On the Move: Tracking the Ins and Outs of California Lawyers
New hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
October 18, 2019 at 05:30 PM
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Alston & Bird brought on Jim McCabe as counsel in its San Francisco office. McCabe joins the firm after practicing at Morrison & Foerster for more than 30 years. He is a litigator whose experience includes commercial and regulatory litigation. Also joining Alston & Bird's San Francisco office is partner Valarie Williams, who joins from the firm's Atlanta office.
Environmental lawyer Peggy Otum left her role as partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer to join Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. She joins the firm's San Francisco office as partner in the energy, environmental and natural resources group. She represents and advises clients on regulatory compliance, litigation and transactional matters.
Farella Braun + Martel added former Downey Brand partner Donald Sobelman to its San Francisco office. Sobelman is an environmental law attorney who handles matters related to administrative enforcement defense, civil litigation, compliance with regulatory regimes, and contaminated site cleanup and redevelopment.
After over 14 years at Cooley, Tali Sealman is joining White & Case's mergers and acquisitions practice. She will divide her time between the firm's Silicon Valley and Los Angeles offices. Sealman represents software, blockchain, health care, enterprise, cleantech, internet and fintech industries clients in corporate and securities law matters.
Two new partners joined Fenwick & West's corporate practice—former O'Melveny & Myers partner Einat Meisel and former Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth partner Joshua Geffon. Meisel is based in Mountain View and has experience with cross-border corporate and transactional matters involving Israel. Geffon is based in Santa Monica and provides strategic advice to entrepreneurs, executives and in-house legal teams.
Thomas Shoesmith, the former China head of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, is now a corporate partner at King & Wood Mallesons. Shoesmith focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance and commercial transactions involving technology companies, manufacturers, distributors and financial institutions. He will be based in King & Wood's Silicon Valley office after working in Pillsbury's Shanghai office.
Real estate and private equity attorney Edwin Collins left One Road Partners, where he was managing director, to take on the role of partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. At Norton Rose, Collins will assist real estate private equity firms, real estate investment and development clients in joint venture formation, acquisitions and dispositions, and financing matters. He is based in Los Angeles.
Santa Rosa-based Spaulding McCullough & Tansil added associate Andrew Spaulding. Spaulding will handle matters related to civil litigation, trusts and estates litigation, business transactions and intellectual property. Previously, Spaulding was a senior associate at Lynch, Gilardi & Grummer.
The San Francisco office of Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld grew with the addition of two litigation associates. Caroline Jackson joins the firm after working as a litigator for the National Association of the Deaf, and Amy Xu joins after clerking for U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd of the Eastern District of California. Both attorneys handle complex litigation and prelitigation matters.
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