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Betty Pang is counsel in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins. Her practice focuses on healthcare, regulatory and corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions and affiliations involving health facilities, physician groups and ancillary service providers. Dr. Pang handles a broad range of regulatory matters, including facility and provider licensing, fraud and abuse, self-referral and government program reimbursement compliance. Her clients include nonprofit, county and academic teaching hospitals and health systems, physician practice companies, health plans and clinical laboratories. Dr. Pang also provides regulatory counseling on third-party coverage and reimbursement issues for pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies and medical suppliers.
Brett Rosenblatt is the former Managing Partner of the San Diego office. He previously led the San Diego office's Finance Department and was a founding Co-chair of the firm's Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Industry Group. Mr. Rosenblatt represents public and private sector clients, including financial institutions, in connection with a broad array of domestic and international gaming, hotel, hospitality and leisure interests and energy, real estate and infrastructure transactions. Mr. Rosenblatt has been recognized in Project Finance by The Legal 500 US, named a Leading Lawyer for his work in Leisure & Hospitality and described as an "exceptional talent at organizing large groups of lawyers, bankers and principals." Chambers USA calls him "a classic syndicated loan project finance expert," and he has been named a Top Attorney in Real Estate & Construction by the San Diego Daily Transcript.
Corporate partner. Focuses his practice on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, strategic partnerships, spin-offs and joint ventures, representing private equity firms and public and private companies. Also advises on corporate governance issues, defensive strategy, securities law compliance and other general corporate matters. Clients include private investment funds managed by Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Permira Advisors LLC; and Citadel Investment Group and their portfolio companies, and other public and private companies.
Craig Garner is a corporate partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins and local Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. His practice centers around corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general company representation. In addition, Mr. Garner serves as primary outside corporate and securities counsel for a number of public and private companies.
Daniel M. Wall is globally recognized as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the United States, with a practice that encompasses complex antitrust litigation, government conduct investigations, merger reviews and counseling. His specialties are merger litigation, single-firm conduct litigation (e.g., monopolization actions) and the application of the antitrust laws to high technology industries.
Howard Sobel is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Sobel is former Co-chair of the US Private Equity Practice and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Public Company Representation Practices.
Ian Schuman is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins, where he formerly served as the Deputy Office Managing Partner. He is global Co-chair of the firm's Capital Markets Practice and a member of the Corporate Department and Private Equity Finance Practice.
Jake Ryan is global Co-chair of the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation Practice and Chair of the Litigation & Trial Department in San Diego. He is a trial lawyer who focuses on intellectual property litigation, white collar criminal defense and government investigations, and other complex business litigation. Mr. Ryan has established a record of successfully resolving cases at trial and by dispositive motions in a wide variety of subject areas, including trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, and financial fraud.
James Mann is counsel in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm's Finance Department. Mr. Mann has experience in a broad range of transactional project finance and real estate projects, including construction financing, power plant development and financing (including renewable energy plants), casino development and financing, and real estate acquisition and financing.
Jason M. Ohta is counsel and a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Group in the Litigation & Trial Department of Latham & Watkins' San Diego office, where he focuses on white-collar criminal defense and complex healthcare litigation. Mr. Ohta has extensive trial experience and has been involved in a variety of complex and high profile matters.
Jennifer Koh is a partner in the San Diego office where she focuses on patent litigation and related counseling, representing clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
Jonathan Rod is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins, where he is a member of the Finance Department and Chair of the Project Development & Finance Practice. He formerly served as global Co-chair of the Energy - Power Industry Group.
Katherine Lauer is a partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, and is a global Co-chair of the firm's Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice. Ms. Lauer focuses her practice on healthcare litigation, with emphasis on healthcare fraud defense. She has defended some of the country's largest and most high-profile civil and criminal government healthcare fraud investigations and qui tam cases, representing such clients as HCA, Tenet Healthcare, Catholic Healthcare West and University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland.
Kelly Richardson is former Co-chair of the firm's global Chemical Regulation & Contaminated Properties Practice. He handles a variety of environmental compliance, transactional and litigation.
Michael Sullivan has represented both publicly and privately held companies in a broad range of complex transactions including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, tender offers, venture financings, joint ventures, mergers, stock purchases and asset purchases. Mr. Sullivan has also represented investment banks in public financing transactions and private equity funds in various mergers and acquisitions.
Nadia Sager serves as global Co-chair of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice and Chair of the San Diego office’s Corporate Department. Ms. Sager represents top private fund sponsors and investors in forming, investing in and operating leading private funds.
Niall E. Lynch is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, and is the local Co-chair of the firm's Litigation & Trial Department. He is a recognized antitrust litigator with in-depth expertise in cartel matters, and has represented multinationals and their managers in criminal and civil price-fixing investigations in the United States, Europe, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Korea and the United Kingdom. In 2017, Chambers USA noted Niall Lynch bolsters the criminal litigation services of the group with his "brilliant" cartel practice. He also acts on civil matters and is described as "extremely creative and dedicated" by market source.
Omar Nazif is a partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Finance Department. Prior to joining the San Diego office, Mr. Nazif was an associate in the firm’s Dubai, London and San Francisco offices.
Robert Frances is Chair of the San Diego office’s Finance Department. He has extensive experience in a broad range of transactional real estate and finance projects, including property acquisitions and dispositions, secured lending, construction financing, mergers and acquisitions, hotel, casino and power plant development and financing, and other project finance transactions.
Robert Howard chairs the San Diego office’s Environment, Land & Resources Department, composed of 23 lawyers who work on litigation, environmental and energy projects throughout the United States. He represents clients in the energy-oil and gas industry, energy-power industry, aerospace, defense and cleantech industries.
Steven Levine is a partner in the San Diego office and a member of the firm's Finance Department. He has broad experience throughout the department's substantive areas of expertise, including real estate development, purchase and sale, financing, workout and leasing transactions. In recent years, Mr. Levine's real estate practice has focused in particular on the development and sale of properties within planned multi-use communities, the development, construction and financing of laboratory projects, office projects and large infrastructure projects, including hotels, casinos, sporting facilities, power projects and water projects on office, industrial and laboratory leasing.