Corporate Finance Practice Welcome Two Partners and Two Associates
LOS ANGELES (April 25, 2007) — The international law firm of McDermott Will & Emery announced today the addition of two partners and two associates who will be joining the Firm's corporate finance practice. Ronald Goldberg will join the Los Angeles office as a partner, Ed Christian will join the New York office as a partner, and associates Brian T. Daigle and Marc D. Rabinovitz will join the Los Angeles office.
"With the addition of Ron and his team our office has acquired a top-notch finance team with an international practice," commented Gordon Greenberg, head of the Firm's Los Angeles office. "Working closely with our existing 60+ lawyer finance practice, this team further develops our presence in both Los Angeles and New York," continued Timothy Alvino, head of the Firm's Corporate Department.
Mr. Goldberg has extensive experience in all aspects of transactional banking, finance, leasing and derivatives. His practice is focused on hedge and investment funds, foreign banks engaged in business in the United States and sophisticated international borrowers involved in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions. Over the last decade, he has served as counsel in numerous innovative financing and restructuring transactions.
Mr. Christian represents U.S. and international clients with both U.S. and cross-border financial activities involving private, syndicated, project, structured and rated transactions. His practice includes assisting clients in the aviation, energy, transportation and capital equipments sectors on complex and multi-currency financial transactions.
"Our team is excited to join McDermott's finance practice on both coasts," commented Mr. Goldberg. "The platform McDermott has to offer and its significant geographic reach is completely in tune with our clients' needs, making this move was an opportunity we could not afford to miss."
McDermott's Global Finance Practice Group represents U.S., UK, European, Japanese and other international commercial banks, institutional investors, investment banks, investment funds, corporate and special purpose borrowers and other financial institutions. Our finance and banking lawyers represent both lenders and borrowers.
Biographical Notes
Ronald Goldberg has detailed knowledge of transportation, finance and airline insolvency matters, as well as extensive experience in complex financing structures for hedge and private equity funds, financial derivatives, U.S. and cross-border equipment leasing and project finance, and financial transactions in Latin America. He has represented aircraft lessors and airlines; major U.S. and offshore hedge and private equity funds; U.S. money-center banks; and European and Asian banks doing business in the United States.
Mr. Goldberg has been actively involved in airline industry Chapter 11 proceedings on behalf of bank, secured and unsecured bondholder creditors, as well as hedge funds. He has represented numerous hedge funds in obtaining leverage for their portfolios, as well as trading activities involving swaps, repurchase facilities and other derivatives.
He also has experience representing governmental entities, corporate borrowers and high-net-worth individuals engaged in sophisticated financial activities including synthetic derivatives transactions and the issuance of domestic and offshore debt securities.
Mr. Goldberg earned his J.D., Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law, his M.B.A., cum laude, from New York University and his A.B., cum laude, from Columbia University. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and he is admitted to practice in California and New York.
Ed Christian advises institutional, investment fund, investment bank, bondholder, capital market and banking clients with finance, investment, joint venture, and mergers and acquisitions-related transactions. He also has significant experience in insolvency matters, representing bondholders, investments funds, and other institutional and private investors and creditors in significant Chapter 11 reorganizations. In addition, he advises clients in formal and out-of-court restructurings involving evaluation, negotiation and the documentation of financial transactions.
In the energy finance area, he assists bondholders, financiers and sponsors on large energy construction, operation, and capital markets financing and acquisition transactions involving private, public and independent power producers.
Prior to law school, Mr. Christian served a Lieutenant and Naval Aviator in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles. He is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
Brian T. Daigle advises clients on transactional global finance matters. His practice is primarily focused on various secured and unsecured lending transactions. Mr. Daigle earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2004 and his B.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. He is admitted to practice in California and New York.
Marc D. Rabinovitz works on all aspects of transactional global finance. He focuses primarily on both secured and unsecured lending transactions. Prior to private practice, Mr. Rabinovitz was a consultant providing research assistance to partners advising arbitrageurs on the likelihood of antitrust clearance of mergers and acquisitions subject to regulatory review by competition authorities in the United States and Europe. He earned his J.D., Order of the Coif, in 2005 from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and his B.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins University in 2000.
