PHILADELPHIA – Troutman Pepper client iECURE, a gene editing company focused on the development of mutation-agnostic in vivo gene insertion, or knock-in, editing therapies for the treatment of liver disorders with significant unmet need, recently announced the completion of a $65 million Series A-1 financing. The Series A-1 financing was co-led by Novo Holdings A/S and LYFE Capital with significant participation from existing investors Versant Ventures and OrbiMed Advisors. Read a company press release about the financing.
iECURE expects the proceeds from the Series A-1 financing to enable the advancement of the company’s lead program, GTP-506, including funding IND-enabling studies, starting clinical trials (subject to regulatory approval), and achieving early human data readouts. Additionally, the Series A-1 financing is expected to fuel progress on iECURE’s portfolio of gene editing products for the treatment of patients with rare liver diseases, including citrullinemia type 1 (CTLN1) and phenylketonuria (PKU).
The Troutman Pepper team advising iECURE in the financing was led by Rachael Bushey, James Jumper, Stephen Fox, and Neil Doogan.
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 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. – Karen Longworth, a legal practice assistant at Troutman Pepper in Richmond, Virginia, has been recognized among the 2022 “Unsung Legal Heroes” by Virginia Lawyers Weekly. The awards honor law firm employees – including accounting and finance professionals, law firm administrators and office managers, paralegals and legal assistants, legal secretaries, librarians, docket administrators, and receptionists – who have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty, often behind the scenes.
Longworth has been with Troutman Pepper most of her career – over 30 years. As a legal practice assistant, she supports multiple practices and attorneys across the national law firm, performing highly specialized administrative work while delivering a superior level of service.
Longworth and other 2022 “Unsung Legal Heroes” will be recognized in a special section of Virginia Lawyers Weekly later this month.
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/VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Fifteen Troutman Pepper attorneys have been named to Virginia Business’ 2022 class of ‘Legal Elite’. The annual list recognizes top attorneys in the state across 20 practice areas based on peer nominations. Attorneys from the firm’s Richmond and Virginia Beach offices were recognized in nine practice areas.
2022 Legal Elite:
Robert Angle (Intellectual Property/Cybersecurity)
Carl H. Bivens (Real Estate/Land Use)
Dabney J. Carr IV (Intellectual Property/Cybersecurity)
David E. Constine III (Labor/Employment Law)
John C. Lynch (Civil Litigation)
John A. Morrissett (Intellectual Property/Cybersecurity)
RJ Nutter II (Real Estate/Land Use)
Ethan G. Ostroff (Civil Litigation)
John M. Ramirez (Business Law)
Brooks M. Smith (Environmental Law)
Ashley L. Taylor Jr. (Legislative/Regulatory/Administrative)
John S. West (Criminal Law)
Erin S. Whaley (Health Law)
Gillian Williston (Civil Litigation)
Andrea W. Wortzel (Environmental Law)
For 23 years, Virginia Business has partnered with The Virginia Bar Association to identify the top legal talent in the state. More than 14,000 attorneys from over 50 law firms were asked to nominate the honorees. The full list of recognized attorneys and practice areas can be found in the Virginia Business Legal Elite online edition.
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 Partner Evelyn Meltzer has been named to the 2023 Board of Directors for the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), an international, networking and professional growth organization for women in the restructuring and insolvency industry. Meltzer will serve as secretary. With 53 networks and almost 2,000 members worldwide, IWIRC connects and promotes women in the restructuring and insolvency professions.
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.
Earlier this year, Meltzer was recognized among Global M&A Network’s Top 100 Global Restructuring & Turnaround Professionals, featuring the ”100 most accomplished, influential and innovative restructuring and turnaround advisors from the international communities.” In addition to her role with IWIRC, Meltzer serves as co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute International Committee and 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 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 – Three Troutman Pepper attorneys have been named to Georgia Trend’s 2022 class of “Legal Elite.” The annual list recognizes top attorneys in the state across 15 practice areas based on peer nominations.
2022 Legal Elite:
David F. Golden (Taxes/Estates/Trusts)
Bryan B. Lavine (Criminal Law)
Gary W. Marsh (Bankruptcy Rights)
For two decades, Georgia Trend has compiled its “Legal Elite” list, recognizing lawyers from across the state considered by their peers to be the best in their fields. This year, the publication received nominations from hundreds of attorneys with honorees selected based on total votes. View the full 2022 list online here.
