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SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Troutman Pepper Partner Ben Wagner has notched a mission-critical trademark win on behalf of Guang Tai He Import Export, Inc., a Maryland-based flooring company, securing a permanent injunction from the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

The defendant’s improper federal registration of the generic term “SPC,” which is used industry wide as an acronym for “stone plastic composite” flooring, resulted in more than 16 containers of the plaintiff’s flooring being detained by U.S. Customs for using the term. Wagner filed an ex parte application for temporary restraining order (TRO), seeking preliminary injunctive relief, detailing the potential for irreparable harm to the client’s business. The Court agreed, first granting the TRO and a preliminary injunction, and then the permanent injunction.

“Without the Court’s judgement here, our client risked being run out of business for using a generic term that one individual tried to claim a monopoly on,” Wagner said. “We are pleased by the Court’s swift action to protect our client’s business.”

Troutman Pepper’s nationally recognized Intellectual Property Practice provides the complete range of services for patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets and assists clients with litigation and dispute resolution, licensing, and other transactions. Clients include startups, Fortune 100 companies, academic and research institutes, business incubators, and technology companies in a wide range of industries.

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.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper represented TELEO Capital Management, LLC and its portfolio company Rand McNally in the acquisition of Safety Direct from Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC. Read a company press release about the acquisition.

SafetyDirect is a video-based driver safety platform featuring a web portal where fleets can access their driver performance information and event-based data – video, vehicle, and sensor information from a vehicle’s J1939 network. The data provides fleet operators with key insights into common driving behaviors and trends to help bolster their overall safety program. Rand McNally’s acquisition of SafetyDirect will enable it to roll out an enhanced, comprehensive fleet management solution that will appeal to a broader segment of the connected vehicle market.

James Rosener led a multidisciplinary team of Troutman Pepper attorneys, including Zach Corenblum, Samantha Peruto, Reid Oetting, and Emily Newcomer in providing legal counsel to TELEO Capital Management.

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 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.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper Partner Genna Garver has received the Champion of the Year (Bronze) award as part of the Citywealth Powerwomen Awards USA 2024. The Powerwomen awards recognize individuals and companies that promote female leadership and support career progression of women within the wealth management sector.

Winners were selected from a shortlist of more than 100 candidates produced by 10 judges, with a third party then tallying online votes. Honorees were celebrated during a March 14 awards ceremony.

Garver, a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group, has a unique ability to guide clients through the complex maze of investment regulation. She routinely advises clients on SEC and state investment adviser, broker-dealer, and private fund regulation; Investment Advisers Act compliance programs, annual reviews, and ongoing compliance matters; and regulatory examinations and investigations.

She serves on the Board of Directors and Regulatory Action Committee of the National Society of Compliance Professionals (NSCP), which serves compliance professionals, including investment advisors, brokers, dealers, and fund managers. Garver has been an active member of NSCP for more than a decade. She is a long-time member of 100 Women in Finance and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Education Committee for Connecticut and Westchester County, NY. She also is a member of the New York Alternative Investment Roundtable and is highly involved in women’s and diversity initiatives in the financial services industry.

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 multi-billion dollars. Core areas of service include private equity, 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 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 – Eight Troutman Pepper attorneys have been selected to serve on Law360 Editorial Advisory Boards this year. Board members were selected by Law360 to provide feedback on the publication’s coverage and expert insight on how to best shape future coverage.

Board Memberships:

Access to Justice

Sara B. Richman (Philadelphia)

Bankruptcy

Evelyn Meltzer (Wilmington)

Consumer Protection

Ashley Taylor, Jr. (Richmond | Washington D.C.)

Delaware

James Levine (Wilmington)

Fintech

James Kim (New York)

Illinois

Molly DiRago (Chicago)

Pennsylvania

Abbey Hazlett (Philadelphia)

Tax Authority International

Joan C. Arnold (Philadelphia)

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.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper Partner Fredrick Wilson has been selected for the 2024 Fellows Program of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), and Associates Kimberly Eason and Maddy Thompson have been named to LCLD’s 2024 Class of Pathfinders. LCLD seeks to create a more diverse and inclusive legal profession with more than 400 members, including corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners.

Wilson, a partner in the firm’s Energy Practice Group, will participate in the Fellows program, which LCLD created to identify, train and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession.

At Troutman Pepper, Wilson applies his engineering expertise and first-hand regulatory insight to help energy clients with respect to project development, complex transactions, and the full range of regulatory matters before FERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and state regulators. He has extensive experience with RTO/ISO market rules and issues under the Federal Power Act, Natural Gas Act, Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, Public Utility Holding Company Act, and Natural Gas Policy Act.

Eason and Thompson will participate in LCLD’s Pathfinder Program, which trains high-performing, early-career attorneys in critical career development strategies, including leadership and the building of professional networks.

In her practice, Eason handles a variety of business litigation matters, including contractual claims and other civil disputes. She also defends businesses in class action litigation and complex commercial disputes, as well as against claims arising under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).

