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1960s

Betsy Cohen, L’66 founder of FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp., a blank check company, agreed to merge with business services firm Pico. The deal valued the company at $1.75 billion. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is also raising $200 million of equity to support the Pico transaction. Pico provides market data and analytics to financial services companies including banks, exchanges, hedge funds, and other financial technology providers. FTAC Athena Acquisition raised $250 million in its IPO in February. The vehicle focused on finding targets in technology or financial technology, according to its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The combined company will trade on Nasdaq once the deal closes. Additionally, FTAC Emerald Acquisition Corp, which is another SPAC Cohen is backing, plans to raise up to $220 million through an initial public offering in the United States. The blank-check company, known earlier as Emerald ESG Acquisition Corp, is offering 22 million units at $10 each, and Cohen will chair its board. Emerald ESG Sponsor, a firm managed by Cohen and a backer of FTAC Emerald, has committed to buy 890,000 units at $10 each in a private placement.

Bruce Hermelee L’66 was honored at a 50-Year Member and Senior Counselor Recognition Luncheon in Orlando held by the Florida State Bar. Honorees were recognized both for their good standing and for practicing for 50 years in the Florida Bar or having cumulative legal practice with the Florida Bar and other United States jurisdictions for a total of five decades. Hermelee was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1971.

Lawrence Weiner W’64, L’67 was honored at a 50-Year Member and Senior Counselor Recognition Luncheon in Orlando held by the Florida State Bar. Honorees were recognized both for their good standing and for practicing for 50 years in the Florida Bar or having cumulative legal practice with the Florida Bar and other United States jurisdictions for a total of five decades. Weiner was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1970.

Denise Davis Schwartzman L’69, PAR’99 was honored at a 50-Year Member and Senior Counselor Recognition Luncheon in Orlando held by the Florida State Bar. Honorees were recognized both for their good standing and for practicing for 50 years in the Florida Bar or having cumulative legal practice with the Florida Bar and other United States jurisdictions for a total of five decades. Schwartzman was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1971.

1970s

Alexander Kerr L’70 was named to The Legal Intelligencer’s Lifetime Achievement Awards 2021. He began his law career clerking for Judge Samuel J. Roberts, Associate Justice (later Chief Justice) of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. After military service, Kerr became a Deputy Attorney General in the Pennsylvania Department of Justice, working in the Executive Office reporting directly to the Attorney General. He was assigned to the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, where he, in essence, served as its General Counsel during a major police corruption investigation, arguing a case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that established the scope of the Crime Commission’s powers. He eventually started his own law firm, becoming a founding partner of Hoyle, Morris & Kerr, where he remained for 17 years. The firm grew to over 70 lawyers. He left in 2003 to join McCarter & English and soon became Managing Partner of its Philadelphia office.

Stephen Saltzburg L’70 received the 2021 John H. Pickering Achievement Award, presented by the American Bar Association Senior Lawyers Division. The award recognizes lawyers or judges who demonstrate outstanding legal ability and have compiled a distinguished record of service to the profession and their communities, resulting in significant contributions to improving access to justice for all. Saltzburg, who has been a professor at George Washington University Law School since 1990, also serves as Co-Director of the school’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program. In 2004, the George Washington University named Saltzburg a “University Professor,” the highest honor the university can confer. He is the only GW law professor ever to be so named. Before that, Saltzburg taught at the University of Virginia School of Law and was named the first incumbent of the Class of 1962 Endowed Chair. During his 19 years on the faculty of UVA Law School, he represented indigent persons pro bono in civil rights and habeas corpus cases, and in state and federal courts. Saltzburg is a Co-Founder of the National Institute of Military Justice, a nonpartisan organization devoted to promoting and improving military justice and protecting the constitutional rights of service members. He has participated in amicus curiae briefs in myriad courts that have supported the civil rights of men and women in uniform. His government service includes serving as Associate Independent Counsel in the Iran–Contra investigation; Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S Department of Justice; the attorney general’s ex-officio representative on the U.S. Sentencing Commission; and Director of the Tax Refund Fraud Task Force, appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Saltzburg has also served as chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section and represents the section in the ABA House of Delegates. He was appointed to the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and the Law and to the ABA Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Profession in 2001, and to the ABA President’s Advisory Group on Citizen Detention and Enemy Combatant Issues in 2002. In 2003, he served as chair of the ABA Justice Kennedy Commission, a group convened to conduct a detailed examination of the American criminal justice system. He is the author of numerous books and articles on evidence, procedure, and litigation.

Mark Carroll L’71 was honored at a 50-Year Member and Senior Counselor Recognition Luncheon in Orlando held by the Florida State Bar. Honorees were recognized both for their good standing and for practicing for 50 years in the Florida Bar or having cumulative legal practice with the Florida Bar and other United States jurisdictions for a total of five decades. Carroll was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1971.

Jack Tranter L’72 retired from the practice of law after nearly 50 years working in public service and at private law firms. During his distinguished career, Tranter practiced real estate law at Venable, Baetjer & Howard (now Venable) in Baltimore and Donahue, Thomas, Gallagher & Woods in Oakland, California. He also served as Assistant Attorney General in the Maryland Attorney General’s Office and Deputy General Counsel at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of Civil Cases in the U.S. Attorneys’ Office, District of Maryland. Shifting to private practice in Baltimore for the next 37 years, Tranter was Partner and Head of the Health Care practice group at Gordon, Feinblatt; Partner in the Health Care practice group at Piper & Marbury (now DLA Piper); Partner and Head of the Health Care practice group and Of Counsel at Gallagher, Evelius & Jones. Tranter received numerous accolades including Best Lawyers in America, Health Care Law, for 30 years; “Senior Statesman” in Health Care Law from Chambers USA; Life Fellow from the Maryland Bar Foundation; and Maryland Super Law in Health Care Law. He was also named a permanent member of the United States Judicial Conference for the Fourth Circuit.

Barbara Hauser L’76 received approval for her PhD dissertation, “The Benefits of Applying the Rule of Law in Family Governance,” from the University of Zurich Law School, and she attended the graduation ceremony this past fall. She was also recognized with the Hubler Award for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Working with Family Businesses, which is part of the annual Minnesota Family Business Awards. Hauser recently wrote a chapter for a soon-to-be-published book on family businesses that summarizes her approach to governance. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The International Family Offices Journal in London.

