Goodwin lawyers James Ding, Lynette Elam, and Peter Hanoian have been announced as Law360 Rising Stars for 2024. Ding was selected in the Technology category, Elam was selected in the Fund Formation category, and Hanoian was selected in the Healthcare category. Winners were chosen based on their recent achievements, overall body of work, and potential for future success in their respective disciplines.
Ding is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups who focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, activist defense, and general corporate matters. He has extensive experience representing public and private acquirers and target companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, and across the technology, life sciences, industrials, financial services, and additional industries.
A former schoolteacher, Ding serves on the board of trustees of Merrick Academy, a charter school in Queens, New York, and the board of directors of 82nd Street Academics, a non-profit educational agency also in Queens, New York.
Elam is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group and Private Investment Funds practice, where she advises and represents clients with respect to all aspects of the structuring and operation of private funds across asset classes, with a primary focus on private equity. She has significant experience working with funds operating and raising capital in different geographies including the US/North America, Europe, and Latin America, and she is regularly involved in a variety of projects across the fundraising spectrum.
Beyond her practice, Elam is a member of the Hiring Committee for Goodwin’s Boston office. She has also been recommended by The Legal 500 USA for Private Equity Funds (including venture capital).
Hanoian, a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group, advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity investments, strategic transactions, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. He also advises management teams and operating executives in sale transactions, as well as search fund entrepreneurs throughout the life cycle of their search fund.
Hanoian is a member of the working group of the American Bar Association on M&A Market Trends that produces the Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study. He also serves as outside counsel to Adolescent Health Champions, a non-profit public health peer education non-governmental organization, and is active in Goodwin’s Neighborhood Business Initiative.