Law.com Subscribers SAVE 30%
Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.
In the Marketplace
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.
New York's Latest Cybersecurity Commitment
On Aug. 9, 2023, Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced New York's inaugural comprehensive cybersecurity strategy. In sum, the plan aims to update government networks, bolster county-level digital defenses, and regulate critical infrastructure.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
How AI Has Affected PR
When we consider how the use of AI affects legal PR and communications, we have to look at it as an industrywide global phenomenon. A recent online conference provided an overview of the latest AI trends in public relations, and specifically, the impact of AI on communications. Here are some of the key points and takeaways from several of the speakers, who provided current best practices, tips, concerns and case studies.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.