National law firm Akerman LLP with 24 U.S. offices expanded its largest office, New York, and its global reach with corporate partner Michael Doherty.

"Michael's arrival demonstrates our commitment to growing our cross-border capabilities for our domestic and international clients who continue to pursue deals in today's global market," said Corporate Practice Group Chair Jonathan Awner. "Michael is an experienced lawyer with a proven M&A track record and strong relationships with key stakeholders in the Japanese market."

Doherty focuses his practice on the representation of Japanese industrial, trading, and service companies and their foreign affiliates, as well as other international and U.S. companies, in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, patent, technology and intellectual property licensing, and other corporate and commercial transactions. Doherty represents clients in a wide range of industries, including technology, energy, mining, metals, chemicals, electronics, media, consumer products, life sciences, telecommunications, and real estate. 

Doherty joins the Corporate Practice Group during a time of significant growth. Since 2022, the team also welcomed partners Cristina Gonzalez and Bryan Reese in New York, Jonathan Beckham in Atlanta, Will Walker and Michael Fulks in Winston-Salem, Peter Hurm in Los Angeles, Marc Adesso in Austin, and David Thompson in Houston. Akerman also welcomed Phillip Slinkard as of counsel in Austin and 15 corporate associates across the United States. 

Akerman's New York office, led by co-office managing partners Alan S. Cohen and Matthew A. Steinberg, includes a multidisciplinary team of more than 120 lawyers with litigation and transactional experience in financial services, land use and real estate, M&A and private equity, labor and employment, healthcare, hospitality, intellectual property, retail, restaurants, bankruptcy and reorganization, tax, and trusts and estates matters.

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