Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Donald J. Detweiler has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy, Restructuring, and Creditors’ Rights practice as a partner in the Wilmington, Del., office. He was formerly a partner at Troutman Pepper.
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Glen Trudel, a top financial services, payments, and business attorney, has joined Troutman Pepper as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group in Wilmington, DE. Trudel is one of 34 financial services-focused attorneys who have joined the firm since January, including seven partners announced in February and two partners announced last month. The firm has more than 200 attorneys who regularly advise financial services providers. Trudel joins Troutman Pepper from Ballard Spahr, where he was a partner, and brings more than 30 years’ experience counseling financial institutions, marketplace lenders, fintech entities, and other companies on both regulatory and transactional matters.
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that James G. Gorman III has joined the firm’s Wilmington office in the Corporate Litigation practice group, which recently welcomed partner Barak A. Bassman. James joins Blank Rome from Kleinbard LLC.
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Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added Nate Emeritz to its Delaware office as a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate Practice. Prior to joining the firm, Emeritz worked in the Delaware office of the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Adam V. Orlacchio as a partner in the litigation and dispute resolution practice. He joins the firm’s Wilmington office from Blank Rome LLP.
Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce that commercial litigator Kaan Ekiner will be joining the Commercial Litigation Practice in the firm’s Wilmington office. Ekiner has built a respected career as a distinguished litigator handling corporate and complex commercial matters involving corporate governance, and contractual and other commercial disputes. His addition marks the continued growth of Cozen O’Connor’s nationally recognized Commercial Litigation Practice. Prior to joining the firm, Ekiner was counsel at Whiteford Taylor Preston, LLP in Wilmington.
Monté T. Squire has joined Duane Morris LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in its Wilmington office. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Squire served as an Administrative Patent Judge and member at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia, from 2015 until 2021. Prior to joining Duane Morris, Squire served for several years as an administrative patent judge at the USPTO.
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Barnes & Thornburg has added eight prominent lawyers, consultants and staff in Delaware, including partners Thomas McGonigle, Shawn Tucker and Michael Maimone. Top level government relations consultants, Mary Kate McLaughlin and Doug Gramiak, are also joining the firm, along with Michael DeNote as of counsel, Sawyer Traver as an associate and Whitney Potts as a paralegal. Joining from Faegre Drinker, the group collectively brings decades of experience and a deep understanding of Delaware’s critical role in corporate law, business disputes, and financial services, along with public policy and political issues. McGonigle is the partner-in-charge of the Delaware office and will participate on the firm management committee.
Tags: Barnes & Thornburg LLP | WilmingtonWith restructurings, workouts and bankruptcies spiking in many industries throughout the United States and abroad, Cozen O’Connor today welcomed eight of the country’s leading restructuring and insolvency attorneys to its nationally recognized Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Practice. All eight attorneys come to the firm as members from Fox Rothschild LLP and seven — Brian L. Shaw, Ira Bodenstein, Robert M. Fishman, Peter J. Roberts, David R. Doyle, Allen J. Guon, and Mark L. Radtke — will reside in the firm’s Chicago office, while the eighth, Thomas Horan, will take up residence in Cozen O’Connor’s Wilmington, Del. office. Fishman and Shaw previously served as co-chairs of Fox Rothschild’s Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy Department.
Faegre Drinker announced that Brett Fallon has joined the firm’s Wilmington, Del., office as a partner in the finance and restructuring group. Fallon comes to the firm from Morris James LLP. He is the ninth attorney to join Faegre Drinker’s finance and restructuring group since June 1, 2020.
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