Nixon Peabody loses five-partner team to Pillsbury in wake of DLA defections
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired a five-partner team from Nixon Peabody's New York office, reports The New York Law Journal. The exact size of the team is still being finalised and could reach 20 lawyers, said Pillsbury chairman James Rishwain. The departing partners include Mats Carlston, Nixon Peabody's former head of global finance.
June 21, 2010 at 07:31 AM
2 minute read
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired a five-partner team from Nixon Peabody's New York office, reports The New York Law Journal.
The exact size of the team is still being finalised and could reach 20 lawyers, said Pillsbury chairman James Rishwain. The departing partners include Mats Carlston, Nixon Peabody's former head of global finance.
The defections follow the recent departures of nine other Nixon Peabody partners to DLA Piper, including Michael Murphy, an insurance partner who was a member of Nixon's governing policy committee.
The departures of Carlston and Murphy could affect Nixon Peabody's global plans, as the two were instrumental in pushing the firm into China, Paris and London and became leaders of its global strategies and international practice.
Brian Flanagan, Nixon Peabody's operations partner and a member of the firm's management committee, acknowledged the departures would shrink the firm's New York headcount by around 20%. However, Flanagan said "these departures neither singularly nor in the aggregate have a material financial impact on us."
"Partner mobility is very common in today's market," Flanagan said. "It's happening at our firm, it's happening at Pillsbury, it's happening at DLA. None of us are immune to the trend."
In addition to Carlston, Pillsbury's new hires include Bart Pisella, who will lead its corporate trust team, Douglas Schneller, who will lead Pillsbury's distressed investing team, Peter Alfano, a finance lawyer, and James Kelly, who will head up Pillsbury's leveraged buyout team.
Rishwain said Pillsbury began discussions a few months ago with the group, who share many financial institutional relationships with clients such as Wells Fargo & Company, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corporation, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.
"It's always challenging to have a group of lawyer who've been with their firm for nearly their entire career be interested in a move," Rishwain said. But the fact that the lawyers were in the financial institution area and in New York "was a perfect strategic combination for us," he said.
The New York Law Journal is a US sister title of Legal Week.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
NOT FOR REPRINT
© 2025 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.
You Might Like
View All
A&O Shearman, Cleary Gottlieb Act on $700M Dunlop Tire Brand Sale to Japan's Sumitomo
Latham, Simpson Thacher and Brazilian Duo Ride Uptick in LatAm M&A
Kim & Chang, Freshfields, A&O Shearman Take Top Spots for Highest Collective Deal Value as APAC M&A Grew By Just 1% in 2024
Trending Stories
- 1AstraZeneca Files Flurry of Lawsuits to Protect Cancer Treatment Drug
- 2American Airlines Legal Chief Departs for Warner Bros. Discovery
- 3New Montgomery Bar President Aims to Boost Lawyer Referral Service
- 4Deadline Extended for Southeastern Legal Awards
- 5Church of Scientology Set to Depose Phila. Attorney in Sexual Abuse Case
Who Got The Work
Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.
Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
Featured Firms
Law Offices of Gary Martin Hays & Associates, P.C.
(470) 294-1674
Law Offices of Mark E. Salomone
(857) 444-6468
Smith & Hassler
(713) 739-1250
