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.

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.

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.

Victor M. Marquez joined Nossaman as partner--real estate group in San Francisco.

Marquez's practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, land use and zoning laws, real estate, business and general commercial litigation, state and local government relations and community outreach specialization in the context of land development and redevelopment for both private companies and nonprofit organizations.

Brian Edward Koegle joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Koegle provides advice and counsel, including best hiring practices, employment contracts, wage and hour issues, compensation, discipline, and termination matters, to employers across various industries.

Michael R. Fostakowsky joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Fostakowsky concentrates his practice on employment and labor litigation before state and federal courts. He regularly represents employers and employees in a broad range of matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, as well as Labor Code violations.

Ransom D. Boynton joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Boynton focuses his practice on representing employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour disputes, employment discrimination, employment contract, discrimination claims, and compliance issues. He also advises a wide variety of companies and organizations in a multitude of industries on compliance with federal, state, and local labor and employment laws.

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.

Devin A Donohue joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Donohue concentrates his practice in the areas of business, trade secrets and securities litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before various arbitration tribunals. Over the course of his career, he has been lead trial counsel in over 100 cases in which he has represented several financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial advisers, resulting in favorable dispositions, including several defense awards and rulings against multimillion-dollar claims.

Thomas E Lombardi joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Lombardi has extensive experience. Among the issues he has litigated are purchase and sale agreements, leases, loans, options, first rights of refusal, commissions, partnerships, failure to disclose, construction, ADA, nuisance, quiet title, easements and boundary disputes.

Jaimie Bombard joined Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Bombard has maintained her practice in the San Francisco Bay area for nearly a decade, and specializes in commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes. She also counsels clients and develops case strategy for all aspects of unlawful detainer litigation, and regularly represents clients in matters arising before the San Francisco Rent Board. She handles property management, tenant buyouts, Ellis Act withdrawals, family evictions, and other just-cause based actions for removal in eviction-controlled California jurisdictions, and has also tried several cases in San Francisco Superior Court.

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.

Joseph Petersen was promoted to managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Silicon Valley.

Petersen has more than two decades of experience representing a broad array of clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright and trademark law.

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.

Victoria Tsylina was promoted to shareholder of Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin PC in Century City.

Tsylina focuses her practice on litigation in business, real estate, trust and probate matters. Her main objective is to promote clients' interests, aggressively working up their cases and developing thorough legal strategies on their behalf.

John-Paul Motley joined Cooley LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.

Joe Newman joined Tyz Law Group as attorney in San Francisco.

Newman's practice focuses on technology transactions, privacy, and other regulatory matters, with a special focus on issues faced by companies in the video game and technology sectors.

Yonaton Rosenzweig joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Rosenzweig's practice focuses on antitrust and unfair competition and extends to entertainment and general commercial litigation as well. He has secured favorable outcomes as lead counsel in matters with nine- and 10-figure dollar amounts at stake. His clients are drawn from industries ranging from retail to real estate to private equity, technology, software, and entertainment.

Richard Gottlieb joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Gottlieb has a financial services practice.

Lauren J. Fried joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Fried concentrates her practice on complex commercial disputes across a variety of industries, with an emphasis on entertainment and media.

Benjamin H. Segal joined Miller Barondess LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Segal is a commercial and environmental litigator who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a range of complex disputes.