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Brownstein Hyatt adds three in L.A.

By Richard Binder

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has announced that Les Lo Baugh and Karol K. Denniston have joined the firm?s Los Angeles office as its newest shareholders. Joining Denniston in her transition to Brownstein is former DLA Piper corporate restructuring associate, Brendan Collins. Lo Baugh will join Brownstein?s natural resources practice group, and Denniston and Collins will join Brownstein?s corporate restructuring group.

Lo Baugh, previously a partner at the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski where he lead the firm?s west coast environmental practice group, has more than 30 years of experience counseling clients on projects ranging from utilities and alternative/renewable energy projects, oil and gas matters, and LEED issues to national and international transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He also has substantial experience with Native American legal matters. He has been honored by the LA Bar Association, corporate section, with its ?Outstanding Corporate Counsel? award. Lo Baugh received his law degree from Georgetown University and his bachelor?s degree from Santa Clara University.

Denniston, a former partner and head of the west coast restructuring and vice chair of the corporate restructuring practice group at DLA Piper, has 25 years of corporate restructuring experience. She focuses on distressed M&A and corporate restructurings, both in and out of court. Admitted in multiple jurisdictions, including England, Denniston received her law and masters degrees from West Virginia University and her bachelor?s degree at Concord College.

Collins was also a member of DLA Piper?s corporate restructuring practice group. His practice focuses on complex real estate and business restructuring, with an emphasis on real estate development agreements, financing agreements, joint venture agreements, commercial leases, foreclosures and bankruptcy. Collins earned both his law degree and his MBA at the University of California at Los Angeles and his bachelor?s degree at the United States Naval Academy.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).