Olshan Announces Counsel Elevations
New York, December 16, 2025 – Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP is pleased to announce that Ian A. Engoron and Richard M. Quatrano have been elevated to counsel at the firm. Engoron works in the firm’s Shareholder Activism Practice, while Quatrano is based in the firm’s Corporate/Securities Group. The new positions are effective as of January 1, 2026.
“We congratulate Ian and Richard on their elevations and outstanding service and guidance to clients in complex legal matters,” said Olshan Co-Managing Partners Nina M. Roket and Andrew Freedman. “These well-deserved recognitions reflect these attorneys’ dedication to responsive, results-driven work and exceptional client service, and we look forward to their continued contributions at the firm.”
Ian A. Engoron will be a counsel in the firm’s Shareholder Activism Practice, where he advises activist investors through high-stakes, fast-moving campaigns. His diligence, strategic clarity and understanding of the multifaceted considerations relevant to activist investors are evident as he has played a significant role in a wide range of successful engagements, spanning proxy contests, consent solicitations, settlement negotiations, withhold campaigns, private and public letter-writing efforts and discreet engagements with management teams and boards of directors. Engoron’s practice also includes advising on Schedule 13D and Section 16 filings, mergers and acquisitions, hostile takeovers, shareholder rights and corporate governance issues. Engoron received his J.D. from Fordham University, where he served as the symposium editor of the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, and his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Richard M. Quatrano will be a counsel in the Corporate/Securities Law Practice and is well-versed in handling a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactional matters from inception to close for middle-market companies, startups and individuals from throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities and general commercial matters. Quatrano regularly represents clients in middle-market M&A transactions valued in the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. He was named a “Rising Star” by New York Metro Super Lawyers and recognized as “One to Watch” in The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate/Securities Law. Quatrano received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as the online editor of the Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law, and a B.A. from Columbia University, Columbia College. He is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.
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Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, a law firm based in New York, represents major businesses and entrepreneurs in their most significant transactions, problems, and opportunities. Olshan's clients range from public companies, hedge, venture capital, private equity and other investment funds to entrepreneurs and private companies worldwide. Clients choose Olshan for innovative strategies and sophisticated, game-changing advice in corporate, securities law, equity investment and shareholder activism, complex commercial, corporate and securities litigation, real estate, intellectual property, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, and advertising. Since its founding, Olshan has offered an alternative to the Big Law business model with responsive, independent and client-focused legal counsel provided by the firm's senior lawyers. Visit: www.olshanlaw.com.
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