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Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP has announced that Jeffrey W. Meyers has joined the firm as chair and Jon R. Mostel has joined as partner in the Energy and Project Finance Practice Group. Meyers and Mostel were most recently with Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP in New York. Meyers' principal areas of practice include the development and financing of domestic and international energy projects, as well as the acquisition and sale of interests in energy facilities and companies. Mostel's experience encompasses representing a wide range of clients in natural gas and electricity transactional and regulatory matters, including formation, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and regulation of energy sector companies; power generation project development; project and transmission line site selection; permitting; and environmental review.
Wells Fargo & Company has named Brent Malcom as executive vice president for its Equipment Finance Division. He will be based in Minneapolis and will lead equipment finance sales, credit, and service team and activities for the bank division of the newly combined Wells Fargo Equipment Finance and the former Wachovia Equipment Finance. Malcom has been with Wells Fargo for 21 years and most recently served as senior vice president and division manager of Wells Fargo Equipment Finance.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
Judge Rules Shaquille O'Neal Will Face Securities Lawsuit for Promotion, Sale of NFTs
A federal district court in Miami, FL, has ruled that former National Basketball Association star Shaquille O'Neal will have to face a lawsuit over his promotion of unregistered securities in the form of cryptocurrency tokens and that he was a "seller" of these unregistered securities.
Removing Restrictive Covenants In New York
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?
Why So Many Great Lawyers Stink at Business Development and What Law Firms Are Doing About It
Why is it that those who are best skilled at advocating for others are ill-equipped at advocating for their own skills and what to do about it?
Blockchain Domains: New Developments for Brand Owners
Blockchain domain names offer decentralized alternatives to traditional DNS-based domain names, promising enhanced security, privacy and censorship resistance. However, these benefits come with significant challenges, particularly for brand owners seeking to protect their trademarks in these new digital spaces.