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Adam Creed is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Sports Groups. He advises private equity firms, companies and managements on all aspects of corporate finance, M&A and private equity deal work, including, company and business acquisitions and disposals, secondary transactions, and management buyouts.

Adam Lupion

Adam Lupion is the co-chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of Proskauer's Labor Management Relations, Sports Law and Employment Litigation Groups. Widely recognized as a leading labor and employment attorney. A trusted litigator and counselor, Adam has developed a particular expertise representing sports leagues and teams. He has been at the center of many of the most significant labor and employment matters in the sports industry. For example, Adam helped guide Major League Baseball (MLB) through its most recent work stoppage with players, represented MLB in grievance arbitrations challenging player discipline for violations of the league’s domestic violence and drug policies, successfully defended MLB against discrimination claims brought by Angel Hernandez, and defended MLB and its member Clubs in class and collective actions involving pay practices of minor league players and claims of age discrimination by scouts. In addition, Adam has handled several litigations and arbitrations for the National Hockey League and National Football League, and has advised college athletic conferences and universities across the broad spectrum of labor and employment laws. Adam also leads the Firm’s MLB Salary Arbitration practice, and is one of the most sought-after practitioners to represent Clubs during contract negotiations and at arbitration hearings against some of the game’s most prominent players. Adam’s practice extends far beyond the world of sports, as he has extensive experience representing healthcare, higher education, financial services, media and entertainment, telecommunications, energy, retail and hospitality clients in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters in state and federal court, and before administrative agencies. He has lectured on labor and employment law at Cornell University, New York University School of Law, and Cardozo Law School. He frequently represents the Firm and the Sports Law Group on panel discussions and at career seminars for current and prospective lawyers.

Alexander Griffith

Alex Griffith is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Credit and Finance Groups. Alex’s practice focuses on leveraged finance and general debt finance work, advising senior, mezzanine, second lien, unitranche and other private capital providers. His extensive experience covers a wide range of transactions, including corporate refinancings, management buyouts and buy-ins, recapitalizations, institutional acquisitions, restructurings, public-to-private takeovers (both domestic and international), and other innovative, first-in-kind transactions involving private sources of capital. In addition, Alex advises financial sponsors, corporates and management teams on the raising of debt finance in the European Markets.

Alexandria Martin

Alex Martin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Alex counsels private equity fund sponsors across all facets of their business with a particular focus on the formation of private investment funds, co-investment funds and managed accounts, fund ownership and operational matters, as well as a broad spectrum of complex secondary transactions. Her fundraising experience spans the private equity asset class for sponsors, including strategies such as buyout, venture and growth capital, real estate, private credit, fund-of-funds and special situations. Alex also regularly advises secondary clients and private fund sponsors on a diverse range of secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, fund restructurings, co-investments, stapled secondaries and GP-led liquidity transactions. In addition, Alex regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their primary investments.

Alexis Namdar

Alexis Namdar is an associate in Proskauer's Litigation Department. Alexis has cross-border litigation and extensive international arbitration experience, specializing in investment and complex commercial disputes. He has supported clients in a wide range of sectors and his recent cases include disputes in relation to joint ventures, financial services, asset management/private equity, energy, mining and telecoms. Alexis’ practice experience encompasses acting, including as advocate, in proceedings under a wide range of arbitral rules including ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SCC and the LME. He also has extensive experience of offshore litigation in the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court and up to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. He is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and is qualified as a solicitor-advocate for the Higher Courts of England & Wales (Civil proceedings).

Aliza Cinamon

Aliza R. Cinamon leads Proskauer’s Environmental Group. She advises both U.S. and international clients on a broad spectrum of environmental issues in connection with complex corporate, real estate, financing and bankruptcy transactions. Aliza provides clients with a deep array of capabilities, acting on matters that involve liability and risk allocation issues, remediation, brownfields, ESG, sustainability and climate change, public company disclosures, environmental insurance and technical expert management. Her practice also includes representing clients in superfund litigation matters, environmental compliance and permitting and federal and state environmental enforcement proceedings. She has worked on transactions involving both public and private companies covering a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, chemical manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, real estate construction and development, sports and retail. Aliza is also devoted to pro bono matters, including heading Proskauer's efforts on behalf of Holocaust victims eligible for reparations, obtaining disability benefits for veterans, identifying and assisting potential victims of trafficking, helping persecuted Iraqis seeking refuge in the U.S. and providing corporate counseling for a number of Proskauer’s other pro bono clients. Before joining Proskauer, Aliza interned for the U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District with Judge Shira Scheindlin.

Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom is the co-chair of Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department and a nationally recognized litigator and advisor who represents employers, business owners, and management in a broad range of employment and labor law matters. As a litigator, Allan has successfully defended many of the world’s leading companies against claims for unpaid wages, employment discrimination, breach of contract and wrongful discharge, both at the trial and appellate court levels as well as in arbitration, before government agencies, and in private negotiations. He has secured complete defense verdicts for clients in front of juries, as well as injunctions to protect clients’ confidential information and assets. As the leader of Proskauer’s Wage and Hour Practice Group, Allan has been a strategic partner to a number of Fortune 500 companies to help them avoid, minimize and manage exposure to wage and hour-related risk. Allan’s views on wage and hour issues have been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and Fortune, among other leading publications. His class-action defense work for clients has saved billions of dollars in potential damages. Allan is regularly called on to advise operating companies, management companies, fund sponsors, boards of directors and senior leadership on highly sensitive matters including executive and key person transitions, internal investigations and strategic workforce planning. He has particular expertise in the financial services industry, where he has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated disputes for more than 20 years. A prolific author and speaker, Allan was the Editor of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Journal from 2012 to 2017. He has served as an author, editor and contributor to a number of leading treatises in the field of employment law, including ADR in Employment Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Employment Discrimination Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Cutting Edge Advances in Resolving Workplace Disputes (Cornell University/CPR), The Employment Law Review (Law Business Research, U.S. Chapter Author), and The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual (SCCE). Allan has served as longtime pro bono counsel to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Public Theater, among other nonprofit organizations. He is a past Vice Chair of Repair the World, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes volunteers and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, and a past recipient of the Lawyers Alliance Cornerstone Award for extraordinary contributions through pro bono legal services. Allan is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and has been recognized as a leading practitioner by Chambers since 2011.

Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer's Tax Department as well as a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co.

Amar Unadkat

Amar Unadkat is a special regulatory counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. Amar advises on a variety of UK and European financial services regulatory and compliance matters, both in the investment funds space and also on regulatory M&A transactions. Amar regularly advises his clients on issues relating to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”), the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”), as well as the latest ESG developments. Amar also focusses on UK regulatory compliance matters, including the FCA’s change of control regime, the appointed representative regime and the Senior Managers & Certification Regime. Amar’s clients include private equity firms, investment managers and advisers, firms in the FinTech space, wealth management businesses, banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Andrea Rattner

Andrea S. Rattner is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. For more than 30 years, her practice has focused on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, advising clients on an ongoing basis as well as in the context of corporate transactions and other transformative and unique situations. Her clients include public and private companies, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives in a broad range of industries. Andrea has been involved in Proskauer management for many years, having served as a member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of Proskauer's Tax Department. Andrea counsels clients with respect to the tax, securities, corporate governance, stock exchange, ERISA and other implications affecting executive compensation arrangements. Andrea regularly provides advice regarding equity arrangements (such as stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, LLC/partnership interests and phantom equity), employment agreements, change-in-control agreements and all other types of compensation arrangements (including incentive awards, SERPs, deferred compensation and "409A" covered and exempt arrangements). She counsels clients on benefits and compensation matters arising in all types of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings, joint ventures, debt and equity offerings and bankruptcies. In numerous transactions, she has addressed the treatment of stock options and other equity awards, change-in-control and "golden parachute" tax issues, severance obligations and separation agreements, the negotiation of new employment agreements and other executive arrangements, retention and other bonus plans, benefit plan liabilities, COBRA, PBGC-related issues and post-closing benefit plan and compensation structures and integration. Andrea also advises clients on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as plan design, administration, termination, fiduciary duty issues, prohibited transactions, qualification requirements and other matters concerning pension, profit-sharing, employee stock ownership, 401(k), and other types of plans. She has extensive experience with respect to the legal consequences relating to the use of employer stock in tax-qualified plans such as ESOPs, profit-sharing, stock bonus and pension plans. She writes and lectures frequently on employee benefits and executive compensation matters and is a co-editor and chapter author of Executive Compensation (Law Journal Press). Since 1993, she has served as an adjunct professor on the faculty of Cornell University (New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations-Management Programs). Andrea is also active in Proskauer’s relationship with the Women Corporate Directors (WCD), the only global membership organization of its kind focused on helping women obtain and succeed in board positions.

Andrew Houghton

Andrew Houghton is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of both the Private Equity Group and the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Andrew advises private equity and growth capital firms, companies and management teams on all aspects of corporate finance, M&A, joint ventures, buyouts, minority and growth capital investments, secondary transactions and business acquisitions and disposals. Andrew is involved in domestic and international transactions with a focus in the financial services and technology sectors.

Andrew Wingfield

Andrew Wingfield is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of its Private Equity Mergers & Acquisitions Group. As businesses globally are impacted by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Andrew is a member of Proskauer’s Coronavirus Response Team helping clients respond and solve issues across myriad fronts. Andrew undertakes a broad range of domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial work for both corporate and private equity clients, advising on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, mergers and public takeovers, flotations and equity capital markets and private equity investment.

Andrew Katzenstein

Andrew M. Katzenstein is a partner in Proskauer's Private Client Services Department where he assists high net worth individuals, companies and charitable organizations with all aspects of tax and estate planning. He focuses his practice on tax planning matters, which include estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning, as well as income tax of trust planning, probate and trust administration matters, resolving disputes between fiduciaries and beneficiaries, and charitable planning. Andy is a much sought-after speaker on estate planning and probate issues and has appeared on CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery, NPR, and served as host of KFNX’s weekly radio talk show “Principal of the Matter,” which addressed a variety of trust and estate planning topics. He has published numerous articles in Estate Planning Magazine, the Journal of Taxation, Taxes Magazine and Major Tax Planning, and was one of the principal contributors to the probate treatise "Marshall and Garb on Probate." A frequent lecturer on a variety of estate planning and tax related topics, appearing annually before the Los Angeles County, Beverly Hills and California State Bar Associations, Andy also has participated in the prestigious USC Tax Institute, the USC Probate and Trust Law Conference, has lectured in Europe, Canada and across the United States and is a featured speaker at the CalCPA Education Foundation Annual Conference on seminars in estate planning. Andy has taught estate and gift tax law at USC Law School since 2009 and previously taught estate tax at UCLA Law School for 18 years. He has also taught estate planning and advanced estate planning in the Graduate Tax Program at the University of San Diego and at Golden Gate University. Andy currently teaches Estate and Gift Tax in the LLM program at the UC Irvine School of Law.

Andrew Bettwy

Andrew Bettwy is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of Proskauer's Finance Group. Andrew’s principal focus is the representation of public and privately held companies, financial institutions, and private equity sponsors in leveraged finance and other financing transactions. Andrew represents both lenders and borrowers in a wide range of transactions involving multiple industries and diverse debt capital structures, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations, multiple lien and subordinated debt financings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, and private placements.

Anthony Oncidi

Anthony J. Oncidi is the co-chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters. Tony is the author of the treatise titled Employment Discrimination Depositions (Juris Pub’g 2020; www.jurispub.com), co-author of Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2020), and, since 1990, has been a regular columnist for the official publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Tony has been a featured guest on Fox 11 News and CBS News in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading national media outlets such as The National Law Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and Newsweek and Time magazines. Tony is a frequent speaker on employment law topics for large and small groups of employers and their counsel, including the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM"), PIHRA, the National CLE Conference, National Business Institute, the Employment Round Table of Southern California (Board Member), the Council on Education in Management, the Institute for Corporate Counsel, the State Bar of California, the California Continuing Education of the Bar Program and the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. He has testified as an expert witness regarding wage and hour issues as well as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and has served as a faculty member of the National Employment Law Institute. He has served as an arbitrator in an employment discrimination matter. Tony is an appointed Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission Board of Rights and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law and a guest lecturer at USC Law School and a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School.

