Abigial Nott advises clients on various international and onshore private client matters. She focuses on tax and trust and estate planning for UK and non-UK individuals, with an emphasis on integrated international tax planning and structuring. Abigail joins the Firm from a renowned law firm based in London, where she was able to take part in a twelve month secondment in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Agata Todarello has significant experience in debt and equity transactions, working with domestic and international banks, corporations, financial institutions and investment funds on financing transactions, debt restructuring, acquisitions and disposals of portfolios of non-performing loans and assets, in bankruptcy proceedings, as well as extraordinary corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions) and market transactions (listings, placements of financial instruments, public M&A – OPAs and OPAS).
She also advises companies (large or medium-sized, listed or unlisted, and family-owned companies) on a continuous basis in all phases of their business activity, with a particular focus on the organisation of corporate structures and the definition of all aspects of corporate governance and, in relation to regulated companies, compliance issues, as well as the definition of commercial contracts.
Ahsan Shaikh serves as the head of McDermott’s Patent Prosecution practice. He focuses his practice on strategic patent portfolio management and client counseling for computer-related technology companies.
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Alden J. Bianchi is an experienced Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation lawyer who advises corporate, not-for-profit, governmental and individual clients on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans.
Alden represented the Romney Administration in connection with the historic 2006 Massachusetts health care reform act, and he testified before the Senate Finance Committee in the lead-up to the Affordable Care Act. His published works include the Bloomberg/Bureau of National Affairs Health Care Reform Advisor, a comprehensive study of the impact of the Affordable Care Act on employers and employer-sponsored group health plans. Alden also serves as the current chair of the Bloomberg Tax Compensation Planning Journal Advisory Board.
Alessio Persiani advises Italian and non-Italian resident medium-size and large companies on a wide range of tax matters, covering corporate income tax, value-added tax (VAT), and other indirect and municipal taxes. He advises corporate clients on their ordinary and extraordinary activities, providing assistance in tax litigation as well as in extra-judicial matters.
Alessio is a member of several international research groups focused on tax implications of the national implementation of EU law in the field of taxation. He often lectures on particular aspects of International and EU taxation systems at the collegiate and post-graduate levels, and has authored several publications in major tax periodicals and Italian economic and financial newspapers.
Partner Alexa Ningelgen advises clients on all aspects of public law, including administrative, regulatory and constitutional law. She has in-depth knowledge of administrative litigation and the relevant procedures.
Alexa regularly represents major private and public companies and authorities with interests in a wide range of industries, including real estate, infrastructure, energy and the food sector. Other main areas of focus include public institution law and immigration law.
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Alexandra C. Scheibe is head of the Firm’s FinTech and Blockchain Practice. Alexandra is widely recognized in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Alexandra focuses her practice on representing cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, as well as financial institutions and fintech companies in all aspects of regulatory and transaction matters in the fintech, blockchain and derivatives and structured finance markets. Alexandra is a recognized leader in the field of blockchain and cryptocurrency and focuses on first-of-their-kind structures and products and has a team that works with her on all crypto and regulatory issues.
Alexandra regularly advises cryptocurrency and blockchain companies on emerging federal and state regulatory issues. Alexandra’s practice also involves regulatory strategy and structuring and negotiating transactions involving blockchain and cryptocurrency companies, and has focused on the use and implementation of blockchain technology in platforms for derivatives, structured finance and securitization. Alexandra advises a wide range of market participants across multiple industries, including early-stage and established companies developing blockchain solutions, investors, foundations, exchanges, broker-dealers, private equity firms, family offices, mining companies consulting firms, on securities laws, commodities laws, state and federal money transmitter licensing and registration, payments, custody, SEC and CFTC regulatory inquiries, as well as on state and international regulation.
She also assists financial services firms and others in negotiating technology agreements for all types of services in light of the constantly evolving regulatory issues arising from the use of blockchain and other technologies. She has represented blockchain companies before the SEC, CFTC and various state banking regulators. She focuses on helping her clients develop novel products and business strategies and most recently had advised in token launch and issuance solutions, NFT structuring and NFT platform formation and compliance, payments solutions and money transmitter licensing and cryptocurrency product development.
Alina Affeld focuses her practice on real estate law. In addition, she gained valuable corporate, M&A and real estate experience through several legal traineeships at law firms in Düsseldorf and London including McDermott. She also worked for the German Embassy of Myanmar.
During her internships, Alina Affeld worked for the German Federal Cartel Office and in the corporate law department of a law firm in Düsseldorf.
Allison Wilkerson focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
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Partner Alva Mather is head of the Firm’s Alcohol Regulatory & Distribution Group and focuses her practice on alcohol beverage and cannabis regulatory and commercial matters. She represents companies in the alcohol beverage industry, including brewers, distillers, wineries, importers and retailers. Additionally, she works with clients in the growing cannabis space and has in-depth knowledge of the evolving legal and regulatory issues facing this industry.
A nationally recognized lawyer, Alva combines her extensive knowledge of the commercial and legal landscape as well as deep understanding of the beverage industry to help clients mitigate risk, respond to challenges, and capture and pursue new business opportunities. Her work spans a number of traditional areas of legal practice that affect alcohol beverage and cannabis companies, including litigation, governmental investigation, commercial agreements, alcohol beverage compliance, intellectual property, trade and tax.
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Andrea is a partner, he advises clients on domestic and international tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate restructurings and the use of financial instruments, as well as other tax matters relating to their ordinary activities. He represents Italian and international companies from various industries on a broad spectrum of tax matters and often leads teams of tax advisors from various jurisdictions working on cross-border projects.
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Andrea T. Best advises clients on insurance regulatory compliance throughout the United States. She works with insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, brokers, trade associations and others in the insurance market.
Andrea actively monitors state insurance-related legislative and regulatory developments and works extensively with London, Bermuda and European insurance market participants regarding non-admitted insurance and reinsurance transactions in the United States, including regulatory advice on structuring insurtech, and on sharing economy and gig economy insurance programs in the United States. Andrea counsels managing general agents and other entities looking to establish operations in the United States. Andrea also assists insurance industry participants on structuring cross-border insurance and reinsurance transactions.
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Andrew C. Liazos is the global chair of McDermott’s Benefits & Compensation Practice Group and has practiced at McDermott for over twenty-five years.
Andrew is a nationally recognized leader representing boards and senior executives on significant, multi-disciplinary compensation and benefits related matters, with an emphasis on plan design, practice before regulators, litigation and governance. Chambers USA reports that Andrew is a “first-rate lawyer” and an “excellent, top-notch leader in his field.” Best Lawyers reports from clients that “Andrew’s responsiveness to problems is unequaled,” he “provides the utmost customer service,” “working with him is a great experience,” and that he has “a practical approach to issues.”
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Andrew is a partner, he focuses his practice on commercial and finance disputes and international arbitration. He has a wealth of experience across all sectors and industries, including finance, insolvency, energy, insurance (for policy holders), fraud, commodities, shipping, construction, IT and art theft.
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Andrew Lyonsberg focuses his practice on litigation in the Supreme Court and appellate courts across the country, as well as major motions at the trial-court level. He has briefed more than fifty appellate matters and dispositive motions, and has argued before the US Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits. Andrew also has extensive experience with agency litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act, including several recent victories setting aside federal agency action.
Andrew has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023) for appellate practice, and was named a Rising Star in Supreme Court and appellate litigation by The Legal 500 (2022). He was also featured in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500, with clients praising his “big-picture thinking” and “sophisticated view on how the executive branch operates.”
Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, he was a forum editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Andrew B. Kratenstein provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation, focusing on financial services, private equity, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, real estate and beverage distribution disputes. He represents national and multinational clients in a broad array of industries, including banking, private equity, real estate, hospitality, beverage distribution, sports, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and energy.
Andrew currently chairs the Firm’s Litigation Training Committee and is also active in the Firm’s pro bono program. Among other matters, he has won several appeals on behalf of abused, neglected or abandoned immigrant children who have been denied the ability to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Andrew has been honored by Sanctuary for Families with its Above and Beyond Pro Bono Award honoring members of the legal profession for their outstanding pro bono representation and advocacy on behalf of Sanctuary’s clients.
Andrew has guest lectured at Columbia Law School on best practices for electronic discovery, and he has served as faculty for the Practising Law Institute’s symposium on Best Practices for Complex Cases and for Thompson Reuters on recent developments in mergers and acquisitions litigation.
Andrew Kummer focuses his practice on international corporate transactions. He has significant experience representing national and multinational clients in a wide variety of complex, cross-border structured finance, capital markets and banking transactions.
Andrew draws on his experience living and working abroad to guide his clients through the legal and cultural intricacies that influence multijurisdictional transactions. He regularly represents arrangers and investors on complex structured financings, securitizations, structured notes, receivables financings and other loan instruments. His experience also includes advising underwriters and issuers on a broad range of SEC-registered and exempt public equity and debt offerings.
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Ann Marie Brodarick focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, and other general corporate matters. Ann Marie advises financial and strategic buyers, sellers and investors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other private equity investments, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations and similar transactions.
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Anne-Sophie Maes focuses her French tax practice on tax audits and controversies, transfer pricing and tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. She also has extensive experience advising clients on financings, capital markets transactions and employee offerings.
Anthony Paronneau is a partner, he advises clients on all aspects of corporate and business law, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech and health care industries. Anthony has significant experience advising life sciences companies, private equity funds and venture capital firms on a number of merger and acquisition (M&A) and private equity transactions, including acquisitions, financing rounds, joint ventures and divestitures. He also regularly advises life sciences companies on collaborations, licensing and distribution arrangements.
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Anthony (Tony) Upshaw represents clients on product defense, class action, mass tort and complex civil litigation. Over the course of his career, Tony has tried more than 30 civil jury trials to verdict.
Tony is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Often asked by clients and colleagues to “step into the breach” as trial counsel, he has been recognized nationally for his ability to relate to juries around the country. Tony frequently speaks at various legal association functions, particularly on issues surrounding voir dire, trial technique and diversity in the courtroom. He was a featured speaker at the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) Congress in Paris, France, presented the “Hot Topics in Product Liability Litigation” at the DRI Conference in New Orleans, and testified at the hearings for the American Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Diversity Summit in Boston.
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Counsel Antje Weiss focuses her practice on all aspects of public law, including administrative, regulatory and constitutional law. She has in-depth knowledge of administrative litigation and the relevant procedures.
Antje advises clients on gaming law and represents private and public companies with interests in the gaming sector, especially in connection with setting-up of slot machines, the construction of amusement arcades, the organization of lotteries and draws, the organization and brokerage of horse race and sports betting and all aspects of online gambling services. Additionally, Antje advises clients on all issues of municipal fiscal law, economic and budgetary law.
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Partner Antoine Vergnat focuses his practice on advice to French and non-French investment funds, corporate groups and entrepreneurs operating in the industrial, service and real estate sectors on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters. Antoine focuses his practice on transactional tax law, with an emphasis on matters relating to the acquisition and sale of assets, the financing and restructuring of groups, as well as the management of tax affairs and controversies before tax authorities.
Antoine also regularly provides tax advice to high-net-worth individuals on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters and has significant experience in the structuring of equity compensation schemes for management teams.
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Arianne R. Plasencia focuses her practice on US & international tax matters. She provides international and domestic income, gift, and estate tax planning for entities and high-net-worth individuals with a focus on multijurisdictional families and inbound investment planning. She also represents clients in tax audits, offshore voluntary disclosures, and streamlined disclosures as well as advises them on criminal tax examinations and other criminal tax matters. Arianne provides estate and income tax advice, including pre-immigration planning, to wealthy families and works on a wide variety of real estate matters.
Armando Neris focuses his practice on commercial litigation and arbitration, together with investor-state disputes. He represents a broad range of clients – including state-owned entities and SWFs, major financial institutions, private equity funds, multinational corporations and high-net-worth individuals – in complex and high-value disputes. Armando has a strong background in banking and financial services, private equity and energy and natural resources disputes.
Apart from conducting commercial litigation before the English courts, of which he has considerable experience, Armando has acted as counsel in a number of institutional (ICSID, LCIA, AAA, SIAC and HKIAC) and ad hoc international commercial and investor-state arbitrations. He has appeared as counsel in the New Zealand High Court and Court of Appeal. Armando also has experience of managing and coordinating cross-border disputes and foreign proceedings in a number of different jurisdictions around the world.
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Aurélien Jugand focuses his practice on French and international acquisition and leveraged financing. He acts for financial institutions, direct lending funds and mezzanine debt providers.
Aurélien has prior experience in house, where he worked for the structured finance team of a French investment bank for four years. He also has significant experience working as part of the banking and finance team in global law firms
Axel Schulz focuses his practice on European competition law and has a wealth of experience in merger control, global cartel defence and general antitrust advice in sectors including energy, chemicals, agri-commodities, container shipping, ports, pigments, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Within the pharmaceutical sector, Axel demonstrates exceptional proficiency and industry insight. He has built a solid reputation assisting clients with competition law matters arising around loss of exclusivity; in addition, Axel has advised on distribution, co-marketing, licensing and various forms of vertical and horizontal cooperation agreements.
Axel is adept in orchestrating advice across numerous jurisdictions, providing clients with clear and comprehensive solutions. This global aspect of his practice equips him to guide both national and multinational companies through the most intricate challenges.
Partner Aymen Mahmoud focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and other financial institutions. His experience includes acting in respect of direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated senior, second lien and mezzanine lending, distressed debt trading, portfolio acquisitions and restructurings, emerging markets and other debt securities, including high-yield debt offerings.
Aymen played a key role in first establishing the Loan Market Association forms of leveraged and high yield documentation.
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Bella North focuses her practice on advising clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors in the context of transactions (M&A, joint ventures and private equity) and regulatory (compliance and strategy).
Bella is experienced in helping clients enter and navigate the UK healthcare and life sciences market, including those seeking to establish digital health platforms, develop cross-border telemedicine, and provide direct-to-consumer services. She also works closely with clients managing compliance issues in the context of healthcare services, clinical trials and investigations and health data.
Bella brings experience in UK public sector healthcare, regularly advising providers on clinical governance and professional healthcare practice.
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Benton (Ben) Curtis, a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial attorney, focuses his practice on leading matters, both domestically and abroad, that involve government enforcement defense, internal investigations, compliance counseling, and due diligence regarding third parties and business transactions. Ben regularly represents clients before, and in litigation against, government agencies, including clients accused of health care fraud, kickback violations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, money laundering, and securities fraud. Ben likewise regularly represents corporations and high net worth individuals who have been victimized through internal or third-party misconduct, often in the form of an exceptional theft or fraud.
Ben has tried more than 25 federal jury trials in district courts all around the country, and calls upon that experience when counseling his clients in truly high-stakes matters. Ben’s capabilities stem, in large part, from his previous ten years with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which lengthy tenure included extended stints in Miami, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. In his last position, Ben served for almost five years as an Assistant Chief in DOJ’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section, where he supervised numerous large-scale health care fraud investigations and prosecutions around the country. He also oversaw significant FCPA investigations related to the entertainment and gaming industries in Asia, and a number of insider trading and high-yield investment matters.
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Bertrand Delafaye advises private and listed companies, investors and investment funds on complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and other major transactions, as well as private equity and securities law matters. He also has significant experience in the international arena, cross-border and domestic joint ventures, post-closing reorganizations, and negotiation of major industrial and commercial agreements.
Bertrand regularly handles pre- and post-closing disputes in the context of M&A transactions, and advises on conflicts among shareholders and between joint venture partners.
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Partner Bhanu Sadasivan, PhD, focuses her practice on patent litigation, with an emphasis in the life sciences industry. She has experience litigating patent cases concerning recombinant DNA technology, pharmaceutical formulation, computer hardware and software.
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William (Billy) M. Hildbold focuses his practice on complex commercial real estate transactions, including mortgage and mezzanine financing, secondary market acquisitions and sales, and the acquisition and disposition of real estate assets. He also advises clients in corporate restructuring, refinancing, bankruptcy matters and complex real estate workouts.
Billy represents leading financial institutions in high-profile transactions for significant developments, including projects in Hudson Yards, Columbus Circle, and St. John’s Terminal in New York City. He also handles transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes, including office buildings, multi-family, hotels and condominiums.
Dr. Björn Biehl advises clients on national and international M&A and private equity transactions, corporate restructuring and insolvency (with a focus on distressed M&A) and on all aspects of general corporate law. He counsels both domestic and international clients.
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Boris Uphoff is a partner and member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, where his practice focuses on litigation and dispute resolution. He has litigation experience in all major German courts and assists clients in cross-border disputes. Boris represents German and international clients in patent infringement litigation and in contentious matters relating to trade marks and unfair competition law. His practice also encompasses product liability and insurance law. He acts for international insurers, industrial clients and trading companies, representing them in disputes relating to product defects and consumer claims. He advises clients, particularly from the automotive and electronics sectors, on product recalls and recourse actions against suppliers of defective parts. He is active in the area of cartel damages, successfully defending clients against cartel damages claims brought by competitors and commercial customers. In relation to dispute resolution, Boris frequently represents clients in international arbitrations. He also acts as arbitrator in large commercial disputes.
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Brad Giordano is a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Brad focuses his practice on representing debtors, creditors, direct lenders, ad hoc groups, sponsors and strategic investors in all aspects of complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings.
Brad is frequently consulted by leading private equity investors, hedge funds, and private credit lenders on domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, as well as on strategic acquisitions or dispositions of distressed assets. Brad has played a key role in some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases across a variety of industries, including among others, healthcare, retail, energy, technology, hospitality, media, airlines, aircraft manufacturing, telecom and heavy machinery.
Recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer by Chambers USA, among other publications, Brad has earned praise from clients for being “thoughtful, responsive, and aggressive,” “commercial in every sense,” and delivering “much better than expected outcomes.” Additionally, Brad was listed by the American Bankruptcy Institute as a recipient of their 40 Under 40 Award.
Brian H. Jenn focuses his practice on US and international tax matters for US and foreign multinationals and other clients. As former Deputy International Tax Counsel (DITC) for the US Department of Treasury, Brian has extensive experience and insight on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), having been deeply involved in the process of issuing proposed and final regulations and other guidance implementing the TCJA. Brian also has significant insights on taxation of the digital economy, transfer pricing and US taxation of foreign currencies.
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Brooks B. Gruemmer is a corporate partner with a wide-ranging practice representing private equity and other investment funds and private and public companies, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and the related financing required to fund such transactions. Brooks is a former member of the Firm’s Management Committee and served as head of the Chicago office’s Transactions Practice Group for over a decade.
Brooks has represented clients in a wide range of transactions, business ventures and general corporate matters. He regularly represents a number of private equity and other investment funds in leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, divestitures and recapitalizations. He also represents privately held and publicly traded corporations in connection with a variety of corporate matters, including strategic mergers and other acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, securities law disclosure and compliance matters, and executive compensation. In recent years, Brooks has advised acquirers of financially distressed companies, inside and outside of bankruptcy, and in connection with debt and equity restructurings, workouts and related financings.
Brooks brings a unique perspective to private practice, having spent approximately four years as vice president of administration and general counsel of Favorite Brands International, Inc., the fourth-largest manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States. While at Favorite Brands, Brooks was a member of the executive committee and oversaw numerous acquisitions, financings that raised more than $1 billion, and the eventual sale of the Company to Nabisco.
Partner Bruce L. Richardson focuses his practice on electric energy law. He advises independent power producers (IPPs), merchant transmission developers, electric power marketers, energy asset managers and private equity firms in the energy sector. While Bruce routinely appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on regulatory matters and in administrative litigation, he represents energy sector clients on a wide range of regulatory, electric reliability, transactional and project issues.
On regulatory matters, Bruce provides guidance on issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Energy Policy Acts of 1992 and 2005, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. The guidance includes independent power production, interconnection matters, affiliate utility issues, transmission access and pricing, ancillary services, cost-based rates, regional transmission organizations, organized power markets, market-based rates, reliability must-run service, power supply purchases and sales, retail wheeling and wholesale electric customer disputes.
Bruce also counsels clients on regulatory compliance matters, including the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) electric reliability standards and requirements. For transactions, he assists clients regarding electric power contracts, utility restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Caitlin (Cate) Howe focuses her practice on outsourcing, technology, and commercial transactions. In the outsourcing space, Cate represents clients in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, and healthcare systems in revenue cycle management outsourcing. Cate also counsels clients in a wide variety of technology transactions, including cloud computing and other ‘as a service’ arrangements, software licenses, technology development and licensing agreements, e-commerce arrangements, technology maintenance and service agreements, and software compliance audits. In addition, she advises clients in strategic commercial transactions, including supply, manufacturing, distribution and reseller agreements. Cate also counsels clients on intellectual property and commercial contract issues that arise in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transition services agreements.
Caitlyn M. Campbell, a former US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Attorney, focuses her practice on representing clients in SEC investigations, securities class action and derivative litigation and compliance matters. Caitlyn has extensive experience in matters involving potential violations of the federal securities laws, including allegations of accounting and disclosure violations, fraud and regulatory violations by investment advisers and broker-dealers, insider trading, anti-corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations and whistleblower claims. She also assists companies in developing training programs and compliance policies and procedures.
Prior to joining McDermott, Caitlyn spent eight years at the SEC, most recently as Senior Counsel to the Directors of Enforcement, assisting with the management of the Commission’s largest division, and as a member of the division’s COVID-19 Steering Committee. At the SEC, Caitlyn led all aspects of investigations involving accounting fraud, complex insider trading schemes, market abuse, market manipulation, misappropriation of investor funds, investment adviser fraud and the Immigrant Investor Program. She also worked extensively with foreign regulators, coordinating complex, global investigations. In addition to her investigative work, Caitlyn co-chaired the committee tasked with proactively detecting accounting and disclosure fraud in the New England region and served as the liaison to the national Financial Reporting and Audit Group and the Boston FBI.
Caitlyn has conducted numerous internal investigations, including investigations for major public companies, their boards of directors and board committees. Further, she has represented Boards, senior management teams, hedge funds and private equity firms in connection with matters before enforcement and regulatory agencies including the SEC, US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She has also represented numerous corporations, as well as directors and officers, in securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation. More recently, Caitlyn has represented companies and officers in connection with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)-related litigation and SEC investigations, and works diligently to track developments in this area of the law.
Caitlyn regularly speaks on topics relating to criminal and regulatory enforcement, as well as accounting fraud.
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Carl J. Fleming is a transactional lawyer whose principle areas of practice are renewable energy and private equity. He leads transactions throughout the US and worldwide for a number of the renewable industry’s leading developers, global private equity funds and Fortune 500 companies. He provides legal, commercial and strategic advice on the development, purchase and sale and financing of renewable energy projects in wind, solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and other low carbon solutions. A partner in our Washington, DC office, he also advises on a number of energy and climate change policy issues.
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Carlo is a partner, he heads the Firm's Italian office and leads the Italian tax practice, where he advises clients on domestic and international tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, cross-border transactions, transfer pricing, capital markets and collective investment vehicles, and tax controversy. He also regularly advises on the tax profiles of employee incentive plans, debt restructuring and financial instruments. Carlo advises Italian and multinational companies on numerous tax law issues, providing opinions in both Italian and English.
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Caroline H. Ngo is co-leader of the Firm’s International Tax Affinity Group and is based in Washington, DC. She advises publicly traded companies on international tax planning, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, application of bilateral income tax treaties, and other international tax matters. Since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), a substantial portion of Caroline’s practice has been advising clients on the new international tax provisions, including the new foreign tax credit regime (including expense apportionment), the GILTI regime, the participation exemption under section 245A, the BEAT, and the transition tax under section 965. Caroline recently served as lead counsel in a significant litigation in the US Tax Court, and her team secured a complete victory for the client.
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Caroline Reignley provides strategic legal, regulatory and compliance counsel to for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, health systems, other healthcare providers, life sciences and technology companies.
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Partner Carolyn Gleason heads the Firm's Global Regulatory Practice Group and International Trade Practice and is co-chair of the Firm's Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry Group. Carolyn has in-depth knowledge of dispute settlement proceedings under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO), and has served as government counsel and chief private sector counsel in numerous successful dispute settlement actions. She has been appointed member for the president's US Agricultural Private Sector Advisory Committee since 1994, advising the US government on US trade initiatives and objectives.
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Carsten Böhm is a partner, he advises clients in international and national transactions in the fields of private equity, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), venture capital and all associated corporate law matters, including restructurings, limited partnership law and corporate governance, as well as with respect to general commercial law and insolvency near situations. He advises on all aspects relevant to a transaction, from the preparation and structuring of the transaction process to contractual negotiations, the acquisition finance, the management participation, the closing of the transaction and post-closing restructurings. His clients include private equity houses, corporates and owners. Carsten also advises the management of corporates held by private equity houses as well as occasionally banks providing acquisition finance.
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Catherine (Cate) A. Battin represents clients in state and local tax controversies at the audit, administrative and judicial levels in numerous jurisdictions. She provides national state tax strategies for clients on a full range of state tax issues, including income tax apportionment, nexus, combination and sales tax characterization of products and services. She has defended numerous internet sellers in cases brought under the Illinois False Claims Act alleging fraudulent failures to collect and remit use tax.
Cate regularly speaks on state and local tax matters before groups that have included the Tax Executives Institute, the Chicago Tax Club and the Chicago Bar Association. Prior to joining McDermott, she worked at a major international accounting and consulting firm, where she focused exclusively on state and local taxes.
Charles (Charlie) R. Buck advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax-exempt hospital systems, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, accountable care organizations, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other health insurers. Charlie is partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Boston Health Industry Advisory Practice Group.
Charlie provides legal counsel and solutions in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, conversions to tax-exempt status, and other transactional matters. He advises clients forming and operating accountable care organizations (ACOs), including commercial ACOs and those in the Medicare Pioneer Program and Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs.
Charlie focuses his regulatory practice on federal fraud and abuse laws (including the Stark Law), obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and health information privacy, state insurance licensure and determination of need law, and general corporate matters.
After earning his law degree, Charlie clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, Charlie served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a policy analyst at the Jackson Hole Group, where he focused on rural healthcare and purchasing cooperatives.
Charles (Chuck) Moll focuses his practice on state and local tax (SALT), primarily concentrating on the resolution of tax controversies. He regularly appears before the various California tax authorities—including the State Board of Equalization, the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, and the Office of Tax Appeals—as well as local authorities such as assessors and assessment appeals boards. He has litigated at all levels of California’s courts, the US Tax Court, and the US Supreme Court.
Chuck’s practice includes tax matters in other states, as well as federal tax controversies, including representation of clients in federal courts and at appellate hearings before the Internal Revenue Service.
