Heather D. Bennett joined Barton LLP as partner in Los Angeles and Nashville.

Bennett's practice focuses on intellectual property matters including copyright, trademark, trade secret, and right of publicity from creation and acquisition to licensing and litigation. With over a decade of experience in entertainment, art, media, and technology in the U.S. and abroad, Heather's client relationships go beyond negotiating deals and handling judicial matters.

Peggy Hosking joined Buchalter as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Hosking serves as outside general counsel to her clients focusing on their commercial real estate transactions. She represents owners, developers, borrowers, lenders and investors in the acquisitions, disposition, development, finance, leasing, and management of real estate for their retail, commercial, industrial, residential, and office use needs. Further, she has extensive experience counseling clients in all areas of business, from formation through succession.

Caroline Djang joined Buchalter as shareholder in Orange County.

Djang counsels her clients on the best strategies for pursuing and collecting debts and provides realistic solutions for recovery. Her notable work includes representation of one of the largest creditors in the chapter 11 case of a recycling company and representation of an internationally known luxury brand with respect to creditors’ rights. She also represents several prominent landlords, banks, and cities with respect to creditors’ rights and claims in bankruptcy.

John Gregory Yslas joined Wilshire Law Firm as senior partner in Los Angeles.

With over 25 years of experience since graduating from UCLA Law School in 1996, John has litigated countless wage and hour class actions as well as single and multi-party matters. He previously has been a partner at Foley & Lardner, Norton Rose Fulbright and Seyfarth Shaw.

He currently serves as the Southern California Regional President with the Hispanic National Bar Association and on the Mexican American Bar Foundation Board of Directors. Previously he has served as the National Chair of the Communications Committee with HNBA, on the Board of Directors with the California Minority Counsel Program, as well as a commissioner with the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission and the Los Angeles Convention Center Commission (where he was appointed by two mayors).

Andrew D. Thorpe as partner in San Francisco

Thorpe advises management teams and boards of directors on securities regulation, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and key corporate governance matters. In addition to extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters -- including in over 40 initial public offerings to date -- he served for six years at the Securities and Exchange Commission. While at the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance and in the Office of Rulemaking, Thorpe reviewed and commented on numerous public companies' SEC filings and played a significant role in drafting several landmark regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Colin M. Kawaguchi was promoted to shareholder of Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC in Westlake Village.

Kawaguchi counsels emerging and established companies in the areas of corporate governance, mergers, acquisitions, financings, and general business matters. Colin has experience in various industry sectors including biotech, financial services, information technology, hospitality, and insurance.

John R. Bamford was promoted to shareholder of Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth, & Wynner, PC in Westlake Village.

Bamford has successfully defended numerous complex business litigation cases, including obtaining a compl;ete defense verdict for a financial advisor alleged to have mismanaged client accounts in 2019.

John F. Simonis joined Reed Smith LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.

Simonis represents investors, owners, developers, and operators in complex real estate transactions and development matters, and has substantial experience in real estate joint ventures, funds, purchases and sales, leasing, financings, development and construction, with particular depth of experience in data centers and technology-related facilities.

Daniel J. Hagedorn joined Reed Smith LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.

Hagedorn practices in all areas of commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures and the acquisition and disposition of commercial projects, including multifamily and affordable housing projects, industrial projects, retail centers, data centers, leasing, and real estate financings.

Nathaniel P. Gallon joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Gallon counsels clients on corporate and securities law and also acts more generally as a trusted business advisor in connection with a wide range of transactions that technology companies typically undertake throughout their life cycle - entity formation, debt and equity financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, spin-offs, and growth stage through to a liquidity event.

Ashwin Gokhale joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Gokhale regularly negotiates and advises technology companies on a range of intellectual property licensing and other commercial transactions, including agreements for software and hardware development and licensing, manufacturing and distribution, advertising and marketing, patent licensing, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investments.

David E. Parsly joined Blank Rome as partner in Los Angeles.

Parsly advises clients on a full range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, emerging growth and venture capital financings, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, and corporate governance.

Brenda Aguilar-Guerrero joined Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP as partner in Oakland.

Aguilar-Guerrero represents public entities on complex eminent domain and inverse condemnation matters. She represents clients with large, complex multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects requiring hundreds of acquisitions, as well as smaller scale projects throughout the state for a variety of clients.