Anthony Cacace

Anthony S. Cacace is a partner in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Anthony serves as legal counsel to the boards of trustees and other fiduciaries of Taft-Hartley multiemployer pension and welfare benefit plans subject to ERISA in a variety of industries. These include construction, transportation, private sanitation, trucking, industrial, health care and maritime. Anthony’s representation of trustees and other fiduciaries ranges from counseling on the day-to-day operations of multiemployer funds, including: drafting plan documents, amendments and procedures; negotiating and drafting fund service provider agreements; counseling with respect to participant claims; and providing legal advice with respect to requirements of ERISA and the IRC. His practice also includes more complex and high stakes scenarios, such as: advising on fund mergers; advising on fund acquisitions of real property; drafting and submitting corrective applications to the IRS; and counseling fiduciaries in investigations and audits by governmental agencies (including the U.S. DOL, U.S. DOJ and the IRS). Anthony’s practice is unique because of his specialization in ERISA litigation. He advises trustees and fiduciaries from a litigation avoidance perspective, solving problems and rendering advice in risk exposure situations before they evolve into disputes or litigations. A skilled litigator, he often defends trustees and fiduciaries in lawsuits brought pursuant to ERISA, alleging claims for breaches of fiduciary duty, benefit claim denials, plan investment losses and improper plan amendments. In addition, he regularly represents his fund clients as plaintiffs in court, seeking to collect withdrawal liability and delinquent contributions from contributing employers. Anthony is an accomplished author and speaker on issues confronting trustees of multiemployer funds. He has authored several articles featured in Bloomberg Law Reports and Benefits Magazine, and also serves as a chapter editor of the withdrawal liability section of the American Bar Association's Employee Benefits Law treatise published by BNA. Anthony is routinely invited to speak at International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans conferences and the ABA Employee Benefits Committee mid-winter meetings.

Antonio Piccirillo

Antonio N. Piccirillo is the head of Proskauer's São Paulo office and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Antonio’s practice focuses principally on transactional and finance matters in Latin America. He has extensive experience in bank finance, securities law and corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), capital markets, project finance, debt restructurings (including tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers), securitizations and mergers & acquisitions. While serving on the Fordham International Law Journal, Antonio authored “The Metamorphosis: Expected Changes in The Brazilian Debt-for-Nature Swap Process and Policy Implications,” and co-authored “A Citation Manual for European Community Materials.” In 2008, he authored a chapter titled, “Bridging the Gap – Recent SEC Initiatives to Ease Burdens on Foreign Private Issuers,” in International Business Transactions with Brazil.

Aranpreet Randhawa

Aranpreet is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group in London. She advises European and international clients on the structuring, formation and operation of both open- and closed-ended investment funds across a range of strategies, including private equity, growth, infrastructure, and real estate. Aranpreet also counsels clients on spin-outs, co-investments, end of life restructurings, and carried interest and co-investment schemes.

Arnold Jacobs

Arnie Jacobs has a broad background in general corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. His practice includes representing diverse private equity funds and public companies, and working on public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions. He twice was a member of Proskauer’s six-person Executive Committee, which governs the firm. As a result of his most recent election to the Executive Committee, he gave up his position as co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. While he was Chairman of the Committee on Securities Regulation of the New York City Bar Association, he testified on securities legislation before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Arnie was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School for 12 years, was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School for 12 years, and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School for 15 years. Arnie is the author of 25 books and numerous articles on various aspects of securities and corporate law, which have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court a number of times (most recently in 2011), as well as in hundreds of other cases and authorities. As a result of one of those articles, he holds the world's record for the law review article with the most footnotes (4,824 to be exact). His books include: Disclosure and Remedies Under the Securities Laws, a seven-volume, 7,500-page treatise discussing what disclosure is required under federal and state securities laws, and the remedies for noncompliance Litigation and Practice Under Rule 10b-5, a six-volume, 5,000-page treatise dealing with securities fraud Section 16(b) of The Securities Exchange Act, a 1,400-page treatise dealing with short-swing profits Manual of Corporate Forms for Securities Practice, a four-volume, 4,000-page treatise setting forth forms to be used Opinion Letters in Securities Matters, a three-volume, 3,500-page treatise dealing in depth with opinions lawyers are to render The Impact of Rule 10b-5, a three-volume, 1,500-page treatise explaining various aspects of securities fraud The Williams Act - Tender Offer and Stock Accumulations, a 1,100-page treatise on takeovers and Schedule 13Ds

Arnold May

Arnold P. May is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on tax planning for private equity fund managers in connection with their fund-raising and internal organizational matters, as well as investment activities. In addition, Arnold represents U.S. and non-U.S. investors in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, buyout funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships. In this capacity, as well as in connection with advising private equity funds with respect to their investment activities, he regularly advises on international tax issues that arise in connection with investments in the U.S. by non-U.S. investors (including non-U.S. investors subject to special U.S. tax treatment, such as governmental pension plans and tax-exempt organizations), as well as investments outside of the U.S. by U.S. persons. Arnold also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations. Arnold is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Financial Research Associates Tax Practices for Private Equity Funds, Institute for International Research Private Equity Tax Practices, Private Equity International Strategic Financial Management for Private Equity Firms, and Private Equity CFO Association. Highly-regarded for his thought leadership, Arnold is the editor of Private Equity International's "US Tax Considerations for Investment Fund Structuring", which was published in August of 2015. He also co-authored an article on "Management Company Structuring" (with Scott Jones) for the April 2008 Private Equity International Fund Structures Supplement.

Baldassare Vinti

Baldassare (“Baldo”) Vinti chairs Proskauer’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Baldo’s practice focuses on litigating patent, false advertising, trade secret, life sciences, trademark and contractual matters in federal and state courts and before the International Trade Commission. He is a seasoned trial attorney responsible for all aspects of litigation, including Markman hearings, appeals before the Federal Circuit, case preparation and strategy, depositions, motion practice, and settlement negotiations. He has represented clients in high-stakes matters involving a broad range of technologies, including medical devices, diagnostics, immunoassays, prosthetics, pharmaceuticals, dental implants, electronic medical records systems, encryption technology, wound dressings, digital video compression, electronic book delivery and security systems, mobile media technologies, navigation and location-based services, bandwidth management, bar code scanning, lasers , and other technologies. Baldo has represented numerous major corporations, including Arkema S.A., British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Welch Foods, Inc., and Zenith Electronics LLC. In addition, Baldo regularly handles transactional work, including intellectual property due diligence, licensing, intellectual property structural transactions, patentability studies, infringement/non-infringement opinions, and client counseling in intellectual property matters. Baldo is an author and frequent commentator on patent issues pertaining to medical devices and a host of other intellectual property topics, and has been quoted in the National Law Journal, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Westlaw Journal and Inside Counsel magazine. He is also a regular contributor of articles published in Medical Product Outsourcing magazine that deal with the medical device industry. Baldo served as a judicial intern for Hon. John E. Sprizzo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Hon. Charles A. LaTorella of the New York Supreme Court.

Bart Williams

Bart Williams is one of the nation’s most sought after trial lawyers and commercial litigators. He has served as lead counsel for numerous companies in their most challenging and high-profile matters. Bart has served as a counselor and trial lawyer for Fortune 500 corporations in a variety of industries, including: sports, media and entertainment, financial services, consumer products, telecommunications and technology, pharmaceutical, and private equity. He has represented multiple major law firms in their most serious professional negligence cases. He has also represented celebrities, government officials and corporate executives individually in high-stakes matters. Bart’s background as a former Assistant United States Attorney has also helped establish him as a “go to” lawyer for internal corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense matters. A member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Bart has compiled an impressive list of victories in jury and bench trials throughout the United States. A leader within Proskauer, Bart is an immediate past member of the firm’s Executive Committee and also serves as worldwide chair of the Litigation Department and head of Proskauer’s Los Angeles office. Bart served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California where he concentrated on complex criminal prosecutions involving allegations of fraud or other business crimes. He obtained convictions in 11 out of 11 jury trials. He received several special commendations during his tenure, including one from the Honorable Louis J. Freeh, then-director of the FBI. Bart is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He was a starting guard for four years on the Yale Varsity Basketball Team, and received the George McReynolds Award as the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Player his senior year.

Ben Orlanski

Ben Orlanski is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Capital Markets Group. Ben focuses on major corporate transactions and strategically solving critical business challenges. He has significant experience in securities and public company representation; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions; special committee, board of directors and general corporate representation; and corporate governance. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including software-as-a-service, REITs, digital media, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Capital Formation and Securities Ben has significant experience in managing, structuring and executing sophisticated securities and capital raising transactions. His approach reflects understanding of market operation, well-designed capital structure and the practical realities of the capital raising process. He represents public companies and investors in public offerings, registered direct transactions, self-tenders, warrant exchanges/flush transactions, recapitalizations, defensive strategies and secondary offerings. He also advises clients on corporate finance transactions for private businesses, ranging from venture capital and private placements to public offerings and debt restructurings. Mergers and Acquisitions Ben has completed scores of transactions representing buyers, sellers, investment bankers and financiers through all phases of the M&A process. He is actively involved in planning, structuring, negotiating and documenting strategic merger and acquisition transactions as well as dispositions of sophisticated enterprises. General Counsel, Public Reporting and Strategic Advice Ben acts as outside general counsel for numerous public and private companies, applying a business-like approach to produce practical legal solutions to both day-to-day and exceptional legal challenges. In representing his public clients, Ben has successfully guided the public reporting process for clients facing accounting and SEC challenges, proxy contests, cash flow issues, litigation, shareholder activism and strategic alternatives. He frequently advises on issues related to compliance with insider trading laws and major compliance challenges. He also represents boards of directors and special committees of public companies in special situations, including “interested” transactions, investigations, executive succession planning and sensitive corporate governance issues.

Bradley Ruskin

Brad Ruskin is a senior partner at Proskauer and co-chairs its Sports Law Group. He has also served as co-chair of the Litigation Department and has served five terms on Proskauer's Executive Committee. Brad has tried a significant number of high profile, headline-generating cases to verdict or appellate victory, on issues ranging from so-called “bet-the company” antitrust challenges to questions of first impression under Delaware Corporate law, to major commercial disputes. Sports Business: As chair of the litigation section of Proskauer’s preeminent Sports Law Group, a significant portion of Brad's practice is dedicated to litigating issues and counseling clients active in the sports business. Among the league and conference clients for whom he performs services are Major League Soccer, the National Hockey League, National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, ATP Tour, WTA, WSL, PAC-12 and the Big East Conference. In addition, Brad has represented ownership groups and clubs in each of the major U.S. sports (including the Washington Nationals, the Florida Marlins, the New York Jets, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Jersey Devils), as well as media companies in sports-related disputes. Technology, Media and Telecommunications: Brad represents numerous technology, media and telecommunications companies in a wide variety of litigated disputes, including partnership issues, communications and copyright law issues, bankruptcy disputes, data breaches, contract rights and complex class actions. His has represented clients as diverse as T-Mobile USA, Tech Mahindra, ML Media Partners, Madonna, the RP Media Companies and the Rascoff/Zysblat Organization. Antitrust and General Commercial Disputes: Brad regularly defends clients in major antitrust and complex commercial cases. In addition to the sports and telecommunications industries, he has been handling matters for entities across many fields for clients such as Weyerhaeuser, Sanofi and Henry Schein. As an example of the breadth of his role, he recently obtained a full defendant’s verdict after a two-week jury trial on behalf of the ATP Tour (the men's professional tennis circuit), subsequently argued and won the case on appeal before the Third Circuit and finally argued and won an issue of first impression under Delaware corporate law before the Delaware Supreme Court. Brad also regularly handles a wide range of litigation matters, including contract, fraud, licensing, trademark, franchising, partnership, intra-corporate, bankruptcy, unfair competition and other commercial disputes. He has litigated trust matters throughout the country in various federal and state courts and in domestic and international arbitral forums. Brad also has handled proceedings (along with foreign co-counsel) before the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading. Brad has long been involved in a wide array of public service activities. He currently serves as a Member of the Executive Committee and Director of the Legal Aid Society, a Director and Audit Committee Chair of the Student Leadership Network, a member of the ADL Sports Leadership Council, and a Member of the Jewish Theological Society’s Advisory Board. In addition, he frequently publishes articles, has taught a graduate school class at NYU's Tisch School and has testified before legislative and other bodies concerning administration of justice and court operations in New York State.