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Charlotte Michellet focuses her practice on public, administrative and regulatory law.
Chris Marshall advises clients on a range of corporate matters including acquisitions and disposals, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, corporate governance and shareholder agreements. He has experience in a variety of different industries and his clients have included large corporates, SME’s and high net worth individuals.
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Christian is a partner, he focuses his practice in information technology (IT), intellectual property (IP), media and telecommunication, and data protection/privacy law. An experienced trial lawyer, Christian represents clients in commercial law litigation before German courts, as well as in arbitrations. Christian advises clients with respect to complex projects, inter alia compliance with data protection/privacy law. He has published numerous articles.
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J. Christian (Chris) Nemeth provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation and government investigations, including ERISA matters, financial and banking cases, business torts and breach of contract actions. Chris is the co-head of the Firm’s ERISA Litigation practice and works closely with the Firm’s Employee Benefits Practice Group on all types of Litigation matters, Department of Labor investigations and similar issues.
Chris represents clients in courts at the state and federal levels across the country, and has successfully tried cases involving a wide range of matters. He also arbitrates cases in domestic and international forums.
Chris has extensive appellate experience as well. He has successfully appealed cases to the Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and to the Illinois Court of Appeals.
Dr. Christian Rolf focuses his practice on employment, labor, civil and commercial law, executive compensation and benefits schemes and human resources (HR) compliance and data privacy issues. He also has extensive experience in employment law-related matters in M&A and private equity transactions, restructuring scenarios and complex business litigation.
Christian Krohs advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including antitrust litigation, as well as compliance matters.
Christian has extensive experience in all areas of EU and German antitrust and competition law, particularly in relation to cartel investigations, cartel damages claims, abuse of dominance proceedings and both national and international merger control projects. He has also advised numerous clients regarding antitrust and anticorruption compliance as well as internal investigations.
Christian is an experienced lawyer who has spent many years in the antitrust and competition law department of a prominent international law firm in Germany, Brussels and London, and headed the antitrust and merger control practice group of another international law firm. He is a well-respected author of several publications and continues to comment on relevant topics of antitrust and competition law.
As Global Head of McDermott’s Trademark Prosecution and Controversy Practice, Christina (Tina) L. Martini focuses her practice on domestic and international trademark and copyright law, as well as domain name, Internet, social media, advertising, unfair competition and entertainment law. Tina has extensive experience in counseling, prosecution, enforcement, due diligence and licensing matters. She successfully assists clients in protecting their intellectual property rights through litigation and other means, including the courts and uniform dispute resolution procedures.
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Partner Chris Jedrey represents nonprofit and for-profit provider and health plan clients in merger, acquisition, affiliation, and joint venture transactions; sales of nonprofit assets and operations to for-profit companies; and conversions from taxable to tax-exempt status. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including clinical network development, clinical research issues and faculty practice plan structures.
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Christopher Kandel focuses his practice on leveraged, special situations and acquisition finance and restructuring matters under English and US law. He is considered one of the leading acquisition finance lawyers in London, with decades of experience in the London market.
Chris has advised on a variety of landmark and notably innovative matters, including numerous European acquisition financings, a large number of take privates and bridge loans, the first super-senior revolver in Europe, the first pari passu secured bank/bond issue in Europe, the largest ever margin loan on unlisted shares, what was the largest (now second largest) LBO financing in Asia and the first Western-sponsor-style leveraged buyout financing in Russia. He was also singled out in the Financial Times 2016 European Innovative Lawyers report for his innovative work on the Pirelli take-private financing.
Chris is often turned to because of his detailed knowledge of the differences between the mid market and large cap debt products and terms, as well as the changes required when European borrowers/transactions turn to the US leveraged finance market for liquidity.
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Partner Christopher Gladbach counsels clients in energy M&A, project development, tax equity and project finance transactions.
Chris works with energy clients in structuring complex equity and debt investments, advises both buyers and sellers in the power sector in mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, and on the development of large-scale energy projects. He assists his clients in mitigating and allocating risk associated with these transactions in conjunction with achieving their primary business and financial objectives.
Chris has extensive experience advising clients pursuing opportunities involving the development and financing of United States Department of Defense (DoD) energy projects. He counsels developers, purchasers, lenders and tax equity investors in government contracts and structuring project development and financing arrangements to account for unique risks.
In addition, Chris represents market-leading private equity funds and institutional investors in power asset transactions, and understands the unique challenges and opportunities that these clients face.
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Chris Foster advises leading companies and families in labor and employment matters.
Chris represents companies navigating union organizing, election and decertification campaigns, as well as NLRB unfair labor practice investigations, trials and appeals. He provides strategic planning on the addition, merging and divesting of unionized operations.
Chris defends employers in arbitrations involving contract disputes and terminations, and against state and federal wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination claims.
Chris also focuses on advising individuals, families, closely-held businesses, private foundations and non-profits on employment issues, training, compliance and risk mitigation in hiring and separation of employees, non-disclosure and privacy agreements, development of employee handbooks and policies/procedures, and related claims and litigation.
Chris is an editor for the Developing Labor Law treatise and formerly served as a senior articles editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. During undergraduate, he studied economics and philosophy at the University of Oxford under a full, one-year scholarship from Santa Clara University.
Chris serves as head of the Firm’s traditional labor subgroup and is the San Francisco office hiring partner. Chris is also pro bono counsel for the San Francisco Zoo.
Chuck Gibbs focuses his practice on insolvency and restructuring. For nearly 40 years, he has been recognized as one of the country’s leading restructuring lawyers, being ranked by Chambers & Partners for over 20 years, including being ranked as Band 1 for more than a decade. Chuck has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2006, including being awarded “Lawyer of the Year” in 2019. He has been recognized as a “Leading Individual” by both The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers since 2008 and The Legal 500. Chuck has led public and private companies through challenging and complex financial restructurings. Throughout his career, Chuck has been on the cutting edge of novel restructuring issues ranging from Caribbean resorts to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Most recently, Chuck was tasked with leading the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange bankruptcy in history as of the date of filing.
Chuck is frequently engaged in multijurisdictional and cross-border matters for debtors, secured creditors, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, equity committees and asset buyers. His cross-border experience includes representing joint liquidators in Caribbean insolvency proceedings, including the largest individual fraud case in history. Chuck partners with non-money center secured lenders, particularly in the real estate space, leveraging his deep experience in handling hundreds of real estate loan workouts on behalf of lenders, both in and out of court.
Côme de Saint Vincent focuses his practice on advice to investment funds, top executives and management teams on tax aspects of domestic and international private equity transactions. He also regularly advises on corporate tax matters, and has developed a strong background in the life sciences sector. Côme also provides tax advice to high net-worth individuals on domestic and international estate planning issues and assists clients in the management of tax disputes.
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Damon M. Lyon focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global planning and international controversies for multinational companies. He advises clients on a broad range of tax issues, including tax-efficient structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures. Damon also provides advice concerning multi-jurisdictional business structures, such as intangible holding companies and finance company structures.
Damon M. Lyon focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global planning and international controversies for multinational companies. He advises clients on a broad range of tax issues, including tax-efficient structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures. Damon also provides advice concerning multi-jurisdictional business structures, such as intangible holding companies and finance company structures.
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Dana McSherry advises healthcare and life sciences companies in criminal and civil government enforcement matters and in related civil litigation, including civil False Claims Act litigation. She advises clients concerning all aspects of civil and criminal investigations relating to Medicare and Medicaid billing and other government contracting issues, including negotiating with the government and managing clients’ responses to civil investigative demands and large-scale investigative subpoenas. Dana also assists clients in conducting internal investigations and counsels clients across the healthcare industry on compliance and risk management issues.
In late 2018, Dana successfully defended a pharmacist charged with racketeering, mail fraud, and Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) violations. Following a two-month jury trial in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Dana’s client was acquitted of all charges.
In addition to her life sciences practice, Dana also represents individual clients in securities fraud related government enforcement matters, both civil and criminal.
Dana also maintains an extensive pro bono practice. In 2019, Dana successfully represented a parent in a Hague child custody case that involved a week-long trial in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She also successfully represented a civilly committed individual in a civil rights action.
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Daniel F. Gottlieb counsels a wide range of healthcare industry clients, including healthcare providers, health plans, health information technology vendors, life sciences companies and data aggregators. He is sought out for his legal knowledge and practical approach on data protection, interoperability, and complex data and software licensing transactions, collaborations and strategic initiatives.
Daniel counsels healthcare clients regarding compliance with US federal and state and international privacy, security, breach notification and information blocking laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 21st Century Cures Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act, CAN-SPAM and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He offers guidance on the intersection of privacy and security requirements with information blocking prohibitions under the 21st Century Cures Act and Medicare rules impacting the deployment of health information technology.
Daniel has deep experience regarding requirements for de-identification, anonymization and other secondary uses of health information under HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR. Daniel regularly advises clients regarding their response to cyberattacks and other security breaches, and defends against subsequent investigations by state regulators and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
He advises healthcare clients on all aspects of data and software licenses and other agreements for the acquisition of electronic health record (EHR) systems and other mission-critical health IT and health content. He drafts and negotiates hosting, cloud computing and IT service agreements, as well as license agreements for health data and other health content.
Daniel assists with compliance program implementations, compliance audits, and government program overpayment and refund matters, including drafting billing compliance policies and procedures. He also counsels clients on compliance with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, fraud and abuse laws; the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Health Care Professionals; and the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals.
Daniel M. Simon represents public and private companies, secured and unsecured creditors, acquirers of distressed assets, and investors in all aspects of corporate restructuring transactions. He represents a diverse range of clients spanning numerous industries in complex and contentious bankruptcy cases.
Daniel regularly helps clients navigate large-scale, complex, corporate bankruptcies, cross-border restructurings and a variety of special distressed transactions across industries.
Daniel regularly lectures and publishes articles on restructuring topics, and has led several seminars held by leading industry organizations, including Turnaround Management Association. While in law school, Daniel served on the Duke Law Journal.
Dan Graham leads the Government Contracts practice. Highly regarded in Government Contracts litigation, Dan Graham has over two decades of experience assisting clients across industry sectors on bid protests, Contract Dispute Act appeals, prime and subcontractor disputes and commercial litigation.
Chambers USA has ranked Dan in Band 1 for Government Contracts (Nationwide). A client quoted by Chambers said “He is a star in this field. The client added, “No task is too large or too small for Dan to take on and excel at. He has provided advice which has resulted in several great outcomes” (2019).
Dan has litigated cases before the US Court of Federal Claims (COFC), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Boards of Contract Appeals, as well as before Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals across the country.
In addition, Dan advises clients on cost accounting matters, identifying and resolving organizational and personal conflicts of interest, mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings and reorganizations, internal investigations and suspension and debarment proceedings. Dan also counsels clients on complying with ethics laws and regulations, including post-employment restrictions applicable to government employees.
Dan is committed to pro bono service, and has argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in several veterans’ benefits cases.
Dan also clerked for the Honorable D. Brooks Smith for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable Christine Odell Cook Miller for the US Court of Federal Claims.
Darren Azman is a member of the firm-wide Management Committee and a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Darren’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings, creditors’ rights and distressed acquisitions. His clients include troubled companies, official creditors’ committees, private equity sponsors, financial and strategic purchasers of distressed assets and others in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings.
Darren has distinct restructuring experience in the fields of energy, manufacturing, healthcare, blockchain and cryptocurrency, technology, maritime and transportation, and cross-border restructurings, including insolvency proceedings involving Canada, British Virgin Islands, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He routinely litigates matters in US Bankruptcy Courts.
Darren is a recognized leader in the cryptocurrency space, having led the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first-ever crypto chapter 11 case, Cred. Inc. His efforts in Cred have led to the development of novel case law that has generated millions of dollars of recoveries for creditors, including obtaining a court order requiring Cred’s former chief capital officer to return more than $6m of stolen cryptocurrency within 30 minutes after the court hearing concluded. Darren subsequently led the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the chapter 11 case of Voyager Digital, a crypto exchange with more than 1 million customers. He also represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first crypto mining chapter 11 case, Compute North. Darren is currently representing Prime Trust, a leader in the crypto space with more than $3.8bn of crypto and fiat under custody at its peak, in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Darren is frequently asked to speak around the country on the intersection of bankruptcy and cryptocurrency, and regularly publishes articles on that topic, including in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, the Journal of Corporate Renewal, and Law360.
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David Guedry is nationally recognized for more than 25 years of leadership advising global service providers and Fortune 1000 companies on complex sourcing relationships, including assisting with developing legal, operational and business strategies, and translating strategy into the practical negotiation and documentation of deals.
David’s experience includes managing the complexities of information technology (IT) and telecommunication outsourcing agreements, business process outsourcing arrangements (with an emphasis on HR and finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing), distribution relationships, licensing arrangements, and joint ventures, strategic alliances and teaming relationship. He also assists clients in turning unprofitable, troubled relationships into profitable, referable accounts by guiding the client through the process of identifying, developing and successfully implementing turnaround solutions.
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Partner David Levine focuses his practice on all aspects of international trade and related regulatory matters. He counsels clients on import relief, customs, export controls, trade sanctions, anti-boycott and anticorruption laws, and related trade laws and procedures. David represents clients in antidumping and countervailing duty cases and related federal appellate litigation, trade controls and customs audits and enforcement proceedings, trade-related legislative and rulemaking proceedings, and trade negotiations.
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David G. Noren focuses his practice on international tax planning for multinational companies. David advises clients on a wide range of “outbound” and “inbound” issues, with a particular focus on the subpart F anti-deferral rules, the application of bilateral income tax treaties, and the treatment of cross-border flows of services and intellectual property rights under transfer pricing and other rules.
Prior to joining the Firm, David served as legislation counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation in the US Congress where he advised the House Ways & Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and other members of Congress on proposed international tax legislation. He played a major role in the development of several international tax bills, including those culminating in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004.
David also advised the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the review and ratification of several tax treaties and protocols, carried out the international tax aspects of special investigations and studies requested by members of Congress, and assisted in the Joint Committee staff’s review of large tax refunds in the international area. Prior to working in Congress, David taught in the tax program at the New York University School of Law.
David has testified in congressional hearings on international tax issues and is a frequent writer and speaker on such topics. While in law school, David was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
David L. Taub focuses his practice in the field of municipal derivatives, distressed municipal credits and financial technology (FinTech). David is head of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Advisory Practice and is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.
With more than 30 years of experience representing leading financial institutions and other participants in the global capital markets, David is a widely recognized industry leader for his strategic advisory in innovative financial products and complex securitization transactions. His versatile practice focuses on three core areas: derivatives and financial products, where he specializes in municipal derivatives, distressed municipal credits, and FinTech/blockchain.
David is counsel, he advises clients on the full range of energy transactions in the mid- and downstream fields, including types of commodity trading matters, conventional, renewables and clean-tech projects, energy and infrastructure projects, regulation and waste, including waste-to-energy schemes. Having practised as an energy corporate, regulatory and projects lawyer since 1993, he also worked from the start of the renewables and physical commodities trading legal market, in the UK, throughout Europe, the United States and beyond.
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David is an associate, he focuses his practice on commercial health care, with a background in providing commercial, corporate and financial advice to health care clients. His areas of specialty include procurement, outsourcing and “insourcing” of clinical and non-clinical health care services, private patient services, health care regulatory, advice on medical device regulations as well as leading specialist projects, such as the NHS Proton Beam project.
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David P. Saunders (CIPP/US, CIPM) is an experienced litigator who focuses his practice on privacy and cybersecurity matters. David helps clients through the life cycle of their data privacy needs. He helps them mitigate and manage risks related to data privacy and cybersecurity by assisting their government affairs teams with the development of new privacy legislation, their legal and compliance teams through the implementation of privacy programs, and their litigation teams through regulatory investigations and civil class action litigations.
David has experience working with clients in a wide variety of industries. From food and alcohol to telecommunications and energy, and from PE funds and portfolio companies to small businesses and start-ups, David helps clients design a data privacy strategy that works for them.
David has experience in all aspects of privacy program implementation from conducting risk assessments and drafting privacy policies to planning around cross-border data transfers, and negotiating vendor agreements. He regularly counsels on GDPR, GLBA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and the growing list of state law privacy laws and regulations, including CCPA. He is also there for his clients in their most difficult times, having navigated data breaches, and successfully resolved both regulatory investigations and class action litigations related to corporate privacy practices. David also regularly performs due diligence for corporate transactions.
David has worked with a number of state attorney general’s offices and federal regulators, and advocated on behalf of clients in the telecommunications, cybersecurity, health and financial services sectors. His work also includes collaborating with clients to provide testimony and comment on existing and planned data privacy legislation at the state and federal levels.
David maintains an active pro bono practice, having represented inmates in various actions in state and federal courts, and providing privacy program development, counseling and training to non-profits.
David Revcolevschi focuses his practice on French and international securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and more generally on the securities and corporate law and corporate governance issues faced by publicly listed companies.
David has extensive experience in equity and equity-linked securities offerings, representing issuers, underwriters, and shareholders. He has notably advised on more than 35 IPO projects on Euronext Paris, Nasdaq, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange and numerous other securities issuances by companies operating in the life science (biotechnology, medical device), technology (software, hardware, telecom), airlines, aerospace, real estate, leisure and entertainment, chemicals, utilities and financial sectors.
David also advises publicly listed and private companies on acquisitions, dispositions, mergers and joint ventures in a wide range of industries and his experience includes cross-border transactions involving companies and shareholders across Europe and the United States, as well as China and the Middle East and North Africa.
In addition, David also represents issuers, directors, officers and employees in enforcement actions by the French securities regulator (AMF).
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David Durham concentrates his practice on representation and advice to businesses in all matters involving labor unions. He works in many sectors, including technology, real estate, retail, higher education, construction, marine terminal operations, rideshare, health care, alcoholic beverage producers, food service, hotel, newspapers, radio, television and live entertainment.
David regularly advises companies on labor issues related to mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of real estate and businesses and provides counsel to employers on other strategic matters involving labor unions, such as union organizing drives and decertifications, outsourcing, automation, strike preparation, strike management, lockouts and permanent replacement situations. He has negotiated hundreds of collective bargaining agreements and has handled large, nationwide corporate campaigns including defense of employers in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings and collateral litigation. David defends clients in unfair labor practice cases before the NLRB, and in the Federal Court of Appeals regarding labor matters.
In addition to his labor union related advocacy, David counsels clients in all facets of employment law, including discipline and discharge, outsourcing, preservation of management prerogatives, and change resulting from industry disruption such as international competition and automation.
David Wolff is the co-head of the US real estate practice and head of the Chicago real estate group. He represents private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts, developers, capital providers and other institutional and non-institutional investors in commercial real estate, real estate finance and other related transactions. David advises clients in the structuring, negotiating and documenting of all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including financing, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing and development of various property types located throughout the US.
David also has experience representing businesses in corporate mergers and acquisitions (including healthcare transactions), and in the formation and ongoing administration of commercial and private trust companies.
David Nestler is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group. He counsels private fund clients in connection with the formation and operation of private investment funds as well as legal, regulatory and compliance issues faced by their sponsors. He has served as legal counsel to numerous institutional and boutique sponsors across a spectrum of investment strategies, including buyout, real estate, credit, growth equity and venture capital, co-investment, fund-of-funds, and secondaries. He also represents clients in connection with the formation of managed accounts, funds-of-one, joint ventures, and other bespoke investment vehicles and products.
David also specializes in representing investors in the acquisition and disposition of private investment fund interests, both on a primary basis and in secondary market transactions as well as advising investment professionals in connection with their employment arrangements with fund sponsors. He advises on the organization and documentation of internal firm arrangements and has also worked on a variety of other corporate transactional matters, such as strategic management company investments, emerging company representations and venture capital transactions.
David maintains an active pro bono practice counseling local entrepreneurs and small businesses, and he regularly works with the Volunteers of Legal Service – Microenterprise Project as well as New York Law School’s Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic.
With a career that spans more than two decades, David Herman counsels real estate-related companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, going-private transactions and initial public offerings (IPOs), special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), financings, workouts and restructurings. He also advises industry clients on general corporate matters, mortgage-backed securitizations, commercial lending transactions, company and asset portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, private equity transactions and other real estate-related transactions. David regularly represents special servicers, lenders and borrowers on loan restructurings, workouts and take backs. He has advised clients in transactions totaling more than $100 billion. David is the co-head of the US real estate practice and head of the New York real estate group.
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David (Dave) Kiefer focuses his practice on litigation and arbitration matters arising out of construction and engineering disputes over large, international energy and infrastructure projects, including megaprojects valued in the billions of dollars. He is intimately familiar with the technical and commercial aspects of these projects and routinely advises clients as project disputes arise, making him an effective and efficient advocate.
Dave has successfully prosecuted and defended against large and complex claims before federal and state courts, as well as domestic and international arbitration panels, for over 25 years. He has represented clients in arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution and the American Arbitration Association. He is also currently the co-chair of the New York City Region of the Society of Construction Law, North America.
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David K. Momborquette focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, regulatory matters and internal investigations, primarily for clients in the financial services industry, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and interdealer brokers. He has extensive experience representing entities and individuals in both private securities litigation and securities regulatory and other related matters, including investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, US Attorneys’ offices, New York Stock Exchange, state attorneys general offices and state securities regulators.
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Partner David G. Tewksbury focuses his practice on federal energy regulatory law, particularly as it relates to electric power. He advises independent power producers, power marketers, trade associations and others on a wide range of federal energy regulatory, markets and reliability matters.
David handles issues arising under various federal and state laws, including the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Natural Gas Act, the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
His portfolio of transactional matters include electric power and natural gas supply contracts, transmission service agreements, interconnection agreements, pipeline leases and capacity release agreements, mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy restructurings.
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As a member of the Corporate Department, Debra focuses her practice on renewable energy transactions, general corporate matters, franchising, licensing and distribution matters, as well as other business growth strategies.
Debra’s corporate practice includes counseling clients, both publicly and privately held, on transactions related to capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, brand extension programs, joint ventures and strategic alliances in a variety of industries. She has extensive experience advising clients on renewable energy transactions, including the structuring, development and financing of renewable projects throughout North America and Europe. Debra has served as counsel for major investment banking clients, large developers, sponsors, utilities, and other lenders and investors in the development, implementation, acquisition, structuring and financing of renewable assets, including the negotiation of acquisition and financing documents (including tax equity and back leverage), strategic investments, PPAs, EPCs, and various agreements related to state and local incentives and renewable energy credits.
Debra also counsels clients on distribution, franchise and dealer relations, terminations, transfers and regulatory compliance. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions involving franchise systems, development of domestic and international franchise strategies, preparation of franchise and license agreements and related disclosure materials, advising on compliance programs and distributor consolidation matters, as well as franchisee and dealer terminations. She has worked with hundreds of franchisors and suppliers in a wide variety of industries, including energy, food service, retail, beverage (alcohol and non-alcohol), hospitality, automobile rental, convenience store, sports and entertainment, cosmetology, healthcare, real estate, industrial goods, clothiers, cosmetics, and residential and light commercial services.
Debra has served as pro bono counsel to the National Association of Women Business Owners, coordinates the Firm’s staffing of, and regularly volunteers at the D.C. Bar’s Landlord Tenant Resource Center, and has provided pro bono legal assistance to multiple charitable organizations, including FAIR Girls, No One Left Behind, UNITAS, the Human Rights Campaign and the Northern Virginia Coalition.
Diana Hund advises clients on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
Diana represents private equity sponsors, founders and managers in connection with acquisitions and disposals. She also represents German corporate groups in their investments in French companies and other cross-border transactions. In addition, Diana advises venture capital funds, corporate clients and entrepreneurs on venture capital and growth transactions of various types in sectors such as e-commerce and technology.
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Dirk Pohl is a partner, head of the Munich office and the German Tax Practice. Dirk’s practice focuses on international tax law, tax litigation before tax courts and the German Supreme Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof), integrated legal, tax and organization counseling of business enterprises. He has extensive experience in dealing with the tax issues of multinationals. He frequently and successfully represents multinationals and other tax payers before the European Court of Justice, the German Supreme Constitutional Court and the German Supreme Tax Court, including cases brought before the 5th and 11th Chambers which are in charge of German VAT cases.
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Dominika Korytek focuses her practice on international tax planning, with an emphasis on technology companies. She advises clients on tax strategies for international expansion, domestic and international acquisitions, reorganizations and dispositions.
Dominika also advises clients related to international tax planning in mergers and acquisitions, dual consolidated loss issues, permanent establishment risk analysis, withholding tax and indirect (VAT/GST) tax planning. She also works closely with policy teams to obtain tax rulings and exemptions outside of the US.
She is a frequent author and speaker on topics pertaining to international taxation.
Douglas (Doug) H. Carsten focuses his practice on complex patent litigation disputes. He counsels clients in various technology areas, including pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, diagnostic products, retail products and computer software. He has substantial first-chair trial experience that includes litigating high-profile and billion-dollar patent cases. Doug is also co-chair of the Firm’s global Life Sciences practice.
Doug is an active speaker on topics relating to patent law, trial practice, Hatch-Waxman issues and oral presentation skills.
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Partner Dustin Schwerdtfeger advises corporate clients, venture capitalists, banks and other financial institutions on banking and finance matters, in particular on credit financing. Dustin has special knowledge of financing in association with real estate and corporate acquisitions.
He has extensive experience in the following areas:
Real estate financing (within a country and across borders, individual property and portfolio transactions)
Project and project development financing
Acquisition financing
Corporate financing
Venture Capital Financing
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Edward G. Zacharias is the managing partner of McDermott’s Boston office. He represents clients across the healthcare industry and beyond on healthcare compliance and transactional matters. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and advises healthcare providers, insurers, health information technology and digital health companies, pharmacies, drug and device manufacturers, life sciences companies and health services vendors on a range of information privacy and cybersecurity laws, including the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 42 C.F.R. Part 2, the California Consumer Privacy Act and multiple other privacy and data security regimes.
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Partner Edward (Ed) Zaelke is the head of the Firm’s Global Energy Project Finance group. He focuses his practice on project finance and private equity in renewable energy transactional matters. With more than 30 years of experience, he advises clients on all elements of alternative energy development and finance, including equity and debt financing, merger and acquisition transactions, equipment purchase and sale agreements, power purchase agreements, siting and other real property issues, governmental approvals, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts.
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Edward (Jed) A. Gordon serves as the head of McDermott’s IP Transactions practice within the firm’s fully integrated IP Practice Group.
