Financial Services leader Dechert LLP announced today it has expanded its SEC regulatory and funds practice with the addition of Mark D. Perlow as a partner. He joins the firm from another international law firm, where he concentrated his practice on investment management and securities law.

“Mark’s addition signals our commitment to our asset management and private funds practice on the West Coast,” said Robert W. Helm, a leader of Dechert’s global Financial Services Practice. “He brings significant experience to our team, joining a large number of Securities and Exchange Commission alumni already practicing at the firm. We are delighted to welcome him to the partnership.” (more…)

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Farella Braun + Martel LLP is pleased to welcome Tony Vecino as a partner to its Family Wealth Group.

“We are delighted to welcome Tony to our growing team of family wealth and exempt organizations attorneys,” said Lara Gilman, chair of Farella’s Family Wealth Group. “His depth of experience in advising high-net-worth individuals and families and knowledge of tax law and the laws of business entities complements and deepens the services we provide to our clients. Tony is a terrific addition to our practice and further cements our reputation as one of the top family wealth practices in the Bay Area.” (more…)

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This week, international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP added Joshua H. Walker as a shareholder in the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Practice. Walker was previously the leader of Simpson Thacher’s IP Transactions Group in Palo Alto, and will now be practicing in Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley and Austin offices.

“Josh’s addition to Greenberg Traurig is a true embodiment of the entrepreneurial spirit so strongly encouraged at the firm,” said Chuck Birenbaum, chair of the firm’s offices in Northern California. “He is one of the first lateral hires recruited via Facebook messenger, where Josh reached out to Ian Ballon directly to learn more about the firm’s atmosphere and what it’s like to split time between two offices.” (more…)

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Theodora Oringher PC is pleased to welcome Jon Mower as a Senior Attorney in the firm’s Orange County office. Jon has over 30 years of experience in a wide array of litigation matters in federal and state courts including cases in California, Arizona, Florida, and New York. He has tried over 50 cases to verdict including contract and commercial disputes, employment claims, products liability and major personal injury cases, and professional liability claims. Jon’s current practice focuses on representing businesses and individuals in complex commercial disputes including partnership and business dissolution matters, class actions, and a variety of labor and employment disputes. He has also represented individual clients in major personal injury and business loss cases. (more…)

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Mr. Terry joins Rimon from Gunderson Dettmer, a Silicon Valley law firm specializing in representing emerging growth companies, where he co-launched the firm’s first international office in Beijing. Previously we was a partner at DLA Piper, one of the world’s largest law firms.

Mr. Terry has extensive experience representing his clients on cross-border investments, market entry, outsourcing, technology transactions, joint ventures and M&A transactions. Mr. Terry’s experience spans a wide range of industry sectors, from mobile Internet, medical devices, digital advertising, and online gaming to clean-tech, semi-conductors, medical devices and education. Mr. Terry’s practice is truly global, having advised on hundreds of venture investments and M&A transactions involving the Americas, Asia and Europe, with a particular expertise in the U.S. and China markets. (more…)

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Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo (AALRR) is pleased to announce that Aaron Craig has joined as a partner in the firm’s Commercial and Complex Litigation Group. Mr. Craig brings more than 15 years of experience litigating high profile intellectual property, commercial and bankruptcy cases, with a focus on patent, trademark, entertainment and real property litigation. Last year, Mr. Craig won a seven-figure verdict in a three-week jury trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of a victim of a fraudulent mortgage brokerage scheme. Mr. Craig has prevailed for clients on both the plaintiff and defense side, in Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts and California Superior Courts, as well as federal administrative proceedings before the International Trade Commission and Trademark Trial and Appeals Board. (more…)

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Dentons announced today that Samuel R. Maizel has joined its Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Practice as a partner. Maizel focuses his practice on the health care industry. A popular speaker and prolific writer, he regularly contributes to healthcare and restructuring industry conferences and publications. He joins Dan Higgins as the second nationally known and widely respected lawyer in the healthcare industry to join Dentons on the West Coast in recent weeks. (more…)

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New partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta – including three lawyers returning to firm; latest additions to government contracts, complex tort and corporate practices

Los Angeles/San Francisco/Washington (June 25, 2015) – McKenna Long & Aldridge heads into its pending merger with leading global law firm Dentons with a strong burst of momentum. The firm announced it has added five new partners in the month of June – in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta – including three lawyers who previously practiced at McKenna.

The five partners span several key practice areas – government contracts and compliance, litigation and complex tort litigation and corporate transactions and regulation. (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP welcomes back Jim Bowman, Maggie Carter, and David Kirman as partners in the Firm’s White Collar Defense & Corporate Investigations Group. All three O’Melveny alumni join from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California and bring exceptional trial skills and diverse prosecutorial experience in healthcare, securities, and financial services fraud.

Their return to private practice was applauded by former Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of Major Frauds Section Beong-Soo Kim, now Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.: “Having had the privilege of supervising them at various points in their careers, I consider each to be a powerhouse in his or her own right—Jim in the area of securities fraud, Maggie with her public corruption cases, and David in the healthcare fraud arena. The fact that all three of these stellar lawyers have decided to return to O’Melveny is a coup for the Firm. Their arrivals demonstrate O’Melveny’s commitment to recruiting the best and brightest, and further cement O’Melveny’s reputation as a go-to firm for internal investigations, white-collar criminal defense, and bet-the-company litigation.” (more…)

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Fenwick & West today announced that David Johanson has joined the firm as a partner in its private equity practice. Johanson represents private equity sponsors in a broad range of growth capital, M&A, recapitalization, joint venture and other business transactions. He also represents technology companies that partner with private equity sponsors. David will be based in the firm’s Silicon Valley headquarters. (more…)

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Nossaman LLP has expanded its Environment and Land Use Practice Group with the addition of Michael Durkee as a partner in the Firm’s San Francisco office. He joins from McKenna Long & Aldridge.

Mr. Durkee practices land use, elections, and local government law in both administrative and judicial proceedings. He represents developers, builders, property owners, cities, counties, special districts, and interest groups in all aspects of California local government, elections, and land use entitlement, review, approval processes and litigation. He has transactional and litigation expertise in the laws and processes regarding the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), local governance, general plans, specific plans, planning, zoning and development, vested rights (common law, development agreements, vesting maps), exactions (fees/dedications), the Subdivision Map Act, Williamson Act, and local elections (initiative, referendum, recall). (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Joel H. Rothstein has joined the firm as a partner in the Real Estate group of its Los Angeles office. Mr. Rothstein will continue his focus on structured finance, complex joint ventures and cross-border transactions in both the United States and Asia.

Mr. Rothstein led the Asia real estate and structured finance practices at his prior firm, where he regularly advised investment banks, private equity and sovereign wealth funds, real estate developers, and Asian and European investors in various areas, including real estate venture formation, non-performing loan acquisitions and dispositions, and investments in U.S. real estate. (more…)

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