Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Mirlande Telfort has joined the firm’s Finance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy practice group as a partner in the New York office. With a strong focus on middle market financings, Mirlande represents private equity funds, banks, and other investors in complex debt financing transactions across a wide range of industries, particularly life sciences, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer products. Prior to Blank Rome, Mirlande was a partner in the Banking & Finance practice at McGuire Woods LLP.

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Clifford Chance has today announced that US tax specialist Kevin Colan will join its US Tax, Pensions & Employment (TPE) practice as a partner in its New York Office. Colan brings to the firm more than 20 years of experience advising on US tax issues across complex international transactions for financial investors, sponsors and corporates. He has worked across a range of sectors including Funds & Investment Management, Sovereign Wealth, Healthcare and Private Equity. Colan comes to the firm from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.

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Hall Booth Smith, P.C. (HBS) is delighted to welcome Louis E. Valvo as a Partner and Jannah B. Eichenbaum as an Associate to its growing office in White Plains, New York. Louis joined HBS after spending the last 14 years as a partner at Koster, Brady & Nagler LLP where he was an accomplished trial attorney with a successful record in federal, state, and appellate courts.

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O’Melveny announced today that acclaimed life sciences patent litigator Gregory A. Morris has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in its Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. Morris comes to O’Melveny from Honigman’s Chicago office, where he launched, led, and grew that firm’s Life Science IP Litigation Practice.

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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Seth Flaum has joined the firm’s technology transactions department as a partner in the New York office, where he will focus on representing life sciences clients. He brings more than 25 years of broad transactional experience, representing companies in complex strategic transactions and various corporate matters. The addition reflects the continuing growth of Wilson Sonsini’s New York office and ongoing demand for life sciences transactional experience. Prior to joining the firm, Flaum was executive associate general counsel for Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today that Robert Y. Sperling and Staci Yablon have joined the firm as partners in the Litigation Department, resident in New York. Mr. Sperling is an accomplished trial lawyer with over four decades of experience defending clients in complex securities, antitrust and commercial litigation and advising the world’s leading financial institutions. Ms. Yablon is an experienced litigator who leads international financial institutions and global corporations through complex commercial disputes, white collar and regulatory matters and government and internal investigations. They both arrive to the firm from Winston & Strawn LLP.

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