Jed provides transactional counseling in relation to intellectual property issues that arise in a wide range of corporate transactions. Leveraging a deep understanding of intellectual property law and commercial sensibilities across a variety of industries, Jed advises clients on stand-alone licensing arrangements, the acquisition and sale of privately and publicly owned companies, and the formation of joint ventures and technology collaborations within the United States and across borders. Clients regularly call on Jed to lead the complex negotiations of IP provisions necessary to implement these transactions and to manage the related diligence processes. He has supported deals across a wide range of industries, including in the automotive, nuclear power, medical device, computing and telecommunications, health care, and consumer products industries.
Jed also advises clients regarding strategic patent portfolio development and counsels them in relation to patent enforcement strategies and defense against threatened patent infringement litigation. Jed has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the fields of computer networking, wireless networking, video displays, medical devices, speech processing, MEMS devices, business methods, semiconductor processing, optical devices, video surveillance and software.
Edward G. Zacharias is the managing partner of McDermott’s Boston office. Clients across the healthcare industry and beyond turn to him for practical, business-oriented counsel on their most significant privacy and cybersecurity compliance, healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. Ed’s clients include “Big Tech” companies, health information technology and digital health companies, healthcare providers, insurers, electronic health record platforms, pharmacies, drug and device manufacturers, life sciences companies and health services vendors.
Ed helps clients assess and develop innovative technologies (including AI/ML-enabled products) to comply with applicable laws while achieving their business objectives. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and advises clients on a broad range of information privacy and cybersecurity laws, including HIPAA, HITECH Act, 42 CFR Part 2, CCPA/CPRA and other state consumer privacy laws, GDPR, NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, and other privacy and cybersecurity regimes.
Ed manages complex, high-profile ransomware attacks and other data breaches, guiding clients through all aspects of incident response and remediation. He is one of the nation’s leading lawyers in responding to HIPAA compliance investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and state attorneys general. Ed has extensive experience negotiating favorable settlements on behalf of clients when these investigations result in allegations of noncompliance.
Ed has partnered with clients from across the technology and healthcare spectrum in their response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including advising on the use of technologies to facilitate communications among providers and patients, and helping organizations address the related privacy, cybersecurity, telehealth, medical device and other legal considerations.
Edward Perkins focuses his practice on disputes arising from cross-border investments and financial transactions. Edward has worked with investors and property developers, venture capital funds, private equity funds and other financial institutions on a range of complex contentious mandates.
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Edward (Ted) Diskant is a former federal prosecutor who leverages his background overseeing some of the most high-profile criminal matters brought by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to help companies and individuals navigate a wide range of white-collar, litigation and regulatory enforcement matters. Ted is routinely hired to lead sensitive internal investigations and respond to government inquiries, with a particular focus on matters involving the False Claims Act (FCA), the anti-bribery laws including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), wire fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering and the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
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Edward L. Froelich represents domestic and foreign public corporations, privately held companies, partnerships, trusts and individuals across the spectrum of federal tax controversies, including audits, trials and appeals. Ed’s clients include businesses, business owners and investors with operations and interests in the financial services, technology, real estate, healthcare and other industries.
A former trial attorney for the Tax Division of the US Department of Justice, Ed draws on his Justice experience to provide effective advocacy in Internal Revenue Service examination and appeals and in litigation before federal courts. Among other issues, Ed has successfully represented clients in disputes involving transfer pricing, worthless stock deductions, cross-border transactions, tax credits, income tax accounting, insurance, employment tax, accounting method issues and a variety of penalty assessments.
Ed also advises concerning privilege and work product questions and reporting obligations, including the obligation to file information returns such as those relating to the Form 1099 series, Form 1098, FinCEN 114, FATCA and employment taxes.
Ed is the author of the United States chapters of The Tax Disputes and Litigation Review and The Transfer Pricing Review, published by Law Business Research. He is a co-author of BNA’s Privilege in Tax and Accounting Matters (T.M. 635) and The Section 7525 Tax Practitioner-Taxpayer Privilege and Related Issues (Accounting Policy and Practice Series No. 5511).
After earning his law degree, Ed served as a law clerk for the Honorable John P. Wiese of the US Court of Federal Claims.
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Elai Katz is a strategic antitrust lawyer with over two decades of experience handling mergers and acquisitions, litigation, counseling and government investigations. He represents buyers and sellers across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, life sciences, online retail, beverage, airline, and media and telecommunications.
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Eleanor advises clients on UK and international private equity investments and buy-out transactions, acting for institutions and management teams. Eleanor also advises corporate clients on cross-border merger and acquisition, joint venture, and restructuring matters.
Eleanor (Ellie) B. Atkins focuses her practice on trademark, copyright, sweepstakes and promotions, and false advertising matters.
Ellie is experienced in client counsel, strategy and legal research, including portfolio management and the selection, clearance, prosecution, registration and enforcement of trademarks. Additionally, she has assisted with district court litigation as well as actions before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, including drafting complaints, discovery requests and briefs in support of various motions.
Ellie previously served as judicial intern for the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Prior to that, she worked as deputy press secretary for United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu.
During law school, Ellie served as the senior federal circuit editor for the American University Law Review and received the Egon Guttman Award and the Mark K. Wilson Memorial Endowed Scholarship for her service to the law review.
Elisa De Carolis focuses her practice on complex corporate transactional mandates for private equity sponsors, venture capital funds and other private capital investors and corporates.
She has a wealth of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, shareholder relations, reorganizations, investment agreements, leveraged buyouts and private equity transactions.
She regularly advises clients in the technology, fashion & retail and healthcare industries, including startup companies, venture capital firms and PE houses.
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Elisabeth is a counsel, she focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the oil & gas and mining sectors. She has extensive experience of advising on share and asset acquisitions and divestments, group reorganisations, corporate finance, private equity investments, production sharing arrangements, joint ventures, joint operating agreements and commercial contracts. Elisabeth has acted for a diverse range of clients, including governments, national and international oil companies, juniors, start-ups, financial institutions, suppliers, manufacturers and individuals. She has advised on transactions across the globe, from the UK, Europe, and Africa to South America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific and has worked in London, Sydney and the Hague.
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Ellen Bronchetti represents employers in employment and traditional labor disputes. Her litigation experience includes representing employers in state and federal cases involving issues in wage and hour, trade secret misappropriation, whistleblower, wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, statutory leave, retaliation and breach of contract claims, including complex class actions and representative action litigation across the United States.
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Elliot Golding provides business-oriented privacy and cybersecurity advice to global companies spanning virtually every sector of the economy, with a particular focus in the technology, healthcare, life sciences, retail, e-commerce, automotive and financial sectors. His practical approach gives clients actionable advice to help balance legal risk with business needs. He routinely counsels clients on the latest cutting-edge issues, such as online advertising and tracking technologies, digital health tools, data monetization strategies, and artificial intelligence. He provides both day-to-day product counseling and helps companies develop global compliance programs that harmonize the California Consumer Privacy Act (and equivalent state privacy laws in Virginia, Colorado and other states); GDPR and other international laws; specific rules in the highly regulated health and financial sectors (HIPAA/HITECH, ONC Information Blocking Rule, 42 CFR Part 2, the Common Rule, GLBA and state equivalents); marketing rules (TCPA, CANSPAM and industry self-regulatory standards); security standards (such as PCI-DSS, NIST and ISO); and many others. Elliot has also managed hundreds of breaches and ransomware attacks, guiding clients through all aspects of investigation, notification, remediation and engagement with regulators.
Elliot is IAPP certified (CIPP/US) and has been recognized in a number of industry rankings and awards, including by Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, Bloomberg Law, Global Data Review and the National Law Journal. Elliot also co-chairs the American Bar Association’s SciTech Privacy, Security and Emerging Technology Division; E-Privacy Committee; and Biotechnology, Healthcare Technology, and Medical Device Committee.
Partner Emmanuelle Trombe represents pharmaceutical, medical device and bio-pharmaceutical companies globally in transactional matters in relation to M&A and divestitures, joint ventures and strategic partnerings, large-scale projects, outsourcing projects, product development, licensing agreements and regulatory matters. She also advises venture capital funds and bio-pharmaceutical companies in connection with a broad range of financing activities.
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Enrico Raso focuses his practice primarily on corporate and real estate operations, with particular experience in international cross-border transactions, including M&A and private equity transactions. He advises clients from structuring the project to the drafting and negotiation of the relevant agreements. Enrico advises on the choice of vehicle, financing, and exit strategies.
Partner Eric Zimmerman is a recognized Medicare law and policy authority and registered lobbyist who represents clients before Congress and administrative agencies, and helps clients navigate federal legislative and regulatory processes related to Medicare coverage, coding, reimbursement and compliance. He primarily counsels and represents hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device manufacturers and suppliers, medical trade associations and professional societies.
Eric is the global head of McDermott’s Health Practice. He also serves as a principal of McDermott+Consulting LLC, McDermott’s integrated health-focused policy, lobbying and data analytics consultancy.
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Eric Orsic is the co-head of the Firm’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Practice Group. Eric advises clients in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, and securities transactions and compliance. He works with publicly and privately held companies to structure and negotiate business acquisitions/dispositions. His public company transactional experience includes public equity and debt offerings, tender offers and going-private transactions.
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Erica Moscarello focuses her practice on the formation and operation of domestic and offshore private investment funds, including hedge, private equity, credit, hybrid and single investor funds. Erica also advises investment managers on regulatory compliance, federal and state registration, reporting obligations, operational issues, separate accounts and other related transactional matters. Erica is experienced in counseling institutional investors in connection with their investments into private funds. She also advises private fund managers in connection with their internal firm structuring, governance arrangements and seed investments.
Ettore is a partner, as an experienced legal adviser in corporate, banking and financial law, he helps his clients to build their commercial vision using complex, pan European financing strategies. Ettore is well known for his ability to intimately understand his clients’ business and the sectors they operate in and through this understanding he plays a key role in creating the right conditions for the success of all parties. Advising national and international corporations along with investment funds, financial institutions and high net worth individuals, Ettore's work extends across a range of sectors, from private equity to financial services, health care and life sciences, automotive, retail, industrial manufacturing and real estate.
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Evan A. Belosa is an experienced negotiator and counselor, focusing his practice on all aspects of executive employment and compensation matters.
In the scope of his practice, Evan represents individuals from virtually every industry across the United States, with a specific focus on executive officers and employees at all levels of the financial services industry. In addition to individuals, he also represents institutions in all aspects of the employer/employee relationship, including commercial banks, investment banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and research providers. Evan also has significant experience in the areas of executive compensation and employee benefits, and has frequently represented both management teams and employers in designing and drafting compensation structures and plans.
In representing his clients, Evan has a wide range of experience negotiating and drafting agreements of all kinds, including sophisticated employment agreements, consulting and independent contractor agreements, restrictive covenant clauses and agreements, confidentiality agreements, equity plan documents, and separation and release agreements. He is also a seasoned practitioner litigating matters for both employers and employees in claims arising from employee/employer disputes, with experience mediating, arbitrating and litigating claims in state and federal courts, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association and private dispute resolution services.
Evan is the author of “I Can’t Call Who? Employee Nonsolicitation of Clients Covenants Under New York Law,” published in the winter 2015 edition of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Journal, “The Devil in the Details: Termination Provision, Non-Competition Clauses” and “Finding the Balance Between Flexibility and Uniformity in Modern Executive Employment Agreements,” published in the 2013 edition of Inside the Minds, Negotiation and Drafting Employment Agreements, and “A Practitioner’s Guide to Negotiating Good Reason Clauses for Executives,” published in the September/October 2010 issue of Compensation & Benefits Review.
Fabio Cozzi heads the Italian dispute resolution practice and focuses his practice on cross-border litigation, domestic and international arbitration, compliance, financial crime and international trade.
He advises corporations, financial institutions and investment funds in complex disputes, often spanning multiple jurisdictions, as well as domestic and international arbitration proceedings in a range of commercial, corporate, real estate, energy, bankruptcy, financial and technology-related matters.
Fabio also counsels corporate clients and financial institutions on compliance and international trade issues, assessing the risk deriving from trade restrictions, economic and financial sanctions and advising on internal investigations related to corruption and financial crime.
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Fabrice Piollet focuses his practice on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions, handling a range of mandates across all sectors, both nationally and internationally. He works with some of the most active and widely recognised private equity funds on the market.
Fabrice works alongside entrepreneurs and corporate groups, counselling them on strategic challenges – including focus on external growth and M&A.
He has developed a particular experience within scale-up companies (digital, technology, artificial intelligence and medtech) and supports founders and investors in their venture capital and private equity operations.
Before joining McDermott, Fabrice worked as an associate in a major international law firm in Paris, focusing on private equity.
Fabrizio Faina focuses his practice on M&A and corporate law matters, with an emphasis on acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, private equity deals, and reorganizations. He regularly advises Italian and international clients in a variety of industry sectors on cross-border and domestic transactions.
Fatema is an award-winning private equity partner whose practice focuses on providing strategic counsel to European and US private equity sponsors. She has pan-European cross sector experience on the full range of corporate matters, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, structured and minority equity investments, equity and debt restructurings, and management equity plans, as well as related advisory work.
Fatema has received acknowledgement from numerous industry ranking guides:
Chambers UK 2024 – Ranked for Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above. Sources note, “Fatema is deeply knowledgeable and infinitely approachable.” “Fatema has very high capability and the ability to be creative and think outside of the box.” “Fatema’s ability is wide-ranging and she prioritises client relationships.”
The Legal 500 UK 2024 – Fatema has been ranked as a “Leading Individual” for Private Equity: Transactions – Mid-Market Deals. Sources note, “Fatema is an outstanding PE lawyer. We particularly value Fatema’s ability to find creative solutions in complex situations, working with clients to find viable paths forward where one is not obvious —– this really sets her apart from others in the industry. We also appreciate how dedicated she is to her clients. Fatema is always on top of both the details and the bigger picture, even at short notice. Fatema is our go-to PE lawyer.”
Fatema is distinguished by her work in promoting diversity in the legal profession. She has been included in the Class of 2021 at Law.com’s Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards as “Mentor of the Year” for which Fatema was the top “Outstanding Winner”.
Fatema has also been actively involved in initiatives across the City, including her roles as co-founder of “Women in Law, London” (WILL) a network with over 2,000 members across London aiming to promote and engage the next generation of women leaders in law, an Events Committee member of the “City Women’s Network” (CWN), and advisory panel member of “Oxford Women in Law” (OWL).
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Felicia Gerber Perlman focuses her practice on complex business reorganizations, debt restructurings and insolvency matters. She is the Global Head of the Firm’s Business Restructuring Practice Group. Felicia advises debtors, creditors, lenders, investors, sellers, purchasers and other parties-in-interest in all stages of restructuring transactions, from Chapter 11 reorganizations to out-of-court negotiations, workouts and acquisitions. She frequently presents on bankruptcy topics and is featured in several notable publications.
Felix U. Ganzer advises issuers, private equity investors and investment banks on IPOs (including dual track transactions, SPACs and de-SPACs), rights offerings and block trades. His practice encompasses the full range of capital markets compliance matters (e.g., ad-hoc publicity, insider trading, and managers’ transactions).
Felix also has extensive experience in public takeovers (including exchange offers and cross-border deals) as well as private M&A transactions. In addition, he regularly advises on a wide range of complex corporate law and corporate governance topics, including in connection with shareholders’ meetings.
Furthermore, he has authored numerous articles and other publications regarding capital markets and corporate law.
Dr. Florian Schiefer advises clients on international corporate and group tax law, international tax planning, transaction tax, real estate taxation, and investment taxation.
Prior to joining McDermott, Florian worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Taxation at the University of Bamberg and completed his doctorate in 2014. He then worked for several years as a chartered tax advisor for a reputable international law firm in Berlin and Frankfurt.
Florian is the author of numerous articles and publications on topics surrounding national and international tax law. He is a lecturer for international tax law at the University of Bamberg and a frequent speaker on tax issues.
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Francesco focuses his practice in real estate and acquisition financing, where he gained a 20-years’ experience mainly advising Italian and foreign lenders in both domestic and cross-border transactions. He has also assisted in complex debt restructurings transactions.
Partner Frank Müller advises investment fund managers, institutional investors, asset managers as well as their regulated and unregulated fund vehicles in all regulatory and other legal matters in connection with the set-up, structuring and management of funds and their acquisitions.
He has extensive experience in the following:
Foundation of fund management companies and their regulatory advice, including consultations with the respective authorities in Germany and abroad.
Set-up of investment funds for retail and institutional investors (both contract and corporate type funds).
Structuring of funds and club deals for institutional investors and asset managers.
Regulatory and real estate law advice of funds, fund managers and institutional investors with regard to asset deals, share deals, unit deals and project developments in Germany and abroad.
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Frank Steinherr is a global co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group, a member of the firm-wide Management Committee and a co-Managing Partner of the firm’s New York office.
Frank is a nationally recognized mergers and acquisition attorney who focuses his practice on private equity investments. He represents private equity clients in all aspects of their investments in portfolio companies, from acquisition through exit. Frank has extensive experience advising private equity clients and their portfolio companies in both private and public mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts, traditional purchase and sale transactions, strategic mergers, joint ventures, restructuring and recapitalization transactions. He also has significant experience representing clients in take-private transactions and carve-out transactions.
Frank J. Jackson focuses his practice on federal and state tax controversies at every stage, including tax audits, administrative appeals and litigation. Over the last two decades, Frank has successfully represented domestic and multinational businesses, nonprofits and high-net-worth individuals and estates in disputes involving a wide variety of sophisticated tax matters.
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Frederic (Fred) L. Levenson is the co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group. He provides legal counsel to clients on a broad range of corporate counseling and sophisticated domestic and international transactions. He focuses primarily on private equity (leveraged buyouts), domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital investments and financings, private and public offerings of equity and debt securities, restructurings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and real estate acquisitions and financings. Fred is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Private Equity practice.
Fred advises public and private companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, management groups, senior and subordinated lenders, real estate investment funds, and intermediaries in sophisticated, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, financings, divestitures and going private transactions. He also represents issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt offerings.
Fred draws on his experience with clients in a variety of industries and with diverse financial requirements to offer practical and creative advice. He has represented private equity firms, financial institutions, investment banks, start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. Fred’s industry experience includes health care, energy, manufacturing, services, retail, internet and technology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, transportation, marketing, staffing, consumer electronics, and real estate.
Frédéric Pradelles focuses his practice on French and European competition law. He regularly advises international clients in abuse of dominance cases, cartel investigations and on distribution matters, notably in the context of litigation before the French and European competition authorities and courts.
Frédéric also advises clients in global, European and national merger control cases, including Phase II cases. He has extensive experience in the notification of strategic alliances and joint ventures as well as negotiating innovative remedies to secure antitrust approval for the deals on which he advises.
On the litigation side, Frédéric represents clients before the French competition authority, the French Government antitrust agency (DGCCRF) and the European Commission. He also regularly appears as a litigator before the courts in France and the European Courts in Luxembourg. Frédéric has extensive experience in summary proceedings in the field of antitrust, and in interim measures and commitments proceedings before the French Competition Authority.
Frédéric advises clients active in various industries, particularly in the banking/finance, services, transportation, media, hospitality, and information technology sectors.
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Frederick (Fritz) J. Lark advises clients on M&A transactions, with a focus on energy, utilities and digital infrastructure. He represents infrastructure funds, utilities and other investors in public and private company mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and debt and hybrid securities issuances among other transactions. Fritz has experience advising clients in transactions across a variety of sectors, including energy, power and utilities, insurance, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals and technology.
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Garrett Hayes is a partner in the Corporate practice of the Paul Hastings London office. Mr. Hayes' experience covers a broad range of cross border and domestic M&A and corporate advisory mandates. His practice includes a broad range of general corporate work and includes advising on fund raising, strategic investments and joint ventures. He also represents private equity sponsors, management teams and portfolio companies on fund formation, leveraged buyouts, equity incentive arrangements, restructurings and exits.
Gary B. Rosenbaum counsels clients on all types of finance transactions, including private equity and mezzanine investments, out-of-court debt workouts and restructurings, cross-border lending transactions and venture lending financings.
Gary advises various financial institutions, as well as borrowers and issuers, in structuring, negotiating and documenting leveraged finance transactions in a broad range of industries, including health care, life sciences, telecommunications, internet and other technology fields, retail stores, food products and manufacturing. He also has substantial experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in acquisition credit facilities, leveraged dividend transactions and an array of other financings.
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Gary Howes has nearly 25 years of experience advising clients in the life sciences sector on the myriad legal issues that affect this key industry. Gary advises clients on industry specific commercial contracts, patent licensing agreements, alliances, collaborations and technology transfers, IP and regulatory matters and product acquisitions and disposals.
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Gary Scott Davis, PA, advises clients on issues concerning managed care, including emerging health benefit plans, strategic restructurings and reorganizations, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures and contractual matters. The Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization and Education recognizes Gary as a Board Certified Health Law Attorney.
Gary is a nationally recognized speaker on organizational and reimbursement transactions relating to managed health care, health care contracting and joint ventures. He is also a published author of numerous writings on managed care.
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Partner and a member a of the Tax Department. His practice focuses on taxation of business entities (partnerships and corporations), tax aspects of financing and reorganization, International and European tax law, income taxation and tax litigation before tax courts and the German Supreme Tax Court (Bundesfinanzhof). Gero has extensive experience in the taxation of multinationals, for example the taxation of group financing companies (e.g. Dublin-Dock-companies), of so called Mehrmütterorgangesellschaften (fiscal unit with several parents), tax aspects of Long-Term-Employee-Incentive-programs and the taxation of non-profit-organisations.
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Giancarlo Castorino focuses his practice on structured finance, with a specific focus on property and acquisition finance, where he mainly assists lenders in both domestic and cross-border transactions.
His extensive client base consists of the foremost Italian banks, such as Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A and UniCredit S.p.A, international banks and investors whom he has assisted and advised in complex restructurings and in the sale of distressed debt portfolios.
Giulia Venanzoni focuses her practice on corporate and financial services advising private equity funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and various financial institutions on a number of cross-border and domestic debt financing transactions. She has a wealth of knowledge of leveraged buyouts, direct lending, domestic and syndicated senior, second lien and mezzanine financings and restructurings. She previously gained experience in real estate finance, debt securities, securitization and general banking.
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Giuseppe Mazzarella provides tax consultancy for medium and large companies as well as for Italian and non-Italian resident individuals. He covers a broad spectrum of domestic and international tax matters in connection with corporate and personal income tax, transfer pricing, value-added tax (VAT), inheritance and gift tax, and other indirect taxes.
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Gordon A. Greenberg regularly represents clients in civil and criminal investigations, as well as in trials and congressional hearings. He has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes, bet-the-company matters that have civil and criminal components. Gordon has more than 30 years of experience handling a wide range of business crime investigations and trials.
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Grégoire Andrieux is a partner, he focuses on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on leveraged acquisitions (leveraged buyouts (LBOs), management buyouts (MBOs)) and seed to late stage financings.
Grégoire has extensive experience representing private equity institutions, family shareholders and entrepreneurs in transactions with enterprise values ranging from €10 million to €2 billion. His practice generally includes LBOs, venture capital financings, acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, recapitalizations, joint ventures, divestitures, initial public offerings (IPOs) and private placements.
Grégoire is particularly recognized for his dealmaking and constructive approach. His clients highlight his legal skills, business sense and availability.
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Gregory (Greg) Heltzer focuses his practice on defending mergers and acquisitions and has successfully defended mergers for Constellation Brands, DaVita, Mars, Martin Marietta Materials, Baxter, Olam, TreeHouse Foods, Motorola Solutions, JAB Partners (Coty), Aleris, Worthington Industries, Blackboard and many private equity firms among others.
His advice allows C-Suite decision makers to ensure that time and money are not wasted on potential transactions without a viable path for clearance. When transactions move forward, Greg guides clients through the clearance process with a focus on providing enforcers with the information needed so that the merging parties can avoid or at the very least significantly reduce the scope of a costly/time-consuming Second Request.
Greg analyzes the antitrust implications of most transactions involving a publicly traded company (>800). In addition, he handles complex antitrust litigation, government investigations and antitrust counseling (e.g., information exchange, compliance and firewalls, integration planning, Noerr-Pennington immunity).
Gregory E. Fosheim provides counsel on a wide array of corporate, transactional and regulatory compliance matters across the healthcare and life sciences industry. Leveraging his vast public health background and insight, he advises clients on healthcare fraud and abuse risks, Medicare, Medicaid and private payor billing, as well as clinical research and laboratory compliance in connection with federal grants. He also represents hospitals and health systems in all transactional matters, particularly those with regulatory, licensing, accreditation and policy considerations.
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With a focus on complex business transactions, Greg regularly works with private equity clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity restructurings, and divestitures. He has structured, negotiated and closed many transactions within a variety of industries.
Greg is a co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group and co-head of the Chicago Office’s Transactions Practice Group.
Partner Gudrun Germakowski advises on all individual and collective aspects of labor and employment law. She focuses her practice on counseling in the field of complex severance processes and in negotiating with employee representatives (works councils and unions) in individual and restructuring projects. Gudrun also concentrates on advising clients in relation to contract design, with a particular emphasis on international assignment of employees, as well as developing and implementing compensation systems and company car arrangements.
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Guillaume Kellner focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and securities law. He advises investment funds as well as strategic clients on their acquisition, leverage buyouts, and build-up transactions as well as their reorganization both in France and internationally.
Guillaume Panuel focuses his practice on the structuring of investment funds and secondary transactions (i.e. sale of mature private equity funds, GP-led transactions and preferred equity solutions).
His experience includes an extensive knowledge of the creation of domestic or transnational alternative investment funds (e.g. fonds professionnel de capital investissement (FCPI), fonds d’investissement professionnel spécialisé (FIPS), sociétés de libre partenariat (SLP)) and their management companies.
Guillaume also assists management teams in dealing with regulatory and governance matters as well as carried interest schemes.
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Hamid is a managing partner for our London office and partner-in-charge of the Firm’s UK Health Care Practice. He advises clients on complex areas of transactional law (M&A, Investments, Private Equity, Major Projects and Corporate Finance) predominantly within the health industry and on infrastructure transactions. He has substantial global experience in innovative structures for complex joint ventures, public-private partnerships and funding arrangements. Hamid’s global client base includes health care providers, medical products manufacturers and organizations establishing “medical cities”, along with non-health clients where he advises on infrastructure projects and major projects. Hamid also has a particular interest in advising Sovereign Wealth Funds on their investments and other transactions.
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Hanno M. Witt advises German and international Private Equity sponsors and other financial investors as well as corporations on M&A transactions, including cross-border transactions, joint ventures, carve-outs, and management participation programs. He regularly assists clients on both the sell side as well as buy side and helps clients prepare for and navigate through auction processes. His broad sector expertise includes Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure, Consumer Products and Technology.
