Mintz Adds Top Trial Lawyer Mark W. Lerner to Lead its Employment Litigation Group

Mark W. Lerner has joined Mintz’s New York office as a Member of the firm. Mark will serve as the Chair of the Employment Litigation Practice within the firm’s Employment group. Mark is a preeminent trial lawyer and employment attorney who leads cases and counsels clients on complex employment issues. His practice focuses on executive and private equity compensation disputes; trade secret and restrictive covenant disputes; discrimination and harassment litigation; high-stakes internal investigations; and representing institutions in all types of employment-related litigation. Mark is an award-winning litigator known for his trusted client counsel and leading a team of lawyers to excellence and great results.

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Mintz Adds Top Trial Lawyer Mark W. Lerner to Lead its Employment Litigation Group

Mark W. Lerner has joined Mintz’s New York office as a Member of the firm. Mark will serve as the Chair of the Employment Litigation Practice within the firm’s Employment group. Mark is a preeminent trial lawyer and employment attorney who leads cases and counsels clients on complex employment issues. His practice focuses on executive and private equity compensation disputes; trade secret and restrictive covenant disputes; discrimination and harassment litigation; high-stakes internal investigations; and representing institutions in all types of employment-related litigation. Mark is an award-winning litigator known for his trusted client counsel and leading a team of lawyers to excellence and great results.

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Leveraged Finance Leader Sanjay Thapar Joins Baker Botts

Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology, and life sciences law firm, announced today that Sanjay Thapar, a highly regarded finance attorney has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate Practice based in New York. Sanjay’s arrival enhances Baker Botts’ deep and growing finance practice, particularly in the areas of liability management transactions, private credit, and acquisition financings.

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Blank Rome Adds Finance Pros James M. Cretella and Ikhwan A. Rafeek as Partners in New York

Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that James “Jim” M. Cretella and Ikhwan A. Rafeek have joined the firm’s leading Finance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy group in New York. Jim and Ikhwan represent institutional and specialty lenders, banks, and commercial finance and factoring companies in a variety of asset-based lending (“ABL”), specialty finance, and corporate transactions. They join Blank Rome from Otterbourg P.C. where Jim served as chair of the firm’s banking and finance department.

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Akin Strengthens Special Situations Practice with Chad Nichols Rejoining Firm

Akin announced today that Chad Nichols has rejoined the firm as a finance partner in its global market-leading special situations practice. At a time of continued growth in the market, Nichols brings deep experience acting for credit funds on many of the most prominent liability management and other special situations transactions as well as bespoke private credit and direct lending matters.

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King & Spalding Adds Financial Restructuring Partners Eric Wise and Matt Kelsey in New York

King & Spalding announced today that Eric Wise and Matt Kelsey have joined the firm’s Finance and Restructuring practice group as partners. Wise and Kelsey have practiced together for more than twenty years, advising clients on complex Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, foreclosures and enforcements, related special situations financings and other corporate transactions. They are based in the firm’s New York office. Wise and Kelsey join the firm from Alston & Bird.

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