Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP announced the expansion of its global environmental practice with the addition of David C. McSweeney as counsel in the firm’s Boston office.

In a release, the firm said McSweeney’s practice focuses on environmental and health and safety legal issues associated with permitting, compliance, transactional due diligence, regulatory development, enforcement defense and related litigation. He brings almost 20 years of experience working with energy companies, including those in the oil and natural gas industries, as well as with manufacturers, financial institutions and other corporations.

Before joining Hunton Andrews Kurth, McSweeney most recently was in-house counsel at a Fortune 500 midstream energy company in the natural gas and natural gas liquids industry, ONEOK, Inc., where he was lead environmental attorney.

Buchalter announced that Ater Wynne, a full-service business law firm based in Portland, Oregon, will merge its practice into Buchalter.

In a release, Buchalter said adding Ater Wynne’s 22 attorneys in Portland, which is set to occur on Oct. 1, 2019, will bring Buchalter to approximately 300 attorneys in nine locations including Los Angeles, Napa Valley, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Scottsdale and Seattle. This is Buchalter’s second office in the Pacific Northwest following the opening of an office in Seattle less than two years ago. Buchalter’s Seattle office, led by Jeffrey G. Frank, has grown to 12 attorneys and recently relocated to the premier US Bank Centre in downtown Seattle.

Ater Wynne managing partner Todd A. Mitchell will become managing shareholder of the Portland office and a member of the firm’s board of directors. He will also spend time in the Seattle office. Half of the attorneys in Portland are licensed to practice in the State of Washington.

Other Ater Wynne Partners joining Buchalter as shareholders are Ernest Bootsma, L. David Connell, Akana J. Ma, Michael (Sam) J. Sandmire, Michael W. Shackelford, Gregory E. Struxness, Andrea Bartoloni, Nena Cook, Frank X. Curci, Thomas M. Karnes, Daniel P. Larsen, and John C. Ramig.

Additional Ater Wynne attorneys joining Buchalter include Jonathan Ater (partner emeritus), Steven K. Blackhurst (special counsel), Claudia K. Powers (special counsel), John M. Schultz (senior counsel), Kirk W. Smith (senior counsel), Alexandra Shulman (of counsel) and associates Robyn Bishop, Daniel Lis, and Amy Opoien.

Leah M. Campbell has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Charlotte office as a senior attorney in the Banking and Financial Services Practice Group.

In a release, the firm said Campbell has experience representing financial services clients in federal and state courts, as well as before state regulators. Her representative litigations included FDCPA, UDAAP, and anti-money laundering claims.

More recently, Campbell has advised banking clients on regulatory compliance in technology agreements, outsourcings, and cloud services arrangements. She has also advised on cybersecurity regulatory risk and data privacy, as well as intellectual property issues in M&A transactions.

Prior to joining Bradley, Campbell served as senior counsel in the Cyber/Intellectual Property/Information Technology group for Deutsche Bank AG in New York.

Campbell received her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Tulane University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College.

Nine attorneys with Beaumont-based Provost Umphrey Law Firm, LLP, have earned recognition in the 2019 Texas Super Lawyers guide published by Thomson Reuters.

Firm equity partner Bryan O. Blevins Jr. has been recognized for his work representing plaintiffs injured by consumer products. Equity partners Edward D. Fisher, Joe J. Fisher II, D’Juana Parks, James E. Payne and David P. Wilson made the prestigious annual listing for their representation of plaintiffs involved in a variety of personal injury cases.

Firm attorneys Darren L. Brown and Matthew C. Matheny were also honored for their plaintiff’s personal injury work, with attorney Keith J. Hyde earning recognition for his environmental litigation practice.

Josh Scala has joined Hogan Lovells’ San Francisco office as a corporate partner in the U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Tax Practice.

Prior to joining the firm, Scala was a principal at Ernst & Young. Before that he worked as a transactional tax attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington D.C. and San Francisco.

