Willkie Farr & Gallagher has named two likely successors to longtime chairman Jack Nusbaum, who said he is planning to step down at the end of 2009, writes the New York Law Journal.

Thomas Cerabino and Steven Gartner, who co-chair Willkie Farr’s corporate and finance department and both sit on the firm’s executive committee, were appointed to the newly-created position of vice chairman yesterday (24 April).