Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman has added a third name – Kenya Woodruff of Haynes and Boone – to the healthcare practice it has launched in its recently opened Dallas office, The Texas Lawbook has learned.
The hiring of Woodruff, whose presence on the Haynes and Boone website disappeared on Thursday afternoon, is expected to be announced Friday, along with Norton Rose Fulbright partner Lisa Atlas Genecov and Winstead shareholder Cheryl Camin Murray, whose departures were reported by The Lawbook Tuesday.
The Duke-educated Woodruff was a partner and chair of Haynes and Boone’s healthcare practice group and its attorney diversity and inclusion committee. She focuses on health care regulatory counsel and designing and executing mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She also advises on creating and maintaining compliant health care operations and structures for different types of providers, including physicians, hospitals, home health, hospice, accountable care organizations and clinically integrated networks.
“Kenya was a valued colleague, and we wish her success in her new position,” says Haynes and Boone managing partner Tim Powers.
Before joining Haynes and Boone in 2011, Woodruff was deputy general counsel of Parkland Health & Hospital System for three-and-a-half years. Prior to that, she was an associate at Jones Day and associate general counsel at Radiologix. She spent her early legal career as an associate at Baker McKenzie and at Jenkins & Gilchrist.
Genecov was head of the healthcare transactions practice at Norton. Murray was a shareholder in Winstead’s healthcare industry group as well as its corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practice.
Katten opened its Dallas office in February led by managing partner Mark Solomon, who came from Andrews Kurth along with six others. The firm now has 30 lawyers in DFW, 10 lawyers in Houston and three in Austin.