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Aaron M. Gruber is Co-Head of Cravath's Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, activist defense, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Amanda Gold focuses her practice on executive compensation matters including designing, drafting and negotiating severance, change in control and executive employment agreements, preparing related disclosures for securities filings and managing all executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions. She also frequently designs and provides practical advice on the administration of equity incentive plans and complex awards, thereunder, for private and public clients.

Andrew T. Davis is a partner in Cravath's Tax Department. He focuses his practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including SPAC, spin‑off and private equity transactions, as well as securities offerings.

Andrew J. Pitts is Co-Head of Cravath's Capital Markets Practice for North America. He has a significant corporate finance practice and advises clients on a broad range of corporate issues. Mr. Pitts is widely regarded in the legal community as exceptionally responsive and pragmatic with a wide range of experience addressing clients’ most complex legal issues.

Andrew M. Wark focuses his practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activism defense and general corporate matters. Mr. Wark’s clients have included AXA, Barrick Gold, Benchmark Electronics, CardWorks, Convey Health Solutions, Corteva, Cox Enterprises, Crown Castle, Eurazeo, Fortress Transportation & Infrastructure Investors, FS Investments, GuideWell, IBM, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Olin, Peabody Energy, RELX Group, Sensata Technologies, Viatris and ViewRay.

Andrew C. Finch is a member of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. An accomplished antitrust lawyer with extensive experience in both civil and criminal antitrust litigation and investigations, Mr. Finch previously served in the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Acting Assistant Attorney General.

Annmarie Terraciano

Annmarie M. Terraciano is a senior attorney in Cravath’s Corporate Department. She advises the Firm’s clients on environmental matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, financings and other business transactions, as well as on environmental‑related proceedings and indemnification disputes.

Antony L. Ryan handles a wide variety of litigation matters, focusing on securities litigation, accountants’ liability, M&A litigation and antitrust law. He regularly represents clients in federal and state courts around the country. Praised by his clients as “analytically exceptional,” “extremely intellectual, very smart and strategic,” and “a great leader and a consummate professional,” Mr. Ryan frequently leads his clients’ most challenging and business‑critical litigation. (Chambers USA)

Arvind Ravichandran

Arvind Ravichandran is a partner in Cravath's Tax Department. He advises clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, restructuring transactions and related financings, and private equity investments across multiple asset classes.

Benjamin Gruenstein

Benjamin Gruenstein is a member of Cravath's Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement practice. His practice focuses on the representation of U.S. and multinational companies and their senior executives in high‑stakes government and internal corporate investigations in such areas as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, healthcare fraud, trade sanctions, insider trading, securities and accounting fraud, and accompanying civil litigation.

Bethany Pfalzgraf

Bethany A. Pfalzgraf focuses her practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate governance and disclosure matters.

Brittany Sukiennik

Brittany L. Sukiennik focuses her practice on complex litigation, including mass torts and other commercial disputes.

C Daniel Haaren

C. Daniel Haaren focuses his practice on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, other equity financings and investment grade, high‑yield and convertible bond offerings. He regularly advises clients on governance, public disclosure and general corporate matters.

Christine Varney

Christine A. Varney is Chair of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. Ms. Varney has been widely recognized as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the United States in both private practice and in government service, and she is the only person to have served as both the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Varney formulates global antitrust strategy for clients in connection with joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other business transactions, including advising on business conduct or potential investments to ensure compliance with antitrust laws, securing antitrust regulatory approvals, and handling internal or governmental investigations into anticompetitive behavior. Her clients span diverse industries, including cable, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, transportation, technology and telecommunications.

Christopher Fargo

Christopher K. Fargo is a partner in Cravath’s Tax Department. He represents clients in connection with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, securities offerings and joint ventures. Mr. Fargo has advised on matters across a broad range of industries, including media and entertainment, consumer products, retail, telecommunications, transportation, energy, healthcare and fintech.

Christopher Kelly

Christopher J. Kelly has a broad banking practice, with experience in syndicated lending, finance and related matters for both financial lending institutions and corporate borrowers.

Claudia Ricciardi

Claudia J. Ricciardi focuses her practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Craig F. Arcella is Co-Head of Cravath's Finance Practice. Mr. Arcella represents financial institutions and corporate clients in a wide variety of matters, including investment grade, high‑yield and convertible bond offerings; liability management transactions; initial public offerings and other equity financings; syndicated loan and other leveraged finance transactions; and mergers and acquisitions. He also regularly advises companies with respect to governance, public disclosure and other corporate matters.

