ATLANTA – Andrea Rimer Brogdon, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Environmental and Natural Resources Practice, has been named President of the Georgia Brownfield Association (GBA). Brogdon began her 2-year term as President of GBA on January 1, 2024.
The Georgia Brownfield Association is a nonprofit advocacy and education organization supporting economic development in Georgia through responsible and sustainable redevelopment of environmentally impacted properties. As a member-led organization, GBA accomplishes its mission through collaborative engagement with EPD and EPA, the legislature, elected officials, local businesses, communities and other stakeholders. GBA’s membership is comprised of leading legal, engineering, risk management, economic and real estate development, and other environmentally focused professionals.
At Troutman Pepper, Brogdon regularly represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in the purchase and sale of real property and corporate assets across the United States, with a particular focus on brownfields redevelopment and compliance with hazardous substance and waste laws. Brogdon is recognized nationally as a leading attorney in hazardous site cleanup and redevelopment. She has assisted clients in successfully and efficiently managing environmental issues in the acquisition, lending, and divestiture of properties throughout the U.S.
Troutman Pepper’s Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group helps clients navigate critical environmental issues in the context of complex litigation, compliance, enforcement, and transactional matters. The group includes 40+ attorneys with valuable government, industry, and technical experience, who provide a unique perspective to address the rapidly evolving federal, state, and local environmental issues that clients face on a day-to-day basis.
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 the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the high-profile Chapter 11 bankruptcy of electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors Corp. Read a Law360 article about the ruling.
A Delaware bankruptcy judge confirmed the Chapter 11 plan of the electric vehicle maker on March 5, 2024, over the objections of the Office of the U.S. Trustee and a vocal shareholder. The plan was supported by Troutman Pepper’s client.
The multidisciplinary Troutman Pepper team, led by partners Deborah Kovsky-Apap and Francis Lawall, along with partners David M. Fournier, Sean McNally and Casselle Smith and associate Tori L. Remington, played a pivotal role in the hard-fought case. The team’s deep knowledge and strategic guidance across bankruptcy, securities law, automotive, and EV technology, helped achieve a largely consensual plan that will provide a 100% recovery to unsecured creditors.
“We are proud of our team’s work and the successful outcome of this complex case,” said Kovsky-Apap. “This result demonstrates Troutman Pepper’s commitment to providing exceptional legal counsel in high-stakes bankruptcy cases.”
Troutman Pepper’s Financial Restructuring + Insolvency Practice Group provides clients with creative solutions in financial restructuring and insolvency matters that prioritize recovery or return on investment. The team’s deep understanding of pre- and post-insolvency issues from every stakeholder’s perspective enables the group to help clients prevent and prepare for financial crises and to serve as trusted advisors to effectively respond to financial distress.
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 client Wrench Group, a national leader in home services, has acquired Lindstrom Air Conditioning & Plumbing, a home services leader across Southeast Florida. With Lindstrom’s joining, Wrench Group added its 28th market nationwide. Read a company press release about the transaction online here.
Wrench Group is a leader in home repair, replacement, and maintenance services specializing in heating, ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing, water, electrical, and related services. The company collectively serves more than 2 million customers annually with more than 7,300 team members across 15 states.
The Troutman Pepper team advising Wrench Group was led by Partner Brian Katz and included James Hipolit, Dean Longfield, Neil Dy, Howard Goldberg (Tax), and Stefanie Brennan (Real Estate), among others.
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 – More than two dozen Troutman Pepper attorneys have been recognized by Thomson Reuters as “Stand-out Lawyers” and will be included in the organization’s database of client-nominated lawyers in private practice. Each year, Thomson Reuters surveys more than 2,000 senior legal buyers around the world in building its list of Stand-out Lawyers.
Those recognized are noted for their ability to improve client satisfaction, increase client advocacy, grow share of wallet, strengthen brands, enhance people engagement, and increase profits per partner.
Troutman Pepper’s 2024 Stand-out Lawyers:
James Kim
Jeffrey Gill
Meredith Cabarrus
Robert Williams
Scott Rickard
Solomon Hunter Jr.
Thomson Reuters’ Stand-out Lawyers database features more than 15,000 client-nominated, stand-out lawyers in private practice. Those included are identified as stand-outs by senior in-house counsel in large organizations. The database is entirely free from law firm influence.