Jonathan Braunstein joined Dentons as partner in Oakland.

Braunstein is a member of Dentons' Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He advises clients in the health care, insurance, employee benefits, financial services, technology, real estate, retail, construction and defense industries.

Laurie D. Zelon joined Judicate West as neutral in Santa Ana.

Zelon will be based in the Orange County office and available as a private judge statewide focusing on arbitration, special master, private judging, neutral analysis and appellate matters. Zelon served as a justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeal from 2003 to 2020, and she is widely recognized for her work expanding and improving access to justice for low-income citizens.

Cheryl Sabnis joined Vedder Price as shareholder in San Francisco.

Sabnis joined the firm's Labor and Employment practice area. She has long represented businesses and other organizations in high-stakes employment litigation, including complex wage and hour class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims and matters involving sensitive topics, such as gender, race and disability discrimination, harassment and retaliatory discharge.

Christopher Dacus joined Glaser Weil LLP as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Dacus handles all aspects of complex commercial litigation and manages cases from inception through judgment. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, entertainment litigation, and white collar defense.

Melissa Mills joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati as partner in Los Angeles.

Mills is a litigation partner where she is a member of the firm's national team of trial lawyers known for its success in litigating innovative disputes in technology, intellectual property, and other areas.

Jeffrey Wilcox joined Meyers Nave as of counsel in Oakland.

Wilcox advises public agencies, public utilities, transportation authorities and other municipal and state authorities in all phases of the condemnation process, from the pre-acquisition planning phase of eminent domain proceedings through trial and appeal.

Russell L. Hom joined Judicate West in Sacramento.

Hom is available as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge for matters statewide. He has more than 40 years of combined legal experience, headlined by serving on the Sacramento County Superior Court for the past 20 years. During his tenure on the bench, Hom presided over a wide range of civil matters, including real property, premises liability, employment discrimination, workplace harassment, wrongful termination, personal injury, elder abuse, wage and hour, contract disputes and medical malpractice.

Hons Yung joined Farella Braun + Martel LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Yung counsels high-net-worth individuals, families, and closely held businesses with respect to tax, estate, and succession planning - crafting bespoke strategies that minimize income, estate, gift, and property taxes. He also works with fiduciaries and beneficiaries in probate and trust administration, assisting with federal gift and estate taxes returns, and representing clients in tax disputes with state and local taxing agencies and the IRS.

Elizabeth C. Sluder joined Norton Rose Fulbright LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Sluder focuses on project finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and general corporate matters. She represents clients in renewable energy transactions, including construction and term debt financings, tax equity investments and negotiating supply agreements, construction contracts and offtake arrangements. She also represents lenders and borrowers in secured lending as well as private banking and mezzanine and junior capital financing.

Jane Ross was promoted to managing partner of Hogan Lovells LLP in Silicon Valley.

Ross represents buyers and sellers of public and private companies across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors. Her practice includes domestic and cross-border M&A and complex joint venture transactions.

Kelly Hunsaker was promoted to managing partner of Winston & Strawn LLP in Silicon Valley.

Hunsaker leads patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies and industries, especially in high-tech fields involving computer software and hardware, consumer electronics, and Internet applications and technologies.

Ashley N. Kim joined Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C. as associate in San Francisco.

Kim's practice includes professional liability, employment law, medical malpractice, and construction defect cases.

Shannon Eagan was promoted to managing partner of Cooley LLP in Palo Alto.

Eagan represents corporations and individuals in complex disputes and litigation, internal corporate investigations and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and actions.

Ori S. Blumenfeld joined Levinson Arshonsky & Kurtz, LLP as senior counsel in Sherman Oakes.

Blumenfeld focuses his practice in all areas of complex bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate restructuring, distressed assets, acquisition and disposition, and related litigation matters.

Michael D. Klaus joined Milbank LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Klaus focuses his practice on the financing and sale of renewable energy projects. He has significant experience with every aspect of the acquisition, development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects across a range of technologies, including solar, wind and battery storage projects..

Kristine Waggener was promoted to partner of Farella Braun + Martel LLP in San Francisco.

Waggener works with high-net-worth individuals and multi-generational families to minimize income, estate, gift, and California property taxes while focusing on each client's priorities. She represents families owning substantial interests in closely held and publicly traded corporations and she advises on how to hold wealth in family partnerships, limited liability companies, and S corporations.

