Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli welcomes attorney Mozianio “Trey” S. Reliford, III, as a shareholder in the firm’s growing Nashville office. Reliford joins the firm’s Litigation Department, bringing a deep background in business disputes and securities litigation, expanding the firm’s white collar capabilities, and adding new experience in entertainment law. Reliford comes to the firm from Neal & Harwell PLC in Nashville.
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that leading capital markets lawyers Simon Weiss and Joseph Marx will join the Firm as partners, based in the Firm’s Frankfurt office. Their addition will extend the Firm’s global capital markets platform and establish a Frankfurt- based practice, continuing the Firm’s investment and expansion in the German market. Their move to Willkie will follow more than ten prominent Frankfurt partner and counsel hires in recent years, including partners Anne Kleffmann this year and Jens-Olrik Murach in 2021, as well as internal promotions. Simon and Joe will join the Firm from McDermott Will & Emery.
Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli continues its recent streak of noteworthy hires by announcing the addition of accomplished attorneys Jed W. Bonner, Emina Kwok, Patrick Maloney, and Scott Smithson to the firm’s nationally renowned Real Estate Practice. Bonner joins the San Francisco office from Allen Matkins, Kwok and Maloney will be based out of Chicago, and Smithson joins the team in St. Louis from Dentons. Before joining Polsinelli, Maloney was a Partner at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP. Kwok joins Polsinelli from Greenberg Traurig.
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Robert Kritzman has over 30 years of experience in the shipping and cruise line industry specializing in international commercial transactions, maritime transactions, maritime regulatory compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. Robert joins Clyde & Co from Lewis Brisbois where he was a partner and member of the commercial lending, complex business and commercial litigation, marine and energy, and transportation practices.
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Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Stacey F. Blank as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Blank was previously a partner at Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP.
Cozen O’Connor announced the addition of attorney Margo K. Ceresney to its Private Client, Trusts and Estates Group — a move that further expands both the Private Client, Trusts and Estates Group and the firm’s new Boca Raton, Florida office. Margo, who joins as a member, brings to the firm more than a decade of experience guiding clients through the complexities of estate and gift planning, trust and estate administration, tax, family law, and succession planning. Ceresneycomes to the firm from Proskauer Rose LLP where she was a senior associate attorney in Private Client Services.
Real estate attorney Kathryn Goldberger has joined Holland & Knight’s West Palm Beach office as a partner. She is a member of the firm’s Real Estate Section, one of the largest in the country. She was previously in-house counsel at Westbrook Partners, a global real estate private equity firm, where she oversaw the acquisition, development, financing and disposition of the properties within the firm’s investment portfolio.
Husch Blackwell is pleased to announce that Leslie Sowers has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as a partner in its Financial Services & Capital Markets industry group. Sowers comes to Husch Blackwell from Weiner Brodsky Kider PC in DC.
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that environmental regulation and government affairs lawyer Scott Burton has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles and Washington, DC offices. Joining from Hunton Andrews Kurth, Burton leverages his extensive environmental, energy and natural resources experience to advise clients in the national and international public policy arenas on a spectrum of high-profile and high-risk issues.
