Latham Adds Leading Emerging Companies Partner in NY

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

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

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

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

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

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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High-Ranking EDNY Prosecutor Gina Parlovecchio Joins Mayer Brown as Partner in New York

Mayer Brown has continued the expansion of its regulatory, investigations and enforcement capabilities with the arrival of prominent federal prosecutor Gina Parlovecchio, who joins the firm as a partner in the global White Collar Defense & Compliance and Regulatory & Investigations practice groups in New York. Previously, Ms. Parlovecchio was an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), where she served as the chief of the office’s International Narcotics and Money Laundering Section (INMLS).

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Thompson & Knight Expands in New York with Addition of Real Estate and Banking Group

Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce Partner Keith Brandofino, Counsel Maximiliano Rinaldi, and Counsel David V. Mignardi have joined the Firm’s New York office in the Real Estate and Banking Group. Together, these real estate litigation attorneys have more than 50 years of expertise on a range of legal matters, including real estate and business finance, real estate capital markets, special servicing, contracts and commercial agreements, distressed debt and workouts, and appellate litigation. The three come to the firm from Kilpatrick Townsend in New York.

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