Bruce Ludwig L’76 was named a 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. He is a Partner at Willig Williams & Davidson. As a litigator and strategist at the firm, he has served as counsel and chief negotiator for a diverse array of labor organizations and their members, representing private and public sector unions and working individuals for more than 40 years. He was also selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

Michael Malloy L’76 served as a member of the organizing committee and co-host for the 8th Annual International Conference on Business, Law, and Economics, sponsored by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. The virtual conference took place in Athens, Greece in May 2021. Malloy offered welcoming remarks to the conference participants and presented a paper titled “Promises for the Future,” which examines recent developments in contracts law involving the use of the theory of promissory estoppel as an alternative to traditional formal contract formation. This paper is drawn from a larger, book-length project on contracts law that will be published next year. Additionally in May, Wolters Kluwer published the third of five 2021 supplements for the three-volume treatise Banking Law and Regulation by Malloy. In 422 pages, the supplement provides new and updated legislative, regulatory, and case law developments in financial services regulation. Among other things, it includes discussion of further mitigation of rules in response to the pandemic crisis and the consolidation of national bank and federal savings association regulations by the Comptroller of the Currency, who regulates both types of institutions.

Hope Comisky L’77, PAR’04, PAR’11 was named by Best Lawyers as the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for Employment Law–Management in the Philadelphia area. This award recognizes individual lawyers with the highest overall peer-feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. Comisky is a top-ranked employment attorney and an experienced arbiter with over 35 years of employment and litigation experience. She is a member and chair of
Griesing Law’s Employment and Ethics & Professional Responsibility practice groups, and she counsels clients on employment issues, provides training to managers and staff, and offers strategic advice on employment litigation matters.

The Honorable Gordon Goodman C’74, L’77 of the Texas First District Court of Appeals will publish this spring a paper titled “The Ethics of Cryptocurrency” in the Hastings Business Law Journal. Last year, his article, “The Ethics of Crisis,” ran in the Harvard Public Health Review. These are part of a series of papers on ethics he published over the last few years in the Heidelberg Journal of International Law, the Hastings Business Law Journal, the American Bar Association’s Business Law Today, and In Chambers, a publication of the Texas Center for the Judiciary. Justice Goodman was elected to the First District Court of Appeals in 2018.

George Wolfe L’77 received the 2021 Global Vision Award from the Columbia World Affairs Council. The award recognizes leaders whose contributions have made a significant impact on projecting South Carolina globally. Wolfe is Partner and Co-Chair of the Economic Development Practice Group at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP and founding board member of the Columbia World Affairs Council. During his career, he created and amended tax and incentive laws that positioned South Carolina to consistently be one of the leading states for capital investment in the nation. He has represented companies from Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Wolfe served as Deputy General Counsel and Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush and helped create the modern-day financial system and currency in Iraq during two tours in the leadership of the Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 and 2004.

Avarita L. Hanson L’78, an Atlanta attorney, was inducted into the National Bar Association’s Fred D. Gray Hall of Fame in July. The award, instituted in 1986 by NBA past President and noted civil rights attorney Fred David Gray, Sr., honors attorneys who have made significant contributions to the cause of justice and practiced law for 40 or more years. It recognizes attorneys who by, through, and within institutions in their communities, states, and this nation, have extracted and demanded the greater good of all through the practice of law. Hanson also received the NBA’s Gertrude A. Rush Award in 2020. Hanson, a member of the State Bar of Texas (1979, now inactive) and Georgia since 1983, is the only past President of two Georgia NBA affiliates, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (1985), and the Gate City Bar Association (1991).

Anthony Haller LLM ’79 was appointed to serve as a Public Trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation. He previously served an Elected Trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation for two consecutive terms from 2012 to 2020. In 2019, Haller was elected as a Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn, London, which is a lifetime office in recognition of the contribution that a barrister has made to the life of the Inn or to the law. It is a rare distinction for a barrister admitted and practicing in a foreign jurisdiction. He received this honor in recognition of his contributions to the American Inns of Court, the links he has helped forge between Gray’s Inn and the American Inns of Court, and the bonds he has helped foster between the American and English Inns of Court. As a Partner at Blank Rome LLP, Haller concentrates his practice on all aspects of labor and employment law, including preventative counseling, complex litigation, trial, and appellate work. He served on the firm’s executive committee from 2010 to 2020, served as Chair of the Labor & Employment group from 2008 to 2013, and currently leads the firm’s Trade Secrets & Competitive Hiring practice. Haller is ranked as a leader in labor and employment law by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Best Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and Super Lawyers.

1980s

David Cohen L’81, HON’21 was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November as U.S. Ambassador to Canada. He had most recently served as Senior Advisor to the CEO at Comcast Corporation. Cohen had previously served there as Senior Executive Vice President, where his responsibilities included corporate communications, legal affairs, government and regulatory affairs, public affairs, corporate administration, corporate real estate and security, and community impact. Cohen also served as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer. Before his time at Comcast, Cohen served as a Partner in and Chairman of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. Before that, Cohen served as Chief of Staff to the Honorable Edward G. Rendell, the Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. Cohen serves on many nonprofit boards, including as a member of the Trustee Board and the Executive Committee of Penn Medicine, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, and the national board of the National Urban League. Additionally, he is Chair of the national board of City Year and its executive committee. He is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marilyn Sanborne L’81 was recognized for excellence in the 2021 edition of the High Net Worth guide published by Chambers and Partners, a leading legal industry research and ranking service. Sanborne serves as Senior Counsel in the Private Client Services Group at Ballard Spahr. She is the group’s former longtime leader and is ranked in Band 1, the highest tier, for professional advisers to the private wealth market in Pennsylvania.

Jack Wiener L’82, a former Junior Olympic fencer, is representing three people on a pro bono basis who have reported a Team USA Olympic fencer for sexual misconduct over a number of years, as discussed in a recent New York Times article in which he is quoted. Despite having been investigated and suspended under Title IX for sexual misconduct while in college, investigated and sanctioned by SafeSport, and banned by USA Fencing from flying to Tokyo with his fellow Team USA fencers, or into their hotel, the fencer was allowed to appear in the Olympic venue with his teammates. Team USA chose not to have him compete.

Dean Adler W’79, L’83, PAR’11, PAR’15 is the Chief Executive Officer of Lubert-Adler Partners, which recently acquired the Bellevue in Philadelphia, one of Center City’s most historic and prominent properties. The company plans to spend $100 million to make several renovations, including the conversion of office space into apartments and the installation of a rooftop skating rink and swimming pool. The 19-story, 885,365-square-foot building has 272,792 square feet of office space, a 172-room hotel and 55,000 square feet of retail space. A 93,000-square-foot space housing the Sporting Club fitness facility is also part of the building. Adler told the Philadelphia Business Journal he hopes to re-energize the historic property.

Rohit Turkhud LLM’83 was named to EB-5 Investors Magazine’s list of Top 25 Immigration Attorneys, which recognizes the most influential immigration law practitioners in the field of EB-5 finance in 2020. Turkhud is Counsel at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, where he focuses his practice on employment-based immigration matters. He is regularly engaged by HR directors and business leaders for counsel on their immigration policies and procedures — including matters related to H1-B, PERM, EB-5, and L-1. In servicing his EB-5 clients, Turkud helps ensure regulatory compliance related to investment and source of funds requirements. Turkhud is a sought-after commentator on the EB-5 program, and has been cited by the global, Middle East-based ET Now and Al Jazeera outlets. Further, he is a frequent speaker on business immigration issues, especially EB-5 matters, before professional and industry association audiences on a variety of employment-based immigration topics.

