The placement of Louis Dienes with Ballard Spahr as a partner in its San Diego office. Dienes joins from Locke Lord. Dienes represents buyers and sellers and their respective boards, senior management, investment banks and other stakeholders such as debt holders in mergers and acquisitions and tech transactions. He has completed more than $10 billion of consummated mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including U.S. and foreign stock and asset acquisitions and mergers.