McKenna Long & Aldridge has added five new partners in the month of June – in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta – including three lawyers who previously practiced at McKenna, ahead of its pending merger with law firm Dentons.
The five partners span several key practice areas – government contracts and compliance, litigation and complex tort litigation and corporate transactions and regulation.
Coming into the firm on the eve of the Dentons US merger are the following new partners:
• Mordecai Boone – who joins the Product Liability and Complex Tort practice, based in San Francisco;
• Kelvin Wyles – who also arrives as a partner in the Product Liability and Complex Tort practice in Los Angeles;
• Jeniffer M. De Jesus Roberts – who joins the Washington, DC office with a multi-disciplinary practice in government contracts policy and compliance;
• Kevin Lombardo – joins the government contracts group in Los Angeles, with additional practice focus on international trade regulation;
• Steven Berson – who joined the firm’s corporate group in Atlanta earlier in June, bringing 30 years’ experience in M&A, capital markets and technology transactions, as well as regulatory, compensation and corporate governance matters.
Lombardo, Roberts and Wyles all are returning to McKenna after stints practicing elsewhere – including senior in-house positions on the client side for Roberts.
“We’re excited to welcome these five outstanding new partners to the firm as we get ready to complete our historic merger with Dentons US, which charts a new global platform for our lawyers and advisers,” says McKenna Long Chairman Jeff Haidet, who is slated to become US co-CEO of the firm when the merger is concluded. “We’re excited to attract top-flight talents such as Mordecai Boone and Steve Berson who bring important skill sets in litigation and corporate transactions and recognize the larger opportunity ahead through being part of Dentons.”