James Eisenstein WG’83, L’84 was appointed to Desktop Metal, Inc.’s Board of Directors and also to the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Desktop Metal, based in Burlington, Massachusetts, works to accelerate the transformation of manufacturing with an expansive portfolio of 3D printing solutions, from rapid prototyping to mass production. Eisenstein has more than 30 years of leadership experience in both public and private technology companies, including an extensive background in M&A and industrial consolidation. He has founded several multibillion dollar companies, including American Tower Corporation, which today has a market cap of over $120 billion. He is currently Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Grupo TorreSur, the largest independent wireless tower company in Latin America.

Antoinette Hubbard L’84 received the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2021 Award for Outstanding Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion in recognition of her work in planning the Association’s 2020 Diversity Summit. The summit examined implicit bias, social justice issues raised by the killing of George Floyd, and best practices to increase diversity and inclusion for members of the Bar and law firms as leaders of the profession. Hubbard has served as a member of the Association’s Minority Bar Committee Diversity Summit Subcommittee Planning Team for the past eight years. She is a senior member of the Delaware asbestos litigation team at Maron Marvel Bradley Anderson & Tardy and has served as the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Director since 2013. She works closely with firm leaders to advance its DE&I efforts. Recent initiatives include sponsoring the Delaware Minority Job Fair, partnering with firm clients to host a CLE seminar on diversity in the legal profession and the strengths of diverse working teams, and leading a firm-wide discussion on racial justice, followed by the selection of a social justice organization to sponsor.

Amy De Shong L’86 was included in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in America. She was named the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for Family Law, Philadelphia. She is a Partner at Wisler Pearlstine, LLP.

Charles Hehmeyer L’86 joined Berman & Simmons, a Maine personal injury and medical malpractice law firm, as a Partner. Hehmeyer brings decades of experience representing individuals in medical malpractice and serious personal injury cases. He gained a national reputation representing families whose children were injured by substandard hospital and/or physician conduct and has served as Lead Counsel in significant birth injury and other negligence cases in over 20 states, securing many seven-and-eight-figure settlements. Having focused on medical malpractice for almost 30 years, Hehmeyer has represented clients whose care involved virtually every medical specialty. In addition to medical negligence, he also focuses on bus and truck accidents often caused by distracted driving, driving violations, or maintenance issues.

Michael Lewyn L’86 recently published an article in the University of New Mexico Law Review, focusing on the issue of, and mostly defending, “supertall” condos (i.e. large buildings for wealthy buyers). He is a professor at Touro Law Center in New York.

Kenneth Trujillo L’86, PAR’22 was named to the 2021 Professional Excellence Awards by The Legal Intelligencer. He is a Philadelphia-based Shareholder with Chamberlain Hrdlicka. Trujillo was named as a Lifetime Achievement honoree. He represents U.S. and foreign companies, as well as governments, executives, lawyers, and other individuals in contract disputes, securities, antitrust, education, and other regulatory issues. His practice involves complex civil litigation and class actions, and he counsels clients on governance, regulatory matters, internal investigations, and government relations. Trujillo has also represented numerous public officials and governments, including city council members, mayors, governors, states, cities, and Native American tribes in civil and criminal matters. He has extensive jury trial experience having tried to verdict civil and criminal cases ranging from personal injury to civil rights to complex class actions.

Richie Feder L’87 is now happily teaching at Penn and Temple Law Schools as an adjunct, and “freelancing” as a municipal and appellate lawyer. He also serves as an appointed adviser to the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Government Ethics project. He previously spent 27 years at the City of Philadelphia Law Department. During his tenure, Feder was Chief of Legislation for 20 years and Chief of Appeals for 15 years.

Dexter Hamilton L’87, PAR’14, PAR’18 joined the Widener Board of Trustees. He graduated from the University in 1983. Hamilton is a member at Cozen O’Connor, where he practices in the areas of commercial litigation, construction litigation, products liability, and toxic tort litigation.

Nima Kelly L’87 has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at True Wind Capital Management LP, a private equity firm that invests exclusively in technology companies. Kelly had been General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at GoDaddy Inc., a publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. Previously, she was a labor and employment litigator at Kauff Maguire & Margolis LLP and Vice President for Human Relations at Beechwood Data Systems.

Frank Lee L’87 joined Bracewell LLP’s New York office as a Partner in the firm’s corporate and securities team. In his new role, he advises renewable energy developers, project sponsors, and solar panel manufacturers on acquisitions, divestitures, and commercial arrangements, as well as electric utilities on corporate finance and securities, SEC compliance, and corporate governance matters. He also represents issuers and underwriters in various securities offerings and other financings. Lee was previously Co-Chair of the Energy practice at Loeb & Loeb LLP.

The Hon. Karen Knox Valihura L’88, a Delaware Supreme Court Justice, delivered the 2021 commencement remarks at her alma mater, Hempfield Area High School, in Greensburg, Pa. She also became the thirtieth person since 1997 to be added to the school’s Wall of Fame.

Alfreda Bradley-Coar C’86, L’89 joined the Obama Foundation’s team as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel. In this role, she leads all aspects of the Foundation’s legal affairs including those related to the design, construction, and operations of the Obama Presidential Center. During her previous 23 years at General Electric (GE), Bradley-Coar held senior operational, general counsel, customer experience, and leadership roles in global divisions in the healthcare, insurance, and financial services divisions. Over the course of her tenure at GE, she managed and transformed business and law departments including legal, compliance, regulatory, product, and licensing. Bradley-Coar was an architect of diversity and inclusion, change management, and talent development initiatives, including being a National Operating Leader for the GE African American Forum. Bradley-Coar is a longtime resident of Chicago and is actively involved in civic and community efforts as a board director for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago State University Foundation, and as a strategy advisor committee member of Advocate Aurora Health. She is a member of several national organizations including, Executive Leadership Council (ELC) and Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, Inc.

Jeff Cohen L’89 was promoted to Partner at Akin Gump’s Los Angeles office. He represents lenders, developers, and investors in the development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of large-scale infrastructure and energy projects. Cohen maintains a focus on the renewable energy sector, including advising on all stages of wind, solar and hydrogen projects, which is of particular interest to firm clients focused on energy transition.

Jennifer Evans Stacey L’89 was appointed Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Secretary at Galera Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a pipeline of novel, proprietary therapeutics that have the potential to transform radiotherapy in cancer. Previously, Evans Stacey served as Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Government Relations at The Wistar Institute, an independent international biomedical research institution. During her tenure, she drafted and negotiated license and equity agreements to launch six
start-ups that helped advance Wistar technology.

