Acclaimed Corporate Partner Joins Cooley

Cooley is adding to its flagship corporate practice with the arrival of partner David Segre from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has represented a broad range of public and private companies across all aspects of the corporate life cycle. More >>

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Cozen O’Connor Expands Commercial Litigation Practice in Philadelphia with Group from Drinker Biddle

Cozen O’Connor announced today that three nationally recognized commercial litigators — Michael J. Miller, Gregory J. Star, and Stephen R. Harris — along with 11 others have left Drinker Biddle to join Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Litigation practice. Highly regarded as accomplished trial lawyers in the financial services and software industries, Miller, Star, and Harris, will join the firm as partners and will work out of Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office. Miller will serve as Chair and Star as Vice-Chair of the firm’s newly created Life Insurance and Annuities Practice Group. Miller and Star will also Co-Chair the firm’s newly formed Software Industry team. More >>

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Reed Smith Welcomes Chief Compliance Officer of GE Digital to Its Global Regulatory Enforcement Group

Reed Smith today announced the latest addition to its growing San Francisco office: Lewis Zirogiannis joins the firm as partner in the Global Regulatory Enforcement practice. Zirogiannis comes to Reed Smith from longtime client GE, where he most recently served as Executive Counsel for Litigation & Investigations, and Chief Compliance Officer for GE Digital, GE’s Industrial Internet software business, which is at the forefront of the digital industrial era. Before moving to GE Digital, he served as Managing Director of Supervisory Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer for GE Energy Financial Services, and Global Head of Anti-Corruption for GE Capital. More >>

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Akerman Grows Core M&A Strengths with Veteran Partner Ted Rosen in New York

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today furthered its national M&A and Private Equity Practice with experienced corporate partner Ted Rosen in New York. Involved in complex transactions for more than three decades, Rosen joins the Corporate Practice Group, after he served as administrative partner for the New York Corporate and Public Companies Practices of a national law firm, as well as its co-chair of the Private Equity Practice Group. Rosen advances Akerman’s longstanding capabilities dedicated to mergers and acquisitions, private equity funds, international transactions and venture capital transactions. More >>

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