Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Brian R. Michael
joined Morrison & Foerster LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.
Michael's global practice also focuses on providing crisis management and compliance counseling, including on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anti-corruption; cybersecurity and data privacy; FinTech, blockchain technology, and digital currency; trade sanctions; and workplace conduct matters. He leads global risk assessments and helps to design and implement multi-jurisdictional compliance programs.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Caleb Vesey
joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Vesey's practice is focused on mergers & acquisitions, private equity and corporate finance. He represents buyers, sellers, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, and financial institutions in a variety of corporate transactions including leveraged buyouts and public and private mergers and acquisitions.
Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek

Patrick Haase
was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.
Haase's practice focuses on estate planning, trust and probate law. He is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as well as a Certified Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation.

Scott Perlin
was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.
Perlin represents clients in real estate development and real property disputes, as well as business, construction and general civil litigation.

Sarah Shekhter
was promoted to shareholder of Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek in San Diego.
Shekhter’s practice primarily focuses on complex business matters. She is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and has extensive experience representing clients in complex civil and criminal matters in both state and federal courts.
Locke Lord LLP

David S. Kupetz
joined Locke Lord LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Kupetz advises companies in out-of-court restructurings in a variety of industries, including entertainment, real estate, retail and technology. He represents clients on all sides of bankruptcy, crafting reorganization plans on behalf of debtors, representing secured and unsecured creditors and advising buyers looking to purchase assets from bankruptcy estates. He has also facilitated hundreds of assignments for the benefit of creditors and managed municipal debt adjustment negotiations for government entities.
McManis Faulkner

Trinity E. Taylor
as associate
in San Jose
Taylor represents clients in employment disputes, real property disputes, and business cases. She has litigated cases involving claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, nuisance, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and a derivative action. As a former deputy district attorney,
Taylor was previously with Fishman Larsen & Callister in Fresno, and served as a Tulare County deputy district attorney.
Details
McManis Faulkner, a San Jose based trial firm, provides a full range of litigation services, representing both corporations and individuals through trial and appeal. The firm handles a wide range of litigation, including business, civil rights, class actions, criminal, employment, family, general civil, intellectual property, personal injury, probate, and professional negligence.
Address
50 West San Fernando Street, 10th Floor , San Jose 95113 United States
T:
(408) 279-8700
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
I. Hooshie Broomand
joined Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. as senior counsel in Sacramento.
Broomand's practice includes general civil litigation with focuses on product defects, professional liability defense, construction, real estate, health care, employment, and high end personal injury claims.
Address
580 California Street Suite 1100 , San Francisco 94104 United States
T:
(415) 788-1900
ArentFox Schiff LLP

Gayland O. Hethcoat II
joined ArentFox Schiff LLP as counsel in Los Angeles.
Hethcoat develops solutions for complying with the complex web of federal and state laws governing the healthcare sector, including in the emerging fields of telemedicine and digital health.
Ropers Majeski
Mark M. Gnesin
was promoted to partner of Ropers Majeski in Costa Mesa.
Gnesin is a trial lawyer focusing on personal injury, property damage, and construction defect litigation, including all general liability claims. He also advises corporations and insurance companies on liability, insurance coverage, and indemnity matters, drawing on his extensive training and previous experience as an insurance claims representative. Gnesin takes a creative approach to cases and has obtained numerous favorable jury verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Anna Novruzyan
was promoted to of counsel of Ropers Majeski in Los Angeles.
Novruzyan is a business and commercial litigator, handling cases from intake through trial, including setting strategy, trial preparation, and assisting with settlement negotiations. She has extensive experience in commercial contracts and professional liability matters in a variety of industries.

Cameron M. Miller
was promoted to senior associate of Ropers Majeski in Los Angeles.
Miller counsels clients on all aspects of insurance matters, including those involving allegations of personal injury, wrongful death, insurance defense, and construction defect. He is experienced in trial management, from intake to depositions to motions to trial preparation and settlement negotiation.
Cornelius & Kasendorf, APC

Alexandre Cornelius
as partner
in Calabasas
Cornelius is CEO and senior attorney at Cornelius & Kasendorf. He practices in the areas of commercial and business litigation and transactions including, but not limited to, purchase and sale of real estate, construction related disputes (including construction defects, mechanics liens and general contractor / subcontractor disputes), finance, leasing, development, entitlements, company and entity formation and structure, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditor/debtor rights and remedies.

