Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Real Estate Practice Group with partner Bruce Meyerson in New York. Meyerson represents real estate owners, developers, and lenders with interests in commercial, office, retail, mixed-use, multifamily, and industrial properties. Meyerson joins Akerman from Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
Joseph J. Frank has joined the firm as a partner based in the firm’s New York and Miami offices. Joe most recently served as Chief Legal Officer and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.-a $20 billion global provider of software and services to the financial industry. Before SS&C, Frank was a global co-head of the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Practice at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was recognized as “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer for a major win in a residential mortgage-backed securities case.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Samantha Koplik as partner in its Transactions Practice Group based in New York. Sam is a recognized finance lawyer in the market and a trusted advisor to some of New York’s most prominent private equity firms across a broad range of financing matters. Sam joins from Dechert, where she served as a pro bono practice leader for the New York office.
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Jordan Katzenberg has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP’s real estate capital markets team in New York as a partner from Winston & Strawn LLP, where he was also a partner.
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces today that Christopher Hagenbuch has joined the Firm’s Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice as partner. Resident in the New York Meatpacking office, Hagenbuch represents private equity, venture capital and other institutional investors along with emerging growth tech companies in strategic transactions. Hagenbuch joins Dentons from Troutman Pepper.
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Jean Park has joined Cooley’s leading public companies practice group as a partner in New York. Most recently having served as a partner at Simpson Thacher, Park brings extensive experience advising companies, investment banks and investors on a broad range of transactional and general corporate and securities laws matters, with a focus on companies and investors in the technology and healthcare sectors.
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Global law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces the appointment of Stephen Gruendel as a Leveraged Finance partner in the Finance group, based in New York. His arrival adds to the firm’s expanding global and transatlantic leveraged finance offering. This follows the appointment of Heather Waters Borthwick in New York, Daniel Tristan in Houston, a four-partner team with leveraged finance expertise in Paris as well as Sanjeev Dhuna, Gary Hamp and Rahul Chatterji in London over the past year. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Stephen was a counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce three partner additions to the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group: Simon Roberts and Jason Leonard in New York and Maxwell “Mac” Fox. Simon and Jason join from Hogan Lovells; Mac, who will reside in Japan, joins from Jones Day.
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Ogletree Deakins, one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, welcomes Sandi Dubin to the firm’s New York office as shareholder. Prior to joining Ogletree Deakins, Sandi served as in-house labor and employment counsel for New York University (NYU) for 10 years. As lead labor counsel for NYU, she has advised on all types of labor relations matters arising under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) covering multiple bargaining units, and has served as chief negotiator for NYU in collective bargaining. In addition to her experience as a chief negotiator, Sandi has represented the University in labor arbitrations and matters before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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