New York, NY (February 11, 2026) — Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP today announced that Maurio A. Fiore has joined the Firm as a partner in New York. He is a member of the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity and M&A Practice Groups. Maurio focuses his extensive practice on mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies, private equity investments, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. His experience spans multiple industries, including the financial services, insurance and technology sectors. He regularly leads high-profile deals for private equity sponsors, public companies, insurers, reinsurers, financial institutions and other global clients. Maurio has earned top-tier rankings in national and international legal directories for his private equity work. He joins from Cravath. Jeffrey Poss, Co-Chair of the Private Equity Practice Group, and incoming joint Chairman of the Firm, commented: “Maurio is an accomplished dealmaker and his broad experience advising private equity sponsors and corporations on complex, high-value transactions makes him an excellent fit for Willkie and further enhances our ability to deliver best-in-class solutions to clients across the transactional landscape.” “Maurio has played a significant role in some of the most sophisticated M&A and private equity transactions in the market in recent years,” said Adam Turteltaub, Co-Chair of the M&A Practice Group. “His arrival further builds on our corporate platform’s momentum in New York and across the Firm, and we are pleased to welcome him to Willkie.” Maurio commented: “Willkie is widely regarded for its strength across corporate sectors, and I have long admired the Firm’s standout global transactional capabilities. I’m thrilled to join this talented team of practitioners amid the dynamic changes shaping private equity and other key markets.” Willkie is one of the industry’s preeminent advisors to private equity funds. We provide a full-service, 360° platform advising on everything from fund structuring and formation, platform and add-on investments and acquisitions, tuck-in acquisitions, co-invest structures and joint ventures, to bank credit, direct lending and other debt financings and offerings, IPOs, follow-on offerings, SPACs, PIPEs, other “bet-the-company” and lifecycle events, and ultimate exits. Willkie’s top-tier Mergers & Acquisitions Practice represents public and private buyers, sellers, special committees of boards of directors, debt and equity investors and financial advisors in some of the most significant and complex acquisition transactions. Our transactional teams advise on PE and M&A matters worldwide, with attorneys based in 16 key market centers across the United States, UK and Europe.

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