Partner Placements

Andrew Sagor joins Baker McKenzie as the Co-Chair of Leveraged Finance

Posted on November 11, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Andrew Sagor joins Baker McKenzie as the Co-Chair of Leveraged Finance in North America from Kirkland & Ellis in New York. Andrew’s practice mainly focuses on structuring and negotiating market-shaping private equity and debt financing transactions.

Andrew routinely advises leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies, privately held and publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, hedge funds, alternative asset managers, lenders and other financial institutions on a wide variety of large cap and middle market financing transactions, including major leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border acquisitions and other leveraged financings, senior secured debt, high yield, bridge and mezzanine financings, workouts and restructurings, asset-based facilities, purchases of distressed debt and general corporate finance matters.

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Litigator Charles Weir Joins Manatt

Posted on October 29, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Prominent litigator Charles Weir has left McDermott Will & Emery to join Manatt in their Los Angeles office. He will serve as a partner in the firm’s litigation and healthcare practices. With almost two decades of healthcare and cross-industry experience, he represents clients in a broad range of complex business litigation and internal investigations.

Focusing on class actions, shareholder derivative suits, qui tam litigation and commercial dispute matters, Charles regularly represents public and private companies and executives in industries including healthcare, entertainment, energy and environment, advertising, and technology. He has experience representing major healthcare providers and has been involved in complex matters ranging from qui tam claims to suits brought under the federal False Claims Act, the California False Claims Act and Section 1871 of the California Insurance Code.

Charles has been defense counsel in two of the largest shareholder derivative lawsuits in California’s history, and his class action matters have included claims of unfair business practices, fraud, off-label prescription drug marketing, breaches of fiduciary duty, false advertising, violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and violations of both federal and state securities laws.

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Skadden’s Head of M&A in Silicon Valley Joins Baker McKenzie

Posted on October 26, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Leif King joins Baker McKenzie from Skadden, Arps, where he served as head of that firm’s corporate/M&A practice in Silicon Valley. A seasoned M&A lawyer, Leif represents clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, activist investor situations, recapitalizations, spin-offs and strategic investments. Leif has been featured as a Dealmaker of the Week and Dealmaker of the Month in The American Lawyer, and he has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business every year since 2008.

The Daily Journal has repeatedly named him among the Top 100 Lawyers in California and previously recognized him as one of the Top 20 Under 40 lawyers in the state, among numerous other recognitions. He has received two California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year awards from California Lawyer magazine and The Daily Journal. He also has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in IFLR1000 and The Best Lawyers in America and was recognized in 2016 as a BTI Client Service All-Star.

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Glenn Vanzura & Jason Linder join Mayer Brown in Los Angeles from Irell & Manella

Posted on October 15, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Glenn Vanzura focuses his practice on securities class action and derivative litigation, SEC investigations and enforcement actions, complex business litigation, white collar criminal defense and internal corporate investigations. He has represented corporations, directors, officers and other individuals in some of the country’s most significant bet-the-company litigations across a variety of industries, including the biopharmaceutical, semiconductor, casino gaming, smartphone application, entertainment, manufacturing, and restaurant industries.

Jason Linder advises corporations and executives on government and regulatory actions, internal investigations and corporate compliance matters, and white collar criminal defense. At Irell he led the Global Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. His focus is representing companies and individuals before the US Department of Justice, US Attorney’s Offices around the country and the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as other US and international law enforcement and regulatory agencies. He also represents clients in matters involving data privacy and security, cross-border civil disputes, international arbitration, and class action and high stakes litigation.

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Jonathan Ko joins Paul Hastings from Skadden Arps

Posted on October 11, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Jonathan Ko joins Paul Hastings from Skadden Arps in Los Angeles. Jonathan represents public and private companies, investment banks, and private equity firms and other institutional investors in capital market transactions in various industries including financial services, gaming, hospitality, real estate, retail, and technology. These transactions include IPO’s, follow on and secondary offerings, public and private offerings of high yield debt, investment grade debt and equity securities.

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Paul Kim joins Sheppard Mullin from McDermott Will & Emery in Seoul

Posted on August 30, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Paul Kim joins Sheppard Mullin from MWE in Seoul. Paul advises clients on M&A, PE, venture capital, restructuring, multi-jurisdictional disputes and general corporate matters. He has more than 20 years of experience representing a diverse range of clients operating in numerous industries and in many countries. His Clients include industrial and manufacturing companies, commercial and investment banks and other financial institutions, and private equity funds and investment managers. Paul has particularly broad experience representing Asian, European and U.S. clients in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, restructurings and other matters.

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Perrie Weiner and Ed Totino join Baker McKenzie as partners in Los Angeles

Posted on August 26, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Perrie will join as head of the firm’s Los Angeles office and co-head of the firm’s securities law practice. Perrie is listed in Chambers USA, Who’s Who in America and The Legal 500 United States as one of the leading litigation lawyers in the United States. Law360 has named him among its 10 Most Admired Securities Attorneys, describing him as “a brilliant litigator who has established himself as a go-to advocate for hedge funds facing complex suits and CEOs squaring off against the US Securities and Exchange Commission.” Ed focuses his practice on class actions, complex commercial litigation and securities litigation, and has led a number of privacy and TCPA class actions.

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Jason Weiss joins Drinker Biddle & Reath from the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Posted on June 18, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Jason joins Drinker from the FBI Field Office in Los Angeles.

He served as a FBI Certified Adjunct Instructor in the Cyber Field Instructor Program, Digital Forensics investigations, Digital Evidence Identification and Collection and Digital Evidence Extraction.

Jason taught digital evidence recovery to over 1000 FBI Evidence Response Team Members as well as how to collect Digital Evidence in a Hazardous (Hazmat) Environment.

Jason has taught over 50 Cyber and Computer Forensics courses domestically and internationally (Philippines, Nigeria, Ukraine, Ghana and Indonesia) to FBI, outside law enforcement agencies, and private sector partners.

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Sheng Wu joins Mayer Brown from DLA Piper

Posted on June 4, 2019 by LippmanJungers

Sheng joins Mayer from DLA Piper in Hong Kong.

He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, especially China-related M&A’s and M&A involving regulated entities. He represents both Chinese and foreign clients in cross border acquisitions into China and outside China.

He also has a specific focus in advising investors and companies on investment opportunities relating to the insurance and healthcare sectors.

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David Simonds joins Hogan Lovells from Akin Gump

Posted on May 18, 2019 by LippmanJungers

David Simonds joins Hogan Lovells from Akin Gump.

David has more than 25 years of experience representing debtors, official and informal creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, asset purchasers and other parties in interest in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, cross-border insolvencies and transactions.

He recently served as lead counsel to the owner of films and associated rights that were the subject of a complex licensing/distribution arrangement with The Weinstein Company. In addition, he also represented a group of private placement noteholders in taking control of and making a new money investment in Savers LLC, a thrift store operator.

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