Bridgeport-based Pullman & Comley LLC has added attorneys Emilie Simone and Daryl M. Johnson to its firm. Simone is a bankruptcy and litigation attorney and joins the firm as a counsel. Johnson joins as an associate in the firm’s real estate and business and finance practices.
Simone has more than 15 years of experience representing individuals and businesses in a variety of matters, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 filings, Chapter 11 adversary proceedings, consumer debt litigation and business loan restructurings.
Prior to joining Pullman & Comley, she was assistant U.S. attorney in the Financial Litigation Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. Before that, she served as a law clerk to Judge Sean H. Lane in the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York.
Simone has been an attorney both in private practice and at legal services groups, focusing on bankruptcy, restructuring and consumer debt cases. Prior to becoming an attorney, she was a forensic accountant working on cases involving corporate restructuring, fraud, corporate dissolution, partnership disputes and business valuations.
Simone is admitted to practice in New York; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She is not yet admitted to the Connecticut State Bar (application pending). She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and received her M.B.A. from St. John’s University School of Business and her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law.
Johnson has nearly a decade of experience in real estate and corporate law and has guided clients through complex property deals, contract negotiations and corporate structuring.
Prior to joining Pullman & Comley, was with a western Massachusetts law firm where she handled all aspects of commercial and residential real estate, including representation of buyers, sellers, borrowers and lenders, including but not limited to, private financing and lending, seller financing, refinances, 1031 exchanges and SBA 504 debentures. Johnson’s experience also includes drafting and reviewing purchase and sale agreements, leases and corporate governance documents, as well as conducting title reviews and resolving title issues in collaboration with national title insurance underwriters.
Earlier in her career, she was an associate attorney at a firm in Springfield, Massachusetts. She began her legal career serving as general counsel to Shelton Brothers Importers, a beer importer in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
Johnson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from Elms College and received her J.D., cum laude, from University of Massachusetts Law School.
