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June 22, 2009 |
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Kilpatrick Stockton;
Venable;
MCCA
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Here’s a great opportunity to help our wounded veterans. The 2nd annual Yellow Ribbon Fund golf tourney is July 6, at Army Navy Country Club in Arlington. It’s seeking foursomes and sponsors. E-mail or call Mark Robbins, 240-223-1180 with questions.
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Kilpatrick Stockton’s securities and financial institutions practices got a boost this spring. No, not the obvious complete overhaul of banking regs, credit rules, and heck, the utter collapse of our entire way of life. That’s old news. We’re talking about the addition of Mike Halloran, former counselor to the Chairman and deputy CoS at SEC.
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The firm celebrated last week with cocktails at the Occidental, where we found Mike, right, and BCG Attorney Search’s Dan Binstock, who handled Mike’s placement, toasting to Mike’s success. (Or maybe Dan’s commission, we’re not sure.) From ’90-’96, Mike was GC at Bank of America, overseeing 185 lawyers.
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How big is this addition? Firm co-managing partner Diane Prucino came in from Atlanta, and DC MP Steve Baskin tells us it builds on Kilpatrick’s merger last year with Muldoon, Murphy & Aguggia, the 22-lawyer shop focused on financial institutions, with a large number of mid-cap bank clients. As successful as he appears at his work, Steve’s managerial prowess has limits: his son’s little league team, which he coached, just lost a seven-inning playoff thriller.
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At right, Paul Aguggia, head of Kilpatrick’s banking and financial institutions group and Kilpatrick’s point man on recruiting Mike. He and Bob Davis, left, former GC at Provident Bank (now merged into M&T), joined us in listening to Mike’s speech, which included some frank, interesting points: He’s not in favor of the administration’s just-announced proposal to make the Fed a “systemic regulator” of the financial world, preferring the creation of a separate entity.
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FEC Chairman Steve Walther and Kilpatrick’s Connie Robinson, former director of civil enforcement at DOJ. Kilpatrick had a bit of inside scoop on Mike Halloran through Connie, who was at Justice while Mike was getting approval for some of his 30 acquisitions for Bank of America. Connie worked on the BoA-Security Pacific deal, and gave him high marks in Kilpatrick’s vetting process.
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Chambers Nod for Venable
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As if it wasn’t already on your calendar, the much-anticipated Chambers USA ratings came out last Friday, and Venable took the national Award for Excellence for its privacy and data security practice, edging out more than 20 other firms. Our spies sent back this pic of DC partners Stu Ingis (right) and Milo Cividanes (center) from the ceremony at Cipriani on 42nd Street in New York. With them is UK TV personality Clive Anderson (hosted the original Who’s Line is it Anyway, and a lawyer to boot!) Among the firm’s specialties: advising “household name” clients on behavioral-targeted advertising.
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MCCA Celebration
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The Minority Corporate Counsel Association had it’s annual Mid-Atlantic diversity dinner last week, where we found Tom Hart, MCCA Executive Director Veeta Richardson, and local legend James Dyke of McGuireWoods. Veeta was recently invited to the White House to share her thoughts on the Supreme Court nominee, while Tom is moving over from GGA architecture firm to Adorno & Yoss, a Miami-based firm starting up in DC with eight lawyers. Tom’s GGA ties (he’ll remain general counsel) are paying dividends: it’s designing the firm’s new office at 1025 Connecticut.
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