Features July 2023

Searching for the right partner can be a competitive pursuit. How much more favorable the odds can be when one harnesses Match Group’s global portfolio of online dating brands including Tinder, Match, Hinge and OkCupid, which have been helping people all over the world make meaningful connections for over 20 years. Yet Match Group faces […]

Justin Zamparelli has seen the Run for the Roses in Louisville, Kentucky, and the race for the America’s Cup in the waters off Bermuda.  While it’s true he has an enthusiastic spirit when it comes to sports, attending two of the most venerable sporting events in the world (which are 150 years old and 172 […]

Cadence Bank has come a long way since it was founded in 1876 inside the Raymond Trice and Co. store in Verona, Mississippi.  For the past 12 years, Raja Khalaf, a senior vice president and assistant general counsel, has seen and helped guide the bank’s growth to operations in nine Southeastern states.   Cadence Bank’s growth […]

Fun, animated or unique mascots, more coverage for lower costs or 24-hour live customer service. Different insurance companies market their services in various ways to appeal to customers—and, as Tony Van Eck has learned after over 26 years in the insurance industry, bigger does not always mean better.   In fact, his current employer, Great Northwest […]

When Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of live international business transactions were thrown into limbo. And some of those involved International Materials (IMI), a commodity trading company that sources and ships raw materials worldwide, primarily serving the cement, wallboard and steel industries.  The war made Kellyn Muller’s job more complex. As general counsel of the trading […]

Leading the legal charge in the mortgage industry was never in Shannon Leight’s initial career plans, but in March she found herself sealing the deal for one of the industry’s largest retail acquisitions in the past decade.   Leight, a 2001 Widener University School of Law graduate, had early interests in criminal defense and First Amendment […]

As the number of violent incidents at public schools has increased over the past decade, many states, counties and districts have taken steps to avoid such tragic events.  The devastating 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led to the Florida Legislature passing and the governor signing a public safety act. Through this, the […]

Jennifer Liotta enjoyed helping companies and organizations take flight well before she joined Volato, a private aviation company founded in 2021.  In fact, she and her husband, Volato co-founder and CEO Matt Liotta, once transformed an aircraft maintenance shop into a flight school in St. Augustine, Florida. As vice president of legal, Liotta is helping […]

The semiconductor industry is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030 with Entegris standing to reap more benefits as a supplier of the sophisticated materials necessary to support electronic equipment and devices.  All the more reason for this Massachusetts-headquartered multinational to protect its intellectual properties, says Erika Singleton, whose vigilance on that front Entegris retained […]

Mosmi Bhakta grew up around the hospitality sector—her parents owned and operated hotels when she was a child—but it wasn’t until she was in her twenties and working as a catering coordinator at an events center in California that she realized she could marry her background in hospitality with her interest in law.  “I kind […]