International law firm Proskauer announced today the arrival of James Lee and Jae Woo Park as partners in its M&A practice. They will both be based in the New York office. The pair join the firm from K&L Gates in New York.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Robert E. Holo is joining the firm as a partner in the Tax Department, resident in the New York office. Mr. Holo’s practice focuses on international and domestic transactions, including all types of mergers, acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and spin-offs; cross-border tax matters; joint ventures; and capital markets and financing transactions. Mr. Holo joins the firm from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York.
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Somashekara’s arrival marks a reunion with his former McGuireWoods partner John Lukanski, who himself returned to Reed Smith in 2018. Together with their partners Thao Ngo and Jeff Silberman, they form the foundation for Reed Smith’s broker-dealer and investment adviser practice, an area of specific need for the firm’s institutional bank clients, as well as regional banks and other financial and non-bank institutions with broker-dealer affiliates.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Parimah Hassouri has joined the Firm’s New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Her appointment follows the recent addition of Rajab Abbassi as a partner in New York and bolsters Kirkland’s ability to serve clients on complex insurance transactions and insurance regulatory matters. Ms. Hassouri joins from the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery where she was a partner.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Mehtap Cevher Conti has joined the firm’s Finance practice as a partner in the New York office.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to welcome five new attorneys to the Firm’s Tax, Benefits, and Private Client group in the New York office: Senior Counsel Irwin M. Slomka; Of Counsel Matthew F. Cammarata, Eugene J. Gibilaro, and Kara M. Kraman; and Senior Attorney Michael A. Pearl. The leading group joins from Morrison & Foerster LLP and adds to the Firm’s growing Nationwide State and Local Tax practice, which recently expanded with the addition of prominent partners Craig B. Fields, Holly L. Hyans, Nicole L. Johnson, and Mitchell A. Newmark to enhance the Firm’s capabilities to litigate state and local tax matters and counsel clients on state and local tax planning throughout the country.
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Seyfarth announced today that Jay H. Levinton and Michael J. Waters have joined the firm’s Real Estate department in New York. Levinton, who joins as partner, and Waters, who joins as senior counsel, bring sophisticated transactional experience to the practice. With these additions, Seyfarth has added six lateral attorneys in the firm’s New York office in 2020 and more than 100 since 2005. Waters joins the firm from Wachtel Missry LLP, while Levinton joins the firm from Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein, LLP.
O’Melveny announced today that leading entertainment finance lawyers Terrence L. Dugan and Christopher A. Owens have joined the firm as partners in its Corporate Finance practice, based in New York. The pair come to the firm from Morgan Lewis & Bockius in New York.
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Polsinelli, an Am Law 100 firm, announced today that Daniel F. Valsamopoulos has joined the firm in New York as a Shareholder in Polsinelli’s Corporate and Transactional practice. Valsamopoulos was previously a partner at Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker and Sharfstein, LLP, a boutique law firm on Long Island. Valsamopoulos earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. He began his career at Bracewell LLP.
