Corporate/Finance

Jeffrey Deutsch and Christopher J. Kula Elected to Counsel Phillips Nizer is pleased to announce the election of Jeffrey Deutsch, Trusts & Estates and Tax, and Christopher J. Kula, Corporate & Business Law, to the position of counsel. Both are residents in the law firm’s New York City office.

(Bucks County Lawyers Gilbert J. Golding, Frank S. Guarrieri and Robert Szwajkos of Curtin & Heefner LLP Listed among Philadelphia’s Top-rated Lawyers) The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Legal Intelligencer, Law.com and The Wall Street Journal have named three Curtin & Heefner LLP attorneys to their list of Philadelphia’s Top Rated Lawyers®, 2012 Edition. The three attorneys are Gilbert J. Golding, chairman of Curtin & Heefner’s Commercial Services Section; Frank S.

Fenwick & West LLP corporate partners Gregory Roussel and Kris Withrow have been selected as two of the top 20 lawyers in California under the age of 40 by the Daily Journal. The annual list honors the best and brightest in California’s legal industry. Fenwick was the only firm to have two of its attorneys on the list this year.

Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen, P.C. today announced that Kelly E. Zelezen and Euchung Ung have been named members of the firm, effective January 1, 2012.

Fenwick & West LLP, a leading technology and life sciences law firm, is pleased to announce that Scott Joachim has joined the firm as a partner in its Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Mr. Joachim will be resident in the Silicon Valley office and serve as Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice.

Angie Fletcher, a lawyer at Armstrong Teasdale, has been named to the board of Nonprofit Missouri, an alliance of the state’s nonprofit organizations. Fletcher, a member of the firm’s Corporate Services practice group, received her J.D. from the Saint Louis University School of Law in 2008 and her B.A., cum laude, from Webster University in 2003.

Smith Moore Leatherwood is pleased to announce the addition of Michael J. Hickerson to the firm’s Corporate Team in its Charleston office, which opened in April.

Armstrong Teasdale announces the addition of five new associates to the firm, bringing the total number of firm wide attorneys to 242. The firm’s newest hires join many of the top practice groups; including intellectual property, litigation, corporate and financial services.

Reorganization plan combines Australian schemes of arrangement with U.S.-style pre-packaged plan concepts Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today it lead an international legal and financial advisory team representing the Senior Lenders of Australia-based Centro Properties Group’s (CNP) in finalizing CNP’s global restructuring efforts, widely recognized as one of the most complex and innovative restructurings in Australian history.

Firm welcomes new senior IP counsel and launches commercial and technology transactions practice. Moore & Van Allen is pleased to announce that Todd C. Taylor has joined the Charlotte office as senior counsel. Taylor will be expanding the firm’s intellectual property service offering with the launch of a cross-functional commercial and technology transactions practice.