{"id":9513,"date":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"morrison-foerster-hire-ny-hedge-fund-lawyer-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/morrison-foerster-hire-ny-hedge-fund-lawyer-among-others.html","title":{"rendered":"Morrison &#038; Foerster Hire NY Hedge Fund Lawyer Among Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)&nbsp;&#8211; Morrison &amp; Foerster LLP is announced the election of ten new lawyers into their partnership, including specialists in venture capital, hedge funds, bio-technology, patents, corporate transactions and chapter 11 bankruptcy, among others. Their election is effective January 1, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have elected an exceptional group of lawyers to the partnership. This year&rsquo;s newly elected partners reflect continued investment in our distinguishing practice strengths and our international reach,&rdquo; said Keith Wetmore, Chairman of Morrison &amp; Foerster. &ldquo;Our new partners have demonstrated a commitment to client service and legal excellence. We are confident that they will make tremendous contributions to our clients&rsquo; success and our Firm&rsquo;s progress in the years ahead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Elected as Partner Thomas M. Devaney, a member of the Business Department, will be resident in the New York office. Devaney specializes in private equity fund formation and investment, representing a variety of domestic and international private equity funds, including real estate funds, venture capital funds, and debt funds, in addition to hedge funds with a broad range of investment strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The other lawyers elected as Partners are; Anders T. Aannestad, Jonathan Bockman, Christopher B. Eide, James M. Halstead, Rebekah Kaufman, David E. Melaugh, James J. Mullen III, Ph.D., Norman S. Rosenbaum, and Ivan G. Smallwood, a resident in the Tokyo office.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<\/p>\n<p>Editor for HedgeCo.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net)&nbsp;&#8211; Morrison &amp; Foerster LLP is announced the election of ten new lawyers into their partnership, including specialists in venture capital, hedge funds, bio-technology, patents, corporate transactions and chapter 11 bankruptcy, among others. Their election is effective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4788,4785,4787,4782,4779,1438,4295,4792,4786,4791,4784,4790,4778,942,4793,4781,4783,4780,4789],"class_list":["post-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-bio-technology","tag-bockman","tag-business-department","tag-capital-hedge","tag-chapter-11-bankruptcy","tag-corporate-transactions","tag-debt-funds","tag-halstead","tag-including-real-estate","tag-investment-strategies","tag-legal-excellence","tag-new-partners","tag-private-equity-fund","tag-private-equity-funds","tag-smallwood","tag-technology-patents","tag-tokyo-office","tag-venture-capital-funds","tag-wetmore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}