Snell & Wilmer Welcomes Partner Serge Pavluk to Corporate & Securities Practice

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Oct. 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce the addition of Serge Pavluk as a partner in the corporate and securities practice group in the Orange County and Los Angeles offices. Pavluk was recently admitted to the California State Bar after joining Snell & Wilmer earlier this year from the Miami-based full service commercial law firm, Bilzin Sumberg, where he was a partner in the corporate and securities department. Pavluk is the third partner to join Snell & Wilmer’s Southern California corporate and securities practice this year following Joshua Schneiderman’s election to the partnership in January and the addition of James Thompson to the firm in August.

Pavluk focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate and securities transactions representing both public and private companies in such industries as real estate development (including REITs), television, publishing and broadcasting, banking, construction, financial services, online trading, technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, software, brokerage, storage, cable and restaurant business. He has experience in managing, structuring, negotiating and documenting complex mergers, tender offers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, private and public securities offerings, commercial lending and financing transactions, joint ventures, private equity investments, periodic reporting by public companies in connection with the 1934 Act requirements, corporate governance, as well as business entity structuring and formation of limited liability companies, joint ventures and partnerships.

Pavluk has particular experience in complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Having grown up in Ukraine, Pavluk is fluent in Russian and earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Keiv. After moving to the U.S., Pavluk earned his J.D. from Fordham University of Law in 2001. Prior to joining Bilzin Sumberg in 2004, he worked for the New York office of Clifford Chance US LLP. Pavluk is admitted to practice law in New York and Florida in addition to California. To read more about Pavluk's practice visit http://www.swlaw.com/attorneys/serge_pavluk.

About Snell & Wilmer

Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 400 attorneys practicing in nine locations throughout the western United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles and Orange County, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit www.swlaw.com.