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 and three attorneys have earned 2024 JD Supra Readers Choice Awards, which recognize top authors and firms for thought leadership in key topics throughout 2023. Troutman Pepper was named Top Class Action Firm and the firm’s article, Proposed SEC Rule Would Place Cryptocurrency Trading Platforms Under SEC Jurisdiction, was among the top read JD Supra articles on securities last year. Notably, Partner Ethan Ostroff was the No. 1 author writing on financial services and banking matters for the second consecutive year.
Troutman Pepper Top Authors
Barbara Sicalides (Antitrust & Trade Regulation)
Ethan Ostroff (#1 Finance & Banking)
Tracey Diamond (Labor & Employment)
JD Supra’s Readers Choice Awards recognize the top authors and firms read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media, and other professionals across the JD Supra platform based on visibility, thought leadership, and engagement. In each of the 31 categories, decided by timeliness and ongoing importance, 10 authors, out of over 70,000 who publish, were recognized for consistently high readership and engagement.
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. – Troutman Pepper client Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc. recently announced the signing of a branch purchase and assumption agreement pursuant to which Pathfinder Bank will acquire the East Syracuse, New York branch of Berkshire Bank. Read a company press release about the agreement.
Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc., headquartered in Oswego, New York, is the parent company for Pathfinder Bank. Pathfinder Bank is a $1.5 billion commercial bank chartered by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Founded in 1859, Pathfinder currently operates full-service offices located in Oswego and Onondaga Counties and one limited purpose office in Oneida County. The anticipated acquisition of the East Syracuse branch is set to increase the number of Pathfinder full-service office locations to 12 and add almost $200 million of deposits.
The multidisciplinary team advising Pathfinder Bancorp, Inc. was led by Seth Winter and included attorneys Zayne Tweed, and Matthew Morris.
Troutman Pepper’s Financial Services Industry Group provides comprehensive support to all types of financial services businesses in today’s challenging and ever-changing environment. The team includes more than 200 attorneys who regularly advise global, national, regional, and community banks, financial technology companies, payments companies, consumer and commercial lenders, and a wide variety of other financial services businesses on the most crucial aspects of their business, from structuring major transactions to dealing with regulatory scrutiny and litigation.
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 continues to perform well in the industry league tables, reflecting the total volume and value of private equity, M&A, and venture capital deals closed in 2023. The firm advised in more than 130 deals totaling nearly $10 billion.
“Despite being one of the slowest years in recent deal activity for the industry, our firm continued to help clients succeed in their mission critical deals,” said Partner Matt Greenberg, who leads the firm’s Corporate practice. “Many are predicting 2024 to bring a slight rebound in dealmaking, and our team already is seeing that play out.”
PitchBook’s 2023 Annual Global League Tables
Law Firms: PE Deals
US Regions
Most Active in Southeast #17
Representing
Most Active in US: Companies #21
Sector
Most Active in Healthcare #23
Law Firms: M&A Deals
Representing
Most Active in US: Companies #25
Law Firms: VC Deals
Geography
Most Active in US #23
US Regions
Most Active in New England #24
Most Active in Mid-Atlantic #17
Most Active in Great Lakes #25
Representing
Most Active in US: Companies #25
Sector
Most Active in HC devices and supplies #22
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 – A new report by Troutman Pepper spotlights nearly 100 impactful court decisions from the past year in the directors and officers and professional liability insurance arenas. Released today, the D&O and Professional Liability 2023 Year in Review covers notable topics including notice, related claims, advancement of defense costs, allocation, recoupment of defense expenses, consent, recission, prior & pending litigation, and prior acts, among many others.
“Our report, which is in its sixteenth year of publication, provides practical analyses of federal and state court cases that address a wide variety of coverage issues,” said Partner Tony Jones. “We are proud to deliver it to clients each year.”
“We are covering consequential cases and decisions that will have an impact far beyond 2024 for insurers across industries,” said Partner Jennifer Mathis.
Troutman Pepper’s Directors + Officers and Professional Liability Insurance practice is nationally recognized and represents some of the largest domestic and international insurers. The team handles a wide variety of complex claims involving directors and officers liability policies and other professional liability and related lines of coverage. Attorneys represent clients in high-stakes lawsuits, regulatory investigations involving directors and officers of public and private companies, bankruptcy matters, and complex claims involving financial institutions.
The firm’s Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group comprises a talented team of individuals who are widely recognized for representing insurers on some of the toughest matters they face, including complex claims and high-exposure coverage and reinsurance issues. Over the past two decades, the firm has advised clients in sophisticated coverage litigation in all 50 states and in many foreign jurisdictions and has secured landmark rulings in trial and appellate courts across the country that span decades and involve tens of billions of dollars.
