Charlotte

Alston & Bird client Regional Management Corp., a diversified consumer finance company, has closed its ninth securitization, a private offering of $200 million of asset-backed notes.

Alston & Bird has achieved Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certification, a rigorous, year-long certification program that aims to boost and sustain diversity in law firm leadership.

Alston & Bird is pleased to announce that a deal the firm was involved in has been recognized by The Deal Awards 2022 as the “Most Outstanding Deal of the Year.” This award recognizes “transactions that were first movers in their markets, overcame overwhelming obstacles, set the tone for a market, or laid a template for future transactions.”

Alston & Bird’s Zack Higbee and Dan O'Connor, senior associates in the firm’s Intellectual Property Group, have been named “2022 Rising Stars” by Managing Intellectual Property, which recognizes up-and-coming intellectual property practitioners in private practice.

For the fifth consecutive year, Alston & Bird has been recognized by Patexia Inc. as a market leader representing both petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.

Alston & Bird client Said Differently, a global marketing agency, has received a platform investment by Falfurrias Capital Partners, a Charlotte-based private equity investment firm. The deal is the fourth investment from Falfurrias’ oversubscribed, $850 million Fund V and closed on August 19, 2022.