Recent Placements
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For over 20 years, CenterPeak’s founders have been the driving force behind the most significant office openings, group acquisitions and partner placements across the United States. We’ve placed over 2,000 partners and opened more than 40 offices for Am Law 50 firms, with combined practices worth billions of dollars.
Selected Recent Placements
David Grubman and Adam Cromie join Sidley’s M&A practice as partners in the New York office. Mr. Grubman joins from Jones Day, where he was M&A Chair for the Americas for the firm’s corporate practice. He will be global co-leader of Sidley’s M&A practice. Mr. Cromie joins from Simpson Thacher, where he was an M&A partner. He worked with Mr. Grubman previously for seven years. Mr. Grubman advises companies in a broad range of complex and bet-the-company transactions, including takeover defense, proxy contests, and corporate governance matters. He is widely recognized as a leading M&A lawyer in the United States and globally. Mr. Cromie’s practice focuses on advising public and private companies and boards of directors across a variety of M&A transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and majority and minority investments.
Elizabeth “Liz” Stotland Weiswasser and Anish R. Desai join the firm as partners in its Litigation Department, resident in New York. Ms. Weiswasser, who will be co-chair of the Litigation Department, and Mr. Dai are nationally recognized for their success representing life sciences and technology clients in their most significant complex commercial disputes.
Jim Fogarty joins the firm’s New York office as a partner in the Structured Finance Practice. Mr. Fogarty represents private equity sponsors, private capital lenders, financial institutions, asset managers, and corporates in complex structured and securitization transactions.
Lesley Janzen joins the firm as partner in the New York office, focusing on capital markets transactions. Her transactional practice focuses on high-yield debt offerings and equity transactions for both issuers and underwriters. She regularly advises sponsors, investment banks, investors and issuers in equity and debt offerings, including IPOs, leveraged buyouts and liability management transactions.
Senior mergers and acquisitions lawyer and former Wachtell partner Gordon Moodie joins New York office as a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Public Company Advisory Group. Mr. Moodie will advise the firm’s clients, including public companies, boards, special committees and private equity sponsors, on the full spectrum of M&A transactions, including those in the technology and AI sectors and with complex corporate governance aspects.
Private funds lawyer Terence Rozier-Byrd joins the firm as a partner in the Asset Management Department, based in New York. Mr. Rozier-Byrd represents private fund sponsors on the formation and ongoing operation of investment funds across the spectrum of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, credit, real estate, fund of funds, hybrid and hedge funds.
Ryan Kim joins the firm’s New York office, spearheading the firm’s private credit initiatives and focusing on advising creditors, asset managers and alternative capital sources on all aspects of financing transactions. He has experience with a wide variety of finance transactions, including syndicated loan financing, cash flow and asset-based lending, rescue financings, debtor-in-possession financings and other special situation opportunities.
Sonali D. Patel joins the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., after serving as assistant chief of the DOJ unit. Her work there included the sprawling case related to bribery allegations at Petróleos de Venezuela SA, Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Patel joined the FCPA unit in 2018, serving as a trial attorney before becoming assistant chief in 2021.