Former Dentons Partner Kate Buckley Joins Eisner to Head the Firm's Corporate Practice
And other announcements of recent hirings and promotions of New York attorneys.
October 07, 2019 at 02:21 PM
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Lawyers On the Move
• Former Dentons partner Kate Buckley has joined Eisner as a partner. She will head the firm's corporate practice.
• Yifei He has opened a solo immigration and general litigation firm. Previously, he was an associate at Maroney O'Connor.
• K&L Gates has added Elizabeth Evans as a partner in its aviation practice. She joins the firm from Reed Smith.
• White & Case has added Matthew Hurlock as a partner in the firm's global mergers & acquisitions practice and global private equity industry group.
• Bracewell has added Todd Eckland as a partner in the firm's corporate and securities group. Formerly he was a senior partner and served as co-leader of the securities team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
• Thomas Tether has joined Morrison & Foerster as of counsel in the firm's global real estate group. He joins from Lendlease Group, an international property development, construction, and infrastructure company.
• Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has added E. Gail Suchman to the firm's real estate, land use and environmental practice group as a partner. She joins from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
• Akerman has hired litigators Joseph Silver and Philip Touitou. They both join from Hinshaw & Culbertson.
• Jenner & Block has selected New York partner Katya Jestin and Chicago partner Randy Mehrberg to serve as co-managing partners of the firm, effective Jan. 1, 2020. They will succeed Terrence Truax, who has served as the firm's managing partner since 2014 and who will return to full-time practice with the firm in 2020.
• Zumpano Patricios & Popok has added Luis Calvo as senior litigation associate.
• Sidney Levinson has joined Debevoise as co-chair of its restructuring group. He joins from Jones Day where he was co-head of that firm's New York restructuring practice.
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