Alexander Kasendorf
as partner
in Calabasas
Kasendorf's practice focuses on litigation, dispute resolution, advocacy and lobbying. He utilizes a combination of skills and talents to assist his clients in areas such as complex business transactions, commercial property issues, real estate disputes, construction and sports and entertainment matters.
Timothy Crawford
as associate
in Calabasas
Crawford practices in the areas of general commercial and business litigation, real estate and partnership disputes including breaches of fiduciary duty and fraud, construction related disputes including construction defects, mechanics liens and general contractor/subcontractor disputes as well as business transactional matters related to licensing and distribution agreements and other business agreements.
Prior to joining Cornelius & Kasendorf, he worked at Demler, Armstrong & Rowland LLP, as an associate handling litigation matters. While in law school, Tim served as an intern with Ingrooves Music Group handling various music publishing and rights agreement and disputes related to royalties and control and use of music catalogue and other intellectual property.
Details
The firm handles all aspects of real estate, business and bankruptcy law and works with its clients to create individualized strategies to ensure that the client's specific needs and goals are met.
Address
23801 Calabasas Road, Suite 100 , Calabasas 91302 United States
T:
(818) 835-9159
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Alesha M. Dominique
joined Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Dominique focuses her practice on patent, trademark, false advertising and unfair competition disputes in federal courts. She regularly counsels clients on trademark clearance, prosecution and enforcement matters, and practice before the TTAB.
Blank Rome LLP.

Jamie Garelick
joined Blank Rome LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.
Garelick focuses her practice on commercial real estate and corporate transactions, notably representing property owners, tenants, landlords, investors, and borrowers in connection with leases, acquisitions, and dispositions, as well as the development and financing of commercial, industrial, and retail properties.
Liu Peterson-Fisher LLP (formerly The Liu Law Firm, P.C.)

Jennifer Lin Liu
as managing partner
in Menlo Park
Liu represents individuals in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law and focuses on employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and employment contracts and agreements.

Rebecca Beth Peterson-Fisher
as partner
in Menlo Park
Peterson-Fisher will continue to litigate employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions, and to represent individual employees in all areas of employment law.
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP.

Jonathan S. Shenson
joined Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.
Shenson's bankruptcy practice includes representation of debtors, secured creditors (including debtor in possession), lenders, committees, acquirers and other parties in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructures and work-outs, acquisitions, foreclosures, and assignments for the benefit of creditors. His practice also includes commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation including extensive experience in fraudulent transfer and preference actions and litigation in the areas of breach of contract, breach of duty, alter ego, successor liability, and lender liability.
Address
2049 Century Park E, Ste 2600 , Los Angeles 90067-3200
T:
(310) 553-3610
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Bartek Rejch
joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Rejch represents and advises manufacturers and distributors of products and industrial premises owners in various sectors and defends litigation arising from toxic exposures and product liability.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Leila Sayegh
was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.
Sayegh represents corporations and private equity funds as borrowers, and banks and other financial institutions as lenders, in a broad range of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge loans, first and second lien financings, debtor-in-possession financings and asset-based loans. Her work with corporate and private equity clients has included PayPal, Inc., Intel Corporation, Quiksilver, Inc., EMC Corporation, Permira Advisers, Veritas Capital, Oaktree Capital Management, Calera Capital and The Gores Group. Financial institutions she has advised include Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America.
She also serves as a pro bono coordinator in Skadden's Los Angeles office and regularly advises nonprofit clients.
Details
With 22 offices on four continents Skadden serves clients in every major financial center globally.
Fenwick & West LLP
Jennifer Yoo
joined Fenwick & West LLP as partner in Santa Monica.
Yoo counsels clients operating in the healthcare industry on regulatory and transactional matters, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, securities offerings, financings and various transactional matters involving health facilities, physician organizations and other healthcare providers, suppliers and life sciences companies
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP

Reece A. Román
joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner in San Diego.
Román has litigated hundreds of personal injury, property damage, employment, product liability, class action, and business disputes. He has prevailed on numerous demurrers and motions for summary judgement winning pre-trial dismissals in actions for wrongful death, personal injury, sexual abuse, nuisance, trespass, and inverse condemnation.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Anne E. Villanueva
was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.
Villanueva counsel's clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employment-related issues arising out of U.S. and multinational corporate transactions, executive employment agreements and separation agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions-in-force, discrimination charges and lawsuits, collective bargaining agreements and internal investigations.

