Lateral Partner Watch for the Week of April 28th, 2025

• Former co-chairs of the shareholder activism practice at Vinson & Elkins, Lawrence Elbaum and Patrick Gadson, have joined Sullivan & Cromwell.

• Baker McKenzie has added tax partner Scott Levine to their Washington D.C. office following his role as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs at the US Department of Treasury.

• Thompson Coburn expanded their litigation practices in both Chicago and Dallas with the additions of litigation partners Adam Toosley and Laura Ellis Kugler.

• Patent law partner Robert Reeser joined Stinson LLP’s Intellectual Property & Technology group in their St. Louis office.

• Allison Garrett joined Spencer Fane’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group as an of counsel attorney in their Oklahoma City office.