Issue: Summer 2025
134 results
Class Note Summer 2025
Roger H. Stetson has become the sole managing partner of Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg LLP in Chicago, where he has served as a co-managing partner since 2022. Stetson’s clients include real estate investment trusts, manufacturers, financial institutions, distributors, developers, and the fiduciaries who work in these industries. He acts as primary counsel on disputes concerning capital markets transactions, the creation of joint ventures with institutional investors, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and partnership issues.
Class Note Summer 2025
Katy McNeil joined A&O Shearman as a partner in the firm’s energy, natural resources, and infrastructure practice, where she represents clients across the renewable energy sector. McNeil previously was a partner at Mayer Brown. Additionally, she received the Hope Through Caring Award from the Les Turner ALS Foundation, which also was given posthumously to her husband, Brian Davis, ’14, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2022 and died in January 2025. The award honors their commitment to raising awareness and supporting ALS care and research.
Class Note Summer 2025
Luke Meier was appointed co-leader of the government contracts group at Blank Rome LLP. He is a litigator and counselor with experience in government procurement law and has represented contractors in contract disputes and claims, bid protests, and False Claims Act litigation. Meier serves on Blank Rome’s partner board and as a vice chair of the American Bar Association’s bid protest committee and procurement fraud and false claims committee.
Class Note Summer 2025
Rebecca Seguin-Skrabucha, a member of Bodman PLC’s workplace law practice group, recently became the group’s co-chair. She advises employers, including municipal governments and businesses of all sizes, on compliance with state and federal employment and labor laws.
Class Note Summer 2025
Ann Marie Byers joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as of counsel in the firm’s intellectual property litigation group. Previously, Byers was an alternative dispute resolutions specialist at AB-Conflict Resolution Services and founding attorney at Byers Law LLC. Her practice covers a range of US and global matters involving intellectual property, regulatory compliance, data privacy and security, and complex civil and commercial disputes. Byers is based in Denver.
Class Note Summer 2025
Corwin J. Carr was elevated to partner in the employment group at Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg (BFKN) LLP in Chicago. Carr is an adviser, litigator, and transactional attorney with a wide-ranging employment practice. Before joining BFKN, he was an associate at Mayer Brown LLP.
Class Note Summer 2025
Sylvia Favretto was promoted from associate general counsel to general counsel of Mysten Labs. Previously, she was global lead regulatory counsel at Block Inc. and counsel at Shearman & Sterling LLP, where she represented banks, financial technology companies, and other financial institutions.
Class Note Summer 2025
Lori Arakaki was promoted to partner at Hicks Johnson. Based in the firm’s Houston office, Arakaki litigates complex commercial disputes before federal and state courts at both the trial and appellate levels, as well as in arbitration proceedings. Recent client matters have involved trade secrets and complex patent infringement and a contract dispute involving a prominent aerospace and defense company. Arakaki handles all stages of litigation, from drafting pre- and post-trial motions to deposing fact and expert witnesses, arguing motions in court, and trying cases.
Class Note Summer 2025
Alison LeVasseur, a partner in the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird LLP, has been named to the 40 Under 40 class of 2024 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. She focuses her practice on general corporate matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions for private equity firms, other privately held businesses, and public companies.