Christopher J. Bors
was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.
Bors represents public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs and joint ventures, as well as a broad variety of other commercial and contractual matters. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, health care, private equity, food and retail companies.
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Clare Ellis
was promoted to counsel of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in San Francisco.
Ellis's practice focuses on environmental issues impacting the transportation and energy sectors, with emphasis on air quality and climate change. She is also well-versed in both federal and California air quality and greenhouse gas emission regulations impacting vehicle, equipment, and parts manufacturers, as well as all energy producers, distributors, and transportation companies.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Glen Mastroberte
was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.
Mastroberte represents investors, investment funds, independent production companies, distribution companies, financial institutions and producers in all legal and business aspects of the media and entertainment industries. He also handles general corporate matters related to the financing, production, licensing, distribution and use of motion pictures, television programs and other intellectual property assets. He also represents buyers and sellers of music companies, labels, catalogs and other music assets.
Ballard Spahr LLP

Michael R Guerrero
joined Ballard Spahr LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Guerrero counsels companies in a wide range of industries on matters of consumer protection and financial services, including point-of-sale financing, personal property financing, rent-to-own products, and installment financing.
Dentons

Peter Stockburger
was promoted to office managing partner of Dentons in San Diego.
Stockburger partners with clients around the globe to strategize about how they can leverage data and talent to grow, operate and protect their business. With a focus on data privacy and security, Peter works with clients of all sizes and maturity to build and shore up global privacy and security programs, enhance compliance and stakeholder confidence, navigate workplace disputes, take new products to market, and harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Patrick J. Sandor
joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Sandor represents many leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies, with a particular focus on the technology, fintech and healthtech industries.
Dechert LLP
Nicole Macarchuk
joined Dechert LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Macarchuk brings a wide range of experience in private equity and private credit transactions. Most recently, Macarchuk was the General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of Angel Island Capital in San Francisco, a multi-strategy credit boutique and portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital.
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Nury Yoo
joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner.
Yoo helps clients in the food and consumer product industries navigate regulations, anticipate and manage risk, and defend against challenges. Her areas of focus include labeling, claims and substantiation, marketing and advertising, food safety, due diligence reviews for private investment, and California's Proposition 65.

Pascal Benyamini
joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner is taking on new leadership role in Los Angeles.
Benyamini is co-leader of the firm’s consumer products and retail industry team. Benyamini will serve as co-leader with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Chad R. Ensz
joined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in San Diego.
Ensz's practice focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of financial institutions and public and private companies in capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint venture and commercial transactions, and ongoing public company representation.
Holland & Knight

Kenneth Yood
joined Holland & Knight as partner in Los Angeles.
Yood represents a wide range of healthcare providers and healthcare companies, including specialty and general acute hospitals (including local district, nonprofit and for-profit facilities), home health agencies, specialty pharmacy and infusion centers, pharmaceutical vendors, nursing facilities and health information and management providers.
Haynes and Boone LLP
Michael J. Smith
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in San Francisco.
Smith is a dedicated patent attorney and a part of the firm's Precision Medicine and Digital Health Practice Group. He takes pride in being uniquely qualified to understand business needs from an intellectual property and patent strategy perspective because of his previous experience working for major life sciences and biopharma companies. Clients value Michael for his strong technical and legal background and his ability to tailor his counsel to the specific legal and business needs of the client.
Michael J Stoner
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in Palo Alto.
Stoner’s practice focuses on insurance recovery, corporate and commercial litigation, and environmental law.
Daniel Kwok
was promoted to counsel of Haynes and Boone LLP in Orange County.
Kwok’s practice focuses on patents and he has experience developing and maintaining U.S. and international patent portfolios covering the fields of machine learning, blockchain technologies, objection recognition, encryption and authentication, image and video processing, antenna and wireless technologies, telecommunications, video processing, database management, IC design and manufacturing, nanofabrication, and radio frequency.
Buchalter, A Professional Corporation
Arielle Seidman
joined Buchalter, A Professional Corporation as associate in Orange County.
Seidman has represented clients in groundbreaking litigation, including the defense of Qualcomm against FTC antitrust claims and pursuing RICO and human trafficking claims against a major multinational religious organization.
Adam Sechooler
joined Buchalter, A Professional Corporation as special counsel in Orange County.
Sechooler focuses his practice on business litigation, high-stakes disputes, and white-collar defense. Before joining Buchalter, Sechooler clerked for federal Judge John W. Holcomb in the Central District of California.
Bryan Cave Leighton Pasiner LLP.
Anne Friedman
joined Bryan Cave Leighton Pasiner LLP. as partner in Santa Monica.
Friedman's practice focuses on structuring and negotiating large-scale strategic sourcing and technology transactions, including global and domestic outsourcings in the areas of information technology, software development and maintenance, and business process.