International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the addition of four partners to the Transactions Practice Group: Merrill Kraines, Todd Kornfeld and Anand Saha in New York and Sunyi Snow in Dallas. Merrill and Todd join from Troutman Pepper. Anand joins from Clifford Chance, where he was co-head of the firm’s US Technology group. Sunyi joins from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Katten announced today that Julie Lee has joined the firm as a partner in its New York Real Estate practice where she will advise clients on sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. Lee joins Katten form the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Dechert LLP is pleased to announce that Edward “Jay” Southgate has joined the global finance practice as an asset finance and securitization partner based in New York. Dechert welcomes Southgate to the firm from the New York office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
O’Melveny announced today that experienced litigator and trial lawyer Nexus Sea has joined the firm as a partner in New York. He will serve in the firm’s Product Liability & Mass Torts practice group.
Tags: O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | New YorkKatten announced today that Geoffrey G. Young has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice in New York, building on the firm’s high caliber of talent representing clients in complex commercial disputes. Prior to joining Katten, Young was a partner at Reed Smith and held various DEI leadership roles, most recently as the firm’s Executive Director of Diverse Recruiting, in which he guided the firm’s strategy for recruiting diverse attorneys at all levels. He has also held several DEI leadership roles in the legal community.
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Arent Fox LLP and Schiff Hardin LLP completed their merger, effective March 1, 2022. The new firm operates under the name ArentFox Schiff and is led by Chair Anthony V. Lupo and Firmwide Co-Managing Partners Cristina A. Carvalho and Joseph J. Krasovec III. The newly combined firm is home to more than 600 lawyers and policy professionals and serves as a destination for an international client base of corporations, governments, private individuals, and trade associations.
Tags: ArentFox Schiff LLP | Ann Arbor | Boston | Chicago | Lake Forest | Los Angeles | New York | San Francisco | WashingtonDechert LLP announced today that Kathleen “Kate” Mylod has rejoined the firm’s global finance practice as a commercial real estate finance partner based in New York. Mylod rejoins the firm from Shipman & Goodwin LLP.
Cozen O’Connor announced it has made another addition to its growing real estate practice with the hire of commercial real estate attorney Nicholas Richard. Richard has joined the New York Office located at 3 World Trade Center as a member. Richard is a well-regarded commercial real estate attorney who has represented institutional investors, developers, operators, property owners, and financial institutions throughout a variety of sophisticated and large-scale real estate transactions. He brings extensive joint venture experience, including a wide range of transactions involving atypical aspects, such as distressed partnership assets, ownership restructurings, uniquely tailored ownership structures, and the exercise of liquidity rights. Richard joins the firm from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.
Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Adrienne Ellman has joined the firm’s Corporate & Finance practice group as a partner in its Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Private Equity practices, based in New York. Recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500 in M&A nationwide, Ellman will further strengthen the firm’s transactional capabilities, particularly in the life sciences and health care sector. Ellman is the fifth corporate partner to join the firm’s New York office this month. Her arrival follows those of M&A partners Luke Iovine, Peter Cohen-Millstein, Megan Ridley-Kaye, and investment funds partner Parik Dasgupta, each of whom joined the firm in February. Ellman joins the firm from Foley Hoag, where she co-chaired the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Transactions group and served as co-lead partner of the New York office and as a member of the diversity committee.
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