In a release, the firm said Scala’s practice is primarily focused on the ownership, development, and disposition of commercial real estate and related federal income tax issues. He has experience in representing both publicly traded and private REITs with respect to debt and equity capital raising activities, mergers and acquisitions, qualification requirements under the REIT tax law, and structuring transactions with developers, property owners, and institutional investors. He has also advised clients in both the real estate and private equity industries in all aspects of complex real estate development transactions, including negotiating joint venture agreements and property acquisitions, structuring ownership vehicles and transactions in a tax-efficient manner, and securing debt and equity financing.

Earlier in his career, Scala served as managing member of a private real estate development company with a focus on the development of planned communities and mixed-use urban infill projects. He also previously worked for a publicly-traded REIT with an investment focus on retail shopping malls. Scala received his JD, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and graduated from Amherst College.

Barnes & Thornburg has added Richard E. Glaze Jr. as a partner in the firm’s Environmental Law Department in the Atlanta office.

The firm said Glaze represents corporations and municipalities in enforcement and compliance matters. He focuses on the defense of environmental, administrative, civil and criminal proceedings at the federal and state levels, including before the Department of Justice and local environmental, medical and pharmacy boards. Glaze is a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 criminal investigations division counsel and has deep experience in criminal and civil matters that come before the agency.

Glaze also focuses his practice on environmental permitting, regulatory enforcement issues, and defending fraud claims against medical providers. In addition, he has experience with a number of water and waste matters including stormwater, wastewater, hazardous waste and state Superfund sites.

Glaze is active in the local legal community and serves on the Georgia Association of Water Professionals Industrial Committee, the Atlanta Bar Association CLE Board of Trustees and is Past Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association Environmental and Toxic Tort Section board. He earned his J.D. from the University of North Carolina Law School and his B.S. from Davidson College.

Commercial litigator and intellectual property litigator and counselor Anthony Magee has launched the new firm of Magee Legal PLLC.

In a release, the firm said Magee is an Oxford-educated former English barrister, who has practiced law in Dallas since 1993. His practice encompasses complex disputes, particularly proceedings in federal courts and before the Patent Trial & Appeal Board, trademark applications in the Trademark Office and petitions at the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board.

“This was the right time for me to gain some well-deserved freedom to guide and counsel with entrepreneurs and established firms in North Texas, as well as support the legal teams at other firms in niche areas of patents, trademarks, copyrights and complex technologies,” he says.

Magee’s experience includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial litigation and patent and trademark infringement litigation in businesses and services, including telecommunications, media publishing, technology education, aviation, business management software and technologies, medical devices, tissue engineering, semiconductors and health care management systems.

The firm said he has worked in complex litigation and arbitrations relating to large-scale information technology outsourcing contracts and many other types of business disputes, including professional partnership disputes, contractual and trade secrecy disputes relating to professional sports teams, and litigation relating to real estate, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and auction rate securities.

Magee has been recognized in the prestigious legal publication The Best Lawyers in America for the past nine years. He has been named to the list of Texas Super Lawyers annually since 2013 for intellectual property litigation, has been listed among America’s Top 100 High Stakes Litigators in Northern Texas since 2018, and has been awarded Martindale’s Preeminent AV rating annually for the past 20 years. He is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Dallas Bar Foundation. He is a Past President of the William “Mac” Taylor American Inn of Court.

He was formerly a partner with the Ross IP Group, and led the intellectual property section of Gruber Hurst Johansen Hail LLP for almost a decade. Previously, he practiced for 15 years at the trial boutique of McKool Smith, PC.

Sullivan & Worcester announced that Angela Gomes has joined the Boston office as a partner in the Corporate practice. Gomes, who moves to Sullivan from Skadden, focuses her practice on securities regulation and corporate finance, as well as mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters.

Gomes was among Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly “Top Women of Law” in 2017 and was honored by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in 2015 as one of “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.” She is a past president of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association and has served as director of several nonprofits, including The Boston Dance Alliance, The Midas Collaborative, Greater Boston Legal Services and Lawyers for Civil Rights. She was also recently selected as a Minority Corporate Counsel Association Rising Star for 2019.

