(Reuters) – Three Boston-based attorneys are leaving Hogan Lovells to open up a brand new regulation agency centered on white-collar prison issues and sophisticated civil litigation, in line with William Kettlewell, one of many legal professionals.
Kettlewell and fellow Hogan Lovells legal professionals Elizabeth Pignatelli and Sara Silva are beginning the brand new agency together with Kettlewell’s son Andrew Kettlewell, a prosecutor within the Suffolk County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
The brand new agency, known as Silva, Kettlewell and Pignatelli, will open Jan. 2 and be primarily based in downtown Boston, Kettlewell stated Wednesday. The three Hogan Lovells legal professionals formally depart the agency on Dec. 31.
A Hogan Lovells spokesperson didn’t instantly touch upon the group’s departure. The Suffolk County DA’s workplace did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
The three legal professionals joined Hogan Lovells in 2017 when the transatlantic regulation agency entered the Boston market by a merger with litigation and investigations agency Collora.
Kettlewell has labored on high-profile instances in Boston, together with representing one among two members of then-Boston mayor Marty Walsh’s administration accused of illegally pressuring a music competition manufacturing firm into hiring union labor. A federal choose tossed the convictions of the previous aides in 2020.
Kettlewell, whose profession has spanned 4 a long time, stated the three different legal professionals are “all younger, keen beavers who’ve all the time needed to have their very own agency.” He stated it was a very good time to “step again slightly bit” and tackle fewer instances as senior counsel. The opposite legal professionals might be companions, with Pignatelli as managing accomplice, he stated.
The Boston authorized market has expanded in recent times as out-of-town regulation companies open up and develop native outposts, usually concentrating on mental property, know-how, life sciences and healthcare-focused work.
Hogan Lovells, which has about 2,600 legal professionals, final week acknowledged reports that the agency is in early-stage merger discussions with New York-founded Shearman & Sterling, with each companies neither confirming or denying the talks.
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