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By Brooks Igo
(Feb. 1) – Gardere Wynne Sewell launched a Denver office and strengthened its Dallas headquarters with a team of four laterals from Perkins Coie, the firm recently announced.
Dallas partner Joyce Mazero and Denver partner Leonard MacPhee will lead the firm’s global supply network industry team, which includes about 12 lawyers. At Perkins Coie, they led the firm’s supply chain and franchise and distribution practice groups.
Gardere Chair Holland O’Neil said “there is no time like the present to plant a flag” in Denver.
“There was an opportunity to enhance our global franchising and supply-side practice, and Joyce recommended the Denver attorneys,” she said.
Mazero and MacPhee are joined by Dallas associate Sarah Walters and Denver partner Jess Dance.
O’Neil says the firm has been considering a Denver office in its strategic plan for some time, especially when oil prices were higher. In addition to being an energy play, she highlighted Denver for its vibrant corporate and technology activity.
O’Neil added that the firm is interested in adding energy, corporate M&A and technology expertise to the office, but that the firm will “start small and be cautious” in the Mile High City.
MacPhee is tasked with leading and managing the new outpost.
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