LATERALS

Michael Cohen.

Blank Rome (Los Angeles): Michael Cohen joins the corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities group as partner and will focus on business transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and general representation. Previously, Cohen was a partner at Morrison & Foerster.

Cooley (Palo Alto): Steven Tonsfeldt joins the global mergers and acquisitions practice as partner and will focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, contested transactions, hostile takeovers and defense planning. Tonsfeldt was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers.