NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper client Southfield Capital, a premier lower middle market private equity firm, recently announced that Security Services Holdings LLC (Protos Security), a tech-enabled vendor managed security services provider in North America, has completed the acquisition of Summit Off Duty Services, an off-duty police officer security provider. Read a company press release about the investment.
Headquartered in Irving, TX, Summit Off Duty Services manages onsite security for clients nationwide, providing security and law enforcement industry expertise through a vast nationwide network of police officers. Summit Off Duty Services’ suite of services and features provides access to more than 60,000 police officers, representing more than 1,400 law enforcement agencies. The acquisition of Summit Off Duty Services represents Protos’ tenth acquisition since partnering with Southfield.
Southfield Capital is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, lower middle market companies in the outsourced business services sector. The firm targets companies with $4 – 15 million in EBITDA and partners with management to scale the business through a combination of organic and acquisition growth strategies.
The Troutman Pepper team advising Southfield Capital and Protos Security included Nick Stawasz, Matt Greenberg, Taylor Bartholomew, William Mayo, Mike Swallow, and Joseph Cataldo.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions. Core areas of service include capital markets transactions and other significant domestic and cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws compliance, and corporate finance. The firm has particular expertise in the private equity and private fund services space, advising clients on matters from fund formation to investments and exit transactions.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
ATLANTA – Troutman Pepper was part of a national trial team that secured a defense verdict in a jury trial involving the Pinnacle hip implant in the Southern District of Alabama. The case, Ahmed v. Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc. et al., is the first DePuy Pinnacle trial since the completion of the multidistrict litigation (MDL).
“The unanimous jury verdict reaffirms the data and scientific evidence which overwhelmingly shows that Pinnacle is a safe and effective implant for hip replacement procedures. We are extremely pleased with the outcome and the jury’s finding,” said Troutman Pepper Partner Eric Rumanek who led the defense.
Troutman Pepper Partner Eric Rumanek served as trial counsel and Partner Brett Mason and Associate Frederick King offered key trial support.
Troutman Pepper’s leading life sciences and health care practice counsels clients at all stages of the health care continuum – from drug development to clinical care – from emerging biotech to global pharma. The firm takes an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to counsel clients’ complex, evolving needs, providing critical support including intellectual property prosecution and litigation, corporate finance and governance, privacy and cybersecurity, litigation, regulatory, and enforcement.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys strategically located in 20+ U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
PHILADELPHIA – Troutman Pepper has received the Legal Sales and Service Organization’s (LSSO) “Leonardo Inghilleri Service Excellence Award” in the “Transformation of the Year” category for its work to significantly enhance client-law firm interactions. The firm is specifically recognized for the exceptional contributions of its Client Experience Team and client value program, Troutman Pepper Plus.
The award celebrates excellence in service delivery and value as perceived by clients. It underscores the importance of focusing on people, designing innovative approaches, improving processes, leveraging technology, and implementing impactful changes that enable organizations to deliver a markedly improved and superior client experience.
Troutman Pepper Plus is the firm’s standard-setting client value program that aims to connect clients with additional resources, create innovative solutions, and provide key insights to deliver efficiency and foster stronger relationships. Designed by Troutman Pepper’s Client Experience Team, the program combines the services of attorneys and skilled professionals across the firm to provide clients with tailored solutions in areas like innovation, diversity, pricing, legal project management, pro bono, and more.
Established in 2003, LSSO equips legal and business professionals with innovative thinking, strategic connections, and continuous professional development that enable them to thrive in a dynamic and competitive landscape. Troutman Pepper and fellow award winners were honored at LSSO’s Annual RainDance Conference on June 5. For more information about the awards program, click here.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper, a national law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys in 20+ U.S. cities, achieved 64 national and statewide practice area rankings in the latest edition of Chambers USA released today. View all firm rankings.
This year’s guide also recognized 141 firm attorneys with 153 individual rankings. The firm has numerous top-tier Band 1 rankings, including 11 practice areas and 27 attorney rankings.
Troutman Pepper achieved nationwide recognition in 14 practice areas:
- Construction
- Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
- Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation)
- Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)
- Environment
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Compliance)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Enforcement & Investigations)
- Financial Services Regulation: Consumer Finance (Litigation)
- Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer
- Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded
- Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite
- Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy
- Startups & Emerging Companies
- State Attorneys General
Chambers rankings are compiled through the assessment of firms’ work and opinions from external market sources, with an emphasis on client feedback. Firms and lawyers must demonstrate sustained excellence to be ranked in the guide.
Over the past year, Troutman Pepper has been recognized across practices for its extraordinary client service. In April 2024, BTI Consulting ranked Troutman Pepper among the top 5 percent of all law firms for its “impressive client service delivery.” The firm was recognized on the prestigious BTI Client Service 30 list, ranking No. 28, and earning the highest marks for “being easy to work with” and “including clients early in strategy discussions.”
