WILMINGTON, D.E. – Evelyn Meltzer, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Financial Restructuring + Insolvency Practice Group, has been selected to serve on Law360’s Bankruptcy Editorial Advisory Board for the second consecutive year. The advisory board provides feedback on Law360’s coverage and expert insight on how to best shape future coverage.
Meltzer focuses her practice on distressed M&A, corporate bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights. She regularly represents sellers and purchasers in distressed M&A transactions including Article 9 sales, asset sales conducted as part of assignments for the benefit of creditors (ABC), and sales conducted pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. She has significant experience guiding corporate debtors, creditors’ committees, secured and unsecured creditors, and others through all aspects of complex Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 proceedings. She also represents companies and assignees in connection with Delaware ABC proceedings in the Delaware Chancery Court. Her clients include both plaintiffs and defendants in bankruptcy-related litigation matters including avoidance actions.
“It’s an honor to be selected to serve on Law360’s Bankruptcy Editorial Advisory Board for a second year,” Meltzer said. “I am thrilled to continue collaborating with the editorial team and fellow board members to improve coverage in this evolving industry.”
In addition to her practice, Meltzer serves as secretary for the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) International Committee, and the co-chair of the Delaware State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Section Legislative Committee.
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 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 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 recognized for exceptional client service performance, ranking No. 41, according to the BTI Client Service A-Team 2023 report released today. The recognition comes from an independent survey of corporate counsel. The firm improved from No. 48 last year.
Last Fall, Troutman Pepper launched a bespoke client value program, Troutman Pepper Plus, that aims to connect clients with additional resources, create innovative solutions, and provide key insights to deliver efficiency and build stronger relationships.
“The program, coupled with the firm’s commitment to innovation and collaboration, helped to move the needle in meaningful ways for clients,” said Chief Business Development and Marketing Officer Dan Pulka. “We are honored to be recognized by the in-house counsel surveyed by BTI and proud of the work we’re doing together with our clients.”
BTI is a leading provider of strategic research to the legal community and bases its Client Service A-Team rankings on more than 350 in-depth telephone interviews with the highest-ranking legal decisions makers at companies across more than 15 industry segments. The report is a data-driven ranking that is sponsored solely by BTI. No law firm or attorney influences the results, submits nominations, or provides client names to BTI.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups 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 Partners Tiffany Bracewell and Mary Weeks have been elected to serve as treasurer and member-at-large, respectively, of the Atlanta Bar Association Litigation Section Board of Directors for the 2023-2024 bar year. As engaged board members, they will help to lead the Litigation Section and advance its efforts to promote professional development, foster relationships, and further community engagement and service.
Bracewell, who has served as one of the Section’s Board members-at-large since late 2021 and was elected treasurer this term, represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of criminal and civil matters, with a special focus on white collar crime. She frequently represents clients under investigation by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission, and has advised clients facing claims of bribery; price-fixing and bid-rigging; securities fraud, wire fraud, government contracting fraud, and tax fraud; violations of the False Claims Act, Stark Law, and Anti-Kickback Statute; and use of deceptive business practices.
Weeks, who was named member-at-large, represents corporations as well as their directors and officers in complex commercial, shareholder derivative, and securities class action litigation, in addition to handling company’s books and records demands, and special committee or other regulatory investigations. Clients turn to her for guidance when facing allegations of all types of shareholder disputes, including allegations of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and corporate governance concerns.
The Litigation Section of the Atlanta Bar Association is the largest section by membership and is comprised of litigators across the spectrum of practices. It includes plaintiff’s lawyers, defense lawyers, mediators, and dispute resolution practitioners, as well as judges from several different courts.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups 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 – Christopher Brolley, an associate in Troutman Pepper’s Health Sciences Department, is one of 22 attorneys nationwide selected for the 2023-2024 American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Practice (TIPS) Leadership Academy.
The ABA TIPS Section unites plaintiff, defense, insurance and corporate counsel to advance the civil justice system. TIPS is a national source of expertise in tort, trial and insurance practice and brings lawyers together to share information and speak out on issues of importance. The section has over 11,000 members and more than 30 general committees that focus on substantive and procedural matters in areas across the broad spectrum of civil law and practice.
