• Jones Day has named as partners Gasper LaRosa, intellectual property, and Kelly Carrero, financial institutions litigation and regulation.
• Mauricio España, litigation, and Thomas Rayski, intellectual property, have been promoted to the partnership at Dechert.
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has elected to the partnership Christopher Kercher, complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy; Joseph Milowic III, intellectual property litigation; Isaac Nesser, complex commercial litigation; and Steig Olson, antitrust class actions and complex litigation.
• Kaye Scholer has elevated to counsel Soumitra Deka, intellectual property; Jeffrey Misher, finance; and Angela Vicari, complex commercial litigation.
• BuckleySandler has elected Liana Prieto, litigation and investigations, to counsel.
• Denise Pursley, a Nixon Peabody partner in Long Island, has been tapped to lead the firm's real estate practice of more than 50 attorneys and staff.
• Winston & Strawn has announced new leadership roles in the litigation department: partners Jeffrey Kessler, head of the antitrust and competition practice group and cochair of the sports sub-practice group; David Feher, cochair of the sports sub-practice group; James Smith III, chair of the securities practice; Thomas Quigley, chair of the products liability group within complex litigation; and Michael Elkin, chair of the copyright, entertainment and digital media sub-practice.