The firm’s focus on innovation to improve client experiences also took center stage in the last year. The Financial Times recognized it among the top 25 most innovative law firms and, just last month, The Legal Intelligencer named it among the 2024 Law Firm Innovators for being among the first law firms to launch and fully adopt a bespoke generative AI tool, Athena.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys strategically located in 20+ U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
ATLANTA / WASHINGTON – Troutman Pepper partners Anna Altizer Dix and Richard J. Pratt have been recognized as 2024 BTI Client Service All-Stars by BTI Consulting Group. Honorees were selected based on interviews with more than 350 top legal decision makers at companies with more than $700 million in revenue.
Client Service All-Stars are described by clients as savvy, fully invested, practical, always finding a way to get things done no matter the obstacles, one step ahead, possessing a deep working understanding of the client’s business and culture, and knowing clients better than they know ourselves.
Dix, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s nationally recognized Real Estate Practice Group, has a wealth of experience advising on sophisticated and substantial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financing matters, leasing matters, and development transactions. With a primary focus on student housing developments, she also is highly experienced in representing national quick service restaurants and industrial developers.
Pratt, who is recognized for the second consecutive year, represents insurance companies in some of the most high-profile matters in the U.S., often involving a myriad of procedural and substantive issues. Clients call on Pratt to handle significant and often sensitive litigation and mediation in complex cases nationwide. He is particularly skilled in the areas of bad faith, mass tort, and environmental insurance coverage litigation.
BTI Consulting recently named Troutman Pepper among the top 5 percent of all law firms for its “impressive client service delivery.” The firm was recognized on the prestigious BTI Client Service 30 list, ranking No. 28, and earning the highest marks for “including clients early in strategy discussions” and “being easy to work with.”
In 2022, Troutman Pepper launched its standard-setting client value program, Troutman Pepper Plus. The program combines the services of attorneys and skilled professionals across the firm to provide clients with tailored solutions in areas like innovation, diversity, pricing, legal project management, pro bono, and more. Clients of all sizes and across industries have benefited from the program.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,100 attorneys strategically located in 20+ U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
Richmond, Va. – David E. Constine III, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Labor and Employment Practice, was recently named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Go To Lawyers” list for employment law. The program recognizes the top lawyers across the commonwealth in a given practice area based on nominations and an independent selection process.
Those recognized as “Go To Lawyers” are regarded as experts in their field and well-versed in the nuances of related case law, statutes, and regulations clients will encounter. Honorees also have a demonstrated record of success, receive regular referrals, and think creatively.
At Troutman Pepper, Constine represents small, medium, and large employers. His practice encompasses litigation and counseling relating to Title VII, ADEA, ADA, Executive Order 11246, FLSA, ERISA, and all federal and state employment laws, including litigation and counseling related to personnel manuals, employment contracts, employee benefits, noncompetition agreements, whistleblowers, trade secret protections, and other personnel matters. Constine is also very experienced in the defense of disability, life, and health insurance claims under ERISA and otherwise, as well as general civil rights litigation and constitutional torts.
Recognized by Chambers USA as a leading law firm in labor and employment, Troutman Pepper has extensive experience handling clients’ most sensitive workplace employment matters. The firm’s Labor + Employment Practice Group advises on workplace compliance issues, wage/hour and employment-discrimination class actions, ERISA litigation, OFCCP issues, restrictive covenants, and collective bargaining agreements, among other key areas.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – For the second consecutive year, Ben Wagner, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Intellectual Property Practice Group, has been recognized as a Top Intellectual Property Lawyer by the Daily Journal. The recognition honors leading California IP lawyers focused on litigation, transactions, and counseling.
A seasoned, go-to IP and complex commercial litigator, Wagner has handled hundreds of disputes for clients ranging from startups to established multinationals in a diverse range of industries, including apparel, consumer goods, online retail, life sciences, medical devices, real estate development, and professional sports. A devoted advocate for plaintiffs and defendants, over the past decade, he has recovered more than $85 million for plaintiffs and IP rights holders and successfully defended against more than $150 million in claims, and currently manages IP portfolios with total claim values estimated in the billions of dollars. His tailored approach to litigation values finding and targeting the right stones, rather than insisting on turning over every stone.
Wagner has been recognized for his IP work by several industry authorities. For the past two years, he has been recognized among WTR1000’s list of worldwide leading IP practitioners in trademark enforcement and litigation. He also has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America® (Litigation – Intellectual Property, 2023-2024), Managing Intellectual Property (IP Star, 2022), and the San Diego Business Journal (Leaders in Law – IP, 2021), among other publications.
In determining its 2024 Top Intellectual Property Lawyers, Daily Journal editors reviewed hundreds of nominations submitted by lawyers statewide, with honorees selected based on the impact of their work in intellectual property.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
WASHINGTON – A team of attorneys – including Troutman Pepper’s Lisanne Crowley and Elizabeth McCormick and Troutman Pepper alumna Katherine (Kat) O’Konski – have been recognized by the Tahirih Justice Center for their pro bono services to the organization. The national nonprofit named the trio among its Journey to Justice 2024 Honorees for their work to help survivors and advance the organization’s mission to end gender-based violence.