Howard Krooks L’89 became a member of Cozen O’Connor’s Private Client Services Department and practices elder law, special needs planning, and estate planning in New York and in the firm’s new Boca Raton, Florida, office. He is a past President of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, a past Chair of the New York State Bar Association Elder and Special Needs Section, and Chair-Elect of the Florida Bar Elder Law Section.

1990s

Alison Arnold L’91 was appointed Chief Compliance Officer at Clincierge, the leader in patient support services and logistics management for clinical trials. In this role, she oversees compliance with federal and international law and regulations, internal policies, and industry standards. She also serves as Lead Privacy Officer, providing expert guidance on best practices related to data privacy and the protection of personally identifiable information. Arnold was previously at T. Global Partners, Inc., where she was responsible for global compliance, contracting, and sourcing. She also managed document review for DuPont de Nemours, Inc. and spent more than a decade as a Partner at several nationally recognized law firms focusing on patient litigation across a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

General Thomas Ayres L’91 was appointed Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., a global leader in space exploration. General Ayres most recently served as the twentieth General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force. During his tenure, he led his team to draft and implement the legislation creating the Space Force, simultaneously becoming the first General Counsel for the U.S. Space Force. Throughout his career, he has been at the forefront of advising strategic leaders to support organizations as they transform and adapt to the age of information technology, big data, and virtual services. With extensive litigation experience early in his career, he also completed multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq as the Principal Legal Advisor to Commanders during combat operations.

Steven Spector C’87, L’91 joined Longboard Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, transformative medicines for neurological disease, as General Counsel. He most recently served as part-time General Counsel for several publicly traded companies, including Longboard, Dynavax Technologies, and Galecto, Inc. Prior to this, Spector served as General Counsel of Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for nearly 20 years. He is a former President and long-time member of the board of directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel, San Diego, and adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law.

Gregory Weinberger L’91 joined Morgan Stanley, where he focuses on advising clients on M&A in the company’s investment bank. Most recently, Weinberger served as Credit Suisse’s Global Head of Merger and Acquisitions, where he advised clients in the oil and gas sector, most notably Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Chevron Corp., and Occidental Petroleum Corp. Aside from a short stint with another bank, he had been with Credit Suisse since 1996.

Neal James Wilson L’91, Co-Chief Executive Officer of EJF Capital LLC, oversaw a partnership with Chartwell Residential to form a joint venture to invest $80 million in a two-phase, multifamily development with approximately 750 units in Nashville, Tennessee. EJF Capital is a global alternative asset management firm, while Chartwell Residential specializes in the development, construction, and management of high-quality residential development projects. The 13.6-acre project is in an area certified as a “Qualified Opportunity Zone” under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which offers investors tax benefits to invest in Opportunity Zones with the aim of spurring economic growth in lower income areas.

Peter Jones L’92 was named the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America for Labor Law – Management. Only one lawyer in any practice area in a city is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” As an attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & King, Jones counsels and represents employers in employment litigation, wage and hour proceedings, union organizing campaigns, unfair labor practice proceedings, collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitrations, strikes and picketing situations, and discrimination claims. He also represents a number of municipalities in labor matters, including proceedings before PERB and compulsory interest arbitration under New York’s Taylor Law.

Lucy Lopez L’92 was appointed General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of executive search firm Spencer Stuart. She was previously Deputy General Counsel at McKinsey & Company, where she worked for nearly 24 years and most recently served as its head of legal for the Americas. There, Lopez assisted partners and clients on strategic priorities and advised the global managing partner and the board of directors on governance-related issues. She also recruited, led, and mentored large teams of legal workers, including attorneys that handled the public, digital and analytics, and health care sectors.

Christopher Smith C’87, L’92, PAR’17 was named a Best Lawyer for his work in Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental. He is Co-Chair of the Smith Anderson’s Business Litigation team in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is a trial and appellate lawyer who counsels clients on business strategy matters.

Lenora Ausbon-Odom C’90, L’93 was named DLA Piper’s Chief Talent Development and Inclusion Officer. Ausbon-Odom has served as DLA Piper’s Director of Professional Development since 2017. In this role, she has been involved in a number of strategic initiatives, including leading the firm’s D&I educational programming and shaping the curriculum for its Emerging Leaders programs. She has designed and led the firm’s performance assessment and review process, advised firm lawyers on career development plans and opportunities, designed resources for real-time learning, and helped develop relationships with historically Black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions to foster a stronger pipeline for the advancement of diverse lawyers. Before joining the firm, Ausbon-Odom served in consulting and management roles at EY and Deloitte for more than 19 years.

Hope D’Oyley-Gay L’94 was appointed General Counsel for Applied Genetic Technologies Corporation, a biotechnology company conducting human clinical trials of adeno-associated virus-based gene therapies for the treatment of rare inherited retinal diseases. In this role, D’Oyley-Gay oversees legal, IP and compliance for the company. She has more than 25 years of legal experience, with the majority of her career spent in the healthcare industry, and deep knowledge of pharmaceutical, gene therapy, and life sciences companies. Most recently, D’Oyley-Gay was General Counsel and Vice President of Administration at Spirovant Sciences where she was a member of the company’s executive leadership team, helping to develop strategy for, and lead operations of, the company.

Michael Gilbert L’94 joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a Partner in the firm’s Government Contracts, Investigations, and International Trade practice group. Gilbert was most recently a Partner at Dechert’s New York office, where he focused on government and internal investigations and white-collar criminal defense.

Daniel Kaufman L’94 joined BakerHostetler’s Washington, D.C., office as a member of the firm’s Digital Assets and Data Management practice group, where he works with the group’s advertising, privacy, emerging tech, and cybersecurity teams. He was previously Acting Director for the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In a 23-year career at the FTC, Kaufman served as a senior official with extensive consumer protection experience in advertising and marketing practices as well as privacy and data security issues. During his tenure at the FTC, Kaufman was involved in more than 1,000 investigations and litigations involving emerging consumer and privacy concerns, deceptive advertising claims, and financial services issues. He also worked closely with various state attorneys general to enhance enforcement of consumer protection laws at the state level. At BakerHostetler, Kaufman focuses his practice on advising companies on consumer protection issues, particularly in relation to advertising, marketing, privacy, and data security. He supports clients with compliance matters and guides them as they operationalize programs that may give rise to heavy regulatory scrutiny. Kaufman has testified before Congress and regularly speaks about consumer protection at conferences and in the media and led the U.S. delegation to the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network for several years.

Hanley Chew L’95 was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as a Judge in the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Chew had been Of Counsel at Fenwick & West LLP since 2016. He was Vice President at Stroz Friedberg from 2015 to 2016 and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California from 2005 to 2015.

Joshua Pollack L’95 joined Nixon Peabody’s Intellectual Property practice as Counsel based at the firm’s Los Angeles office. With more than 25 years of experience representing clients in complex commercial litigation matters, Pollack advises a range of businesses and industries, including financial institutions, hedge funds, manufacturing, real estate, entertainment and media, apparel, retail, and hospitality. He has considerable experience representing clients in intellectual property litigation that primarily includes copyright, trademark, and patent ownership and infringement matters. He has successfully represented corporate and individual clients on a wide variety of matters involving claims for breach of contract, fraud, negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty, unfair competition, business interference, and false advertising. Pollack previously served as Of Counsel at Lathrop Gage.