Gomes earned her undergraduate degree from Boston University (2001) and received her juris doctor from Boston University School of Law (2005). During law school, she served as both vice president and then president of the Black Law Students Association. She also was articles editor of the Journal of Science and Technology Law. Acknowledging her service, in 2010 Boston University School of Law Black Law Students Association awarded Gomes its “Young Alumni Award,” and in 2018 they awarded her with the “Trailblazer” award. In 2014, Boston University School of Law presented her with its “Alumni Pro Bono Award.” Angela was also a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow.

Grace H. Lee has rejoined Venable LLP’s Independent School Practice as a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Lee is the former vice president of legal affairs at the National Business Officers Association (NBOA), where she oversaw the legal affairs and human resources programming for independent school business officers and served as a resource for member schools on current and evolving legal challenges affecting the independent school community.

In a release, the firm said Lee will continue to work with business officers, board members, human resources professionals, and heads of school to advance the mission priorities and culture of institutions while meeting their business needs and mitigating potential liability. Prior to her role at NBOA, Lee was an attorney at Venable from 2007 to 2012, where she provided guidance and legal counsel to the firm’s independent school clients on a broad range of issues including employee policies, contracts, worker classification issues, difficult employee situations, student and family issues, governance, legal claims, and regulatory compliance. She is a frequent presenter at national and local independent school association conferences, has written extensively on school legal issues, and provides a substantial amount of training to faculty and staff around the country.

Lee received her J.D. from George Washington University School of Law in 2001 and her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1998.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced that Nicolas Tollet has been elected a partner in the firm’s Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice.

The firm said He joined the firm as counsel in December 2016 from Technip, where he served as vice president of group compliance, and was based in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Tollet’s practice focuses on internal investigations and compliance, with particular focus on anticorruption and anti-money laundering.

Tollet has experience in compliance, including navigating monitorships, conducting internal and external investigations, establishing compliance programs and conducting third-party due diligence, the firm said. He has experience with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering legislations and has worked on several of the largest transnational corruption cases in the world.

Tollet is involved in the international compliance community. He regularly publishes articles on compliance, speaks at international conferences, and lectures on anti-corruption. In 2017, he was among 37 professionals selected by Global Investigations Review as the leading in-house professionals worldwide for internal investigations, and he is ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 and identified as a Next Generation Lawyer.

He is admitted to practice in New York, Paris and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Linc Finkenberg has joined Perkins Coie’s Financial Transactions practice and Fintech industry group as a partner in the New York office. Finkenberg joins Perkins Coie from BNY Mellon, where he served as associate general counsel and managing director and led a global team of more than 30 lawyers and 100 transaction managers.

In a release, the firm said Finkenberg most recently served as BNY Mellon’s global practice head for Corporate Trust, where he advised on significant financial deals including the transition of a global bank’s government securities clearing business. He managed BNY Mellon’s legal teams, supervising depositary receipts, treasury, broker-dealer services and government clearing services, and was also integral to high-profile litigation and risk mitigation restructuring, as well as leading the formation and acquisition of overseas trust banks across Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Finkenberg received his J.D. from the New York University School of Law and his B.S. in accounting and finance from Baruch College (City University of New York).

Katlyn E. DeBoer and Zachary K. Iacovino have joined Freeborn & Peters LLP’s Chicago office as associates in the Litigation and Corporate practice groups, respectively.

A member of Freeborn’s Complex Litigation Team, DeBoer has experience drafting substantive motions and pleadings, developing case strategy, engaging in large-scale discovery, taking depositions, and preparing for trial, the firm said in a release.

Prior to joining Freeborn, DeBoer was an associate at Winston & Strawn LLP, where she represented clients in complex civil litigation and white-collar matters, including trade secrets and civil racketeering actions. Previously, she served as a judicial clerk for Judge John E. Jones III in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

DeBoer received her J.D. (summa cum laude) from Chicago-Kent College of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa.

