Mayer Brown Litigation Co-Head Krakoff Is Leaving to Join BuckleySandler
BuckleySandler LLP, a 90-attorney law firm in Washington, hired David S. Krakoff, the former co- leader of the litigation practice at Mayer Brown LLP.
Krakoff and another former Mayer Brown partner, Christopher Regan, are joining as partners and will specialize in financial- services enforcement, BuckleySandler said today in a statement.
“From the day we started the new firm in March 2009, our intention was to have a full-service financial-services boutique,” Andrew Sandler, BuckleySandler’s co-chairman, said in a telephone interview. “This completes the enforcement side of our practice.”
BuckleySandler was formed by the merger of Buckley Kolar LLP and a group of 15 lawyers led by Sandler, a former partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
The firm has almost doubled in size since then. In June 2009, it hired the former general counsel of General Electric Co.’s GE Money Americas unit, and in February it brought on the former co-head of the government enforcement practice group at Ropes & Gray LLP.
BuckleySandler handles commercial litigation, regulatory and enforcement work for banks, credit-card companies, mortgage issuers and mortgage servicers. Clients include Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and American Express Co., Sandler said.
“We thank them for their contribution to the firm and wish them well,” a Mayer Brown spokeswoman, Aimee Jasculca, said in an e-mailed statement.
To contact the reporter on this story: Carlyn Kolker in New York at ckolker@bloomberg.net.
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