John Hemann joined Cooley‘s white-collar practice after leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where he was chief of the special prosecutions and national security unit and deputy chief of the criminal division. As partner with Cooley, he will be involved with similar matters to the ones he handled as a prosecutor. He is based in San Francisco.

Ellen Sueda left her role as counsel at Weil, Gotshal & Manges to join Ropes & Gray. With experience handling benefits and executive compensation issues in transactions, investments and litigation, Sueda joins the firm’s executive compensation and benefits practice group as counsel in San Francisco.