Polsinelli Bolsters Nashville Office With New Shareholder Richard Miltimore

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed Richard Miltimore as a shareholder in the firm’s growing Nashville office and to the Real Estate & Financial Services Department. Miltimore is an experienced real estate attorney and former business owner in the payment processing space. He is the 12th shareholder the department has added in the past 12 months and the fifth new shareholder in Polsinelli’s fast-expanding Nashville office in the past year. Polsinelli moved into a new office space in Nashville in October last year to accommodate the firm’s exceptional growth in Music City.

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Morgan Lewis Adds First-Chair Trial Lawyer Aliza Karetnick In Philadelphia

Enhancing Morgan Lewis’s trial, business disputes, and crisis management capabilities, Aliza Karetnick, who most recently led Ballard Spahr’s commercial litigation and dispute resolution group and co-led its manufacturing and consumer products and class action litigation teams, joins as a partner in Philadelphia. Aliza will continue to represent clients in complex commercial, class action, and other litigation.

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Energy Litigator Michelle Scheffler Joins Skadden in Houston

Skadden is pleased to announce that Michelle Scheffler has joined the firm as a litigation partner in our Houston office. Ms. Scheffler’s practice focuses on advising major oil and gas companies, publicly traded and privately owned independents, and private equity investors at trial and in other complex disputes in the energy sector. She has extensive experience leading matters related to mass and class action royalty litigation, leasing conflicts, operating agreements and title disputes, among other areas of controversy, and regularly represents clients in high-stakes lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide. Scheffler arrives from Haynes & Boone LLP in Houston.

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Polsinelli Grows in Miami With Two M&A Shareholders

Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli has welcomed two new shareholders to its growing Miami office. Joining Polsinelli from a boutique firm, but each coming with years of experience at their prior Am Law 50 firms, Albert Diaz-Silveira and Cristina Quintero are two seasoned corporate attorneys and have joined the firm’s Corporate M&A Practice Group to anchor and build out the practice in South Florida. Polsinelli has had steady growth in its nationwide Corporate M&A Practice over the past year, adding four shareholders and significantly expanding in adjacent practices such as Private Equity and Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies.

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Boies Schiller Flexner Adds Securities and Corporate Governance Litigator

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Renee Zaytsev, a trial lawyer who has handled complex corporate and commercial disputes throughout the United States, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office. Renee brings deep experience in securities and shareholder litigation, and she will expand the firm’s ESG capabilities. Zaytsev arrives at the firm from Thompson Hine LLP.

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ArentFox Schiff Welcomes Preeminent Restructuring and Bankruptcy Partner in Boston

ArentFox Schiff is pleased to announce the addition of partner Todd Feinsmith to its Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring practice in the firm’s Boston office. Todd brings three decades of experience handling high-profile and sophisticated matters related to distressed mergers and acquisitions (M&A), business reorganizations, and debt restructurings. Todd joins ArentFox Schiff from Troutman Pepper, where his past roles included serving as managing partner of the firm’s Boston office and as a national co-chair of the Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice.

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