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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
September 25, 2012

Hunton & Williams LLP announced that Ronald L. Rubin has joined the firm's 30-member bankruptcy and creditors' rights team as a partner in the Washington, DC, office. Rubin was formerly an enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped build the new agency's enforcement capabilities and draft the Enforcement Action Process, which governs how Enforcement collaborates with other components of the Bureau. The firm notes that heightened oversight of the issuance of consumer credit by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Trade Commission has coincided with a rise in class action litigation related to consumer financial protection statutes. Additionally, state attorneys general are more actively enforcing regulations.

The Saint Paul, MN-based bankruptcy avoidance action and commercial law firm, ASK Financial LLP, and the New York-based bankruptcy and corporate law attorney group, Neiger LLP, have merged their practices and offices. The newly combined law firm will go by the name of ASK LLP, and will focus on all aspects of bankruptcy, corporate and commercial law. ASK Financial LLP focused primarily on prosecuting bankruptcy avoidance and claw-back actions and collection of commercial accounts receivable. Neiger LLP was a full service bankruptcy and corporate law firm, and represented debtors and creditors in all aspects bankruptcy reorganizations. It was formed by Edward Neiger in 2008 after he left Weil Gotshal & Manges. Prior to the merger, Neiger had been working with ASK Financial as of counsel for the past two years.

Hunton & Williams LLP announced that Ronald L. Rubin has joined the firm's 30-member bankruptcy and creditors' rights team as a partner in the Washington, DC, office. Rubin was formerly an enforcement attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped build the new agency's enforcement capabilities and draft the Enforcement Action Process, which governs how Enforcement collaborates with other components of the Bureau. The firm notes that heightened oversight of the issuance of consumer credit by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Trade Commission has coincided with a rise in class action litigation related to consumer financial protection statutes. Additionally, state attorneys general are more actively enforcing regulations.

The Saint Paul, MN-based bankruptcy avoidance action and commercial law firm, ASK Financial LLP, and the New York-based bankruptcy and corporate law attorney group, Neiger LLP, have merged their practices and offices. The newly combined law firm will go by the name of ASK LLP, and will focus on all aspects of bankruptcy, corporate and commercial law. ASK Financial LLP focused primarily on prosecuting bankruptcy avoidance and claw-back actions and collection of commercial accounts receivable. Neiger LLP was a full service bankruptcy and corporate law firm, and represented debtors and creditors in all aspects bankruptcy reorganizations. It was formed by Edward Neiger in 2008 after he left Weil Gotshal & Manges. Prior to the merger, Neiger had been working with ASK Financial as of counsel for the past two years.

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