With the hiring of two former Dechert partners, Dewey Ballantine has expanded its financial services practice and opened a new office in Charlotte, NC. James R. Bryant III and W. Todd Stillerman will open the new office in the second-largest banking center in the U.S. Their structured finance practice focuses on structured real estate products and equity investments, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in commercial mortgage-backed securitization (CMBS) transactions, real estate CDOs and the securitization of other real estate interests, sale-leaseback, mezzanine financing, and syndicated finance transactions. Dewey has over 20 partners in its Structured Finance Group located in New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, Milan and Warsaw; the firm has hired 17 lateral partners since the beginning of April.
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