Shauro Bagchi Associate Maslon LLP 1.What is your area of practice? Three areas: Private company mergers & acquisitions (representing both sellers and strategic/financial buyers); Private company securities (structuring equity and debt securities offerings for private, middle market companies); and Commercial contract drafting (negotiating and drafting large-scale vendor, supplier, distributor, marketing, services and software…keep reading
If you’re interested in improving gender equality at your law firm, check out both of these studies. “I’m going to compel him to include women in the sequel!” — Angelica, Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) This week, McKinsey & Co. published a new study titled, Women in Law Firms. This study is part of McKinsey’s and LeanIn.Org’s broader Women in the Workplace 2017 research. In…keep reading
When Apollo Carey, a corporate tax and real estate lawyer, joined Lewis Rice law firm more than a year ago, it became immediately apparent that the firm’s diversity efforts were not just for show. “It’s in the organization’s consciousness,” said Carey, a member at Lewis Rice. “It permeates throughout everything that we do – in…keep reading
The US Senate on Friday confirmed the nomination of Manisha Singh, a prominent Indian-American lawyer, to a key administration position in the State Department that would make her in charge of the country’s economic diplomacy. Singh was chief counsel and senior policy adviser to Senator Dan Sullivan till now. Her nomination was confirmed by…keep reading
Akin Gump has hired Michele Meyer-Shipp, former chief diversity officer of Prudential Financial, as the firm’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer. The hire makes Akin Gump the latest Big Law firm with a dedicated diversity officer, a role that has gone from obscurity to near-ubiquity in the legal industry over the past ten years. Earlier…keep reading