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On the Move

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
November 02, 2014

Stephen A. Rutenberg has joined Kaye Scholer LLP as a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department in New York. Previously a partner at Sidley Austin LLP , Rutenberg counsels hedge funds, private equity firms, broker-dealers and other global financial institution clients on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of loans and securities of distressed and bankrupt companies, including accounts receivable, trade claims and bank debt, both domestically and in Europe. Sidley senior associate Michael Greenblatt will join Rutenberg.

Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP of New York announced that Marc Rosenberg has joined the firm as a partner in its Bankruptcy, Reorganization & Creditors' Rights practice group. Formerly a partner in the Bankruptcy & Restructuring Department of Kaye Scholer LLP, Rosenberg has worked on all aspects of bankruptcy and creditors' rights matters. The Golenbock firm is a member of the Alliott Group , a worldwide alliance of independent accounting, law and consulting firms.

Attorneys Evan D. Smiley , Lei Lei Wang Ekvall , Kyra E. Andrassy, Kraig C. Kilger, Robert S. Marticello, Autumn D. Spaeth and Philip E. Strok have joined together as partners of a new firm, Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP. Based in Costa Mesa, CA the new regional firm will specialize in insolvency, real estate transactions and business litigation. The partners will represent debtors, creditors, creditors' committees, equity committees, trustees, and asset purchasers

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