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Bruno has 20 years’ experience in private equity secondaries, spin-offs of management teams, GP led transactions, fund restructurings and fund or preferred equity financings, and has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, both in Europe and in the U.S. Bruno also advises institutional investors, including fund of funds and pension funds in their primary investments in private equity funds.

Bryan Cruz

Bryan A. Cruz is an associate in Proskauer's Litigation Department. Bryan earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he participated in the Crimmigration Clinic and as an extern at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund through the Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic. Bryan interned his 1L summer at Disability Rights Texas. Prior to law school, Bryan taught bilingual elementary school in San Antonio, Texas for two years as part of Teach For America. Bryan then taught middle school for two years.

Cameron Roper

Cameron Roper is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Finance Group (working closely with the Private Funds Group). Cameron specializes in funds finance and general lending and advisory work, acting for both fund managers and financial institutions. He regularly advises on net asset value (NAV) facilities, hybrid facilities and subscription line facilities, as well as general partner commitment, manager, carry and co-investment facilities. His experience covers a wide range of funds, including credit, large buyout and mid-market funds, venture, secondaries, infrastructure, real estate, fund of funds and emerging market funds.

Cameron Clark

Cameron Clark is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on representing U.S. and non-U.S. private equity, credit, hedge and venture capital funds and managers with respect to capital formation, regulatory compliance and all manner of operational issues. Cameron has experience advising sponsors on managed accounts, funds-of-one, seed transactions, treaty structures and internal governances and compensation arrangements as well as management company issues. Cameron also advises institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds regarding their investments in private funds.

Camille Higonnet

Camille Higonnet is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Camille concentrates in the areas of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on representing private investment fund sponsors in structuring funds and portfolio investment activities, as well as regulatory and compliance matters. Camille’s practice includes advising on marketing and fundraising as well as key trends in fund terms, conducting negotiations with investors, and advising on ongoing operational issues. In addition, Camille represents both U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in private investment funds, as well as in connection with secondary market activities, including traditional portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries and fund restructurings. Camille is also co-chair of Proskauer’s Diversity Task Force and she is actively involved in Proskauer's Women's Sponsorship Program, as well as in Proskauer’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program (MCP). Camille spent two years on secondment at the firm’s London office.

Caryn Greenspan

Caryn Greenspan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group with over 15 years of experience in the investment funds industry. Caryn’s practice focuses on hedge funds, credit funds and growth equity funds. She advises clients in launching private investment funds, including commingled funds and funds-of-one as well as negotiating managed account agreements. She counsels sponsors on all aspects of their business, including upper tier arrangements, fund restructurings, seed capital arrangements, employment issues and regulatory issues. She also regularly represents start-up managers. She has previously been recognized by The Legal 500.

Catherine Sear

Catherine Sear is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. She specializes in the tax aspects of structuring and investing in private investment funds including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, debt and real estate funds, funds of funds, secondary funds and other investment partnerships. She advises sponsors and investors on a wide variety of UK and international tax issues related to private investment funds and their operations, including tax aspects of: • structuring and raising private investment funds • structuring carried interest and executive coinvestment arrangements • restructuring existing private investment funds • establishment and operation of fund management businesses • investments by institutional investors in private funds • separate accounts for institutional investors, acting for both fund managers and investors • secondary transactions, both buy-side and sell-side • coinvestment structures Catherine advises on a broad range of UK tax issues including VAT, employment tax, capital gains tax in relation to partnerships, withholding taxes and tax rules relating to carried interest. She also has considerable knowledge of international tax issues arising for investment structures with a cross-border dimension and experience with multijurisdictional fund management teams.

Charles Dale

Chad Dale is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of both the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy and Private Credit Restructuring Groups. Chad has 30 years of experience in corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings. As a member of the Private Credit Restructuring Group, Chad’s practice focuses on direct lenders and ad hoc groups of direct lenders, hedge funds and BDC’s. He also represents troubled companies, equity sponsors, creditors’ committees, trustees and receivers in complex out-of-court debt restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings. Chad has also served as a court-appointed chapter 11 trustee and frequently represents purchasers of financially distressed businesses. Chad offers extensive experience handling debt restructurings, reorganizations and distressed asset transactions. Chad has written articles and spoken frequently on a wide range of matters including debtor-in-possession financings, healthcare restructurings, intellectual property licensing in bankruptcy, executory contracts, director and officer liability and income and property taxation in bankruptcy.

Charles Bishop

Charles Bishop is an associate in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of Proskauer’s Asset Management Litigation group. Charles’ practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, supporting a range of asset-management, technology and fund clients. He has recently handled a complex fund GP removal and its consequential cross-border litigation, several earn-out disputes and matters in the London Employment Tribunal. Charles also maintains an active pro bono practice, providing legal services to charities / NGOs on employment matters and human rights. Charles is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales. He is also a member of the Civil Litigation Section of the Law Society of England & Wales, and the Financial Services Lawyers Association.

Charles Sims

Chuck Sims joined Proskauer after nine years of service as national staff counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. At the ACLU, Chuck litigated First Amendment and national security cases, oversaw the ACLU’s Supreme Court docket, and argued two cases in the Supreme Court as well as appeals in the Second and District of Columbia Circuits. Since joining Proskauer, Chuck has concentrated on copyright, First Amendment, defamation law, and complex federal appellate and trial matters .He obtained a unanimous victory representing the petitioners in Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, a class action copyright case argued in the Supreme Court in the fall of 2009. After serving as trial counsel, he argued the Second Circuit appeal for the motion picture studios in their groundbreaking and successful litigation, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, against hackers who were publicly providing illegal software for decrypting DVDs. He represented Lexis-Nexis in its victory against an Internet start-up which had attempted to steal the entire Lexis database for uploading onto the Web. Chuck has worked on numerous other copyright matters for clients such as the Association of American Publishers (representing eight leading publishers of trade, professional, and educational books in a groundbreaking and successful suit against a national copyshop chain, gaining one of the largest statutory damage awards at that time and an injunction against further unconsented anthologizing of the publishers’ copyrighted works); Houghton Mifflin; and England’s Royal Court Theatre. In the First Amendment field, Chuck has represented The New York Times and The Discovery Channel in class action litigation testing the right to engage in newsgathering, and obtained an order quashing an unprecedented subpoena seeking copies of “any and all” copies of a classified document that had been leaked to the ACLU. He has litigated challenges to content-based federal restrictions of cable television programming, which the Supreme Court largely invalidated in Denver Area Educational Television Consortium v. FCC; and he has handled (with Ron Rauchberg) a facial First Amendment challenge to New York’s Son of Sam law for Simon & Schuster, which the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated. In addition to counseling leading cultural institutions in New York City on First Amendment issues, he has handled major libel actions (for clients including Prudential Equities Group, the Philadelphia Eagles, Multimedia Entertainment, Phil Donahue, NBC, and a major shipping company), with none decided adversely. For many years Chuck organized Proskauer’s pro bono activities. Chambers USA calls him “one of the foremost IP media lawyers, particularly for his knowledge of copyright issues,” and described him as “that rare lawyer who has strengths both in theoretical and practical understanding” and as having a “strong talent for oral arguments.”

Chip Parsons

Chip Parsons is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was co-head of that practice for several years. He also served as co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department from 2018 to 2024 and is currently a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Chip has more than 20 years of experience advising financial institutions and fund sponsors on a broad range of matters. He regularly advises clients on the organization, raising and ongoing operation of credit funds (including distressed credit funds), private equity funds, real estate funds and a variety of types of funds of funds. Chip represents a wide range of private fund clients, from large financial institutions to newly formed asset managers. His clients include Almanac Realty Investors, AllianceBernstein, Ares Management, DFW Capital, Global Infrastructure Partners, JP Morgan, Radian Capital and Thoma Bravo.

Christine Lazatin

Christine G. Lazatin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department. Christine is one of the nation’s leading sports finance attorneys, advising professional sports teams, leagues and owners, corporate borrowers and financial institutions on many of the industry’s most critical and complex financings. Christine regularly represents several major sports leagues (including the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer), as well as a number of NBA, NHL, National Football League and Major League Baseball teams, in connection with acquisition and stadium financings, working capital facilities, league-wide and league-level credit facilities, workouts and restructurings. She has also represented financial institutions in structuring financings for teams and team affiliates. Over the past several years, Christine has worked on the deals that are at the cutting edge of the business of sports. As the industry grappled with the disruption caused by COVID-19, she advised numerous leagues, teams and other clients on financings to address their short- and long-term liquidity needs. In addition to her financing work, Christine represents sports clients on a full range of corporate matters, including many expansion and ownership transactions for the NHL, the NBA and MLS. Recently, she advised MLS in launching an affiliated Division III professional men’s outdoor league known as “MLS Next Pro” and continues to advise the new league on governance and expansion matters.

Christopher Elson

Chris is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. Chris advises fund managers on fundraising and fund structuring across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth, venture capital and credit funds. He also advises sponsors on tailored liquidity solutions, internal governance, ongoing fund maintenance and compliance matters. Chris has experience in management spin-outs as well as the structuring of carried interest and employee co-investment incentive plans. He also advises a number of institutional investors on secondary transactions and primary investments.

Christopher Robinson

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. He primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions. In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situation and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts. Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, FLVCRUM, Greycroft Partners, Havencrest Capital Management, Inovia Capital, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Palladium Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Skyview Capital, Spindletop Capital, SV Health Investors, WestCap and Vesey Street Capital Partners, among others. In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market, and select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, Apollo Global Management (Sponsor and Secondary Solutions/S3), Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Atalaya Capital, BentallGreenOak (BGO), Blackstone (Strategic Partners), Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), FlowStone Partners, Glendower Capital, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Lexington Partners, Neuberger Berman, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors and W Capital, among others. Prior to joining Proskauer, Christopher was a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Christopher Ahn

Chris Ahn is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Chris advises private equity sponsors, other investors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, growth equity investments and other strategic transactions. Chris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to numerous operating companies, including many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients, and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. He also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. From 2018 until 2021, Chris served as General Counsel of James Perse, a global apparel, furniture, furnishings and lifestyle brand based in Los Angeles. Chris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as co-chair of the Hiring Committee for the Los Angeles office.

Christopher Wells

Chris Wells heads Proskauer’s Hedge Funds Group and has been a leading lawyer in the hedge fund industry for more than 30 years. During that time, he has assisted on hundreds of hedge fund launches, counselling and assisting hedge fund managers as they grew from often very modest beginnings to become some of the world’s largest and best known hedge funds. He advises fund managers and investors on all aspects of the hedge fund business, including fund structuring and formation, seed investments, asset manager M&A transactions, agreements among principals, employment and compensation issues, and regulatory and enforcement matters. Chris’s long and deep experience in the hedge fund industry gives him a unique ability to counsel clients dealing with some of the most challenging situations that fund managers can encounter, including complex fund restructurings, evolving hedge fund investment terms, hybrid and alternative fund structures, liquidity challenges and constraints, internal disputes, and complex enforcement matters.

Christopher Ondeck

Chris Ondeck is head of the Washington, DC office and co-chair of Proskauer’s Antitrust Group. Chris is one of the most highly rated antitrust trial lawyers in the United States. In 2023, he won the largest antitrust jury trial of the year, and one of the largest in history, by defending Sanderson Farms as the sole non-settling defendant where the direct purchaser plaintiffs alleged $7 billion in damages. The significance of the trial victory was widely reported by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Law360, and other publications, calling it a “blockbuster case.” Law360 noted that Chris “blasted” the plaintiffs’ assertions at trial and called it one of the biggest trial decisions of the year. Chris is a go-to litigator for clients in high-profile antitrust matters, including AARP, Amtrak, AT&T, Butterball, Cardinal Health, Continental Resources, Daybreak Foods, Discovery, DuPont, Ocean Spray, SpaceX, Sunkist, Wayne Sanderson Farms, Welch’s, and Weyerhaeuser. He also has 30-years’ expertise with the Capper-Volstead Act’s application and interpretation for agricultural cooperatives, and serves as outside counsel to a large number of industry groups, including trade associations and cooperatives.

