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Legal industry hiring and promotions in South Florida.
July 03, 2019 at 05:36 PM
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Rosana M. Gutierrez has joined Rasco Klock in Miami as a partner. Gutierrez's practice focuses on advising clients on business and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and public-private partnerships.
Mark R. Brown has joined Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun in Palm Beach Gardens as senior counsel. Brown's practice focuses on wills and trusts, domicile planning, probate administration, and sophisticated estate tax and income planning.
Patricia M. Flanagan has joined Fox Rothschild in West Palm Beach as a partner. Flanagan's practice focuses on intellectual property, copyrights, fashion law, IP litigation and trademarks.
K. Michelle Jessell has joined Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel in Boca Raton as of counsel. Jessell's practice focuses on commercial and syndicated lending, and real estate.
Christopher M. Utrera has joined Haber Law in Miami as a partner. Utrera's practice focuses on construction law, commercial and business litigation, and complex tort litigation.
Jordan D. Chisholm has joined Cozen O'Connor in Miami as an associate. Chrisholm's practice focuses on business and corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and general corporate matters.
Lou Nostro and Alex Nostro have joined Gunster in Miami as a shareholder and associate, respectively, and Jennifer Jones has joined the Fort Lauderdale office as a shareholder. All three focus their practice on private wealth services.
Howard Jiang has joined Becker in Fort Lauderdale and New York as of counsel. Jiang's practice focuses on domestic and trans-border corporate transactions, capital markets and project finance matters.
Maryvel De Castro Valdes and Shari Wald of Siegfried Rivera in Coral Gables have been promoted to partner.
Craig S. Barnett has joined Stearns Weaver Miller in Fort Lauderdale as a shareholder. Barnett's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in state and federal court and in administrative law tribunals.
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