Holland & Knight has strengthened its nationally recognized Real Estate Capital Markets Practice Group with the addition of Partner Stacey Lara. Ms. Lara, who will reside in the firm’s New York office, has extensive experience handling complex commercial and real estate litigation and appeals in state and federal courts. She was previously with Rosenberg & Estis, P.C.
Arnold & Porter announced today the continued growth of its Corporate & Finance practice with the arrival of partner Marina Richter. She will be resident in New York. Richter arrives from O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
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O’Melveny announced today that Robert Wann Jr. has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Corporate Finance Practice Group, strengthening O’Melveny’s complex finance capabilities in the world’s most active deal market. He comes to O’Melveny from the New York office of Baker Botts.
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Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie announced today that Kevin Whittam, a skilled leveraged finance and specialty lending lawyer, has joined the Firm’s Transactional Practice in New York. He brings extensive deal experience and has been involved in numerous multimillion and multibillion dollar transactions over the past several years. Kevin joined Baker McKenzie from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he served as Counsel.
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Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Gabe Fleet has joined the firm as a partner in the Connectivity, Privacy & Information Practice. Fleet is a leading deal lawyer in the music space, representing entertainment, digital media, and technology companies in connection with large-scale licensing transactions and related strategic guidance. Fleet joins Latham from iHeartMedia, where he served as Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and Chief Music Licensing Counsel.
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Ian Nussbaum has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Nussbaum advises public and private companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate governance, and shareholder activism and takeover defense matters. Nussbaum joins Latham from Cooley LLP.
Law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has added experienced litigator and trial lawyer Paul F. Downs, continuing to expand the firm’s Complex Disputes practice at a time of increased commercial litigation across many industries. Nixon Peabody Welcomes Downs from the New York office of Foley Hoag LLP.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced today that Sunny Singh will join the Firm’s New York office as a Partner in the Restructuring Practice to lead the Firm’s U.S. company-side restructuring team. Singh arrives at the firm from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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King & Spalding announced today that Adam Baker has joined the firm’s Special Matters and Government Investigations team as a partner in the New York office. Baker most recently served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) in the District of New Jersey.
Paul Hastings LLP announced today that leading commercial and securities litigator Jennifer Conn, who has represented some of the world’s largest businesses in bet-the-company litigation, has joined the firm as a partner. She will co-chair the firm’s securities litigation practice. Joining from Gibson Dunn, Conn is this year’s second lateral litigator in New York, following the addition of Joshua Berman from White & Case earlier this week.
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