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Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP has announced that three partners from Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP have joined the firm's New York office. Boris Ziser is joining the Structured Finance Practice Group. He focuses on public and private mortgage-backed and asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, commercial paper conduits, and related transactions. His experience includes a variety of asset classes such as equipment leases, auto loans, and franchise loans. In addition, Albert J. Pinz'n and Thomas R. Weinberger are joining Stroock's Insurance Practice Group. Pinz'n has a particular focus on cross-border transactions, insurance-linked securities, and corporate restructurings and regularly develops and structures complex finance solutions for financial institutions that bridge traditional finance with structured finance. Weinberger focuses his practice on insurance and risk-linked securities, life insurance finance, and related capital markets transactions. He represents insurers, reinsurers, and investment banks, as well as both buyers and sellers in major transactions.
Troutman Sanders LLP has announced the addition of Craig M. Kline and Philip H. Spector as partners in the law firm's New York office. Kline joins the firm's Lending & Structured Finance and Energy practice groups, and Spector joins the Tax group. They join Troutman Sanders from the law firm of King & Spalding in New York City, where they worked together for six years, Kline as a partner since 2004 and an associate from 2001 to 2004, and Spector as a partner since 2001. They were responsible for the firm's equipment and facility leasing practice. At Troutman Sanders they will continue to focus their practice on representing banks and other capital providers as investors, lenders, and credit support providers in a wide variety of financial transactions. They bring a strong range of experience with tax-based asset finance, including domestic and cross-border leveraged leasing, operating leasing, and project finance, with an emphasis on renewable energy finance.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
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Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
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Supreme Court Rules Rejection of Trademark License Does Not Rescind Rights of Licensee
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