Jonathan S. Shenson joined Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. as partner in Los Angeles.

Shenson's bankruptcy practice includes representation of debtors, secured creditors (including debtor in possession), lenders, committees, acquirers and other parties in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructures and work-outs, acquisitions, foreclosures, and assignments for the benefit of creditors. His practice also includes commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation including extensive experience in fraudulent transfer and preference actions and litigation in the areas of breach of contract, breach of duty, alter ego, successor liability, and lender liability.

Jennifer Lin Liu as managing partner in Menlo Park

Liu represents individuals in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law and focuses on employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and employment contracts and agreements.

Rebecca Beth Peterson-Fisher as partner in Menlo Park

Peterson-Fisher will continue to litigate employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions, and to represent individual employees in all areas of employment law.

Reece A. Román joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner in San Diego.

Román has litigated hundreds of personal injury, property damage, employment, product liability, class action, and business disputes. He has prevailed on numerous demurrers and motions for summary judgement winning pre-trial dismissals in actions for wrongful death, personal injury, sexual abuse, nuisance, trespass, and inverse condemnation.

Leila Sayegh was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Sayegh represents corporations and private equity funds as borrowers, and banks and other financial institutions as lenders, in a broad range of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge loans, first and second lien financings, debtor-in-possession financings and asset-based loans. Her work with corporate and private equity clients has included PayPal, Inc., Intel Corporation, Quiksilver, Inc., EMC Corporation, Permira Advisers, Veritas Capital, Oaktree Capital Management, Calera Capital and The Gores Group. Financial institutions she has advised include Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America.

She also serves as a pro bono coordinator in Skadden's Los Angeles office and regularly advises nonprofit clients.

Anne E. Villanueva was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Villanueva counsel's clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employment-related issues arising out of U.S. and multinational corporate transactions, executive employment agreements and separation agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions-in-force, discrimination charges and lawsuits, collective bargaining agreements and internal investigations.

Christopher J. Bors was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Palo Alto.

Bors represents public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs and joint ventures, as well as a broad variety of other commercial and contractual matters. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, health care, private equity, food and retail companies.

Glen Mastroberte was promoted to partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles.

Mastroberte represents investors, investment funds, independent production companies, distribution companies, financial institutions and producers in all legal and business aspects of the media and entertainment industries. He also handles general corporate matters related to the financing, production, licensing, distribution and use of motion pictures, television programs and other intellectual property assets. He also represents buyers and sellers of music companies, labels, catalogs and other music assets.

Michael R Guerrero joined Ballard Spahr LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Guerrero counsels companies in a wide range of industries on matters of consumer protection and financial services, including point-of-sale financing, personal property financing, rent-to-own products, and installment financing.

Clare Ellis was promoted to counsel of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in San Francisco.

Ellis's practice focuses on environmental issues impacting the transportation and energy sectors, with emphasis on air quality and climate change. She is also well-versed in both federal and California air quality and greenhouse gas emission regulations impacting vehicle, equipment, and parts manufacturers, as well as all energy producers, distributors, and transportation companies.

Peter Stockburger was promoted to office managing partner of Dentons in San Diego.

Stockburger partners with clients around the globe to strategize about how they can leverage data and talent to grow, operate and protect their business. With a focus on data privacy and security, Peter works with clients of all sizes and maturity to build and shore up global privacy and security programs, enhance compliance and stakeholder confidence, navigate workplace disputes, take new products to market, and harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Victoria Tsylina was promoted to shareholder of Lurie Zepeda Schmalz Hogan & Martin PC in Century City.

Tsylina focuses her practice on litigation in business, real estate, trust and probate matters. Her main objective is to promote clients' interests, aggressively working up their cases and developing thorough legal strategies on their behalf.

Kenneth Yood joined Holland & Knight as partner in Los Angeles.

Yood represents a wide range of healthcare providers and healthcare companies, including specialty and general acute hospitals (including local district, nonprofit and for-profit facilities), home health agencies, specialty pharmacy and infusion centers, pharmaceutical vendors, nursing facilities and health information and management providers.