Brolley concentrates his practice on federal and statewide product liability litigation through his representation of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He also advises colleges and universities of all sizes on Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL), particularly regarding compliance with state NIL laws, NCAA Bylaws, and other NCAA policies and guidance concerning permissible and impermissible NIL activities.
Additionally, Brolley maintains an active pro bono practice, representing veterans applying for benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. His work primarily focuses on appealing before The Board of Veterans’ Appeals and working closely with the National Veterans Legal Services Program.
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 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 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.
WILMINGTON, Del. – Troutman Pepper has been selected as a winner for The M&A Advisor’s 17th Annual Turnaround Awards. The awards program recognizes the leading distressed transactions, restructuring, refinancing, products and services, firms, and professionals in the United States and international markets. The nominations, representing over 100 participating companies, were judged by an independent panel of industry experts.
Troutman Pepper is among a team of law firms recognized by The M&A Advisor with the “Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (Over $100 Million)” Turnaround Award for the firm’s role in the credit bid acquisition of MD Helicopters, Inc.’s assets and operations.
The Troutman Pepper team advising MD Helicopters, Inc. included Financial Restructuring and Insolvency partner Evelyn Meltzer and associate Kenneth Listwak, among others.
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 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 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 is among a team of law firms to receive Global Competition Review’s “Behavioural Matter of the Year – Americas” award for the firm’s role in securing acquittals in the U.S. Department of Justice’s broiler chicken probe. The award recognizes “creative, strategic and innovative work carried out in a non-merger matter before an enforcer in the Americas.”
In 2022, for the third time in two years, Troutman Pepper attorneys successfully represented Scott Brady, national account salesman for Claxton Poultry, against antitrust charges when a Denver jury returned a verdict of not guilty finding there was no conspiracy among him and other poultry executives to fix prices in the sale of chicken to fast food restaurants and grocery stores. Two earlier trials resulted in mistrials because of hung juries.
The Troutman Pepper team representing Mr. Brady included Bryan Lavine, Megan Rahman, LA Kuykendall, and Jhony Ospina, among others. Read more about the three-peat. Listen to a podcast about the case.
Troutman Pepper was recognized March 28 at Global Competition Review’s 13th annual awards event, which honors the biggest cases from 2022 alongside the world’s leading antitrust lawyers, economists, enforcers, and academics.
Troutman Pepper has a nationally recognized White Collar + Government Investigations Practice Group that includes former government prosecutors, in-house compliance counsel, and seasoned white collar defense attorneys who proactively resolve sensitive government investigations and proceedings. With decades of experience handling high-stakes civil and criminal government investigations throughout the country, the team can respond quickly to minimize risk.
The firm also fields an award-winning antitrust team, with numerous successes including landmark court decisions, obtaining clearance for mergers and acquisitions, and resolving civil and criminal government investigations at the state and federal levels. Clients span a broad range of industries, including energy, software, high-tech, building materials, chemicals, publishing, media and entertainment, transportation, telecommunications, sports, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health care, among others.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups 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. – Andrea Wortzel, leader of Troutman Pepper’s national Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Group, has been named to the Influential Women of Law Class of 2023 by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. The award program honors women attorneys and judges for their excellent work on behalf of the justice system and for their clients, their commitment to their communities, and their service to the profession.
At Troutman Pepper, Wortzel has a natural resource practice, focused on compliance with the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act. She has applied her experience with these statutes to large infrastructure projects, including hydropower projects. In Virginia, Wortzel has been involved in water quantity issues, including water rights, water supply planning, and water withdrawal permitting. She coordinates Mission H2O, a stakeholder group focused on water supply policy issues in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Additionally, she also helped establish Women in the Environment (WINE), an informal networking program for women working in the environmental field.
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 nearly 30 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.
The Influential Women of Law Class of 2023 will be celebrated during a recognition awards event on May 23 and profiled in a special supplement to the Virginia Lawyers Weekly.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 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 Partners Avi Schick and Misha Tseytlin have been named to The 2023 Law Power 100, a list of the most influential legal professionals in New York politics and government compiled by City & State New York. Schick and Tseytlin are No. 11 on the list — the second law firm practitioners named.
