The Dallas office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has expanded its Public Finance & Infrastructure Practice with the addition of Nicole Kintop Smith as shareholder. Kintop Smith joins the firm from Kintop Smith, PC where she was a founder and managing attorney. She previously worked at McCall, Parkhurst & Horton.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP is expanding its Entertainment & Media Practice with the addition of music attorney Charles J. “Jeff” Biederman as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. He joins the firm from Manatt.
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Steven Bainbridge as a partner in its Dubai Office and as its Head of the Sports & Entertainment Group, Middle East. He joins from Al Tamimi & Company in Dubai where he was Head of its Sports Law & Events Management practice, the region’s first dedicated sports law practice. Joining Mr. Bainbridge is senior associate Andrew Moroney, also from the Sports Law & Events Management practice at Al Tamimi & Company.
Mintz is pleased to announce the addition of experienced capital markets and mergers and acquisitions lawyer Jason S. McCaffrey as a Member in the firm’s Corporate Practice in Boston. Mr. McCaffrey represents domestic and international public and private clients in a variety of industries, including life sciences, technology, energy, and financial services, in connection with corporate, securities, and regulatory matters. McCaffrey joins from Brown Rudnick LLP.
Nixon Peabody is pleased to announce the arrival of Laura Sugarman as a partner in the firm’s Affordable Housing & Real Estate group. Laura will be a key member of the firm’s growing Cooperatives & Condominiums team in New York City, which also recently welcomed department attorney Nichole N. Thomas and paralegal Stephen DuRie. Sugarman joins from Holland & Knight.
Skadden is pleased to announce that Daniel Michael, who recently stepped down as chief of the Complex Financial Instruments Unit of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, is joining Skadden as a partner. Mr. Michael, who will be based in our New York office, will advise clients on SEC enforcement and regulatory matters as part of the firm’s Government Enforcement and White Collar Crime Group. He will work closely with former SEC colleagues in Skadden’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice will focus on counseling financial services firms and other firms and companies, as well as their boards and executives, on enforcement and internal investigations and a broad range of regulatory matters within the jurisdiction of the SEC.
Holland & Knight has expanded its nationally recognized Private Equity Team with the addition of Alvin Johnson as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office. Mr. Johnson represents private equity firms and the world’s leading companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He was previously with DLA Piper.
