Articles from Hunton Andrews Kurth

DALLAS, Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that prominent minerals and mining capital markets attorney Joanna D. Enns has joined the firm as a partner in Dallas. 

Washington, Oct. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Henry Jin, an energy and infrastructure attorney who advises clients on renewable energy transactions, has rejoined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C., where he started his legal career nearly a decade ago.

Los Angeles, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After a month-long jury trial in Los Angeles, Hunton Andrews Kurth’s National Trial Team secured a clean-sweep victory and $16.3 million verdict for long-time client Spotlight Ticket Management, Inc. on its claims against StubHub, Inc. for breach of contract and tortious interference with contract and prospective economic advantage.   

Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jonathan L. Lewis, a nationally recognized antitrust and consumer protection attorney who advises clients from the consumer products, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, chemicals and healthcare sectors, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as counsel in Washington, D.C.

San Francisco, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is expanding its San Francisco office and California environmental and litigation practices with the addition of Martin Stratte, a land use and environmental permitting attorney with significant experience advising companies in the mining and natural resources sectors. 

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Travis G. Hill, former CEO of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) and former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, has joined the firm’s Global Economic Development, Commerce and Government Relations (GECON) Group as Counsel. Hill is a Virginia-licensed attorney who will utilize his many years of senior leadership roles in the public and private sector to provide clients with both legal and non-legal services across a range of industries.

New York and Atlanta, Feb. 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome to the firm new partners, Nelson Ahn and Edward Kim, who focus their practices on advising both South Korean and non-Korean businesses on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, operational and regulatory matters.

HOUSTON, Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Carl von Merz, a highly regarded corporate attorney with two decades of experience advising on large scale energy industry transactions, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, where he will serve as head of the firm’s U.S. Oil and Gas practice.

Houston, Jan. 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- David Terry, an experienced environmental enforcement attorney whose legal career includes more than a decade of service with the Texas Attorney General’s office and with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP.

Boston, Dec. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome to the firm Gerard T. “Gerry” Leone, Jr., whose distinguished legal career includes serving as general counsel for the University of Massachusetts and as a state and federal prosecutor who secured convictions in some of the most high profile cases in the country.

Washington, Oct. 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Stephen R. Pattison, a business immigration attorney and former U.S. State Department Senior Foreign Service Officer, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a special counsel in Washington, D.C.

Washington, Oct. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rachel Saltzman, an experienced environmental attorney who served as a top legal advisor for global automotive manufacturer Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) and as an enforcement attorney for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP’s nationally recognized environmental practice as a partner in Washington, D.C.

Washington, Sept. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Valarie Ney, an experienced corporate and M&A attorney, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C. Ney represents clients from a broad array of industries, including the government contracting, pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, technology and manufacturing sectors.

New York, Sept. 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Susan L. Shin, a highly regarded and nationally recognized complex commercial litigation and trial attorney, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in New York.  

Washington, D.C., March 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that, effective April 1, 2023, Sam Danon will become the firm’s managing partner, and Wally Martinez, the firm’s current and longest-serving managing partner, will transition into the newly-created role of Chief Growth Officer. The evolution and expansion of these key leadership positions signals a bright new chapter in the firm’s history. 

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Colleen T. Grygier, a corporate transactions attorney who advises energy sector clients on domestic and international nuclear, renewable and fossil fuel project development and finance matters, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Benjamin Cooper, an experienced project finance attorney who recently served as an associate general counsel at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), has returned to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner* in the firm’s energy and infrastructure practice.

RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kevin S. Elliker, an experienced appellate, complex litigation and government investigations attorney, has returned to Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a counsel in the firm’s Richmond office.

DALLAS and HOUSTON, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to welcome tax partner William Freeman and project finance counsel Alex Choinski. Freeman and Choinski, who join the firm from a prominent international energy company, are based in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices, respectively.

ATLANTA, Oct. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Public finance attorney Darrell Smelcer has rejoined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a special counsel in Atlanta. Smelcer spent the past decade as a tax law specialist with the Internal Revenue Service and has significant government and private practice experience advising on a spectrum of legal matters related to tax exempt bonds.