A member of Freeborn’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry Group, Iacovino focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, commercial contracts, and general corporate and organizational matters. He represents buyers and sellers in asset acquisitions and divestitures, take-private stock acquisitions, cross-border transactions, equity investments and joint ventures, financing and lending transactions, and corporate restructuring, among other matters.

Prior to joining Freeborn, Iacovino was an associate at Cheng Cohen LLC.

Iacovino received his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tampa.

Highly regarded as a Litigation Powerhouse®, Freeborn has a Big Law-caliber reputation in litigation, with nationwide and international capabilities and one of the largest litigation departments among Chicago-based law firms – currently with more than 90 litigators. Many of Freeborn’s litigators are former federal and state prosecutors with decades of trial experience handling all areas of complex disputes and litigation in federal and state courts.

Saxe Doernberger & Vita, P.C. announced that associate Janie Reilly Eddy has joined the firm’s SDV Northeast office.

The firm said Edd7y has a background in litigation, handling matters from inception through resolution and advising and guiding clients through viable litigation options. Her experience includes discovery and motion practice as well as settlement negotiations, mediations, arbitrations and trials.

Matthew Tuchband has joined Arent Fox LLP in the firm’s International Trade practice.

Tuchband, who has spent more than 20 years at the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of the Chief Counsel (Foreign Assets Control) in the Office of the General Counsel, joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office and will advise clients on all aspects of international trade with a focus on sanctions.

In his most recent role as deputy chief counsel for Foreign Assets Control at the Treasury Department — which he held from 2005 to 2019 (including over one year as acting chief counsel from April 2012 to August 2013) — Tuchband was responsible for overseeing a team of attorneys providing legal counsel and review of all economic sanctions actions of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). During his tenure at Treasury, Tuchband was involved in many important sanctions developments, including the formation and evolution of the “50 percent” rule and the increasing use of “secondary sanctions,” the firm said in a release.

Tuchband has experience in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), having been involved in the drafting of more than 65 Executive orders, including recent Executive orders on Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea.

During his time at Treasury, Tuchband conducted reviews of all OFAC-issued regulations, including all those published from 2005 to the present. He provided review and final legal sign-off on OFAC compliance, enforcement, licensing, designation, and delisting actions and worked closely with the Department of Justice on various cases brought against OFAC. Tuchband received the Secretary’s Honor Award, the Legal Division’s Excellence in Management Award, and several Meritorious Service Awards, among others.

Before joining federal government, Tuchband was an associate at Crowell & Morning LLP where he focused on export and transaction controls, customs, antidumping, and general litigation, including litigation strategy, pleadings, and depositions. He earned his JD, cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center and his BA, cum laude, from Brandeis University.

Jon C. Yonemitsu has joined Littler as a shareholder in its San Diego office. He joins Littler from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP. Yonemitsu’s arrival follows the return of shareholder Liseanne Kelly, who rejoined Littler earlier this year.

The firm said Yonemitsu counsels and defends companies in a wide range of employment law matters, including discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act, and the California Family Rights Act. He has experience representing clients in single and multi-plaintiff employment litigation, wage and hour class and collective action litigation, and Private Attorneys General Act claims, as well as before federal and state administrative agencies.

In addition to his litigation practice, Yonemitsu counsels employers on federal and state compliance matters, including in relation to hiring and termination, wage and hour issues, employee handbooks, workplace trainings, data security and restrictive covenants.

Before entering private practice, Yonemitsu served as deputy district attorney at the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office. He earned his J.D. from California Western School of Law and his B.A. from Oregon State University.

Derek Zaba has joined Sidley Austin LLP as a partner in the firm’s global M&A and Private Equity group and co-leader of the shareholder activism practice.

Zaba is joining Sidley in Northern California from PJT Camberview Partners, a leading provider of investor-led advice to public companies.

The firm said Zaba will focus his practice on counseling boards and C-suite executives of public companies in shareholder activism matters and contested M&A transactions, as well as on corporate governance concerns.

