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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
February 19, 2009

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP: John J. Rapisardi has been named Co-Chairman of the firm's Financial Restructuring Department, joining Deryck A. Palmer in managing the 65-member team of lawyers. Rapisardi has more than 25 years of domestic and international restructuring experience. He has advised investors and financial institutions and written extensively on the subject of lender rights and remedies under the new Chinese Bankruptcy Code. For the past ten years, Rapisardi has also been a regular bankruptcy columnist for the New York Law Journal, an Incisive Media sister publication of this newsletter.

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP announced that Michael Kessler joined the firm's Business Solutions & Governance practice as a partner in its New York office. In recent years, Kessler has represented a number of large public company Chapter 11 debtors, including Lehman Brothers and SemGroup, L.P., Delphi Corp. and Federal-Mogul Corp. Previously, Kessler was a partner for 23 years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Dewey & LeBoeuf's Business Solutions & Governance practice was launched over a year ago when Martin Bienenstock, the co-head of the bankruptcy practice at Weil, joined the firm.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP: John J. Rapisardi has been named Co-Chairman of the firm's Financial Restructuring Department, joining Deryck A. Palmer in managing the 65-member team of lawyers. Rapisardi has more than 25 years of domestic and international restructuring experience. He has advised investors and financial institutions and written extensively on the subject of lender rights and remedies under the new Chinese Bankruptcy Code. For the past ten years, Rapisardi has also been a regular bankruptcy columnist for the New York Law Journal, an Incisive Media sister publication of this newsletter.

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP announced that Michael Kessler joined the firm's Business Solutions & Governance practice as a partner in its New York office. In recent years, Kessler has represented a number of large public company Chapter 11 debtors, including Lehman Brothers and SemGroup, L.P., Delphi Corp. and Federal-Mogul Corp. Previously, Kessler was a partner for 23 years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP . Dewey & LeBoeuf's Business Solutions & Governance practice was launched over a year ago when Martin Bienenstock, the co-head of the bankruptcy practice at Weil, joined the firm.

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