Law

Blank Rome: Stephen Koval Named As Corporate Partner In NY

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:03 AM

Blank Rome announced that Stephen “Steve” C. Koval has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group. As a renowned dealmaker, Koval focuses his practice on structuring and negotiating complex business and private equity (PE) transactions, including public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts, and recapitalizations. He joined Blank Rome from Arnold & Porter, where he served as a partner and co-head of the firm’s global private equity practice.

Norton Rose Fulbright: Jamal Tuhin Named As Partner In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 6:45 AM

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright announced the appointment of Jamal Tuhin as a partner in London. And Tuhin, a private equity lawyer who joins from Dechert, acts for private equity and financial sponsor clients across Europe and the US on every phase of international and domestic M&A transactions.

Morrison Foerster Names 21 New Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2025

Leading global law firm Morrison Foerster announced the election of 21 lawyers to the firm’s partnership, effective earlier this year. The class of 2025 includes lawyers from 16 practice groups.

Blank Rome: Clara Feldman Named As Chair Of Luxury Brands Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 10, 2025

Blank Rome announced that Clara Feldman had joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Feldman will chair the firm’s new Luxury Brands practice, which is comprised of Blank Rome attorneys from across the country who partner with high-end brands to provide sophisticated legal and business counsel on corporate, regulatory, and litigation matters. And Feldman, who will also be a member of the firm’s Real Estate group and industry team, joins Blank Rome from The Law Office of Clara Feldman PLLC, a boutique firm she founded in 2021.

Bowmans Hires Many Former Members Of A&O Shearman South Africa

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 9, 2025

African law firm Bowmans announced it welcomed most of the former A&O Shearman South Africa (AOS) members to its Cape Town and Johannesburg offices.

Braverman Greenspun Acquires Real Estate Boutique Law Firm Zingman & Associates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 9, 2025

Braverman Greenspun (a leading law firm in condominium, cooperative, and real estate matters in New York for over 50 years) announced that it acquired Zingman & Associates, a real estate boutique law firm with which Braverman Greenspun has a more-than-decade-long association.

DLA Piper: Interview With Partners Matías Zegers and Charles Torres About Their Roles At The Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 8, 2025

DLA Piper is a global law firm helping clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Matías Zegers and Charles Torres, Latin America-specialized Emerging Growth and Venture Capital (EGVC) partners at DLA Piper, to learn more about their roles.

Kramer Levin: Three Lawyers Elevated To Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 7, 2025

Kramer Levin announced the elections of Boaz I. Cohen, Nicole S. DeBare, and Sheila M. Pozon to partner positions in the firm. All three are based in New York.

Morgan Lewis Expands IP Practice In Europe With Addition Of Alexander Ritter In Munich

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 6, 2025

Advancing Morgan Lewis’s German, European, and global IP capabilities, especially in technology and life sciences patent disputes, the law firm welcomes partner Alexander Ritter, resident in the Munich office. Coming from Baker McKenzie where he most recently chaired the German patent litigation practice, Ritter represents clients across a range of industries, including high tech, engineering, chemical, healthcare and medical device, and biotechnology.

Dentons Names Elze’t Hart As Data And Technology Partner In Amsterdam

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 5, 2025

Dentons announced it is strengthening its Intellectual Property, Data, and Technology practice by recruiting partner Elze 't Hart in the Amsterdam office. Focusing on data governance and compliance, IT contracts and technology M&A, Hart has been advising and litigating technology and data privacy for 12 years.

Mayer Brown: Chris McGarry Joins As Structured Finance Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 4, 2025

Mayer Brown announced that Chris McGarry joined the firm as a partner in its global Structured Finance and Private Capital groups. And he joins from White & Case, where he led the firm’s European collateralized loan obligations (CLO) practice and English law securitization practice.

