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Law firms in Houston promote several new partners to start 2022 - Houston Business Journal - Houston Business Journal

The start of the year always brings a flurry of partner class promotions at law firms across the nation. Here's a roundup of several firms' newly promoted partners in Houston.

AZA

Houston-based boutique law firm Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing PC (AZA) named two new partners in December 2021:

  • Rey Flores — Flores represents clients in commercial litigation, including contract disputes, business torts and employment matters like overtime pay, trade secrets cases, wrongful death and catastrophic injury.
  • Jason S. McManis — McManis is a trial lawyer with experience in patent, trade secrets, employment and business disputes for clients in oil and gas, health care, commercial and residential real estate, automotive and aviation.

Akin Gump

Akin Gump elected 18 new partners firm-wide, effective Jan. 1, including Jon Boben in Houston.

Boben represents buyers, sellers, investors and companies in M&A and investments. He has counseled private equity sponsors, venture capital funds and companies across a range of industries.

BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler elevated 28 attorneys in its 2022 partner class, including one attorney in Houston:

  • Kimberly C. Gordy — Gordy represents clients in health care on cybersecurity breach response, regulatory defense, and state and federal privacy compliance. She has worked on hundreds of data security and privacy incidents, including ransomware and employee theft.

Bracewell LLP

Bracewell LLP elected four lawyers to its partnership, effective Jan. 1, including Patrick K. Johnson in the firm's Houston office.

Johnson represents clients in the energy sector on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint ventures and project finance. He previously served as in-house counsel to Exxon Mobil Corp. supporting the company's upstream and midstream projects in North America, Europe, South America and Australia.

Gray Reed

Gray Reed promoted four partners, effective Jan. 1, including two in Houston:

  • Kristen Kelly — Kelly's practice includes a focus on insurance, energy, oil field services, finance and construction. She covers energy disputes, business litigation and personal injury defense issues.
  • Mary Mason — Mason is board certified in estate planning and probate law. She focuses on the administration of estates, trust administration and estate planning.

Haynes and Boone LLP

Haynes and Boone promoted 13 lawyers to its partnership, including three partners in Houston:

  • Mini Kapoor — Kapoor is a member of the firm's occupational safety and health and litigation practice groups. She has experience with OSHA matters in several states, as well as litigation experience in commercial, intellectual property and labor and employment issues.
  • Kim Mai — Mai is a member of the firm's energy practice group in Houston. She focuses on complex upstream and midstream transactions, such as financing, acquisitions and dispositions, and hedging transactions.
  • Arsalan Muhammad — Muhammad is a member of the firm's restructuring practice group. He focuses on bankruptcies and restructurings, as well as related financings, acquisitions and litigation.

King & Spalding

King & Spalding named 32 new partners across 13 offices, including Fernando Rodriguez-Cortina in Houston. Rodriguez-Cortina focuses on commercial and investor-state arbitration, including disputes over international law issues, breach of contract and M&A.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced that 151 attorneys were promoted to partner, effective Oct. 1, 2021, including 18 in Houston:

  • Alexandra Caritis — Caritis focuses on complex commercial litigation and class action matters.
  • Tabitha De Paulo — De Paulo is a litigation partner.
  • James Dolphin — Dolphin is a corporate partner working in the environmental transactions practice group.
  • Brandon C. Elliott — Elliott is a corporate partner focusing on institutional and alternative lenders and private equity.
  • Jennifer R. Gasser — Gasser is a corporate partner advising companies in the energy and infrastructure industries on strategic transactions.
  • Daniel P. Gross — Gross is an intellectual property litigation partner focusing on a range of technologies including electronics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
  • Mark Holden —Holden is a litigation partner focusing on white-collar defense and internal investigations.
  • Lindsey M. Jaquillard —Jaquillard is a corporate partner focusing on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint venture formation in the energy sector.
  • Atma Kabad — Kabad focuses on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance as a partner.
  • Paul R. Knowlton — Knowlton is a corporate partner.
  • Stephen S. Noh — Noh is a corporate partner focusing on private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other companies.
  • Ty'Meka M. Reeves-Sobers — Reeves-Sobers is a partner in the firm's environmental transactions practice group.
  • Samara Sanderson — Sanderson is a corporate partner focusing on private fund sponsors.
  • Randy S. Santa Ana — Santa Ana is a corporate partner.
  • Rebekah McEntire — McEntire is a litigation partner focusing on complex commercial litigation.
  • Joshua Teahen — Teahen is a corporate partner focusing on strategic transactions.
  • Joe Tobias — Tobias is a tax partner focusing on the federal income tax consequences of complex business transactions.
  • Matthew D. Turner — Turner counsels clients on public and private capital markets transactions, SEC compliance and disclosure and other general corporate matters

