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Akin Gump Launches Expansive Retail Industry Initiative
Akin Gump announced the launch of an interdisciplinary retail industry initiative spanning multiple practices across the firm. The initiative brings together more than 100 lawyers with extensive industry knowledge and experience representing direct-to-consumer companies across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Read MoreAkin Gump Advises Warrior Met Coal in Concurrent Tender Offers
Warrior Met Coal, Inc. has announced the commencement of its offer to purchase, in cash, up to $150 million principal amount of the company’s outstanding 8.00 percent Senior Secured Notes (“Notes”) due 2024, at a repurchase price of 103 percent of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such Notes to, but not including, the date of repurchase.
Read MoreGovernment Contracts Partner Angela Styles Joins Akin Gump
Akin Gump announced that Angela B. Styles has joined the firm as a partner in its government contracts practice. With a practice spanning nearly 25 years, Ms. Styles is among the most prominent government contracts lawyers in the United States.
Read MoreFormer PCAOB Director of Enforcement and SEC, DOJ Veteran Claudius Modesti Joins Akin Gump
Akin Gump announced that Claudius Modesti, former Director of Enforcement at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), has joined the firm as a partner in its white collar defense and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreAkin Gump Welcomes Nimesh M. Patel as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
Akin Gump announced that Nimesh M. Patel has joined the firm as its chief diversity and inclusion officer, resident in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Patel joins Akin Gump from WilmerHale, where he was director of diversity and inclusion.
Read MoreAkin Gump Promotes Valerie Morse White to Senior Consultant, Welcomes Casey Higgins as Senior Policy Advisor
Akin Gump has promoted Valerie Morse White, a government relations professional with more than 30 years of corporate federal advocacy experience, to the role of senior consultant at the firm. The firm will also welcome Casey Higgins as senior policy advisor. Ms. Higgins previously served as Assistant to the Speaker for Policy and Trade Counsel for former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI).
Read MoreFormer House Energy and Commerce Committee General Counsel Karen Christian Joins Akin Gump
Akin Gump announced that Karen E. Christian, former General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, has joined Akin Gump as a partner in its congressional investigations practice in Washington, D.C. As the top lawyer for the Committee, Ms. Christian ran and oversaw some of the highest-profile, most-complex congressional investigations of the last decade. She also previously served as chief counsel to its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
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