Corporate and M&A attorney Waajid Siddiqui has joined Holland & Knight’s New York office as a partner. He focuses on upstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, as well as acquisitions and divestitures of lending and leasing platforms and portfolios of financial assets. Mr. Siddiqui was previously a partner with Shearman & Sterling.
Rimon is pleased to welcome experienced trial litigator Michael Lazaroff, who focuses on complex commercial litigation and international litigation, as a partner in its New York office.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Douglas S. Horowitz will join the firm’s New York office as a partner. Horowitz, formerly a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, will lead Gibson Dunn’s leveraged and acquisition finance efforts.
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Goodwin, the global law firm serving innovators and investors, today announced that Robert Masella joined the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice and Life Sciences and Technology groups as a partner, resident in the New York office. Masella joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Seth J. Kleinman as a partner in the firm’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group (BRIG). He will have a dual presence in New York and Chicago. Kleinman joins from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and brings close to two decades of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency experience to Morrison & Foerster.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to grow its nationally-recognized Corporate Practice with two new additions: Elina Alperovich and Serena Y. Shi, who both join as shareholders in the firm’s New York office with a focus on private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Alperovich joins from Apollo Global Management Inc. and Shi comes from Latham & Watkins LLP.
Akin Gump is pleased to announce that leading executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer Romica Singh has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Ms. Singh brings over 15 years of executive compensation experience in both transactional and day-to-day matters involving the design of compensation and benefit arrangements. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Singh was a partner at Gunderson Dettmer and previously worked at Cravath and Paul Weiss.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that four partners have joined the Healthcare industry team in New York. The group is composed of Lourdes M. Martinez and Gregory R. Smith (both joining from Garfunkel Wild), Carly Eisenberg Hoinacki (joining from Epstein Becker & Green), and Cyrus Abbassi (joining from Proskauer Rose). This is the second group to join the Healthcare team in the last month: on March 8, the firm welcomed a five-member healthcare real estate team, led by partner Timothy Reimers, in Los Angeles.