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 counseled Cagent Vascular Inc., a rapidly growing commercial stage medical device company, in a Series C Preferred Stock Financing which raised in excess of $30M. The funds will be used to accelerate U.S. market adoption and to expand the product portfolio of the Serranator PTA Serration Balloon Catheter. Read a company press release about the transaction.
Cagent Vascular, founded and led by serial medical technology entrepreneurs, is the leader in Serration Technology to treat peripheral artery disease. The company has developed a transformative improvement to conventional angioplasty, which is the most commonly performed procedure to restore blood flow. Although angioplasty has been used clinically for over 50 years, there remain significant opportunities to optimize the therapy and to improve the treatment outcomes of cardiovascular disease.
The Troutman Pepper team advising Cagent Vascular is led by Chris Miller and included Stephen Fox,Jenny Ji, Jake McDonough, Safvet Besen and Dawn Hall.
Since its formation, Cagent Vascular has been a participant in Troutman Pepper’s SEED Program, which combines the resources of an experienced, multidisciplinary team into an affordable package for startups, early-stage, and fast-growing companies. Clients receive legal counsel, mentoring, relationship-building opportunities, and more.
The firm regularly advises startup, emerging growth and venture capital clients through every stage of their life cycle. Industries served span software, hardware and other high-technology, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, financial technology, health care, consumer products, food and beverage, media and telecommunications products and services, and many others.
Visit seed.troutman.com to learn more about Troutman Pepper’s SEED 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.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif./RICHMOND, Va. — Troutman Pepper has formalized an Incidents + Investigations Team that caters to a growing need for comprehensive legal services around data breaches and cybersecurity incidents. Comprising attorneys from coast-to-coast, the team offers clients 24/7 support in this critical area.
“The team tackles the legal, security, and communication challenges that companies encounter during a data or cybersecurity incident,” said Partner Sadia Mirza, co-leader of the Incidents + Investigations Team.
“What sets us apart is our level of expertise in highly regulated industries, our proficiency in assisting companies through all stages of the incident response process, and our unique communication approach,” Mirza said. “Despite having a technically sound response, businesses may face complications if they lack effective communication skills. Our team emphasizes the importance of effective communication to ensure clients maintain control of their narrative, thereby reducing potential litigation and investigation risks, and minimizing any adverse impact on their brand, reputation, and operations.”
In 2023, the number of data compromises reported in the United States hit an all-time high with more than 3,200, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Many are predicting 2024 to surpass the record-setting numbers.
“Not only are data incidents on the rise, but when large and complex incidents occur, the regulatory landscape can be complicated. With different regulators playing different roles – from Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at the federal level, to State Attorneys General and various state agencies at the state level – it can become quite complex for a company to navigate. Our team simplifies things,” said Partner Stephen Piepgrass, co-leader of the Incidents + Investigations Team.
“The incidents and investigations-focused task force directly complements our Privacy + Cyber practice,” said Privacy + Cyber co-leader Ron Raether. “We provide clients a collaborative, 360-degree approach, extending the range of privacy and cyber services traditionally offered by law firms by leveraging our broad and global expertise in key areas.”
The Incidents + Investigations Team serves clients across industries, engaging vendors to conduct a forensic investigation, coordinating initial crisis management communications, interfacing with law enforcement and regulators, advising on regulatory compliance issues, and assessing and complying with state and federal notification requirements and data governance standards. Taking an innovative approach, the Team comprises experienced lawyers as well as leading security experts from industry and consulting to provide integrated advice beyond what is typically offered by other firms.
“We also are focused on counseling clients before an incident occurs, conducting tabletop exercises and reviewing incident response plans to ensure efficacy and compliance,” Mirza said. “Most clients have historically leveraged third-party IT or forensic firms to assist with these tasks. The reality is that during an incident response, legal and forensics must collaborate and work together. We must transition from viewing incidents solely as security issues and actively involve legal and external counsel, even in the planning phases, to ensure a seamless response. This is true especially in light of the new SEC reporting requirements. These rules mandate a collaborative approach among business, legal, and security teams not only before and during an incident, but also in its aftermath.”
“Should the worst occur, we draw on a deep and experienced bench in regulatory enforcement and litigation,” added Piepgrass.
Learn more about Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations Team here.
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.