Partner Placements
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Andrew Sagor joins Baker McKenzie as the Co-Chair of Leveraged Finance
Andrew Sagor joins Baker McKenzie as the Co-Chair of Leveraged Finance in North America from Kirkland & Ellis in New York. Andrew’s practice mainly focuses on structuring and negotiating market-shaping private equity and debt financing transactions. Andrew routinely advises leading … Continue reading
Litigator Charles Weir Joins Manatt
Prominent litigator Charles Weir has left McDermott Will & Emery to join Manatt in their Los Angeles office. He will serve as a partner in the firm’s litigation and healthcare practices. With almost two decades of healthcare and cross-industry experience, … Continue reading
Skadden’s Head of M&A in Silicon Valley Joins Baker McKenzie
Leif King joins Baker McKenzie from Skadden, Arps, where he served as head of that firm’s corporate/M&A practice in Silicon Valley. A seasoned M&A lawyer, Leif represents clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private … Continue reading
Glenn Vanzura & Jason Linder join Mayer Brown in Los Angeles from Irell & Manella
Glenn Vanzura focuses his practice on securities class action and derivative litigation, SEC investigations and enforcement actions, complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations. He has represented corporations, directors, officers and other individuals in some of … Continue reading
Jonathan Ko joins Paul Hastings from Skadden Arps
Jonathan Ko joins Paul Hastings from Skadden Arps in Los Angeles. Jonathan represents public and private companies, investment banks, and private equity firms and other institutional investors in capital market transactions in various industries including financial services, gaming, hospitality, real … Continue reading
Paul Kim joins Sheppard Mullin from McDermott Will & Emery in Seoul
Paul Kim joins Sheppard Mullin from MWE in Seoul. Paul advises clients on M&A, PE, venture capital, restructuring, multi-jurisdictional disputes and general corporate matters. He has more than 20 years of experience representing a diverse range of clients operating in … Continue reading
Perrie Weiner and Ed Totino join Baker McKenzie as partners in Los Angeles
Perrie will join as head of the firm’s Los Angeles office and co-head of the firm’s securities law practice. Perrie is listed in Chambers USA, Who’s Who in America and The Legal 500 United States as one of the leading … Continue reading
Jason Weiss joins Drinker Biddle & Reath from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jason joins Drinker from the FBI Field Office in Los Angeles. He served as a FBI Certified Adjunct Instructor in the Cyber Field Instructor Program, Digital Forensics investigations, Digital Evidence Identification and Collection and Digital Evidence Extraction. Jason taught digital … Continue reading
Sheng Wu joins Mayer Brown from DLA Piper
Sheng joins Mayer from DLA Piper in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, especially China-related M&A’s and M&A involving regulated entities. He represents both Chinese and foreign clients in cross border acquisitions into China and outside … Continue reading
David Simonds joins Hogan Lovells from Akin Gump
David Simonds joins Hogan Lovells from Akin Gump. David has more than 25 years of experience representing debtors, official and informal creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers and other parties in interest in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, … Continue reading