D Scott Bennett

Scott Bennett focuses his practice on capital markets and other financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, board advisory matters and general corporate matters. Mr. Bennett advises clients across a broad range of industries encompassing traditional areas and emerging technologies. He has notable experience counseling venture capital‑backed companies and investors in the technology, fintech, digital assets and renewables spaces. His practice also includes numerous clients in the shipping, transportation, energy and pharmaceutical sectors.

Damaris Hernández

Damaris Hernández focuses her practice on complex civil litigation related to antitrust, contractual disputes and securities.

Daniel Cerqueira

Daniel J. Cerqueira focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, activist defense and general corporate matters. Mr. Cerqueira’s clients have included AerCap, Altra, AmerisourceBergen, Ashland, Biogen, Blue Current, Brookfield Asset Management, Buckeye Partners, Cincinnati Bell, Disney, DRI Capital, FS Investments, GreenSky, Hasbro, Hertz, Hibu Group, IBM, Illumina, Occidental Petroleum, Pinnacle Foods, RedHill Biopharma, SMBC Aviation Capital, Southwest Gas, Starwood Hotels and Univision.

Over the course of his more than 30 years at Cravath, Daniel Slifkin has tried numerous cases in state and federal courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations. He has been inducted into Benchmark Litigation’s “Hall of Fame” and repeatedly been recognized as The American Lawyer’s “Litigator of the Week.” “A real trial powerhouse” (Benchmark Litigation), Mr. Slifkin is among the few litigators to have taken a securities fraud class action through jury verdict. And he has extensive additional experience litigating securities and derivative matters.

Darin P. McAtee has handled a wide variety of litigation cases, including antitrust, contract, employment, environmental, ERISA, insurance, intellectual property, product liability, real estate and securities matters. He is an experienced trial lawyer; in the past 10 years, he has tried 11 cases.

David H. Korn focuses his practice on complex litigation, particularly in the areas of antitrust, securities and general commercial.

David R. Marriott focuses his practice on litigating complex disputes, regularly handling his clients’ most critical cases. The American Lawyer has named him a “Litigator of the Year” and repeatedly recognized him as “Litigator of the Week.” Among other accolades, he was named a “Litigation Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal and “Trial Lawyer of the Year” by Benchmark Litigation. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Praised as “the go-to lawyer for high-stakes litigation” and “one of the best trial attorneys in the US,” Mr. Marriott has tried numerous state and federal cases, handled more than two dozen appeals and been involved in various forms of alternative dispute resolution. (IAM Patent 1000) Named a “Competition/Antitrust MVP” by Law360, he has taken a leading role in precedent-setting antitrust disputes, in addition to his significant experience in intellectual property, general commercial and securities matters. The Legal 500 US has repeatedly recognized Mr. Marriott as a “Leading Trial Lawyer,” noting his “versatility and trial experience” and regular representation of some of “the firm’s most high profile clients.”

David Finkelstein

David S. Finkelstein is a partner in Cravath’s Trusts and Estates Department. His practice focuses on providing estate planning, charitable planning, tax and other advice to high net worth individuals and families in order to achieve clients’ goals for the management, preservation and disposition of their estates in the most advantageous manner.

David M. Stuart represents and advises public and private companies, executives and board members in their most sensitive and complex civil, criminal and internal investigations and related securities and derivative litigation. His matters regularly involve allegations of accounting fraud, foreign corruption, insider trading, market manipulation, money laundering, trade sanctions, illicit cyber activity and sexual harassment. Mr. Stuart has also conducted comprehensive reviews of corporate compliance programs and advised organizations on implementation of best practices in regulatory compliance. He participates in the Firm’s efforts related to blockchain and financial technology (FinTech).

David J. Kappos is Co-Chair of Cravath's Intellectual Property Practice. He is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost leaders in the field of intellectual property, including intellectual property management and strategy, the development of global intellectual property norms, laws and practices as well as commercialization and enforcement of innovation‑based assets. Mr. Kappos supports Cravath’s clients with a wide range of their most complex intellectual property issues, including those pertaining to blockchain, cryptoassets and fintech, as well as cybersecurity and data privacy.