Partner Harris C. Siskind advises clients on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters. Harris is global head of McDermott’s Transactions Practice Group.
Harris has handled many complex transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, on behalf of private equity sponsors. He has also represented numerous strategic buyers, public corporations and private companies in connections with acquisitions, sales and a broad range of other corporate transactions.
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Heather S. Bethancourt represents clients in business process and information technology outsourcing transactions. She has extensive experience representing healthcare systems, carriers and vendors negotiating revenue cycle management outsourcing agreements and other complex outsourcing and commercial transactions. In addition, she represents clients in strategic supply agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, technology maintenance and service agreements, technology development, cloud-computing transactions such as software as a service (SaaS) arrangements and strategic alliances. Heather also advises clients on technology and commercial contract issues that arise under other corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, including transition services agreements. Her experience with other commercial contracts includes a human resources emphasis representing clients in independent contractor, contingent labor and recruiting services agreements and advising clients on rebadging issues in outsourcing transactions.
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Heather Cooper focuses her practice almost exclusively on federal income tax issues within the renewable and transitional energy industry. She has substantial experience advising clients on federal energy tax credits, including the investment tax credit (Section 48) and production tax credit (Section 45). Additionally, Heather’s real-time analysis, webinars and client updates on the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) have made her a go-to authority in the post-IRA world.
Her breadth of experience spans many technologies and tax incentives, including solar and wind (Sections 45, 48, 45Y and 48E), storage, fuel cell, hydrogen (Sections 48 and 45V), biomass, offshore, refined coal, hydro, waste, biogas, nuclear (Section 45U), renewable natural gas (Sections 48 and 45Z), manufacturing (Sections 45X and 48C), carbon sequestration (Section 45Q) and electric vehicles (Sections 30B, 30C, 30D, 45W and 48C).
Heather advises clients on all structures available for monetizing energy tax credits, including tax equity partnerships (flips, inverted leases and leasebacks), self-monetization and portfolio structures. In January 2023, she worked on two of the first-ever successful credit transfer transactions (Section 6418) and continues to provide significant support to clients conducting credit transfers, including in connection with tax equity partnerships. She also advises clients on direct pay provisions (Section 6417). Heather’s energy tax practice includes mergers, acquisitions, financings, sales, dispositions, restructurings, workouts and other general tax advice (including corporate, consolidated and partnership taxation). She negotiates power purchase agreements, leases, service contracts, contracts for difference, swaps, hedges and other offtake agreements to ensure compliance with the tax credit rules.
Heather is deeply knowledgeable on tax credit bonuses, including domestic content, energy community and low-income adders, and has advised innumerable clients on the monetization of these incentives. She also provides significant support to clients who are establishing prevailing wage and apprentice programs in connection with the credits. She regularly counsels clients on begin construction rules (including the physical work test and the 5% safe harbor, as well as continuous efforts), and fair market valuation issues.
Her clients include a wide range of stakeholders in the energy sector, including developers, investors, financial institutions, utilities, independent power producers and insurance companies. The projects she works on range from residential, commercial and industrial to community solar and utility. She also counsels clients with no previous experience in the renewables sector with respect to their purchase of tax credits under section 6418. Heather works regularly across from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on ruling requests, taxpayer comments and other tax controversies relating to energy tax issues.
Heather is a highly experienced tax lawyer who understands the business needs of the industry. Her clients turn to her because she looks for solutions rather than problems. Her philosophy is to facilitate energy transactions by efficiently responding to each client’s individual needs, and she understands that tax planning should support a deal, not impede it.
Heidi J. Steele focuses her practice on corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies and corporate counseling. She has extensive experience in public and private equity and debt financings, compliance with disclosure and regulatory requirements, tender offers and mergers, acquisitions and dispositions. She advises public and private corporations on a variety of matters, including securities compliance.
Heidi acts as counsel for a wide range of corporate combinations. Recent transactions work includes public offerings of common stock, 144A offerings of debt and convertible debt of public companies, acquisitions and sales of public companies and ongoing counsel on public company compliance with the Securities Act of 1934 and stock exchange rules.
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Dr. Heiko Kermer advises clients on domestic and cross-border tax issues in particular in connection with real estate and corporate mergers and acquisitions. He has experience with internal investigations, compliance and in the private equity sector and is a certified German tax advisor.
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Hélène Adda focuses her practice on data protection, cybersecurity and information technology law.
Hélène advises clients in many business sectors, such as e-commerce, advertising, automotive, life sciences, as well as the voluntary sector.
In particular, she has advised a number of companies on the establishment and maintenance of their GDPR compliance program. Hélène has also conducted many data protection audits, regarding in particular the review of user experience on websites and mobile applications.
Hélène is the author of several articles on data protection issues and is a contributor to a manual (Guide Pratique Lamy Droit du Numérique).
Heloise Waudby advises clients on various matters of corporate law including mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. She is experienced in the corporate and financial sector and in 2014, Heloise completed a secondment at a prominent private equity fund manager in London where she coordinated and implemented a series of portfolio realisations, allowing funds to be returned to investors.
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Hendrik Viaene focuses his practice on competition law, regulated markets and regulatory law. He advises clients across a wide range of related issues including state aid, cartels, licensing agreements, merger filings, M&A negotiations, abuse of dominance cases, and distribution agreements.
Hendrik assists governments as well as privately and publicly owned companies. He has a wealth of experience in a range of sector such as energy, chemicals, paints, automotive, financial data, recycling and waste management, telecom, construction, renewables, media, private equity and the financial industry.
Hendrik represents companies before national competition authorities and before the European Commission in state aid, cartel, merger, and abuse of dominance investigations. He also assists governments and companies on defence strategies as well as compliance programmes to avoid fines or having to refund or recover state aid.
Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues is a partner, he focuses on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate and venture capital transactions. Henri regularly represents private equity sponsors in their domestic and international transactions and reorganizations. He has advised top executives, management teams and employees in leveraged management buyout (LMBO) and leveraged management buy-in (LMBI) transactions valued up to €6 billion. Henri is recognized as one of the key players in this field on the Paris market. He also regularly assists domestic and multinational corporations in their acquisitions, divestitures and corporate reorganizations. In addition, he represents family-owned groups and founding shareholders in relation to equity reorganizations and their partnering with private equity or venture capital institutions.
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Hon.-Prof. Dr. Henrik Holzapfel advises on all aspects of intellectual property law. He focuses on litigating patents, including the enforcement of patents essential to industry standards (SEPs) and FRAND defenses. Henrik also has extensive experience in litigating trade secret matters and employees’ inventions. Other areas of his practice include drafting, negotiation and enforcement of business agreements such as supply agreements, IP licensing agreements and R&D agreements.
Henrik’s clients represent a wide variety of industries such as automotive, IT, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices, chemicals and engineering.
Holger is a partner, he counsels clients on all matters pertaining to real estate. He focuses his practice on advising and structuring complex transactions, both as asset and as share deals, as well as on real estate financing/refinancing, project developments, and the law of commercial tenancy. Furthermore, he has wide experience in joint ventures, closed-end real estate funds, initial public offerings (IPOs) and acquisition/sale of participations in companies. Holger advises national and international, listed and medium-sized companies. His clients include institutional investors and private equity funds, fund initiators and fund managers, family offices, and financial institutions.
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Holger H. Ebersberger berät Private-Equity- und Venture-Capital-Fonds sowie strategische Investoren bei M&A- und Private Equity-Transaktionen.
Er ist spezialisiert auf die Beratung von Finanzinvestoren zu allen Formen von fremdfinanzierten M&A-Transaktionen und der Portfolio-Begleitung in allen Phasen des Investmentzyklus, einschließlich Managementbeteiligungsprogrammen, Corporate-Governance-Maßnahmen und Restrukturierungen. Seine M&A-Expertise umfasst unter anderem Auktionsverfahren, Dual-Track-Verfahren, öffentliche Übernahmen, Carve-Out-Transaktionen und Joint Ventures.
Holger H. Ebersberger verfügt über besondere Kenntnisse in den Bereichen Digital Business, TMT, Life Sciences & Gesundheitswesen und Industrie & Fertigung.
Howard Kleinman, partner and co-head of the Latin America practice, focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and financial transactions, with a strong focus on businesses and investors in Latin America. Drawing on nearly three decades of international experience, Howard offers strategic legal guidance and sound business solutions with respect to complex, cross-border transactions and transformational corporate initiatives. His clients include a variety of publicly owned and privately held companies and financial institutions based in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, among other jurisdictions, and whose investments, operations and other interests span a range of industries, including financial services, consumer products (including food and beverage), retail, entertainment, energy, transportation and more.
Fluent in Spanish and English, Howard has significant experience advising leading regional real estate developers regarding US-focused development, as well as Latin American companies seeking to establish or expand their global footprint across the United States and abroad. Clients that Howard has advised include Grupo Mexico, Grupo Sordo Madaleno, Grupo Boticario, Compania Cervecerias Unidas S.A., SKY Airlines, Cinepolis and Record TV. He regularly handles complex cross-border matters for clients such as a $2.1 billion multinational transaction involving the acquisition of a US freight transportation business, by a Mexico-based enterprise.
Partner Ian Brooks is a highly skilled intellectual property litigator. His practice focuses on patent litigation at the US International Trade Commission (ITC), the District Courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Ian has substantial experience litigating patent disputes through trial.
His practice focuses on patent enforcement and defense in a broad range of technologies, including technologies relating to diesel-engine, cellular telephones, mechanical devices, home automation, non-volatile memory, web services, video coding and standards-essential technologies.
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Ian M. Schwartz focuses on the formation and operation of private equity funds. As head of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group, Ian is highly skilled in counseling private fund clients in connection with the structuring of fund investments and provides advice on legal and regulatory compliance matters for funds and their investment advisers. He also assists fund sponsors in connection with the organization and documentation of their internal firm arrangements.
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Jack Langlois is the office managing partner for Houston. Jack focuses his practice on energy related matters, including upstream, midstream and downstream. He advises clients on investments in and financings of energy projects and assets, including, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of assets and stock of energy companies. Jack represents public and private companies, private equity investors, lenders, governments and national oil companies in a number of substantial domestic and international corporate transactions. Jack advises on mineral exploration and development projects, including matters involving acquisition of exploration and development rights, pipelines, gathering, transportation, processing, storage, and other infrastructure.
Jack has experience representing oil and gas production companies in connection with the acquisition of oil and gas properties. Jack also represents banks in connection with production payment acquisition and financing, and independent oil companies in the sale of overriding royalty interests to qualified investment buyers.
Jack has significant experience handling international transactions, including representing drilling companies in connection with sales of drilling rigs in Brazil, Canada and Greece, and representing power producers with the development and financing of power projects in Latin America. He also represented state oil companies and Western and Russian companies in connection with negotiations for development of Caspian Sea oil fields.
Jack Thorne focuses his practice on litigation and dispute resolution, advising across a broad range of domestic and international disputes, with a focus on commercial litigation and arbitration, finance litigation, and corporate insolvency. He has particular experience dealing with cross-border disputes arising out of corporate and financial transactions.
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Jacques Buhart is a partner, he focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and EU/French competition investigations and litigation out of Brussels and Paris. Jacques has also developed substantial knowledge of various industries, including nuclear, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, paper and energy. He is head of the Firm's Paris and Brussels offices. Jacques has handled a broad range of complex competition matters as well as litigations in the European Courts. On the litigation side, he represented clients in various cases including: the cartonboard cartel case at the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg; the vitamins cartel case at the Court of First Instance; as well as a major drinks manufacturer at the Court of Appeal in Paris against allegations of abuse of dominant position. He acted for an intervening party in the case relating to the legal privilege. On the compliance side, Jacques advised several international companies in their compliance programme as well as at seminars throughout Europe. Among other industries, Jacques has developed a substantial knowledge in antitrust issues affecting the telecommunications and pharmaceutical industries as well as the automobile and paper industries.
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Partner James (Jim) Pardo has more than twenty years of trial and litigation experience representing clients in complex commercial, mass tort, product liability and class action cases. Jim's litigation and trial skills have resulted in a long track record of victories across a diverse range of disputes, including defective fuel products, breach of contract, biotech research fraud, personal injury, patent infringement, groundwater contamination and renewable fuels issues. Jim has particular knowledge in the energy industry, having represented major oil companies, natural gas developers, renewable fuel manufacturers, and oil field service providers in all of the aforementioned subject areas.
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James Dobias focuses his practice on a wide range of domestic and international corporate crime and investigations related matters, including bribery, corruption, money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, data breach and associated regulatory and compliance issues. He has experience assisting with and advising on internal investigations, Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigations, enquiries by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), anti-bribery and corruption compliance, whistleblowing, anti-money laundering (AML) issues and fraud investigations.
Prior to joining McDermott, James trained and practiced as a senior associate at an international law firm, working on a range of investigations by the SFO, FCA, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and a number of overseas agencies. James also spent over two years working at a major litigation funder, focusing on consumer class actions and group claims, gaining a deep understanding of the funding industry and economics, claimant-side strategy and the funnel from regulatory investigations to civil claims.
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Jim Salerno focuses his practice in all stages of development for constructing and financing domestic and international energy and infrastructure projects. He represents developers, sponsors, investors and lenders in structuring and negotiating renewable power, energy storage, carbon capture, renewables, geothermal, hydro and nuclear generation projects, including the drafting and negotiation of project documents and related financing. Jim also represents lenders in domestic PPPs and clients in the mining and metals industries.
Jim also advises developers and lenders in the oil and gas industry, primarily in the Latin American and sub-Saharan Africa markets. He represents an array of clients, from institutional investors seeking access to natural resources to banks financing the construction of new and retrofit projects. Jim also represents parties in vendor and supplier financings, as well as subordinate lenders, hedge providers, offtakers, ECA’s and development finance institutions.
Partner James (Jay) W. Kapp, III, focuses his practice on corporate bankruptcies, reorganizations (including prepackaged and prearranged bankruptcy filings), out-of-court restructurings (including distressed financings and workouts), and creditor rights representation (with an emphasis on representing bondholders, indenture trustees and other secured creditors). Jay has significant experience representing debtors and creditors (secured and unsecured) with respect to such bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
Jay counsels interested buyers in the acquisition of distressed assets out of court (including Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) foreclosures and assignments for the benefit of creditors) and through bankruptcy proceedings (including 363 sales and plans of reorganizations). In addition, Jay advises board of directors of insolvent companies with respect to fiduciary duties and related concerns.
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Jan Hückel is a partner, he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, as well as corporate law matters and corporate restructuring.
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Jana Grieb has been advising pharmaceutical and medical technology companies on all aspects of health law for over 20 years. She accompanies pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and in vitro diagnostics throughout their entire life cycle – from research and development to market access, advertising and distribution. One main area of her work is providing legal and strategic advice on market entry and reimbursement paths in the European Union, with a particular focus on the EU regulations on medical devices and in vitro diagnostics and the law governing statutory health insurance in Germany. In this context, Jana also advises on research and distribution collaborations.
Besides her regulatory focus, Jana provides comprehensive advice on compliance issues in the healthcare market, including aspects of competition and medical advertising law, cooperation with professionals under anti-corruption and association law requirements, as well as background advice on commercial criminal law. She supports her clients in the establishment and further development of their compliance management.
Finally, Jana advises with broad experience on the borderline of health markets to neighboring product markets, mainly food, cosmetics, wellness and electronic products.
Jana is a regular speaker and author of numerous publications on pharmaceutical and medical device law.
Jane Wells May focuses her practice on state and local tax matters. She represents businesses in connection with tax controversies at the audit, administrative and judicial levels around the United States. Her clients include companies in manufacturing, retailing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, agribusiness, food and beverage, health care, energy, technology and insurance industries. Jane has served on the Firm’s Management and Compensation Committees, on the Executive Committee and as the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice.
Jane has successfully litigated state and local tax matters raising a variety of statutory and constitutional issues. She has defended numerous internet sellers in several states against cases brought under state whistleblower statutes, including the Illinois False Claims Act, alleging fraudulent failures to collect and remit use tax. Jane also advises business clients on tax planning matters and represents athletes and entertainers in connection with employment contract issues.
Jane is a co-founder of Tax in the City: A Woman’s Tax Roundtable®, which consists of women tax professionals with an interest in discussing substantive tax issues in a collegial and confidential setting, and which meets regularly in Chicago and New York.
While in law school, Jane was senior articles editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board.
Jason Krieser is the co-head of the Firm’s Technology & Outsourcing Practice, and the office managing partner for Dallas. He advises clients on all aspects of technology transactions, outsourcing matters, telecommunications and other complex commercial contracts, including artificial intelligence, (AI), digital health, telecommunications and robotic process automation arrangements. He is an internationally recognized advisor on outsourcing matters, including information technology (IT), business process (finance and accounting, human resources, logistics and facilities management) and offshore issues. He also handles technology development and licensing matters, joint ventures, strategic alliances, manufacturing agreements, key supply and distribution agreements, enterprise blockchain applications, other complex service agreements, Internet of Things (IoT) and e-commerce matters. Jason also regularly works on digital health matters, data licensing and strategy issues and mobile applications. He has handled cloud-computing transactions for the past 20 years, including software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) transactions.
Jason is the co-author of a legal treatise on outsourcing law titled Outsourcing: Law and Business published by Law Journal Press (the treatise publishing arm of American Lawyer Media). This treatise gives detailed treatment to all material legal and business issues associated with outsourcing transactions. The form of master outsourcing services agreement developed by Jason and his co-author, and featured in the treatise, is publicly available and widely used in the outsourcing industry. For more information, see www.outsourcingmsa.com. Jason is also the co-author of a Bloomberg BNA portfolio titled “Technology and Outsourcing”.
Jeffrey (Jeff) Maydew has more than 20 years’ experience representing multinational organizations in US and international tax matters. He focuses his practice on business taxation, particularly domestic and international tax planning for mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs and other major corporate transactions. He also handles private ruling requests as well as audit and tax controversy matters. Jeff advises clients in the aerospace, automotive, consumer products, defense, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals industries.
Jeff is a frequent author and speaker on international tax topics for the Tax Executives Institute, American Bar Association and the International Fiscal Association. Jeff has also served as an adjunct professor in international taxation at Georgetown and the Northwestern University Law Center.
Jeffrey Steiner brings more than 30 years of experience to all areas of real estate finance, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions and leasing for the full spectrum of public, private, institutional and non-institutional clients. In particular, Jeff’s practice focuses on structuring, restructuring and managing complex real estate debt and equity investments and investment vehicles in the US and worldwide.
Jeff represents Wall Street investment banks, private equity firms, mortgage REITs, and other lenders and investors in all aspects of real estate and finance transactions, including construction, conduit, floating and fixed-rate financings, forward loan commitments, mezzanine loans, loan participations, low-income housing tax credit, complex office leasing and mortgage-backed securities transactions.
Jeff is repeatedly recognized in Chambers USA and has been named a New York Super Lawyer. In 2011, the National Law Journal named him to its list of Most Influential Lawyers in Real Estate. For more than 20 years, Jeff has been the byline author of the New York Law Journal’s monthly Real Estate Financing column.
Jeffrey (Jeff) M. Holdvogt regularly counsels public and privately held companies and tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of employee benefits matters. These include the design and administration of complex pension, 401(k) and 403(b) plans, nonqualified and executive deferred compensation arrangements, fiduciary and plan investment issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), internal compliance reviews and voluntary correction filings, and benefit plan matters arising from mergers and acquisitions, as well as other ongoing day-to-day retirement and executive compensation issues.
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Jennifer M. Mikulina focuses her practice on trademark and copyright counseling, prosecution, licensing and enforcement. She counsels companies in a wide variety of industries, including consumer goods, food products, digital currency, health care services, insurance, hospitality/restaurant services and software/online services. Jennifer delivers a client-first approach to legal work and has been praised by clients and market-leading publications. According to one client quoted in World Trademark Review, “She provides top-notch service, which is both timely and extremely efficient; I wouldn’t go to anybody else for assistance.” Another client recognized Jennifer as “one of the most knowledgeable, humble, compassionate and patient trademark professionals anywhere. She is an excellent listener and problem solver with a unique ability to break down complex IP concepts into bite-sized, manageable pieces.”
Jennifer works with domestic and international companies to register, maintain, protect and license trademarks, service marks, domain names and other key brands, and she assists clients with the development and implementation of international brand management strategies and enforcement programs. She also advises clients on copyright matters related to various works of authorship, including print publications, data compilations, software, online content and online databases.
Jennifer works closely with members of the Firm’s corporate advisory, health law and tax practice groups on the intellectual property aspects of transactions, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and complex intellectual property license structures for public and privately held companies. Jennifer also counsels clients on a variety of information technology matters, including software licenses, software audits, and agreements related to software development/customization and data analytics, including a significant number of engagements in the digital health space.
Jennifer is the former head of McDermott’s global Trademark Prosecution Practice, former chair of the Firm’s Gender Diversity Committee, and is a member and past chair of the Firm’s Chicago Pro Bono and Community Service Committee. She provides pro bono services to a variety of clients.
Jennifer Ronz focuses her practice on large-scale commercial dispute resolution as well as contentious tax and trust matters. She has acted for a wide range of claimants and defendants across various forms of dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration and mediation in multiple jurisdictions.
Jennifer has a wealth of experience handling high-value disputes on behalf of corporate clients and ultra-high net worth individuals within the United Kingdom and globally on a variety of contractual disputes, insolvencies, fraud and shareholder/director disputes.
Partner Jeremy Earl focuses his practice on providing complex regulatory counseling and advice to a variety of health care organizations such as health insurers, health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, health care providers and other industry stakeholders on federal and state regulatory matters. He also drafted and negotiated numerous value-based provider reimbursement agreements on behalf of managed care entities and health care providers such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), health systems and health insurers.
Jeremy regularly counsels clients on compliance with the health insurance market reforms enacted under the Affordable Care Act, including how the federal standards interact with state insurance laws. He also has experience counseling clients on the requirements under government-sponsored managed care programs such as the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D programs and state Medicaid managed care programs. He frequently provides regulatory counseling in connection with transactions managed care organizations.
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Jerry J. Sokol concentrates his national practice on the business aspects of healthcare law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and various contractual arrangements in the healthcare industry. Jerry is the global head of McDermott’s Healthcare Practice Group.
Jerry has a robust healthcare private equity practice with a focus on leveraged buyout transactions. Jerry and his team are uniquely qualified to perform the acquisition and finance components of these transactions, as well as the healthcare-specific due diligence and regulatory aspects of deals.
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Jiayan Chen is deeply experienced in the regulatory, transactional and strategic issues that arise when leveraging health information, biospecimens and technology to drive healthcare innovation and quality. She guides stakeholders on privacy compliance and research compliance and in the context of strategic initiatives and collaborations as they seek to harness the power of data, machine learning, DNA sequencing and technologies to develop and deploy new products and solutions and address challenges in healthcare delivery and payment.
Her extensive work with complex and cutting-edge Big Data transactions and initiatives, real-world data and evidence generation, and data and health information technology transactions, and experience in data protection, genomic privacy, and research compliance make her extremely sought after in the industry. Jiayan advises a broad range of clients, including healthcare and life sciences companies, academic medical centers, genetics companies, digital health companies, data companies and healthcare technology companies, on a wide range of issues that arise at the intersection of health data, biospecimens, and technology.
She counsels clients on data privacy requirements under US federal and state law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and various state genetic and other health information privacy laws, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Jiayan provides guidance on research compliance and development, including preparation of protocols and informed consent and authorizations, as well as institutional, sponsor, and IRB compliance with the Common Rule and FDA Good Clinical Practices. She also works with clients on mapping and implementing data use and sharing strategies with the appropriate data governance and programmatic safeguards.
In addition, Jiayan’s practice includes counseling life sciences companies and healthcare providers on state and federal “Sunshine” and gift ban laws. In this regard, she analyzes proposed arrangements and corporate organizational structures for purposes of identifying and informing reporting obligations, and helps clients develop compliance mechanisms for managing their reporting obligations.
Jilali Maazouz is a partner, focusing his practice on labor and employment, commercial litigation and international trade. Jilali litigates and provides counsel on behalf of companies in civil, criminal and administrative matters. He advises businesses on employment issues such as termination, discrimination, harassment, restrictive covenants breaches, strikes and other collective conflicts. Regularly represents French businesses and associations and French affiliates of European, U.S., Canadian, Middle East, North African and Asian multinational corporations. He counsels clients on the labor and employment aspects of their domestic and transnational commercial and corporate transactions, as well as on their due diligence investigations, audits, employment contracts, restructuring plans, reductions in force, separation agreements, workplace policies and best practices. Also has experience in guiding clients through the opportunities and obstacles posed when trading internationally.
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James (Jim) Nicholas focuses his practice on federal and state labor and employment issues and litigation for life sciences, tech, private equity and portfolio companies. He is sought after to handle high-stakes matters relating to employee classification, wage and hour, leaves of absence, discrimination and harassment, wrongful termination and the enforcement of noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements, especially in Massachusetts and California.
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Joan-Elisse Carpentier provides legal representation in all areas of immigration and nationality law affecting individuals, corporations and other businesses. She has worked on evaluations of immigration practices of corporations, development of corporate policies and procedures for handling immigration matters and obtaining immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as citizenship and expatriation. Joan-Elisse assists businesses with I-9 compliance programs and provides representation during government audits and in settlement negotiations. She also provides advice concerning immigration issues during mergers and acquisitions.
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venture financing, mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies, and complex transition services agreements. She also has experience with capital markets transactions, having represented US and international issuers, investment banks and investors in a wide range of securities offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offerings and private placements of equity securities. Joanna also regularly counsels clients on matters ranging from corporate governance to US Securities and Exchange Commission periodic reporting requirements and other general corporate matters.
Joanna also represents clients in technology transactions, commercial contract and outsourcing transactions, including services agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, cloud-computing transactions and strategic alliances.
Joanna represents clients from a broad array of industries, including companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. She provides pro bono services for various nonprofit organizations, including representing children in need of immigration-related legal counsel.
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Joseph (Joe) B. Evans is the co-head of the FinTech & Blockchain Practice and head of Crypto Litigation and Regulatory Defense at McDermott. He is widely recognized as a leader in the crypto industry. The American Lawyer recognized Joe as a “Trailblazer” for his progressive work in crypto and he is one of the few individuals that is Chambers ranked in Crypto-Asset Disputes. Joe runs the industry’s only crypto-exclusive team whose members spend 100% of their time serving the crypto industry. That team is one of the few that is Chambers ranked in crypto-asset disputes.
