In New York:
Former acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Carolyn Pokorny joined Akerman as co-chair of the firm’s white-collar crime and government investigations practice … Corporate partner Marc Shepsman returned to Cahill from Paul Weiss … Ryan Tansey, former chief of the Washington Criminal Section of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, moved to King & Spalding. The firm also added fund finance partners Andy Bettwy and Jin Joo from Proskauer … Pillsbury hired family office and private wealth partner Matthew Sperry from Cadwalader … Private client partner Angelo Grasso moved to Loeb & Loeb from Greenfield Stein & Senior … Morrison Foerster hired Ching-Lee Fukuda to its IP trial practice as a partner from Sidley Austin … IP litigation partners Scott Weingaertner and Stefan Mentzer moved to Greenberg Traurig from Goodwin ... Sheppard added antitrust partner Luke Taeschler from Crowell & Moring.
In D.C.:
Paul Weiss added corporate tax partner Daniel Zygielbaum from Gibson Dunn … Trial and congressional investigations partner Matthew Owen joined Gibson Dunn from Kirkland … Skadden added Monica Freas as a partner in its financial institutions regulatory group from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency where she was acting senior deputy comptroller for regional and midsize financial institutions … IP trial partner Tom Broughan moved to Morrison Foerster from Sidley Austin.
In San Francisco:
Venture capital partner Brian Willbur moved to Polsinelli from Gunderson Dettmer … K&L Gates added Edward Baer as partner in its asset management and investment funds practice from Ropes & Gray … Energy tax transactions partner Marc Nickel returned to McGuireWoods from Aon … Buchalter added IP partner
