Lina Zhou has joined Cooley’s market-leading fund formation practice group as a partner in New York. Arriving from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner in the investment funds practice group, Zhou has an impressive history of advising clients on fund formation transactions and significant experience counseling investment fund organizations.
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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that J.J. Broderick has joined the firm’s Philadelphia office as a partner in the Real Estate practice group. With more than 30 years of experience, J.J. is the most recent high-profile addition to the real estate team, which has recently expanded with leading partners Christy L. Reuter and Sonia Kaur Bain, of counsel Kerri L. Alessi, and associate Matthew J. Crawford. J.J. joins Blank Rome from Morgan Lewis.
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Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Real Estate Practice Group with partner Tracy Plott in Atlanta. Plott has extensive experience in commercial and real estate financing transactions. Plott comes to Akerman from Rogers & Hardin LLP in Atlanta.
Leading international law firm Clifford Chance welcomes Stephanie Horowitz as partner into its global Corporate and M&A practice in Amsterdam as of 1 December 2021. Stephanie joins Clifford Chance from Allen & Overy, where she worked for 14 years covering both public and private M&A work. She has a strong track record of domestic and cross-border transactions where she has acted for clients including financial investors and corporate enterprises.
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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli is pleased to announce that Real Estate Finance attorney Thomas L. Patalano has joined the firm’s New York City office as a shareholder. The addition of Patalano continues the ongoing growth of Polsinelli’s national Real Estate and Financial Services Department, particularly in the New York City office, and will help service the mounting demand in the greater New York area. Polsinelli’s New York City office is proud to have grown its Construction Litigation, Real Estate Services and Real Estate Finance Practices by nearly 20 attorneys in the past year. Patalano was at Alston & Bird LLP before joining Polsinelli.
Timothy Taylor has rejoined Holland & Knight as a litigation partner in its Tysons office. Mr. Taylor joins Holland & Knight’s Labor, Employment and Benefits Practice Group after serving in both the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A former associate with Holland & Knight, his practice will focus on general commercial litigation and employment litigation, as well as certain enforcement-defense matters.
King & Spalding today announced that executive compensation and employee benefits attorney Meredith O’Leary has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments (CFI) practice group in its Washington, D.C., office. O’Leary joins the firm from Eversheds Sutherland
Christian Pugaczewski, a structured finance attorney with nearly two decades of experience developing innovative financial products and documenting derivative transactions, including hedging contracts for securitizations and energy project finance, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP as a partner in New York. Pugaczewski joins the firm from Shearman & Sterling LLP, where he was a member of that firm’s derivatives and structured products practice.
Akin Gump today announced that Stephen Brown has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s London office. Mr. Brown brings substantial experience advising private equity sponsors and public companies on executive employment issues and in relation to the structuring and taxation of share schemes and management incentive arrangements and their taxation, in the U.K. and internationally. Stephen Brown joins Akin Gump from Icon Law LLP.
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Global law firm White & Case LLP has expanded its Global Debt Finance Practice with the addition of Brad Laken as a partner in Chicago. Laken joins White & Case from Katten Muchin Rosenman, where he was a partner.
