Marcy Christina Priedeman as partner in San Francisco

Priedeman has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. She is a member of Latham & Waktins litigation & trial department who focuses her practice on securities litigation, professional liability, and complex commercial litigation. She has also handled disputes related to accounting and financial transactions across a range of industries.

Julie Dyanne Crisp as partner in San Francisco

Crisp has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Crisp is a member of the Latham & Watkins tax department who advises on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, often in the context of M&A and other corporate transactions. She regularly counsels executives and public and private companies across various industries on all types of compensation arrangements and benefit plans, with extensive experience advising clients in the oil and gas, entertainment, and internet and digital media sectors.

David Dean Troutman as counsel in Orange County

Troutman has been promoted to counsel in Costa Mesa, effective Jan. 1. He is a member of the Latham & Watkins litigation & trial department who focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, including litigation and counseling regarding trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, copyrights, and false advertising, and a broad range of issues commonly encountered by website owners and internet service providers.

Arash Aminian Baghai as counsel in Los Angeles

Baghai has been promoted to counsel in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. Baghai is a member of the Latham & Watkins corporate department who primarily handles complex equity derivative transactions across diverse industries, with a particular focus on the power, healthcare, life sciences, and automotive sectors. His experience includes IPOs, follow-on debt, equity and equity-linked offerings, and debt and capital restructuring transactions, and the structuring of unique securities products.

Joshua Gregory Holt as partner in Los Angeles

Holt has been promoted to partner in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. He is a member of the Latham& Watkins finance department who advises lenders and borrowers on a wide range of transactional matters. His experience includes structuring and negotiating various financial transactions, including senior secured, second lien, subordinated and unsecured credit facilities, leveraged acquisition financings, cash flow and asset based working capital financings, private placements, cross-border financings, participation agreements, and other agreements among financing sources.

Sean Carney Denvir as partner in Los Angeles

Denvir has been promoted to partner in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. He is a member of the Latham & Watkin corporate department who represents private equity firms, and public and private companies, in M&A transactions, including mergers, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, strategic transactions, and minority investments.

Idan Netser as partner in Mountain View from DLA Piper LLP.

Fenwick & West LLP announced Idan Netser has joined as a tax partner in Mountain View. Netser's practice focuses on all areas of corporate taxation. He counsels clients on U.S.-international corporate and partnership taxation, transfer pricing, foreign tax credits, tax planning and restructuring, international joint ventures and M&A transactions, and tax controversy. Netser also serves as primary outside counsel to numerous tech startups.

Ruth Zadikany as partner in Los Angeles

Mayer Brown LLP announced Ruth Zadikany has been promoted to partner in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. Zadikany has represented clients in state and federal court in a range of labor and employment disputes, as well as complex litigation matters, including class action defense. She also has experience defending wage and hour class action claims involving meal and rest period violations, failure to pay overtime, work-off-the-clock, rounding and expense reimbursement, and the extraterritorial application of California law to employees outside of California, as well as other employment issues.

Michael Benjamin Dell as partner in San Francisco

Shartsis Friese LLP announced Michael B. Dell has been promoted to partner, effective Jan. 1. Dell is part of the firm's corporate transactional practice and advises business clients on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity financings, equity incentive arrangements, securities offerings, and business formation transactions for public and private clients.

Gary Caris in Los Angeles from Diamond McCarthy LLP.

Caris focuses his practice on federal equity receivership, creditors' representation in Chapter 11 proceedings and complex bankruptcy litigation. Caris has represented federal equity receivers in dozens of cases across the country brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Jennifer Jaye Levitt as partner in Los Angeles

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Jennifer Jaye Levitt has been promoted to partner in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. Levitt represents financial sponsors and investment banks in connection with debt financings for private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt and other investment funds. She represents clients in complicated financings designed to provide fund-level leverage to facilitate and support investment activities, including margin loans and other forms of back leverage.

Stephen Patrick Blake as partner in Palo Alto

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Stephen Blake has been promoted to partner in Palo Alto, effective Jan. 1. Blake concentrates his practice on securities litigation, M&A and appraisal litigation, and government investigations. He has also represented technology companies, financial institutions and private equity firms and often works with international companies facing litigation over cross-border transactions and securities offerings.

Xiaoyan Zhang as counsel in San Francisco from Mayer Brown JSM.

Reed Smith LLP announced Xiaoyan Zhang has joined the firm's global information technology, privacy and data security group as counsel in San Francisco. Zhang has advised an international clientele on IP, cybersecurity and privacy related issues in complex technology and outsourcing transactions involving e-commerce, licensing and emerging technologies, such as cloud, AI and block chain.

Michael J Siegel as Attorney in Citrus Heights

Siegel specializes in administrative law, including workers' compensation, Social Security disability, and victim compensation.

Michael J Siegel as Attorney in Citrus Heights

Siegel specializes in administrative law, including workers' compensation, Social Security disability, and victim compensation.

Marcy Christina Priedeman as partner in San Francisco

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Marcy Christina Priedeman has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Priedeman is a member of Latham's litigation & trial department. Her practice focuses on securities litigation, professional liability, and complex commercial litigation.

Gregory K. Sobolski as partner in San Francisco

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Gregory K. Sobolski has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Sobolski is a member of Latham's litigation & trial department whose practice focuses on patent litigation. He represents patent owners and accused infringers in technology matters before US federal district courts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the International Trade Commission.

Shivaun Alison Cooney as counsel in San Francisco

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Shivaun Alison Cooney has been promoted to counsel in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Cooney is a member of Latham's environment, land & resources department. She advises on a range of land use and regulatory matters, as well as related transactional matters, with a particular focus on land use entitlements and environmental approvals for major real estate development projects.

Arash Aminian Baghai as counsel in Los Angeles

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Arash Aminian Baghai has been promoted to counsel in Los Angeles, effective Jan. 1. Baghai is a member of Latham's corporate department who primarily handles complex equity derivative transactions across diverse industries, with a particular focus on the power, healthcare, life sciences, and automotive sectors.

David Dean Troutman as counsel in Costa Mesa

Latham & Watkins LLP announced David Dean Troutman has been promoted to counsel in Costa Mesa, effective Jan. 1. Troutman is a member of Latham's litigation & trail department who focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, including litigation and counseling regarding trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets, copyrights, and false advertising, as well as issues commonly encountered by website owners and internet service providers.

Julie Dyanne Crisp as partner in San Francisco

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Julie Dyanne Crisp has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Crisp, a member of the firm's tax department, advises on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, often in the context of M&A and other corporate transactions. She also counsels executives and public and private companies across various industries on all types of compensation arrangements and benefit plans, with extensive experience advising clients in the oil and gas, entertainment, and internet and digital media sectors.

Kirsten Marie Ferguson as partner in San Francisco

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Kirsten Marie Ferguson has been promoted to partner in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1. Ferguson is a member of Latham's litigation & trial department. Her practice focuses on antitrust and competition law, class actions, and complex litigation in federal and state court.