B&L Management Company, a Willkie client, announced that it sold 24 mid-rise rental apartment buildings, consisting of 997 residential and commercial units located in the Chelsea and Upper East Side of Manhattan, to a joint venture lead by Blackstone Real Estate Partners VIII and Fairstead Capital for a total purchase price of $690 million. This transaction represents one of the largest individual residential asset sales in New York in the past decade and one of the largest sales of an elevator-building residential portfolio in Manhattan history. More >>

Squire Patton Boggs is pleased to announce that Norman N. Kinel has joined as partner in the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency Practice, based in New York. Mr. Kinel joins from Lowenstein Sandler. More >>

BakerHostetler today announced Partner Geoffrey H. Coll joined the firm’s Litigation Group and Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement practice in the New York office. Coll comes to BakerHostetler from Schiff Hardin. More >>

Akin Gump today announced that Parvin Daphne Moyne, formerly an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined the firm as a partner in its white collar defense and government investigations practice in New York. Ms. Moyne spent nearly a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently serving as a member of the elite Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the U.S. Attorney’s office.

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