Cooley corporate partner Jim Fulton has relocated from Palo Alto, Calif., to New York to serve as partner-in-charge of the office. Fulton, who works in the emerging companies practice group, succeeds real estate partner Shira Nadich Levin as head of the Manhattan office.
Sidley Austin has added Michael O’Brien as partner in the M&A and private equity group. He was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Meanwhile, Joshua Rovine has rejoined Sidley Austin as a partner in the pooled investment entities group. Rovine, who was a Sidley partner from 1998-2002, was general counsel of advisory services at The Blackstone Group and chief compliance officer of Blackstone Capital Partners.
