(June 27, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA) – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Reed Smith LLP, a top 20 international law firm, has announced that Daniel L. Wessels will become a partner in its Corporate & Securities Practice Group in Pittsburgh, effective July 1.
Mr. Wessels rejoins Reed Smith from Cohen & Grigsby, PC, Pittsburgh, where he served as a director, shareholder and the firm’s secretary. For several years, he also served as chair of that firm’s Business Law Practice Group.
“Dan was a very highly regarded lawyer at Reed Smith from 1980 until 1988,” said Carolyn Duronio, Reed Smith’s Market Managing Partner in Pittsburgh. “We are delighted he is returning to the firm, bringing not only a wealth of practice knowledge but a depth of experience in business and finance matters that will be extremely valuable to us firmwide.”
Mr. Wessels’ primary practice areas are corporate law, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He has served as lead issuer’s counsel on several initial public offerings, other registered public offerings and many securities private placements, as well as lead counsel on acquisitions and dispositions of public and private corporations.
In returning to Reed Smith, Mr. Wessels joins an active corporate practice that has grown both in the U.S. and internationally in recent years. In Pittsburgh, Reed Smith has recently been ranked as the number one corporate law firm by Corporate Board Member Magazine.
“Dan has an outstanding reputation and high visibility in Pittsburgh’s corporate, legal and social communities,” said David L. DeNinno, Head of the firm’s Business & Regulatory Department. “We are very excited about Dan rejoining Reed Smith. He will be an excellent addition to our practice.”
“Reed Smith provides a dynamic national and international platform with far reaching resources to serve its clients,” Mr. Wessels said. “I can’t think of any place I’d rather be, given the impressive expansion the firm has achieved over the past five years. I am looking forward to working with many attorneys who were former colleagues, as well as to forging new relationships within a vastly expanded practice base.”
A 1980 graduate of Harvard University Law School, Mr.Wessels also lectures on securities and mergers and acquisitions matters, including insider trading, securities exemptions and acquisition planning. He is an adjunct Professor at Duquesne University’s John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business, teaching Securities Regulation and Corporation Law. In addition, he has authored several works on diverse legal topics, including third party beneficiaries of M & A agreements; the Sarbanes-Oxley law and derivatives.