David J. Perkins is Co‑Head of Cravath's Private Equity Practice. His diverse corporate practice focuses on all aspects of private equity investments across multiple asset classes, including mergers and acquisitions, investment funds, joint ventures, minority and other structured investments, restructurings and large-scale real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

Doug Dolan focuses his practice on representing corporate issuers and investment banking firms in capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, other equity financings and investment grade and high‑yield bond offerings. He also has significant experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, syndicated loan and direct lending transactions, public disclosure and general corporate matters.

Elad Roisman is a member of the Corporate Governance and Board Advisory Practice and the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Practice. Prior to joining Cravath, Mr. Roisman was a Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Eric W. Hilfers is Head of Cravath’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Department. Mr. Hilfers’ practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefit matters faced by the Firm’s clients, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other business transactions. Clients value his “expansive knowledge” and “comprehensive understanding of the business and legal challenges and opportunities” in compensation and benefits matters, leading one to affirm, “he’s not just a lawyer—I view him more as an adviser.”

Evan Mehran Norris, a former federal prosecutor, focuses his practice on advising U.S. and multinational companies, boards of directors and senior executives with respect to government and internal investigations, criminal defense, regulatory compliance and related civil litigation. A member of Cravath's Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice and Data Security and Privacy Practice, Mr. Norris advises clients in a broad range of matters from cross‑border investigations to cyber incident response.

Evan R. Chesler is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading litigators. He has broad experience in both trial and appellate courts, and has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts all over the country. He was Cravath’s Presiding Partner from 2007 through 2012, and Chairman from 2013 through 2021, the first person to be given that title in the Firm’s history. Mr. Chesler handles a wide variety of litigation, including securities, shareholder derivative, intellectual property, general commercial, environmental, ERISA, contractual disputes and antitrust. His practice also includes the representation of clients in government and internal investigations. Mr. Chesler has represented companies and their management in virtually every industry including technology, media, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and financial services.

Faiza J. Saeed is Cravath’s Presiding Partner. She advises public companies, boards of directors and special committees in connection with M&A, corporate governance and crisis management, including takeover defense and proxy contests.

G.J. Ligelis Jr.

G.J. Ligelis Jr. is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. He advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. His M&A practice has a particular focus on cross‑border transactions. Mr. Ligelis’s clients have included AerCap, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Aramex, Biogen, Buckeye Partners, Casa Cuervo, INEOS, Just Eat Takeaway.com, National Grid, Novartis, Synthomer, Texas Capital Bank, Unilever, Viatris and WiseTech Global.

Gary A. Bornstein is Co-Head of Cravath's Litigation Department. He handles a wide range of high‑stakes commercial disputes, with particular focus on antitrust, M&A and securities litigation. Mr. Bornstein also represents clients in investigations and frequently provides antitrust, fiduciary duty and other transaction-related advice. Consistently recognized as “one of the best lawyers in this space,” and “simply stellar” (The Legal 500 US), Mr. Bornstein has handled some of the country’s most challenging and transformative M&A litigation, often involving novel and complex issues of law.

George F. Schoen is Co-Chair of Cravath's Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. His practice focuses primarily on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, including hostile and contested transactions. Mr. Schoen also regularly counsels corporations and their directors on fiduciary duty and corporate governance matters.

Jed Zobitz is Managing Partner of Cravath’s Corporate Department and Co-Head of the Finance Practice. He works in all areas of the Firm’s corporate practice. Currently, his practice focuses on complex syndicated loan transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance and asset‑based lending, as well as securities, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representations.

Helam Gebremariam

Helam Gebremariam handles a wide variety of complex litigation cases, including shareholder derivative, mergers and acquisitions, general commercial and securities matters, and antitrust matters.

J Leonard Teti II

J. Leonard Teti II is a partner in Cravath’s Tax Department. He advises on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs and private equity transactions. Clients seek out Mr. Teti for his ability to provide practical, clear and commercial advice on the tax issues central to complex domestic and cross‑border transactions. He also advises clients during the course of audits by the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities.

Jeffrey Dinwoodie

Jeffrey T. Dinwoodie is a member of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Practice. Mr. Dinwoodie previously served as Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and as Head of the Office of Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Jelena McWilliams

Jelena McWilliams is Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office and Head of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Practice. She is a former Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Ms. McWilliams focuses her practice on advising public and private companies, financial institutions, fintechs, and early-stage and venture companies on regulatory and corporate matters, as well as on mergers and acquisitions, IPO and other capital markets transactions.

