Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the arrival of Seth J. Kleinman as a partner in the firm’s Business Restructuring & Insolvency Group (BRIG). He will have a dual presence in New York and Chicago. Kleinman joins from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and brings close to two decades of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency experience to Morrison & Foerster.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues to grow its nationally-recognized Corporate Practice with two new additions: Elina Alperovich and Serena Y. Shi, who both join as shareholders in the firm’s New York office with a focus on private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Alperovich joins from Apollo Global Management Inc. and Shi comes from Latham & Watkins LLP.
Akin Gump is pleased to announce that leading executive compensation and employee benefits lawyer Romica Singh has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office. Ms. Singh brings over 15 years of executive compensation experience in both transactional and day-to-day matters involving the design of compensation and benefit arrangements. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Singh was a partner at Gunderson Dettmer and previously worked at Cravath and Paul Weiss.
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that four partners have joined the Healthcare industry team in New York. The group is composed of Lourdes M. Martinez and Gregory R. Smith (both joining from Garfunkel Wild), Carly Eisenberg Hoinacki (joining from Epstein Becker & Green), and Cyrus Abbassi (joining from Proskauer Rose). This is the second group to join the Healthcare team in the last month: on March 8, the firm welcomed a five-member healthcare real estate team, led by partner Timothy Reimers, in Los Angeles.
A two-time Advisen “Cyber Law Firm of the Year” winner, Lewis Brisbois’ Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice has hired attorney Sarah Rugnetta, previously the Health Law Practice lead at Beckage, to play a key role in developing its compliance advisory services. Ms. Rugnetta will join a team of over 55 attorneys, over 70% of whom are female, which is becoming as well known for its diversity as it is for its data privacy and cybersecurity services.
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Mintz announced today that Michael D. Maline has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice as a Member, based in the New York office. Before joining Mintz, he served as co-chair of the Capital Markets practice at DLA Piper.
Top 100 U.S. law firm Akerman LLP is pleased to announce that it has expanded its Corporate Practice Group with the addition of debt finance partners Bryan Reese and Cristina Gonzalez. Together they bring experience in corporate financing transactions and financial restructurings. Reese joins Akerman from King & Spalding LLP, while Gonzalez joins the firm from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
