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Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed five dynamic partners to its Mergers and Acquisitions group this week—four in the national firm’s Detroit office and one in Chicago. The team is led by Joseph DeVito, who served as chair of Corporate, Finance and Real Estate at Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC. Also joining Dinsmore in Detroit as M&A specialists are partners Jeffrey Hoover, Evonne Xu and Ian Larkin. The team is rounded out by Jane Hahn, who is joining Dinsmore in Chicago ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s leading national public finance department is now serving clients in the state of Indiana, with the addition of partner Catherine Fanello to the firm’s Indianapolis office. She is joined by five other attorneys across four practice groups who have also come to the firm in Indiana in recent weeks, continuing Dinsmore’s steady national growth trend ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP partner Lewis Diaz has been appointed to the Northern Kentucky Tri-County Economic Development Corporation (Tri-ED) Board of Directors by the Boone County Fiscal Court. The Tri-ED board has 23 members comprised of business and community leaders from Boone, Kenton and Campbell Counties and serves as the primary economic development company for Northern Kentucky, providing marketing, business retention and expansion services for new and existing businesses ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed its newest partner, Kelly Leahy, to the firm’s Columbus office. The addition expands Dinsmore’s leading national health care group, which is also among the largest in the state of Ohio. Leahy has three decades of health law experience, including in private practice and serving as in-house counsel, giving practical and effective advice to a wide variety of institutional and individual health care clients ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce eight of its attorneys have been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list for 2021. Attorneys selected for the Super Lawyers list have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Attorneys selected for the Rising Stars list are being recognized as the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state of Pennsylvania. Dinsmore attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers are: Joel Helmrich Robert Palumbi C ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce substantial year-over-year increases in its attorneys and practice groups that received top rankings in the 2021 Edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome Brendan McCommas as its newest attorney in Washington, D.C. The former United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Chief of Staff and White House Special Assistant to the President will practice with the firm’s leading national Intellectual Property department, which manages the portfolios of multiple top-25 Fortune 500 companies ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP intellectual property attorney Leanthony Edwards has added an impressive accolade to his resume this week with his selection to The National Black Lawyers 40 Under 40 list. “It is truly a blessing to be acknowledged for something like this,” Edwards said. “It’s a nice boost in this particular year. This is huge for me and affirms the things I’m working toward ...

A recent law school graduate will have the opportunity to join one of the country’s leading Innocence Projects thanks to a newly created fellowship. Procter & Gamble (P&G), Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, and the Ohio Innocence Project at Cincinnati Law (OIP) collaborated to create the Dinsmore and P&G OIP Fellowship, which is designed to give a recent law school graduate the opportunity to hone lawyering skills and gain experience in civil rights litigation and policy-making ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed partner of counsel David Marion as the newest member of the firm’s national Corporate department and Mergers & Acquisitions practice group. He will practice out of Dinsmore’s growing San Diego office. He joins from Nossaman LLP, and is the second attorney to come to Dinsmore in San Diego in as many months, following commercial litigation associate Meredith Montrose earlier this spring ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is happy to announce 25 of its attorneys have been named to the West Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists for 2021.  Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in the state ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP served as counsel to Stirling Ultracold, a division of Global Cooling, Inc., in its all-stock merger with BioLife Solutions, Inc. in excess of $225 million. Dinsmore partner Christian Gonzalez represented Stirling Ultracold as lead counsel ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is proud to announce it has formed the Pre-Law Minority Program initiated by its Lexington, Kentucky office. The program will provide resources, including scholarship money, to minority students at Eastern Kentucky University, University of Kentucky, Transylvania University and Kentucky State University (the state’s oldest HBCU) ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed partners Charles “Chuck” Meyer and Katrina Farley to its Cincinnati office. They join from Santen & Hughes, where Meyer served as president and both were on the firm’s management committee. Meyer and Farley have extensive estate planning backgrounds, and Farley is certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce three of its attorneys have been named to the California Super Lawyers list for 2021. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement.  Dinsmore attorneys recognized as Super Lawyers are listed below: SUPER LAWYERS Los Angeles Peter J. Mastan San Diego  Mikel R. Bistrow Joseph S ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP has welcomed associate Meredith Montrose to the firm’s San Diego office. She will practice with Dinsmore’s national litigation and insurance defense groups.  "I am excited to have someone of Meredith's caliber join the firm,” said San Diego Office Managing Partner Joe Leventhal. “Her academic credentials, litigation experience, and community involvement are all qualities we are looking for in attorneys to grow the office ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP served as bond counsel on three recent portfolio deals totaling over $202 million that will preserve and modernize 1,280 affordable housing units across 26 Kentucky properties. The most recent are for developers Winterwood Development, LLC (fourteen properties, 364 units, $52.9 million) and TCG Development Advisors LLC (nine properties, 454 units, $83.3 million), both of which closed this month ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to have played a part in the recent groundbreaking of Denny Crum Hall made possible by L&N Federal Credit Union, located at the University of Louisville. The 128-bed dormitory facility is named for Louisville Cardinals Hall of Fame former men’s basketball coach Denny Crum ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome former United States Attorney Mike Stuart as its newest partner in Charleston, West Virginia. Stuart will practice with the firm’s national corporate department. He joins new Lexington partner Rob Duncan as the second former federal prosecutor to migrate to Dinsmore in less than a month ...

Bluegrass Cellular, which served as the first wireless company based in central Kentucky 29 years ago, is now part of Verizon Wireless. The acquisition became official today with lead counsel provided by Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. Dinsmore has been Bluegrass Cellular’s primary law firm on all matters—including corporate, litigation, compliance, real estate, and employment—since 1997 ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to welcome Partner of Counsel Ronald Aust to its Indianapolis office—one of the firm’s newest of 29 offices across the country—where he will practice with Dinsmore’s national intellectual property group. Joining Aust and previously working with him at his own boutique firm, Aust IP Law, is associate Lindsey Jaeger, who will practice out of Dinsmore’s Covington, Kentucky office ...

Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce 17 of its attorneys have been named to the Indiana Super Lawyers list and Rising Stars lists for 2021. Attorneys on the Super Lawyers list are selected by a multi-phase process that takes into account independent research, peer evaluations and professional achievement. The Rising Stars list recognizes up-and-coming attorneys in Indiana ...

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is pleased to announce it has partnered with the Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce (AACC), the largest such chamber in Ohio. The partnership helps to address racial socioeconomic disparities within the Cincinnati community by providing minority-owned businesses that are AACC members with legal services ...

Dinsmore’s Robert Sickles and Yesica Liposky successfully argued a case all the way to the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of their client, a Florida automobile dealer. The court decided that dealers in the state do not need to include arbitration agreements in vehicle warranties in order to require that binding arbitration be used to resolve litigation over warranty claims. “This decision is very impactful for the automotive industry in Florida,” Sickles said ...

trustaff Management, Inc., a long-time Dinsmore client and leading provider of travel nurse and health care staffing services, has successfully completed a multimillion-dollar sale to Cornell Capital and Trilantic North America. The two private investment firms intend to create an all-inclusive industry platform for health care needs that will involve a unique technology-driven approach ...