Matthew Daniels L’96, G’96 developed a new curriculum, “Civil Rights: A Global Perspective,” which was recently published by McGraw-Hill Education. It applies Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent principles to the civil and human rights challenges of the Digital Age. Daniels is Chair of Law & Human Rights at the Institute of World Politics.

Simona Levi L’96 was appointed Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Vedanta Biosciences, a clinical-stage company that is developing a potential new category of oral therapies based on defined bacterial consortia. She has more than 25 years of United States and international legal experience with private and public companies across the life sciences industry focusing on complex transactions, intellectual property law and litigation, and corporate governance. She was most recently General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Cell Signaling Technology, Inc., where she managed all legal matters, including assisting with the formation of the company’s global subsidiaries and structuring all financial transactions.

Kevin Boyle L’97 was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Ziopharm Oncology, Inc., a company developing non-vital and cytokine-driven cell and gene therapies. Boyle has over 20 years of experience in leading businesses in competitive and transformative situations and has a strong track record of delivering shareholder value. He is also an accomplished capital markets professional with strong banking relationships cultivated by raising over $2 billion in equity and debt capital over his career. Most recently, Boyle was Chief Executive Officer of Kuur Therapeutics, leading the company through a successful transformation, culminating in a $185 million acquisition in May 2021 by Athenex, a global biopharma company focusing on the development and commercialization of cancer therapies.

Philip Bronner L’97, WG’97 was elected to the board of directors for OneMain Financial, the country’s largest nonprime installment lender with a mission of improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Bronner co-founded Ardent Venture Partners, which is a venture fund focused on technology, fintech, and the future of work. Before Ardent, Bronner was Founder/Managing Member of Summer League Ventures and was a Partner with Novak Biddle Venture Partners for 17 years. Bronner also was the founder of Quad Learning, a venture-backed startup acquired by Wellspring Higher Education, and served as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. He is currently on the boards of The Reserve Trust Company, Verituity, and ExecOnline.

Kay Kharcheva Gordon L’97 was listed in the Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America. She was recognized for her corporate work, particularly in investment management, as a Partner at Nelson Mullins’ New York office. Gordon counsels clients on hedge funds, funds–of–funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, venture funds, and compliance–related matters involving registered advisers and broker–dealers. She also advises clients on a broad range of securities and regulatory matters as well as a variety of financial instruments and transactions, including managed accounts, credit facilities, joint ventures, and derivative instruments. She works closely with strategic, institutional, and seed investors and also represents clients in investigations by the SEC and other regulators.

Priscilla “Sally” Mattison L’97 wrote “How Can Lawyers Help the Music Industry Green Itself and Respond to the Climate Crisis?,” which was included as a chapter in the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers 2021 publication, Nationalism vs Globalism: Regional and Transnational Legal Issues Reshaping the Entertainment Industry, ed. Marijn Kingma & William Genereux (Frukt, 2021). She also presented an entertainment lawyer’s point of view on “The Role of Lawyers in Promoting Sustainability and Addressing Climate Change: A U.S. Perspective,” an online panel hosted by the Rotary Club of Ara Damansara (Malaysia). Mattison is Of Counsel to Bernard M. Resnick, Esq., P.C.

Brad Newberg C’94, W’94, L’97 was named an officer for the Library of Congress’s new Copyright Claims Board. The board was created following the passage of the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020, which was part of the coronavirus relief bill. It functions to resolve copyright disputes of small monetary value. Newberg, a Partner at McGuireWoods LLP, is the head of the firm’s Copyright and Trademark Litigation practice. He has been lead counsel in more than 100 copyright matters, while also working on transactional and licensing issues.

Pilar Ramos C’94, L’97 joined Univision as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and with the company’s merger with Televisa late last year, she became General Counsel for Televisa-Univision. Ramos had spent more than 18 years at Mastercard in several legal leadership positions, most recently as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, North America.

Joanna Cline L’98 was inducted into Vineland High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame. Cline collected 12 varsity letters during her career in soccer, basketball, and track/field. She was a four-year starter and two-year captain for the Fighting Clan’s soccer team, earning two All-South Jersey and All-Group 4 selections. Cline was voted the South Jersey Soccer Coaches Association’s Midfielder of the Year and played in the state’s Senior All-Star Game, both in 1990. She graduated as salutatorian of her senior class. Cline played collegiately at Dartmouth where she was a member of the Ivy League champion squad in 1993, a team that went to the regional finals. An inductee in the South Jersey Soccer Hall of Fame in 2019, Cline is currently a United States Soccer Federation official and a trainer for the Rose Tree Soccer Club in Media, Pennsylvania. She is a Partner at Troutman Pepper’s Wilmington and Philadelphia offices.

Noah Axler L’99, CGS’06 joined Anderson Kill PC’s Philadelphia office as a Shareholder in the firm’s Technology, Media and Distributed Systems group. He also brings his class action and whistleblower practice to the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Litigation group. Axler’s practice includes advising clients on the application of securities law to digital assets, as well as compliance, broker-dealer, and custody issues. In recent years as blockchain and cryptocurrency has taken hold as a significant investment industry, Axler’s practice has grown to encompass the issuance of security tokens and the regulations governing their trading. He also represents a broad range of clients in complex commercial litigation, including securities, antitrust, and whistleblower cases. In addition to his litigation and advisory services with Anderson Kill, Axler continues serving a reduced role at LawCoin, a company he co-founded in 2018 to market a blockchain-based investment platform. Axler was previously a Partner at Axler Goldich, a firm he co-founded that provided class action and qui tam/whistleblower litigation, as well as advising startups and other clients on the growing cryptocurrency industry.

Keir Gumbs L’99 joined Broadridge Financial Services as its Chief Legal Officer. He focuses on legal, compliance and physical security matters, in addition to spearheading Broadridge’s policy efforts and serving as the main legal adviser for the company’s board of directors. Gumbs most recently served as Uber’s Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Corporate Secretary.

Danielle A. Schweiloch L’99 has taken a position as the Assistant Dean of Career Services and Professional Development at Columbia Law School. She had been Assistant Dean for Career Services at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Prior to that, Schweiloch was Director for Private Sector Careers at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

2000s

Rochelle Ford L’00 was appointed Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Governance, at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), a nonprofit corporation chartered to advance space-related science, technology, and engineering. In this role, Ford has executive responsibility for corporate legal matters, congressional advocacy, external communications, and management of corporate governance, including support to the board of trustees and the USRA Council of Institutions, which includes representatives from each of USRA’s 113 member universities. Prior to joining USRA, Ford served as the Director of Government Ethics at the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Garodnick L’00 was named City Planning Commission Chair by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Garodnick serves as the CEO of the Riverside Park Conservancy and previously represented the Upper East Side and Midtown East in the New York City Council until 2017. The Adams administration said it valued Garodnick’s experience chairing the Planning and Economic Development Committees and serving as a member of the Land Use Committee when he was on the Council.

