Highly Regarded Litigation Team Joins Dorsey in New York

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 28, 2025--

Four litigation attorneys have joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the Commercial Litigation group in New York, the international law firm announced today. Jeremy Deutsch, Christian Cangiano, and Elliot Coz join Dorsey as partners, while Christopher Paolino joins as of counsel. All four attorneys join Dorsey from Cozen O’Connor in New York.

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“This group’s deep portfolio of litigation success stands out in our industry,” said Peter Nelson, Managing Partner for Dorsey. “They will be invaluable additions to Dorsey and to our growing presence in New York, and we are thrilled to welcome them to the Firm.”

“The new group adds tremendous bench strength to the New York trial group,” added Greg Tamkin, Co-head of Dorsey’s Trial Group. “They handle highly sophisticated, complex business disputes in both state and federal courts around the country.”

Jeremy Deutsch brings extensive experience in business law, including conducting complex corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration as well as transactional work and day-to-day legal counseling. Jeremy has handled cases involving large frauds, breaches of fiduciary duty, complex financial instrument and securities litigation, real estate lending, and more. He has experience in cross-border litigation in the United States, Canada, and England. He has been lead trial counsel in U.S. federal courts, New York state and other state courts, and private dispute resolution in the American Arbitration Association, FINRA, JAMS, and the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration. Jeremy’s corporate practice embraces all areas of corporate transactional and advisory roles. In transactional work, he has represented clients in mergers and acquisitions, sales and leases, employment agreements and terminations, and all manner of commercial transactions. In advisory work, he acts as general counsel to several businesses, and he counsels businesses on corporate relationship creation and architecture, corporate governance, and counseling on day-to-day business issues. Jeremy received his J.D. from Tulane University Law School, his M.B.A. from Yale School of Management, and his B.A. from Brandeis University.

Christian Cangiano focuses his practice on complex corporate and commercial litigation, arbitration, and appellate matters. Chris’ practice emphasizes corporate, partnership, and business disputes; contract disputes; post-merger and post-acquisition disputes; and professional liability. He represents companies in a broad range of industries including hospitality, technology, financial services, and real estate. In addition to litigation, Chris counsels and advises on proposed business transactions, entity formations and structures, contractual obligations, trademark law, copyright law, and other transactional matters. Chris received his J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law and his B.A. from Binghamton University.

Elliot Coz concentrates his practice on corporate, commercial, and real property litigation. Elliot has represented clients in all phases of complex litigation in federal and state courts as well as mediations and domestic and international arbitrations involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, corporate governance issues, board election disputes, construction disputes, residential and commercial real property disputes, civil rights issues, defamation, employment agreement disputes, and EB-5 litigation. He has also represented clients before administrative agencies and New York City community boards. Elliot received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

Christopher Paolino focuses his practice on complex corporate and commercial litigation, arbitration, and appeals. Chris’ practice emphasizes corporate, partnership, business disputes, contract disputes, and post-merger and post-acquisition disputes. He handles cases involving securities, financial services, debt service, EB-5 funding, real estate, construction, employment, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, oil and gas, and usury law. Chris has represented clients in all phases of litigation in federal and state courts, as well as all phases of arbitration. Chris received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, his M.B.A. from Fordham Gabelli School of Business, and his B.S. from Fordham University.

“Dorsey’s robust transactional platform, combined with a nationally recognized commercial litigation practice, attracted us to Dorsey,” said Jeremy Deutsch. “The firm also has an excellent track record in cross-border litigation, which is another draw for us. We look forward to contributing to Dorsey’s outstanding teams and to providing the highest level of representation to our clients.”

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Attorney Christopher Paolino has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the Commercial Litigation group in New York.

Partner Elliot Coz has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the Commercial Litigation group in New York.

Partner Christian Cangiano has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the Commercial Litigation group in New York.

Partner Jeremy Deutsch has joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP in the Commercial Litigation group in New York.

AL HENAKIYAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Ricky Brabec deliberately gave up his motorbike lead over Luciano Benavides in the Dakar Rally while Nasser Al-Attiyah was happy to cruise through another day closer to his sixth car title on Thursday.

Al-Attiyah started 346-kilometer stage 11 between Bisha north to Al Henakiyah with a 12-minute overall lead and let it drop to less than nine minutes over new second-placed driver Nani Roma in a Ford.

Al-Attiyah was content to let Dacia teammate Sébastien Loeb catch up and pass him to have a teammate nearby for any help and to minimize errors on the mazy, dirt track. Al-Attiyah was 17th, nearly 13 minutes behind stage winner Mattias Ekström, and said he needed to execute the same plan on Friday's last effective racing stage before the end on Saturday.

“If we lose two, three, four minutes no problem,” Al-Attiyah said. “We just need to finish this Dakar in first place.”

Honda cooked up a strategy in the Saudi desert for Adrien van Beveren to open the way and let Brabec catch up after the 190-kilometer pit stop and pick up time bonuses.

Brabec boosted his overall lead from 56 seconds to nearly four minutes just 25 kilometers from the finish. He was also within a minute of the stage lead but he slowed down so KTM rival Benavides was the new overall leader, but only by 23 seconds.

Brabec got his his wish to start Friday's stage 12 six minutes behind Benavides, so he can eye him. They head west to the rally starting point of Yanbu on the Red Sea coast on 311 kilometers of gravel, some river beds with a finish in the dunes.

“A little bit of strategy today and hopefully it pays off tomorrow,” Brabec said. "I feel like its going to be a good day. We’re going back into the rocks so it will be a little bit better for us.”

Brabec is counting on his experience of winning the Dakar in 2020 and 2024 to trump Benavides, who has a best placing of fourth last year.

“I've been in this situation before,” Brabec said. “For the whole two weeks I've been just trying to stay relax, stay comfortable and just be confident, so two days more. I'm gonna do the same thing tomorrow that I've been doing every day; ride dirt bikes and have fun.”

Van Beveren helped Brabec with navigation while fighting with another teammate, Skyler Howes, the entire day for the stage win.

Howes prevailed by 21 seconds for his first career major stage in his eighth Dakar. He was third in 2023 and sixth last year. He's running fifth, 34 minutes off the pace.

Benavides was fourth in the stage and believed the race will be decided on the final 105-kilometer sprint on Saturday.

“I played no strategy like Ricky. I don't care,” Benavides said. “I'm doing what I can to control what I can control.”

Ekström won his third car stage of this Dakar, a special so fast that 12 other drivers were within 10 minutes.

Ford achieved another 1-2-3 stage. Romain Dumas, a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, was a career-best second just over a minute back and Carlos Sainz was third.

Only Toyota's Henk Lategan beat Ekström to a checkpoint but Lategan's podium hopes were wrecked after 140 kilometers when a bearing broke on his rear left wheel. Lategan was second last year and second overall overnight but he plunged out of the top 15, at least.

Loeb moved up to third overall, 10 minutes behind Roma and three minutes ahead of Ekström.

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Rider Daniel Sanders competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Fabian Lurquin compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Rider Skyler Howes competes during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Henk Lategan, left, and co-driver Brett Cummings repair their car during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Driver Nani Roma and co-driver Alex Haro compete during the eleventh stage of the Dakar Rally between Bisha and Al Henakiyah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)