Seyfarth announced today the arrival of partner Jason Polevoy to the firm’s Real Estate practice in New York. Polevoy is a broad-based real estate practitioner with comprehensive transactional experience in virtually all practice areas, and first chair acquisition/disposition, leasing, and financing experience. Polevoy joins Seyfarth from Patterson Belknap.
Skadden is pleased to announce that Nicola Di Giovanni has joined Skadden as a partner in our Paris office. Nicola’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border private equity matters, advising investment funds, family offices and industrial companies on acquisitions, buyouts and joint ventures. Nicola is fluent in French, English and Italian. He arrives to the firm from Winston & Strawn in Paris.
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of Kathryn (Katy) Linsky as a partner in its Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group. Katy joins McDermott in New York from an in-house senior privacy counsel role at Apple. Her practice is focused on counseling companies on data protection throughout the information lifecycle, including compliance with national and international regulations and data processing in product development and emerging technologies.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Mirlande Telfort has joined the firm’s Finance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice group as a partner in the New York office. With a strong focus on middle market financings, Mirlande represents private equity funds, banks, and other investors in complex debt financing transactions across a wide range of industries, particularly life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer products. Prior to Blank Rome, Mirlande was a partner in the Banking & Finance practice at McGuire Woods LLP.
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Akin Gump today announced that Andrew Sagor has joined as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Sagor’s practice focuses on leveraged finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on acquisition finance in connection with private equity transactions. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Sagor was a partner in the New York office of Baker & McKenzie LLP, where he was chair of its North America Banking & Finance Practice.
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international technology, energy and life sciences law firm, announced today that Jose C. Villarreal has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property Department in Austin. He joins Baker Botts from the Austin office of Perkins Coie, which he helped open in February 2020 and where he served as the founding office Managing Partner. Before that, he was a partner at Wilson Sonsini for over 15 years.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Elio Marena as a partner in the corporate practice. He joins K&L Gates’ Milan office from Colonna Caramanti.
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Holland & Knight has ushered in a new era for its Sports and Entertainment Law practice with the hiring of Partners Keith Carroll, Anthony Mulrain and O’Kelly E. McWilliams III, along with recent lateral Partner Tyrone Thomas. The attorneys were previously partners at Mintz Levin, where Mr. Mulrain and Mr. Carroll co-chaired the firm’s Sports and Entertainment practice.
Squire Patton Boggs has hired partners Charlotte Møller, and Monika Lorenzo-Perez into its Restructuring & Insolvency Practice. They join the firm from Brown Rudnick LLP, where Ms. Møller was head of its European Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Group. The new partners are accompanied by director Helena Clarke and senior associates Rebecca Terrace and Sabina Khan.
