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McGuireWoods Adds Private Equity Pro From Paul Weiss
McGuireWoods LLP announced Monday the firm has grown its private equity offerings in New York with the addition of an attorney from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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Seyfarth Lands BakerHostetler IP Pro In Atlanta
Seyfarth Shaw LLP said Monday that it has added a patent attorney from BakerHostetler to bolster its capacity to handle cases involving artificial intelligence, machine learning, telecommunication technology and related matters.
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Lathrop GPM Opens Renovated St. Cloud, Minn., Office Space
Lathrop GPM LLP announced Monday that its updated St. Cloud, Minnesota, office is now open after the 8,511-square-foot space was recently renovated.
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Womble Bond Adds 20 Attys From Shuttering Nashville Firm
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Monday that it has strengthened its presence in Nashville, Tennessee, by bringing on 20 attorneys from boutique law firm Neal & Harwell PLC, which will cease operations Aug. 31.
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Rising Star: McDermott's Chris Braham
Chris Braham of McDermott Will & Emery LLP helped Circle K defeat a Fair Credit Reporting Act case that went to a California appellate court and helped Darden Restaurants survive an advocacy organization's discrimination suit, earning him a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Gina Hancock
Gina Hancock of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP has guided companies through executive compensation and employee benefits practices as part of mergers and acquisition deals worth more than $60 billion in total, earning her a spot as one of the benefits law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Keker's Bailey Heaps
Bailey Heaps of Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP helped two chemistry professors defeat a lawsuit centering on the commercialization of a scientific breakthrough and won an $80 million verdict in a dispute over a milestone payment, earning him a spot among the life sciences law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Covington's Amanda Tuninetti
Amanda Tuninetti of Covington & Burling LLP was instrumental in convincing courts in Washington, D.C., to deny Venezuela's bid to defeat enforcement of an arbitral award now worth some $670 million to Spanish affiliates of Mexican tortilla manufacturer Gruma SAB de CV, earning her a spot among the international arbitration practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Michael J. Kahn
Michael Kahn of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP planted the seed of a question that made its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court and won his client Slack Technologies Inc. reprieve from a shareholder class action, earning him a spot among the securities attorneys under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Seyfarth's Erica Bakies
Erica Bakies of Seyfarth Shaw LLP guided a foreign investor in securing regulatory approval to purchase a U.S. government contractor and litigated two bid protests before the Government Accountability Office that resulted in regulatory changes, earning her a spot among the government contracts law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Jalpit Amin
Hogan Lovells LLP partner Jalpit Amin has successfully steered several multibillion-dollar deals in the technology sector, including Oracle's $28 billion purchase of Cerner Corp. and Marvell Technology Group's $10 billion acquisition of Inphi Corp., earning him a spot among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Latham's Aaron Chiu
Aaron Chiu of Latham & Watkins LLP was on the legal team representing U.S. Soccer in its February antitrust jury verdict victory over an upstart pro league, and on the team representing the Atlantic Coast Conference in its $2.78 billion name, image and likeness settlement between the NCAA, the major conferences and college athletes, earning him a spot among the sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Sidley's Sue Wang
Sue Wang of Sidley Austin LLP has amassed numerous wins for name brand biologics companies and drugmakers — including representing Amgen in multidistrict litigation and notching a multimillion-dollar verdict for Bayer — earning her a spot among the intellectual property practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jordan Cross
Jordan Cross, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's funds formation practice group, has quickly made a name for himself by advising on significant transactions for some of the biggest players in the private equity world, including advising Blackstone and Silver Lake on their recent fund raises, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Rising Star: Cleary's Blair Matthews
Blair West Matthews of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP helped Tempur Sealy International Inc. beat a high-profile government merger challenge, earning her a spot among the antitrust law practitioners under age 40 honored by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ as Rising Stars.
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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Leader Of FDA Practices At 2 Firms
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired the former leader of both Husch Blackwell LLP and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's U.S. Food and Drug Administration-focused practices who brings a perspective to its Washington, D.C., office that includes working at the agency for more than a decade.
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Proskauer Welcomes Structured Credit Pro From Dechert
Proskauer Rose LLP announced another addition to its structured credit team in New York on Monday, welcoming a former Dechert LLP attorney with a strong background in structured finance insurance solutions.
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Ironclad Adds Google, Snowflake, Docusign Leaders To Team
The contract lifecycle management platform Ironclad announced a major expansion of its leadership team Monday, three months after the company welcomed a new CEO.
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Arnold & Porter Expands On West Coast With K&L Gates Team
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.
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Suffolk Law, Arbitration Body Launch Family Law Clinic
Suffolk University Law School, together with the nonprofit American Arbitration Association, has launched an online dispute resolution clinic focused on family law matters, with John D. Casey, a former chief justice of the Massachusetts family and probate court, appointed to oversee the project.
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Willkie Taps Chicago Leader For New Americas Chair Role
Craig C. Martin, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's chief for its Americas operations, told À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ on Friday that he is excited to serve in the newly created post to help steer the continued growth of the firm and ensure that the best services are being provided to clients.
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BCLP's New Atlanta Leader On Leaning Into Office Strengths
Amy Wilson is taking the helm of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP's Atlanta office with an eye on building on its strengths in mergers and acquisitions and litigation.
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Ex-HUD GC On 'Running To The Fight' With New DC Boutique
In a recent interview with À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Pulse, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development general counsel Benjamin Klubes said he opted to launch his own practice after leaving the government, instead of joining a bigger firm, so he could more freely represent clients in cases challenging the Trump administration.
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À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's Legal Lions Of The Week
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Legal Lions, after a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Epic Games Inc.'s 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals.
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Mintz Welcomes Longtime Fenwick & West IP Atty In NY
Mintz said Wednesday that it has added a longtime Fenwick & West LLP lawyer who helped his former firm establish itself in New York to its intellectual property prosecution practice.