PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Wells Fargo has promoted Whitney Wall to senior vice president and regional manager of middle market banking in north Houston.
West & Associates has added public finance, business and corporate law attorney Edgardo Colón to its Houston office as partner.
Dally + Associates has hired structural engineer Brian Ellestad as a project executive.
Ron Bailey has been promoted to partner at PBK Architects, an international architecture and engineering practice specializing in educational and sports facilities.
Architecture and design firm Perkins+Will has appointed both Thomas Newsom, senior project manager, and Gerald van Benschop, director of global technology service, to associate principal.
Greg Dillard has been named managing partner of the Houston office of Katten Muchin Rosenman. Dillard is a partner in the firm’s environmental and workplace safety practice group in the litigation department.
Joseph Alkhoury has been promoted to catering sales manager at Royal Sonesta Houston.
Ferguson Braswell Fraser Kubasta, a law firm
based in the Dallas area, has opened a Houston office. J. Beverly, Kenneth Holt, Robert Lord, Richard Spencer and Mark Zeidman have joined the firm as shareholders. Joining as associates are Luisa Calderon, Keelin Hargadon, Mark McCarthy, Nicole Phillips and Annemarie Vicere.
Shearman & Sterling has expanded its global energy capabilities with
the launch of a Houston office. Joining as partners are Hugh Tucker, head of the Texas practice, Sarah McLean, deputy head of the Texas practice, Coleson Bruce, Jeremy Kennedy, Todd Lowther and Omar Samji. The team handles mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and project related work across the oil and gas spectrum.