Prominent corporate/financial services lawyer Paul M. Aguggia has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Aguggia was chairman and chief executive officer of publicly held Clifton Bancorp Inc. from January 2014 until its merger with Kearny Financial Corp., on whose board of directors he served until October 2018. Previously, he was chairman of the international law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. More >>
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DLA Piper announced today that Chris M. Smith has joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as a partner in New York. He will serve as co-chair of the New York Real Estate practice. Smith, who joins from Shearman & Sterling LLP, received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his B.S. from Rutgers University. More >>
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Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that David S. Forsh has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy practice. He joins the firm from Pillsbury. More >>
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Venable LLP, an American Lawyer Global 100 firm, today announced that Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, a leading intellectual property firm, has successfully joined Venable effective November 1, 2018. Joining from Fitzpatrick are 97 attorneys and 70 staff members who will be in the New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles offices. More >>
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Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce seven attorneys have joined the firm’s Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group in New York from Venable LLP. Among the group joining are partners Peter G. Koffler, formerly chair of Venable’s New York Real Estate practice group and vice chair of the firm’s national practice, Brian N. Gurtman and Ross A. Honig; special counsel Julia Geykhman, Robert J. Gorzelany and Lee Weiss; and associate Jared Wachtler. More >>
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Matthew Haist has joined Ashurst as a counsel in its New York office. Matthew has extensive experience advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated and bilateral loans, investment grade loans, project financings, trade financings, structured finance deals, and receivables purchases. He is a member of the New York bar and has also worked in Hong Kong. More >>
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Paul, Weiss is advising International Business Machines Corp. in its all-cash acquisition of Red Hat Inc., creating the world’s largest hybrid cloud provider. Under the terms of the proposed deal, IBM will acquire Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion. The deal represents IBM’s largest-ever transaction.
The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Scott Barshay and Steven Williams and includes corporate partner John Kennedy and counsel Kyle Seifried and Frances Mi; employee benefits partner Lawrence Witdorchic and counsel Jarrett Hoffman; finance partners Manuel Frey and Gregory Ezring and counsel Caith Kushner; tax partners Jeffrey Samuels and Scott Sontag; and intellectual property partner Claudine Meredith-Goujon and counsel Jonathan Ashtor.
Goldberg Segalla, one of the largest and fastest-growing law firms in the United States, recently added eight attorneys — including five partners — to its Global Insurance Services and Workers’ Compensation Practice Groups in three of the firm’s offices serving Metro New York. This substantial growth reflects the firm’s continued commitment to adding only lawyers handpicked to meet its clients’ diverse legal needs in each market and beyond. More >>
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Mayer Brown announced today that Megan S. Webster has joined the firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice as a partner. More >>
Tags: Mayer Brown LLP | Chicago | New YorkCybersecurity, data privacy and intellectual property lawyer Mark Francis has joined Holland & Knight as a partner in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Francis advises clients on a wide array of tech and data counseling, as well as transactional and litigation matters. He previously practiced at Reed Smith LLP. More >>
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