Since 2013, Joe has been representing companies and individuals in all aspects of crypto and blockchain-related legal matters, spanning from defending government investigations, pursuing cutting-edge crypto litigation, obtaining money transmitter and other state licenses, and advising on initial coin offerings. Joe leads a team of crypto-lawyers who are devoted exclusively to working on crypto and blockchain matters.
Joe has been recognized for his success in crypto-related litigation. Joe has demonstrated success in pioneering first of its kind crypto litigation, including crypto tracing, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) litigation, and pursuing actions against fictitious entities and anonymous founders. Joe’s in-court successes include a series of wins in connection with the crypto industry’s largest bankruptcy cases in the United States and intellectual property litigation between competing crypto companies. Joe has qualified crypto tracing experts in federal court and obtained immediate recovery of stolen crypto. Joe also obtained emergency relief in intellectual property litigation against competitors using the same and similar names for competing crypto. Joe has defended crypto exchanges and other market participants in federal and state investigations. With regularity, Joe successfully defends these crypto regulatory investigations without penalties, fines, enforcement actions, or media attention of any kind.
Joel R. Grosberg is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and assists clients on civil and criminal antitrust matters, including obtaining merger clearances, counseling and litigation. He has represented clients in obtaining antitrust approvals in numerous challenging transactions, and in other government antitrust investigations before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and foreign competition authorities. Joel has significant experience in the high tech, chemical, health care and life sciences industries, including counseling on matters related to pricing and distribution practices and other competition-related issues.
Joel is consistently recognized in Chambers USA and was ranked as a leading antitrust lawyer in The Legal 500 United States and SuperLawyers. Chambers USA reports that Joel has “notable agency experience at the FTC,” and is “very knowledgeable…on merger related work.”
Earlier in his career, Joel was an attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Competition (Mergers II), where he handled a full range of antitrust matters involving the chemical, computer hardware semiconductor, automotive parts, plastics, toy and paper industries.
Joel A. Hugenberger advises clients on project finance, project development and tax equity transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors with a particular emphasis on transactions relating to renewable energy.
Joel represents tax equity investors, sponsors, developers, borrowers, lenders and arrangers in the financing of complex energy and infrastructure projects, domestically and internationally, and in the structuring and negotiation of various secured and unsecured loan facilities, joint ventures and tax equity investment structures.
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Joel C. Haims focuses his practice on securities litigation, including class actions, shareholder derivative cases, and corporate control litigation, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations. He regularly represents public companies and their officers, directors, and board committees in cases before trial and appellate courts throughout the country and in mediation to facilitate settlement. He defends clients across a diverse range of industries and has extensive experience representing foreign-based companies in US securities litigation. He is also frequently called upon by boards and senior executives to advise on directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance coverage.
Joel also has extensive experience litigating complex commercial cases, including commercial real estate disputes and bankruptcies. For example, he has represented clients, including secured lenders, property owners, developers, and loan participants, in state and federal courts on a wide range of issues, including contractual matters such as buy-sell agreements and security enforcement, and recovering secured or unsecured assets.
In addition, Joel has extensive experience litigating religious rights cases, particularly under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). For example, he served as lead trial counsel for the Westchester Day School in its landmark litigation against the Village of Mamaroneck and its Zoning Board of Appeals under RLUIPA, and he successfully defended the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Dr. Johannes Honzen advises national and international companies as well as private equity and other financial investors on real estate matters, in particular on real estate transactions and joint ventures, as well as on corporate law and M&A projects.
He has significant experience in complex single-asset and portfolio transactions by way of asset deals, share deals, or joint venture structures. In recent years, Johannes Honzen has been involved in a large number of major real estate transactions in various asset classes and, in this context, has primarily advised large international real estate funds as well as national companies on all aspects of real estate and corporate law, including project developments.
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Partner John T. Lutz advises clients on the tax aspects of investment funds, structured finance, derivatives and structured products. He also counsels clients on matters related to insurance products, investment tax credits, conventional US and cross-border securities offerings, and corporate mergers and acquisitions. John represents a number of tax-exempt organizations in connection with their investment activities and incentive compensation arrangements.
John handles all aspects of tax-advantaged financings and investments for financial institutions, investment fund managers, high net worth individuals and investors.
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John J. Calandra represents clients in complex commercial litigation and formerly headed the New York Litigation Practice Group. He represents clients in litigations and arbitrations crossing many industries, including technology, chemicals, satellite, energy, financial products, outsourcing, hotel management, manufacturing and distribution.
John litigates a wide variety of cases, including securities and common law fraud, breach of contracts and long-term distributor and supply agreements, breach of fiduciary duties, environmental and product liability, negligent misrepresentation, breach of representations and warranties, accounting irregularities, wrongful terminations, antitrust violations, various claims arising from the sale of assets and businesses, and numerous class action lawsuits.
John has repeatedly served as a judge of Cornell Law School’s highly regarded Transactional Lawyers Competition, and has guest lectured at Fordham Law School on summary judgment tactics and procedures.
Jon Dubrow is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and is a strategic advisor serving clients across a host of inter-related antitrust issues, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions / merger clearance, counseling and litigation. Jon leads the defense of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and other international competition authorities. He also regularly assists third parties whose interests are adversely affected by proposed transactions. Jon also is experienced in antitrust litigation. He provides counseling on distribution issues, contracting arrangements and a wide variety of other competition-related matters.
Jon obtains clearance in the initial review period even for transactions raising significant substantive issues, avoiding the time and cost of a second request. He takes a very proactive approach in managing the regulatory review process designed to minimize the potential need for an in depth government investigation. He has filed and managed the preparation of hundreds of Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification forms and regularly provides HSR counseling. He has also managed multinational merger filings in numerous transactions. Jon frequently teams with regional corporate law firms, allowing them to offer sophisticated and seamless antitrust M&A services to their clients when they do not have internal capacity.
Jon counsels clients on a broad range of antitrust issues, including information exchanges, teaming agreements, joint venture ancillary restraints and distribution practices such as pricing restraints, bundled discounting, price discrimination, exclusive distribution, dealer termination and exclusive dealing.
Jon has defended a wide variety of antitrust claims in litigation, including Sherman Act monopolization and conspiracy claims involving alleged price fixing, market allocation, tying, “bundled discounts,” “aftermarket” parts and services, theft of trade secrets, defamation, other business torts and other alleged anticompetitive conduct. He also defends governmental challenges to acquisitions under Section 7 of the Clayton Act.
Jon has handled antitrust issues in scores of different industries. He has a particularly strong background in several industry-based representations covering multiple matters, including aerospace and defense, pharmaceuticals / biologic products, medical devices, construction products, and consumer products such as beer, wine, beverage alcohol and cannabis.
Jon Dean focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation matters, including patent and trade secrets cases, antitrust actions, class actions, securities matters, unfair competition cases, employment actions, OSHA cases and healthcare matters. Jon is a former prosecutor, and has served as trial counsel on both civil and criminal cases.
Jon also represents companies and individuals in connection with civil and criminal government investigations, including investigations by the US Department of Justice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and local law enforcement agencies.
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Jonathan Ching focuses his practice on structured transactions involving derivatives, commodities and both digital and traditional asset classes. Drawing on his experience as in-house counsel at leading banks and investment managers, he provides practical and clear strategic advice to help clients navigate complex issues.
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Partner Joshua (Josh) T. Buchman focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations and complex commercial litigation. He represents corporate clients in the health care, manufacturing and defense contracting industries, in civil litigation and in corporate internal investigations. Josh has deep knowledge of False Claims Act litigation, and obtained a complete victory for a defense contractor client in a case involving $600 million in single damages exposure. He also represents individuals involved in government investigations.
In addition to his litigation practice, Josh counsels clients in compliance-related matters, focusing on the health care industry.
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Joshua (Josh) Simon focuses his practice on litigation with a particular focus on the healthcare industry. He has litigated complex litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country and also represents his clients in arbitrations and regulatory proceedings.
Josh’s most recent work has been focused on ERISA, antitrust, RICO, and regulatory disputes related to the health insurance industry. He regularly acts as lead counsel in cases regarding claims payment, fraudulent billing by healthcare providers, competition among healthcare providers, provider contracting, and medical necessity coverage determinations. Josh has particular experience representing his clients in class action litigation related to these topics.
Josh also represents small and large companies in other industries, including technology, telecommunications, manufacturing, and securities. He has litigated a broad array of cases for clients in these industries, including contract cases and cases arising under the telecommunications, securities, and antitrust laws.
Julie H. McConnell focuses her practice on representing clients in complex litigation before federal, state and local agencies, courts and courts of appeals.
Julie defends companies in individual, multi-plaintiff and class action litigation in disputes involving Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Fair Labor Standards Act and other federal and state employment and accessibility statutes and tort claims. Julie also represents employers in litigation involving disclosure of trade secrets, violation of noncompetition agreements and whistleblower disputes. Additionally, Julie advocates for employers before the National Labor Relations Board in union organizing campaigns and unfair labor practice cases.
Julie has extensive experience defending companies against disability access claims brought under Title III of the ADA, the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Florida Civil Rights Act, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and other state accessibility statutes, including cases involving mobility and caregiver access and alleged barriers to access.
Hand-in-hand with her litigation practice, Julie advises employers on a range of employment and workplace issues, such as personnel policies and practices, employment contracts, employee separations and terminations and internal investigations.
Justin Bender focuses his practice on complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures and development work. He represents developers, lenders, REITs, real estate funds, private equity firms, pension funds and other institutional investors.
Partner Kate McDonald focuses her practice on transactional and regulatory counseling for clients in the health care industry, with particular focus on federal and state health care government programs and the intersection between health care payors and providers.
Kate regularly advises health insurers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), health care government contractors, health care providers and other clients on compliance with health care laws and regulations, particularly in connection with Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Medicaid managed care, the Affordable Care Act, state insurance laws, and state licensure and professional practice regulations.
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Kate Vera focuses her practice on executive compensation matters related to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring plans, initial public offerings, carve-outs and other business transactions. She leads the employee benefits and executive compensation practice in our New York office.
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Katharine (Kate) O’Connor focuses her practice on complex antitrust litigation, antitrust investigations brought by the US antitrust regulators and state attorneys general, and counseling clients on antitrust compliance questions. Kate also regularly represents clients before the antitrust regulators related to mergers and acquisitions. Kate has experience representing clients in a wide array of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, food and finance.
Kate is a member of the firm’s antitrust and competition practice, which Global Competition Review has designated a “Global Elite” and “Illinois Elite” practice. She has been recognized by Global Competition Review, Benchmark Litigation, Legal 500 US and Super Lawyers as excelling in the field of antitrust.
Kate has tried cases before juries, judges and arbitration panels, presented evidentiary hearings in federal and administrative courts and argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, federal district courts and state courts. She is a member of the Northern District of Illinois Trial Bar.
While in law school, Kate was the managing articles editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and a legal extern to Magistrate Judge David G. Bernthal of the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
Kathryn Linsky, CIPP/US, is an experienced privacy, data protection and cybersecurity lawyer counseling on data protection practices throughout the information lifecycle, including compliance with national and international regulations and data processing in emerging technologies.
Kathryn works directly with legal and business stakeholders to advise clients on product and feature development, with a focus on privacy by design. Kathryn is solutions-oriented and skilled in providing practical, business-facing advice, taking into account the particulars of each client’s industry and risk tolerance.
Kathryn represents clients on the full spectrum of privacy, cybersecurity and information management issues in the context of governance and compliance, business strategy, transactions, mergers and acquisitions, incident preparedness and response, and legislative and regulatory strategy.
Prior to joining McDermott, Kathryn was an in-house senior privacy counsel at an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, software and online services. In this role she managed a team that covered Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and software engineering.
Keith M. Pattiz has extensive experience in the areas of commercial leasing, financing, sales and acquisitions, hotel transactions, joint ventures and real estate workout matters. He has provided legal representation to a wide variety of clients, including major residential, office, hotel and shopping center developers, hotel operators, lending institutions, and US and non-US investors.
Keith has broad experience and is a recognized practitioner in the hospitality sector. He represents numerous owners, operators and developers in their acquisition development activity, financing management agreements, retail leasing and dispute resolution matters. For more than 10 years, Keith has moderated and been a panelist at the NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference.
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With a diverse transaction practice focused on hospitals, health systems, investors and other healthcare industry participants throughout the country, Kerrin B. Slattery has earned a reputation for excellence. Her significant experience across a wide range of health industry transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures and system restructurings involving nonprofit hospitals and health systems, academic medical centers, post-acute providers, large medical groups and their investors, makes her a valuable partner to healthcare leaders working to implement strategy, drive innovation and operate in a highly-regulated and rapidly evolving landscape.
Kerrin manages large-scale transactions, frequently leading teams of experienced practitioners with unique health industry knowledge, such as antitrust, employee benefits, environmental, executive compensation, privacy and security, digital health, real estate, fraud and abuse, and white collar. In addition, Kerrin regularly instructs clients on corporate and regulatory compliance matters, including state and federal regulations uniquely applicable to healthcare entities. She also works with numerous Catholic healthcare organizations and non-Catholic organizations in the unique structuring and operation issues related to the intersection of corporate and Canon laws governing Catholic sponsored entities.
Kerrin is also a respected member of the leadership team at McDermott. She currently serves on the management committee and previously held the role of partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Chicago Health Industry Advisory Group. Kerrin was also an adjunct professor of law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Kerrin is a practice area leader for the hospitals and health systems practice.
Kevin J. Sullivan focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors and other investment funds, private and public companies, and family offices in a wide variety of transactional matters. He has a broad range of experience negotiating and closing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs and growth equity investments in the United States and abroad.
Kevin represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies on key transactions across a variety of industries, including media, software/technology, sports and entertainment, professional services, and consumer goods and retail. He also has significant experience counseling founder-owned companies on general corporate matters and liquidity transactions.
Kevin has more than 25 years of experience representing leading private equity firms, including Apax Digital Fund, CVC Growth, Francisco Partners, GSV, Guidepost Growth Equity, Providence Equity Partners, PSG Equity, Susquehanna Growth Equity, TA Associates, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Thompson Street Capital and TCV.
He has also represented a variety of corporate clients, such as Ascend Learning, Blackboard, EverCommerce, CAC Specialty, Learfield Sports, Ministry Brands, Paycor, Signode and World Endurance Holdings (Ironman Triathlon).
Recognized for the quality of his counsel and commercial approach, Kevin has been ranked as a leading practitioner by Chambers USA, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 US and numerous other legal ratings agencies and publications.
Kevin Brophy focuses his practice on energy related matters, including the upstream and midstream sectors. He regularly advises on investments in and financings of energy projects and assets, including, mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions and dispositions of assets and equity of energy companies. He has extensive experience preparing and negotiating purchase and sale agreements (asset and equity), joint venture agreements, joint operating agreements, partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements, employment and consulting agreements, credit and security agreements and other agreements and contracts related to the energy industry.
Prior to joining the Firm, Kevin was general counsel for the Kayne Anderson Energy Funds. In this role, he advised the Funds and their portfolio companies on the structuring of investments, acquisitions and disposition of assets and equity, financing transactions, litigation, employment issues and various other matters. He also advised on the formation, structuring and governance of private equity funds with commitments exceeding $7 billion.
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Kevin J. Meek focuses his practice on patent litigation, prosecution and licensing. He is the managing partner of the Firm’s Austin office. Kevin has extensive experience litigating disputes involving intellectual property rights in a wide variety of advanced technologies in federal courts across the country, in the International Trade Commission and in post-grant proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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Kevin Cummings is the partner-in-charge of the Firm’s UK Tax Practice. Kevin is a senior, solutions-driven tax practitioner, having served as a tax partner from within both the legal sector and the Big Four – a hybrid background that enables Kevin to draw upon the strengths of both professions in delivering client advice.
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Kian Tauser is partner focusing his practice on tax advise in the following areas: M&A transactions for strategic investors and private equity houses, reorganisations, restructurings, structured finance, management participations, fully integrated advise on fund structuring, tax audits. Kian is highly experienced in transaction centered advise to groups, financial institutions, investment banks, private equity houses and fund initiators.
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Associate, Kimberley Smith focuses her practice on commercial litigation and arbitration. She has considerable experience in contractual dispute proceedings before the High Court, in particular in the energy, commodities and construction fields.
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Kristian (Krist) Werling represents private equity and strategic investors in a wide variety of transactional matters in the healthcare and life sciences industry. In this capacity, he works with cross-disciplinary teams to conduct legal due diligence and execute acquisitions and divestitures, as well as provide ongoing legal services to portfolio companies. Krist is a co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group.
Clients look to Krist for his ability to lead teams of lawyers that develop creative transaction structures that enable deals to close. In the healthcare services arena, Krist has particular experience with transactions and joint ventures involving physician practice management, ambulatory surgical centers, specialty hospitals, dermatology, pain management and anesthesia physician practices and dental practice management companies.
Krist had several years of experience serving as in-house counsel to Hospira, Inc., a generic specialty pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer that was sold to Pfizer.
Kristin, a partner in the Firm’s Business Restructuring practice, represents clients in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. She concentrates her practice in commercial bankruptcy and insolvency matters, creditors’ rights, out-of-court workouts and restructurings and financial services litigation. Kristin is a co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s New York office and a member of the Firm-wide Management Committee.
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Laura McLane heads the Boston Litigation Practice Group and is a nationally renowned False Claims Act (FCA) litigator in healthcare and life sciences enforcement matters. For more than 20 years, Laura has represented clients in healthcare, securities and other government investigations and litigation. Clients call Laura “an exquisite lawyer, very smart and incisive” (Chambers USA).
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Laurent Ayache is a partner and co-head of the Regulatory Practice in the Firm’s Paris office. He advises clients on public, administrative and regulatory law, including issues in connection with competition and public-sector matters. He focuses his practice on government contracts (public procurements, public service concessions, public-private partnerships and government property leases), public corporations (governance, privatization and changes in status) and on antitrust and industry regulation issues. His practice also includes litigation related to regulated industries such as energy (electricity and gas), electronic communications, airports, transportation (railway, road and sea), public housing, drinking water and sanitization.
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Lindsay Ditlow is experienced in all aspects of employment law, including litigation, counselling, and corporate transactions.
As a trial lawyer, Lindsay has successfully represented numerous clients in employment litigations, including cases involving claims under Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and state leave laws, the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, state discrimination and retaliation statutes, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state wage and hour laws.
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Lisa Gerson focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including for technology, energy, and chemical companies. She advises clients on business operations and contracts, and has litigated a variety of cases, including commercial torts, product liability, and contract disputes.
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Lisa Loesel focuses her practice on employee benefits matters, including the design, amendment and administration of pension and 401(k) plans, nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, and employee stock ownership plans. She counsels privately and publicly held corporations regarding the employee benefits design and transition matters arising from corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. She also advises clients regarding fiduciary and plan investment issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). Lisa also has experience counseling plan fiduciaries with respect to the claims and appeals procedures under ERISA.
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Lisa P. Rumin focuses her practice on antitrust, regulatory and litigation matters. She assists clients across a variety of industries and has represented numerous clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Lisa advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, including obtaining clearance from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as counsels clients on issues regarding antitrust compliance, pricing, and distribution. She also counsels clients on cartel prosecutions and defenses, including government investigations and the initiation and defense of civil class action litigation. Lisa is experienced in areas of e-discovery, document review and production for investigations before the FTC, DOJ and state attorneys general office.
In addition to her antitrust and competition work, Lisa maintains an active pro bono practice. She has represented clients in asylum, sexual harassment and employment discrimination matters, as well as assisted Lawyers Without Borders on projects aimed at strengthening legal training and enforcement in various countries.
While in law school, Lisa was the notes and comments editor for the Wake Forest Law Review. She served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Calvin E. Murphy in the North Carolina Business Court.
With deep experience in the complex and constantly evolving digital health regulatory landscape, Lisa Mazur helps her clients in the healthcare, technology and retail sectors pursue innovative digital health solutions with an eye toward proactive, practical compliance and creative legal solutions. Lisa is the head of strategy for McDermott’s Healthcare practice and serves as co-head of McDermott’s Digital Health practice, a role she has held since 2015.
As trusted legal counsel to many of the country’s most cutting-edge healthcare technology companies, hospitals and health systems, and new entrants into the digital health ecosystem, Lisa works in partnership with her clients to identify and understand the relevant legal issues impacting their innovative efforts. She works with legal and business professionals to develop practical, forward-thinking compliance and revenue solutions and strategies to help her clients achieve their goals. Lisa is particularly experienced with the legal and regulatory landscape governing telehealth and consumer wellness programs. In addition to writing extensively on matters related to digital health law, Lisa is frequently invited to speak on cutting-edge health topics at a variety of conferences and events.
In the broader healthcare compliance arena, Lisa also advises on issues including professional licensure, scope of practice, as well as compliance for conflict of interest, clinical research and other corporate issues. She also counsels clients on leading-edge health industry relationship formation and realignments, with a focus on the development of provider networks and strategies for achieving greater collaboration among providers, including hospitals, community health centers and physicians.
Lisa M. Richman focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.
She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes and insurance coverage.
Lisa’s clients have included investors, governments, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in disputes seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures and construction.
Lisa also has represented corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations and litigations in the US and around the world. Complementing her dispute resolution expertise, Lisa has managed internal investigations worldwide and has helped a variety of companies to resolve government investigations, including World Bank Sanctions proceedings. Lisa is listed on the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals and is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel, the ITA Americas Committee and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.
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Lorraine Maisnier-Boché focuses her practice on data protection and information technology (IT) law.
She has deep experience in the digital and IT sector as well as the health care industry, frequently advising health care professionals, hospitals, governmental entities, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers, software editors and hosting service providers on complex IT projects.
Lorraine has a strong background in data protection, and regularly advises on GDPR compliance programs, international data transfers, marketing and profiling actions, sensitive data (e.g., personal health data), audits and security issues.
Prior to joining McDermott, Lorraine was an IT/DP lawyer in an international law firm for several years. She then served as Senior Legal Counsel at the French eHealth Agency (ASIP Santé), where she advised on the development and implementation of national health information systems and on drafting the related IT agreements and licenses. She assisted the eHealth Agency’s Data Protection Officer with maintaining records on data processing activities and ensuring that the Agency implements a GDPR compliance program. In this context, she also carried out legal review of applications for health care data hosting service providers and for obtaining access to the National Healthcare Professionals Directory, as well as implemented labels, certifications and guidelines regarding digital switchover, interoperability and cybersecurity in the health sector.
She is also a lecturer in IT and Data Protection law at the Paris University and author of several papers on digital, data protection and e-health law. She is a regular speaker in eHealth and data protection conferences and workshops. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).
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Lowell D. Yoder focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global tax planning and international tax controversies, representing high-tech, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, financial, consumer and industrial companies. He advises on tax-efficient structuring of cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures, as well as tax-beneficial planning for intangible holding companies, global supply chains and multi-jurisdictional service arrangements. Lowell also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), handling audits and obtaining tax rulings. He works with an extensive network of lawyers worldwide, developing tax-favorable transactional and operational cross-border structures. Lowell previously served as the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice.
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Luc Jansen represents US and non-US sponsors in the formation of private investment funds across a variety of strategies, including private equity and buyout funds, real estate funds, credit funds, infrastructure funds, funds of funds, high-net-worth feeder funds, and financial services funds. Luc also has significant fund formation experience counseling clients in a variety of high-profile and complex transactions. With an impressive cross-border background in private investment funds, he assists the global needs of clients, particularly within the US and the UK where he has practiced law.
Luc also counsels private equity sponsors on a wide range of matters, such as the establishment, documentation, and implementation of internal firm management, corporate governance, and succession planning arrangements.
Lucille Madariaga focuses her practice on complex commercial transactions, insolvency proceedings and restructurings, including prevention proceedings. She has an additional strong background in contentious matters, both during and after the restructuring, and more generally on all types of commercial litigation.
Ludovica Rabitti focuses her practice on regulatory and corporate advisory matters, with a focus on EU and UK product compliance, trade and ESG. Ludovica has advised on high value private equity transactions and M&A deals in manufacturing, oil & gas, aviation and transport sectors. Ludovica also has strong background in privacy and data protection laws, having assisted companies develop their GDPR compliance, including data mapping and advising on international data transfers.
Ludovica has an in-depth understanding of and experience in advising on various aspects of EU and UK environmental legislation, including REACH, CLP, RoHS and WEEE. She has been involved in coordinating global product recalls, challenging the European Chemicals Agency’s decisions before ECHA Board of Appeal and the European Union General Court, and facilitating resolution of data sharing disputes for the metals and mining industry under REACH. Ludovica regularly advises industrial and consumer product supply chains on the impact of Brexit, reviews import, export and storage requirements, and frequently communicates with the EU and UK regulators such as Member State national authorities (UK HSE, DEFRA, OPSS) on a variety of product compliance issues.
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Mal Serure is the co-head of the US real estate practice and head of the Los Angeles real estate group. He has more than two decades of experience representing private equity funds, banks, real estate companies and real estate investment trusts (REITs) in a wide range of real estate transactions. He regularly advises lenders and borrowers in mortgage and mezzanine loan financing, and preferred equity transactions. Mal also advises clients on the purchase, workout and restructuring of troubled loans, including negotiations with co-lenders, participants, servicers and special servicers.
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In addition, Mal regularly represents sellers and purchasers, both domestic and international, in the purchase, sale, sale-leaseback and financing of commercial properties across asset classes, including multifamily, office, retail hotel, gaming and healthcare. He also represents Japanese clients in their investments in US commercial real estate assets.
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Dr. Marc Oberhardt focuses his practice on corporate restructuring and insolvency. He concentrates on restructuring of companies within and outside of insolvency proceedings (debtor-in-possession, insolvency plan proceedings, debt restructuring, advice of directors and shareholders), distressed mergers and acquisitions (M&A (advice of insolvency administrators and investors in connection with acquisitions out of insolvency proceedings)), as well as on all general insolvency-related matters (claw-back proceedings, advice of creditors, etc.).
Additionally, Marc advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, and on a broad range of matters relating to general corporate law.
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Margaret Warner has served as first chair trial and appellate counsel in state and federal courts in over 30 jurisdictions. Her work has spanned antitrust, commercial, class action, environmental, healthcare, insurance, mass tort, product liability and reinsurance disputes. Margaret has taken numerous cases to verdict/judgment before juries, judges and arbitration tribunals. Many of her cases have involved high-profile public policy issues from the Agent Orange litigation in the 1980s, environmental and Superfund litigation involving such notorious sites as Love Canal and the Hudson River in the 1990s, to sexual abuse, 9/11, antitrust, healthcare, ERISA and COVID-19 litigation in the 21st Century.
