Jason D. Goldwater joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP as partner in San Diego.

Goldwater has represented numerous Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies in diverse commercial and employment litigation matters. He practices in all California state courts, Federal District Courts throughout California, and has handled multiple matters before federal and state appellate courts.

Roger B. Frederickson joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP as partner in San Diego.

Frederickson provides clients with deep practical courtroom experience and insightful guidance in navigating highly contentious disputes. His experience representing clients across California and the West includes a wide range of disputes involving commercial contracts, finance, real property, construction, insurance, bankruptcy and probate matters.

Katya Boyko was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Palo Alto.

Boyko's practice focuses on regulatory advice: antitrust matters (including obtaining Russian and foreign merger clearances, competition analysis of certain provisions of the agreements, advise in the course of investigation proceedings conducted by antimonopoly service with respect to collusion/concerted actions and cartels), regulatory matters relating to banking and financial sectors

Kyle Calhoun was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Calhoun’s practice focuses on high-tech patent and trade secret litigation in U.S. Federal Courts and at the International Trade Commission. He has played an integral role on four winning trial teams, drafted several successful dispositive and Daubert motions, prepared for and assisted in the taking and defending of dozens of trial examinations, and has taken and defended several fact and expert depositions.

Andrew A. Chan was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Chan focuses his practice on the tax aspects of complex business transactions and fund formation and structuring.

Courtney Chen was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Chen's practice focuses on private funds.

Ezekiel Couch was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Couch's practice focuses on structuring and forming investment funds.

Michael E. Hanna was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Hanna's practice is focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of aspects, including, but not limited to, leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

Jared Maher was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Maher's practice focuses on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures ranging in size from several millions of dollars to several billions of dollars.

Ankur Sharma was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Sharma's practice focuses on transactional, M&A, and Private Equity law.

Jessica Tjang was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in San Francisco.

Tjang's practice focuses on debt finance and transactional law

Yvonne Beeler was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Beeler's practice focuses on patents, trade secrets, and copyright litigation. Yvonne is a trial lawyer with experience in all phases of U.S. District Court litigation, from pre-suit analysis through trial and appeal. She also has experience in International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 proceedings and Hatch-Waxman (ANDA) litigation. Several of Yvonne’s cases involve overseas corporations based in Asia and Europe.

Matthew Benedetto was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Benedetto's practice focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity Transactional law

Samuel Blake was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Blakes practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation.

Yungmoon Chang was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Chang's practice includes patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters. Her experience includes witness examination at trial, oral argument at hearings, taking depositions, defending depositions, expert witness preparation (including for trial testimony, expert reports, and depositions), and motion drafting.

Eric Y. Cohen was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Cohen's practice focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity Transactional law

Caroline B. Epstein was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Epstein advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other private and public companies in connection with all types of complex financing transactions, including asset-based, unitranche, first-lien, second lien and high-yield transactions.

Amelia Gordon was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Gordon practices debt finance and transactional law

Andrew Hurley was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Hurley practices debt finance and transactional law

Garry J. Padrta was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Padrta routinely represents strategic and financial parties in a variety of corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, spin-offs, reorganizations, restructurings, and recapitalizations. He also represents his clients in connection with corporate governance matters.

Ingrid Petersen

Petersen's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on high-stakes patent infringement suits involving complex technology.

Shandy Pinkowski was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Century City.

Pinkowski's practice includes advising both first-time and established fund sponsors on the formation, structuring and operation on a broad range of investment funds, including real estate, venture capital, evergreen and co-invest funds. Pinkowski also counsels fund sponsors on various internal economic and governance matters, including employee departures and strategic transactions.

Christopher Raidy

Raidy's practice focuses on the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex debt financing transactions including secured and unsecured financings, restructurings, and DIP and exit financing, and domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.

Michael E. Rosenberg was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Rosenberg's focus is in complex civil litigation and government investigations brought in both state and federal court. He has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical, insurance, communications, technology, electric vehicle, finance and financial services, and energy industries in various stages of the litigation life-cycle.