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 – Troutman Pepper client AdvancedONE, a leading national provider of technology-enabled court reporting and deposition services, has been acquired by Lexitas, a portfolio company of Apax. Read a company press release about the transaction.
Troutman Pepper assisted AdvancedONE founder and CEO John Anderson for over 10 years beginning with the formation of the business venture. The firm advised AdvancedONE on the initial purchase of the platform business in Philadelphia and then in subsequent add-on transactions in Los Angeles and Dallas and through organic growth in Atlanta. Troutman Pepper also represented AdvancedONE in its financing transactions, including a recapitalization in 2021.
Troutman Pepper Partner Thomas Dwyer led a multi-practice team including Harry Nimoityn, Jake McDonough, Deborah Enea, Morgan Klinzing, Joan Arnold, and Mike Crumbock in advising AdvancedONE in the acquisition.
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 1,200 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.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper, as specialty construction counsel, represented a consortium of investors consisting of Vantage Airport Group, JetBlue, American Triple I, and RXR Realty in a deal to build, finance, and operate a new US$4.2 billion passenger terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The financial close of the deal was announced on November 17.
The terminal, to be named Terminal 6, will be built as an extension of JetBlue’s existing JFK Terminal 5 and will eventually span across the entire site now occupied by JFK Terminal 7. The deal represents the second transaction in which Troutman Pepper provided construction counsel to a P3 private consortium undertaking the redevelopment of an airport terminal project at JFK.
JFK Millennium Partners LLC, a joint-venture project company formed by the consortium, will commence construction for the new Terminal 6 in 2023.
The Troutman Pepper team consisted of Aaron Abraham, Matt Dials, and Peter Lotfalla, and Matt Giacobbe.
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.
BOSTON – Ten Troutman Pepper attorneys have been named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers list showcasing the “region’s finest legal minds” as researched and selected by the magazine’s editorial team.
Honorees by Category
Commercial Litigation
Corporate Law
Criminal Defense White Collar
Miranda Hooker
Intellectual Property Rights
In compiling its Top Lawyers guide, Boston Magazine invited lawyers in the area to nominate up to three of their peers in a select number of specialties. The top vote-getters in each specialty were then reviewed by an advisory board of distinguished lawyers who finalized the list.
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.
NEW YORK – Troutman Pepper client OrderMyGear (OMG), a leading online store platform for selling custom branded merchandise to groups, has acquired BrightStores, a top provider of online company stores for promotional product distributors. Read a company press release about the transaction.
The partnership brings together two market leading technology platforms in the team sporting goods and promotional products spaces. Together, the combined solutions will provide best-in-class technology designed specifically to meet the needs of promotional product distributors, apparel decorators, and team dealers as they grow their business online.
OMG is an industry-leading sales tool, empowering distributors, decorators, and dealers to create sleek, retail-like online stores for every customer – big or small. Since 2008, OMG has been on a mission to simplify the process of selling branded products and apparel to groups and improve the ordering experience.
Troutman Pepper’s Matthew Greenberg, Taylor Bartholomew, Michael Byrne, Reid Oetting, and Carmen Williams advised OMG in the acquisition. OMG is a portfolio company of firm client Susquehanna Growth Equity.
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 1,200 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.
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – Samrah Mahmoud, a partner in Troutman Pepper’s Orange County Office, was recently profiled in the Los Angeles Times Inspirational Women Magazine as a nominee for the publication’s Inspirational Women Awards 2022. The awards recognize female business leaders who have demonstrated noteworthy success and accomplishments during the last 24 months.
At Troutman Pepper, Mahmoud is a commercial litigator who has successfully defended clients in both state and federal court, including at trial and on appeal. Her practice focuses on litigating on behalf of healthcare companies and representing insurers in coverage and bad faith lawsuits. Mahmoud also routinely defends companies against consumer class actions that involve a variety of claims including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, and California’s Unfair Competition law. The publication also noted Mahmoud’s significant involvement in her community and at her former law school as well as her pro bono efforts.
The Los Angeles Times celebrated all nominees at the Inspirational Women Forum & Awards event on Oct. 18.
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.