New York, USA - November 2, 2010, New York, USA - Proskauer, a global law firm, announced that seven lawyers have been elected to partner.
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New partners are William Brady, Michael Callahan, Anthony Coles, Enzo Der Boghossian, Nicolas Faguer, Hank Leibowitz, and Ronald Wood.
Mr. Brady is a Partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Junior Capital Group, which represents a large array of subordinated lenders, mezzanine funds, senior lenders and issuers in connection with leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, acquisition financings, going-private transactions, management buyouts and other finance-related transactions that range from $5 to $500 million.
While in law school, Mr. Brady's three-member moot court team placed first in the Northeast Region of the 2000 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition.
Mr. Callahan is a Partner in the Corporate Department, resident in the New York office. He is a general corporate lawyer with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and corporate finance transactions. In addition, he has substantial experience representing sports leagues and teams in various corporate matters.
Mr. Callahan has represented large institutional investors as well as private equity and venture capital funds in connection with numerous portfolio investments, financial and strategic acquisitions, dispositions, and other business combination transactions.
Mr. Callahan also has worked with several hedge funds in connection with their investments in companies with publicly traded securities.
Mr. Coles is a Partner in the Patent Law Group in the New York office. A registered attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, he is involved in all areas of intellectual property practice, concentrating on patent evaluations for patent pool licensing, patent infringement litigation, client counseling, and patent procurement. He has worked on patent litigation in the areas of Ethernet LAN technology and object-oriented software.
Mr. Coles has experience in a number of technical areas, including optical discs, digital rights management, wireless communications, video compression, cryptography, computer software, networking, computer architecture, optics, semiconductors, consumer disposables, and medical products.
Mr. Der Boghossian is a Partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department, resident in the Los Angeles office. He has represented employers in state and federal courts in defending against a broad range of labor and employment claims.
Mr. Der Boghossian's experience includes the defense of major statewide and nationwide wage and hour class action claims brought against Fortune 100 companies involving meal break, rest break, misclassification, uniform, on-call, waiting time, overtime, expense reimbursement, bonus, commission and work-off-the-clock allegations.
Mr. Der Boghossian also has extensive experience in litigating employment discrimination and wrongful termination claims. He has successfully resolved cases involving claims of disability, age, race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination, as well as retaliation, sexual harassment, and breach of contract.
Mr. Faguer is an International Partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department, resident in the Paris office. He has extensive experience in a wide range of commercial and business law cases and M&A-related litigation.
Mr. Faguer has been involved in several renowned cases in France representing banks, insurers, audit firms and industrial companies. He has experience in all aspects of contentious and pre-contentious representation of clients, as well as in complex massive actions, particularly involving product liability. He also regularly works with the Corporate, M&A, Private Equity and Competition Groups in our Paris office.
In addition, Mr. Faguer is a regular speaker and lectures at various seminars on the breach of commercial relations and class actions.
Mr. Leibowitz, a Partner in the Personal Planning Department, has a practice encompassing all aspects of estate and tax planning and estate and trust administration.
Mr. Leibowitz primarily represents individuals in a wide variety of estate and financial planning issues including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning. He has obtained favorable private letter rulings from the IRS in connection with the preparation of estate plans for his clients.
In recent years, Mr. Leibowitz has become very involved with planning relating to distributions from qualified plans and IRA's, including Roth rollovers, income and estate tax issues and devising methods that allow continued tax deferral within said plans.
Mr. Leibowitz also has extensive experience with all types of life insurance planning, including split-dollar arrangements. Additionally, he has prepared pre-nuptial and postnuptial agreements, and health care proxies. Hank has administered large and complex estates in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida.
Mr. Leibowitz has handled numerous IRS estate tax audits and state estate tax domicile disputes which have been favorably resolved. He has also been involved in many Surrogate’s Court proceedings.
Notably, Mr. Leibowitz has a great deal of experience in the administration of various artists’ estates, having handled the estate of Leonard Bernstein, the estate of Keith Haring, the George Balanchine trust, and a litigation brought by the New York State Attorney General against the estate of Joseph Cornell and the Cornell Foundation.
Mr. Leibowitz began his career as a tax accountant for Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Young) before returning to law school. He has authored numerous articles, including several that have been published in Estate Planning Magazine and is the editor of Personal Planning Strategies.
Mr. Wood is a Partner in the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group. Prior to joining Proskauer, he spent a decade with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, conducting and directing investigations and follow-up proceedings in matters involving insider trading, market manipulation, fraudulent stock offerings, false financial reporting and disclosure violations. ■