Squire Patton Boggs has added Linda Pfatteicher as partner in its global Tax Strategy & Benefits Practice Group. She will be based in the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Ms. Pfatteicher was previously a partner at DLA Piper.

A specialist in international corporate tax, Ms. Pfatteicher focuses on tax and operational structuring, and US and foreign tax compliance, as well as large-scale cross-border mergers and acquisitions. She also supports clients on tax controversies and disputes, and on developing issues such as software-as-a-service revenue. After earning her LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown, Ms. Pfatteicher spent over a decade with KPMG in San Francisco and Century City, where she advised on international tax matters. (more…)

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Locke Lord LLP’s highly-regarded Intellectual Property Practice bolstered its resources today by adding veteran patent litigator Robert Harkins to its team in San Francisco. Harkins joins the Firm as a Partner in its Intellectual Property Department and IP Litigation Practice Group. (more…)

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Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that finance attorneys Brian Daigle, Ronald Goldberg and Warren Biro have joined the firm’s Los Angles office. The team, who previously were with Akin Gump, will be integrated into Holland & Knight’s national Structured Finance and Aircraft Finance teams. Mr. Daigle has joined as a partner, Mr. Goldberg as of counsel and Mr. Biro as an associate. (more…)

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Continuing the expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice and life sciences capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. announced that Kenneth E. Jenkins has joined the firm as a Member in San Diego. He comes to Mintz Levin from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, where he served as Managing Partner of the San Diego office. (more…)

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner Dana S. Treister to the firm’s Real Estate practice in Los Angeles. Treister joins Seyfarth from Greenberg Traurig, LLP, where he was a shareholder in the firm’s Real Estate department in Los Angeles.

Treister’s practice focuses on a wide assortment of real estate transactions, with an emphasis on the acquisition and sale of commercial properties, real estate finance, land use and entitlement work, and ground lease transactions. He has represented numerous clients in the formation of joint ventures and in structuring tax-advantaged real estate transactions. Notably, Treister has advised a number of developers in a variety of development transactions, ranging from the rehabilitation of existing industrial and multi-family properties to ground-up construction, particularly in the hospitality industry. (more…)

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Charles E. Schwenck has joined its Los Angeles office as a partner in the Energy and Natural Resources practice. Schwenck comes to Manatt from K&L Gates.

Schwenck has more than 40 years of experience in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources industries. He advises developers, financiers and owners on a wide range of domestic and international development projects involving power plants and other energy production facilities, pipelines, transmissions lines, industrial facilities and public works. Schwenck regularly structures and negotiates agreements for the development, construction, financing, ownership and operation of energy and infrastructure projects, while also obtaining government concessions, permits and approvals. He has advised on projects exceeding $100 billion in aggregate value and spanning more than three dozen countries. (more…)

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Holland & Knight today announced that real estate attorney Douglas Praw has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Praw has extensive experience in a wide range of real estate and public finance matters. He comes to Holland & Knight from Goodwin Procter. (more…)

Farella Braun + Martel LLP welcomes James L. Day as a partner and Winston Liaw as an associate to its Intellectual Property Litigation Department. Both attorneys have an emphasis in patent litigation and further enhance Farella’s bench of IP attorneys with deep technology backgrounds.

“We are delighted to welcome Jim and Winston to Farella,” said Intellectual Property Litigation Department Chair, Stephanie Skaff. “Their deep technical skills and strong patent litigation capabilities further strengthen our ability to effectively serve our clients in complex high tech disputes.” (more…)

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Patricia (Patti) Perez as a shareholder in the firm’s San Diego office. Perez is the seventh shareholder and 13th attorney to join Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office since it opened in January 2013. Ogletree Deakins has also experienced swift growth across its network of five California offices, which now include more than 100 attorneys. (more…)

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Fox Rothschild is pleased to welcome Mette Kurth as a partner in its national Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department. Kurth will be based in the Los Angeles office.

An experienced financial restructuring and bankruptcy attorney, Kurth uses her background in economics to provide sophisticated guidance to clients on myriad matters related to insolvency and debt resolution. She represents creditors, debtors and investors in all areas of business and corporate reorganization, bankruptcy law and litigation, distressed sales and acquisitions, workouts, and out-of-court bankruptcy alternatives. (more…)

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Douglas Sprague, former chief of the San Francisco U.S. Attorney’s Office Economic Crimes and Securities Fraud section, has joined Covington & Burling’s litigation group as a partner, further strengthening the firm’s highly regarded white collar practice. He will be resident in Covington’s San Francisco office. (more…)

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