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In The Marketplace

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
January 28, 2005

GMAC Commercial Finance of Southfield, MI has announced that Richard Newman recently joined the company's Equipment Finance Division as vice president of the Capital Funding Group's project finance team, in Houston, TX. Newman, previously with Compass Bank, will now be responsible for managing the division's midstream efforts. Midstream is a term describing energy infrastructure assets such as pipelines, port facilities and small refineries as well as oil and gas gathering equipment.

Stevens & Lee of Philadelphia and Salomon Green & Ostrow of New York have jointly announced merger of their practices effective Jan. 1, 2005. Seven former Salomon Green & Ostrow lawyers, including Chester Salomon, David Green, Alec Ostrow, Nicholas Kajon, Walter Benzija, Jocelyn Keynes and Constantine Pourakis, and two paralegals and related staff, will join Stevens & Lee and will remain in the combined firm's New York City office at Salomon Green's former 485 Madison Avenue location. Salomon Green, a notable bankruptcy boutique firm, has made a reputation representing parties in reorganization and liquidation, trustees, examiners, creditors' committees, landlords, equipment lessors, litigants and asset purchasers in bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and throughout the country. Stevens & Lee is a full service firm with offices in Princeton and Cherry Hill, NJ; Philadelphia, Valley Forge, Reading, Lancaster, Harrisburg, the Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA; Wilmington, DE; and now, New York City.

State Financial Services Corp. of Milwaukee has announced that it will acquire 80% of M2 Lease Funds LLC, a Madison, WI equipment lessor, for an undisclosed amount. M2 Lease Funds has a portfolio of about $27 million in printing equipment; marine-related equipment; telecommunications equipment; high-tech and biotech equipment; and construction, manufacturing and food-processing equipment. M2 founder John R. Engelbrecht will retain an ownership stake and continue to serve as CEO.

GMAC Commercial Finance of Southfield, MI has announced that Richard Newman recently joined the company's Equipment Finance Division as vice president of the Capital Funding Group's project finance team, in Houston, TX. Newman, previously with Compass Bank, will now be responsible for managing the division's midstream efforts. Midstream is a term describing energy infrastructure assets such as pipelines, port facilities and small refineries as well as oil and gas gathering equipment.

Stevens & Lee of Philadelphia and Salomon Green & Ostrow of New York have jointly announced merger of their practices effective Jan. 1, 2005. Seven former Salomon Green & Ostrow lawyers, including Chester Salomon, David Green, Alec Ostrow, Nicholas Kajon, Walter Benzija, Jocelyn Keynes and Constantine Pourakis, and two paralegals and related staff, will join Stevens & Lee and will remain in the combined firm's New York City office at Salomon Green's former 485 Madison Avenue location. Salomon Green, a notable bankruptcy boutique firm, has made a reputation representing parties in reorganization and liquidation, trustees, examiners, creditors' committees, landlords, equipment lessors, litigants and asset purchasers in bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and throughout the country. Stevens & Lee is a full service firm with offices in Princeton and Cherry Hill, NJ; Philadelphia, Valley Forge, Reading, Lancaster, Harrisburg, the Lehigh Valley, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, PA; Wilmington, DE; and now, New York City.

State Financial Services Corp. of Milwaukee has announced that it will acquire 80% of M2 Lease Funds LLC, a Madison, WI equipment lessor, for an undisclosed amount. M2 Lease Funds has a portfolio of about $27 million in printing equipment; marine-related equipment; telecommunications equipment; high-tech and biotech equipment; and construction, manufacturing and food-processing equipment. M2 founder John R. Engelbrecht will retain an ownership stake and continue to serve as CEO.

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