Colin Kass

Colin Kass is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and Co-Chair of its Antitrust Group, and a member of the firm’s cross-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional Coronavirus Response Team. As a seasoned trial lawyer, Colin has handled many of the nation’s most complex and innovative antitrust cases over the past 20 years. His practice involves a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, sports, media, pharmaceuticals, and automotive markets, and spans the full-range of antitrust and unfair competition-related litigation, including class actions, competitor suits, dealer/distributor termination suits, price discrimination cases, criminal price-fixing probes, and merger injunctions. Colin also has extensive experience interfacing with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, obtaining clearance for competitively-sensitive transactions and handling anticompetitive practices investigations. As a trusted advisor, Colin also counsels clients on their sales, distribution, and marketing practices, strategic ventures, and general antitrust compliance. Selected Publications “Trial Graphics and Your Antitrust Story,” Trial Practice Committee of the ABA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (Spring 2017) “Can Purchasing Efficiencies Save Mega-Mergers?,” co-authored with John Ingrassia and Rucha Desai (May 2017) "Has the Supreme Court Thrown Health Care Regulation into Disarray? A Comment on the Court’s Reworking of the State Action Doctrine,” Antitrust Source, co-authored with Scott Abeles and John Ingrassia (Fall 2015) “The International Comparative Legal Guide to Competition Litigation 2015, 7th Edition,” Competition Litigation: USA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (September 4, 2014) "DOJ Merger Policy Shines New Light on Conduct Remedies," Association of Corporate Counsel, Lexology, co-authored with John Ingrassia (June 2011) "Demanding Antitrust Side-Letter Disclosure," LAW360, co-authored with John Ingrassia (April 2011) "The Uncertain State of Class Action Waivers," LAW360, co-authored with Amy Crafts (March 2010) "Predatory Pricing Redux," National Law Journal (2010) "Going Horizontal: Why File and Duck Strategies No Longer Work," Association of Corporate Counsel (2010) "Holding Parent Companies Liable for Their Children’s Wrongs," LAW360, co-authored with Mireille Dany and Marianne Le Moullec (August 2010) "Cartel Investigations: Selective Disclosures and Privilege Preservation By the Target Company Seller," Competition Law International, Vol. 3, No. 2, co-authored with James H. Mutchnik and David Spiegel (October 2007) "Consumer Pricing Will Never Be the Same," Antitrust Litigator (Summer 2007) "Bundled Rebates: A Temporary Blip on the Antitrust Radar," Antitrust Litigator (Fall 2006) "Competition is Good Again," Legal Times, co-authored with Tefft W. Smith and Scott M. Abeles (March 2007) "How to Limit LePage’s Effect," Legal Times, co-authored with Tefft W. Smith and Scott M. Abeles (March 2006) "Applying the Noerr Doctrine to Pharmaceutical Patent Litigation Settlements," Antitrust Law Journal, co-authored with Mark L. Kovner and Avery W. Gardiner (2003)

Colleen Hart

Colleen Hart is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Colleen advises companies, executives and boards on complex executive compensation matters. She offers a multidisciplinary approach to compensation and benefits issues with a focus on tax planning, securities laws and corporate governance. Matters she handles include the negotiation, structuring and implementation of employment and change-in-control agreements and deferred compensation, equity and incentive compensation plans. She advises on golden parachute and deduction limitation rules, securities reporting, registration and disclosure requirements and California employment laws. In addition, Colleen has extensive experience advising clients on compensation and benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, bankruptcies and finance transactions. Colleen is a contributing author of The 409A Handbook (BNA 2016) and lectures frequently on executive compensation matters. As a U.S. Navy veteran, Colleen devotes a substantial amount of time to organizations that provide legal and support services to U.S. veterans.

Cormac Ryan

Cormac Ryan is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Finance Group. Cormac acts on a full range of finance transactions, with a particular focus on fund finance, including syndicated and bilateral leveraged/NAV facilities, SMA deals, hybrid facilities, GP support lines and capital call facilities acting for both fund managers and financial institutions. Prior to joining the firm, Cormac was an associate in the London office of an international law firm where his practice focused on acting for bank and non-bank lenders and a variety of sponsors including corporate and non-corporate private equity funds, hedge funds, infrastructure funds, real estate funds, secondary funds, credit funds.

Cynthia Cheng

Cynthia Cheng is a Senior Legal Consultant and a member of Proskauer's internationally recognized Lodging & Gaming Group. Cynthia’s extensive experience in advising global and local leading real estate and hospitality & leisure companies. Her practice focuses on the diverse range of issues relating to hotel, branded residences and mixed-use development projects, and hotel operations through their cycle from the initial design and construction stages to exit, including the drafting and negotiating of commercial contracts (such as technical services, management, marketing and license agreements), and matters relating to intellectual property protection, employment and dispute resolution. Prior to joining Proskauer, Cynthia was General Counsel of the Regent Hotel Group where she established the in-house legal team, and was responsible for overseeing the Group’s legal affairs and corporate compliance. In 2018, Cynthia was involved in the sale and joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. The transaction was recognized by the hospitality industry as one of the most significant hotel deals of that year. Cynthia has also previously worked as in-house Legal Counsel for Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts where she was involved in projects for some of the world’s most iconic hotels including Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard in London, Shangri-La’s Villingili Resort in the Maldives, Shangri-La Bosphorus, Istanbul, Shangri-La Paris, as well as numerous other luxury properties in Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia.

Daniel Hendon

Daniel Hendon is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit and Finance Groups. Daniel’s particular areas of expertise are leveraged finance, general debt finance and debt restructurings in the middle market and upper market. Daniel’s practice focuses on acting for UK and international lenders (with a specialist focus on alternative lenders and private credit funds), private equity sponsors and corporates on a variety of UK and cross-border acquisition finance and corporate lending transactions, including private equity backed buyouts, management buy-outs, corporate M&A, refinancings and restructurings of leveraged assets involving senior, unitranche, first out / last out structures, second lien, holdco PIK and other subordinated facilities. Daniel has extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues and he regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination agreements and other complex interlender agreements. Daniel has been a speaker at industry conferences.

Daniel Ganitsky

Daniel Ganitsky is co-head of Proskauer's global Private Equity and M&A Group and a member of Proskauer's Latin America Practice Group. Over the course of his career, Daniel has had significant roles in numerous public company transactions, acquisitions of private companies or businesses, restructurings, proxy contests and financial advisor representations. Since joining Proskauer less than a decade ago, he has worked on over 125 publicly announced transactions with an aggregate value of more than $175 billion. Since joining Proskauer in the summer of 2010, Daniel has been particularly active in the Firm's representation of clients in public company transactions, cross border matters and private equity investments. Daniel was also part of the team that represented the Pac-12 Conference in the creation of Pac-12 Networks, an innovative arrangement providing unprecedented exposure for the conference's athletic and academic programs. In addition to his transactional work, Daniel routinely advises corporations, stockholders, directors and officers in connection with SEC reporting obligations and periodic reports (including proxy statements, registration statements, Form 8-Ks, and Schedule 13Ds), formation of entities, board governance, stockholders affairs, SEC no-action letters, "poison pen" letters, shareholder rights plans and other corporate law and securities matters. Born in Colombia, Daniel is fluent in Spanish and has worked on transactions throughout Latin America with many of the leading law firms and investment banks in the region.

Daryn Grossman

Daryn A. Grossman is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and head of the Life Sciences Group. Daryn is the former Managing Partner and continues to participate in the leadership of the firm in various capacities, working closely with the Firm’s Chair and Executive Committee in relation to the implementation of the Firm’s business strategy. Over the course of her career, Daryn has served in several leadership positions including co-chair of Proskauer’s global Corporate Department, the Firm’s largest department, and as co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group. She has also served on the Firm’s Hiring Committee, Business Development Committee and Lateral Acquisition Committee. Daryn has championed the career of many women lawyers throughout the Firm and actively engages in the Proskauer Women's Alliance programming. As a tech-transactional lawyer, Daryn has designed and negotiated complex technology and intellectual property transaction structures, including strategic alliances, licensing, technology development and outsourcing transactions. Her clients include a wide range of life sciences, cloud computing, digital media, Internet, software, electronics, luxury goods, retail, fashion, entertainment, telecommunications and clean technology companies. Daryn’s practice also focuses on technology mergers, acquisitions, sales and spinoffs. She represents both growth and mature companies, and counsels venture capitalists and strategic investors in evaluating intellectual property portfolios in connection with private equity investments, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Daryn often counsels boards of directors and management teams in navigating the critical commercial and legal issues surrounding product development and exploitation and risk mitigation. Clients describe Daryn as “skilled and resourceful.” IAM Patent writes: “In the IP monetization area, there is nothing crack negotiator Daryn Grossman can’t do,” adding that she has “a command of all deal types across the IP commercialization spectrum…she can go toe to toe with anybody. She just gets deals done.”

David Hillman

David M. Hillman is co-head of Proskauer's Private Credit Restructuring Group and a member of the Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. David has over 25 years of experience with an emphasis on representing private credit lenders, private funds, sovereign wealth funds and other alternative lenders and distressed investors in special situations and restructurings both in and out of court, whether the lender is secured or unsecured, unitranche or structured preferred. He has substantial experience in every phase of restructuring and distressed investing, including credit bid sales under section 363, debt-for-equity swaps, chapter 11 plans, out-of-court restructurings and foreclosures, as well as navigating inter-creditor issues involving the relative rights of majority and minority lenders. David also litigates the issues facing private credit lenders, including issues involving plan confirmation, solvency, valuation, inter-creditor disputes, financing and cash collateral disputes, fraudulent transfers, equitable subordination, recharacterization, breach of fiduciary duty and similar disputes.

David Teigman

David Teigman is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. David focuses his practice on executive compensation and benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and senior executive employment relationships. David regularly counsels public and private companies on compensatory and benefit arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives and employment, change-in-control, retention, separation and consulting agreements. He also advises on corporate governance, tax law and securities law related to employment matters. A frequent author, David has published the following articles: “Share Reserve and Other Limits in Public Company Equity Plans” (Practical Law) “Roadmap to Providing Appropriate Incentives to Employees When Your Company is Going to be Sold” (The M&A Lawyer) “Taxation of an Option Exercise When the Shares are Subject to a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture” (Practical Law) David is often called upon by leading industry publications, including Agenda/Financial Times, Law360, Financier Worldwide and Modern Healthcare, for his perspective on executive compensation and benefit issues. David received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Buffalo, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Buffalo Law Review and the Executive Editor of the Public Interest Law Journal, and his B.S. from Cornell University.

David Munkittrick

David Munkittrick is a litigator and trial attorney. His practice focuses on complex and large-scale antitrust, copyright and entertainment matters in all forms of dispute resolution and litigation, from complaint through appeal. David has been involved in some of the most significant antitrust matters over the past few years, obtaining favorable results for Fortune 500 companies and other clients in bench and jury trials involving price discrimination and group boycott claims. His practice includes the full range of antitrust matters and disputes: from class actions to competitor suits and merger review. David advises antitrust clients in a range of industries, including entertainment, automotive, pharmaceutical, healthcare, agriculture, hospitality, financial services, and sports. David also advises music, publishing, medical device, sports, and technology clients in navigating complex copyright issues and compliance. He has represented some of the most recognized names in entertainment, including Sony Music Entertainment, Lady Gaga, U2, Madonna, Daft Punk, RCA Records, BMG Music Publishing, Live Nation, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Universal Music Group and Warner/Chappell. David maintains an active pro bono practice, supporting clients in the arts and in immigration proceedings. He has been repeatedly recognized as Empire State Counsel by the New York State Bar Association for his pro bono service, and is a recipient of Proskauer’s Golden Gavel Award for excellence in pro bono work. When not practicing law, David spends time practicing piano. He recently made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall with a piano trio and accompanying a Schubert lieder. David frequently speaks on antitrust and copyright issues, and has authored or co-authored numerous articles and treatise chapters, including: Causation and Remoteness, the U.S. Perspective, in GCR Private Litigation Guide. Data Breach Litigation Involving Consumer Class Actions, in Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age. Location Privacy: Technology and the Law, in Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age. FTC Enforcement of Privacy, in Proskauer on Privacy: A Guide to Privacy and Data Security Law in the Information Age. The Role of Experts in Music Copyright Cases, Intellectual Property Magazine. Nonprofit Education: A Historical Basis for Tax Exemption in the Arts, 21 NYSBA Ent., Arts, & Sports L.J. 67 A Founding Father of Modern Music Education: The Thought and Philosophy of Karl W. Gehrkens, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education

David Miller

David Miller is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. David advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international corporate tax issues. His practice covers the taxation of financial instruments and derivatives, private and public REITs, cross-border lending transactions and other financings, international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, multinational corporate groups and partnerships, private equity and hedge funds, bankruptcy and workouts, high-net-worth individuals and families, and public charities and private foundations. He advises companies in virtually all major industries, including banking, finance, private equity, health care, life sciences, real estate, technology, consumer products, entertainment and energy. David is strongly committed to pro bono service, and has represented more than 500 charities. David has been consistently recognized by leading industry publications, such as Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Best Lawyers and The Legal 500. Clients surveyed by Chambers USA said, “We bring him in on complex matters because he has the experience and the gravitas.” David is one of 17 lawyers in the United States in The Legal 500’s Hall of Fame for US Tax (non-contentious). David has taught the taxation of financial instruments at Columbia Law School, and tax policy at New York University School of Law. He is also a frequent author and has written a number of articles and chapters in various tax publications. David is the former chair of the tax section of the New York State Bar Association. Prior to joining Proskauer, David was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.