Gabrielle Ciuffreda L’01 joined JA Saccoccio Architectural Workshop (JASW) as Project Coordinator. Ciuffreda is the Chair of the Windham Regional Planning Commission and brings nearly 20 years of legal, asset management, and real estate development experience to JASW. In her previous role as Project Development Manager at M&S Development, Ciuffreda focused on mixed-use and industrial development, historic renovation, and Brownfields environmental remediation. Most notably, she helped procure and oversee the financing and redevelopment of a $31 million rehabilitation of three historic buildings in downtown Bennington, Vermont. Launched in 2019, JA Saccoccio Architectural Workshop is a community-oriented firm that focuses on client relationships, complicated deep energy retrofits of existing and historic buildings, and challenging new construction. JASW provides architectural services from initial concept through construction, including project details, drawings, and construction administration.

Rob Crotty L’01 joined INOVIO as General Counsel. The biotechnology company focuses on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases, cancer, and HPV-associated diseases. Crotty brings more than 15 years’ experience in the life sciences industry. Prior to joining INOVIO, he held legal positions of increasing responsibilities at ImClone Systems Incorporated, NPS Pharmaceuticals, Dendron Corporation, Vernalis Therapeutics, and most recently, Nabriva Therapeutics, where he served as General Counsel & Secretary.

Heath Tarbert L’01, GRL’02 joined Citadel Securities as Chief Legal Officer. In his new role, he is responsible for the firm’s global legal, compliance, surveillance, and regulatory affairs functions. Prior to joining Citadel Securities, Tarbert was the fourteenth Chairman and Chief Executive of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Vice Chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

Maria Charon L’02 joined Argus Capital Corp. as Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions. Charon, who has worked as an in-house attorney in the media industry and at premier international law firms, has strong expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities law, executive compensation, employee benefits, and tax. During her career, she has regularly advised and represented clients in public and private M&A transactions and has also conducted and had oversight of extensive due diligence investigations. From April 2014 to June 2020, Charon was Vice President, Senior Counsel, Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits at ViacomCBS Inc., where she primarily advised on executive compensation, ERISA, and benefits matters. While at ViacomCBS, Charon worked closely with senior management on complex M&A and capital markets transactions. Charon is a frequent guest speaker at the Columbia University School of Law and the Practicing Law Institute.

Christine A. Docherty L’02 was elected Partner in the Corporate and Transactions department and appointed a member of the Banking and Financial Services group at Nutter Uncommon Law in Boston. She focuses her practice on advising a wide range of banking clients, including community and regional banks and international banking companies, on supervision, enforcement, and regulatory matters, among others. Prior to joining Nutter, Docherty was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she provided strategic legal advice to the Supervision, Regulation and Credit department; Macrofinancial Steering and Asset Management Communities; and the Conference of Presidents’ Financial Stability Committee on macroprudential and microprudential policy matters.

Kenneth Racowski L’02 joined Holland & Knight’s Philadelphia office as a Partner in the firm’s Philadelphia office. He serves as a trial lawyer and commercial litigator. Racowski has two decades of experience representing public and private companies in class actions and other high-stakes commercial litigation spanning a wide range of areas, including antitrust, contract and business torts, government investigations, mergers and acquisitions, and securities and corporate governance matters. His clients include leading companies in the life sciences, technology, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, transportation, and consumer products industries. Before joining Holland & Knight, Racowski was a Shareholder with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, where he was Co-Chair of the Class Action Litigation practice.

Eric Johnson L’03, the current Mayor of Dallas, Texas, and his wife, Nakita, welcomed their third child, Lela Reece Johnson, on May 21. 2021. Lela joins big brothers William (age 7) and George (age 3).

Marie Mathews L’03 was featured as a “Top Lawyer” in Morris/Essex Health & Life magazine’s June/July 2021 issue. More than 5,500 attorneys throughout New Jersey’s Morris and Essex counties were asked to select colleagues who they consider the best within their practice area and whom they would seek out for legal needs. Mathews is a member and deputy general counsel at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC, where she leads the firm’s litigation group. Mathews was particularly recognized for her work in professional malpractice and non-medical defense.

Emanuele Trucco LLM’03 was promoted to Partner at Shearman & Sterling’s Milan office. He is a member of the firm’s capital markets and M&A practices, and he represents investment banks, corporate clients, property companies, and private equity funds on Italian and U.S. transactions.

Andrew Alin C’01, L’04 joined WilmerHale as a Partner in the firm’s New York office. He has a broad mergers and acquisitions practice. Alin represents financial institutions, financial technology companies, and other strategic parties, as well as private equity sponsors, special purpose acquisition companies and hedge funds, in public company mergers, asset sales, subsidiary carve-outs, strategic investments, corporate governance matters, proxy contests, joint ventures, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and other complex transactions. He also advises clients on transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, and financings, as well as restructurings. He was previously a Partner at Cadwalader.

Rick Horvath L’04 joined Dechert’s San Francisco office as a corporate governance litigation partner. His practice focuses on corporate governance, advising investors and public companies on a range of issues from corporate takeovers to board conflicts. He is also a litigator who has represented clients in corporate governance disputes and complex commercial litigation related to mergers, securities fraud, and a number of different issues. Horvath was previously Of Counsel at Paul Hastings.

Enrique Conde C’01, L’05 joined Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a Partner in the corporate, M&A and securities, and Latin American practice groups. He was most recently Deputy General Counsel at SoftBank.

Sarah Greenberger L’05 was appointed Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. In that role, she works to advance President Biden’s agenda to tackle climate change, create good-paying union jobs in a clean energy economy, steward America’s public lands and waters, and honor relationships and trust responsibilities with Indigenous communities. Greenberger most recently served as the Senior Vice President for Conservation Policy at the National Audubon Society. She joined Audubon after serving at the U.S. Interior Department for five years, driving strategy and policy for the Department as a Counselor and Senior Advisor to Secretaries Ken Salazar and Sally Jewell.

Ellen London L’05 was recognized as a California Future Star in the 2022 rankings of Benchmark Litigation. London is a Partner at Alto Litigation in San Francisco, which she joined in March 2020. She had previously served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Divisions for the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2020. She has successfully litigated or settled multiple cases involving multimillion dollar resolutions, including being a member of the Bank of America FIRREA government trial team, multiple False Claims Act cases resulting in large recoveries for the government, and two significant tax cases. She was also recognized as a California Future Star in 2021.

Nishant Singh LLM ’05 joined L&L Partners in Mumbai as a Partner. He was previously a Partner at IndusLaw. He has 20 years of diverse experience in equity and debt financing transactions across multiple sectors and countries.

