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UPDATED: Kirkland Picks Up Compensation/Benefits Partner from Baker Botts

Rob Fowler, an executive compensation and employment benefits lawyer who spent 15 years at Baker Botts, has moved to Kirkland & Ellis’s Houston office.

In doing so, Fowler will rejoin partner Sean Wheeler, who worked with Fowler at Baker Botts between 2005 and 2009 before jumping to Latham & Watkins in 2010 and then to Kirkland in 2018. Back in 2009, the two lawyers worked on the $4.5 billion Denbury Resources Inc. acquisition of Encore Acquisition Co.

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