White & Case: Aaron Kenavan And Jamie Palmer Join As Partners In Sydney

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 4, 2025

Global law firm White & Case LLP announced it has expanded its Global Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Practice and its Global Private Equity Industry Group with the addition of partners Aaron Kenavan and Jamie Palmer in Sydney.

White & Case: Michael Sykes Joins As Partner In Washington, DC

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 3, 2025

Global law firm White & Case announced it has expanded its Global Tax Practice and its Global Energy Industry Group by adding Michael Sykes as a partner in Washington, DC.

Honigman: Richard Catalano Joins As Partner In Chicago

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 31, 2024

Honigman LLP announced that it is growing its Chicago office by adding Richard “Richie” Catalano as a partner in the Transactions & Counseling Practice Group and Corporate Department. He joined the firm from Ballard Spahr.

Simpson Thacher: Bryan Robson And William Gwyn Join As Partners In London Office

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 31, 2024

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced that Bryan Robson and William Gwyn will join the firm as Partners in the London office, where they will focus on leveraged finance matters.

Baker McKenzie Reveals 18 New North America-Based Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 27, 2024

Global law firm Baker McKenzie announced it has elected 18 new partners and two counsels in North America. And these promotions take effect on January 1, 2025.

Baker McKenzie: Sung Woo (Sean) Lim Joins JV As Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 27, 2024

Baker McKenzie announced that leading international arbitration practitioner Sung Woo (Sean) Lim has joined Baker McKenzie & KL Partners Joint Venture Law Firm (Baker McKenzie KLP JV) as a partner. This hire represents the fifth addition to the Baker McKenzie KLP JV in the last year and solidifies the firm's position as the most significant international law firm in Korea by partner bench strength.

Locke Lord Brings In Nicholas Scott As Senior Counsel In Transactional & Regulatory Insurance Practice Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2024

Nicholas T. Scott has joined Locke Lord’s New York office in the Firm’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance Practice Group. Joining Locke Lord from Ambac Financial Group, Scott was critical as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in establishing the legal platform for Ambac’s subsidiary company, Everspan Group.

Dentons Reveals Country And Office Managing Partners In Europe And Central Asia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 22, 2024

Global law firm Dentons announced the appointment of Country and Office Managing Partners across Europe and Central Asia for the three-year term starting January 1, 2025.

Dentons: Neil McKnight Named As Partner On Tax Team In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 18, 2024

Dentons announced it has welcomed experienced corporate tax specialist Neil McKnight as a partner to its Tax team in London. And he joined the firm from Morgan Lewis, where he was a partner in the tax practice.

Sidley: Clive Gringras Joins As Partner At Commercial Litigation And Disputes Practice In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 17, 2024

Sidley announced that Clive Gringras has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation and Disputes practice in London. Before joining Sidley, he was head of the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang.

Dentons: New Managing Partners Named In Poland

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 17, 2024

Dentons has announced that Jakub Celiński and Paweł Grabowski have been elected as the new managing partners of Dentons’ Warsaw office. Their term will start on January 1, 2025.

DLA Piper: Sebastian Goslar Named As New Partner In Dusseldorf

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 17, 2024

DLA Piper strengthened its Corporate and M&A practice by adding Sebastian Goslar. And from January 1, 2025, he will join the firm’s Corporate group in Germany and be based in the firm's new office in Dusseldorf.

Dickinson Wright: Interview With Partner Lee Petro About Communications Law

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 16, 2024

Lee Petro is former chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association and a member in the Communications Law Practice at law firm Dickinson Wright. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Petro to learn more about his practice.

Sidley Reveals 38 Newly-Elected Partners And 27 Newly-Promoted Counsel

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 16, 2024

Sidley - a global law firm with 2,300 lawyers, annual revenue of $3.2 billion, and experience that spans 158 years - announced the names of its 38 newly-elected partners and 27 newly-promoted counsel listed below by office and area of practice. These attorneys will become partners and counsel at Sidley effective January 1, 2025.