Zaba joined Camberview in 2015 and ultimately served as the head of its activism and contested M&A practice. At Camberview, he advised clients on activism-related matters. Previously, Zaba was an investment professional at two hedge funds. He started his legal career as a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

The Legal 500 United States 2019 Guide recognized nine attorneys resident in the Texas offices of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

• Christopher L. Bell (Houston) – Environmental Litigation; Environmental Regulatory
• Joseph F. Coniglio (Dallas) – Healthcare: Service Providers; Healthcare: Health Insurers
• Karl G. Dial (Dallas) – Dispute Resolution: Securities Litigation – Defense
• William Garner (Houston) – Energy Transactions: Oil & Gas; Energy Regulation: Conventional Power
• Shari L. Heyen (Houston) – Finance: Restructuring (including Bankruptcy) – Corporate
• Michael L. Malone (Dallas) – Healthcare: Service Providers
• Dwayne L. Mason (Houston) – Intellectual Property: Trade Secrets (Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters)
• Alicia Sienne Voltmer (Dallas) – Labor and Employment: Labor – Management Relations; Disputes (including Collective Actions) – Defense; Workplace and Employment Counseling
• Dale Wainwright (Austin) – Dispute Resolution: Appellate

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Foley & Lardner announced that Jamie Class has joined the firm’s Business Law Department and Finance Practice Group as a partner in its Boston office.

In a release, the firm said Class has more than 20 years’ experience representing U.S. and global clients as issuers of and investors in debt instruments in a wide variety of debt financing and restructuring transactions. She works with clients in a range of industries, including financial services, real estate investment, life sciences, high-tech, emerging energy technology, health care, retail and manufacturing.

The firm said Class has worked with multiple parties to close syndicated secured and unsecured credit facilities, private placements and public offerings of securities, second lien notes, tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, project finance transactions, tax-exempt bond financings, acquisition financings, venture debt and convertible notes, and mezzanine financings. In addition to traditional finance, Class has derivative/swap experience, and more general note purchase agreement and private placement lending experience.

In the past year alone, Class has helped close transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion. Her experience includes representing a publicly traded company in securing committed financing for an acquisition through the issuance of credit agreement debt and a tranche of notes. Class has also represented a client in the purchase and sale of royalty interests, has closed several rounds of senior, junior and mezzanine investments, and has advised clients on London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) transition matters and debt agreement provisions.

Class joined Foley from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Boston, where she was a member of the Corporate Practice Group. She received her BA from Hampshire College and her JD from Harvard Law School, from which she graduated cum laude.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP announced that Michael M. Aphibal has joined the firm’s Washington office as an associate in the Banking and Financial Services Practice Group.

The firm said Aphibal advises clients on regulatory issues affecting financial institutions, including banks, non-bank lenders, and insurance agencies. His work focuses on concerns surrounding the offering of consumer financial products and services, including licensing, employee compensation, loan origination and servicing, customer information sharing and privacy, consumer disclosures, telemarketing, and the sale of add-on products, particularly debt protection products. Aphibal is also experienced with insurance regulatory issues affecting producers, including insurance agency and broker licensing, producer compensation and associated disclosures, commission splitting and referral fees, anti-rebating, insurance advertising, and permitted charges for insurance, the firm said.

Prior to joining Bradley, Aphibal was an attorney at McIntyre & Lemon, PLLC.

Aphibal received his J.D. (cum laude) from American University, Washington College of Law and his Master of Laws (with distinction) in securities and financial regulation from Georgetown University Law Center. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University.

Environmental and natural resources law attorney Thomas Jensen has joined Perkins Coie’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in the Environment, Energy & Resources (EER) practice.

In a release, the firm said Jensen has experience providing project development, permitting and regulatory counsel, and litigation support to diverse clients, including utilities, energy companies, natural resource companies and pipeline operators. He also has worked on the environmental review and multi-jurisdictional permitting required for the development of large infrastructure projects

Prior to entering private practice, Jensen served as majority counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and as associate director for Natural Resources at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Jensen joins Perkins Coie from Holland & Hart LLP. He earned his J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College and a B.A. in History from the University of Southern California.