Pillsbury Opens Miami Office with Six Boies Schiller Hires

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has hired four partners and two special counsel attorneys from Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP to launch the firm’s first office in Miami, Florida, its 21st worldwide.

Partner Jennifer Altman, who will serve as managing partner of the new Miami office, will be joined by partner Shani Rivaux and senior counsel Aryeh Kaplan in Pillsbury’s litigation group.

Partners Michael Kosnitzky and Keith Blum, along with special counsel Ivan Mitev, join as part of the firm’s tax practice.

Mitev works in New York, and Kosnitzky will split time between New York and Miami, while the others ...