(February 5, 2014, US and UK) – Reed Smith LLP today announced three of its partners are among the BTI Client Service All-Stars 2014. Earning the prestigious recognition are Michael K. Brown, Los Angeles; Craig R. Enochs, Houston; and Georgia M. Quenby, London.
“We are proud that Reed Smith clients among the in-house counsel surveyed by BTI Consulting Group singled out Michael, Craig and Georgia for this signal honor this year,” said Sandy Thomas, Reed Smith’s Global Managing Partner. “These lawyers exemplify this firm’s uncommon commitment to developing long-term client relationships by delivering quality service and value.”
Mr. Brown is the former chair of Reed Smith’s multidisciplinary Life Sciences Health Industry Group. His litigation and trial practice focuses on complex product liability and commercial matters, including class actions, multi-district litigations, mass torts, and claims for unfair competition and false advertising under state consumer protection statutes. His clients include, among others, Medtronic, Inc., C.R. Bard Inc., Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co. Inc., Eli Lilly and Company, and GlaxoSmithKline, Inc.
Mr. Enochs represents clients in commodity and derivative transactions with a focus on wholesale and retail energy transactions, including contract structures and risks and credit arrangements in wholesale and retail transactions. His experience includes structuring and negotiating highly structured custom agreements as well as standardized energy commodity master agreements and supporting documents in Canada and in the United States. Among his clients are retail energy suppliers and the banks and energy companies that provide credit and wholesale gas and electricity to the retail energy providers.
Ms. Quenby is the London-based head of Reed Smith's asset-based lending group and the head of the firm’s restructuring group for Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Her practice focuses on asset-based lending, restructuring, refinancing, funding for turnarounds and acquisitions and vendor finance, with particular experience in the oil and gas, retail, manufacturing, automotive, insurance and real estate sectors. Her clients include all classes of investors including banks, hedge funds, asset managers, quasi-PE funds and the investee companies themselves.
According to BTI Consulting Group, “The BTI Client Service All-Stars are an elite group of attorneys recognized by clients for client service excellence. Drawn exclusively from BTI’s Annual Survey of In-House Counsel, the BTI Client Service All-Stars are singled out as part of more than 300 one-on-one interviews with General Counsel and direct reports at large and Fortune 1000 organizations. The only way to earn a spot among the BTI Client Service All-Stars is to be nominated, by name, by a client during the course of these independent interviews.” The 2014 report names 330 lawyers from 187 firms in North America and Europe as “All-Stars.”
About Reed Smith
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