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— Movers and Shakers —
Lehman also received permission to hire 480 people to help with its wind-down and took on Weil, Gotshal Manges LLP as bankruptcy counsel and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP as conflicts counsel. As it's being acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Washington Mutual Inc. named Robert Williams Jr. president of the failed bank. Williams was senior vice president and corporate treasurer of WaMu. He replaces William Kosturos, who will continue as chief restructuring officer, executive vice president and secretary. Kosturos had joined WaMu from turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal. Also, John Maciel became chief financial officer. Maciel is a senior director at Alvarez & Marsal.
In France, private equity house CVC Capital Partners appointed Charles-Henri Filippi as a senior adviser. Filippi was most recently chairman and chief executive of HSBC France and a member of the management board of HSBC Holdings plc. LECG LLC said Elizabeth Farina, former president of CADE, the Brazilian competition authority, joined LECG as a managing director. Four other economists also joined the firm's global competition policy practice. Elisa Mariscal, who was previously the economic and strategic adviser to the chairman of Mexico's Federal Competition Commission, joined the Mexico City office. Pedro Pereira, an official of the Portuguese competition authority, joined in Washington. Xinzhu Zhang, who is with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, is leading LECG's competition policy work in China. And Joshua Wright, who teaches in law schools at George Mason and University of Texas at Austin, joined the firm. Winston & Strawn LLP enlisted 19 attorneys from Thelen LLP. Partners Paul Griffin, Jonathan Howden, Richard Lapping, Kit Loke, Dirk Mueller, Robert Nelson Jr. and Robert Pringle join the San Francisco office. Jarrett Fugh will reside in Los Angeles, and Jonathan Bristol joins in New York. In San Francisco, Dean Morehous joins the firm as of counsel, along with associates Eva Chan, Marcus Colabianchi, Seagrumn Gilbert, Laura Guillen, Jinjian Huang, Sean Meenan, Takako Morita, Justin Pauls and Jonathan Swartz. Six former Thelen LLP attorneys, led by litigator and former co-chair of Thelen's commercial litigation practice, Barry Felder, will join Foley & Lardner LLP in the litigation and intellectual property departments. Felder is joined by IP partners Steven Rizzi and Catherine McGrath in New York. Former Thelen associates Akiva Cohen and Rachel Kramer joined the New York litigation department. Partner Robert Camors joined Foley's IP department in the Silicon Valley office. Reed Smith LLP took on the labor and employment practice from Thelen LLP, led by Linda Husar and Thomas Hill. At Thelen, Husar was national chair of the labor and employment practice. Hill was firmwide managing partner of operations and managing partner of the Los Angeles office. They are joined by partners Deborah Broyles, Remy Kessler and Steven Katz. Husar, Hill, Kessler and Katz join in Los Angeles, while Broyles will lead the group's practice in San Francisco. Associates include Christine Kohler, Marytsa Reyes, Aundrea Newsome and Stephanie Henderson. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP said London-based corporate partner David Higgins will move to Dubai to co-head the Middle East and North Africa corporate practice. Proskauer Rose LLP hired finance and commercial lawyer Steven Weise as a partner, based in Los Angeles. Before Proskauer, Weise was a shareholder of Heller Ehrman LLP. Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley tapped Curtis Smolar as a partner in its intellectual property practice in San Francisco. Smolar joins RMKB from Bay Capital Legal PC. Bryan Cave LLP elected 10 partners, effective Jan. 1: Ryan Davis and Susan Easton, corporate finance and securities, technology, entrepreneurial and commercial, and transactions; Heather Zerger, commercial litigation, labor and employment and white collar defense and investigations; Elizabeth Ferrick, class and derivative actions, commercial litigation and white collar defense and investigations; environmental attorney Margaret LaBianca; James Lawrence, class and derivative actions, commercial litigation and product liability; Mark Paskar, intellectual property and commercial litigation; Sarah Sise, employee benefits and executive compensation; Richard Stewart, banking, restructuring and commercial litigation; and Jay Warren, commercial litigation, employee benefits and executive compensation and labor and employment. |
In mid-September, Bryan Marsal (pictured left) of Alvarez & Marsal joined Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. as chief restructuring officer, overseeing Lehman's massive Chapter 11 process. He will become chief executive at year's end, replacing Richard S. Fuld Jr., one of the longest-running CEOs on Wall Street, who took flack for running Lehman into the ground. Fuld (right) joined Lehman in 1969. 
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