Chad R. Ensz joined Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partner in San Diego.

Ensz's practice focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of financial institutions and public and private companies in capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint venture and commercial transactions, and ongoing public company representation.

Victor M. Marquez joined Nossaman as partner--real estate group in San Francisco.

Marquez's practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, land use and zoning laws, real estate, business and general commercial litigation, state and local government relations and community outreach specialization in the context of land development and redevelopment for both private companies and nonprofit organizations.

Brian Edward Koegle joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Koegle provides advice and counsel, including best hiring practices, employment contracts, wage and hour issues, compensation, discipline, and termination matters, to employers across various industries.

Michael R. Fostakowsky joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Fostakowsky concentrates his practice on employment and labor litigation before state and federal courts. He regularly represents employers and employees in a broad range of matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, as well as Labor Code violations.

Ransom D. Boynton joined Greenspoon Marder LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Boynton focuses his practice on representing employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour disputes, employment discrimination, employment contract, discrimination claims, and compliance issues. He also advises a wide variety of companies and organizations in a multitude of industries on compliance with federal, state, and local labor and employment laws.

Nury Yoo joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner.

Yoo helps clients in the food and consumer product industries navigate regulations, anticipate and manage risk, and defend against challenges. Her areas of focus include labeling, claims and substantiation, marketing and advertising, food safety, due diligence reviews for private investment, and California's Proposition 65.

Pascal Benyamini joined Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as partner is taking on new leadership role in Los Angeles.

Benyamini is co-leader of the firm’s consumer products and retail industry team. Benyamini will serve as co-leader with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.

Joseph Petersen was promoted to managing partner of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP in Silicon Valley.

Petersen has more than two decades of experience representing a broad array of clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright and trademark law.

Devin A Donohue joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Donohue concentrates his practice in the areas of business, trade secrets and securities litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before various arbitration tribunals. Over the course of his career, he has been lead trial counsel in over 100 cases in which he has represented several financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial advisers, resulting in favorable dispositions, including several defense awards and rulings against multimillion-dollar claims.

Thomas E Lombardi joined Loeb & Loeb LLP as partner in Los Angeles.

Lombardi has extensive experience. Among the issues he has litigated are purchase and sale agreements, leases, loans, options, first rights of refusal, commissions, partnerships, failure to disclose, construction, ADA, nuisance, quiet title, easements and boundary disputes.

Jaimie Bombard joined Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP as partner in San Francisco.

Bombard has maintained her practice in the San Francisco Bay area for nearly a decade, and specializes in commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes. She also counsels clients and develops case strategy for all aspects of unlawful detainer litigation, and regularly represents clients in matters arising before the San Francisco Rent Board. She handles property management, tenant buyouts, Ellis Act withdrawals, family evictions, and other just-cause based actions for removal in eviction-controlled California jurisdictions, and has also tried several cases in San Francisco Superior Court.

Pascal Benyamini was promoted to partner of Faegre Drinker in Los Angeles.

Benyamini will be a co-leader of the firm's consumer products and retail industry team with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.

Benyamini represents employers against employment law claims -- including wage and hour, discrimination and wrongful termination claims -- and advises them on compliance, claim prevention, investigations and employment best practices. He also represents furniture manufacturing clients in regulatory matters.

Richard Gottlieb joined Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP. as of counsel in Los Angeles.

Gottlieb has a financial services practice.

Benjamin H. Segal joined Miller Barondess LLP as associate in Los Angeles.

Segal is a commercial and environmental litigator who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a range of complex disputes.

Karen T Tsui joined Maynard Cooper & Gale as associate in Los Angeles, CA.

Tsui is a litigator with experience in insurance coverage disputes, bad faith liability actions, and other contractual disputes. She focuses her practice on ERISA and employee benefits, including the representation of insurers in life, health, and disability litigation. Karen is an Associate in Maynard's Insurance & Financial Services Litigation Practice. She has substantial experience in all phases of civil litigation, including written and expert discovery, law and motion practice, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.