Musical Chairs: 12.04.06

Law Firm Mergers:
* One of Seattle’s top firms, Davis Wright Tremaine, is acquiring D.C-based Cole, Raywid & Braverman, a telecom boutique with 35 lawyers. The acquisition will be effective on January 1.
Lateral Moves:
* Intellectual property/M&A lawyer Leonard Jacoby, to Cleary Gottlieb, from Wilson Sonsini. Jacoby’s practice focuses on IP issues related to mergers and acquisitions — a nice speciality to be in these days.
* IP lawyers David Bloch and Becky Troutman, to Winston & Strawn, from McDermott, Will & Emery and Thelen Reid & Priest, respectively.
(Thelen Reid, you’ll recall, is merging with Brown Raysman.)
New Partners:
* Kirkland & Ellis, which was recently named “USA Law Firm of the Year” by Chambers & Partners — congratulations! — has named 64 (!) new partners. Names here.
(We’re guessing that most, if not all, are non-equity partners.)
* Preston Gates & Ellis — the “Gates” in the firm name is Bill Gates’s dad — has named 15 new partners. Names here.
(One of them, the brilliant Theodore Angelis, is a law school classmate of ours. Congrats, Theo!)
* Milbank Tweed has named six new partners. Names here.
Davis Wright, Cole Raywid Set to Merge [Legal Times]
NY Partner Switches Firms [NYLawyer.com]
NY Associates Making Partner [NYLawyer.com]
Left-Coast Lawyers On the Move [NYLawyer.com]
Kirkland & Ellis LLP Appoints 64 New Partners [Kirkland & Ellis]
Preston Gates & Ellis LLP Names 15 New Partners [Preston Gates & Ellis]
Milbank Elects Six Attorneys to Partnership [Milbank Tweed]

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