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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has announced that Deryck Palmer, Andrew Troop and Christopher Mirick have joined the firm's Insolvency & Restructuring practice as partners, and will be resident in the New York office. The three attorneys were previously members of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where Palmer was the Co-Chairman of the financial restructuring department and a former member of the firm's Management Committee. In addition, Palmer was a recent delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency Law) on behalf of the International Law Institute. He was also selected as one of the lead counsels to the U.S. Treasury Department in the General Motors restructuring, and represented the Detroit Public Schools in one of the most successful municipal restructurings, out of court.
Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer LLP, formerly known as Sugar & Felsenthal LLP, has added name partner Aaron L. Hammer to the Chicago-based practice. Formerly a partner and coordinator of the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Creditors' Rights Practice Group at Freeborn & Peters LLP, Hammer represents a broad base of clients including Fortune 500 companies, creditor's committees and financial institutions. Also joining the firm's expanded bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice are Mark S. Melickian as counsel and associates Michael A. Brandess and Jack R. O'Connor.
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