David Fenwick

David Fenwick is a partner in Proskauer's Latin America Group, where he focuses on international finance and other cross-border matters. David represents underwriters, issuers and credit enhancers on international debt, securitization, equity and equity-related offerings, arrangers and borrowers on international loan facilities and infrastructure finance projects, and debtors and creditors on balance sheet management and debt restructuring transactions. In addition, he represents international investors in their Latin American transactions and Brazilian investors in their transactions abroad. He acted as lead advisor to BNDES, the Brazilian development bank, on its U.S.$1 billion Mandatory Exchange Offer, named "Deal of the Year" for 2008 in several categories by various international finance and legal publications.

David Fioccola

A seasoned litigator and trial lawyer, David Fioccola specializes in the defense of complex commercial disputes and consumer class actions. With more than 20 years of experience, David has tried cases in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals throughout the U.S. He regularly defends Fortune 500 companies in bet-the-company litigation as well as financial institutions against claims involving federal and state law violations, including antitrust laws, trust claims, and breach of contract. David has extensive experience handling large-scale internal investigations and represents clients before U.S. federal and state agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state agencies, such as the New York Department of Financial Services and state attorneys general. Moreover, he has significant experience counseling clients in various U.S. federal laws and statutes, including: The Consumer Financial Protection Act The Unfair, Deceptive, or Abusive Acts and Practices (UDAAP) The Federal Antitrust laws Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) The RICO Act The Truth in Lending Act (TILA) The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) California’s Business and Professions Code § 17200 Prior to joining Proskauer, David was the co-chair of the Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group at Morrison & Foerster, and the Trial Practice Group.

David Weinberger

David J. Weinberger is co-head of Proskauer's Real Estate Finance Group, the immediate past co-chair of Proskauer's Real Estate Department, and a founding member of Proskauer's Private Equity Real Estate Group. David regularly represents real estate funds, banks, family offices, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, and institutional and specialty lenders in connection with financings, acquisitions, sales and public offerings of equity and debt. He has developed extensive experience in the origination and securitization of complex mortgage and mezzanine loans. David is nationally recognized for his representation of both borrowers and lenders with respect to the origination of both balance sheet and securitized mortgage and mezzanine loans involving properties across the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. David also has extensive experience in the structuring of “A/B” loans, participations and preferred equity transactions. He has been involved in the origination of numerous large loans which were securitized in single-borrower transactions, as well as thousands of conduit and balance sheet loans. He often represents clients in connection with the origination of revolving and term credit facilities and repurchase facilities. David also has extensive experience representing hospitality companies, both owners and managers, and REITs in all aspects of their businesses. He also has been involved in numerous workouts of problem mortgages and mezzanine loans and is the chief author of “Proskauer Workout Primer: Issues to Address When Dealing with Mortgage Loans in Distress.”

David Tegeler

David Tegeler is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and the Private Funds Group, and also head of the Boston office. He previously served as global co-head of Proskauer's Private Funds Group for many years. David concentrates his practice on representing asset managers in a broad range of matters, including private investment fund formation; governance, succession planning and other “upper tier” concerns; regulatory advice; and asset manager M&A. In addition, David has significant experience in buy and sell side secondary transactions, fund restructurings, direct secondary transactions and private investment fund finance. He also represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in all types of private investment funds. David has over 30 years of experience in the private equity industry. He has represented numerous domestic and international private investment firms in their fund formation and operations, including buyout, growth equity, credit, venture capital, natural resource, special situation, secondary, and funds of funds, as well as geographic and sector specific funds.

David Stephens

David Stephens is a partner and a member of the Registered Funds Group. David has particular expertise in matters arising under the Investment Company Act. David’s experience covers virtually all types of investment companies, including registered and unregistered, open-end and closed-end, ETF’s, and master-feeder funds, as well as funding vehicles for insurance products.

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David Pratt

David Pratt is Chair of Proskauer's Private Client Services Department and head of the Boca Raton office. His practice is dedicated exclusively to the areas of trusts and estates, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer, fiduciary and individual income taxation and fiduciary litigation. He has extensive experience in estate planning and post-mortem tax planning. David’s clients consist predominantly of high net worth individuals and families. He regularly counsels his clients regarding how to transfer wealth from generation to generation with the least amount of tax and the maximum amount of asset preservation at each generation, including protection for a divorcing child or grandchild and from potential creditors. While many of David’s clients are retired, he also represents a significant amount of business owners. He has recommended and implemented many plans which have transferred ownership of business interests to the next generation with minimal transfer tax cost and without disruption of the family business. Such plans very often include recommendations resulting from the family dynamics involved with a family business. Clients often consult with David with respect to charitable giving. He has been involved with establishing many charitable remainder and lead trusts, and has also established many private foundations. David prepares many nuptial agreements, both prior to and during a marriage. He also is very often engaged by an individual who is in the process of obtaining a divorce in order to do “pre-divorce” planning. In addition, David represents many doctors and other professionals. Specifically, he has recommended many estate plans involving entities such as family limited partnerships, limited liability companies, irrevocable trusts, and a combination of these techniques. Many of David’s clients have significant retirement plans and he regularly advises clients on how to maximize the income tax deferral with respect to such plans. David is Florida Board-Certified in both Taxation and Wills, Trusts and Estates. There are very few attorneys in the State of Florida who hold a dual certification. He was a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co. in New York City prior to attending law school. David had the privilege of serving as Chair of the Florida Bar’s Tax Section and in delivering testimony at the IRS hearings in Washington, D.C. regarding the Tax Section’s comments on the Proposed Regulations on Required Minimum Distributions from Retirement Plans. He also was one of the authors of comments submitted to the IRS by the Section in response to a controversial Revenue Procedure concerning charitable remainder trusts. David is a Fellow in the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel, has served on its Board of Regents and was the first Chair of the New Fellows Steering Committee. He is an adjunct professor at both the University of Miami Law School and the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, in their LL.M. programs. David also is a faculty member of the American Law Institute-American Bar Association. He is a commentator on Leimberg Information Services Inc., a well-known estate planning newsletter, circulated to many estate planning professionals across the country. He has published various articles in legal journals, and lectures extensively to other lawyers, professionals, and laypersons. David is very active with his community. He is a Vice-Chair of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and a past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Foundation of the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County. He is also a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America, where he served on the Planned Giving and Endowments Committee, and was Chair of the Planned Giving Initiatives Committee of the Jewish Federation of North America’s Philanthropic Resources Development Cabinet. David is a past Chair of the Professional Advisory Committee of both the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County and the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County. He is a member of the Jewish National Fund’s Legal Committee. David is also on the Board of the Tel-Aviv Foundation and Onward Israel.

David Jones

David T. Jones is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. He focuses on representing private equity funds and institutional investors in fund formations, fund investments and secondary transactions. David is actively involved in all stages of fund formation and fund sponsor representation, counseling on terms and marketing strategy, negotiating with placement agents, drafting partnership and general partner documents, negotiating with investors and providing advice on internal general partner and management company issues. In addition, he routinely represents institutional and fund-of-fund investors when investing in venture capital, buyout, mezzanine and distressed debt funds. Prior to joining Proskauer, David spent seven years practicing at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault where he focused on venture capital related-clients including venture funds, private and public technology-related companies and underwriters. Representation included advice on fund formations, equity and debt financings, as well as equity compensation, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and SEC compliance. David previously worked for General Electric in a variety of quality control and shop floor supervisory positions. He is a graduate of their Manufacturing Management Program.

David Manko

David is Chair of Proskauer’s Health Care Group, with a national practice representing clients in the health care services sector in complex business transactions (private equity, M&A and joint ventures) and regulatory matters. After more than 25 years, David has developed deep healthcare industry expertise which he leverages to provide practical, creative and actionable advice to clients. Recently, David has been involved with representing stakeholders as they navigate a shifting healthcare landscape arising from COVID-19, including CARES Act compliance matters and implementing new healthcare delivery models. As one of the architects of the NYS ACO statute and regulations and a former member of the NYS Value Based Payment Workgroup, David has deep expertise in regulatory and transactional issues involving large provider networks and risk bearing entities. David has also worked with clients to develop demonstration projects with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In the community, David is dedicated to expanding access to primary care services for underserved populations. For almost 10 years, he has been an active member of the Board of Directors of Primary Care Development Corporation (“PCDC”). PCDC is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to providing low-cost debt financing to not-for-profit organizations to expand and improve primary care in underserved communities.

Dietrich Snell

Dietrich L. Snell is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group. Dieter has extensive experience in law enforcement-related matters spanning a wide range of disciplines. He has both federal and state level prosecutorial and investigative experience, having served for nearly two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; as New York Deputy Attorney General; and as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission).

Don Melamed

Don Melamed advises asset managers and institutional investors across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. He specializes in advising fund managers across asset classes, including real estate, buyout, growth equity, impact and distressed debt. Don has a significant practice advising investment firms on the formation and operation of their asset management businesses, including incentive arrangements, co-investment transactions and spin-outs. He also focuses on representing institutional investors and family offices in connection with both primary and secondary transactions. Leveraging his extensive experience in the investment management space, Don advises executive management teams, operators and money partners on structuring joint ventures and operating businesses that have an investment or fundraising component.

Dorothy Murray

Dorothy Murray is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department specializing in investment and commercial dispute resolution. She supports clients across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, asset management/private equity, energy and telecoms. Dorothy represents clients in disputes arising from all aspects of their business, and at every stage of the company or investment’s lifecycle. Dorothy has handled matters in relation to applications to the UK Listing Authority, shareholder and unfair prejudice claims, corporate governance challenges, potential GP removals, defaults under guarantees and debt instruments, defamation, team moves and contractual claims (including pre- and post- M&A disputes and distribution agreements). Dorothy has experience managing litigation in common and civil law jurisdictions, and in commercial and investor state arbitration. She is fluent with all the key divisions of the English High Courts and major arbitral institutional rules.

Douglas Frank

Douglas B. Frank is the administrative co-head of Proskauer's Los Angeles office and partner in the Real Estate Department. His practice focuses on real estate private equity investment, real estate related joint ventures, secured lending, mezzanine lending and structured finance activities, as well as real estate acquisition and sales transactions. Doug advises private equity investors and real estate advisors with respect to a broad scope of real estate investments – particularly in the areas of acquisition and disposition of core real estate properties, and joint ventures for the development, construction, financing and operating of office, retail, multifamily, condominium, hospitality and industrial projects. Doug also has 25 years of experience representing commercial banks, life insurance companies, fund investors and advisors, and pension funds with respect to real estate-secured lending and structured finance activities for land acquisitions and construction. He has represented lender clients in connection with their permanent, term, revolving, workout, conduit/securitization, and mezzanine financings transactions.

Edward Lee

Edward Lee is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Edward advises fund managers and investors on the formation of a broad range of funds, including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, debt, venture capital and secondary funds. He also advises on co-investments (including direct co-investments) and buyers and sellers in secondary transactions. In addition, Edward works on various related issues, including single investor vehicles, carried interest arrangements, limited liability partnership agreements and ongoing fund administrative issues.

