Richard S. Kanowitz Joins Haynes and Boone’s Restructuring Team

Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Corporate restructuring lawyer Richard S. Kanowitz has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Restructuring Practice Group. He will be based in the New York office. Kanowitz comes to Haynes and Boone from Cooley LLP, where he spent 20 years representing corporate debtors, creditors’ committees, unsecured and secured creditors, and equity holders in a multitude of businesses, including healthcare, telecommunication services, biofuel, biotech, manufacturing, real estate and retail.
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Pillsbury Welcomes Two More Industry Pros to Join Growing Insolvency & Restructuring Practice

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Following on the arrival of two veteran insolvency and restructuring professionals in San Francisco, Pillsbury continues to execute on its growth plan for the practice by bringing Insolvency & Restructuring partners John Pintarelli and Patrick Fitzmaurice to the firm’s New York office. Fitzmaurice was previously with Troutman Sanders, while Pintarelli was at Morrison & Foerster.

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Latham Adds Leading Emerging Companies Partner in NY

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Peyton Worley has joined the firm as a corporate partner, based in the New York office, in the Emerging Companies Practice. Worley advises emerging and established technology companies across their entire life cycle, from formation through IPO or sale, including in capital-raising transactions, entry into strategic partnerships, founder liquidity transactions, and acquisitions and dispositions. Worley also represents the venture capital firms and growth capital firms that invest in these early stage startups and fast growth companies. Worley joins from Cooley LLP in New York. 
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Top SDNY Securities Fraud and Money Laundering Prosecutor Joins McGuireWoods

Monday, August 3, 2020

McGuireWoods is pleased to announce that Jason Cowley, former co-chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and former chief of the Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, has joined the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department.

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Akerman Welcomes Mark Lichtenstein to Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group in New York

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, welcomes Mark Lichtenstein to the firm’s Bankruptcy and Reorganization Practice Group. Lichtenstein brings extensive experience working with corporate and distressed assets, particularly while resolving restructurings and bankruptcy matters on behalf of private equity firms, financial institutions, and hedge funds. Lichtenstein joins the firm from Crowell & Moring, LLP.

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Prominent Insurance/Reinsurance Group Joins Mintz

Friday, July 17, 2020

Mintz is pleased to announce that the firm has added a group of five leading practitioners to its nationally renowned Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. Specifically, Deirdre G. Johnson, Paul W. Kalish, Suman Chakraborty, and Ellen MacDonald Farrell join as Members, and Elaine Panagakos joins as Special Counsel. All five attorneys previously practiced at Squire Patton Boggs, and will practice out of the firm’s Washington D.C. office, with the exception of Mr. Chakraborty, who is based in New York. Ms. Johnson, Mr. Kalish and Mr. Chakraborty are all Chambers ranked practitioners.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds Skilled Litigator, Joseph Matteo, in New York Office

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Joseph A. Matteo, an accomplished commercial litigator, has joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Matteo will be based in the firm’s newly opened New York office, where he joins six new lateral partners and several other attorneys from some of the city’s most elite law firms. Matteo joins the firm from Kaplan Rice LLP.

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Julia Petty Joins V&E’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Practice in New York

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Julia Petty has joined Vinson & Elkins as counsel in the firm’s Executive Compensation and Benefits practice in New York. Petty, who comes to V&E from Kirkland & Ellis, focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters in connection with domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings and restructuring transactions.

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