Partner Placements

Co-head of Dechert’s Real Estate Finance Practice Joins Gibson Dunn

Kahlil Yearwood joins Gibson Dunn in San Francisco.

Kahlil represents major financial institutions and focuses on commercial real estate (CRE) finance, CRE investments, and capital markets.

He represents portfolio lenders, CMBS lenders, loan servicers, subordinate bond buyers, private equity firms, and debt fund managers, and represents CRE owners in investment, joint venture, and financing transactions.

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Leading Capital Markets team to join Sidley Austin

Michael Schiavone, Daniel O’Shea and David Ni join Sidley in New York as partners from O’Melveny and Myers.

Mike represents underwriters and issuers in equity, debt and convertible securities offerings and is regularly cited as a leading attorney for equity-linked products and is listed as a leading nationally ranked practitioner for Capital Markets: Debt & Equity in both Chambers USA and Chambers Global.

Dan represents issuers and investment banking firms in public and private securities offerings, including high-yield and investment grade debt offerings and IPOs. David handles securities offerings including primary and secondary equity, convertible notes, investment grade and high yield debt.

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Litigation Team joins Alston & Bird

Joining Alston & Bird are partners Jeffrey Rosenfeld and Grant Alexander, along with counsel Rachel Lowe and senior associate Sean Crain. All arrive from DLA Piper.

Rosenfeld, who founded DLA’s Los Angeles office in 2001 and has served as the office managing partner and head of the office’s litigation practice, is a business litigator who focuses his practice on trial and appellate litigation, with an emphasis on class action and other complex commercial litigation.

Alexander represents a varied client base in class action and complex commercial lawsuits and general employment litigation involving discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination.

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David Stern joins Dechert as a Litigation Partner

David Stern joins the Los Angeles office of Dechert as a litigation partner.

David has considerable first chair trial experience in both state and federal courts. He represents Fortune 500 clients in a wide range of commercial litigation matters including class action, antitrust, intellectual property, media entertainment, securities, real estate, and unfair competition.

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Sidney Fohrman joins Sheppard Mullin as a Partner

Sidney Fohrman joins the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin as a Partner in the Entertainment and Digital Media Practice Group.

He will lead the firm’s Music Industry Team. Sid provides strategic counsel and transactional support to a diverse client base comprised of talent, influencers, entrepreneurs, and institutions across the digital media, music, fitness, sports, technology, event, film and television industries.

He regularly handles multi-faceted entertainment transactions, intellectual property matters, and platform, content and licensing deals related to technology and new media exploitation; advertising, branding, and sponsorship deals; publishing, licensing and other copyright and trademark transactions.

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Al Stemp joins Proskauer from Hogan Lovells

Al Stemp joins Proskauer from Hogan Lovells

Al Stemp joins Proskauer from Hogan Lovells. Al represents a diverse group of clients in connection with a broad range of real estate transactions.

He advises private equity funds, REITs, institutional capital sources, retail operators, developers and hospitality companies, among others, on their investments across all real estate asset classes.

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Eric Cheung joins Foley & Lardner

Eric Cheung, a healthcare transactional lawyer, joins Foley & Lardner

Eric Cheung, a healthcare transactional lawyer, joins Foley & Lardner in Los Angeles from Ervin, Cohen, and Jessup. Eric concentrates his practice on solving problems for hospitals, medical groups, and physicians on a wide variety of transactions.

He has experience on both the transactional and litigation sides which gives him a creative edge in structuring, negotiating, and consummating complex deals and unraveling disputes. His practice revolves around mergers, ,acquisitions, restructurings, and affiliations in the healthcare industry.

He is also familiar with federal and state regulatory compliance concerning anti-kickback, self-referral, and HIPAA laws, risk management and litigation avoidance.

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Don Melamed joins Proskauer Rose

Don Melamed, a investment funds partner, joins Proskauer Rose from O’Melveny & Myers

Don advises asset managers and institutional investors in fund and investment management related matters with an emphasis on forming buy-out, mezzanine, distressed debt, real estate and venture capital funds and advising investment firms on the formation and operation of their asset management businesses including incentive arrangements, co-investment transactions and spin outs.

He also focuses on representing institutional investors and family offices in connection with both primary and secondary transactions in a variety of vehicles and asset classes.

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Khoa Do, a top M&A partner, joins Morrison Foerster

Khoa Do, a top M&A partner, joins Morrison Foerster in Palo Alto from Jones Day.

His practices focused on large scale M&A work in the technology space, and clients have included MagnaChip Semiconductor, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, SanDisk Corporation, SAP AG, Sharks Sports & Entertainment (San Jose Sharks), and Symantec Corporation.

Khoa has been featured in The American Lawyer, The Deal, Venture Capital Journal, Silicon Valley Business Journal, San Jose Mercury News, and other international media.

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A five partner group is joining Sidley Austin

A five partner group is joining Sidley Austin from Andrews Kurth. David Buck, Jon Daly, Angela Richards and George Vlahakos are joining Sidley in Houston, and Bill Cooper is joining in DC.

This group of partners has a market leading Master Limited Partnership-focused capital markets practice and is widely known in the energy sector. They advise energy companies, investment banks, funds and others on complex and innovative transactions. Their arrival will solidify Sidley’s position as a destination firm for energy transactions.

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