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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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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