The Miami office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Jason M. Murray as a corporate partner focusing on franchise and distribution law. Murray joins K&L Gates from Gunster, where he served as a shareholder and leader of the franchise and distribution practice.
Mintz has strengthened its Capital Markets Practice with the addition of Member Andrew Thorpe to the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Thorpe started his legal career at the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and has become a seasoned capital markets lawyer in private practice over the last two decades. Prior to joining Mintz, Mr. Thorpe practiced with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in the Bay Area.
Vincent Sama, widely respected as one of the nation’s most effective litigators of high-stakes securities and commercial disputes, has joined Seyfarth. Sama comes to Seyfarth from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, together with his longtime, accomplished partners Catherine Schumacher and Daphne Morduchowitz. All join as partners in Seyfarth’s growing New York office, and Sama will serve as co-chair of the firm’s national Commercial and Securities Litigation practice.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Seth A. Liebenstein has joined the Firm’s Real Estate group as Of Counsel in the New York office, which recently welcomed Stacy H. Louizos as a partner in the Corporate, M&A and Securities group and Christopher P. Miskolczi as a commercial real estate associate.
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Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce that Haima Marlier has joined the firm in its New York office as a partner in its Securities Litigation, Securities Enforcement, and Investigations + White-Collar Defense Groups. Ms. Marlier joins Morrison & Foerster from the Enforcement Division of the New York office of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). During her nine-year tenure at the SEC, most recently as Senior Trial Counsel, Ms. Marlier served as lead trial counsel on a number of prominent enforcement litigations and investigations. She represented the SEC in enforcement actions brought against financial service providers, issuers, and individuals in U.S. federal and administrative courts. Ms. Marlier also investigated a wide array of matters, including disclosure failures related to financial results and internal controls, offering frauds, data breaches, and insider trading. While at the SEC, she worked closely with U.S. federal prosecutors and the SEC’s specialized units focused on complex financial instruments and market abuse.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Dean S. Nordlinger has joined the Firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a Partner in the Corporate, M&A, and Securities group, which welcomed Partner Stacy H. Louizos earlier this week in the New York office. Dean brings more than 20 years of experience representing privately held and closely held companies of all sizes, private equity firms, and entrepreneurs from a broad range of industries. Dean joins from Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., where he served as principal.
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Katten announced today that Bryan Kotliar has joined its Insolvency and Restructuring practice as a partner in the New York office. Kotliar has represented debtors, creditors, shareholders and other parties in interest in a range of high-profile restructuring matters, including some of the largest and most heavily contested bankruptcies of the past decade, as well as prepackaged and other prearranged cases. An active member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, Kotliar most recently was with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and before that, Jones Day, in the New York offices of both firms. Earlier, he was at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, where he first worked with Reisman.
King & Spalding today announced that Jeanie Cogill has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its New York office. Ms. Cogill joins the firm from Morgan Lewis.
King & Spalding announced that a four-partner pharma and healthcare mass tort team of Morton Dubin, John Ewald, Kristen Fournier and Kathy O’Connor is joining the firm’s Trial and Global Disputes practice group in New York. They were previously partners at Orrick.
