Sidley is pleased to announce that Jess Cheng has joined the firm’s Banking, Payments and Fintech practice as a partner in Sidley’s office in New York. Ms. Cheng joins from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati where she was a partner in the Fintech and Financial Services practice.

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Polsinelli is pleased to announce that its Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Practice has added Shareholders Jonathan K. Kitchen and Daniel E. Cohen in New York, further expanding the firm’s private equity platform in one of the country’s most active deal markets. Kitchen arrives from Cozen O’Connor, while Cohen joins Polsinelli from Massumi + Consoli LLP.

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Lindsay Flora will join the Firm as a partner in its Banking & Finance practice, based in the New York office. Lindsay arrives from Dechert, where she was a partner in that firm’s Global Finance practice leading borrower-side representations across the private equity, M&A and liability management spectrum.

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Sidley is pleased to announce that Juan A. Arteaga, a former Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, has joined the firm’s office in New York as a partner in the Antitrust and Competition practice. Mr. Arteaga joins from Crowell & Moring, where he was chair of the New York Antitrust practice.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Emily Johnson and Mark Stagliano have joined the firm as partners in the New York office. Johnson joins the Banking & Private Credit and Capital Markets practices, while Stagliano joins the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice. Johnson’s practice focuses on all financing aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs, with particularly deep experience in company-side, issuer-focused financings. Stagliano’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, and company representation work, including corporate governance. The addition of these prominent partners further elevates Latham’s elite, fully integrated corporate and finance practice and marks a major expansion of the firm’s industry-leading capabilities. Johnson and Stagliano join Latham & Watkins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Schulte today announced that money transmitter licensing lawyer Laurie Rosini has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice Group in New York, further strengthening the industry’s only crypto-exclusive team whose lawyers devote 100% of their practice to digital asset matters.

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