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
Paul Hastings has continued the expansion of its market-leading global finance platform with the addition of private credit partner Peter Williams in New York. Williams joins from Cahill Gordon & Reindel, where he co-led the firm's Chambers-ranked Private Credit practice, bringing extensive experience advising leading private credit investors on sophisticated financing transactions.
Sidley has expanded its global finance capabilities with the addition of a five-partner team from Clifford Chance, led by global financial markets co-chair Lee Askenazi. The group brings deep experience advising sponsors, private credit providers and other financial institutions on complex leveraged finance, structured finance and other high-value financing transactions, further strengthening Sidley’s cross-border finance platform.
Leahana Grimley joined Dechert’s San Francisco office as a partner in the Corporate and Securities Team. Grimley focuses her practice on private equity M&A, with a particular focus on middle and upper-middle-market transactions. She counsels clients on complex leveraged and strategic acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, and restructurings, amongst other areas. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis.
Jessica Delbaum has joined Davis Polk as a partner in its Antitrust & Competition practice in New York. Delbaum advises clients on the antitrust aspects of complex mergers and acquisitions, including defending transactions before the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, coordinating multijurisdictional merger reviews, and counseling on a broad range of antitrust compliance and business conduct issues across multiple industries. She joins from A&O Shearman and is widely recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 as a leading antitrust lawyer.
Paul Hastings expands their Securities Litigation practice with the addition of Partner Jennifer Luz, who joins the firm in Boston. Jennifer represents public and private companies in the life sciences, technology, and financial services industries, as well as trustees, officers, and other individuals, in securities litigation and investigations. She brings substantial trial experience across class action defense, derivative litigation, stockholder disputes, fiduciary duty claims, corporate governance matters, M&A-related litigation, and SEC, FINRA, and internal investigations. Jennifer is ranked by Chambers for Litigation: Securities and joins from Goodwin.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges expands their Regulatory Transactions practice with the addition of Partner Billy Phalen, who joins in the firm’s Boston office. Billy advises private equity funds, portfolio companies, multinational corporations, venture capital firms, and financial institutions on the interplay of global investment, trade, and national security regulations as they arise in complex cross-border transactions. He counsels clients on the trade and national security dimensions of M&A, fund formation, and debt finance. Billy previously served as a partner in Kirkland & Ellis's International Trade & National Security Practice Group.
Sidley Austin expands its Venture Capital and Technology Capital Markets practice with the addition of Partners Scott Bennett and Ellen Park, joining from Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Bennett and Park advise clients on venture capital financings, growth equity investments, and technology-driven capital markets transactions, including IPOs and follow-on offerings for emerging growth companies. Their arrival marks a significant expansion of Sidley's technology-focused transactional capabilities.
DLA Piper expands their Corporate M&A practice with the addition of Partner Michael Dorf, who joins the firm's Corporate practice group in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Michael represents public and private companies, sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, and corporate venture capital investors on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, venture capital financings, strategic investments, and joint ventures. He brings deep sector experience across the technology, biotechnology, renewable energy, and consumer products industries, and also advises financial advisors in connection with public M&A transactions.