Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that leading digital asset attorney Kari Larsen has joined the Firm as a partner. She will serve as co-head of the Willkie Digital Works practice based in the firm’s New York office. Kari is a pioneer in the digital asset industry with more than two decades of private practice, in-house and government experience advising financial technology, digital asset, crypto and blockchain clients on some of the industry’s most innovative technologies and products. Kari joins Willkie from Perkins Coie, where she was co-lead of the Blockchain, Digital Asset, and Custody group within its Fintech practice.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Kathryn (Katy) Linsky as a partner in its Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group. Katy joins McDermott in New York from an in-house senior privacy counsel role at Apple. Her practice is focused on counseling companies on data protection throughout the information lifecycle, including compliance with national and international regulations and data processing in product development and emerging technologies.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Mirlande Telfort has joined the firm’s Finance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice group as a partner in the New York office. With a strong focus on middle market financings, Mirlande represents private equity funds, banks, and other investors in complex debt financing transactions across a wide range of industries, particularly life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer products. Prior to Blank Rome, Mirlande was a partner in the Banking & Finance practice at McGuire Woods LLP.

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Clifford Chance has today announced that US tax specialist Kevin Colan will join its US Tax, Pensions & Employment (TPE) practice as a partner in its New York Office. Colan brings to the firm more than 20 years of experience advising on US tax issues across complex international transactions for financial investors, sponsors and corporates. He has worked across a range of sectors including Funds & Investment Management, Sovereign Wealth, Healthcare and Private Equity. Colan comes to the firm from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.

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