Riemer & Braunstein promoted four lawyers to senior partner, including Jaime Rachel Koff, who was promoted from junior partner to senior partner in commercial finance.
Jeffrey Wurst joined the bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice of Armstrong Teasdale as a partner in New York City. Wurst previously served at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek.
Nathan Greene and Jay Baris joined Sidley Austin as partners in its investment funds group in New York. Greene and Baris joined from Shearman & Sterling, where they were both partners in the investment funds practice.
Suzzanne Uhland joined Latham & Watkins’ New York office as a partner in the restructuring and special situations practice within the finance department. Uhland joined Latham from O’Melveny & Myers.
Joshua Thompson joined Sidley Austin in New York as a partner in the firm’s global finance group. Thompson was previously a partner at Shearman & Sterling, where he was head of the firm’s global leveraged finance group and head of private capital.
As part of the expansion of its restructuring and bankruptcy practice, Greenberg Traurig added Peggy Hunt and Annette Jarvis as shareholders in its Denver office and Jason S. DelMonico as a corporate shareholder in its Boston office.
Baker McKenzie added Mark Bloom, Paul Keenan and John Dodd to its global restructuring and insolvency practice. All three joined from Greenberg Traurig where Bloom led the firm’s global restructuring and bankruptcy practice.
Andrew Fascia joined PJ SOLOMON as the firm’s new CFO. Fascia most recently served as CFO of boutique investment bank Greentech Capital Advisors.
In the third episode of ABF Journal’s COVID-19 focused podcast, Jeffrey A. Wurst said he expects an uptick in bankruptcy filings from mainstream middle market companies and a return to “old fashioned bankruptcy.”
Mount Street and Paul Hastings joined forces to create a streamlined, process driven service offering to replace LIBOR in existing CRE loan documentation.