Melissa Messina Brings Investment Banking, Public Finance Skills to McGuireWoods

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

McGuireWoods is expanding its nationally ranked public finance practice with the arrival of Baltimore partner Melissa Messina, an attorney and former investment banker with deep experience advising and structuring financings for senior living communities and representing lenders and underwriters in complex finance transactions. Messina joins McGuireWoods from the financial services firm HJ Sims, where she was a senior investment banker before assuming the role of executive vice president and associate general counsel.

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Dinsmore Grows Again in Cleveland with Addition of Experienced Financial Services Litigator

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Just weeks after the arrival of five intellectual property attorneys, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is adding to its commercial finance and litigation teams with the recent addition of Ben Carnahan to the Firm’s Cleveland office. Ben builds long-lasting client relationships and has extensive experience in complex commercial and consumer loan transactions and litigation, with an emphasis on the defense of banks, consumer finance companies, mortgage lenders and loan servicers against federal and state consumer statutory claims. Carnahan joins Dinsmore from Walter & Haverfield LLP.

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Eversheds Sutherland Adds International Tax Pro Megan Hall as a Partner

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Megan K. Hall has joined the Tax Practice Group as a partner. Resident in the Washington DC office, Ms. Hall further strengthens the firm’s international tax capabilities with a particular focus on transactional matters, cross-border employment and global mobility. Hall arrives at the firm form Mayer Brown LLP.

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Latham & Watkins Adds Funds-Focused Tax Partner in New York

Monday, February 27, 2023

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Michael Milazzo has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Transactional Tax Practice. Milazzo advises private investment funds and their sponsors on the tax aspects of forming, structuring, and investing in private funds, including private equity, infrastructure, credit and debt, real estate, venture/growth equity, and ESG/energy transition funds, across the US and Europe. Milazzo joins Latham from Kirkland & Ellis.

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K&L Gates Adds Partner to Real Estate Team in Sydney

Monday, February 27, 2023

Global law firm K&L Gates has further bolstered its Real Estate practice with the appointment of Jennifer McCosker as a partner, based in Sydney. McCosker joins K&L Gates from Arnold Bloch Leibler, where she was a partner.


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O’Melveny Welcomes Former FTC Litigator Peter Herrick to its New York Office

Monday, February 27, 2023

O’Melveny announced today that leading antitrust litigator Peter Herrick has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Antitrust and Competition Group. Herrick comes to O’Melveny from Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, where he was a leader in the firm’s healthcare antitrust practice and counseled clients on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust risk, and high-stakes antitrust litigation across a range of industries.

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