Stevens A. Carey joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Carey focuses his practice on a broad range of transactional real estate matters. He particularly enjoys collaborating with clients to establish procedures and forms that improve efficiency in recurring transactions.

John H. Irons joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Irons focuses his practice on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, financing, secured debt, restructuring and workouts, as well as other complex real estate-related matters.

William H. Jackson III joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Jackson focuses his practice on the representation of real estate private equity fund sponsors and real estate developers in complex real estate investment, joint venture, development, acquisition, disposition and financing transactions.

David L. Packer joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Century City.

Packer's practice focuses primarily on real estate financings. He has experience representing lenders and borrowers in all types of financings, including permanent, bridge, construction, mezzanine and receivables as well as preferred equity transactions.

Ariel B. Robinson joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Robinson represents private and institutional investors, owners and developers in connection with complex real estate transactions, with an emphasis on acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and development.

Michael E. Scheinberg joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Scheinberg focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including real estate joint ventures (including preferred equity investments), portfolio and single-asset acquisitions and dispositions, private equity fund formation, restructurings, construction and development, real estate finance (including construction and permanent loan origination and workouts and mezzanine financing) and leasing.

Eric B. Shortz joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

Shortz focuses his practice on all aspects of transactional real estate, including the negotiation and documentation of acquisition, sales, leases, development, construction, bridge, permanent and mezzanine financing, as well as the formation and documentation of joint ventures.

Jennifer A. White joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in Centrury City.

White focuses her practice on a broad range of complex transactional real estate matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and financings. She represents private and institutional investors, as well as real estate development companies, and her experience includes a wide range of asset types, including office and industrial buildings, retail centers, multifamily projects, land for residential planned community development and hospitality projects.

Kathleen Hogaboom joined Holland & Knight LLP as of counsel in Centrury City.

Hogaboom's practice focuses on sophisticated real estate transactions, including the representation of private and institutional investors, and owners and developers in connection with the acquisition, development and financing of residential and commercial real estate properties.

Angela D. Koerber joined Holland & Knight LLP as of counsel in Centrury City.

Koerber focuses her practice on real estate finance, including portfolio transactions, mezzanine financing, construction loans, defeasances, loan assumptions and preferred equity, as well as acquisitions, dispositions and general property matters.

Richard H. MacCracken joined Holland & Knight LLP as of counsel in Centrury City.

MacCracken's practice focuses on commercial real estate joint ventures as well as acquisitions and dispositions.

Stephanie C. Silvers joined Holland & Knight LLP as of counsel in Centrury City.

Silvers represents private equity funds and other institutional investors, as well as real estate development companies, in complex acquisitions, dispositions and financings (including construction, permanent, mezzanine and bridge financing). Her practice has a particular focus on representing borrowers in complex financing

David Pendergast joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Pendergast handles venture capital financings, M&A transactions, IPO and deSPAC transactions and various general day-to-day corporate matters for his clients. In addition, he routinely advises Board of Directors on corporate governance matters. He has particular experience with companies in the industrial, technology and aerospace, and space and defense sectors.

Chris Shoff joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Shoff's practice primarily focuses on serving as a strategic advisor to start-up and growth stage companies and to founders, operators and investors throughout the business life cycle, from formation to exit. He also advises venture capital funds, private equity firms, and strategic acquirers on their transactions.

David Ajalat joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Santa Monica.

Ajalat's practice focuses on representing emerging companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital and private equity funds in a broad range of industries, including software, digital media and entertainment, sports, mobile, consumer Internet, e-commerce, virtual reality, gaming, cleantech and fintech.

Ari S Friedman joined Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC as shareholder in Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC, Los Angeles.

Friedman's practice will focus on aviation accidents, aviation product liability, helicopter crash litigation, california wildfires, catastrophic injury, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injury, complex and multidistrict litigation, mass disaster litigation, personal injury law, product liability law, truck accidents, and wrongful death law.

Stephanie B. Sherman joined Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC as shareholder in Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, PC, Los Angeles.

Sherman's practice will focus on civil rights , consumer fraud litigation, defective medical devices, personal injury, prescription drug injuries, zantac cancer lawsuit, product liability law, toxic torts, toxic baby food lawsuit, wrongful death law.