Robert Fox has joined McGuireWoods as managing director of the private equity practice, bringing more than a decade of experience working with law firms and M&A professionals to build business relationships and identify deal opportunities. He is based in the firm's Los Angeles-Century City office. Fox will help drive many of McGuireWoods' innovative private equity initiatives, including its national independent sponsor and emerging manager programs. He joins McGuireWoods from O'Melveny & Myers, where he led corporate business development efforts and connected lawyers with investors, capital providers and other industry professionals.

Baker McKenzie has elected two new members to its global executive committee. San Francisco-based Joyce Smith, international commercial partner and chair of the California international commercial group, joins the executive committee and the North America regional council, while Peerapan Tungsuwan, corporate/M&A partner and head of the health care and life sciences industry group in Bangkok, joins the executive committee and the Asia Pacific regional council. They will assume their roles in October at Baker McKenzie's annual meeting, and will replace Michael Wong and Michael Santa Maria, who will both be concluding their four-year executive committee terms.