Reed Smith Adds Corporate Practice Partner in New York
Reed Smith announced that Jared Kelly has joined as a partner in the firm’s Global Corporate Group in New York.
Kelly formerly was with White & Case LLP.
Kelly is the seventh partner to join the Global Corporate Group since May, when Reed Smith opened its office in Dallas with three corporate partners.
In a release, the firm said Kelly focuses his practice on corporate finance transactions, including equity securities offerings, traditional bank finance and high yield bond issuances. He represents companies in the energy, fintech, media and manufacturing industries on securities issuances, SEC disclosure issues, corporate governance matters and exchange listing compliance. He has advised companies on corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, and represented borrowers and private equity sponsors on leveraged finance acquisitions, spin-offs, carve-outs and various debt financings.
Kelly began his legal career at Ballard Spahr LLP, before moving to Kirkland & Ellis, LLP in 2014. He received his BS, magna cum laude, in economics and political science from Florida State University, and his J.D. and LL.M. in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Other recent additions to the Global Corporate Group in New York include Tadaski Okamoto, who joined from Morrison & Foerster on Oct. 8, and Sandy K. Feldman who joined on Oct. 23 from K&L Gates. Chauncey Lane joined the practice on November 7 in Dallas from Husch Blackwell. The launch of the firm’s newest office in Dallas in May included Bobby Majumder, Ryan J. Preston and Lynwood E. (Lyn) Reinhardt in the Global Corporate Group, all of whom joined from Perkins Coie.