Edward Brill

Edward A. Brill is the former co-head of Proskauer's Appellate Practice Group. Ed devotes a significant amount of time to representing educational institutions, including Columbia University, New York University, Yale University and Polytechnic Institute. He has served as lead counsel in numerous employee representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board, and employment litigation involving faculty, senior administrators and staff. He has represented each of these institutions in disputes involving union efforts to organize graduate student teaching and research assistants. Ed also represented Quinnipiac University in a widely publicized Title IX class action alleging that the university’s athletic program fails to comply with various requirements of Title IX. Among other issues, the case involves the issue of whether competitive cheer is properly recognized as a varsity sport for purpose of Title IX. Over the course of his career, Ed has briefed and argued dozens of appeals in both the federal and New York state appellate courts. He was a principal author of the brief in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a collective bargaining agreement provision requiring arbitration of age discrimination claims is enforceable. Other recent cases include: Carroll University v. NLRB (D.C. Cir.), setting aside an NLRB order requiring the college to bargain with a union representing faculty members on the grounds that the NLRB did not have jurisdiction over the college as a religious institution Adams , et al v. Suozzi, et al (2d Cir.), reversing a lower court decision that Nassau County violated due process rights of county employees in implementing a wage deferral plan Lorna Perez & Elena Leffler v. Saks Fifth Ave., (11th Cir), upholding decision of a district court setting aside jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in an age and retaliation discrimination case Raghavendra v. The Trustees of Columbia University (2d Cir.) upholding and enforcing an agreement settling multiple state and federal discrimination claims. Ed has represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings before the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He also has represented employers in all types of employment litigation, both in New York and a number of other jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, California, Georgia, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. He also provides guidance to clients, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including employee discharge and discipline, equal employment opportunity obligations, development of personnel policies, and downsizing and reductions in force.

Edward Kornreich

Past long-standing chair of Proskauer’s Health Care Department, Ed Kornreich is a recognized authority on the legal, regulatory and business issues related to health care services. Areas of Concentration Ed works primarily on health care transactions, regulatory compliance, health care payment and governance issues for varied providers (both for-profit and not-for-profit), vendors, GPOs, distributors and entrepreneurs. His approach combines sensitivity to meeting regulatory business goals with a comprehensive and realistic assessment of the health care environment, and he is particularly experienced in dealing with the complex issues related to integrated health care systems. Industry Experience After working for the Legal Aid Society, Ed entered private practice, where he helped represent a major public hospital corporation in a series of reimbursement disputes with the state and federal governments, and counseled New York area hospitals and nursing homes on reimbursement and operational issues. Thereafter, Ed served as General Counsel of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York. After leaving St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Ed joined Proskauer as a Partner in 1990. Thought Leadership Ed frequently writes and lectures on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, health care integration, not-for-profit law and corporate governance issues, and the application of federal and state anti-kickback and “Stark” laws to health care transactions.

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak’s practice focuses on the representation of debtors and creditors, including creditors’ committees, as well as investors in complex distressed situations. Ehud represents a wide range of clients in chapter 11 cases in in- and out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcy litigation, including appeals. Currently Ehud is one of the leaders in representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico in its effort to restructure Puerto Rico’s outstanding debt load of more than $70 billion. He was instrumental in the $6 billion Title VI restructuring of the Governmental Development Bank’s debt. He is also focusing on overseeing the restructuring of over $8 billion of debt of Puerto Rico’s electric utility. For the past few years, he has been invited to be a panelist at the ABA-NCBJA Conference. He serves as a co-chair of the ABA’s Business Bankruptcy Committee Mass Torts and Environmental Subcommittee. Ehud also serves as a member of the SDTX committee for drafting rules re: complex chapter 11 local rules. Prior to working in the United States, Ehud practiced law at one of Israel’s leading law firms, focusing primarily on complex commercial litigation cases.

Elise Bloom

Elise M. Bloom is widely hailed as one of the nation’s top employment lawyers and one of the most creative and effective discrimination wage and hour, class/collective action trial lawyers. She is particularly well-known for handling high profile, bet-the-company matters on behalf of significant national employers. Elise is the former co-chair of Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Department, co-head of the Class & Collective Actions Group and previously served as a member of Proskauer’s elected Executive Committee for two terms. With 30+ years in practice, Elise possesses extensive pre-trial and jury trial experience as well as conducting high-profile investigations. She has represented more companies in class actions challenging interns, trainees and volunteers than most others; this includes her precedent-setting win for Fox Searchlight Pictures in the “Black Swan” case. She also addresses a wider range of general employment issues through counseling and employer training programs. A noted author and speaker on employment-related topics, Elise spearheads Proskauer’s annual Value Insights: Delivering Value in Labor and Employment Law survey.

Erik Milch

Erik Milch is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Intellectual Property, Patent Law and Trials group. Erik brings more than 20 years of experience litigating in key jurisdictions across the U.S., as well as before the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. As a first-chair trial lawyer, Erik litigates complex matters involving medical devices, life sciences instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, electrical and computer technology, and consumer products. He regularly counsels clients in a range of industries in connection with patent procurement, development of patent portfolios, patent licensing, valuation of patent portfolios in business transactions and transactional diligence. Erik has extensive experience in all aspects of patent litigation from pre-filing through appeal, including enforcement of patents against competitors and defense of patent infringement allegations. His technical background includes microfluidics, lab automation, optical imaging instruments, wound closure, surgical instrumentation, orthopedics, autoinjectors, tissue resection and sealing, pharmaceuticals, haptic feedback systems, computer software, consumer products, fluid mechanics applications, automotive engines and mechanical and electrical components, aerospace propulsion and control systems, weapons systems, and telecommunications. Prior to pursuing a legal career, Erik earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, where he developed a deep appreciation for cutting-edge technology and its potential to drive progress. His background in engineering equips him with a unique ability to comprehend intricate technical concepts. This enables him to effectively navigate the intricate world of patent litigation, combining his legal skills with technical know-how to provide comprehensive and strategic counsel to his clients. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Erik served as an officer in the United States Navy. His military background instilled in him a strong sense of discipline, leadership, perseverance, and attention to detail; qualities that continue to guide him in his legal practice.

Evan Palenschat

Evan Palenschat is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department. His principal focus is the representation of private credit funds, financial institutions, hedge funds and public and private borrowers, as well as alternative lending institutions in connection with complex financing matters, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and opportunistic lending. Evan advises clients on all aspects of corporate transactional work as well as in work-outs and other downside scenarios. Evan has acted on transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $50 billion, ranging from senior secured, second lien and subordinated financings to asset-based loans, preferred equity, structured equity products, Holdco financings, work-outs, restructurings and bridge and mezzanine financings. Evan’s clients have included Antares Capital, Golub Capital, HPS Investment Partners, JPMorgan, Capital One, Whitehorse Capital and others. Evan received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and also received an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois.

Evandro Gigante

Evandro Gigante is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, a member of the Employment Litigation group and co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity group. He represents clients on a variety of labor and employment matters, including allegations of sexual harassment, race, gender, national origin, disability and religious discrimination. Evandro also counsels employers through reductions-in-force and other sensitive employment issues. Most recently, Evandro has developed expertise on, and represented clients in, various COVID-19 related matters, including those involving compliance with health and safety standards, the need to provide workplace accommodations and the ability to test and/or vaccinate the workforce. With a focus on discrimination and harassment claims, Evandro has extensive experience defending clients before federal and state courts. He tries cases before juries and arbitrators and routinely represents clients before administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as state and local human rights commissions. Evandro often draws on his extensive litigation experience to help clients avoid the courtroom by effectuating positive change in the workplace through impactful anti-discrimination and harassment training, as well as robust employment policies. Working in a wide range of industries, Evandro has experience representing clients in professional services, including law firms, financial services, including hedge funds and private equity firms, higher education, sports, media, retail, and others. Evandro also advises charter schools and other not-for-profit organizations on labor and employment matters on a pro bono basis.

Fabio Yamada

Fábio Yamada is a partner in Proskaur's Latin America Practice Group. His practice focuses mainly on advisory, transactional and finance matters in Latin America. Fábio advises private equity and other alternative asset fund managers on a broad range of issues, including fund formations, co-investments and ongoing fund administrative matters. Fábio also advises institutional investors in investments in private investment funds and buy-side secondary transactions. Fábio has extensive experience in capital markets, banking, securitization and debt restructuring transactions. He also has represented acquirers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions. Fábio is actively involved in the private equity community in Brazil and frequently collaborates on projects with the Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (ABVCAP) and its members. Prior to joining Proskauer, Fábio worked as an international lawyer at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. While in Brazil, he worked at the law firm of Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados and at the legal departments of BankBoston (currently Itaú Unibanco), WestLB and NorChem (currently J.P. Morgan). In addition, Fábio was an invited member of the Legal Committee of the Brazilian Association of International Banks.

Faisal Ramzan

Faisal Ramzan is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit, Finance and Distressed Debt Groups. Faisal's practice focuses on complex cross-border and domestic finance transactions and credit arrangements, particularly those financings that involve private sources of capital. He structures and negotiates a wide range of financing facilities such as: • senior secured financings • mezzanine debt • second-lien loans • bifurcated and stretched senior unitranche facilities • holdco loans • other innovative, first-in-kind structures Faisal represents a broad array of lenders and investors, including private debt funds, alternative lenders, mezzanine funds, second lien lenders, hedge funds and specialty finance companies, often in the context of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings and restructurings. Faisal has extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and debt restructurings and he regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination agreements, agreements among lenders and other complex interlender agreements. Faisal has written debt finance articles for various publications and is a frequent contributor to industry and legal articles on European debt finance as well as a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Fangli Chen

Dr. Fangli Chen is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and chair of the Life Sciences Patent Practice. She represents all types of companies in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, and has deep scientific expertise and a strong business sense. Fangli effectively identifies and transforms technological developments into valuable intellectual property assets for her clients and specializes in the strategic development of complex IP portfolios for companies that align with their business goals. Fangli’s practice also focuses on post-grant review before the USPTO, oppositions, pre-litigation and litigation strategy, due diligence investigations, freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and invalidity analysis, licensing and other IP matters in connection with commercial transactions. She handles a variety of technology areas including biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, immunotherapy, enzyme replacement therapy, nucleic acid based technologies including messenger RNA therapy, gene therapy, gene editing, antisense and oligonucleotides based therapies, vaccines, bioinformatics, and small molecule compound drugs. Fangli also has a wealth of experience in the following areas: Post-grant challenges: representing clients in inter partes review interference and various foreign opposition proceedings. Technology transactions & licensing: advising clients on matters relating to technology or material transfer, licensing and research collaborations. Investment or acquisition counsel: assisting investors in assessing the technology and intellectual property assets and risks for potential target investments and counseling companies on intellectual property matters in connection with public offering or acquisition.

Gary Creem

Gary Creem is a Corporate partner, co-head of The Private Credit Group and a member of the Finance Group. Gary focuses his practice on complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Gary routinely represents an array of leading institutional investors in direct, club and syndicated financing transactions in the middle market and upper middle market, often involving cross-border components. His clients include leading investment banks, institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, business development companies, and technology focused investors. Gary advises these clients on a range of credit products across the capital spectrum, including: senior and senior stretch loans; unitranche facilities (straight and bifurcated); second lien financings; mezzanine debt; subordinated notes; and other innovative financial products. Gary also advises clients on structuring software and other technology-based financings, including recurring revenue-based transactions. A significant part of Gary’s practice is spent counseling institutional investors in complex inter lender arrangements, including agreements among lenders, intercreditor agreements and subordination agreements. Gary frequently advises clients on debt restructurings and out-of-court workouts, including forbearance matters, debt-for-equity exchanges, restructuring support agreements and Article 9 remedies. Gary has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. Outside of his law career, Gary sits on the board of Families First in Massachusetts.

Grant Esposito

Grant Esposito is a first-chair trial lawyer with decades of experience in complex commercial disputes and class action litigation. He advises clients in key litigation areas including antitrust, mass torts, product liability, health care, environmental, securities and transactional disputes. Grant serves as a trusted advisor and trial lawyer for multinational companies in a variety of sectors in their most challenging and high-profile matters. In particular, he is recognized for providing expert counsel to life sciences and professional services clients in cross-border disputes. Throughout his career, Grant has secured notable victories in jury and bench trials throughout the U.S., as well as in arbitration proceedings.

Grant Darwin

Grant Darwin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Grant counsels clients in connection with a variety of domestic and cross-border buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and recapitalizations, as well as growth and venture-stage investments and general corporate governance matters. Grant’s experience involves transactions in an array of industries, including manufacturing, gaming, retail and consumer products, technology and healthcare. In addition to his corporate practice, Grant engages in a variety of pro bono efforts, including matters related to cash bail and prison reform, use of excessive force against minors and advising not-for-profit organizations on formation, corporate governance and related matters. Grant has also spearheaded voter registration drives and joined in election protection initiatives.

