Eversheds Sutherland is delighted to announce the addition of Emanuel Tsourounis II as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Based in New York, Mr. Tsourounis will enhance the firm’s services that advise institutional lenders on real estate debt financing and broader commercial real estate transactions. Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Tsourounis was a New York-based partner in the real estate practice group of Cole Schotz P.C.

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Sidley is pleased to announce that David Grubman and Adam Cromie have joined Sidley’s M&A practice as partners in the New York office. Mr. Grubman joins from Jones Day, where he was M&A Chair for the Americas for the firm’s corporate practice. He will be global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A practice. Mr. Cromie joins from Simpson Thacher, where he was an M&A partner. He worked with Mr. Grubman previously for seven years.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen “Steve” C. Koval has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group. A well-known dealmaker, Steve focuses his practice on structuring and negotiating complex business and private equity (“PE”) transactions, including public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts, and recapitalizations. He joins Blank Rome from Arnold & Porter where he served as partner and co-head of the firm’s global private equity practice.

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Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie announced today that the Firm’s Tax Practice has added partners Julia Ushakova-Stein in San Francisco and Niki Ford in New York.

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Meredith Mackey has joined the Firm as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice, based in the New York office. Meredith joins from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where she was a partner in the Corporate department. She had also previously served as vice president at Goldman Sachs.

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The addition of four highly accomplished partners, who have advised clients at the center of the most complex and consequential restructuring matters in the United States, will further strengthen and expand Latham’s market-leading restructuring practice. The partners joining are Ray Schrock, Candace Arthur, and Alexander Welch from Weil, along with Andrew Parlen, who rejoins from Paul, Weiss. Schrock will also serve as Global Chair of Latham’s Restructuring & Special Situations Practice. Parlen will serve as Head of US Restructuring.

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King & Spalding announced today that Olivier N. Antoine has joined the firm’s Business Litigation practice group as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Antoine joins King & Spalding from Crowell & Moring, where he led the New York antitrust practice.

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