Crowell & Moring’s Jenny Cieplak and Ilana Lubin Recognized as Winners of The M&A Advisor’s 8th Annual "Emerging Leaders Award"

Washington – July 14, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that counsel Jenny E. Cieplak and Ilana Lubin have been recognized as “Emerging Leaders” by The M&A Advisor. The award recognizes professionals under the age of 40 who have reached a significant level of success in deal-making, restructuring, and financing, and have made notable contributions to their industry and community. Cieplak and Lubin were selected by an independent panel of judges.

Cieplak, a Washington-based counsel in the firm’s Corporate Group, helps lead the firm’s blockchain and distributed ledger technology initiative. Her practice primarily involves mergers and acquisitions, complex joint ventures, consortiums and strategic alliances, venture capital and private equity investments, and corporate finance. Cieplak is also experienced in drafting a wide-range of commercial agreements, including intellectual property licenses and commercial distribution agreements. 

While Cieplak has advised clients in a wide range of business sectors, her practice focuses on FinTech and the financial services industry, including participants in and vendors to that industry. Her experience includes work on the creation, governance and sale of electronic trading platforms, exchanges, swap execution facilities, clearinghouses, and data repositories. Cieplak also advises clients on commodities law, particularly in relation to regulation of swap dealers, major swap participants, and swap transactions generally. In particular, Cieplak counsels clients on the implementation of new technologies such as blockchain and distributed ledgers, and the development of innovative products such as virtual currencies and blockchain-based assets.  

Lubin, a New York-based counsel in the firm’s Corporate Group, frequently represents clients in the apparel, fashion, retail, luxury, and beauty sectors regarding cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity investments. She also routinely drafts and negotiates intellectual property licensing and other general corporate and commercial transactions, and she has experience working in-house across business units, including in connection with global merger and acquisition and licensing activity. Lubin’s background includes the representation of a variety of companies from inception, including advisement with respect to matters relating to formation and structuring, equity and debt financing, employment, and commercial leasing. 

The winners will be recognized at a gala in New York on September 19. To view the complete list of this year Emerging Leaders Award Winners, click here. The M&A Advisor is a global think tank and leadership organization for M&A, restructuring, and corporate finance professionals.

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Crowell & Moring’s Corporate Group is an interdisciplinary team of corporate and regulatory lawyers that offers a full-service corporate practice with an emphasis on M&A, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, corporate securities and finance and complex outsourcing, IP and commercial arrangements. The group works with large international and domestic public companies, mid-sized and emerging businesses, privately held firms, private equity sponsors and hedge funds, investment firms, and high net-worth individuals across a wide range of industries. It is adept at operating in industries such as healthcare, defense and other government contracts, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, retail/consumer goods, energy, life sciences, and high tech.

About Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring LLP is an international law firm with approximately 500 lawyers representing clients in litigation and arbitration, regulatory, and transactional matters. The firm is internationally recognized for its representation of Fortune 500 companies in high-stakes litigation, as well as its ongoing commitment to pro bono service and diversity. The firm has offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County, London, and Brussels.