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Movers & Shakers

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
September 27, 2010

Ballard Spahr announced that Nicole Evans, resident in the firm's Utah office, was made a partner. Ms. Evans is a member of the Real Estate Department and Planned Communities and Condominiums, Real Estate Development, and Resort and Hotel Groups. Her practice encompasses resort development, timesharing and other luxury real estate products, condominiums, planned community development, and community association matters.

Clifford Chance has hired a Mayer Brown partner to lead its Americas real estate group. Douglas L. Wisner, who for the last four years led Mayer Brown's real estate practice group in New York, joined Clifford Chance as a partner. Wisner, who will still be based in New York, said the firm's decision could be “characterized as a strategic decision on their part to expand the real estate group.”Wisner, who joined Mayer Brown in 1994 from Winston & Strawn, has experience representing investment and commercial banks in arranging financing for real estate transactions. In particular, he has experience in hospitality, which Clifford Chance in a statement said was “part of a key sector” the firm had identified for growth.

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