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Jones Day welcomes eight new lateral partners and one of counsel in first month of 2012

In the month of January, the global law firm Jones Day announced the addition of eight new lateral partners and one of counsel.

U.S. Department of Justice official Hank Bond Walther joined the Firm's Washington Office as a partner in the Corporate Criminal Investigations Practice. He also will work on business and tort litigation matters. Mr. Walther served as Deputy Chief in charge of the Health Care Fraud Unit in the Fraud Section of DOJ's Criminal Division and, previously, as Assistant Chief of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit in the Fraud Section.

Tom Skinner joined the Firm as a partner in the Chicago Office. He formerly served as acting Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator, and as Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. He most recently was head of the environmental law group at Mayer Brown LLP. Mr. Skinner's practice focuses on environmental litigation, federal and state civil and criminal enforcement matters, regulatory and permitting issues, and counseling, including crisis response.

Former U.S. Attorney Matthew Orwig and high-profile litigators Basheer Ghorayeb and Shawn Cleveland joined the Firm's Dallas Office as partners. All were partners in SNR Denton's Dallas office, where Mr. Orwig was managing partner.

Mr. Orwig, who has served three presidents and five attorneys general in leadership positions in the Department of Justice, was U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas from 2001 to 2007. He has more than 25 years of experience litigating complex civil and criminal cases, focusing currently on white-collar criminal litigation and investigations; SEC investigations, including defense of insider trading and accounting fraud allegations; health care fraud and abuse; qui tam litigation; litigation involving government agencies; and bankruptcy and allegations of fraud.

Mr. Ghorayeb represents clients in intellectual property, product liability, and complex business disputes at trials, in arbitrations, and on appeal. Besides having extensive experience defending automotive products cases, he served for six years as national discovery counsel to a Fortune 100 company in the industry.

Mr. Cleveland represents companies, corporate officers, and directors in government and internal investigations, securities litigation, and complex business litigation. He has represented clients in several high-profile, multi-track cases with concurrent class actions, derivative suits, and SEC and DOJ investigations. A CPA with a national accounting firm before entering the law, he has extensive experience in accounting fraud cases and securities suits involving allegedly fraudulent accounting and disclosures by public companies in the technology, computer services, manufacturing, financial, and energy industries.

Pat Swan joined Jones Day as a partner in the Business and Tort Litigation (USA) Practice, resident in the Firm's San Diego Office. Mr. Swan is a trial lawyer representing clients in complex civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts throughout California and the United States. He is active in a wide range of areas of the law, including intellectual property, trade secrets, business, environmental, securities, fraud, personal injury, product liability, white collar fraud, false claims, and commercial law. Mr. Swan comes to Jones Day from Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps, where he was the partner-in-charge of the San Diego office and head of the firm's white collar criminal defense practice group.

Glyn Powell, former head of the Fraud Business Area in the U.K. Serious Fraud Office from 2004, has joined the Firm as of counsel in the London Office. Mr. Powell's experience focused on the investigation and prosecution of complex economic crime and recovering the proceeds of crime. He had responsibility for overseeing the prosecution of Asil Nadir whose trial began recently at the Old Bailey. He led a number of complex multi-jurisdictional criminal investigations, including the U.K. aspects of the Bernard Madoff investment fraud and an operation directed against Spanish boiler rooms that resulted in ten prosecution cases. Mr. Powell also has been involved in criminal justice system policy developments, consulting on changes to U.K. confiscation and restraint legislation and proposals to reform the disclosure regime. He was the Serious Fraud Office's representative on the National Fraud Authority’s Project and Management Boards.

Jones Day's Dubai Office welcomed regional real estate and project development lawyer Duane Keighran as a partner. Mr. Keighran has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate and large scale projects across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, acting for a variety of government related entities, developers, contractors, and investors. Mr. Keighran's practice is focused on the development of complex infrastructure and real estate projects, as well as the sale and acquisition of high value real estate assets. He has advised on some of the most complex and innovative transactions in the MENA region.

Lamberto Schiona will join Jones Day's Milan Office as a new partner in the Firm's Global Disputes Practice in February 2012. Mr. Schiona advises both domestic and international companies on a diverse range of corporate, financial, and commercial litigation cases as well as in the context of bankruptcy proceedings. He is regularly involved professionally in domestic and international arbitration cases and has material experience representing clients before government agencies and regulators. Since 2006 he has been a correspondent of the World Bank ("Doing business team").

Jones Day is a global law firm practicing in the major centers of business and finance throughout the world. Ranked among the world's best and most integrated law firms, and perennially ranked among the best in client service, Jones Day acts as principal outside counsel to, or provides significant legal representation for, more than half of the Fortune Global 500 companies.