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Margaret J. Sampson, Ph.D., focuses her practice on global, strategic intellectual property transactions and patent counseling surrounding the areas of life sciences, pharmaceuticals, research tools and medical devices. Life sciences and technology clients turn to her for evaluating, structuring, negotiating and documenting major transactions.
Margaret’s extensive experience includes advising clients in evaluating patent portfolio positions; analyzing freedom-to-operate issues; identifying and evaluating targets for potential investment, mergers or acquisitions; Hatch-Waxman patent litigation; patent term extensions and adjustments; and patent office proceedings.
She is highly skilled in a variety of transactions such as inbound and outbound licensing and option agreements, development and collaboration agreements, clinical research agreement, clinical and commercial supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, sponsored research agreements, technology transfers, and royalty monetization transactions.
Margaret also has a significant research background, focused on molecular genetics, recombinant DNA and stem cell research, including making mouse knock-out models to better understand the function of genes in an organism.
Maria C. Rodriguez advises US and international corporations with regard to employment law compliance and mergers and acquisitions; and defends employment cases and class action litigation. She is a trusted advisor to clients helping them avoid or resolve disputes and protect resources through proactive and strategic planning. She is experienced working with clients in the sports, media and entertainment, technology, food and restaurant, airline, transportation and distribution, health care and fashion industries.
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Partner Mark Fennessy focuses his practice on contentious and non-contentious restructuring and insolvency matters. He has particular experience in multifaceted group collapses and global insolvency issues. He has been involved in a number of high-profile assignments for banks, funds and various strategic parties.
Mark has advised on a number of complex cross border matters for creditors (including direct lenders and distressed debt funds) and sponsors and is highly skilled in the restructuring of complex structures and an expert in special situations. He has also actively led a number of complex litigation matters and has significant experience in the investigation of complex fraud cases, multijurisdictional disputes, anti-avoidance/antecedent transaction advice, corporate investigation and analysis, asset tracing, international enforcement and the development of litigation strategies.
Additionally, Mark is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and an Authorised Fixed Charge Receiver (Non-appointment taking).
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Partner Mark Fine focuses his practice on complex debt financing transactions for private equity houses, borrowers and lenders including direct lending, leveraged buyouts, domestic and cross-border syndicated lending, junior debt issuances, high yield offerings, special situations, distressed debt trading, portfolio acquisitions and restructurings. Mark has previously held the position of European General Counsel at Bain Capital Credit in London.
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Massimiliano focuses his practice on providing legal advice in litigation both in State courts and arbitral proceedings (before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the Milan Chamber of Arbitration). Massimiliano has represented both Italian and foreign clients, covering a wide range of civil and commercial matters, with a specific focus on financial and corporate issues.
Associate Matthew Chen focuses his practice on UK and international private equity investments and buyout transactions, acting for institutions, private family offices, and portfolio companies. Matthew advises corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations. He also advises start-up and growth stage companies on structuring and investment rounds.
Matthew represents clients from a broad array of industries, including companies in the food and beverage, financial services, industrial gases, and chemicals sectors.
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Matthew King’s practice encompasses a broad range of global and domestic technology and outsourcing transactions, including information technology and business process outsourcing, software development and maintenance, software licensing, and other technology-related matters.
Matthew regularly negotiates intellectual property and information technology complex transition services agreements and technology-related joint ventures and strategic alliances. As a legal and business thought leader in the industry, he also represents clients on issues arising in connection with complex international outsourcing transactions, including the outsourcing of numerous IT functions, including infrastructure, applications development and maintenance, end-user computing, help desk and network operations. His business processes outsourcing experience includes outsourcing the middle and back office financial services processes, facility management functions, claims processing, human resources, payroll processing, finance and accounting functions and procurement.
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Matthias Kampshoff is a partner, he provides advice for all corporate and bankruptcy-law related issues. He focuses on restructuring companies that are experiencing crises and bankruptcy situations. He has extensive experience in providing advisory for companies, their officers, shareholders, investors as well as bankruptcy administrators and creditors. The range of his services encompasses, in particular, guiding companies in their self-administration. In addition, he regularly advises in national and international (distressed) M&A transactions. Among his most recent cases were a leading manufacturer of solar modules and a leading manufacturer of aluminium which he advised on the continuation of their businesses throughout distress and subsequent bankruptcy. Furthermore, he managed the sale of a bankrupt retail chain for motorcycle accessories.
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Partner Maximilian Clostermeyer advises a wide range of corporate clients and institutional investors on real estate matters. He has significant experience in large portfolio transactions as well as transactions regarding major single assets by way of share deals, asset deals or joint venture structures in all asset classes. He also counsels clients on all other aspects of real estate law including project development advice and commercial tenancy law. Furthermore, his practice includes corporate law work, especially in connection with M&A transactions.
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Megan Vallerie advises clients on a broad range of complex real estate transactions on both the debt and equity sides of the table. She has significant experience representing banks, life insurance companies, capital markets lenders, debt funds and other alternative lenders at all levels of the capital stack, including in connection with mortgage and mezzanine financing, securitized loans, construction lending, preferred equity investments, bridge financing and other structured financings, as well as intercreditor, co-lender and participation arrangements.
Megan also regularly represents institutional investors, operators and developers in the acquisition, financing, development, operation and disposition of various assets, including retail, office, multifamily, industrial, medical office and life science properties.
In addition, Megan has experience handling debt restructuring, workouts and loan modifications for both lenders and borrowers.
Michael L. Boykins is the office managing partner for the Firm’s Chicago office. He focuses his practice on corporate finance, representing corporate and individual lenders, investors and borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset-based lending, high-yield financings, employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) financings, acquisition financings, over-the-counter derivatives, insurance industry financings, senior subordinated debt, mezzanine and venture capital transactions. Michael also represents debtor committees and secured creditors in debt restructurings and workouts.
Michael advises issuers and underwriters in debt and equity public offerings and other types of secured transactions. On behalf of insurance companies and other institutional investors, he provides counsel in connection with the private placement of debt and related equity investments and exit strategies. Michael draws on his deep experience with the structure and issuance of convertible and nonconvertible debt and equity securities, and secured and unsecured financings, to advise clients on a wide range of US and international equity derivatives transactions, including swaps and over-the-counter derivatives.
Michael is a member of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and was past chair of the Racial and Ethnic Diversity Sub-Committee.
Michael Morgan is recognized as one of the nation’s leading lawyers in cybersecurity and data privacy. He has guided clients through some of the largest and most complex data breaches, breaches involving more than 50 million records, incidents affecting persons in over 100 countries around the world, and incidents involving sensitive defense-related information. He counsels clients on compliance with US and international regulations relating to cybersecurity and data privacy, including compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and China’s Network Security Law. Mike is the US head of the Firm’s Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group.
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Dr. Michael Cziesla is a corporate partner in our Frankfurt office who advises clients in complex corporate transactions, specializing in multi-jurisdictional and cross border M&A, secondaries, leveraged buyouts, divestments and reorganisation and joint ventures.
Michael advises both German and international corporates, private equity funds and insurance companies across a range of sectors with an emphasis on regulated industries (including healthcare and life science, aviation, IT and financial services).
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Michael J. Sheehan concentrates his practice on employment litigation with a focus on prosecuting and defending unfair competition litigation involving large scale raiding, inevitable disclosure of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty and non-compete agreements. A nationally recognized litigator, Michael has extensive courtroom experience, having tried dozens of cases to verdict across the United States. He has acted as lead counsel and successfully defended private and public companies against age, gender, race, retaliation, sexual harassment and trade secret/raiding cases. He has also litigated numerous large scale wage and hour class actions in state and federal court.
On a daily basis, Michael provides strategic counseling to private equity and public company clients, negotiating the on-boarding and exits of CEOs and other C-Suite executives, investigating #MeToo sexual harassment, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and other whistleblower complaints. Clients state Michael has “a pragmatic and efficient approach and a great understanding of our business and internal needs,” Chambers USA.
Michael is the global head of McDermott’s Employment Practice Group. Prior to joining McDermott, Michael was global co-chair of the employment group and chair of the US employment group for a leading international law firm.
Partner Michael (Mike) Byrne has extensive experience in complex insurance transactional, regulatory and InsurTech matters. He advises US and international insurers and reinsurers, investors, producers and technology companies on a broad range of matters, including obtaining regulatory approvals for M&A; change of control and affiliate transactions; forming, licensing and structuring business operations; drafting and negotiating agreements; M&A involving producers and service providers; and developing and obtaining approvals for unique products. He delivers practical and business-focused counsel on novel issues.
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Partner Michael R. Halsband has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, including in investment banking and capital markets. He is the global leader of the Firm’s Insurance Transactions and Regulation Group.
His wide-ranging experience includes insurance broker and carrier M&A, new company formation, capital raises and new product development (principally for InsurTech startups); complex structured (re)insurance transactions; insurance-linked securities (ILS); distressed portfolio run-off administration and general corporate insurance regulatory matters.
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Partner Michael B. Kimberly is co-chair of the Firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group. He has presented more than two dozen appellate arguments, including six times before the US Supreme Court and three times before the en banc courts of appeals. He has briefed and argued cases covering a wide range of subject matters, with particular experience in the areas of the Commerce Clause, preemption, the Social Security and Medicare Acts, ERISA, the Bankruptcy Code, and the antitrust laws.
In addition to handling appeals, Michael works frequently with his colleagues in trial courts to shape litigation strategy and present the most compelling dispositive motions. He is routinely involved in cases challenging the constitutionality of state legislation and the legality of federal administrative actions.
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Partner Michael Silva focuses his practice on international tax law, with an emphasis on US investment structures, cross-border transactions, tax treaty planning and US activities of foreign banks. He has significant experience forming investment funds and advising family offices.
Michael also advises Brazilian and Asian investors on investments in US real estate projects, and assists multinational corporations on establishing a business presence in the US.
Maintaining an active private client practice, Michael regularly advises families on trusts and private trusts companies and other techniques to transfer wealth and business assets. Michael advises foreign clients on the US income, estate and gift tax consequences of alternative inbound investment structures while utilizing income, estate and gift tax treaties to minimize tax and regulatory burdens. He coordinates the formation of foreign trusts, corporations and advises clients the US reporting requirements imposed on foreign trusts with US beneficiaries. Michael also assists international banks and trustees on dealing with US clients.
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Michael P. Chu focuses his practice on all aspects of patent law, including complex litigation, opinions and prosecution. He serves as the Local IP Litigation Practice Group Leader in McDermott’s Chicago office. Mike is also the head of the Firm’s Racial & Ethnic Diversity Committee.
In his litigation practice, Michael handles patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright matters, including trials, hearings, post-grant proceedings (including IPRs and PGRs) and mediation. His experience also includes complex patent cases, design patent cases, International Trade Commission (ITC) investigations and a strong appellate practice before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Michael also has extensive experience working with clients on litigation, licensing, regulation and import/export issues in Asia (including China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines) and in Europe.
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Michael J. Scarduzio focuses his practice on US and international tax matters, particularly civil and criminal tax litigation. From audit to litigation, he represents taxpayers in all phases of tax controversy, including novel issues of first impression such as financial hedging transactions using a captive insurer, US tax implications of a foreign master-feeder fund’s investment activities and matters arising under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Sections 7216 and 7212(a).
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Michael Darowski focuses his practice on international commercial and investment disputes resolved through arbitration. He handles cases under English and other governing laws, and under the rules of all of the main arbitral institutions. Michael has substantial experience of acting in national court proceedings in various jurisdictions relating to all aspects of the arbitration process.
Michael has particular skill in advising clients in the natural resources, oil and gas, energy, food & beverage, financial, transportation and telecoms sectors. He has arbitrated disputes all around the world, but has a wealth of experience of disputes from the CIS and Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Far East. Michael’s client base is fully international, ranging from multinational corporations and financial institutions to wealthy private individuals.
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Michelle Lowery has close to two decades of experience in achieving exceptional results for clients in antitrust and unfair competition litigation and investigations, including class actions. She routinely achieves victories for her clients in high-stakes cases on the papers and in the court house. She has specific experience in the healthcare, high-tech and manufacturing sectors, and specializes in litigation between competitors in these sectors. Michelle focuses her practice on helping her clients compete intensely, guiding and defending competitive strategies through and around litigation and investigations.
Michelle has been recognized by Legal 500 US, Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation as excelling in antitrust and unfair competition litigation, and is a member of the Firm’s antitrust and competition practice, which is designated “Global Elite” as one of the top 25 competition practices in the world by Global Competition Review.
Partner Monica A. Wallace focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to health care organizations, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dental providers, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, DMEPOS and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, home health agencies, and venture capital and private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies.
Monica concentrates her regulatory practice on health care fraud and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, reimbursement and billing, legal assessments and audits, compliance programs, and other general regulatory matters including licensure, survey/certification and accreditation. Her transactional practice includes mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, divestitures, hospital/physician joint ventures and corporate reorganization.
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Dr. Monika Richter advises national and international biotechnology/pharmaceuticals companies on various commercial legal matters related to the development, manufacturing and commercialization of medicinal products, with a particular focus on strategic alliances, research and development collaborations, license agreements, commercial manufacturing and supply agreements and distribution agreements. Her work likewise includes financing and corporate transactions as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Given her Polish background, Monika Richter is active in the Eastern European market, regularly speaking at industry conferences in Poland and advising Polish clients on several cross-border collaborations in the life sciences sector.
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Partner Neil L. Levy focuses his practice on energy-related regulatory and transactional matters. He represents independent power producers, electric power and natural gas marketers, merchant transmission developers, interstate pipelines and local distribution companies before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state public utility commissions and the courts of appeal. Neil regularly represents private equity clients in merger and acquisition transactions in the energy sector. He also focuses on representing clients in energy-related investigations and audits before FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Neil advises clients in regulatory, administrative litigation and transactional issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978.
In addition, he assists clients with drafting and negotiating electric power and natural gas supply contracts, electric and natural gas interconnection agreements, transmission service agreements, and capacity release agreements.
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Nick is a partner in the corporate department, where his practice focuses on cross-border M&A, predominantly in the commodities, energy/natural resources, IPMT and general engineering sectors.
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Nicolas Faguer focuses his practice on complex litigation, in particular in company law including conflicts between shareholders in post-acquisition litigation. He also has a wealth of experience in commercial litigation, as well as in pre-litigation matters, and in various form of alternative dispute resolution matters.
Nicolas has represented several renowned insurers, audit firms, investment funds in connection with media litigation. He has defended many companies over the years in diverse industries such as telecom, pharmaceutical, IT services, energy and nursing homes.
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Nicole L. Castle provides legal counsel on complex civil and criminal antitrust litigation. She regularly represents clients in complex, multidistrict class action antitrust litigation alleging Sherman Act violations. She also defends mergers and acquisitions before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Nicole regularly assists clients in developing practical, efficient and cost-effective solutions for the management, production and storage of electronically stored information.
Additionally, Nicole represents clients in government investigations before the FTC and DOJ. Nicole counsels clients on strategies for addressing cartel prosecutions and defenses, from the inception of government investigations to the initiation of civil class action litigation.
She also provides antitrust counseling on transactions, including counseling under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, advising on permissible pre-closing activities, defending transactions before the FTC or DOJ, and responding to Second Requests and Civil Investigative Demands.
Nicole’s experience extends to health care antitrust and pricing and distribution issues. She has represented health care providers in transactions, government investigations and litigation and has defended hospital mergers before the FTC. In addition to healthcare, she has represented clients in a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer products, defense and aerospace and food.
In addition, Nicole is committed to pro bono representation. She has served as a court-appointed guardian ad litem for a child in a custody dispute and has represented pro bono clients seeking guardianship of neglected children.
Nicolette Kost De Sèvres focuses her practice on global investigations, compliance and regulatory enforcement matters. A former financial regulator and general counsel of a large, listed company, she has over 24 years of experience in compliance, white-collar crime and financial regulation. Nicolette serves as co-head of the Firm’s Global Investigations & Compliance practice.
Nicolette has practiced in Paris, London, Sydney, Washington, DC, and Montreal, including at the New York Stock Exchange in Paris (NYSE Euronext) and the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. She also served as chief of staff and advisor to the president of the Financial Markets Authority in Canada under two different presidents.
Nicolette has a wealth of experience in anti-corruption and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance both in Europe and globally. She handles corporate and regulatory investigations, risk assessments, and due diligence compliance, including Know Your Client (KYC) regulations. Nicolette also represents clients before enforcement agencies and regulators in Europe, Canada and the United States, such as the new French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA) and assists them in compliance, investigations and regulatory matters related to regulators such as ESMA the AMF, ACPR, CFTC, SEC, the World Bank and other multilateral banks.
Nicolette advises financial institutions and global and local companies on preventive measures. She is a sought-after advisor in complex white-collar crime matters, building and strengthening local and global compliance programs, preparing or conducting risk assessments and mapping, whistleblowing systems, compliance programs, World Bank Integrity Guidelines, the French Loi Sapin II, Loi sur le devoir de vigilance, FCPA, UKBA, EU Directives relating to whistleblower protection, ESG reporting, EU financial regulation (including MIFID, EMIR, AIFMD, BASEL, BRDD, AML, PDS2, SEPA) and FinTech regulation. Additionally, she has a special insight on the military and defense sectors in the United States and France.
A known thought leader in the global market, Nicolette is a sought-after writer and speaker on compliance, enforcement, business ethics, international financial markets and the effects of regulation on financial systemic risk, derivatives, high-frequency trading and the legal framework of European financial markets.
She is the author of the book International Economic Law, numerous articles in compliance and investigations and one of the first articles on DLT, “Blockchain Revolution: An Analysis of Regulation and Technology Related to Distributed Ledger Technologies.” She teaches compliance, investigations and FinTech.
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Niels Dejean focuses his practice on French tax matters, advising clients on tax law, tax controversy and dispute resolution, private equity and mergers & acquisitions areas.
Before joining McDermott, Niels was the partner in charge of the French tax practice of a US law firm. He also has prior experience within a major audit firm (both in France and in the United States) and has particular strength in cross-border matters and the interaction of French and US tax
Dr. Norbert Schulte is a partner in the Corporate Department and Real Estate Group. He advises on all aspects of corporate real estate law, including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border real estate transactions, real estate investment banking, real estate transaction finance, privatisations, real estate outsourcing, joint ventures and project development.
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Dr. Oliver Lieth leads McDermott’s German banking and finance practice since 2011. His own advisory focus is on real estate finance. His long-standing track record in this area includes high-volume single asset transactions (including the financing of many landmark projects such as Kaufhaus des Westens, Alsterhaus and Elbtower) as well as complex portfolio transactions in senior and mezzanine structures. He and his team are familiar with both, financings according to the LMA standard as well as the VdP standard.
Furthermore, Dr. Oliver Lieth has special expertise in corporate credit lines and automotive wholesale finance. In automotive wholesale finance, he advises banks and car manufacturers on cooperation agreements for sales financing in the automotive industry. The geographic scope and industry knowledge in the automotive finance sector covers Europe, South America as well as Asia.
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Partner Paul Radensky, MD, advises manufacturers at every stage of product development, including the design and monitoring of clinical trials, positioning and applying for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, maintaining regulatory compliance, and obtaining coverage, coding and payment for new technologies by Medicare, Medicaid and other third-party payors. He serves as a principal of McDermott+Consulting LLC.
Paul also advises clinical laboratories on Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) and state licensure compliance as well as evolving policies on FDA regulation of laboratory-developed tests. He is a recognized authority on the full range of legal, regulatory and reimbursement issues pertaining to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and clinical laboratory development and marketing.
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Paul is a partner, he advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors in all areas of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law. His practice covers all aspects of UK employment legislation and day-to-day employment matters, including appointments and terminations, employment status and worker classification issues, employee handbooks and policies, employee data privacy, disciplinary and grievance issues, and restructuring and redundancy exercises. Paul advises on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions, including share sales, business transfers and joint ventures, not least the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations.
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Partner Paul Hughes is co-chair of the Firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group. He briefs and argues complex appeals, and he develops legal strategy for trial litigation.
An experienced appellate lawyer, Paul has argued eight times at the US Supreme Court, including in February, March, October, and December 2019, and March 2020. He has argued more than 40 cases, including before en banc sittings of the Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, and before panels of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, DC, and Federal Circuits.
Paul works across substantive areas of law. He frequently litigates challenges to administrative agency action, especially with respect to immigration, the life sciences industry, and taxation. In 2018, Law360 named Paul an “MVP” for his intellectual property work before the Federal Circuit. Paul also has deep experience with the False Claims Act, bankruptcy, civil rights, and securities law.
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A former SEC Enforcement Attorney, Paul Helms manages risk associated with complex securities issues. He defends clients facing SEC and government inquiries, conducts internal investigations and handles securities litigation. In particular, Paul developed substantial experience in matters involving investment advisers, mutual funds and private funds, in part through his training as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Paul spent seven years in the SEC Enforcement Division, working in the specialized Market Abuse and Asset Management Units. At the Commission, Paul investigated and brought actions involving accounting and disclosures, auditor and attorney negligence, regulatory compliance, offering fraud, market manipulation and insider trading. He also gained perspective on national and regional enforcement policy, serving as Counsel to the Director of Enforcement in Washington, DC and assisting the Chicago Regional Director with management issues.
Before and after government service, Paul handled government and internal investigations, securities class actions and derivative actions. Through his work, he counseled nationally recognized public issuers, investment advisers, broker-dealers, audit firms and nonprofit organizations, as well as the officers and directors who manage those firms. He began his career clerking for the Honorable James H. Michael, Jr. in the Western District of Virginia.
While in law school, Paul served as Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and participated in the Law and Business Program. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
Philip (Phil) Tingle represents energy companies such as utilities, independent power producers and financial institutions on a wide range of energy tax-related matters. He is the global co-head of the Energy & Project Finance Practice.
Phil provides advice regarding all aspects of renewable-energy projects, including tax equity structures, refinancings, acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings and workouts. He has extensive experience with the production tax credit and with the application of renewable credits to new technologies. Moreover, he works with the investment tax credit for numerous kinds of solar projects. Phil has filed and received a number of private letter rulings on behalf of clients regarding the production tax credit.
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Philip Corser focuses his practice on global and UK corporate transactions. He has 15 years’ experience acting on a wide range of complex public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity capital market transactions and solvent and insolvent restructurings. Philip provides comprehensive advice on private asset and share purchases, public takeovers, stock exchange listings, shareholders’ agreements, group reorganisations, securities regulations, listing, disclosure and reporting rules, corporate governance and company law.
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Philip has a wealth of experience in a wide range of business areas, including in particular the healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, financial services and industrial sectors.
Dr. Philip Schmidt is specializing in M&A and PE, often with a cross-border context, as well as corporate law, corporate governance and compliance.
Philip advises national and international management bodies and compliance officers on a wide range of related topics, including liability issues, set-up and maintenance of compliance management systems, supply chain management, ESG as well as internal investigations. He has been seconded to a DAX-listed client where he conducted several internal investigations in various jurisdictions across the globe and provided legal advice on diverse compliance matters.
Philip comprehensively advises a number of clients, including DAX- and MDAX-listed companies, on the certification of its compliance management systems.
Dr. Philipp Grenzebach advises financial and strategic investors on all aspects of corporate law and merger and acquisition (M&A) and real estate transactions, in particular private and public takeovers. He has deep knowledge of corporate reorganizations, as well as the governance and capital market compliance of capital-market oriented corporations.
Philipp furthermore focuses on the negotiation of complex contracts, especially investor and joint venture agreements.
Philipp has contributed to a number of publications, inter alia, in the area of capital markets law and energy regulation.
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Partner Pierre-Arnoux Mayoly focuses on structured finance matters, in particular in the context of leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions, acquisition financing (build-up), funds financing (equity bridge/capital call financing) or debt restructuring. He represents financing providers – senior or subordinated – and sponsors and borrowers. Pierre-Arnoux is head of the Finance Department in Paris.
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Prem Amarnani focuses his practice on corporate and transactional matters with respect to private investment funds. He represents investment managers and other financial institutions relating to the formation and operation of private investment funds and managed accounts. In addition, Prem represents sovereign wealth funds, businesses and individuals in connection with their respective investments in a wide variety of private investment funds.
Prem also advises on an array of other corporate matters, including investments in investment managers and secondary transactions. He has significant in-house legal experience with two of the world’s largest alternative asset managers.
Priya is a counsel, her practice includes a broad range of structured finance transactions advising on debt capital markets, securitisations and debt restructurings. She represents issuers, trustees, noteholders, borrowers, servicers and corporate service providers as well as specialising in acting for corporate trust clients on high yields, securitisations, MTN programmes and cross border defaults. Priya is also chair of the Women’s Corporate Trust Network – a global network of women working in the corporate trust and agency industry.
Priya has a particular focus on emerging markets and impact finance work advising on India related finance and capital markets work. Priya also has extensive experience on cross border impact finance transactions. She advised on the Educate Girls social impact bond, the ‘Utkrisht’ development impact bond, the British Asian Trust Quality Education impact bond as well as a recent social impact bond in relation to the PAUSE programme in Derbyshire, UK.
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Rachel B. Cowen focuses her practice in various employment discrimination and wrongful termination cases in federal and state courts.
Rachel’s experience includes prosecuting and defending employee mobility and trade secret litigation on an emergency injunctive basis. She also counsels employers facing union organizing activity and picketing, and has successfully tried numerous cases before the National Labor Relations Board. She also handles collective bargaining and labor arbitrations. Additionally, Rachel represents financial services companies and professional engineering firms in unfair competition cases.
Raja Chatterjee focuses his practice on technology transactions and outsourcing matters. Raja has experience in a wide range of transactional matters including complex domestic and cross-border commercial transactions, intellectual property licensing, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border joint venture transactions, multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations and franchising and distribution matters.
While in law school, Raja was a technology editor for the SMU Law Review Association.
Prior to his career in law, Raja spent several years in the medical device industry and was involved in the design and manufacture of implantable cardiac, spinal and orthopedic medical devices.
Raminta Dereskeviciute focuses her practice on product compliance, trade regulation (sanctions and export controls) and ESG. She has significant experience in advising on EU and UK chemical legislation (REACH), product safety and liability rules and frequently represents clients before the European Chemicals Agency Board of Appeal. Raminta also advises businesses on the implications Brexit has in relation to a range of regulatory compliance issues.