The list features high-profile elected officials, powerful prosecutors, high-ranking appointees, partners at prominent firms, defense attorneys, public defenders, legal scholars, and others who advise or oversee governmental bodies, advocate for policy changes, or argue cases before the highest courts.
Schick, a former New York deputy attorney general, was recognized for his representation of private schools challenging New York State’s effort to regulate them. He also led the challenge to then-Gov. Cuomo’s imposition of pandemic mandates that heavily restricted the operation of houses of worship that resulted in a landmark victory at the United States Supreme Court. Schick regularly represents clients across industries before state and federal regulators, prosecutors, and enforcement agencies, and maintains a leading religious liberties practice in New York.
Tseytlin leads Troutman Pepper’s national Appellate + Supreme Court Practice Group and is recognized for his work in redistricting and election law. He argued and prevailed before the U.S. Supreme Court in Gill v. Whitford, one of the most significant redistricting cases in several decades, and in Murr v. Wisconsin, a high-stakes regulatory takings case. He has obtained multiple landmark victories for clients ranging from ordinary citizens to independent redistricting commissioners and state legislatures in state, federal appellate, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
City & State New York covers New York’s state and local government, political, and advocacy news.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups 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 – Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., co-leader of Troutman Pepper’s nationally ranked State Attorneys General Practice, was recently named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s “Go To Lawyers” for business litigation. Now in its fourth year, the program recognizes leading lawyers in a particular field of law.
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. Honorees also have a demonstrated record of success, receive regular referrals, and think creatively.
Taylor, who also serves as vice chair of the firm and is a partner in its Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) Practice Group, is a nationally recognized and sought-after strategist and problem solver for clients facing bet-the-company government investigations, enforcement actions, and litigation. Drawing from his experience with industry-shaping, multistate investigations and litigation, he provides clear-cut advice for his clients’ toughest challenges.
Troutman Pepper’s state AG practice is part of the firm’s greater Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) Practice Group, which counsels clients in a wide range of legal and public policy matters. For businesses in heavily regulated industries, such as financial services, advertising and marketing, health care, insurance, telecommunications, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis, the team offers guidance on compliance and reporting as well as, when necessary, litigation and administrative appeals of regulatory enforcement actions. The team also partners with businesses and industry groups to work proactively on legislative strategy, state attorneys general interactions, and the regulatory rulemaking process.
Those recognized as “Go To Lawyers” will be profiled in a special section to the Virginia Lawyers Weekly in April.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 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.
Our Cannabis Practice provides advice on issues related to applicable federal and state law. Marijuana remains an illegal controlled substance under federal law.
PRINCETON, N.J. – Troutman Pepper client WinnCompanies, an award-winning national developer and manager of affordable, mixed-income, and market rate apartment communities, recently announced it has begun construction on a $63 million, 125-unit luxury apartment community in Princeton, N.J. The developer also will soon commence work on an adjacent, new 1.46-acre public neighborhood park with a playground, public seating areas, and a dog park.
Troutman Pepper’s Thomas Letizia and Susan Ferrara advised WinnCompanies in connection with the project, assisting in obtaining land use approvals and redevelopment designation and in negotiation of redevelopment and financial (PILOT) agreements with the municipality. The firm has extensive experience in land use and zoning, offering an integrated perspective on land use, redevelopment, municipal law, public finance, environmental law, and lobbying.
Founded in Boston in 1971, WinnCompanies is one of the nation’s largest multifamily housing managers with 105,600 residential and military apartment homes under management. It is a leading manager of affordable housing and privatized U.S. military housing in the United States.
Troutman Pepper’s national Real Estate Practice Group helps clients in their most complex real estate transactions. Clients include owners, developers, and financiers of some of the largest projects across the country in both the private and public sectors. The practice has been recognized by several leading industry authorities, including Chambers USA, Legal 500, and U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”, among others.
About Troutman Pepper
Troutman Pepper is a national law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys strategically located in 23 U.S. cities. The firm’s litigation, transactional, and regulatory practices advise a diverse client base, from start-ups 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.