Hunton Andrews Kurth: Joanna Enns Joins As Capital Markets Partner In Dallas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 11, 2024

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced that prominent minerals and mining capital markets attorney Joanna D. Enns has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas.

DLA Piper: Kirstie Allerton Named As Managing Partner Of Leeds Office

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2024

Global law firm DLA Piper announced that partner Kirstie Allerton has been appointed as Office Managing Partner (OMP) for the firm's Leeds office. And Allerton succeeds Andrew Dyson who, effective the same day, will move into a new role as the firm's UK Country Managing Partner.

Latham & Watkins: Oliver Seiler And David Rath Rejoining As Partners In Germany

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2024

Latham & Watkins announced that Oliver Seiler and David Rath will rejoin the firm’s Frankfurt office as partners in the Capital Markets Practice. Seiler and Rath bring a wealth of experience advising issuers, private equity sponsors, and underwriters in a broad range of domestic and international equity capital markets transactions.

Simpson Thacher: M. Kathryn Stone Named As Tax Partner In Washington, D.C.

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2024

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced that M. Kathryn Stone has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a Partner in the Tax Practice.

Kirkland: Matthew Bettinger And Seth Henslovitz Named As Partners To Real Estate Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 10, 2024

Kirkland & Ellis announced that Matthew Bettinger and Seth Henslovitz have joined the firm as Real Estate Practice Group partners.

Law

Blank Rome: Stephen Koval Named As Corporate Partner In NY

Norton Rose Fulbright: Jamal Tuhin Named As Partner In London

Morrison Foerster Names 21 New Partners

Blank Rome: Clara Feldman Named As Chair Of Luxury Brands Practice

Bowmans Hires Many Former Members Of A&O Shearman South Africa

Braverman Greenspun Acquires Real Estate Boutique Law Firm Zingman & Associates

DLA Piper: Interview With Partners Matías Zegers and Charles Torres About Their Roles At The Firm

Kramer Levin: Three Lawyers Elevated To Partner

Morgan Lewis Expands IP Practice In Europe With Addition Of Alexander Ritter In Munich

Dentons Names Elze’t Hart As Data And Technology Partner In Amsterdam

Mayer Brown: Chris McGarry Joins As Structured Finance Partner

White & Case: Aaron Kenavan And Jamie Palmer Join As Partners In Sydney

White & Case: Michael Sykes Joins As Partner In Washington, DC

Honigman: Richard Catalano Joins As Partner In Chicago

​​Simpson Thacher: Bryan Robson And William Gwyn Join As Partners In London Office

Baker McKenzie Reveals 18 New North America-Based Partners

Baker McKenzie: Sung Woo (Sean) Lim Joins JV As Partner

Locke Lord Brings In Nicholas Scott As Senior Counsel In Transactional & Regulatory Insurance Practice Group

Dentons Reveals Country And Office Managing Partners In Europe And Central Asia

Dentons: Neil McKnight Named As Partner On Tax Team In London

Sidley: Clive Gringras Joins As Partner At Commercial Litigation And Disputes Practice In London

Dentons: New Managing Partners Named In Poland

DLA Piper: Sebastian Goslar Named As New Partner In Dusseldorf

Dickinson Wright: Interview With Partner Lee Petro About Communications Law

Sidley Reveals 38 Newly-Elected Partners And 27 Newly-Promoted Counsel

Hunton Andrews Kurth: Joanna Enns Joins As Capital Markets Partner In Dallas

DLA Piper: Kirstie Allerton Named As Managing Partner Of Leeds Office

Latham & Watkins: Oliver Seiler And David Rath Rejoining As Partners In Germany

Simpson Thacher: M. Kathryn Stone Named As Tax Partner In Washington, D.C.

Kirkland: Matthew Bettinger And Seth Henslovitz Named As Partners To Real Estate Practice

Simpson Thacher: Bryan Robson And William Gwyn Join As Partners In London Office