Greg Knopp

Gregory (Greg) Knopp is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department in the Los Angeles office. Greg defends companies in class and collective actions and other complex disputes. He has argued successfully before state and federal courts across the country and has obtained dismissals of class actions in dozens of high-profile, highly consequential matters. Greg’s clients range from entertainment companies to prominent retailers to professional sports leagues. He has also worked with financial services and other professional services firms, along with clients in the technology, transportation and healthcare spaces. All look to Greg for his ability to quickly spot legal issues and to determine strategies to maximize advantage. With more than 20 years of experience in employment litigation, Greg has represented clients in a wide range of employment disputes involving wage and hour issues, issues specific to California employment law, sexual harassment, and arbitration compulsion.

Gregory Rasin

Gregory I. Rasin is a former chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Department. He has significant experience in employment litigation, including the defense of major class actions and his accomplishments have been widely recognized by several respected independent authorities. In addition to the class actions, Greg has served as lead counsel in the defense of numerous individual lawsuits. These include alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Federal Equal Pay Act, the New York Human Rights Law, the New York Civil Rights Law, and the New York City Administrative Code. He has litigated wrongful discharge and other state law issues in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He also has argued several appeals before the Second and Fifth Circuits and various state appellate courts. Greg is a noted author and speaker on employment-related topics. Some of his recent, notable publications include “Social Networking and Blogging: Managing the Conversation,” which appeared in the New York Law Journal in July 2009, and “Disclosures Amid Group Terminations,” which appeared in the same publication in May 2007.

Guy Brenner

Guy Brenner is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and leads Proskauer’s Washington, D.C. Labor & Employment practice. He is head of the Government Contractor Compliance Group, co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity Group and a member of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group. He has extensive experience representing employers in both single-plaintiff and class action matters, as well as in arbitration proceedings. He also regularly assists federal government contractors with the many special employment-related compliance challenges they face. Guy represents employers in all aspects of employment and labor litigation and counseling, with an emphasis on non-compete and trade secrets issues, medical and disability leave matters, employee/independent contractor classification issues, and the investigation and litigation of whistleblower claims. He assists employers in negotiating and drafting executive agreements and employee mobility agreements, including non-competition, non-solicit and non-disclosure agreements, and also conducts and supervises internal investigations. He also regularly advises clients on pay equity matters, including privileged pay equity analyses. Guy advises federal government contractors and subcontractors all aspects of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regulations and requirements, including preparing affirmative action plans, responding to desk audits, and managing on-site audits. Guy is a former clerk to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court of the District of Columbia.

Hadassa Waxman

Hadassa Waxman is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and a member of Proskauer's White Collar Defense & Investigations and Securities Litigation Groups. Her practice is focused on representing corporations and senior executives in civil and criminal investigations, enforcement and regulatory matters, and securities litigation. Prior to joining Proskauer, Hadassa was a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she also served as Co-Chief of the General Crimes Unit. In that role, Hadassa supervised approximately 50 AUSAs, oversaw 30 trials, completed nine trials of her own, and managed more than 1,000 unit cases involving wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and corporate criminal liability, among others. An experienced prosecutor, Hadassa has investigated, prosecuted and supervised scores of cases involving a wide range of cybercrimes, including hacking, cyber extortion, cyberstalking, ransomware and unauthorized access to sensitive databases, including where the breach implicated national security issues. Hadassa has written and presented on regulatory and enforcement issues of various federal and state statutes including SEC enforcement actions, FCPA investigations, conducting internal investigations and cybersecurity.

Harriet West

Harriet West is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit Group and The Finance Group. Harriet’s practice concentrates on leveraged and acquisition finance. She represents a variety of clients with a particular focus on acting for alternative lenders and private credit funds in the direct lending market. She also works with private equity sponsors and corporates. Harriet advises clients on a range of financing transactions including unitranche financings, second-lien financings, mezzanine financings, first out/last out structures, holdco PIK, co-investments, note-purchases, other subordinated facilities and restructurings. Her extensive experience covers a wide range of UK, European and cross-border transactions, in both the middle and upper markets.

Howard Beber

Howard J. Beber is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on representing private funds sponsors in all aspects of their business, including fund formation and ongoing operations and internal structuring and compliance. His practice includes buyout, growth equity, venture capital, private credit, secondary and fund-of-funds, ranging from some of the largest and well known sponsors in the industry to newly-formed managers. He advises clients on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the acquisition and sale of partnership interests, tender offers, preferred equity financings, continuation funds, fund restructurings and other GP-led transactions, and has worked with several management teams on large spin-out transactions. Howard routinely represents some of the most active institutional and fund-of-fund investors when investing in venture capital, growth equity, buyout, private credit and other private investment funds, as well as co-investment transactions. Howard has been an active member of the Private Investment Funds industry for many years. He is frequently tapped to weigh-in as an industry expert and has been invited as a guest speaker at Harvard Law School and on a panel mentoring members of the Young Jewish Professionals association, amongst other major industry events. Howard has also authored numerous articles regarding managing and investing in private investment funds, and is a contributing author to “The Business of Venture Capital,” a leading book on the venture capital industry.

Howard Robbins

Howard Z. Robbins is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, and a co-head of Proskauer's Strategic Corporate Planning Group. In the traditional labor law arena, Howard represents clients in a broad range of industries, including sports and entertainment, retail and fashion, newspapers, pharmaceutical companies, hotels, educational and not-for-profit institutions (such as the Metropolitan Opera, Museum of Modern Art and other major museums and cultural institutions). As a member of the firm's Sports Law Group, Howard has been counsel to the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, National Football League and Major League Soccer, and has represented numerous individual NHL clubs. He regularly negotiates collective bargaining agreements and has represented employers in various industries in representation hearings and unfair labor practice trials before the National Labor Relations Board, and in scores of discharge and contract arbitrations. Howard also provides daily advice and counsel to clients in applying collective bargaining agreements and in complying with applicable labor laws. A recent article in The New Yorker magazine noted Howard’s reputation in labor negotiations, stating that “Robbins’s name is synonymous with tough management.” As co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group, Howard is often called upon to provide labor and employment advice in corporate transactions. He works with clients and investment bankers and negotiates with union representatives to facilitate these deals. Howard's practice also includes a significant employment law component. In his practice, Howard represents clients in state and federal district and appellate courts and administrative agencies with respect to discrimination and employment disputes. Aside from litigation, Howard has an active counseling practice, providing practical advice to clients on issues like hiring, terminations, restructuring, wage-and-hour laws, WARN compliance, leave issues and other EEO compliance matters. As a member of the International Labor & Employment Group, Howard often assists clients with cross-border labor and employment issues and coordinates with local counsel around the world.

Ira Bogner

Ira G. Bogner is Managing Partner of Proskauer He is the immediate former chair of Proskauer’s Tax Department. He is a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group and the Firm's Executive Committee. Ira represents a varied list of clients, including financial service companies, entertainment industry clients, and tax-exempt organizations, and also actively represents individual executives in executive compensation matters. Ira counsels clients with respect to the tax, securities law disclosure, corporate governance, stock exchange and other requirements relevant to executive compensation arrangements. Ira also provides advice regarding equity arrangements, employment agreements, change in control agreements and all other types of executive compensation arrangements, including guidance regarding “409A,” “162m,” “457A,” and “280G.” Ira frequently is called on to structure and analyze alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations. He also works with the Firm’s corporate and real estate lawyers in structuring and maintaining investment funds that include participation by pension plans. Through his work in the investment fund area Ira has obtained substantial experience in applying the rules provided under the “plan asset” regulations, including the operation of venture capital operating companies and real estate operating companies. He has assisted in the formation of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, including “fund of funds.” Ira also has advised clients on both avoiding ERISA “plan asset” status and operating an investment fund in accordance with ERISA. Ira frequently is called on to structure and analyze alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations. He also works with the Firm’s corporate and real estate lawyers in structuring and maintaining investment funds that include participation by pension plans. Through his work in the investment fund area Ira has obtained substantial experience in applying the rules provided under the “plan asset” regulations, including the operation of venture capital operating companies and real estate operating companies. He has assisted in the formation of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, including “fund of funds.” Ira also has advised clients on both avoiding ERISA “plan asset” status and operating an investment fund in accordance with ERISA. Areas of Concentration Ira has provided guidance to clients on a wide variety of matters in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation, including: - investment of plan assets - implementation of employee benefit plans - employee benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions - awarding of equity-based compensation - negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and severance arrangements - structuring, analyzing and maintaining investment funds that are suitable for plan investors Thought Leadership Ira has published a number of articles in publications such as The New York Law Journal, The New Jersey Law Journal, The Daily Deal, The Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance, Mergers and Acquisitions (The Monthly Tax Journal), The Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, European Private Equity & Venture Capital Associations, The LPA Anatomised and Private Equity International and has been named to the Board of Advisors of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. He also has lectured on topics such as the classification of workers, drafting employment agreements, equity alternatives for senior executives, investing IRA assets, the plan asset regulations, shareholder approval of equity plans, Code Section 409A, and key provisions for ERISA investors investing in a private equity fund.

Ira Golub

Ira M. Golub is a partner in Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. He practices exclusively in Proskauer's employee benefits area. The nature of Ira’s practice embraces virtually all aspects of employee benefits law, ranging from the establishment and design of pension, profit-sharing, welfare and executive compensation plans to the administration and termination of such programs. Ira works regularly with both single employer and multiemployer pension, welfare, annuity, vacation and apprenticeship funds. He serves as fund counsel to numerous multiemployer funds in a variety of industries, providing advice to trustees and administrators in connection with the operation and maintenance of the funds. His understanding of the issues emanating from the operation of multiemployer funds is enhanced by his experience in effecting the termination and mergers of funds and representing contributing employers in disputes with employee benefit plans. Ira has extensive experience representing employers in their efforts to manage withdrawal liability exposure. He has assisted numerous employers that have been assessed withdrawal liability in challenging, arbitrating and negotiating the settlement of such assessments. The fact that Ira formerly worked for an actuarial consulting firm and serves regularly as counsel to multiemployer funds that assess withdrawal liability enables him to bring a spectrum of analytical skills and a depth of experience when addressing withdrawal liability matters. He has provided advice to employers in connection with highly complex and multi-faceted withdrawal liability problems, worked intensively with all withdrawal liability methods (including the hybrid withdrawal liability allocation method recently adopted by some large multiemployer funds) and given advice in connection with multiple withdrawal liability transactions involving liabilities in excess of a billion dollars. He has represented clients before the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and has negotiated a number of agreements with the PBGC in transactional and other contexts (such as, for example, Section 4062(e) of ERISA). He has been a legal advisor in many situations involving bankruptcy and restructuring as it relates to withdrawal liability and pension underfunding. Over the years, Ira has developed a particular capability representing plan sponsors and trustees in connection with the full range of fiduciary and other plan asset and investment issues. He also has a breadth of knowledge with respect to issues relating to welfare programs, and is considered a leading authority with respect to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (COBRA) and Health Savings Account. Ira is often called upon to provide advice relating to managing and modifying significant employer retiree medical liabilities and obligations. He frequently has been involved in providing advice to large corporations in connection with reductions-in-force, and with respect to the full range of employee benefit aspects arising in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ira also works with government sponsored employee benefit plans that are not subject to ERISA. Ira has published the COBRA Handbook, a comprehensive text on COBRA that is updated annually. He is a member of the Board of Editors of HR Advisor. In addition to having worked at a national actuarial consulting firm, Ira previously was a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.

Jacob Friedman

Jacob I. Friedman is a former head of Proskauer's Not-for-Profit/Exempt Organizations Group and former chair of Proskauer's Tax Department. Jay has been involved in various facets of federal and state tax and employee benefits laws. In recent years, his major areas of practice have been the structuring of alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations, and the rendering of fiduciary advice to trustees. Jay advises Proskauer’s philanthropic and other not-for-profit clients on fiduciary and tax exemption issues and their specialized tax problems, including unrelated business income tax ramifications of diverse investments, such as venture capital, hedge funds, futures, natural resources, buyout funds and corporate finance. He regularly is called upon to devise strategy in tax-exempt trust litigation and to handle complex administrative negotiations with the IRS. Jay has actively structured and negotiated numerous significant investments in the U.S. and abroad for multibillion-dollar tax-exempt entities. Jay has lectured at seminars sponsored by Proskauer, The New York Law Journal, New York University, The New York State Bar Association and the International Association of Financial Planners on areas such as real estate investment, tax credits, unrelated business taxable income, ERISA, and negotiating strategy with the IRS. He chaired Proskauer's annual "Trick or Treat Tax-Exempt Seminar," held at the end of every October. He is a co-author of the ERISA Fiduciary Answer Book published by Panel Publications and a contributing author to Complete Guide to Nonprofit Organizations.

