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Fulbright & Jaworski LLP of New York has announced the expansion of its public finance and asset finance practices with the addition of five attorneys who were previously with the New York office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Among these five attorneys is Stan Ladner who will join the firm as a partner. He concentrates his practice on public finance matters, leasing transactions and financial products. Ladner was the former head of O'Melveny's New York office's leasing practice and has substantial experience in leasing, both domestic and cross-border, with an emphasis on transportation and utility transactions. He also has substantial experience in the use and development of financial products, including caps, collars, float contracts, swaps, forward delivery arrangements, guaranteed investment arrangements, indexed notes, municipal call rights, options and repurchase agreements.
Smith Debnam Narron Wyche Saintsing & Myers, LLP of Raleigh, NC has announced that Byron L. Saintsing, a partner and head of its Construction and Leasing Practice Group, has become the firm's newest named partner. A partner since 1993, Saintsing leads a practice group whose attorneys concentrate on matters of construction law, commercial and business litigation, representation of equipment lessors and creditor bankruptcy.
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP of New York has announced that Jeffrey Stern has joined the law firm as a partner. He was previously with the firm of Thatcher Proffit & Wood, where he practiced in its structured finance, global finance and Latin American groups. Stern has broad experience in structured finance, with a particular focus on collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), credit default swaps and other synthetic risk-transfer structures, 'exotic' ABS classes, as well as commercial paper conduits. His recent focus has been on CDOs secured by new asset classes and synthetic portfolio securitizations. Stern has also worked extensively in the field of Latin American securitization, with a particular focus on securitization transactions in Mexico.
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