Charles J. Kolin and David J. LaSota joined Greenberg Traurig LLP 's Chicago office as shareholders in the corporate and securities practice. They were partners with Chapman and Cutler LLP. Also, Ameer I. Ahmad joined the Chicago office as a shareholder in the corporate and securities practice. Ahmad was a partner with DLA Piper. He covers mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and general corporate governance.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP appointed five new associates as the firm expands its Boston legal service offerings in the areas of Business Reorganization & Financial Restructuring, Corporate & Securities, Intellectual Property, and Litigation. Erin E. Hayes focuses her practice on litigation and white collar criminal defense matters. She represents businesses, financial institutions and individuals in state and federal court litigations, investigations, and government enforcement actions involving the federal securities laws, state blue sky laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act. Jonathan Z. Lin focuses his practice on the strategic creation, protection, and transfer of intellectual property rights for high technology and life science clients. Prior to joining the firm, Lin was a technology specialist and associate with the Intellectual Property Practice of a Boston-based multidisciplinary firm. Endicott (Kit) Peabody focuses his practice on representing commercial banks, other major lending institutions, private equity firms and public and private companies in structuring, documenting and negotiating secured, unsecured and multi-tranche financing transactions, real estate transactions, problem loan restructurings, loan workouts, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings, and mergers and acquisitions. Tatyana Rozenberg focuses her practice on corporate, securities and finance matters. Rozenberg represents private and public companies in the financial services, health care, technology and banking industries focusing on compliance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Fang Xie, Ph.D., focuses her practice on developing and maintaining clients' intellectual property rights both in the U.S. and abroad. Her technical areas include synthetic biology, antibodies and biologics, cancer therapeutics, stem cells, pharmaceuticals, as well as medical devices. Fang also regularly counsels clients on licensing, research agreement, due diligence and freedom-to-operate matters. This announcement follows the February 27, 2013 notice that John J. Griffin, Jr. joined the Boston office as of counsel in the firm's Global Real Estate Practice. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Griffin was most recently a partner with Edwards Wildman.

Alico Inc. announced that the Special Committee of its Board of Directors has engaged Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. to act as its financial advisor and Greenberg Traurig, P.A. to act as its legal counsel to assist and advise the Special Committee with respect to pursuing potential strategic and financial transaction alternatives, including merger, business combination and sale transactions involving Alico.