Ice Miller Adds Pair Of Business Law Partners In Chicago
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Legislation360 (August 26, 2021, 4:10 PM EDT) —
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| Yankun Guo |
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Indianapolis firm Ice Miller LLP has announced that it’s added a pair of skilled company legislation attorneys as partners in its Chicago place of work.
Yankun Guo joined Ice Miller on Tuesday right after a stint with boutique firm Goldstein & McClintock, when Mark Kromkowski begun previous month adhering to 14 many years with McGuireWoods.
Kromkowski instructed Law360 on Thursday that he selected to join the company since of his prior encounter with the founders of the Chicago business and their motivation to give middle-marketplace personal equity purchasers the very same degree of services as a larger sized business although still remaining cost-effective.
“I understood lots of of the associates who started out the Chicago place of work and the style of get the job done that Ice Miller was executing in non-public fairness,” he explained. “The capacity to have a lot of huge company associates who made the decision that inside of the middle sector, there is a will need for huge agency expertise at regional price ranges was one thing that drew me to Ice Miller and assisted me make the determination to sign up for and help develop out the non-public equity apply in Chicago and on a nationwide stage.”
Equally, Guo said she had also spoken with people today at the company and that she was impressed by the abilities and talent of its lawyers. She also mentioned the firm’s perseverance to the Chicago region as a motive driving her decision to shift to Ice Miller.
“I assume that the firm has identified the incredible possibilities increasing in Chicago, primarily in the emerging business and undertaking capital space,” she stated. “The agency has been increasing my practice, so it was a really interesting opportunity to join.”
Guo also pointed out Ice Miller’s perseverance to range and inclusion, saying that was a little something that affected her selection to be part of the organization.
“I have only been at the organization for 3 times but previously, a great deal of individuals have proactively arrived at out not just to know me, but also to point out that diversity is something that they treatment about, to endorse more gals to the partnership and raise a minority existence in the organization in general,” she said.
Kromkowski, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Legislation School, has used around 20 a long time representing center-industry personal equity companies in fund formation, regulatory compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. Though at McGuireWoods, he chaired the firm’s fund formation and modest business enterprise investment decision business observe team.
Guo, who graduated from the College of Illinois Chicago School of Law, provides a corporate follow targeted on representing startups, venture cash firms and Fortune 500 firms in a variety of places relating to cryptocurrencies, emerging technologies, fund formation, venture financing and company compliance.
“Mark and Yankun’s encounter [is] an asset to our staff and our customers and they deepen our bench in these significant-expansion apply regions,” business enterprise legislation chair Michael Millikan said in a statement. “It is crucial to continuously increase our expert services, and we are proud to have Mark’s particular skillset to give as a welcome addition to our Company Group.”
Alongside with the new hires in Chicago, Ice Miller extra 5 community affairs personnel to its Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., workplaces, together with directors Greg Stowers and Melissa Borom and lover Jarrod Loadholt, in accordance to the agency. Ice Miller has about 340 attorneys and pros in seven workplaces, like New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis.
–Editing by Steven Edelstone.

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