Sheppard Mullin Lures Seven-Attorney Real Estate Group from Venable

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NEW YORK CITY— Seven attorneys have left Venable to join Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton’s real estate, land use and environmental practice group in New York beginning Monday, October 29.

The new hires were quite a coup for Sheppard Mullin as the team includes Peter G. Koffler, formerly chair of Venable’s New York real estate practice group and vice chair of the firm’s national practice, and two other partners Brian N. Gurtman and Ross A. Honig; special counsel Julia Geykhman, Robert J. Gorzelany and Lee Weiss; and associate Jared Wachtler. All of the attorneys came from the New York office. Venable still lists 78 real estate attorneys in the practice group, with 12 of them in the New York office.