Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today continued the national expansion of its corporate, finance and private equity practice with the addition of partner Barbara Edwards in New York. She joins the firm’s Corporate Finance and Lending Practice. More >>
Tags: Akerman LLP | New YorkAkerman Attracts Former CFPB and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Executives
Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the continued expansion of the Consumer Financial Services Practice Group with partners Eric Goldberg and Erica Goldman. Goldberg joins the firm from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he served as Managing Counsel for Regulations, and Goldman joins from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., where she was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel. More >>
Tags: Akerman LLP | New York | WashingtonT&K Welcomes Oil and Gas Partner
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce Alfredo Raúl Ramos has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a Partner in the Oil and Gas Practice Group. Immediately prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Ramos was a Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Houston. More >>
Tags: Thompson & Knight LLP | DallasGowling WLG welcomes IP partner Sébastien Gardère in Montréal
Gowling WLG is pleased to welcome Sébastien Gardère as a partner in its Montréal office and member of the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Advertising & Product Regulatory groups. More >>
Tags: Gowling WLG | MontrealFisherBroyles Welcomes Partner Scott Nathan to Boston Office
FisherBroyles, LLP, the first and world’s largest distributed law firm partnership, is pleased to announce the addition of Scott Nathan as a partner in the firm’s Boston office. More >>
Tags: FisherBroyles, LLP | BostonClifford Chance Welcomes Leading Structured Finance Tax Lawyer James Gouwar as a US Partner
Clifford Chance today announced that James Gouwar has joined its Tax, Pensions & Employment (“TPE”) practice as a partner in New York. Gouwar joins from Morgan Lewis. More >>
Tags: Clifford Chance LLP | New YorkAttorney Adam Grant Joins Dickinson Wright PLLC
Mr. Grant focuses his practice in the areas of commercial and business litigation, financial services litigation, and tax litigation. He has represented banks, businesses, and mortgage lenders/servicers in litigated matters before state and federal courts in Michigan and Illinois. He also has extensive experience representing broker/dealers in actions before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and in representing manufacturers in products liability matters. Mr. Grant’s tax litigation experience includes achieving a unanimous victory on behalf of Detroit Public Schools in the Michigan Supreme Court on a contested tax issue (Briggs Tax Services v. Detroit Public Schools, 485 Mich. 69 (2010)).
Mr. Grant is admitted to practice in Michigan, Illinois, and the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Holocaust Memorial Center of Metropolitan Detroit, where he serves on the Center’s Executive Committee. Mr. Grant has been recognized as a leader in his field by Michigan Super Lawyers as one of its “Rising Stars.” He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
K&L Gates Adds Prominent Private Equity and Corporate Partner to London Office
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes James Cross as a partner in the private equity and corporate practice of its London office. Cross joins K&L Gates from Reed Smith LLP, where he co-founded and served as the coordinator of the firm’s dedicated London private equity practice. More >>
Tags: K&L Gates LLP | LondonKate Stephenson Joins Kirkland & Ellis’ Restructuring Group in London
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP is pleased to announce that Kate Stephenson has joined the Firm’s London office as a partner in the Restructuring Practice Group. Ms. Stephenson focuses her practice on providing professional support in financial restructurings and formal insolvency mandates for a wide range of stakeholders including individual lenders, steering committees, sponsors, borrowers and insolvency officeholders. Ms. Stephenson joins Kirkland from the London office of Weil Gotshal & Manges, and was previously with Allen & Overy. Ms. Stephenson holds an MA from the University of Cambridge. More >>
Tags: Kirkland & Ellis LLP | LondonHolland & Knight Expands Cybersecurity, Data Breach and Privacy Practice with Addition of Mark Melodia and Paul Bond
Well-respected cybersecurity, data breach and privacy lawyers Mark Melodia and Paul Bond have joined Holland & Knight as partners in its New York and Philadelphia offices, respectively. Mr. Melodia was co-chair of Reed Smith LLP’s IP, Tech & Data Group, co-chair of its Financial Industry Group and office managing partner in Princeton. Mr. Bond was co-chair of the firm’s Information Technology, Privacy & Data Security Group, which Mr. Melodia founded. More >>
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