Snell & Wilmer welcomed technology transactions and aviation partner Eli W. Mansour to the firm's growing San Diego office. Mansour counsels clients on a variety of technology transaction matters including the discovery, development, protection, licensing, and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, novel life sciences solutions and medical devices, and related intellectual property. Mansour regularly drafts and negotiates clinical trial agreements, development, manufacturing, distribution, and complex licensing agreements and has experience in device discovery agreements, joint venture agreements and technology assignment, and transfer transactions.

Hamid Namazie, Yoojin Lee and Mark Spitzer, three finance attorneys in Los Angeles, have joined Holland & Knight's financial services practice group as partners. They will also be members of the firm's asset-based lending team. Namazie, Lee and Spitzer join the firm from McGuireWoods, where Namazie served as managing partner of the firm's downtown Los Angeles office. Namazie's practice focuses on representing a range of clients, including banks, institutional lenders and commercial finance companies providing asset-based loans, senior-secured loans, second-lien loans and subordinated loans. Lee's practice focuses on representing financial institutions across an array of industries in domestic and international secured lending transactions with an emphasis on asset-based lending. Spitzer has over 30 years of wide-ranging experience in the commercial finance arena.