Jennifer S. Leete is a member of Cravath's Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice. She is a former Associate Director in the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where she served for more than 20 years.

Jesse M. Weiss has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on antitrust, including antitrust litigation, regulatory work and antitrust counseling.

Jin-Kyu Baek focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has advised public and private companies, as well as boards of directors and special committees, in connection with a variety of significant transactions.

John D. Buretta is Chair of Cravath's Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice and a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official. Named Global Investigations Review’s “Investigations Professional of the Year,” Mr. Buretta represents corporate and individual clients in their most high‑stakes and sensitive internal investigations, regulatory enforcement and compliance matters, shareholder demands and civil litigation. Described by clients as “an absolute star” who “has the ear of both the US authorities and client boards,” (The Legal 500 US), Mr. Buretta represents global companies, boards of directors, audit committees, individual board members, company owners, senior management, in-house counsels, law firms, and former U.S. and foreign government officials. His work spans industries, including the banking, private investment, energy, publishing, communications, technology, food, consumer, mining, aircraft, automotive, shipping, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

John W. White is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Chair of its Corporate Governance and Board Advisory practice. From 2006 through 2008, he served as Director of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which oversees disclosure and reporting by public companies in the United States.

Jonathan J. Katz is a partner in Cravath’s Executive Compensation and Benefits Department. He advises clients on a wide range of executive compensation and human resource‑related matters. His transactional practice involves advising on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin‑offs, joint ventures and private equity transactions. He also regularly counsels both corporate and individual clients on the design, negotiation and implementation of employment agreements and incentive compensation programs. Additionally, Mr. Katz handles securities law compliance matters relating to executive compensation, including new and evolving regulatory matters, such as clawback rules, pay vs. performance disclosure and related matters. Mr. Katz has represented numerous founders and high‑profile executives in compensation‑related matters.

Joseph Zavaglia

Joseph D. Zavaglia is Cravath's Head of Leveraged Finance North America. He is a generalist corporate lawyer with more than 20 years of experience advising public and private companies and financial institutions across multiple disciplines, including IPOs and other capital markets transactions; leveraged loans (broadly syndicated and direct) and other complex financing arrangements; activism defense (shareholder and debtholder) and other liability management transactions; corporate governance and other Board of Director matters; public company reporting and other SEC matters; and joint ventures, acquisitions and other M&A transactions.

Julie A. North has a broad litigation practice that encompasses general commercial, securities, and mergers and acquisitions litigation, among other areas. Ms. North advises clients on antitrust regulatory clearance issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions. She also has experience in advising and defending clients in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Justin C. Clarke focuses on mergers and acquisitions litigation, securities litigation, antitrust litigation and general commercial litigation.

Karin A. DeMasi is Managing Partner of Cravath's Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on complex litigation, including class actions, in federal and state courts, primarily in the areas of antitrust, securities, derivative, ERISA and general commercial disputes. Ms. DeMasi also represents companies, boards of directors and individuals in connection with shareholder demands and disputes.

Keith R. Hummel is a member of Cravath's Litigation Department and Co‑Chair of Cravath's Intellectual Property Practice. He has extensive experience litigating complex commercial, intellectual property and antitrust disputes for plaintiffs and defendants in diverse fields, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, home automation, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, coating systems, and wine and spirits. Praised as “ingenious, resourceful, resolute and unflagging—there is nothing he cannot do when it comes to complex legal conflict,” Mr. Hummel is consistently recognized as one of the country’s leading practitioners in the intellectual property arena, particularly in critical multi‑jurisdictional patent disputes. (IAM Patent)

Kelly M. Smercina focuses her practice on representing corporate clients and investment banking firms in a wide range of capital markets and other financing transactions, including in connection with acquisitions and spin‑offs. She also has significant experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

Kevin J. Orsini is Co-Head of Cravath's Litigation Department. He regularly plays a central role in major corporate battles that redefine the law. With substantial first‑chair trial experience, he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been named Benchmark Litigation’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year” and “General Commercial Litigator of the Year.” Mr. Orsini’s practice focuses on complex litigation, including antitrust, mass torts, mergers and acquisitions, securities and other commercial disputes.

