Corporate: Charles Moran and associates J. Thomas Bashore II and Lauren Ziegler. M&A litigation: Charles Hirsch. (They are all in Baltimore.)
For target American Realty Capital Trust Inc. (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania)
In-House:
General counsel Jesse Galloway, chief securities counsel and deputy general counsel James Tanaka, and assistant general counsel Joshua Levit, Lauren Smythe, and Ryan Tooley.
Real estate capital markets: Peter Fass. Corporate: Andrew Bettwy, Daniel Ganitsky, Steven Lichtenfeld, and associates Rajesh Bandla, Van Ann D. Bui, Michael Ellis, Julie Kim, Simon Sharpe, Diana Silva, and Leon Volchyok. Tax: Leslie Loffman, special tax counsel Timothy Donovan, and associate Daniel Berger. Employee benefits and executive compensation: Ira Bogner and associate Stephen Brecher. Real estate: D. Eric Remensperger and associate Melody Chen. Litigation: Jonathan Richman. Environmental: senior counsel Gail Port and associate Yelena Simonyuk. Intellectual property: associate Derek Heuzey. (All are in New York except for Los Angeles–based Remensperger and Chen.) The company's cofounder William Kahane was a real estate lawyer at Proskauer after graduating from law school in the 1970s.
Corporate: Sharon Kroupa, Christopher Pate, and associate Brian Field. Labor and employment: Ronald Taylor. (All are in Baltimore.) Kroupa and Pate are Maryland counsel to all of American Realty Capital's nontraded REITs.
—D.M
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U.S. v. Apple et al.
On September 5, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan approved a price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three publishers of e-books. Cote signed off on the deal with Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster Inc., and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. over the objections of a fourth defendant, Apple Inc., which has been accused by both prosecutors and class action lawyers of conspiring with five leading publishers to jack up e-book prices. At press time the other defendants—Apple, Macmillan Holdings LLC, and Penguin Group (USA) Inc.—had opted to fight on.
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