Pryor Cashman has appointed Robert M Friedman and Richard C Leska as partners in the firm's Corporate Group.

Friedman was formerly a partner at Moses & Singer, while Leska was formerly a partner at Meister Seelig & Fein.
 
Friedman has extensive experience representing clients in the formation of private investment funds in venture capital, growth, buyout, mezzanine, infrastructure, secondary investment, special opportunities, real estate, hedge, debt, and art asset classes in the United States, Europe, India, Israel, and Japan. He also advises management of private investment funds in structuring general partners and management companies, and in the full range of issues relating to management of private investment funds.
  
Leska’s practice focuses on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and matters, with a particular focus on assisting clients in the “entrepreneurial economy” of startups and emerging growth companies, their executives and technologists, and venture capital funds and angel investors.