Raminta counsels clients on the EU and the UK sanctions regimes and export controls, including in higher risk jurisdictions such as Russia and Iran. Her experience covers the review and design of compliance programs, including giving training to client teams on controlled goods, prohibited jurisdictions, persons and activities. Raminta assists companies in liaising with regulators when assessing whether their activities are in breach of EU or UK sanctions regimes, or whether authorisations / licenses from the national authorities are appropriate. Raminta has participated as a chair and speaker on sanctions related panels at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.
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Partner Ranajoy Basu focuses his practice on structured finance with key experience in debt capital markets transactions. He has a broad range of experience in international capital markets advising a wide range of participants, including arrangers, originators, servicers and trustees, in connection with the securitisation of a wide variety of assets in numerous jurisdictions, including emerging markets transactions.
Ranajoy has a particular focus on emerging markets transactions, and is recognised as an industry leader by both, Legal 500 and Chambers. He joins as the Head of the Firm’s India practice. He regularly advises on a broad range of capital markets and complex structured finance transactions including external foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) and qualified institutional placements (QIPs) relating to India. He has advised banks on some of the largest corporate debt defaults and restructuring in India.
Ranajoy is recognised as one of the World’s leading lawyers in cross-border social impact finance structures, including social and development impact bonds, renewable energy and “green” structured finance transactions. Ranajoy has advised on some of the most innovative financial inclusion structures around the world, including the Educate Girls Social Impact Bond, which aims to improve the education of children in India, and the recent ground-breaking Utkrisht Bond, which is aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality. Ranajoy continues to advise foundations, governments, NGOs, impact funds and financial institutions on structuring social impact finance solutions. He recently advised on the ground breaking International Finance Facility for Education, which is the largest funding mechanism targeting education programmes around the world.
Ranajoy is recognised as a pioneer in impact investment. His work has included the market leading ‘Educate Girls’ bond which was the first development impact bond of its kind. His clients have ranged from GAVI, UNICEF, World Bank, IFC, to governments, financial institutions, funds, charitable institutions, NGOs and microfinance institutions around the world. He has been involved on ground breaking work for Wattpad, Theirworld and The Global Business Coalition for Education.
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Partner Raymond Paretzky counsels clients on import relief measures, customs compliance, and export controls and trade sanctions. Raymond has extensive experience handling complex international trade matters for US and non-US clients.
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Raymond (Ray) A. Jacobsen, Jr., advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and complex antitrust litigation. He has significant experience in the defense, medical devices, biotech, consumer product, energy and health care industries. Ray is the global head of McDermott’s Antitrust Practice and serves on the Management Committee.
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Richard C. Call focuses his practice on all types of state and local tax matters including litigation, advisory, and transactional work. He has participated in successful cases at administrative bodies, trial courts, and appellate courts in several states. In 2020, he successfully argued before the Appeals Court of Massachusetts in Bay State Gas Company v. Commissioner, securing a rare reversal of the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board in a corporate income tax case. Admitted to practice in both Massachusetts and New York, he has been recognized as a Super Lawyers, Rising Star in both Massachusetts and New York.
Richard’s clients operate in virtually every industry, including the tech, energy, financial, health, retail, and restaurant industries. He has spoken at the State Tax Roundtable for Utilities & Power (STARTUP) and Restaurant Industry Sales Tax Audit Professionals (RISTAP) annual meeting. Richard also works with individuals regarding personal income tax issues such as residency.
Richard is actively engaged in the state and local tax community both locally and nationally. He is the current co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Tax Section. Richard publishes frequently on state and local tax topics, with articles appearing in numerous professional publications, including State Tax Notes, Bloomberg BNA Weekly State Tax Report, Bloomberg BNA Multistate Tax Report, The Tax Executive, the Journal of State Taxation, the Boston Business Journal, and the New York University Institute on State and Local Taxation. He also has spoken on state and local tax topics in multiple forums, including the Boston Bar Association – State and Local Tax Section, Council on State Taxation (COST), Tax Executives Institute, Strafford webinars and the Philadelphia Bar Institute.
Robert W. Zelnick is a nationally recognized intellectual property (IP) lawyer with an established record of success. Although he is also a registered patent attorney, for more than two decades Robert has focused his practice on trademark, unfair competition and false advertising matters, where he counsels clients on complex IP issues and serves as lead counsel for major clients in federal trial and appellate courts. According to client feedback in World Trademark Review, as the former head of the Firm’s Global Trademark Practice Group for 10 years, he has “an absolutely superb track record in the courtroom.” Clients also single him out for his “particular thoroughness in his research, his answers to our questions, and the depth of the options he provides us with.” In 2017, Robert was named to The Legal 500’s inaugural Hall of Fame, which recognized fewer than 500 US lawyers across all fields of practice. Robert also serves as an adjunct professor at George Washington University Law School, teaching “Advanced Trademark Law.”
Counsel Robert C. Louthian, III, represents exempt organizations on a wide range of tax and related issues, including determinations of exempt status, securing private letter rulings on proposed transactions, and preparing and representing clients who are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service. He works primarily with hospitals and other institutional providers, private foundations, scientific research organizations, universities, trade associations and corporate foundations. Robert has extensive experience in the formation of provider networks, integrate delivery systems, conversions of tax-exempt organizations and joint ventures with tax-exempt participants.
Robin B. Campbell focuses her practice on Global Privacy & Cybersecurity matters and provides practical solutions for data security and privacy risk management. Robin is a leader in the field and has twice chaired the global privacy/security practice at top tier law firms. She works closely with clients to analyze the risks associated with new technologies, data use or transfers and to develop appropriate controls to reduce those risks. She focuses on the automotive industry, including connected cars and autonomous vehicles (AV). She covers both US and international laws, including an in-depth knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and international data transfers.
Robin assists clients with implementing global privacy/security compliance programs under US and international laws, including developing program details, processes, oversight and management. She has helped clients structure complex data consolidation plans and large outsourcing agreements. She drafts and negotiates contractual agreements concerning the use of personal and protected health information, security and confidentiality, as well as the privacy and security components of more general contractual agreements. She also focuses on breach response, including notification procedures and best practices after a security breach as well as advising clients on both safeguard protocols and response plans in advance of a breach. Robin also provides privacy and security related training for clients.
Robin’s experience also includes serving as a special consultant to Hewlett Packard (HP) Europe in Geneva, Switzerland, while the European Data Protection Directive was in the early stages of implementation. While at HP, Robin worked with a cross-functional task force to develop a global compliance strategy under both the EU Directive and the Safe Harbor requirements. The task force acted as a European advisory body on the new privacy legislation, a central point of contact for all questions related to privacy and data protection, and it promoted a detailed policy framework within the company for handling personal data in its daily business.
Robin was selected by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission as an Arbitrator for the EU-US Privacy Shield and was a member of Law360’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Editorial Advisory Board, as well as Cognomotiv, an automotive and transportation data services company. She has earned her CIPP/US and CIPM certifications and was a member of IAPP’s Professional Privacy faculty. Robin regularly publishes and presents on current privacy and security issues.
Roger J. Jones represents clients in tax controversy and litigation matters at all levels of the federal court system, before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and before various state courts and tax agencies. He has represented taxpayers, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, in more than 80 docketed cases before the US Supreme Court, most of the US courts of appeals, federal district courts, the US Court of Federal Claims and the US Tax Court.
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Rolf has over 20 years’ experience in advising international clients on cross border and national projects including corporate acquisitions and divestitures and joint ventures.
Rolf has extensive experience in the fields of cross-border M&A, PE transactions, corporate governance and compliance. As part of the firm’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice, he has a particular focus on governance aspects of ESG. He frequently advises executive boards in the context of company crisis (inter alia governmental investigations, internal investigations), and provides strategic advice on compliance management systems.
Rolf’s practice spans the full circle of compliance related legislation, including risk assessment, supply chain management (in particular associated with the German Supply Chain Act), due diligence as well as internal investigations.
Romain Desmonts focuses his practice on tax advice to French and multinational companies, with an emphasis on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and group restructurings, as well as indirect tax matters.
Romain also regularly provides tax advice to high net-worth individuals on domestic and international estate planning issues, especially in a US-France context.
He has developed a strong background in tax controversy and litigation for corporate and private clients.
Romain has extensive experience in data privacy and data protection law, and lectures on these subjects in Master of Law classes at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas and the University of Paris V Descartes. He advises on the full range of data protection and data security for clients in life sciences, automotive, insurance, e-commerce, leisure, social networks and even the public sector, especially in the context of smart cities projects. Romain is the EU head of the Firm’s Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group.
Associate Romilly Holland focuses her practice on international commercial and investment arbitration and has significant experience in arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as before ad hoc tribunals. She has particular experience in the energy and telecommunications sectors and in disputes arising out of investments in emerging markets. In addition to acting as counsel, Romilly has regularly been appointed as secretary to the arbitral tribunal in international commercial arbitration proceedings.
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Rosa Barcelo focuses her practice on global data privacy and cyber security. She counsels clients on data protection and privacy, including compliance with the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. She helps companies develop global privacy compliance programs that harmonize GDPR with other international laws such as US privacy legislation (eg., CCPA/CPRA). She regularly advises organizations on structuring international data transfers using SCCs and BCRs, completing Data Protection Impact Assessments, drafting data processor agreements, advising on personal data breaches, and carrying out lead authority assessments.
Rosa’s practice has particular focus on cutting-edge IT issues, and she has a wealth of experience counselling clients on privacy in the electronic communications sector (both number dependent and independent services). She has additional skill in data privacy issues related to AI and machine learning, autonomous vehicles, marketing, programmatic advertising, and online tracking technologies.
Rosa’s previous experience includes her role as Deputy Head of Unit of the Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Unit of DG CONNECT in the European Commission, where she led legislative deliberations over the proposed e-Privacy Regulation. Rosa’s work with the office of the EDPS focused on a wide range of ICT-related issues. Rosa worked closely with national supervisory authorities participating in the former Article 29 Working Party (now the European Data Protection Board). Rosa has also worked in academia and as a private lawyer in the Brussels offices of various international law firms, where she advised on EU privacy and data protection issues, as well electronic commerce and technology laws.
Rosa is a frequent lecturer on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity. In addition, she is a correspondent for the Journal of Computer Law Review International and is acting Chairwomen of the Brussels Chapter of the International Institute of Communications. She teaches a data protection certification course at the Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht.
Rosa previously served on the European board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Russell Hayman represents companies in the technology, health, life sciences and in other sectors in complex civil litigation nationwide. Drawing on his background as a federal prosecutor, he has also represented companies in government investigations and criminal proceedings. A successful trial lawyer having taken over 25 cases to trial, Russell has successfully defended clients in complex federal antitrust, patent infringement and theft of trade secret cases involving acoustic, cellular, Wi-Fi, software, mobile app, semiconductor and memory technologies. Russell’s trial experience in antitrust matters includes both horizontal and vertical restraint claims.
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Ryan S. Smethurst is co-head of McDermott’s Insurance Litigation & Counseling Team. He has tried numerous insurance coverage cases to judges and juries, has litigated insurance coverage appeals presenting questions of first impression, and has arbitrated reinsurance disputes to final award. For nearly two decades, Ryan has represented insurers in insurance coverage litigation and claims disputes with respect to their most difficult and high-profile exposures, including more than 11,000 personal injury actions against the City of New York and 140 of its contractors in In re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation; approximately 750 childhood sexual abuse cases against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and other Roman Catholic, Episcopal and youth organizations nationwide; and nine-figure environmental and asbestos liabilities.
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Ryan S. Higgins represents a broad range of health industry clients, including hospitals, health systems, private equity firms and platform companies, digital health companies, and health care analytics and technology companies, in corporate and transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and management arrangements, and in health information privacy and cybersecurity matters, including privacy and security compliance program design and implementation, data mapping, contractual negotiations, and breach and cybersecurity incident response and investigation.
Ryan Tisch provides strategic antitrust counsel for boards of directors, chief executive officers and key business stakeholders as they maneuver government regulations around the world.
Ryan is known for securing approvals for significant mergers facing review in multiple jurisdictions, including some of the largest mergers in the communications, manufacturing, technology, and food and beverage industries. As the digital economy exposes traditional businesses to new competition, clients also turn to Ryan to advise on their evolving business platforms and go-to-market strategies.
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Sabine Naugès is a partner, her practice focuses on all aspects of public law, including administrative and regulatory law, competition law and constitutional law. Has advised clients on regulatory matters and regularly represents these clients in cases before the administrative and commercial courts, as well as before EU and French competition authorities. She has also represented aerospace companies and oil and gas operators in dealing with the French government and in litigation matters.
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Sam Snider focuses his practice on M&A transactions, joint ventures and private placements. He represents leading global companies on a wide variety of cross border transactions.
Before returning to private practice in 2017, Sam was chief legal and compliance officer, at a leading health information technology company. Sam also led the global M&A legal function for a FTSE 100 information and analytics company.
Partner Sandra (Sandy) M. DiVarco focuses her practice on the representation of hospitals and health systems. She has counseled health care facility and system clients regarding all aspects of health law transactions and health system restructurings.
In addition to maintaining an active transactional practice, Sandy has a deep knowledge of regulatory, licensing and accreditation issues of particular concern to health care providers in today’s heightened enforcement climate. Sandy regularly advises clients on the legal aspects of clinical regulatory issues and policy/procedure and operational matters. A significant component of her practice involves assisting health care provider clients across the United States with regulatory, licensure and accreditation issues, including state-level and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) survey responses, formulation of successful plans of correction, Joint Commission complaint responses and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)/regulatory investigations. Drawing on her experience as a registered nurse, and holding a current license in the state of Illinois, Sandy brings a pragmatic perspective and first-hand knowledge of health care operations to these complex and mission-critical matters.
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Partner Sandra Urban-Crell has vast experience across the spectrum of labor and employment law, having handled everything from day-to-day practical advice tailored to her national and international clients’ operational and commercial needs, to complex multi-jurisdictional transactions from strategic planning through post-merger integration. She regularly advises on co-determination matters on the company and board levels, and on outsourcing and restructurings, including negotiations with employee representatives. Sandra is an experienced litigator and has particular knowledge of international assignments, service agreements for board members, managing directors and executive employees (including separation processes), and bonus and benefit plans.
Sandra also advises supervisory and managing boards on employment-related compliance issues, often in connection with directors’ and officers’ liability and internal investigations. She further provides advice and delivers training sessions regarding the use of outside staff, particularly in the “grey zone” of legal service agreements and illegal temporary employment.
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Sarah is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Over the last dozen years, she has led 16 patent infringement, trade secrets and invalidity trials (ten jury trials, six bench trials) across several jurisdictions, including the federal courts in Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, Colorado, California and Texas.
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Sarah is an associate, she focuses her practice on corporate tax and has a wealth of experience advising clients across a full range of UK and international tax matters. Her areas of specialty include tax structuring and advisory matters for multinational technology, health care and life sciences groups, as well as tax aspects of private equity transactions, M&A, leveraged finance, group reorganizations, private funds, debt capital markets and debt restructurings.
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Sarah Bro is the office managing partner for the Firm’s Orange County office. She focuses her practice on trademark prosecution, enforcement and brand portfolio management, as well as licensing, due diligence, copyright, right of publicity and domain name matters.
Sarah assists clients across an array of industries with all stages of domestic and international trademark prosecution, and provides consultation and strategy with respect to the selection, clearance, enforcement and licensing of trademarks. Sarah’s clients include domestic and international companies in industries such as health care, blockchain and financial technologies, software/mobile applications, agriculture, fashion and apparel, consumer goods, beauty, wellness and lifestyle (including CBD products), arts and entertainment, food and beverage, hospitality, mining and pharmaceuticals. Sarah has extensive experience in the research, drafting and filing of documents with the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the US Copyright Office. Sarah has a proven track record in recovering domain names through the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policies. Sarah is also well versed in the submission of “takedown” and infringement notices across third-party websites, social media platforms, app stores and online marketplaces. She has experience in swiftly addressing instances of fraud, phishing or other online abuse by leveraging intellectual property claims through a multi-pronged enforcement approach. Sarah also regularly provides intellectual property (IP) support and guidance in due diligence matters in connection with corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. Sarah’s experience includes a three-month secondment in Germany in the in-house legal department of a leading generic pharmaceuticals company, where she handled a full array of trademark prosecution matters, global brand portfolio management and strategic clearance for a key worldwide product launch.
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Sarah P. Hogarth is a member of the Firm’s Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation and Government & Regulatory Litigation practices. She briefs and argues appeals and critical motions, litigates affirmative cases challenging federal and state government action and advises on legal strategy and dispositive motions in trial courts or before administrative tribunals.
Her experience encompasses a wide variety of substantive legal issues, including matters involving federal practice and jurisdiction, constitutional law, preemption, administrative law, the False Claims Act, intellectual property, antitrust, the Federal Arbitration Act, insurance and taxation.
Sarah has particular experience handling appeals and dispositive motions on legal issues affecting healthcare and life sciences companies, including Medicare, ERISA and FEHB preemption and coverage issues, intellectual property disputes, challenges to regulations, antitrust issues and False Claims Act cases. She also advises technology companies with regulatory challenges, licensing disputes, intellectual property and state taxation.
Sarah is a visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where she co-directs the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.
Previously, Sarah clerked for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. While in law school, she was the symposium editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.
Scott A. Weinberg has extensive experience in all areas of real estate finance, acquisitions, dispositions and leasing for both institutional and non-institutional clients.
In particular, Scott has experience representing lenders including commercial banks (foreign and domestic), insurance companies, specialty finance companies and REIT’s in the origination of commercial mortgage loans (construction, interim and permanent), mezzanine loans and preferred equity. Scott is also well-versed in securitizations, mortgage loan repurchase/warehouse facilities, loan portfolio purchases and sales, syndications and participations.
Scott also represents borrowers and lenders in restructurings and workouts involving complex loan structures, as well as purchasers and sellers of distressed debt.
Sebastian von Lossow is a partner, he regularly advises international enterprises, financial investors and family-run businesses in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures as well as in complex reorganisations and equity financing. Sebastian has specific expertise in the following industries: private equity, venture capital, food and beverage as well as manufacturing.
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Seth L. Friedman focuses his practice on the representation of US and international accounting firms and individual accountants in connection with federal and state litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations by the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), state licensing authorities and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In addition to litigation and regulatory investigations, he regularly consults with major accounting firms on PCAOB registration requirements and inspection matters, internal investigations and independence-related matters, and other risk-related issues. Seth handles matters for public and private accounting firms that arise from engagements to perform attest functions (both public and private), tax advice and compliance functions, and consulting or advisory work. Seth co-heads the Firm’s accounting defense practice.
Prior to joining the Firm, Seth was co-leader of the accounting liability practice of one of the world’s largest firms. Prior to that, he served over six years in the Offices of the General Counsel of two major US accounting firms, first as an assistant general counsel with KPMG USA, and subsequently as BDO USA’s Deputy General Counsel.
Seth has significant experience representing a wide variety of businesses in post-closing disputes and other litigation and regulatory matters that involve accounting and financial statement-related issues.
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Shaalu Mehra advises clients on corporate and technology transactions, with an emphasis on emerging company venture capital, corporate venture capital, multinational joint ventures, technology procurement, and IP acquisition / licensing. His clients range from Fortune 50 multinationals making “bet-the-company” technology investments — including FAANG companies, automakers, energy producers, telcos, and chipmakers — to first-time founders new to the EC/VC ecosystem. He has practiced in Silicon Valley since graduating law school in the late 90s and has a background as a computer science researcher and software developer.
Recognized as a leading authority on corporate and technology law, Shaalu is a frequently published author and has been cited in Compliance Week, Financial Week, Bloomberg, ComputerWorld, Information Week, Inside Counsel, Ecommerce Times, CIO.com, NetworkWorld.com and InfoWorld. He has also been a featured speaker at numerous national and international conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference, LinuxWorld and the SEC Hot Topics Conference, as well as events sponsored by a number of high-profile organizations, including the Association of Corporate Counsel, ITechLaw, Sourcing Industry Group, Stanford University, Boalt Hall, The University of Washinton, TiE and NASABA.
Shah Jahan Khandokar focuses his practice on project development and has extensive experience in energy and infrastructure projects across the full energy value chain.
He has broad experience in a range of energy subsectors including conventional power, renewables, hydrogen, oil and gas, LNG, and trading. Shah Jahan has a focus on international energy projects in emerging and frontier markets (in particular, Central and South Asia, MENA and sub-Saharan Africa), with experience advising foreign investors/sponsors, lenders, and host governments.
His experience includes acting in LNG and pipeline projects, and both conventional and renewable power projects, including several first-in-country projects. His clients include multilateral organisations, power developers, international oil companies, mining companies and trading houses.
A. Shane Nichols focuses on helping clients find the most effective and efficient strategies for resolving patent infringement and trade secret disputes. Shane serves as lead litigation and trial counsel for clients across several industries, including the food and beverage, telecom, and petrochemical industries. In addition to his trial court experience, he has made arguments before the US Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit.
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Sharon is a partner, she focuses her practice on health care transactions, investments and projects, as well as comprehensive health care and life sciences regulatory advice. She has advised private and public health care and life sciences clients for more than 17 years. Sharon advises on global transactional mandates, including mergers and acquisitions, complex digital health and data privacy issues, accountable care systems, health care and life sciences tariff, reimbursement and pricing systems, patient choice and access to services, hospital developments and contractual and joint venture arrangements. Sharon also provides strategic and commercial support to UK and international clients on UK health transactions and investments, contracting with NHS bodies and on health regulatory matters including digital health, medtech and life sciences. Sharon is widely recognized for her expertise on regulatory, funding and contracting matters.
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Shawn C. Helms is co-head of the Firm’s Technology Transactions & Outsourcing Practice. Shawn has broad experience in the areas of information technology, outsourcing, blockchain, crypto, artificial intelligence (AI), digital health and telecommunications. He focuses his practice on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), licensing, cloud computing arrangements (IaaS, SaaS and PaaS), technology maintenance and services, technology development/customization (including iPhone and Android), wireless infrastructure, AI, generative AI (such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion), social media issues, strategic alliances, e-commerce, internet of things (IoT), confidentiality, strategic sourcing and data security/privacy. Shawn has considerable experience in blockchain and cryptocurrency matters including NFTs, DAOs and enterprise blockchain applications. Shawn regularly works on the transactional aspects of cryptocurrency bankruptcy and liquidation matters. Shawn also regularly works on digital health matters involving wearables, data licensing and strategy issues, AI and mobile applications. He also advises clients on IT and IP diligence, transition services agreements (TSAs) and other technology and intellectual property matters relating to the acquisition or divestiture of businesses. Shawn also has significant experience in advising clients through software audits and related negotiations and settlements, open source software issues and software escrow matters.
Shawn has been working in the field of AI for more than 10 years and is the founding member of the McDermott AI cross-practice group and resource center (ailawcenter.com). Shawn is regularly working with clients in connection with issues related to utilizing generative AI, particularly in the implementation and utilization of technologies like ChatGPT, Bard, Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and GitHub Copilot.
international tax authorities. Drawing on his 25 years of experience, Shawn represents clients in tax examinations and administrative appeals and, when necessary, serves as a forceful advocate in litigation before the US Tax Court, US district courts, the US Court of Federal Claims, state courts and federal appellate courts.
Shawn’s experience spans a broad range of tax issues that affect many different industries, including energy, renewables, financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, technology and aviation. He advises domestic, foreign and multinational corporations, partnerships, master limited partnerships, real estate investment trusts and limited liability companies on tax issues in connection with foreign and domestic transactions.
He also counsels clients in disputes involving transfer pricing, debt versus equity, loss carrybacks, international withholdings, advance pricing agreements, tax shelter disallowances, research and development tax credits, changes in accounting methods, captive insurance, related-party transactions, repatriation structures, inbound distributors, foreign credit transactions and penalty abatements. Shawn has also developed a market-leading federal and state excise tax practice that advises some of the largest corporations on excise tax planning and controversies.
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Associate Shirin Deyhim focuses her practice on structured finance transactions; in particular leveraged buy-outs (LBO) transactions, acquisitions financing (build-ups), funds financing (equity bridge financing) and debt restructuring.
Shirin acts for both financing providers (senior or subordinated) and borrowers.
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Siddhartha Sivaramakrishnan represents multinational companies and investors on cross-border business transactions, including M&A, investments, financings and regulatory and compliance matters. He also counsels on US and UK capital markets and public company matters. He has deep experience across APAC and EMEA advising corporations, shareholders and financial sponsors on effective legal and commercial solutions that propel success. Siddhartha has particular sector expertise in energy and renewables, healthcare and life sciences, financial services and technology and data protection.
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Simon Weiß focuses his practice on capital markets transactions and has a wealth of experience across IPOs, capital increases, equity-linked transactions and investment grade and high-yield bond offerings. He regularly advises issuers, underwriters and other key market players in a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border transactions.
Simon is also adept in regulatory advice relating to capital markets transactions, M&A and corporate matters. He has a strong background in leading firms in both Germany and the US.
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Partner Simon Airey focuses his practice on global, cross-border and internal investigations, financial and regulatory crime, bribery and corruption, money laundering, tax and fraud inquiries, data breaches, dawn raids, asset tracing, international enforcement and corporate compliance issues.
He has conducted a wide range of investigations and corporate defence assignments in different sectors, including construction, defence, financial services, gambling, oil and gas, logistics, pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. Simon represents both companies and individuals in criminal and regulatory proceedings and in associated litigation.
Simon advises a large number of multinational groups on their global compliance programs and assists clients with corporate risk assessments and pre- and post- M&A due diligence. He conducts tailored training for boards and senior management and has lectured around the world on a range of topics including the UK Bribery Act and the UK Criminal Finances Act. He advises a number of organisations on the corporate criminal offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion and served on the UK Law Society committee which devised related guidance for the legal profession.
In addition to leading various major tax, fraud and bribery investigations, Simon has recently defended multi-party litigation in relation to a significant data breach in the UK, dealt with an FCA investigation relating to a global payment services provider and represented a high-profile individual in relation to a multi-million pound D&O insurance dispute in the context of a US DoJ prosecution. He has also advised a foreign government in relation to various tax and transparency issues and represented over 50 financial institutions served with data production orders by HM Revenue & Customs in the UK.
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Simon Roberts focuses his practice on patent litigation in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. He has nearly 30 years of experience practicing law in both the US and Europe. Simon leverages his background in chemistry to translate complex technical issues into relatable terms for clients.
Simon has in-depth experience and knowledge in Hatch-Waxman related litigations involving small molecules as well as other pharma-related patent matters including those involving large molecule pharmaceuticals. With a proven track record in high-stakes litigation matters, Simon represents clients before the federal courts as well as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in contested proceedings including IPRs and PGRs.
