Zetlin & De Chiara LLP, a construction law firm, said on Monday that a lawyer with thirty years of experience advising commercial construction has joined as a partner in its New York office.

In its Los Angeles office, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld announced the hiring of Margaret Maraschino as a labor and employment litigation partner. After nearly 17 years at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, Maraschino joined the firm on Monday.

For partner and counsel positions in its Seattle and San Francisco offices, respectively, Arnold & Porter engaged a seasoned real estate finance lawyer and a seasoned intellectual property lawyer.

Daniel Laguardia, a former managing partner of A&O Shearman’s California offices and co-head of securities and shareholder litigation, joins Paul Hastings as co-chair of the company’s securities litigation group. And Patrick Hein from A&O Shearman in San Francisco, joined as a partner.

Joseph Halloum joined Baker Botts as a partner and chair of the firm’s West Coast mergers & acquisitions practice.

Global legal firm Norton Rose Fulbright offered advice to Soluna Holdings, Inc. (Soluna), a green data center developer, regarding the US$53 million purchase of the 150 MW Briscoe Wind Farm in West Texas and the associated acquisition finance from Generate Capital. Soluna owns multiple data centers that are powered by the wind farm. On April…

Honigman recently provided advice to FormativGroup, a Rockbridge Growth Equity portfolio company, on its purchase of Flok, a Salesforce consulting firm with over ten years of experience in Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and regulated industry implementations.

Maynard Nexsen is happy to announce that Will Gaines has joined the firm’s Atlanta office as a shareholder in the Credit & Restructuring group. His extensive experience will be crucial to the firm’s finance practice and continued expansion in Atlanta.

In relation to the establishment of LSCP BTX CV, a single asset continuation fund for BTX Precision, a top high-precision producer of mission-critical parts and assemblies, Gibson Dunn represented L Squared Capital Partners. With participation from a syndicate of international investors and a fresh commitment from L Squared Fund IV, HarbourVest Partners led the continuation…

Reed Brodsky and Amer S. Ahmed, partners at Gibson Dunn, won a complete defense victory on April 1 in the Southern District of New York, ending a billion-dollar civil RICO claim that was started more than eight years ago by large real estate developers with the approval of the US government.