Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Ann Kashishian to its Wilmington office as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation and Bankruptcy & Insolvency Practices. Ms. Kashishian has represented clients in complex litigation matters for over a decade. Prior to joining Lewis Brisbois, Ms. Kashishian owned and operated her own law firm for more than 6 years, where she consistently secured positive results for alternative entities, corporations, and individuals in litigation matters throughout the Delaware and federal court systems. She also has successfully represented numerous committees and individual creditors in chapter 11 and chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.

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Barnes & Thornburg has added Wali W. Rushdan II as a partner in the firm’s Wilmington office. Rushdan joins the firm’s Real Estate Department, where he focuses his practice on real estate transactional and litigation matters, land use, and construction matters. Rushdan arrives from Fox Rothschild LLP.

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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Erin Fay has joined the firm as a corporate partner in the Wilmington, Delaware office, where she will be a member of the restructuring practice. Fay is the third partner to join Wilson Sonsini in Wilmington in the last seven months, reflecting the firm’s success in expanding both the scope of services it offers clients and its team in Delaware-an important location for corporate and commercial matters in the United States. Before joining Wilson Sonsini, Fay was a partner at Wilmington-based Bayard, P.A., where she was a member of that firm’s business restructuring and liquidations group. 

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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome Sean Brennecke to its Wilmington office as a partner in the firm’s Complex Business & Commercial Litigation, Corporate, and Bankruptcy & Insolvency Practices. With 17 years of experience, Mr. Brennecke represents corporations, alternative entities, and their respective directors, officers, shareholders, members, and managers in complex corporate and commercial matters. He has extensive experience litigating cases in the Court of Chancery and Superior Court of the State of Delaware, as well as in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Allurie Kephart has joined the firm’s corporate department as a partner in the Wilmington, Delaware, office. Kephart’s addition reflects the firm’s ongoing expansion in both Delaware and other markets, as well as sustained demand for transactional and corporate advisory experience from technology and life sciences clients. Most recently, Kephart was a partner at law firm Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor. 

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Lewis Brisbois is pleased to welcome accomplished business attorney and litigator Rafael X. Zahralddin to its Wilmington office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, and Complex Business & Commercial Litigation Practices. Mr. Zahralddin brings to Lewis Brisbois almost three decades of experience advising clients in corporate and commercial litigation, insolvency, distressed mergers and acquisitions, compliance, entity formation, corporate governance, commercial transactions, cyber law, regulatory actions, cross-border issues, and digital asset-related matters. Mr. Zahralddin arrives to the firm from Armstrong Teasdale in Wilmington.

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Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Donald J. Detweiler has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors’ Rights practice as a partner in the Wilmington, Del., office. He was formerly a partner at Troutman Pepper.

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that James G. Gorman III has joined the firm’s Wilmington office in the Corporate Litigation practice group, which recently welcomed partner Barak A. Bassman. James joins Blank Rome from Kleinbard LLC. 

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