Lauren Rosenberg

Lauren M. Rosenberg focuses her practice on a broad range of litigation, including securities, antitrust and general commercial matters.

Lauren Moskowitz

Lauren A. Moskowitz has a broad practice with a particular focus on general commercial, antitrust, securities and intellectual property litigation, as well as litigation related to financial restructuring and reorganization matters.

Lauren R. Kennedy focuses her practice on complex civil litigation related to antitrust, contractual disputes, intellectual property and securities. She represents clients in all stages of critical litigation, with particularly significant trial experience in state and federal courts around the country.

Lauren Angelilli

Lauren Angelilli is Head of Cravath's Tax Department. Her practice focuses on advising clients on the tax and structuring aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs, restructurings and joint ventures, both domestically and cross‑border. Ms. Angelilli is known by clients and peers for her “extremely deep tax technical knowledge” and her “excellent job of communicating how the technical points impact a deal or business decision.”

Lillian Grossbard

Lillian S. Grossbard has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on antitrust, commercial disputes and other advisory matters.

Margaret Segall

Maggie Segall is a member of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. Her practice focuses on transactional matters, antitrust regulatory approval, government investigations and general antitrust counseling. She has advised a wide variety of clients in diverse industries, including aerospace and aviation, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, consumer products, media, manufacturing and technology. Ms. Segall has represented clients on antitrust issues in connection with numerous proposed or completed deals.

Mark I. Greene is the Head of Cravath’s Corporate Department and the Leader of the Firm’s International Practice. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities matters, including advising on cross-border and domestic transactions, private equity deals, complex restructuring transactions, proxy fights, takeover defense and hedge fund activism. According to clients and the market, Mr. Greene has a “mighty reputation in cross-border deals” and “outstanding and deep experience in M&A.” He “treats his clients as priority number one” and “takes time to probe and understand his clients’ objectives and is very practical in the legal advice he offers.”

Matthew J. Bobby is a partner in Cravath's Executive Compensation and Benefits Department. Mr. Bobby focuses his practice on executive compensation and employee benefit aspects of complex mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs, initial public offerings and other business transactions. He also regularly advises clients on the design, negotiation and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements and the negotiation of executive employment and separation agreements, as well as on SEC disclosure regarding such arrangements.

Matthew M. Kelly is a partner in Cravath's Corporate Department. He represents financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide range of syndicated loan, direct lending and other financing transactions, including acquisition finance and investment‑grade and leveraged finance.

Matthew G. Jones is a partner in Cravath's Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He also has significant experience advising corporate clients and investment banks across a variety of financing transactions.

Matthew Morreale

Matthew Morreale is Head of Cravath's Environmental Practice. He advises Cravath’s clients on environmental matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, financings and other business transactions, as well as on environmental‑related proceedings and investigations. Clients describe Mr. Morreale as “an excellent lawyer who understands the complex regulatory impacts on companies, including emerging climate change issues.”

Matthew Ploszek

Matthew L. Ploszek focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Maurio A. Fiore focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has a broad‑based transactional practice with experience advising private equity firms and multinational corporations on matters across various industries and jurisdictions.

Michael P. Addis primarily focuses his practice on complex civil litigation related to general commercial, contractual, securities, shareholder derivative, antitrust and mergers and acquisitions disputes. He also devotes a significant portion of his practice to pro bono service and was selected as a United States Presidential Leadership Scholar.

Michael J. Zaken has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on antitrust, bankruptcy, class action defense, commercial disputes and intellectual property, as well as antitrust advisory and other advisory work.

Michael Mariani

Michael E. Mariani is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general company representation. He also has significant experience representing companies and investment banks in a variety of public and private financings and disclosure matters.

Michael A. Paskin focuses his practice on class actions and other complex litigation, primarily in the areas of antitrust, contracts and general commercial disputes and securities. Praised as a “true star,” he has been recommended by The Legal 500 US for his work in the financial services, general commercial, corporate restructuring, antitrust and securities litigation practice areas.

Michael Reynolds

Michael T. Reynolds represents a broad range of public and private companies as well as non‑profit organizations in complex civil litigation and internal investigations relating to securities, antitrust, contract, copyright, the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and compliance with federal and international laws and regulations.

Minh Van Ngo is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice primarily encompasses mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. He advises companies, boards of directors and special committees in connection with M&A, corporate governance and crisis management, including consensual and hostile transactions, leveraged buyouts, strategic investments, takeover defense, proxy contests and hedge fund activism.

