Gardere Wynne Sewell (Dallas): Hiroaki Furuya joins the firm’s international tax and transfer-pricing specialty practice group as managing director in the Dallas office. Furuya will focus on transfer-pricing audits, competent authority cases and negotiating advance pricing agreements. Previously, Furuya was a founding member of the Tokyo transfer-pricing practice at Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Hiscock & Barclay (Syracuse, N.Y.): Maureen O. Helmer joins the firm as partner and co-chairwoman of the regulatory practice area in the Albany, N.Y., office. Helmer will focus on the telecommunications and energy industry. Previously, Helmer was chairwoman of the New York State Public Service Commission.

McCarter & English (Newark, N.J): Robert J. Hoelscher joins the firm’s commercial litigation — debtor/creditor practice group as partner in the Philadelphia office. Hoelscher will focus on commercial bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. Previously, Hoelscher was assistant general counsel for Wachovia Corp.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart: Peter K. Newman joins the firm as partner in the Indianapolis office. Newman will focus on labor and employment law, with an emphasis on traditional labor and collective bargaining. Previously, Newman was founder of the Newman Law Group.

LATERALS

Bingham McCutchen: Matthew Puhar joins the firm’s corporate practice as partner in the Hong Kong office. Puhar will focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Previously, Puhar was a partner at Halliwells in London.

Irene F. Gallagher

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