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Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Gabriel Lopez was appointed counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, where he has been an associate in the Miami office since 2021. He represents clients in a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, joint ventures, and other commercial transactions throughout the United States and Latin America.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Elizabeth Crouse joined Holland & Knight LLP as partner in the firm’s Portland, Oregon, office. As an energy and tax law attorney, she advises clients on a range of US federal income tax matters, including tax credits for the renewable energy industry. Before joining the firm, Crouse was a partner at Perkins Coie LLP. She is the co-director of the Seattle chapter of Women of Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy and co-chairs the tax committee of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Anika Fischer joined DiamondRock Hospitality Company as senior vice president and general counsel. Previously, Fischer was deputy general counsel at Essex Property Trust Inc., where she led its legal department in capital markets transactions, securities and corporate governance, and other matters. Fischer began her career as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the firm’s real estate group.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Amit Trehan joined Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in New York as a partner in the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice. He represents financial institutions, hedge funds, direct lenders, corporate clients, ad hoc groups, and derivative counterparties. Trehan joined Cahill from Barclays PLC, where he was a principal in special asset management.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Adam Shniderman joined Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP as an associate. He most recently served as a staff attorney for Justice Evan A. Young of the Supreme Court of Texas. Prior to working with Justice Young, Shniderman clerked for Justice Brett Busby of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Hon. Jay S. Bybee of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also worked at Winston & Strawn LLP in the firm’s Dallas office, overseeing motions in state and federal trial courts, appeals, and a petition for certiorari before the US Supreme Court.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Michael Huston was named a Law360 2024 Rising Star. He is a partner and firmwide appellate practice co-chair at Perkins Coie LLP and practices out of the firm’s Washington, DC, and Phoenix offices. He assists clients in high-stakes litigation matters, especially complex appeals and matters involving administrative law. Huston has briefed, argued, and won cases in the US Supreme Court and in federal and state appellate courts around the country. Before joining Perkins Coie, he was an assistant to the solicitor general at the US Department of Justice. 

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

John Scrudato was appointed director of artificial intelligence and innovation at Latham & Watkins LLP in the firm’s Fort Worth, Texas, office. Before joining the firm, he was a senior legal engineering and data strategy manager at Gunderson Dettmer LLP. Scrudato is a founding member of the Open Cap Table Coalition and serves as chair of its technical working group.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Samantha Funk was appointed as a full-time faculty member at the University of Colorado Law School, where she has spent the past year as a visiting legal writing assistant professor. Before teaching, Funk practiced commercial litigation and represented clients at the trial and appellate levels in state and federal court. Her practice involved a broad range of civil matters, including class actions and franchise or contract disputes. After working as a civil litigator, she conducted civil rights and Title IX investigations at the University of Washington.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Nicholas A. Fedewa joined Spencer Fane LLP in the firm’s Denver office as an associate in the real estate practice group. He helps clients navigate a range of real estate and business transactions with a focus on providing counsel for capital markets financing and other complex financial transactions.

Class Note Winter 2024-2025

Tony Shin was appointed general counsel of STIIIZY, a Los Angeles-based cannabis company. He has spent his career advising publicly traded and multinational companies and emerging high-growth organizations across a number of industries. Most recently, Shin was the associate general counsel at Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc. Before his role at Aerojet, he was a partner at Los Angeles-based TroyGould PC, where he represented and advised emerging growth, middle market, and public company clients in corporate and securities matters.