Seven Holland & Knight Attorneys in South Florida Named Top Dealmakers by Miami Daily Business Review
April 20, 2007
Holland & Knight takes three of four finalists for Mergers and Acquisitions category.
Five attorneys named in Holland & Knight's South Florida Public Companies Group.
MIAMI – Holland & Knight announced today that seven of the firm’s attorneys in South Florida were recognized as either ‘winners’ or ‘finalists’ for the Daily Business Review’s “Top Dealmaker of the Year.”
According to the publication, the editors strive to ‘recognize the people who made the biggest, most complex and meaningful deals happen.’
Winning the Mergers & Acquisitions category, one of the survey’s most competitive, was Steven Sonberg for his work on the Kos Pharmaceuticals sale to Abbott Labs. Steve leads Holland & Knight's business law section and is a member of the firm's South Florida Public Companies & Securities Group.
Winning in the Residential category was William Bloom for his work with MCZ/Centrum in its purchase of the Flamingo apartments in Miami Beach. Bill is part of the firm's Real Estate Group.
The other lawyers from Holland & Knight named as Top Dealmakers were:
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Jose Sirven in the highly competitive International category, for his work with a complex acquisition of Digitel, a Venezuelan mobile phone company.
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Kara MacCullough and Esther Moreno in the M&A category for their work involving the acquisition of AAT Communications Corporation by SBA Communications Corporation. Kara and Esther are also part of the firm's South Florida Public Companies & Securities Group and have together worked on more than $5 billion in deals in the last three years.
- Rodney Bell and Tammy Knight also in the M&A category, for their work involving the sale of Lakeland-based Watkins Motor Lines to Memphis-based FedEx. Rod and Tammy, both of whom were also recognized as a Most Effective Lawyer by the Daily Business Review in 2006, and who are also part of the firm's South Florida Public Companies & Securities Group, have worked on more than $6 billion of deals in the last two years.
"These remarkable recognitions are indicative of the level of service and commitment that we provide for our clients,” said Managing Partner Howell Melton. “Our attorneys are some of the best in the business and certainly the best in the state of Florida. We are delighted to share in this honor with each of them.”
“That our South Florida lawyers took three of the four Mergers & Acquisition awards reflects the strength and depth of talent in our South Florida Public Company & Securities Group. Our South Florida transactional lawyers have been unbelievably active over the last 24 months and they are getting tapped for more and more of the biggest and most complex deals in Florida and Latin America,” said Robert Grammig, National Chair of the Public Companies and Securities Practice. “The recognition of so many of our lawyers as Top Dealmakers is consistent with the leading position of our firm in South Florida. We are delighted to share in this honor with each of them.”
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