Ejim Achi C’02, L’06 was named a Rising Star in the New York Law Journal. He is Co-Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s New York office and Co-Chair of the firm’s New York Corporate practice. Achi represents private equity sponsors in connection with buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, and other investments spanning a wide range of industries and sectors, with particular emphasis on technology, health care, industrials, consumer packaged goods, hospitality, and infrastructure. He is also a board member of ILIMI Foundation and of The Harlem Symphony Orchestra.

Harris Mufson C’03, L’06 joined Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP as Co-Chair of the firm’s Whistleblower Team, where he represents employers in discrimination, retaliation, and wage suits. He was previously the co-leader of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice Group and the Disability, Accommodations and Leave Management Practice Group at Proskauer Rose. Mufson represents employers in suits encompassing retaliation, defamation, wrongful discharge, sexual harassment and whistleblowing. He also advises clients on personnel policies and procedures. Since 2014, New York Super Lawyers Metro Edition has recognized him as a rising star. Mufson also advises the Harlem Village Academies pro bono practice and helps the organization with employment issues. He is also a founding board member of the Mount Sinai Medical Legal Partnership, which provides free legal services to disenfranchised populations in New York.

Christopher Beals C’02, ENG’02, CGS’05, L’07 was named to WM Technology, Inc.’s board of directors following the company’s public debut on the Nasdaq in June. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of WM Technology, a technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry.

Samson Enzer L’07 joined Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s White Collar practice in New York. He was most recently an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. During his time there, he received the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Prosecutor of the Year Award in 2014 and was nominated for the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 2018. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Enzer was involved in multiple high-profile cryptocoin prosecutions, including the prosecution of fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges against John McAfee and McAfee’s bodyguard in a pair of alleged cryptocurrency schemes. He also brings a wealth of experience in other white collar matters. In 2019, Enzer helped bring down former JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Perella Weinberg Partners investment banker Sean Stewart, who was twice convicted of insider trading over a purported scheme to leak confidential information about health care company mergers for his father to trade on.

Keith Hallam C’03, L’07, a Partner at Cravath Swaine & Moore, was named a Law360 Rising Star for his work in navigating AerCap’s $30 billion purchase of General Electric’s aircraft-leasing unit, which was the biggest transaction on record for the first quarter of 2021.

Marc Weinroth L’07 was named a Law360 Rising Star. Weinroth, Counsel at Jones Day’s Miami office, where his practice focuses on litigation, internal investigations, and sports-related matters, was recognized for defending more than a dozen universities in federal multidistrict litigation. His work consolidated more than 500 putative class actions against the NCAA, conferences, and universities by college football athletes who sought damages relating to the long-term cognitive effects of playing college football.

Andrew Budreika L’08 was named in The Legal Intelligencer’s Lawyers on the Fast Track 2021. Budreika is a Partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius’s Philadelphia office, where he focuses his practice on borrower representations in public company syndicated credits, public and private bond offerings, and leveraged acquisition financing for private equity firms and private and public companies engaged in M&A. He also leads the firm’s 40-lawyer COVID-19 loan program and government stimulus task force, which advises clients and colleagues on all aspects of COVID-19-related federal and state loan and stimulus programs. Budreika has also helped numerous pro bono clients in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rebecca Kinburn L’08 joined Brach Eichler LLC’s Roseland, New Jersey, office as an Associate in its Commercial Litigation group. Kinburn has more than a decade of litigation experience and was most recently an Associate at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where she worked for nearly nine years. She has represented financial institutions in securities litigation matters stemming from the 2008 financial crisis and counseled a pharmaceutical company in defending a $100 million damages claim after an infringement finding. Her bankruptcy litigation matters included several high-profile cases, including a breach-of-contract claim related to the reorganization of a multibillion-dollar hotel and entertainment company and the liquidation of a multibillion-dollar global technology company.

Avi Sinensky L’08 has joined Rivkin Radler LLP as Counsel in the Corporate practice group in the firm’s Uniondale, New York, office. Sinensky regularly advises companies from startup to maturity on corporate governance, organization, and operations and has substantial experience in negotiating shareholder and operating agreements, financing arrangements, private placements, service agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, licensing agreements, and other commercial contracts. Prior to joining Rivkin Radler, Sinensky worked as Counsel at a firm in Mineola, New York, where he represented sellers and purchasers in corporate transactions, recapitalizations, and other business reorganizations.

Nicholas Wille L’08 was appointed to the board of directors of the Shaker Youth Soccer Association (SYSA), a nonprofit that provides developmentally appropriate soccer programs for kids in and around Shaker Heights, Ohio. As a parent of an active SYSA player, Wille has supported the organization’s mission of helping children learn technical soccer skills, achieve personal growth, and develop a lifelong enjoyment of the game of soccer. In his role on the board as Recreation Coordinator, Wille will help coordinate the recreational league and will work to ensure the group’s long-term continuity and success. He is a Partner at Ulmer & Berne and focuses on complex business and commercial litigation. Wille has represented clients in a range of industries in state and federal courts and private arbitrations across the country. He routinely assists clients in matters involving contractual disputes, business divorce and member withdrawals, enforcement of and challenges to non-competition agreements, and misappropriation of trade secrets. He has also represented numerous clients in disputes involving secured transactions, distressed asset sales, and fraudulent transfers.

Lindsey Carson L’09 became a Trial Attorney in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit in the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Fraud section. She was previously a Senior Associate in Arnold & Porter’s Washington, D.C., office, where she was a member of the firm’s White-Collar Defense and Investigations practice group.

Jeremy Chase L’09 was named a Law360 Rising Star for his work as a media and entertainment lawyer. Chase, a Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, was recognized for helping win key legal battles related to the press and the First Amendment, including defeating a lawsuit seeking to block publication of a book by former President Donald Trump’s niece.

Conor Lamb C’06, L’09 declared he is running for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. He represents Pennsylvania’s 17th district in Congress, which includes much of the Pittsburgh-area suburbs and all of Beaver County. Rep. Lamb won a special election in March 2018 and went on to win reelection in 2018 and 2020.

2010s

Amanda Aycock C’07, L’10 was elected Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s New York office. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, crisis management, and regulatory and white-collar defense and investigations, including substantial experience handling technology, consumer protection, and data privacy matters.

David Cohen L’10 was appointed Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions at Alliant Insurance Services. In this role, he specializes in providing transactional risk solutions to private equity firms, corporate clients, and alternative asset investors, with a focus on representations and warranties insurance placements. Prior to joining Alliant, Cohen served as Senior Vice President for Vale Insurance Partners, where he focused on underwriting transactional risk and representations and warranties insurance.

Camillie Landrón L’10 was named a Law360 Rising Star as a telecom law practitioner. She is Special Counsel at Jenner & Block. She was recognized for helping advise Charter Communications Inc. through a lengthy process and auction that resulted in the Federal Communications Commission awarding $1.2 billion to the company last December to expand its broadband network in 24 states.

