The appointments, which were confirmed by partners at a meeting in Scotland today (20 June), come alongside the election
of intellectual property partner Laurence Ward as chairman.
The departing lawyers include corporate partners Philip Byrnes, James Daniel, Philip Dowling, and Eugene Fung; real estate partners Ron Eames, Michael Marshall, and Chris O'Shea; finance partner Andrew Kelly and
intellectual property partner Tony Conaghan.
Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued the expansion of its Los Angeles office
with intellectual property partner Caroline Mankey and commercial litigation partner Kanika Corley.
Nixon Peabody's legal team is led by senior counsel Deborah Thaxter and Jason Kravitz, partner and leader of the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation practice, and
includes intellectual property partner Gina McCreadie and intellectual property associate Leslie Hartford.
Corporate partners Beat Barthold and Pascal Richard, banking and finance partner Ansgar Schott,
intellectual property partner Alessandro Celli and competition partner Boris Wenger join Bakers» Zurich office along with five associates.
The CC team advising Imagination is being led out of London by M&A partner Lee Coney, with support from M&A partner Katherine Moir,
intellectual property partner Vanessa Marsland, litigation partner Iain Roxborough and competition partners Jenine Hulsmann and Timothy Cornell.
The Olswang team was led by London corporate partner Mark Bertram along with head of music and commercial partner John Enser,
intellectual property partner Joel Vertes, tax partner Stephen Hignett, and employment partner Melanie Lane.
Law360, New York (May 11, 2016, 4:08 PM ET)-- Ten percent
fewer intellectual property partners made lateral job moves in the first quarter of 2016 when compared with the year before, as the practice area grapples with major changes to how patent suits are litigated, according to experts and Law360 data.
Jones Day is advising Randstad on the deal with a large cross-border team led by M&A partners Ken Boehner, Daniel Mitz and Alain Dermarkar, and
intellectual property partner Ryan Walsh in the US.
International corporate co-head Stefano Silvestri and
intellectual property partner Nick Aries will relocate from Milan and London respectively to launch the representative office, which will focus on work for technology clients.
A little while back, we were fortunate to sit down with Scott Locke, a
leading intellectual property partner and department chair at Dorf & Nelson LLP — advising household - name clients in the life sciences industry, the internet of things industry, the fashion industry, the cosmetics industry, the medical device industry and the wearable technology industry.
Rowan Freeland,
an intellectual property partner at the law firm Simmons & Simmons, which mostly represents life science companies, says that the new court may also make European patents stronger by making them cheaper to enforce.
ERIC WALTERS has joined Davis Wright Tremaine as
an intellectual property partner in San Francisco.
Intellectual property partner, Jeremy Harris, looks at what new businesses should consider to protect their IP.
Shawn G. Hansen is
an intellectual property partner based in our Los Angeles office.
Corporate partners Ariel Deckelbaum and Taurie Zeitzer,
intellectual property partner Nicholas Groombridge and real estate partner Harris Freidus all received the Law360 MVP Award for their respective areas of practice.