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Elliott Hurwitt

Corporate Counsel

03-01-2013

PATRICIA FLETCHER, former executive vice president and general counsel of AV Homes Inc., joined Gunster Yoakley & Stewart as a shareholder in the firm's Miami and Vero Beach, Florida, offices.

McGuireWoods hired MOLLY WHITE as a partner in its Los Angeles office. She had been senior trial counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

JOE WAYLAND, former acting chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, rejoined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in New York.

Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp announced that ADAM MEHR, the former GC of Gold Circle Films, is now of counsel in the firm's Los Angeles office.

SARAH TURNBULL will rejoin SJ Berwin in April as a partner in the London office. She left in 2005 to become legal head of Ofcom (formally the Office of Communications), the regulatory authority governing broadcasting and telecommunications in the United Kingdom.

MARLON PAZ, former principal integrity officer at the Inter-American Development Bank, was named a partner with Locke Lord in Washington, D.C.

JULIAN HAMMER, former assistant GC at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is now special counsel in the D.C. office of Covington & Burling.

Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton hired two new partners from the in-house world. LOUIS KOZLOFF, now in the firm's Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, office, is the former vice president and chief litigation counsel of Harleysville Insurance. MATTHEW VUOLO, who joins the New York office, had been the corporate counsel for U.S. business law at MetLife Inc.

JAY LEE, former head of the North East Asia legal team for debt capital markets at Standard Chartered Bank, joined Simmons & Simmons, where he will head up the same practice for all of Asia. He takes up the role formerly filled by SAU-WING MAK, who has moved to the firm King & Wood Mallesons. Both remain in Hong Kong.

Shutts & Bowen announced that FRANÇOIS HENRIQUEZ, former president and chief executive officer of U.S. Central Federal Credit Union, joined the firm as of counsel in Miami.

LISA DUNSKY, who had been executive director and associate GC of CME Group Inc., is now a partner with Katten Muchin Rosenman in Chicago.