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Monica Hwang, an LNG expert, has practiced for the last 14-plus years in King & Spalding's Houston office.
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Monica Hwang, an LNG expert, has practiced for the last 14-plus years in King & Spalding's Houston office.
Corporate lawyer Valeska Pederson Hintz is heading home to Texas and joining Perkins Coie's ECVC practice after spending the first chapter of her legal career in Palo Alto.
Trevor Pinkerton heads to a firm he has great familiarity with from his time at Emory University in Atlanta.
Ryan Hunsaker, who was of counsel at V&E, has helped secure more than $6 billion in loans and other credit facilities for clients over his decade-plus career.
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