Holland & Knight has strengthened its Financial Services Team with the addition of Rebecca Chaffin as a partner in Charlotte. Ms. Chaffin focuses her practice on representing agents in leveraged syndicated credit facilities and lenders and trustees in tax-exempt financings. She was previously a partner at McGuireWoods.
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Jean Gonnell, a regulatory attorney with a significant focus cannabis and tobacco law, has joined Troutman Pepper’s Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) practice group. Resident in the firm’s Charlotte office, Gonnell joins from her private practice, Gonnell Law.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes partner David Easwaran and a team of six patent agents and technical specialists to the firm’s Intellectual Property practice area. Easwaran and his colleagues join K&L Gates from Womble Bond Dickinson LLP, with Easwaran resident in K&L Gates’ Charlotte office and others from his team based in Boston, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C.
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP has announced that Andrew Quesnelle has joined the firm as a partner in its Labor & Employment department, based in Charlotte.Quesnelle comes to Seyfarth from Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., where he was the Associate General Counsel, Labor & Employment.
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Mayer Brown announced today that Perry Hicks has rejoined the firm’s Banking & Finance practice as a partner in Charlotte. Mr. Hicks’ practice focuses primarily on private investment fund finance. He joins from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.
Tags: Mayer Brown LLP | CharlotteHolland & Knight announced today that a significant corporate and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) group with experience in private equity has joined the firm’s office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Joining the firm are Partners Rick Bange, John Gilson, Mike Miller, Emerich Gutter and Ben Weadon. All were previously at Moore & Van Allen. They look forward to continuing to grow their team and providing excellent service to their clients.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, already renowned for its national and global real estate industry practice, has raised its game in real estate finance. The highly regarded team from Winston & Strawn consists of partners Corey Tessler, Michael Moser, Jarrid King, Brian Smetana, Christine Spletzer, and Brian Bailey.
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Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Damian C. Georgino has joined the firm’s Corporate and Securities Group as a partner in the Charlotte, N.C. office. Damian advises U.S. and international corporations, including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, and other investors in complex transactions involving water and wastewater, energy, industrial/manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and natural resource projects. Damian joins Womble from Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office.
Melinda “Mindy” McGrath, a leading attorney with extensive knowledge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Natural Gas Act, and state regulatory matters, has joined Troutman Pepper’s nationally recognized Energy Practice Group in Charlotte, NC as a partner. She joins the firm from McGuireWoods.
Sabrina Conyers, a nationally recognized corporate tax lawyer with more than 17 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international tax matters, has joined McGuireWoods’ Tax & Employee Benefits Department as a partner in the firm’s Charlotte office. Conyers joins McGuireWoods from the Charlotte office of Nelson Mullins, where she was a partner in the tax and benefits practice. She previously was a senior manager at a Big Four accounting firm.
