Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman is once again expanding its North Texas presence by launching a healthcare practice and hiring two prominent healthcare partners away from competitors to lead it.
The Texas Lawbook has learned that former Norton Rose Fulbright partner Lisa Atlas Genecov and former Winstead partner Cheryl Camin Murray have left their respective firms to join Katten’s recently opened Dallas office.
Katten opened its Dallas office in February when corporate partner Mark Solomon, who is the firm’s managing partner in Dallas, led a group of seven partners to join Katten from Andrews Kurth. The firm now has 29 lawyers in DFW, 10 lawyers in Houston and three in Austin.
In June, former Perkins Coie litigation partner Kelly Hine joined Katten’s Dallas office.
Genecov was a partner and head of the healthcare transactions practice at Norton Rose Fulbright. The University of Texas law graduate previously was chair of Locke Lord’s healthcare practice. She counsels hospitals, health systems, medical groups and other healthcare providers in transaction structures, implementation matters, compliance obligations and strategic opportunities.
Murray was a shareholder in Winstead’s healthcare industry group as well as in the corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practice group. The University of Houston law graduate focuses on advising healthcare providers, financial institutions and other businesses on entity formation and structural, contractual and regulatory healthcare issues.
In May, two white-collar criminal defense lawyers, Barrett Howell and Brandon McCarthy, joined Katten from Bracewell. Howell and McCarthy are partners in Katten’s litigation section but frequently represent healthcare operators, providers and businesses facing allegations of misconduct in state and federal courts and before federal regulatory agencies. Katten’s new healthcare partners would likely increase business development opportunities for the white-collar defense group.
Additional healthcare lawyers may announce soon they are joining Katten, too, according to legal industry insiders. Two legal recruiters have been working together on the lawyers’ lateral moves for several months, a source told The Texas Lawbook.
A Katten spokeswoman declined to comment for the story. The firm, however, added bios of Genecov and Murray to its website Tuesday.