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 and London. We’ve placed over 2,000 partners and opened more than 50 offices for Am Law 50 firms, with combined practices worth billions of dollars.
Selected Recent Placements
Steve Yoo has joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a partner and head of the Investment Funds Group in Los Angeles. Steve’s practice focuses on the structuring, formation, and operation of PE funds and their management companies. He has extensive experience counseling fund sponsors on regulatory compliance, internal economic and governance matters, GP-stake sale transactions, restructurings, compensation and employment arrangements, and succession planning.
Jared Fine has joined Davis Polk’s Capital Market practice in New York where he will play a key role in the firm's expansion in the emerging companies and venture capital space. Jared brings extensive experience serving as general counsel to clients, advising on mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and general corporate and securities law. His clients include investors as well as private and public companies. Jared has been recognized by Chambers USA for excellence in Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment.
CenterPeak is pleased to announce the placement of former Wachtell partner Viktor Sapezhnikov with DLA Piper in New York. Mr. Sapezhnikov was represented by CenterPeak Founding Partners Mark Jungers and Sabina Lippman and Senior Partner Kristin Mueller.
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Brian Hamilton, a leading Private Equity and M&A dealmaker, has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner in their New York office. His practice focuses on private equity and M&A deals in various industries around the globe. Brian advises clients on venture capital transactions, buyouts, strategic investments, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity matters. Brian is a recognized leader in his field. He previously led the private equity group at a top law firm before joining Willkie.
John Muno advises private equity fund sponsors on structuring, forming and operating funds and related management companies. Muno has advised many investment firms on fund formations and other transactions, including recently advising Thoma Bravo on the €1.8billion closing of its first European-focused fund. He leads Sidley’s Private Equity Funds practice where he focuses his work on the formation and operation of investment funds across a range of strategies. Muno joins from Kirkland & Ellis.
Ken Wiggins, Santiago Assalini and Sam Ramos join Orrick to launch their Miami office. The group previously practiced at Akerman where Ken Wiggins served as co-head of the M&A and Private Equity. Ken Wiggins advises public and private companies and private equity funds. Santiago Assalini represents public and private companies and PE funds in M&A, complex corporate transactions and general corporate matters. Sam Ramos also represents public and private companies and private equity funds in a range of corporate matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, strategic investments and corporate governance. All three have been recognized as leaders in their field.
The Miami office will serve clients in the technology, energy and infrastructure, finance and life sciences sectors.
Franz Ranero and James Smallwood will join the London office as partners in the Structured Finance Practice. Highly regarded in their field, Mr. Ranero and Mr. Smallwood regularly advise investment funds, financial institutions, and asset managers on a variety of complex, cross-border structured finance and structured products transactions, with a particular focus on collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and bespoke funding solutions.
Rob DeConti joined King & Spalding as a partner in its government matters and regulation practice group in Washington. Mr. DeConti joins from Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, where he was chief counsel and deputy inspector general. At HHS, he led the office that serves as the HHS liaison to the Justice Department for all health-care enforcement actions under the False Claims Act and enforced HHS’s health-care fraud remedies, such as program exclusion and the negotiation of Corporate Integrity Agreements.