The attorneys will receive the organization’s Pro Bono Team award during its annual awards reception on June 5, 2024. The Tahirih Justice Center is a national nonprofit that has served over 30,000 immigrant survivors fleeing gender-based violence since 1997. The organization has five locations, including D.C., and takes an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed approach in serving U.S. immigrant survivors.
Each year, Troutman Pepper attorneys dedicate thousands of pro bono hours in support of nonprofits, immigrants, military veterans, children, the wrongfully convicted, civil rights and social justice initiatives, and so many more. Learn more at troutman.com/pro-bono.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
BERWYN –Deborah Enea, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Corporate Finance Practice, has been selected to serve as the next editor of LexisNexis’ Commercial Finance Guide. The publication, which provides extensive coverage of commercial financing from basic secured loans to more sophisticated, complex structures, will be released on June 18. Part I deals with secured lending transactions, part II addresses specialized collateral, and part III analyzes special legal and financial considerations.
“I am honored to be named the next editor of LexisNexis’ Commercial Finance Guide,” Enea said. “I look forward to contributing to the guide’s comprehensive coverage of commercial financial products. My goal is to provide readers with valuable insights that can help them navigate the complexities of financial transactions and make informed decisions.”
A seasoned legal practitioner, Enea focuses her practice on corporate finance transactions. Her experience spans various structures (broadly syndicated, club and bilateral financings) across all levels of the capital structure including senior financing, mezzanine financing, SBIA lending, unitranche, Holdco PIK financing, second lien financing, acquisition financing, and other secured lending transactions. She has a proven track record of representing a diverse range of parties in financial services matters, including agents, nonbank and direct lenders, and corporate borrowers. Enea’s practice has a particular emphasis on advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on matters in a full spectrum of industries.
Consistently recognized as a top-tier national practice, Troutman Pepper’s corporate attorneys regularly handle transactions ranging in size from tens of millions of dollars to multibillion dollars. Core areas of service include private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions and corporate carve-outs), capital markets and corporate finance, corporate governance, and securities laws compliance. The firm also has particular expertise in advising clients on matters involving fund formation and fund management.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.
PHILADELPHIA – Troutman Pepper received five awards during the Legal Intelligencer’s Pennsylvania Legal Awards ceremony on May 15, 2024: Law Firm Innovators; Distinguished Leader – Joan Arnold; Young Attorney of the Year + Lawyers on the Fast Track (Large Firm) – Zachary Torres-Fowler; and Unsung Heroes – Andrew Medeiros.
During the event, the firm earned the coveted Law Firm Innovator award for being among the first to launch a generative AI assistant, and Partner R. Zachary Torres-Fowler was named Young Attorney of the Year for his incredible leadership within the firm and broader industry.
Troutman Pepper’s 2024 Pennsylvania Legal Awards:
Law Firm Innovators – Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper received the 2024 Law Firm Innovators award, which recognizes law firms, lawyers, and legal professionals who push the envelope to build their businesses. The firm was recognized for being among the first law firms to launch and fully adopt a bespoke generative AI tool, Athena. More than 675 employees across all firm offices use the AI assistant, and it receives an average of 400 prompts per day.
Distinguished Leader – Joan Arnold
Joan Arnold, partner and chair of the firm’s Tax + Benefits practice, was awarded the Distinguished Leader award, which recognizes lawyers and legal professionals who achieved impressive results in the past year and demonstrated clear leadership skills that helped them achieve those results. Arnold is a leader both at Troutman Pepper and within the global international tax community who has been a driving force for the advancement of tax administration, the development of international tax, and the promotion of diversity in the tax bar.
Young Attorney of the Year + Lawyers on the Fast Track (Large Firm) – Zachary Torres-Fowler
Zach Torres-Fowler is a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Construction practice, a leader in its International Dispute Resolution practice, and co-leader of the firm’s International Construction Projects practice. He was recognized as a next-generation lawyer, earning both the Young Attorney of the Year and Lawyer on the Fast Track awards for his exceptional legal skills and leadership, most notably for his efforts to develop and expand the firm’s presence in the field of international arbitration.
Unsung Heroes – Andrew Medeiros
Troutman Pepper’s Director of Innovation Andrew Medeiros received the Unsung Heroes award for his work on the firm’s generative AI assistant, Athena. Medeiros was part of a multi-office team of attorneys and technologists working behind-the-scenes to ensure the tool’s seamless adoption across the firm. Medeiros is specifically recognized for his leadership in identifying compelling technology vendors to pilot multiple use cases of the tool.
Notably, the firm also was among six finalists for the Law Firm of the Year award, and Troutman Pepper Partner Deborah Spranger was among six finalists for the Most-Effective Dealmakers award. The awards honors attorneys and firms that have left an indelible mark on the legal community in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and beyond through their unwavering dedication to the profession.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with 1,100+ attorneys strategically located in more than 20 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from startups to multinational enterprises. The firm provides sophisticated legal solutions to clients’ most pressing business challenges, with depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health sciences, insurance, and private equity, among others. Learn more at troutman.com.