Thompson focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing, master planned communities, and asset management. In particular, she frequently assists developers of multifamily projects with the acquisition, capitalization, and disposition of assets across the U.S.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are among Troutman Pepper’s core values and are fundamental to the firm’s culture. Troutman Pepper has been involved with the LCLD since the organization was founded in 2009 and most recently was recognized as an LCLD Top Performer and Compass Award Winner for being among the top 20 percent of organizations based on participation in LCLD programs and activities.

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 – Troutman Pepper has been named 2023 Law Firm of the Year by Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta (PBPA) for the firm’s contributions of attorney time and counsel helping Atlanta area nonprofits. In 2023, the firm handled more than 30 matters referred by the legal nonprofit with attorneys collectively logging nearly 500 hours.

Troutman Pepper has partnered with PBPA since the organization’s founding. Each year, the firm hosts a nonprofit check-up clinic in its Atlanta office. Law firm and in-house attorneys team up to review and address the legal needs of local nonprofits.

“We are proud of our longstanding relationship with the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta and believe strongly in their mission of helping local nonprofits thrive by connecting them with the right legal resources,” said Partner Sara Richman, chair of the firm’s Pro Bono practice.

PBPA provides free business legal resources and services to Georgia nonprofits, matching eligible organizations with volunteer attorneys from the leading corporations and law firms in Atlanta. Since its founding more than 15 years ago, PBPA has assigned and supported over 3,200 volunteer lawyers in aiding over 900 nonprofit clients. Learn more at pbpatl.org.

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 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.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper client UBS Asset Management, a large-scale asset manager with a presence in 23 markets, recently announced its role in a pioneering insurance structure aimed at promoting investment in clean energy. The firm provided legal support to UBS Asset Management in the development of this innovative product, a collaboration between USQRisk, LLC and Ascend Analytics, LLC. Read a company press release.

This unique insurance offering is designed to provide more efficient financing for utility-scale energy storage projects. It offers a new level of revenue protection, thereby reducing financing risk and encouraging the development of energy storage projects.

Troutman Pepper attorneys, Vaughn Morrison, John Leonti, Kimmy Fishman, James Tilghman, Steve Kim, Alex Bulkin, Mitchell Emmert, Andrew Thurmond, Nickolas Guttman, and Charlie Suessmith served as legal counsel to UBS Asset Management.

Troutman Pepper’s nationally recognized Capital Projects and Infrastructure Practice Group facilitates projects for investors, utilities, sponsors, private investment funds, lenders, developers, and other stakeholders. The firm’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.

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 – The Legal Intelligencer has recognized Troutman Pepper’s Joan Arnold, Andrew Medeiros, and Zachary Torres-Fowler with three Pennsylvania Legal Awards, and the firm and Partner Deborah Spranger are finalists in three additional categories. All winners will be announced at a May 15 awards dinner.

The annual awards program 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.

Winners:

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.

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 and received the Lawyer on the Fast Track award 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.

Finalists:

Law Firm of the Year – Troutman Pepper
The firm also is being considered for the coveted Law Firm of the Year award, which recognizes the Pennsylvania/Delaware firm that has demonstrated a broad spectrum of achievements in the past year and talent depth.

Law Firm Innovators – Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a finalist for the Law Firm Innovators award, which recognizes law firms, lawyers, and legal professionals who push the envelope to build their businesses. The firm is shortlisted 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.

Most-Effective Dealmakers – Deborah Spranger
Troutman Pepper Partner Deborah Spranger has decades of experience leading deal teams for public, private, and international companies in the life sciences, manufacturing, health care, and technology industries. Spranger is shortlisted for a Most-Effective Dealmaker award, which recognizes attorneys not only for the quantity and dollar value of deals handled but also for their ability to earn repeat business by achieving their clients’ goals so that both sides sign on the dotted lines.

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.

NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper has been named a finalist in the International Financial Law Review’s (IFLR) 2024 Americas Awards in the “Tech Innovation” category, which recognizes “a legal tech solution, or its application, that is pioneering, creative, or uses a new or untested product to great effect.”

The firm was shortlisted for its launch of an AI assistant, Athena, that harnesses OpenAI’s GPT to help attorneys and business professionals safely and effectively use generative AI to improve workflows and enhance overall user and client experiences. In doing so, the firm became of one the first to have a bespoke tool approved for such use across all its practice and administrative departments. To ensure the correct and effective use of Athena, Troutman Pepper provided comprehensive training and compliance support, demonstrating a commitment to both innovation and responsible use of technology.

Now in its 25th year, IFLR’s annual awards celebrate legal innovation through dealmaking and the work that improves the cross-border investment environment. In deciding the awards, IFLR conducts detailed research using a variety of sources, including interviews with private practice lawyers, in-house counsel and corporate finance professionals.

All the winning deals, firms, lawyers, and in-house teams will be presented at the awards ceremony in New York on May 15.

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.