Nicholas Dorsey

Nicholas A. Dorsey focuses his practice on representing corporate issuers and borrowers, and financial institutions, lenders and other parties, in public and private offerings of securities, loan transactions and other financing transactions. He also represents companies in mergers and acquisitions and regularly advises clients in connection with public disclosure and corporate matters. He is Co-Head of the Venture Capital & Growth Equity Practice, where he dedicates significant time to providing commercial and strategic advice to startup, early‑stage and founder‑led companies and investors in such companies. Clients regularly seek his counsel for the practical, commercial advice he offers with respect to their most challenging matters.

Noah Joshua Phillips is Co-Chair of Cravath's Antitrust Practice and previously served as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. He advises clients on a range of antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions, business conduct and compliance, litigation and investigations, consumer protection, data security and privacy.

Omid H. Nasab is a trial lawyer who represents clients in high-stakes commercial disputes in a host of state and federal courts and domestic and international arbitrations. He has worked on a broad variety of complex litigation matters, including breach of contract, mass torts and business torts, bankruptcy, environmental and securities matters.

Paul H. Zumbro is Head of Cravath’s Financial Restructuring & Reorganization (FR&R) Practice. His practice focuses on restructuring transactions and related financings, both in and out of court, as well as bankruptcy M&A transactions.

Peter Feist is Co-Head of Cravath's Private Equity Practice and focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions matters for leading private equity firms and other financial investors. Mr. Feist advises clients on a wide array of transactions, including private and public acquisitions, leveraged and management buyouts, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, minority investments, structured equity investments, special situations and divestitures.

Peter T. Barbur handles a wide variety of antitrust, intellectual property and securities litigation, as well as internal corporate investigations, antitrust‑related government investigations, international arbitrations and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters.

Rachel Skaistis

Rachel G. Skaistis focuses her practice on advising boards of directors and management in connection with government and internal investigations, shareholder demands, derivative actions and accounting restatements. Ms. Skaistis represents clients in matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the False Claims Act, insider trading, accounting and securities fraud and governance issues. She also handles a wide variety of general litigation, arbitration and appellate matters, including in the areas of employment, securities, bankruptcy and general commercial disputes.

Richard Hall is Head of Cravath’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice for EMEA. He has been described as a “consummate attorney with a business mind” who “brings extremely creative ideas to the table.” Mr. Hall’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and matters relating to activist defense.

Richard J. Stark is a partner in Cravath’s Litigation Department. He is widely recognized as a leading litigator in complex business litigation, as well as a trusted advisor to his clients. Mr. Stark has particular expertise in antitrust, intellectual property and securities litigation, and has deep litigation experience in a number of technology sectors, including software, computer systems and microelectronics, as well as in biotechnology, life sciences, and banking. Along with his decades of legal experience, Mr. Stark has a graduate degree in Computer Science (machine learning) and is a registered patent attorney. He has advised corporate leaders on complex litigation strategy, antitrust, intellectual property, standard‑setting, contract litigation and deal litigation. His broad litigation practice encompasses multifaceted and multijurisdictional business disputes in a wide range of venues as well as arbitration.

Robert H. Baron has handled major commercial cases brought as individual and class actions in federal and state courts, including the representation of major domestic and foreign issuers and financial institutions in litigation related to securities offerings and trading, complex structured financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Robert Townsend III

Robert I. Townsend, III is Co-Chair of Cravath's Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. His practice focuses primarily on all types of M&A transactions, corporate governance matters and activist defense. Mr. Townsend’s clients have included ADT, altafiber, AmerisourceBergen, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Aon, Atlas Air, Brink’s, Brunswick, Cable One, Canadian National Railway, City Brewing, Conduent, Crown Castle, DiaSorin, Frontier Communications, GreenSky, J.D. Power, Johnson & Johnson, Light & Wonder, MacAndrews & Forbes, Martin Marietta, Nestlé, Olin, Oshkosh, OUTFRONT Media, Pinnacle Foods, Quest Diagnostics, Stanley Black & Decker, Univision, US Foods and Valvoline.

