November 1, 2015 (New York) – International law firm Proskauer announced the promotions of 15 lawyers, nine to partner and six to senior counsel, across the law firm’s practices and offices.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome such an accomplished and talented group of lawyers as partners and counsel," said Proskauer Chairman Joseph M. Leccese. “We are confident that they will continue to make tremendous contributions to our clients in the years ahead.”

The firm’s new partners and senior counsel are:

Partner

• Scott Bowman (Boca Raton) advises wealthy individuals and families in their personal tax and estate planning both in the U.S. and abroad. He advises clients on structuring their wealth and on income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, often over multiple generations.
• Guy Brenner (Washington, D.C.) represents employers in complex litigation matters, with a focus on whistleblower, and executive and employee mobility issues. He also regularly counsels employers on a wide variety of compliance matters, including assisting federal government contractors with the many special employment-related compliance challenges they face.
• Michael Ellis (New York) is a general corporate lawyer with a focus on public and private mergers and acquisitions and securities. He has participated in multiple buy- and sell-side representations in a variety of transaction structures, including tender offers, stock and asset purchases and sales, mergers and joint ventures.
• Ali Fawaz (New York) counsels private and public companies on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, with a particular focus on the representation of purchasers and target companies in strategic mergers and acquisitions as well as private equity buyout transactions.
• Robin Feiner (New York) represents investment banks, issuers and sponsors on equity transactions, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-ons and block trades, across a broad range of industries. Robin also advises on securities and corporate matters. She has extensive capital markets experience and industry insights, having also worked in senior equity capital markets positions for more than 10 years.
• Stephen Gruberg (New York) represents underwriters in a variety of public and private debt capital markets transactions, including Rule 144A high-yield debt offerings. He also has extensive experience representing lending institutions in syndicated and non-syndicated loan transactions, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations and working capital facilities.
• Russell Hirschhorn (New York) focuses on complex ERISA litigation and advises employers, fiduciaries, trustees and plan service providers on ERISA benefit and fiduciary issues.
• Vincenzo Lucibello (Boston) represents borrowers, lenders and issuers in an array of financing transactions including senior, subordinated, secured and unsecured debt, single lender and syndicated transactions, term and revolving credit facilities and asset-based financings related to leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, acquisition financings and other finance-related transactions.
• Catherine Sear (London) represents clients on the tax aspects of private investment fund structuring, including the structuring of carried interest and executive co-investment arrangements as well as tax issues relating to the establishment and operation of fund management businesses. She provides advice to fund managers on the tax aspects of private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate and debt funds and fund of funds, and has particular experience of the tax issues associated with investment partnerships.

Senior Counsel

• John Ingrassia (Washington, D.C.) advises clients on a wide range of antitrust matters in various industries, including chemicals, pharmaceutical, medical devices, telecommunications, financial services, health care and others. His practice includes a significant focus on issues related to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, and the analysis and resolution of antitrust issues related to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.
• Nathan Lander (New York) counsels business policyholders and represents them in coverage disputes with their insurance carriers. Nate has represented policyholders in connection with nearly every type of insurance, including directors and officers, professional liability, commercial general liability, credit risk, marine and life, among others. He also advises clients on risk management issues, including structuring of insurance programs and the negotiation and drafting of policy language.
• Christine Lazatin (New York) represents professional sports teams, leagues and owners, financial institutions and corporate sponsors in a variety of transactions, with a particular emphasis on acquisition and stadium financings, league-level and league-wide credit facilities, working capital lines and debt restructurings.
• Matthew McBride (Boston) represents private investment fund sponsors in structuring funds and portfolio investment activities, as well as regulatory, compliance and operational matters. He also advises institutional investors with respect to investments in U.S. and non-U.S. private investment funds.
• Harris Mufson (New York) represents employers in a variety of industries, including financial services, health care, entertainment, sports and legal on a wide range of labor and employment law matters. These include compensation disputes, employment discrimination and retaliation, whistleblowing, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, defamation, breach of contract, non-competition agreements and wage-and-hour issues.
• Adam Scoll (Boston) advises clients on a wide variety of matters in the areas of Title I of ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation, including the investment of plan assets in accordance with ERISA’s fiduciary duty and prohibited transaction rules, the structuring and operation of private investment funds in compliance with exceptions under the ERISA plan assets regulations, and the structuring and implementation of various types of employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements.