Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced the addition of Britt Mosman, former Attorney-Advisor at the U.S. Department of Treasury. She joins the Firm as a partner in the Global Trade & Investment Practice Group and will be based in Washington, DC.
Nixon Peabody is expanding its Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group with the arrival of Travis Hill as a partner in the firm’s New York City office. Travis joins Nixon Peabody from the New York State Attorney General’s office.
Mayer Brown announced today that fund finance lawyer Thomas Rao has joined the firm as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice in New York. Mr. Rao joins from Paul Hastings LLP.
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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Alison (Ali) Haggerty has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Capital Markets Practice within the Corporate Department. Haggerty advises issuers, predominantly in the technology and life sciences industries, and underwriters on capital markets transactions, with a particular emphasis on initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, and convertible debt offerings. She also regularly counsels publicly-traded companies on general corporate and securities law matters, including governance issues, reporting obligations, and stock exchange rules and requirements. Haggerty joins Latham from Cooley LLP in New York.
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Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Ryan Poscablo, a former federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), has joined the firm’s Investigations & White-Collar Criminal Defense practice as a partner. Based in the New York office, Poscablo will focus his practice primarily on government investigations of corporations and individuals as well as internal investigations. Most recently, Poscablo practiced out of the New York office of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP.
Reed Smith today announced that Stephen A. Aschettino has joined the Global Corporate Group’s FinTech practice as a partner in the New York office. Aschettino is a former general counsel and seasoned trial attorney, and he advises diverse companies in every sector on legal, regulatory and commercial aspects of the evolving payments technology sector, including all forms of electronic payments, blockchain solutions, credit and prepaid cards, mobile wallets, peer-to-peer payment apps, cryptocurrencies and related licensing issues. Aschettino comes to Reed Smith from Loeb & Loeb LLP, where he was a partner, chair of the Payments Technology Practice and co-leader of that firm’s Blockchain Team.
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Cooley has again bolstered the ranks of its global cyber/data/privacy team, welcoming Tiana Demas as a partner based in New York. Demas, who served as an assistant US attorney for more than a decade, joins Cooley from Facebook, where she was associate general counsel of cybersecurity and investigations. She previously served as deputy chief of general crimes at the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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Allen & Overy today announced that Adam Sofen has joined the firm from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP as a partner based out of A&O’s New York offices. Sofen’s practice focuses on the commercial real estate market, and lends itself to capturing the real estate related financing and equity work that is a natural extension of A&O’s existing engagements. He will integrate into Allen & Overy’s transactional practices, including Corporate M&A, Private Equity, and Restructuring, among others.
