Summary: Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani is leaving Bracewell & Giuliani to join Greenberg Traurig as a senior advisor and global chair, Big Law Business reports.
The former mayor of New York City is leaving his law firm to join international law firm Greenberg Traurig, Big Law Business reports. Rudolph Giuliani will be the global chair of the cybersecurity and crisis management practice at Greenberg Traurig as well as a senior advisor to executive chairman Richard Rosenbaum.
Giuliani is leaving Bracewell & Giuliani, the firm he helped found in 2005. He served as the New York City mayor from 1994 to 2001 and worked as a prosecutor and private defense attorney before that. In 1981, he was named by the Reagan Administration as the U.S. Associate Attorney General, which is the third-highest-ranking position in the Justice Department. By 1983, he was named the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York where he prosecuted Wall Street executives Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky for violating U.S. securities law.
Marc Mukasey will accompany Giuliani to Greenberg Traurig where he will be the global co-chair of the white collar defense practice. He has previously served as deputy chief appellate attorney and unit chief for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Bracewell released a statement that Giuliani was leaving “by amicable agreement.” The firm will drop his name and be referred to as Bracewell from now on.
Source: https://bol.bna.com/rudy-giuliani-joins-greenberg-traurig/
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