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With combined experience of more than seven decades, Roehl, Bibb and Holahan have extensive knowledge advising on corporate and regulatory matters, M&A, and other strategic transactions for clients spanning all aspects of the insurance industry, including insurance companies, agents, managing general agents, captive insurance programs and insuretechs.

Global law firm Reed Smith partners Stacy Marcus and Edward Shapiro have been named to the Hollywood Reporter’s annual listings of leading entertainment lawyers

Congratulations to Charles Polk for being selected by Wisconsin Defense Counsel's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee and the Awards Committee for the 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee Award!

In recent years, environmental and sustainability concerns have become increasingly important across the economy.

Lawyers of Color has named Jones Day's Kevyn Orr, Partner-in-Charge U.S. Offices, to its 2023 Power List.

Ballard Spahr Partner Tobey M. Daluz has been inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy as a Fellow.

Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to welcome James H. McConnell to the firm's New York office as counsel in the Intellectual Property Department.

Troutman Pepper Partners Tiffany Bracewell and Mary Weeks have been elected to serve as treasurer and member-at-large, respectively, of the Atlanta Bar Association Litigation Section Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 bar year.

Blank Rome partner Mirlande Telfort was named a 40 Under 40 2023 award recipient by the Secured Finance Network ("SFNet"). In receiving this award, Mirlande joins fellow Blank Rome attorneys Jillian Zvolensky, Samir Ahuja, Shadi Enos Jahangir, Heather Sonnenberg, and Kevin O’Malley, who are all past 40 Under 40 honorees and were recognized as the “future of the secured finance community.”

James V. Masella III—a trial and appellate attorney with deep experience in securities litigation and commercial litigation matters—has joined Ballard Spahr’s Litigation Department and Securities Enforcement and Corporate Governance Litigation Group, firm chair Mark Stewart announced today. He will be resident in the firm’s New York office.

Holland & Knight has strengthened its Litigation Section with the addition of experienced litigator Brent Gary as a partner in Tysons. Mr. Gary joins the firm from Reed Smith.

Bradley is pleased to announce that Robert Maddox, a partner in the firm’s Birmingham office, has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL).

Holland & Knight Of Counsel Don Moody has been selected as an inaugural inductee into the Association of Dental Support Organizations' (ADSO) Hall of Leaders.

Holland & Knight has welcomed two notable technology-focused attorneys, Partners Daniel Ritter and Paul Stimers, as well as Senior Policy Advisor Dennis Potter, to the firm's Public Policy & Regulation Group in Washington, D.C.

Troutman Pepper has been selected as a winner for The M&A Advisor’s 17th Annual Turnaround Awards. The awards program recognizes the leading distressed transactions, restructuring, refinancing, products and services, firms, and professionals in the United States and international markets.

On March 27, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the Canadian CEO and founder of the exchange, for allegedly allowing people in the U.S. to illegally trade derivatives on its platform.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., of an upcoming enforcement action earlier this month. Coinbase's chief legal counsel explained in a blog post that Coinbase has tried repeatedly to get regulatory clarity from the SEC, but the SEC has not been communicative, and many industry insiders have expressed confusion over the SEC's move. Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of the blockchain platform Polygon, said he doesn't understand why the SEC would target a company that has demonstrated its eagerness to comply with regulations.