Ron Creamer is a seasoned tax practitioner in all types of acquisitions and dispositions, particularly cross-border transactions. Mr. Creamer is noted for his calm, business-oriented approach and his ability to achieve consensus in complex negotiations. In addition to advising on the tax aspects of M&A transactions, Mr. Creamer regularly counsels clients on the execution and IRS review of tax-efficient financing techniques and capital markets strategies.

Ryan J. Patrone focuses his practice on representing issuers and investment banking firms in capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and other primary and secondary equity offerings, as well as investment grade and high‑yield debt offerings. He also has significant experience representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder activism defense and general corporate matters.

Sasha Rosenthal-Larrea

Sasha Rosenthal-Larrea focuses her practice on advising clients on the most significant intellectual property issues, including with respect to complex licensing and collaborations, patent and copyright licensing strategy, software and artificial intelligence. She also handles the intellectual property, data privacy and broader technology aspects of major corporate transactions. Additionally, she regularly advises public company clients with respect to governance, public disclosure and other corporate matters.

Sharonmoyee Goswami

Sharonmoyee Goswami focuses her practice on intellectual property, antitrust and other litigation involving complex scientific issues. She has extensive experience representing companies and individuals in all stages of litigation, from pre‑complaint investigation through appeal, and routinely practices before the Federal Circuit and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Ms. Goswami draws upon her expertise to help companies address legal issues that arise during product development and commercialization, including successfully bringing lifesaving therapies to patients. She regularly leads patent infringement litigation across various industries—including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, technology and financial services—and has significant experience in intellectual property strategy and management.

Stephen Kessing

Stephen M. Kessing is Co-Head of Cravath's Banking and Credit Practice. He advises financial institutions, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors on a broad range of finance transactions, including complex syndicated loan and direct lending transactions, capital markets transactions, restructurings and debtor‑in‑possession financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Stephen L. Burns is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Co-Head of the Firm’s Finance Practice. His practice focuses on representing companies and investment banking firms in connection with public and private offerings of securities, as well as on general corporate matters, including corporate governance and M&A matters. Mr. Burns was named Best Lawyers’ 2014 New York City “Lawyer of the Year” for Securities/Capital Markets Law. In 2019, he was named a Capital Markets Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.

Tatiana Lapushchik

Tatiana Lapushchik is Co-Head of Cravath's Banking and Credit Practice. Her practice spans both leveraged and investment grade bank financings across a variety of industries, including industrials, oil and gas, consumer and technology and media. Ms. Lapushchik dedicates a significant portion of her practice to advising on financings for private equity clients and their portfolio companies.

Thomas E. Dunn is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His diverse corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance and securities‑related matters.

Timothy Cameron

Tim Cameron focuses his practice on a broad range of litigation that in recent years has included some of the leading antitrust cases in the U.S., general commercial litigation, complex securities and shareholder derivative litigation, M&A disputes and arbitration (domestic and international). Mr. Cameron is an experienced trial lawyer. He is among the few litigators to have taken a securities case through trial, having handled three such trials in some of the most significant and complex securities actions in recent history. Mr. Cameron also has deep expertise representing non‑U.S. clients in a wide variety of litigation (including class actions) in federal and/or state courts in the United States, and in complex arbitrations.

Ting S. Chen is Co-Head of Cravath's Global Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. She focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and activism and takeover defense.

Vanessa A. Lavely handles a wide variety of litigation cases, including antitrust, intellectual property, environmental, general commercial and securities matters. She has significant trial experience in federal and state court.

Wes Earnhardt is a first-chair trial and appellate lawyer with significant experience in antitrust, intellectual property, general commercial disputes, securities litigation, and financial restructuring and reorganization matters.

Will C. Giles is of counsel in Cravath’s Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on advising international and domestic banking organizations and other financial institutions on transactional, regulatory, supervisory, enforcement and governance matters.

William V. Fogg is Co‑Head of Cravath's Capital Markets Practice for North America. His practice focuses on representing companies and major investment banks in public and private capital markets transactions, as well as on corporate governance, general corporate and disclosure matters. The Financial Times featured Mr. Fogg’s work on behalf of Cincinnati Bell in converting its data center business into a “first-of-its-kind” REIT and its subsequent carve-out IPO of CyrusOne as one of the most innovative deals of the year in its U.S. Innovative Lawyers 2013 special report.

Yonatan Even has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on antitrust (both regulatory and litigation), general commercial disputes and securities litigation.

Nicoleta Lupea

Wes Earnhardt