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham & Watkins LLP promoted 44 associates to the partnership, effective Jan. 1, including three in Houston:

  • Jared W. Grimley — Grimley is part of the firm's transactional tax practice in the tax department. He counsels clients on U.S. federal tax aspects of cross-border transactions, domestic M&A, tax-free spinoffs, domestic and international securities offerings, and more.
  • Ryan J. Lynch — Lynch is part of the firm's M&A practice in the corporate department. He focuses on transactions in the energy and technology sectors, including equity and debt capital markets offerings.
  • Monica E. White — White is part of the capital markets practice in the firm's corporate department. She counsels clients, primarily in energy, on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, debt offerings and other securities transactions.

Locke Lord

Locke Lord promoted 12 attorneys to its partnership, effective Jan. 1, including two in Houston:

  • Rachel Fitzgerald — Fitzgerald practices corporate law with a focus on M&A, divestitures, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, corporate governance and compliance. She has a focus on clients in energy, insurance and media.
  • Andrew Reed — Reed represents employers in litigation, including trade secrets matters, breach of restrictive covenant agreements, wage and hour violations, and employment discrimination claims.

Mayer Brown

Mayer Brown announced elevating 39 attorneys to its partner class, including Michael "Vince" Cangolosi in Houston.

Cangolosi is a member of the firm's global energy and chemicals practice group. He has experience in M&A, dispositions, multistate and cross-border transactions, capital markets offerings and other corporate matters. He has a particular emphasis on clients in upstream and midstream oil and gas, oil field services, power generation and green technology.

Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright promoted seven new Houston-based partners in its 2022 partner class:

  • Kimberly Cheeseman — Cheeseman is part of the firm's employment and labor group. She joined the Houston office in 2013.
  • Justin Coddington — Coddington's practice focuses primarily on advising clients on executive compensation, employee benefits and the employment side of corporate transactions.
  • Dimitri Millas — Millas serves as bond counsel and disclosure counsel in municipal bond financings for cities, counties, school districts, universities, airport systems and other local government entities.
  • Denton Nichols — Nichols focuses on high-value disputes, including international arbitrations, international litigation in U.S. courts and investor-state disputes.
  • Rafe Schaefer — Schaefer focuses on commercial litigation issues, including partnership disputes, join ventures, LLCs and corporations, energy and rail disputes, and professional liability disputes.
  • Darren Smith — Smith is an intellectual property attorney with experience in patent transaction and litigation issues. He also assists clients with developing technology patent portfolios.
  • Geraldine Young — Young is a litigation and disputes attorney focusing on antitrust, RICO and class-action litigation for clients in energy, pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance and other sectors.

Sidley Austin

  • Atman Shukla —Sidley Austin promoted Houston energy and infrastructure attorney Shukla to the partnership, effective Jan. 1. He focuses on M&A and investment transactions for clients in upstream, midstream, downstream and oil field services.

Vinson & Elkins

Vinson & Elkins promoted 13 attorneys to its partnership, effective Jan. 1, including three in the Houston office:

  • Robert Hughes — Hughes advises on strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures, for private equity firms, portfolio companies and other businesses.
  • Damien Lyster — Lyster has worked on state and federal regulatory issues concerning natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons and other power commodities, including matters in production, transportation and storage.
  • Crosby Scofield — Scofield focuses on corporate matters and transactions, like M&A, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and equity financings. He has experience representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions.

Winston & Strawn

Winston & Strawn elevated 21 attorneys to its partner class, including Katherine A. Preston in Houston.

Preston focuses on commercial and bankruptcy litigation for individuals and corporate clients. She frequently represents clients against fraudulent transfer claims and other bankruptcy litigation issues.



source: https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2022/01/23/law-partner-roundup-norton-rose-haynes-boone-aza.html

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