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US specialist intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson has promoted Elham Dehbozorgi to general counsel, replacing Roger Feldman who is set to retire at the end of the year.
Dehbozorgi joined Fish & Richardson in August last year, becoming the firm’s first chief legal risk officer. In her new role, effective from 1 July, she will oversee all legal, ethical and risk management matters and provide strategic advice to the firm’s leadership.
Boston-headquartered Fish & Richardson specialises in IP law, including litigation, patents, licensing and trademark matters. It has more than 400 lawyers worldwide spread across 15 offices in the US, Germany and China.
John Adkisson, Fish & Richardson’s president and CEO, said: “Elham’s appointment as general counsel reflects her deep experience, thoughtful leadership and the trust she has earned across the firm. As chief legal risk officer, she strengthened Fish’s technology-forward approach to risk and compliance. We’re excited to see her bring that same vision and rigour to the general counsel role.”
Before joining Fish & Richardson last year, Dehbozorgi spent nine years at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox, latterly as GC, having initially joined as chief ethics and risk counsel. Prior to that she worked in the GC’s offices at Latham & Watkins – as an ethics and compliance attorney – and at WilmerHale as a conflicts attorney.
Feldman, meanwhile, will retire on 31 December after more than 23 years with the firm. He became GC in 2008, having previously worked in the firm’s corporate and securities practice group.
Adkisson added: “I am grateful to Roger for his two-plus decades of service to the firm. With unwavering integrity, he has helped shape firm policy and guided us through complex legal matters. Roger has made a lasting mark on Fish.”
Last month, Goodwin Procter partner Alex Lewis quit private practice to become GC at US real estate investment firm KHP Capital Partners. That followed David Koláček leaving Clifford Chance in April to take up the group chief legal officer role at Swiss investment firm KKCG. And in March, US alternative asset management firm TPG hired Debevoise & Plimpton partner Jennifer Chu as CLO.
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