CT

• McCarter & English gets insurance coverage partner Joseph J. Cherico from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.

Washington, DC

• Dewey Ballantine gets intellectual property litigation partners Dirk D. Thomas, Robert A. Auchter and Kenneth A. Freeling from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.
• Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton get litigation partners Christopher S. Huther and Megan H. Troy from Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis.

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.

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Abu Dhabi

• Allen & Overy gets corporate partners Ibrahim Mubaydeen and Francois Duquette from Simmons & Simmons.

Beijing

• DLA Piper gets corporate partner Steven Liu from Heller .

Boston

• Nixon Peabody gets government investigations and white collar defense partners Mark D. Seltzer and Brian French, together with four associates from Holland & Knight.

Chicago

• Baker & McKenzie gets investigations and business crimes partner Robert W. Tarun from Latham & Watkins (where he was the co-head of that practice); and corporate and securities partner Addison Braendel from Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw.

Dallas

• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gets intellectual property partner Mark N. Reiter from Jones Day.

London

• Covington & Burling gets litigation (policyholder coverage) partner Roger Enock and mergers and acquisitions partner Martin from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
• Howrey gets antitrust partner Tom McQuail from Lovells.

Munich

• Latham & Watkins gets finance partner Andreas Diem from Shearman & Sterling, and private equity partner Volkmar Bruckner from Dechert.

Madrid

• Latham & Watkins gets administrative law partner Antonio Morales from Lovells.

New York

• Baker & McKenzie gets banking, finance and major projects partner ta Dinlenc from Bingham McCutchen, where he was a counsel.
• Dewey Ballantine gets antitrust and trade regulation counsel James F. Lerner from Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
• DLA Piper gets corporate partner Christopher C. Paci from King & Spalding.
• Jones Day gets corporate partner Vanessa Spiro from King & Spalding.
• Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw gets tax partner Richard Leavy from McDermott Will & Emery.
• McDermott Will & Emery gets intellectual property, media and technology partner Michael Shanahan from Brown Rudnick.
• Pepper Hamilton gets securitization counsel Joseph F. Voyticky from Allen & Overy.
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman gets energy partner Barry Gassman from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.
• Squire Sanders & Dempsey gets litigation partners Richard Mattiaccio, Steven Skulnik and Victor Genecin from Pavia & Harcourt, where Mr. Mattiaccio was the former chair of that firm’s litigation and arbitration practice.

Washington, DC

• Dewey Ballantine gets IP litigation partners Dirk Thomas (who will co-chair the firmwide IP litigation group), Robert Auchter and Kenneth Freeling from Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi.

Warsaw, Poland

• DLA Piper has opened a new office in Warsaw, Poland, headed by corporate and asset restructuring partner Krzysztof Wlater, together with energy partners Pawell Grzejszczak and Michael Zieniewski.

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Weekly Wrap-Up: Notable Moves

Merger Talks

• Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has merged with Lewis Fisher Henderson & Claxton to open two new offices in Memphis, Tenn., and Jackson, Miss. The merger also adds two lawyers to Ogletree's Los Angeles office.

Atlanta

• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker gets bank regulatory partners John L. Douglas and Chris C. Daniel from Alston & Bird, where Mr. Douglas was the head of that practice.

Beijing

• LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae gets energy partner Dirk Walker from Vinson & Elkins.

New York

• Dorsey & Whitney gets litigation partner Steven R. Schoenfeld from Torys.
• Gibson Dunn gets healthcare corporate-finance partner Glenn Pollner from Dewey Ballantine.
• McDermott Will Emery gets corporate partner David L. Mathus from Alston & Bird.
• Orrick gets real-estate finance partners Mark S. Shapiro and Jill D. Block from Katten Muchen Rosenman where Mr. Shapiro was previously the chairman of that practice.
• Ropes & Gray gets litigation partner Jerome Katz from Chadbourne & Parke.
• Schulte Roth & Zabel gets investment management counsel Daniel Hunter from Katten Muchin Rosenman.
• Troutman Sanders gets asset finance partner Craig M. Kline and tax partner Philip H. Spector from King & Spalding.

Orange County, CA

• Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher gets corporate partner Terrence R. Allen from O'Melveny & Myers.

Philadelphia

• Cozen O'Connor gets project & public finance partner Suzanne S. Mayes from Saul Ewing.
  Morgan Lewis & Bockius gets white-collar litigation partner Eric Sitarchuk from Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, where he was the head of that practice.

San Francisco

• Holme Roberts & Owen gets antitrust partner Jesse Markham Jr. from Morrison & Foerster, where he was the chair of that practice.

Silicon Valley

• Foley & Lardner’s Palo Alto office gets labor and employment litigation partner Thomas M. Gosselin from Pahl & Gosselin.

Washington DC

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld gets IP partners Michael L. Kiklis and Kimani P. Clark from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.
• Arent Fox gets real-estate partners Robert E. Falb, Richard B. Nettler, Keith R. Styles and Barbara Wachter Needle from Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi.
• Nixon Peabody gets franchise and distribution partner Steven B. Feirman from DLA Piper.
• Venable gets environmental regulatory partners Douglas Green and William Weissman from DLA Piper.

Weekly Wrap-up: Notable Moves

Merger Talks

• Chadbourne & Parke is in preliminary merger discussions with the London-based firm Watson, Farley & Williams.

Chicago

• Lebouef Lamb Green & MacRae gets litigation partner Alan Salpeter from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.

Dusseldorf, Germany

• Lovells gets dispute resolution partner Jürgen Witte, counsel Kim Mehrbrey and at least one associate team in Germany with the hire of a team from German independent Aderhold von Dalwigk Knüppel.

Frankfurt, Germany

• Dewey Ballantine gets capital markets and structured products partner Dr. Walburga Kullmann from from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Italy

• 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.

Los Angeles

• 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.

London

• Herbert Smith gets financial services regulatory counsel Patrick Buckingham from Lehman Brothers.

Munich, Germany

• DLA Piper announces the launch of a Munich office, headed by technology partner Thomas Jansen. DLA’s German network includes offices in Cologne, Hamburg and Frankfurt.

New York

• 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.

Paris

• Orrick gets tax partner Isabelle Chauvet from Shearman & Sterling.

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.

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.

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.

Weekly Wrap Up: Notable Lateral Moves

Beijing

• Dewey Ballantine gets corporate lawyer Hugh Scogin from Orrick

Boston

• Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge get public finance lawyers Richard Manley and Kara Adams from Ropes & Gray
• Pepper Hamilton gets corporate lawyer Steven R. London from Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels

Istanbul

• Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle opens office with partner Ali R. Gursel

London

• Bingham McCutcheon gets structured finance lawyer Elizabeth Baltay from Shearman & Sterling
• Duane Morris is in merger talks with small-medium sized London firms

Milan

• Bryan Cave gets 4 person corporate team from Willkie Farr & Gallagher

New York

• Weil Gotshal Manges gets appellate litigation partner Caitlin Halligan, a former New York State Solicitor General.
• Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson gets M&A partner John E. Sorkin from Latham & Watkins.
• Blank Rome gets real-estate partner Marvin B. Mitzner from Cozen O'Connor.

San Diego

• Jones Day gets labor and employment lawyer George S. Howard, Jr. from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

San Francisco

• Davis Wright Tremaine acquires the 3-lawyer patent and trademark firm Parsons Hsue & de Runtz

Silicon Valley

• Sonnenschien gets patent litigator Rudy Kim from Irell and Manella