Matthew Summers was promoted to partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.

Summers' practice focuses on complex litigation in both state and federal courts. His litigation experience includes contract disputes, government investigations, product liability defense, mass tort and class action defense, and white-collar criminal defense. Summers also has an active pro bono practice.

Jia Jia Huang joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in Los Angeles, CA.

Huang provides strategic advice and counseling to technology companies on intellectual property and technology-related transactions. She counsels clients on the development, licensing, and commercialization of intellectual property assets across industries. Huang also routinely leads the intellectual property and technology aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, buyout and other private equity transactions, corporate financing and capital raising, and capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings.

Meg Thering joined Goodwin Procter LLP as partner in San Francisco, CA.

Thering provides practical advice to clients in order to enable them to recruit, hire, and retain the best employees possible. She also represents clients in employment litigation and M&A matters.

Manita Rawat joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.

Rawat maintains a thriving intellectual property practice that includes serving as lead outside patent counsel to Fortune 100 companies in Silicon Valley. She primarily supports large technology companies with managing their domestic and foreign patent portfolios, which includes determining patentability and drafting and prosecuting patent applications.

Walter "Walt" C. Pfeffer joined Littler Mendelson PC as shareholder in San Francisco.

Pfeffer has extensive experience litigating and advising on matters involving trade secrets, trademarks, and business disputes. His work involves managing all aspects of litigation, including pleadings, motions, discovery disputes, fact and expert depositions, and hearings. In addition to handling active litigation, he provides pre-litigation counseling, handles alternative dispute resolutions, negotiates settlement agreements, and assists in strategy development and implementation.

Merrili Escue joined Littler Mendelson P.C. as shareholder in San Diego.

Escue represents companies in an array of employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation; wrongful terminations; and reductions in force. She also provides counsel on all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including those related to hiring and other pre-employment issues, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, employment agreements, and discipline and performance management.

Nancy Kawano joined Littler Mendelson P.C. as senior counsel in San Diego.

Kawano counsels companies on employment issues in mergers and acquisitions; hiring practices, performance management and terminations; leaves of absence and disability accommodations; and employment practices audits. She also assists in the development of employee handbooks, workplace policies, and other employment documents; conducts workplace investigations; and provides training on various employment issues.

Jay Angelo joined Near Inc. as general counsel in Los Angeles.

Angelo has over 15 years of legal, compliance and operational experience advising private and public companies. Built and managed legal, compliance, and risk teams from the ground up for both start-ups and established public companies.

Jordan C. Lee joined Polsinelli LLP as shareholder in Los Angeles.

Lee focuses her practice primarily on employment litigation and counseling, and civil litigation. Her extensive employment law experience includes sex, age, disability, race discrimination, wage and hour law, non-compete and trade secrets, and arbitration agreements and proceedings.

Robert C. Fox joined McGuireWoods LLP as managing director of private equity in Century City.

Fox guides external business development strategy, lead generation and client growth. He takes an innovative approach to helping private equity sponsor clients grow their firms by leveraging more than a decade of experience working with private equity, law firms and broader network in the M&A community.

Ericka Curls Bartling joined Husch Blackwell as partner in San Francisco.

Bartling's practice includes business and IT transactions, entity structuring and corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and general counsel services.
She also has deep experience in public finance, specifically as it relates to the issuance of general obligation bonds, project revenue bonds and lease revenue bonds.

Andrew J. Demetriou joined Husch Blackwell as senior counsel in Los Angeles.

Demetriou maintains an active practice counseling clients in connection with governance and compliance issues, and he is a frequent speaker and presenter on these issues and on professional ethics.

Megan R. Nishikawa joined Hogan Lovells LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Nishikawa focuses her practice on defending publicly traded companies in complex commercial and high-stakes product liability matters, including toxic tort and environmental claims.

Amber Trincado joined Hogan Lovells LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Trincado represents clients in the energy and chemical industries in state and federal courts throughout the country. She has broad complex litigation experience, with a particular focus on large-scale groundwater contamination, environmental exposure, and personal injury actions.