Latham & Watkins Adds Experienced Emerging Companies Partner in New York

Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Eli Curi has joined the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Emerging Companies Practice, and member of the Corporate Department. Curi represents emerging growth technology companies and their investors at all stages of a company’s growth cycle, including venture financings, M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and public offerings. His varied client base spans such industries as fintech, insurtech, blockchain, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, digital media, adtech, music streaming, SaaS, cybersecurity, life sciences, medical devices, planet-saving technologies, and food technology sectors. He joins Latham from Fenwick & West LLP.

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Experienced Litigator and Trial Lawyer Uri Itkin Joins Akin Gump Investment Funds Litigation Team

Uri Itkin, a nationally recognized litigator and trial attorney who regularly represents hedge funds, private equity firms and other investors in investment-related disputes, has joined Akin Gump as a partner in the firm’s investment funds litigation practice. Mr. Itkin was previously a partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.

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Roy F. Viola, Jr. Joins Gordon & Rees as Partner in New Jersey

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani welcomes Roy F. Viola, Jr. as a partner in the firm’s Florham Park, New Jersey office. He joins the firm’s Environmental/Toxic Tort, Product & General Liability, Construction, and Commercial Litigation practice groups. Viola is the latest to join the firm as part of a larger group of 11 other attorneys all of whom previously practiced with Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP.

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Katten Grows its Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity Team

 Katten announced today that Christopher Isaacs has joined the firm’s distinguished Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity practice as a partner in New York, further expanding the office there and adding to the bench of experienced attorneys who handle corporate transactions and strategic investments. Prior to joining Katten, Isaacs was an attorney at Goodwin Procter and an Assistant General Counsel in the Corporate and Investment Bank of JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Womble Bond Dickinson Establishes New York Office with Addition of Elite IP Team

The transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson is opening an office in New York with the addition of a prestigious group of lawyers from the intellectual property boutique firm Abelman Frayne & Schwab. With this year marking the fifth anniversary of the transatlantic combination that created Womble Bond Dickinson, the firm’s continued growth has included new offices in Boston, Los Angeles, and Houston, and an expanded presence in Palo Alto. The New York-based trademark, licensing, and copyright team will be led by partners Julianne Abelman and Marie Anne Mastrovito, who will be joined by of counsel Erica R. Halstead, senior counsels Lori B. Cohen and Anthony A. Coppola, and six paralegals.

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