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Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP announced today that Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, an accomplished bankruptcy attorney possessing nearly two decades of experience handling complex business and litigation issues arising in the context of corporate restructurings, has joined the firm as a partner in its New York office.

Harry Rajak, Patrick Mears, and Edward O. Mears published "What's Past is Prologue: The European Movement Towards Harmonized Pre-Insolvency Business Restructurings Contrasted with The American Preference for Going Concern Asset Sales" in the April/May 2018 edition of Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added J. Gregory Milmoe to its Boston and New York offices as a shareholder in the firm’s Restructuring & Bankruptcy Practice.

The Honorable Mindy A. Mora was appointed as a bankruptcy judge for the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division, on April 6, 2018.

International law firm Hogan Lovells announced that bankruptcy lawyer Richard Wynne has joined the firm’s Business Restructuring and Insolvency (BRI) practice as a partner in Los Angeles. Additionally, he will serve as co-head of the U.S. BRI practice.

John E. Waites, U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge for the District of South Carolina, will become president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in October.

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