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Alston & Bird has boosted its Finance Group and Structured & Warehouse Finance Team by adding partner Boong-Kyu (B.K.) Lee in New York. B.K. focuses his practice on advising issuers, underwriters, and financial institutions on a wide range of structured finance transactions, including public and private securitizations across key asset classes.

Alston & Bird is profiled for its leadership in structured finance, and Andrew Petersen is noted as a new finance partner in the firm’s London office while Katrina Llanes is mentioned for joining as a finance partner in New York.

In a strategic decision to expand its European practice, Alston & Bird has opened a London office on the strength of its growing finance and payments practices. The office supports the firm’s finance and payments industry clients doing business in the U.K. and across Europe, as well as local investors and clients transacting business in the United States.

Alston & Bird has been recognized as one of the nation’s top law firms in the 2019 edition of U.S. News-Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms.”

One hundred and eighty-one Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. The lawyers span the firm’s nine U.S. offices and represent more than 60 practice areas.