Demetrius Warrick L’10 was promoted to Counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s New York office. As a corporate attorney, he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities and general corporate law.

Australia Alba LLM’11 joined Gunster’s tax, private wealth services, and international practices as an Associate at the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office. She has a parallel law degree in civil-law and common-law systems and concentrates her work on matters involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, estate planning, and transactional business tax law.

Ben Tonkin L’11 was sworn in by Chief U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He was hired to help prosecute the exponential increase in Indian Country cases following the Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma. The Court asserted the Creek Nation reservation was never disestablished by Congress when Oklahoma became a state; therefore, criminal jurisdiction within the reservation’s boundaries lay with the Federal Government and the Muscogee Nation. Tonkin previously practiced at a firm in New York City and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Texas. After the Supreme Court’s ruling, Tonkin volunteered to go to the Northern District of Oklahoma to assist and has remained with the office.

Jonathan Drory L’12 was promoted to Counsel at Latham & Watkins LLP’s Washington, D.C., office. A member of the Public Company Representation practice in the Corporate Department, he focuses on private and public securities offerings, securities regulation, and general company representation. He has experience advising clients on public reporting obligations and corporate governance.

Elizabeth Hein L’12 was elected Principal at Philadelphia-based Post & Schell PC. She represents healthcare industry clients in litigation, regulatory, and compliance matters. Hein’s nearly seven years with the firm includes the defense of complex commercial, regulatory and antitrust matters, medical staff litigation, and injunctive proceedings. She also provides counsel on federal and state regulatory compliance.

Brandon McCoy L’12, WG’12 was named by The Deal as a member of its“Top Rising Stars: Class of 2021.” He gained recognition for his work as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer. He was also included in the 2021 “Ones to Watch” category of Best Lawyers in America. McCoy was promoted to Partner at Haynes and Boone, LLP in 2021 and is a member of the Private Equity practice group in the firm’s Dallas office. His practice focuses on complex business transactions for both private and public clients in a range of industries, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, private equity investments, and joint ventures. McCoy also assists clients with pre-merger notification compliance under the Hart Scott Rodino Act.

Michael Noonan L’12, WG’12 was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Sentieo, a next-generation financial research platform provider. With an extensive background in private equity, banking, and technology, Noonan spearheads the next phase of company growth to meet mounting demand for Sentieo’s collaborative investment research platform. Noonan is also responsible for building out the team and ensuring seamless collaboration across the organization to effectively deliver on the shared mission of improving the investment research process. Noonan’s wealth of experience in bringing together powerful teams to transform organizations will be essential for success in this next phase of company growth. He was previously the Vice President of Operations at AI platform company Clarifai, where he was responsible for finance, legal, people, and strategic initiatives. He was instrumental in leading a successful Series C round of funding and helped establish the company’s extensive research and engineering team in Estonia.

Rachel Levick Corley C’10, L’13 was elected Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP’s Washington, D.C., office. Her practice covers a wide range of federal and state litigation, agency enforcement actions, cost recovery cases, and administrative rulemaking challenges.

Bret Stancil L’13 was promoted to Partner at Latham & Watkins LLP’s Bay Area office. He is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice in the Corporate Department. He represents both public and private companies in strategic corporate transactions as well as private equity funds and their portfolio companies in connection with public and private mergers, leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and dispositions, and general corporate transactional matters. He represents clients in a range of industries, including technology and software, internet and digital media, healthcare and life sciences, and retail and consumer products.

Stephanie E. Moran L’14 was promoted to Partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. She worked with Insight Venture Management LLC on its sale of Fenergo Ltd.to Astorg Partners and Bridgepoint Capital Ltd. last year.

Matthew Ploszek L’14, WG’14 was elevated to Partner at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP’s New York office. He serves in the firm’s Corporate department and focuses on M&A matters.

Rahul Magan L’16 joined ShipBob as VP, Legal to oversee the company’s worldwide legal affairs. The company is a cloud-based logistics platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses to provide access to best-in-class supply chain and fulfillment capabilities. Most recently, Magan was in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP in the Bay Area, where he was a member of the firm’s Technology and Life Sciences group specializing in all areas of corporate and securities law and advising emerging growth companies throughout their lifecycle, including IP transactions, IPOs, and mergers and acquisitions.

Nicholas Bellos L’19 joined Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller as an Associate in the firm’s Litigation department. Previously, he served as a law clerk to Judge Marjorie O. Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2020–21) and to U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2019–20).

Louis Capozzi C’16, L’19 began his clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch during the 2021 October term. He began his work for Justice Gorsuch after completing clerkships with Judge Anthony Scirica of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2019 to 2020 and with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2020 to 2021.

Kiran Musunuru ML’19 was honored with the 2021 Joseph A. Vita Award by the American Heart Association. The award is given annually in honor of the late cardiovascular scientist Joseph A. Vita, MD, to recognize research that had a major impact on the field of cardiovascular biology or cardiovascular health during the last five years. Dr. Musunuru is Professor of Medicine, Scientific Director of the Penn Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, and Director of Genetic and Epigenetic Origins of Disease Program at the Cardiovascular Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His research enhances understanding of cholesterol regulators and atherosclerosis. Dr. Musunuru was selected for the award because of his impressive work in therapeutic gene editing to combat cardiovascular disease. Other key achievements include discovering an LDL cholesterol regulating gene, inspiring development of multiple ANGPTL3-inhibiting drugs, using gene-edited human stem cells for disease modeling, and his pivotal work in functional genomics. In his lab, Dr. Musunuru developed processes to use gene editing technology to permanently reduce cholesterol levels and therefore provide protection against heart attack and stroke through a one-time injection. This strategy, which he likens to a vaccination, has been very successful in mice and monkeys, and he is working diligently to advance it to human trials. Dr. Musunuru serves on numerous committees at the Perelman School of Medicine. He has been an active member of the American Heart Association since 2007. He is a member of the planning committee for the High School Minority Outreach Program, a member of the Science and Clinical Education Lifelong Learning Committee, and chair of the task force for Modernization of AHA Scientific Statements. This is his sixth recognition from the Association, having previously been a finalist for the 2009 Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators and winner of the 2010 Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Young Investigator Award, the 2016 Award of Meritorious Achievement, the 2017 Functional Genomics and Epidemiology Mid-Career Research Award and Lecture, and the 2020 Council on Clinical Cardiology Distinguished Achievement Award.

2020s

Jessica Rizzo L’21 joined Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLC’s Philadelphia office’s Litigation department as an Associate. Her practice is focused on complex litigation matters. She was previously a summer associate with Montgomery McCracken as a law clerk. Before finishing her law degree in 2021, Rizzo was a certified legal intern at the Custody and Support Assistance Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania and a judicial intern to Judges Michael M. Baylson and Berle M. Schiller in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.