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Stefano Mechelli leads the Italian International Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Practice, with a focus on transnational and international litigation. He advises domestic clients involved in US and European litigation proceedings.
Stefano is engaged in active pro bono practice, including litigations before Italian courts, as well as volunteering as an arbitrator and a mediator for the New York City Small Claims Court. He was formerly in the mediation roster for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Stephan Rau is a partner, he focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, mainly in the health and life science sector, health care regulation, including academic organizations, and related compliance. He is the head of the Firm’s Health Law Practice Group in Europe. In 2004, Stephan was an adviser on the foundation of the first German corporate medical centre. Since then he has represented numerous investors, health care service providers, pharmaceutical and medtech companies, as well as governmental entities in M&A transactions, outsourcing projects, and licensing and reimbursement proceedings.
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Stéphane Dionnet has over 20 years of experience practicing international competition law, and has experience liaising with competition authorities in the European Union, United States and Asia. Stéphane has advised global corporations on how to navigate complex multijurisdictional merger control matters. He has represented clients in numerous cartel investigations and has also successfully assisted companies in obtaining conditional immunity from the European Commission and other competition law agencies in and outside the European Union.
Stéphane has experience across a wide range of sectors including consumer products, energy, entertainment, financial services, technology, pharmaceuticals, retail, e-commerce and telecommunications.
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Stephanie S. McCann focuses her practice on corporate finance. She represents private equity groups, commercial lending institutions and major public and private companies in connection with the structuring, negotiation and documentation of domestic and international secured and unsecured financing transactions, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, recapitalizations, loan workouts and restructurings. Stephanie is the chair of the Firm’s Compensation Committee. She also is a current member of the Firm’s Executive and Management Committees.
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Stephanie S. Lim represents independent power producers, power marketers, trade associations, and others in a wide variety of regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), courts of appeal and state public utility commissions. She counsels clients on the structure of electricity markets and the design of capacity markets. Stephanie also represents private equity clients and power producers on transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions.
Stephanie focuses her practice on operational and compliance issues, as well as matters arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, and the rules of regional transmission organizations and independent system operators.
Stephanie represents clients in proceedings before FERC regarding the design and application of market rules. She also counsels clients in obtaining FERC authorization to sell electric energy, capacity, and ancillary services at market-based rates, exempt wholesale generator and qualifying facility status, and transfers of FERC-jurisdictional assets. In addition, Stephanie assists clients with regulatory and transactional aspects of electric generation and transmission project development and financing.
Stephen Wu has nearly twenty-five years’ experience in defending antitrust litigation in federal courts around the country, defending mergers and acquisitions before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and State Attorneys General and counseling clients on antitrust compliance issues.
Stephen has successfully defended clients in class actions and other litigation brought by purchasers, competitors, and employees alleging unlawful conspiracy, price-fixing, wage-fixing, exclusive dealing, group boycott, market allocation, monopolization and tying claims. In addition, Stephen has successfully defended numerous mergers and acquisitions from federal and state antitrust reviews. Stephen also regularly counsels clients on pricing and distribution and joint venture matters. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries, ranging from consumer goods to healthcare to packaging. Stephen is co-head of the Firm’s Health Antitrust Practice Group.
Stephen has been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America, BTI Consulting, Chambers USA, Global Competition Review, Lawyers of Color, The Legal 500 USA, LMG Life Sciences, The National Law Journal and Super Lawyers.
Prior to joining the Firm, Stephen was an attorney for the FTC, where he received its Award for Meritorious Service. At the Firm, Stephen received McDermott’s Pro Bono and Community Service Award in 2010 for his pro bono efforts.
Stephen (Steve) P. Kranz is a tax lawyer who solves tax problems differently. Over the course of his extensive career, Steve has acquired specific skills and developed a unique approach that helps clients develop and implement holistic solutions to all varieties of tax problems. He combines strategic thinking with effective skills for the courtroom, the statehouse and the conference room.
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Steven (Steve) S. Scholes is the global head of McDermott’s Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on SEC investigations, shareholder litigation, including class and derivative actions, and internal investigations. Steve is an experienced trial lawyer, and he has tried civil, criminal and administrative cases in federal and state courts. He regularly represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission, state securities regulators and self-regulatory organizations, such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and stock, options and futures exchanges. He has served as the global operations partner for the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group and the partner-in-charge of both the Chicago Trial Department and the Firm’s SEC Defense Group.
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Partner Steven Hadjilogiou focuses his practice on tax optimization of business operations and investments with a specific emphasis in the areas of international tax and real estate. Steven provides advice on international inbound and outbound tax planning for multinational companies, family offices, private equity and ultra-high net worth individuals. He also advises funds, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals in connection with complex real estate structuring and investment issues, including in the areas of opportunity zone funds, 1031 transactions and qualified small business stock.
Steven has represented various Fortune 500 companies and major privately held businesses in their tax planning and supply chain projects, and also has substantial experience advising on transfer pricing, tax-related intellectual property matters, Subpart F, GILTI, foreign investment in US real property and outbound investment in real property. Steven also advises clients on pre-immigration planning and cross-border wealth succession. Steven has also worked on the taxation of partnerships and corporations, mergers & acquisitions and international corporate reorganizations.
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Partner Sunay Radia focuses his practice on financial restructuring transactions, including high yield bond and LBO workouts, refinancings, consensual and nonconsensual restructurings, enforcements and distressed asset sales.
He has advised on a number of complex cross border matters for creditors (including direct lenders and distressed debt funds) and sponsors. Sunay also has a wealth of experience in origination banking and finance matters, including acquisition finance and real estate finance transactions. He has advised various direct lending credit funds on the provision of facilities throughout the capital structure (including senior, unitranche, mezzanine and second-lien) to various global corporates and sponsors which ideally positions him to advise on bond and loan restructurings, workouts and enforcements.
Sunay is also a frequent contributor to International Corporate Rescue.
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Tara L. Ward represents a wide variety of companies that do business with the federal government, ranging from small and emerging tech companies looking to break into or expand their stake in the federal marketplace, to well-established defense, professional services and information technology contractors and subcontractors. Tara’s diverse practice covers the full range of government contracting issues, including litigation and counseling related to bid protests, contract claims and disputes and teaming agreement and other strategic alliance issues. Tara regularly helps clients navigate some of the most nuanced areas of government contract law, including other transaction agreements, small business regulations and supply chain issues.
Tara is recognized as a top government contracts lawyer across notable publications, including Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, Law360 and Super Lawyers. She is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington Law School, the only law school with a nationally recognized Government Procurement Law LLM program. She also serves as editor-in-chief for Public Contract Law Journal. Tara received her AB (magna cum laude) from Princeton University and her JD (with honors) from The George Washington University Law School.
Ted Becker is Co-Chair of McDermott’s ERISA Litigation Team and a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. He focuses his practice on litigation under ERISA and related federal and state actions, and defense of government investigations and audits relating to employee benefit, health and welfare, and retirement plans brought by the US Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Department of Justice. He is a leading voice and nationally recognized practitioner in this complex practice area.
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Théophile Jomier focuses his practice on complex corporate transactions, in particular, on restructurings and refinancings. He has a wealth of experience in financial and commercial disputes and a strong background in international finance.
Partner Thomas (Tom) P. Conaghan represents public and private companies, underwriters and other sources of capital, corporate boards and board committees, and corporate executives. He advises US- and foreign-based public companies on issues relating to mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, strategic investments, spin-offs, public and private offerings of securities (including initial public offerings (IPOs)), disclosure, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, corporate governance, executive compensation, and the stock exchange-listed company rules. Tom is co-head of the Firm’s Capital Markets and Public Companies Group, and partner-in-charge of the Corporate Group in the Firm’s Washington, DC office.
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Partner Tom Ryan focuses his practice on defending health care providers in complex litigation.
Specifically, Tom has handled unfair competition and unfair business practices claims against providers. These claims typically involve allegations of violations of health care regulations or California state law. These cases are often brought as class actions and antitrust cases. Tom has also handled numerous False Claims Act cases against health care providers. Again, the claims often involve allegations of the violation of one or more federal or state health care regulations. Tom’s experience extends to advising and defending health care providers that range from academic medical centers to portfolio companies of private equity firms.
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Thomas Ammermann is a partner, he focuses his practice on corporate law and capital markets. Thomas advises clients in corporate and transaction/M&A matters, in particular in the automobile, manufacturing, hospitality and real estate as well as transportation industries, including corporate restructurings, cross-border mergers and joint ventures.
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Thomas is a partner, he has more than 20 years of experience advising companies and entrepreneurs on the drafting, negotiation, implementation and enforcement of international commercial law agreements. His client base spans the advertising, automotive, food, pharmaceutical, real estate and banking/payment solution industries. Apart from his non-contentious work, Thomas focuses his practice on national and international commercial law disputes, representing clients in out-of-court dispute resolution as well as in matters argued before the courts. Thomas regularly represents parties in arbitration or mediation processes, and has a proven track record of highly favorable, quick settlements for his clients. Within his broad commercial dispute resolution practice, Thomas maintains a special focus on conflicts arising from insolvencies, merger and acquisition transactions, and distribution and commercial lease agreements, as well as on acting as defense counsel for directors and officers.
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Partner Thomas M. Dawson represents US and non-US insurers on regulatory, licensing and corporate matters.
Tom advises industry participants on a wide variety of regulatory and transactional matters, including cybersecurity compliance, insurtech ventures and Holding Company Act filings. He has helped clients form, acquire and invest in US insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries. He counsels non-insurers on advertising, licensing and marketing generally, and provides regulatory compliance advice to service contract issuers and other specialty product providers.
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Thomas P. Steindler, head of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group in Washington, DC, focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation along with complex commercial and administrative litigation. He has appeared in state and federal courts at all levels and has argued before the US Supreme Court. He is consistently recognized by Washington Super Lawyers as one of the leading intellectual property litigators in Washington, DC.
In the intellectual property arena, Thomas has acted as lead counsel in patent litigation across the country in a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, vaccines, diagnostics, medical devices and other industries, at the district court level and in the Federal Circuit. In addition, he has handled licensing and collaboration disputes, false advertising and false patent marking cases, as well as trade secret/non-compete cases.
In the commercial and administrative arena, Thomas has handled a wide range of matters extending from savings and loan goodwill cases to appeals of telecommunications regulations.
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Thomas Beisken counsels clients on all aspects of real estate law, with an emphasis on the following, real estate transactions (asset and share deals, single asset and portfolio transactions), project development, property and asset management-related advice and commercial tenancy law.
Partner Timothée Gagnepain focuses his practice on complex restructurings and insolvencies, both national and international. Timothée has a broad-based insolvency and restructuring practice, representing mainly debtors, shareholders, private equity funds, some creditors and trustees. He acts as strategic advisor, negotiator and, when necessary, litigation counsel, and has significant experience before the French bankruptcy courts.
He has a wealth of experience in LBO transactions, leveraged recapitalizations and bankruptcies as well as debt and corporate restructurings. Timothée handles complex matters for a range of clients across the real estate, retail and financial sectors.
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Timothy (Tim) Alvino serves as lead counsel for US and non-US clients in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He also provides advice with respect to other corporate matters, including capital markets activities and corporate governance.
Tim represents clients in a wide range of industry sectors, including avionics, energy, manufacturing, media, retail, staffing and software. He counsels strategic and financial parties involved in public and private transactions. Tim has extensive experience in the energy sector and provides broad-ranging corporate support in relation to energy-industry transactions.
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Timothy (Tim) S. Shuman is the Global Head of Tax and is based in the Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice on corporate and international tax matters for US and non-US multinationals, with particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings and liquidations. He has been involved in more than a dozen spin-offs by publicly traded companies, plus several involving privately held companies. He has served as lead tax counsel in some of the most significant public M&A transactions over the past several years. He advises clients on internal spin-offs and tax-free reorganizations and regularly represents clients in obtaining private letter rulings and other guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He also advises on tax issues involving private equity funds and regulated investment companies.
Tim also regularly counsels clients on international tax issues, including tax-efficient repatriation strategies, tax basis planning, supply chain planning, principal structures, and foreign tax credit planning. He has represented a number of clients before the IRS in connection with audits and the IRS appeals process, including with respect to worthless stock losses, foreign tax credits and Subpart F income issues.
Timothy (Tim) S. Shuman is the head of McDermott’s US & International Tax Practice and is based in the Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice on corporate and international tax matters for US and non-US multinationals, with particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings and liquidations. He has been involved in more than a dozen spin-offs by publicly traded companies, plus several involving privately held companies. He has served as lead tax counsel in some of the most significant public M&A transactions over the past several years. He advises clients on internal spin-offs and tax-free reorganizations and regularly represents clients in obtaining private letter rulings and other guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He also advises on tax issues involving private equity funds and regulated investment companies.
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Timothy E. Hoeffner is a co-head of the Firm’s accounting defense, securities & corporate governance litigation and bankruptcy litigation practices. He represents leading accounting firms, issuers, directors and officers in lawsuits, arbitration and other proceedings involving federal regulators, bankruptcy trustees, shareholders and noteholders. He also frequently represents accountants, issuers and directors and officers in enforcement proceedings before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Department of Justice and other federal and state regulatory authorities. His trial experience includes numerous cases in both state and federal district and bankruptcy courts, as well as arbitration and regulatory proceedings.
Tim is currently providing counsel in the sole remaining case against Deloitte relating to Adelphia Communications, and is handling global litigation and regulatory matters for another Big 4 firm in central Europe. He has successfully defended an accounting firm in a lengthy arbitration arising from the subprime market collapse based on the panel’s conclusion that the trustee failed to prove loss causation. Additionally, Tim was lead counsel in enforcement proceedings on behalf of an engagement partner that resulted in a dismissal of all claims following a hearing and appeal to the PCAOB.
Todd Finger represents clients in the full range of corporate transactions and financings, including mergers, stock and asset purchases and sales, leveraged buyout transactions, venture capital investments, joint ventures, restructurings and recapitalizations. Todd advises clients with interests and operations in the life sciences, consumer products, food and beverages, entertainment and media, and fashion and apparel industries, among other sectors. Todd is head of the New York office’s Transactions Practice Group. Todd is also a member of the Firm-wide Management Committee.
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Partner Todd A. Solomon is the head of McDermott’s Benefits, Compensation & Employment Practice Group. Todd focuses his practice on designing, amending and administering pension, profit sharing, 401(k), employee stock ownership and 403(b) plans, as well as nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. He also counsels privately and publicly held corporations and tax-exempt entities regarding fiduciary issues under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), employee benefits issues involved in corporate transactions, executive compensation matters and the implementation of benefit programs for domestic partners of employees.
Todd has significant ERISA Title I experience and has counseled plan fiduciaries with respect to investment policies, private equity, hedge funds, and other alternative investments, prohibited transaction issues, investment management agreements and payment of expenses from plan assets.
He advises multinational clients on global employee benefits matters and compliance issues. Todd is a council member of the International Bar Association Global Employment Institute (GEI) and serves as editor of the GEI’s Annual Global Report on global legal issues impacting human resources.
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Partner Todd S. McClelland advises companies on complex, international legal issues associated with cybersecurity breaches and compliance, data privacy compliance, and data, technology, cloud and outsourcing transactions. Todd counsels clients in many industries, including payment processors, cybersecurity product providers, retailers, petro companies, financial institutions and traditional brick-and-mortar companies.
Todd handles some of the largest and most well-known (and unknown) cybersecurity incidents, as well as pre-breach cyber activities, such as cyber tabletops, incident response plan design, leading client and vendor penetration testing, designing cyber risk management programs, and advising corporate boards on cybersecurity issues. He also has extensive experience with PCI/payment system compliance and incidents.
In his outsourcing and technology practice, Todd is highly skilled in data licensing, cloud (e.g., SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), large scale systems integration projects (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics 365), traditional outsourcing (e.g., ITO, HRO, ADM, BPO), and new technology partnering initiatives (e.g., AI/ML, and Quantum).
Todd S. McClelland advises companies on complex, international legal issues associated with cybersecurity breaches and compliance, data privacy compliance, and data, technology, cloud and outsourcing transactions. Todd counsels clients in many industries, including payment processors, cybersecurity product providers, retailers, petro companies, financial institutions and traditional brick-and-mortar companies. Todd is the global head of the Firm’s Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group.
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Associate Tomer Konowiecki advises clients on health care transactional matters affecting a wide variety of health care providers, including hospitals, health systems, nonprofit medical foundations, ambulatory surgery centers and other health care entities.
Tomer focuses his transactional practice on health care provider integration models, including mergers, asset purchases/sales, health care joint ventures and other provider affiliations. Tomer also advises clients on a broad array of regulatory aspects in the health care industry, including federal and state fraud abuse laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) privacy and security, and corporate governance issues.
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Troy Van Dongen focuses his practice on the resolution of state and local tax (SALT) controversies through negotiation and litigation. He advises clients across the country in a variety of state and local tax matters, including income, franchise, sales, and use taxes, and he has a particularly strong background in property taxation.
Troy’s experience includes a wide range of industries, including: manufacturing and software; banking and finance; biotechnology; hospital management; non-profit organizations; commercial office leasing; solar and geothermal power production; lodging; education; security services; oil and gas; telecommunications; paper manufacturing; and sports and entertainment. He also counsels clients on the tax consequences of new forms of communications technology and the unique tax challenges in the telecommunications industry.
He is also a member of our legal cannabis industry group. Our Cannabis Industry group is a multidisciplinary team of lawyers providing clients with regulatory, litigation, intellectual property, trade and tax services with respect to their investments and participation in the cannabis industry, all subject to the Firm’s obligations under federal and state laws and bar licensure rules.
Dr. Ulrich Flege focuses on real property law with an emphasis on the law of sale/acquisition of real property, financings and re-financings, as well as project developments and the law of commercial tenancy. He advises institutional investors, project developers, builder-owners and private clients on commercial real estate transactions (asset and share deals) and the realization of complex construction project. He has first-hand knowledge in retail and logistic real estate and has gained significant experience in this asset class.
Usman Khan is a partner in the Firm’s London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group.
Usman focuses his practice on domestic and cross-border general banking and finance matters, with a particular emphasis on real estate finance. He acts for lenders, private equity sponsors, credit funds, sovereign wealth funds and other real estate investors in all aspects of real estate finance, including senior and mezzanine investment, hotel financing, development financings, repo and loan-on-loan financings and Shariah-compliant financings.
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Dr. Uwe Goetker is a partner and a member of the corporate department, where his practice focuses on all aspects of corporate law and M&A transactions, including private equity and acquisition financing. He has extensive experience in national and international corporate acquisitions and joint ventures and advises in this regard both, strategic and financial investors. In the area of restructuring and insolvency Uwe advises creditors, shareholders, debtors – and their management – regarding distressed situations. In addition, Uwe advises regularly “distressed debt/asset“ investors and vendors.
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Volker Teigelkötter is a partner and heads the German Labour and Employment Group. His practice covers the entire spectrum of labour and employment law. His special focus is on restructuring and reorganisations, redundancy programs, plant closures and relocations, outsourcing, negotiations with employee?s representations on shop agreements and social plans, and other collective labor law issues. He regularly advises with regard to transaction related to labor law and has vast experience in post-merger integration. In addition, Volker also advises on service agreements for board members, managing directors and senior executives, including pension schemes as well as incentive and bonus plans.
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William (Bill) Gaede focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation in the life sciences and medical device industries. Bill serves as lead counsel for a wide range of companies and research institutes and has extensive experience in litigating life science technologies such as antibodies, proteins, small molecules and diagnostics. In addition to his jury trial experience, Bill has argued before the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He further provides risk management guidance on freedom to operate issues.
Bill is head of the Firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice Group. When he joined the Firm in 2005, his move to McDermott was recognized by American Lawyer, in its feature “Star Laterals of the Year,” as one of the ten most significant lateral moves in the United States.
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William (Bill) Donovan is co-head of the Firm’s class action practice. He focuses his practice on trial and appellate litigation, with an emphasis on accounting, consumer class actions, professional liability and complex commercial cases. Bill is an accomplished litigator who has handled bet-the-company litigations and has first-chaired multiple trials and arbitrations. He represents Fortune 200 corporations, emerging companies, sharing economy clients, entrepreneurs and technology firms.
Bill has successfully defended accounting firms, financial institutions and insurance companies in multiple cases through trial. He also prosecutes trade secret and unfair competition claims resulting in substantial relief for clients in court and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) actions. Bill has in-depth experience in accounting liability matters and has successfully defended a number of high-profile tax and accounting cases through trial. He played a pivotal role in assisting a major telecommunications company in resolving a high-profile investigation into its accounting practices.
Bill is highly skilled in handling class actions raising common law and statutory claims, including causes of action under Sections 17200 and 17500 of the California Business and Professions Code, Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Unruh Act. He has successfully obtained dismissals on motions to dismiss and demurrers, including cases where the dismissals were affirmed on appeal by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal.
Bill has in-depth experience in complex civil litigation, having successfully represented clients in high-profile matters, including breach of contract, business tort, healthcare, real estate, professional liability and deal disputes. He has argued and won several dozen appeals in federal and state courts, including affirmance of dismissal of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. He has also obtained reversals of lower court decisions refusing to compel arbitration in high-profile civil actions.
Additionally, Bill regularly counsels clients on compliance, enforcement and regulatory issues. He drafts policies and procedures, including website terms of use, arbitration clauses and privacy policies. Bill also defends clients in investigations by federal and state agencies, as well as the National Association of Attorneys General.
Bill maintains an active pro bono practice, having served as lead counsel, and in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union, in a precedent-setting case. Through this effort, the State of California is now required to treat absentee ballots equitably and give voters whose ballots were disqualified for perceived signature mismatch a chance to fix their ballot.
In addition to his work in private practice, Bill was senior counsel at a Fortune 50 telecommunications company. He also worked as a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice, where he conducted numerous appellate and trial court arguments.
William (Bill) R. Pomierski focuses his practice on the taxation of financial products and capital markets transactions, as well as on executive compensation matters. He is a former chair of the Firm’s Executive Compensation Practice Group.
Bill advises clients on the federal income tax implications of a variety of domestic, cross-border and global financial products and related transactions. He has worked extensively with public and private companies, hedge funds, trading firms, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals, trust advisors and family offices in connection with a range of capital market and financial product issues. He has advised insurance companies, financial institutions, equipment manufacturers, retailers, energy companies, food processors and manufacturers, and chemical companies.
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William (Bill) Gaede focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation in the life sciences and medical device industries. Bill serves as lead counsel for a wide range of companies and research institutes and has extensive experience in litigating life science technologies such as antibodies, proteins, small molecules and diagnostics. In addition to his jury trial experience, Bill has argued before the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He further provides risk management guidance on freedom to operate issues.
Bill is head of the Firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice Group. When he joined the Firm in 2005, his move to McDermott was recognized by American Lawyer, in its feature “Star Laterals of the Year,” as one of the ten most significant lateral moves in the United States.
Bill served previously as temporary deputy district attorney for the City and County of San Francisco. While in Law school, he was elected to the Thurston Society and served on the Hastings Moot Court Board. Bill served as an extern to the Honorable Stanley A. Weigel of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Wilson Chu focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, as well as related corporate governance, for clients ranging from Fortune 500 serial acquirers to private equity funds to emerging technology companies in the United States and abroad. While he has experience in a wide range of industries, his practice is heavily weighted in the technology and healthcare sectors, particularly digital health and fintech.
As the creator of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) influential M&A Deal Points Studies, Wilson is widely recognized for his thought leadership that continues to shape M&A practice globally. He was a founding co-chair of the ABA’s M&A Market Trends Subcommittee, which publishes the Deal Points Studies. From 2018-2021, Wilson served as Chair of the ABA’s M&A Committee, the largest group of its kind in the world.
Wilson is founding co-chair of the University of Texas Mergers & Acquisitions Institute, the country’s leading private company M&A conference since 2005, the founding chair of the International Financial Law Review/Inter-Pacific Bar Association’s Asia M&A Forum in Hong Kong since 2005, Asia’s leading M&A law conference, and founding chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Section of the Dallas Bar Association.
His leadership also extends to diversity in the legal profession, with a number of transformative “firsts,” including co-founding the Texas Minority Counsel Program, founding the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Partners Committee, and co-founding the Best Lawyers Under 40 award of the NAPABA.
Wilson teaches M&A as an adjunct professor of law at Southern Methodist University School of Law. Wilson is also a member of (and has served in various leadership roles at) the New York-based Committee of 100.
Wilson is co-founder of The Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc., a national coalition of law firms and Fortune 1000 General Counsels, to stand up for victims, and prevent future acts, of anti-Asian violence.
Wolfgang is partner and co-head of the German telecom, media and technology (TMT) practice group. He focuses his practice on commercial litigation and transactions. He also counsels clients on compliance issues and privacy law. Wolfgang is co-head of the German Telecom, Media and Technology (TMT) practice group.
Wolfgang has longstanding experience in complex dispute resolution, including representing DAX and major international companies on cases that threaten their business models or future viability. His main focus is on disputes in the areas of media, information technology, intellectual property, corporate law and other commercial matters. Wolfgang represents clients in state court proceedings as well as in arbitrations. In addition, Wolfgang advises clients with respect to complex projects, including agreements on outsourcing, research, development, licensing, film financing, broadcasting and distribution, and trademark, patent and know-how licensing. Wolfgang has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions in the TMT sector.
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Dr. Wolfgang von Frentz advises clients on telecommunications, media and technology (TMT). He has longstanding experience regarding litigation, the judicial enforcement of his clients` claims and when it comes to complex transactions. In the area of digitization and “Industry 4.0” Wolfgang advises on the development of new business models as well as their implementation and transformation.
Wolfgang specializes in complex dispute resolution. He frequently and successfully represents DAX and international companies – especially in the areas of media, information technology, intellectual property and corporate law – in state court proceedings, including the European Court of Justice (ECJ), as well as in arbitrations.
He also counsels clients on data protection and compliance issues and with regard to complex outsourcing projects, research and development as well as licensing agreements. Wolfgang successfully accompanied numerous transactions. In addition, he represents his clients in the development and implementation of IT systems to optimize production and sales across company and country boundaries.
Wolfgang is the author of numerous publications and head of the German practice group Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT).
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Yesenia M. Gallegos focuses her labor and employment practice on a wide range of matters, including restrictive covenants, wage and hour law, discrimination and harassment claims, executive employment agreements, leaves of absence, employee terminations and reductions in force. Yesenia represents employers in employment litigation—including class actions—pending in both state and federal court. She also represents employers in actions against former employees in trade secret and embezzlement actions that require immediate restraining orders, injunctions and/or liens.
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