• Environmental lawyer and litigator Richard Leland and transactional lawyer Ian Tattenbaum joined Akerman as partners. Leland arrives from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson and Tattenbaum joins from Kaye Scholer.

Davis Polk & Wardwell has elected to partner James McClammy, litigation; Pritesh Shah, corporate; Eli Vonnegut, insolvency and restructuring; and Brian Wolfe, corporate.