• Shearman & Sterling has hired David Portilla as counsel in the financial institutions team. He was a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Department of the Treasury‘s Financial Stability Oversight Council office.

• Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has added William Birchfield as a shareholder. He focuses on union negotiations, litigating labor and employment disputes and counseling employers on policy and compliance matters, risk avoidance and organizing issues. He was a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.