Partner Placements

Steve Kolyer joins Sidley Austin

Steve Kolyer joins Sidley Austin from Clifford Chance.

Kolyer has developed a leading U.S. structured finance and structured credit products practice, particularly in the commercial real estate markets, including CLOs 2.0, REMICs and other mortgage-related financings.

He has also established a leading practice in corporate loan CLOs 2.0/3.0 and other managed structured funds. Representative clients include leading investment banks, U.S. commercial real estate lenders, mortgage REITs, private equity funds, asset managers and specialty finance companies.

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Hale Boggs joins O’Melveny & Myers

Hale Boggs joins O’Melveny & Myers from Manatt Phelps.

Hale’s practice focuses primarily on corporate and securities matters, including venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, public and private securities offerings and joint ventures.

He works with companies across the spectrum of their business cycles, from start-up through late-stage, with a particular emphasis on companies in the digital media industry.

He founded Manatt’s Palo Alto office in 1998, helped to establish the firm’s San Francisco office in 2007, and chaired the firm’s digital media practice.

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Matt Jacobson joins Ropes & Gray

Matt Jacobson joins Ropes & Gray

Matt has more than 20 years of experience in strategic M&A, private equity, venture capital investments, and financings.

He has guided an array of buy-and sell-side deals – including acquisitions, carve-outs, spin-outs, joint ventures, alliances and corporate divestitures – for Fortune 100 technology and life sciences companies. and private equity firms.

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Adam Weinstein and Tony Feuerstein join Sidley Austin

Adam Weinstein and Tony Feuerstein join Sidley Austin from Akin Gump

Adam and Tony have advised on deals totaling tens of billions of dollars in value over the last five years for clients, including significant work for Apollo Global Management.

They represent large-cap and middle-market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in leveraged acquisitions, mergers, strategic investments, growth financings and other deals.

Adam and Tony are among a very few top PE partners representing top bulge bracket private equity clients.

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Shane Albright joins Goodwin Procter from DLA Piper

Shane represents life science and technology companies focusing on licensing and collaborations.

In recognition of his outstanding transactional work, Shane has been featured as a “Life Sciences Star” in each edition of LMG Life Sciences since its inauguration in 2012.

Shane is a frequent speaker on issues relating to licensing and corporate partnering, and his clients span multiple fields, including companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, hardware, software, medical instrumentation, vaccine and research reagent spaces, as well as entities that fund and conduct medical research.

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Guy Birkenmeier joins Foley & Lardner

Guy Birkenmeier joins Foley & Lardner in Dallas, Texas

Guy represents bio technology and healthcare clients on technology-driven transactions from early planning stages to ultimate integration. He counsels clients on obtaining and safeguarding IP rights from innovator employees through confidential invention disclosure and assignment agreements from strategic partners under licensing and option agreements, or through outright acquisitions.

His IP practice spans innovations in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biologics, chemistry and plant sciences.

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Jordan Hamburger joins Sheppard Mullin

Jordan Hamburger joins Sheppard Mullin in Century City from Manatt Phelps.

Jordan’s practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, including M&A, private equity and other general corporate representation.

He represents entrepreneurs, middle market companies, private equity firms, publicly traded companies and other market participants in the financial services, healthcare and payments industries, among others.

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John Booher joins Sheppard Mullin in Palo Alto

John Booher joins Sheppard Mullin in Palo Alto.

John’s focus is international mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, private equity, and venture capital transactions, corporate governance matters, and the formation and growth of new business primarily in the life sciences, healthcare, satellite/aerospace, transportation, and technology areas.

His clients include multinational corporations, private equity and venture capital firms, early and growth-stage companies, individual founders, entrepreneurs and investors.

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Eric Newsom joins Sheppard Mullin in San Francisco

Eric Newsom joins Sheppard Mullin in San Francisco from Manatt.

Eric’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, complex domestic and international joint ventures, and corporate governance and compliance matters with emphasis on the technology and healthcare industries.

Eric also advises clients in connection with cross-border transactions,whether engaging foreign counsel to assist domestic clients in managing offshore assets, or representing foreign clients in sales to, or joint ventures with, U.S.-based businesses.

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Hogan Lovells has hired three bankruptcy partners from Jones Day

Richard ‘Rick’ Wynne, who has served as lead debtor’s counsel to American Apparel and represents Mattel as a creditor in the Toys R Us Chapter 11 bankruptcy, will co-head Hogan Lovells’ U.S. bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency practice.

Bennett Spiegel and Erin Brady also join Hogan Lovells as partners. Bennett represented actress Zsa Zsa Gabor in a Chapter 11 case, and rock band Motley Crue in the bankruptcy case of one of the band members.

Erin represented American Apparel and its affiliates in two recent Chapter 11 cases.

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