Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney continues to expand its Florida footprint with the additions of Mark Kornfeld, shareholder and Jordan Maglich, counsel to the firm’s Tampa office. Kornfeld and Maglich bring with them significant complex commercial litigation expertise, including asset recovery, securities, equity receiverships, and Ponzi schemes. Kornfeld serves as the current court-appointed federal equity receiver and Maglich as receiver’s counsel for the In Re Kinetics receivership. The pair join from the Tampa office of Quarles & Brady LLP.
Rimon is pleased to welcome Steven P. Eichel as a Corporate and Tax Partner in the firm’s Boston Office. Mr. Eichel is the 34th Partner to join Rimon in 2020. He joins the firm from Saul, Ewing, Arnstein & Lehr LLP, where he was also a Partner.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP is pleased to announce that Ryan Poscablo, a former federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), has joined the firm’s Investigations & White-Collar Criminal Defense practice as a partner. Based in the New York office, Poscablo will focus his practice primarily on government investigations of corporations and individuals as well as internal investigations. Most recently, Poscablo practiced out of the New York office of Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP.
Reed Smith today announced that Stephen A. Aschettino has joined the Global Corporate Group’s FinTech practice as a partner in the New York office. Aschettino is a former general counsel and seasoned trial attorney, and he advises diverse companies in every sector on legal, regulatory and commercial aspects of the evolving payments technology sector, including all forms of electronic payments, blockchain solutions, credit and prepaid cards, mobile wallets, peer-to-peer payment apps, cryptocurrencies and related licensing issues. Aschettino comes to Reed Smith from Loeb & Loeb LLP, where he was a partner, chair of the Payments Technology Practice and co-leader of that firm’s Blockchain Team.
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Cooley has again bolstered the ranks of its global cyber/data/privacy team, welcoming Tiana Demas as a partner based in New York. Demas, who served as an assistant US attorney for more than a decade, joins Cooley from Facebook, where she was associate general counsel of cybersecurity and investigations. She previously served as deputy chief of general crimes at the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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Alston & Bird continues to deepen its transatlantic corporate and transactional offering with the addition of partner Tamer Bahgat in London. Joining from Ashurst LLP, Bahgat focuses on international capital markets and leveraged finance transactions, with a particular emphasis on complex high-yield debt offerings, refinancings, and leveraged buyouts for corporates, private equity sponsors, and investment banks.
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