Jake Keaveny

Jake Keaveny is Head of European Capital Markets and a member of the Global Finance practice. Jake advises investment banking firms, commercial banks and public and private corporations in capital markets transactions, with a focus on high yield debt offerings and syndicated loans. Jake regularly works on committed financings related to leveraged acquisitions, which have included the acquisitions of Sunrise Medical (Platinum Equity), Purmo Group (Apollo), Kem One (Apollo), William Hill's European businesses, Flora Food Group (KKR), TDC A/S (MacQuarie), Miller Homes (Apollo), Keepmoat (Aermont), Center Parcs (Brookfield) and Nets A/S (Hellman & Friedman). Jake also works on out-of-court debt restructurings, including debt exchanges and tender offers. Jake has practiced in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, technology, infrastructure, gaming, retail, healthcare, industrials and leisure.

James Oussedik

James Oussedik is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group and Private Capital Team. James co-leads the Firm’s global credit funds and sovereign wealth funds initiatives. James advises a broad range of sponsors and investors, covering the establishment of all types of private funds, and advice to sovereign wealth funds, seed investors, pension funds, family offices, and financial institutions, across a range of private and public market strategies. James’s sponsor practice is particularly strong in credit-related strategies of all types across the liquidity spectrum, including credit opportunities, corporate funding solutions, litigation funding, special opportunities, and special situations/distressed. James also has particular experience of advising spin-out managers on the structuring of management arrangements and fund formation, as well as joint venture arrangements and co-investments for both sponsors and investors. James has considerable experience in relation to the establishment and maintenance of investment funds, funds of one and managed accounts, co-investments, investor negotiations, and related legal and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, James was a co-head of the Investment Funds practice at a global law firm in London.

James Kitching

James is a leading barrister with over 20 years of experience in civil, criminal, and regulatory proceedings, as well as complex commercial disputes across multiple jurisdictions. He has defended governments, central banks, and some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions in cases often involving disputes exceeding US$1 billion. James is a seasoned advocate and regularly appears before the High Court (including the Commercial Court, Companies Court, King’s Bench, and Chancery Divisions), appellate courts, and arbitral tribunals. James frequently serves as counsel in international arbitration proceedings under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Swiss Chambers’ Court of Arbitration. James also focuses on white collar enforcement and internal investigations in connection with alleged bribery and corruption, money laundering, export control and sanctions violations. He has particular expertise in advising on cross-border matters and has conducted investigations for the World Bank. He represents clients across diverse sectors including financial services, private equity, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, telecoms and IT.

Jamiel Poindexter

Jamiel E. Poindexter is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. He focuses on tax and economic issues associated with the formation of and investments in U.S. and non-U.S. venture capital funds, buyout funds, funds-of-funds, secondary funds, and other investment partnerships. Jamiel advises U.S. and non-U.S. sponsors and institutional investors on all types of fund-related transactions and operations, including: - structuring and raising private investment funds; - investments by institutional investors in private investment funds; - buy-side secondary transactions and sell-side secondary transactions; - restructuring of existing funds; - spin outs; - succession planning; and - portfolio company investments.

Janicelynn Park

Janicelynn Asamoto Park is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. She counsels fund sponsors and their investors as to the tax and economic considerations relating to forming, operating, and investing in private investment funds, co-investment vehicles, and other investment partnerships across asset classes. Janicelynn also regularly advises investors and sponsors in buy-side and sell-side secondary transactions (including in connection with GP-led fund restructurings). Her practice also includes advising on domestic and cross-border financings and investments, inbound and outbound private mergers and acquisitions, and equity-compensation arrangements. Janicelynn currently serves on the board of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a not-for-profit organization that partners with physicians to promote early literacy in low-income communities. Before joining Proskauer, Janicelynn served as a law clerk for the Honorable Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a youth development volunteer in Honduras with the U.S. Peace Corps.

Jason Madden

Jason Madden is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Health Care Group. His practice focuses on representing health care clients, including hospitals, physician groups, not-for-profit corporations, private equity firms and other financial institutions. Jason provides legal advice on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse compliance; HIPAA and data privacy; mergers, acquisitions and financings; and general corporate and business planning. In addition, Jason actively participates in pro bono matters, representing not-for-profit organizations on a variety of matters, and is an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). Jason has led the Proskauer’s Election Protection Call Center during the last two election cycles.

Jason Krochak

Jason Krochak is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Sports Law Group. He has a broad-based corporate practice with a particular focus on clients in the sports industry. Jason represents sports leagues and teams, private equity firms, financial institutions, gaming companies and corporate sponsors in a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including acquisitions, joint ventures, league expansions, financings, governance, naming rights agreements, licensing agreements and other commercial transactions. Jason's experience includes representing the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, Soccer United Marketing, the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big East Conference, the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour, as well as a number of professional sports teams and their owners, in their significant transactional and governance matters. Jason also has advised on numerous market-shaping sports betting deals, including FanDuel’s first-of-its-kind media and sports wagering partnership in Canada with Bell Media and the Washington Nationals’ exclusive partnership with BetMGM. Jason maintains an active pro bono practice and serves on the Advisory Board of Legal Outreach, an organization that prepares urban youth from underserved communities in New York City to compete at high academic levels. In partnership with Legal Outreach, he created the “Sports, Business and Law” clinic, an annual program where eighth-grade students participate in a mock NBA Expansion Workshop at Proskauer’s New York office.

Jay Waxenberg

Jay Waxenberg is a partner in Proskauer's Private Client Services Department and a former Chair. He advises on all aspects of multi-generational wealth planning and has particular expertise in complex estate planning, related tax work and the administration of estates and trusts. As a member of Proskauer's Fiduciary Litigation Group, Jay is regularly involved in will contests and other estate- and trust-related litigations. He was previously a member of Proskauer's Firm’s Executive Committee. Jay has extensive experience working with high-net worth individuals and their estates and has assisted clients, often for many years, in the structuring of their estate plans so as to minimize gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes in the transmission of their wealth through several generations. Lauded by his clients as “an all-star private client lawyer” who is “very focused on client service,” he is involved in the full range of his clients’ economic and personal concerns, including closely held businesses, commercial and residential real estate holdings, artistic collections and philanthropy. Jay has helped his clients structure new business ventures, restructure existing ventures with an emphasis on shifting appreciation potential to younger generations, and has guided the sale and liquidation of businesses. He regularly handles family matters, such as the preparation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, counsels on charitable giving and structures plans to enable client’s businesses to remain intact at their death, and to ensure the desired continuity of ownership and control. Jay lectures regularly on estate planning topics and has written numerous articles that have appeared in various legal publications. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Jay is a former Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He serves on the professional advisory committees of a number of museums and hospitals in New York.

Jeffrey Warshafsky

Jeff Warshafsky is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department. A versatile commercial litigator and strategic advisor, Jeff specializes in consumer class actions, sports litigation, false advertising, trademark, and other intellectual property disputes. Jeff defends companies in connection with consumer class actions involving advertising and privacy issues. He has handled dozens of class actions around the country for multinational companies across diverse sectors including consumer product companies, retailers, and sports leagues. Jeff also counsels clients to avoid being targeted in such actions, helps them respond to demand letters from plaintiffs’ counsel, and negotiates resolutions. Additionally, Jeff represents clients in competitor versus competitor advertising disputes, including in Lanham Act cases and advertising self-regulation disputes before the National Advertising Division and the National Advertising Review Board. He also counsels companies on advertising substantiation issues, with an emphasis on complex scientific testing, such as clinical trials and sensory testing. Jeff regularly advises major sports leagues on complex business disputes. Jeff maintains a robust pro bono immigration practice, assisting clients with asylum and U-Visa applications and in connection with removal proceedings. In addition to his active practice, Jeff is an editor of and contributor to the Firm’s false advertising blog.

Jeffrey Neuburger

Jeffrey Neuburger is co-head of Proskauer’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group, head of Proskauer’s Blockchain Group and a member of Proskauer's Privacy & Cybersecurity Group. Jeff’s practice focuses on technology, media and intellectual property-related transactions, counseling and dispute resolution. That expertise, combined with his professional experience at General Electric and academic experience in computer science, makes him a leader in the field. As one of the architects of the technology law discipline, Jeff continues to lead on a range of business-critical transactions involving the use of emerging technology and distribution methods. For example, Jeff has become one of the foremost private practice lawyers in the country for the implementation of blockchain-based technology solutions, helping clients in a wide variety of industries capture the business opportunities presented by the rapid evolution of blockchain. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Emerging Digital Finance and Currency. Jeff counsels on a variety of e-commerce, social media and advertising matters; represents many organizations in large infrastructure-related projects, such as outsourcing, technology acquisitions, cloud computing initiatives and related services agreements; advises on the implementation of biometric technology; and represents clients on a wide range of data aggregation, privacy and data security matters. In addition, Jeff assists clients on a wide range of issues related to intellectual property and publishing matters in the context of both technology-based applications and traditional media. Serving as a collaborative business partner through our clients’ biggest challenges, Jeff is part of Proskauer’s cross-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional Coronavirus Respons

Jeffrey Horwitz

Jeffrey A. Horwitz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our Private Equity Real Estate practice and runs our internationally recognized Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Group. He also has served as co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions and as a member of Proskauer's Executive Committee. Jeff is a general corporate and securities lawyer with broad-based experience in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and long-term joint ventures. He is regularly engaged to advise boards, management teams and investors on strategic matters, from litigation to personnel to transactions. Jeff is also the head of the Firm’s cross-disciplinary, cross-jurisdictional Coronavirus Taskforce helping to shape the guidance and next steps for clients impacted by the pandemic. Jeff counsels clients on the full range of their activities, from seed capital to public offerings, acquisitions and operational matters, often acting as outside general counsel. He represents major financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and family offices in sophisticated financial and other transactions. He has handled deals aggregating nearly $200 billion in value, including tender offers, "going-private" transactions, IPOs, restructuring and structured finance transactions, and mergers and acquisitions in industries as diverse as biotechnology and aerospace, retail and cable television, and education and scrap metal. He regularly handles transactions outside the U.S., including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Australia, South Africa and India. Leading our Private Equity Real Estate group, he works with a team of 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on complex transactions and disputes relating to real estate, and particularly hotels. Jeff has handled virtually every type of matter, and has worked with virtually every major player in these industries, including transactions for nearly 4,000 hotels comprising more than 300,000 rooms and involving nearly $15 billion. His experience, both in and outside the U.S., extends to hotel and casino development and construction; private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants; theme parks; portfolio and single-property acquisitions; sales and restructurings; financings; management; marketing; reservations systems; litigation counseling and strategic planning; and ancillary services. This breadth of work is key to executing complex and sophisticated transactions, such as the acquisition and sale of branded hotel chains (Fairmont, Raffles, Swissotel, sbe Entertainment, Regent, Motel 6, Red Roof Inns, 21c Museum Hotels, TRIBE, LINE, Saguaro), strategic investments and other arrangements (Huazhu, Faena, Banyan Tree), and REIT transactions (Hospitality Investors Trust, Eagle Hospitality). As a senior member of our Entertainment Group, Jeff represents The Broadway League (the national trade association for Broadway theatre), the Tony Awards®, and various other joint venture events and producers. In the media industry, Jeff has advised on the acquisition and sale of television, radio, newspaper and magazine properties, and the acquisition and sale of advertising, promotion and marketing agencies, and related joint ventures. He also advises rights holders, including our long-time clients The Leonard Bernstein Office and The George Balanchine Trusts. He leads our team representing TSG Entertainment in film-slate financing deals. Jeff also frequently represents start-up and development-stage companies, as well as established "traditional" businesses, in online, Internet-related or technology businesses. He has handled organizational and structuring matters, venture capital and other equity placements, restructurings (from "down" rounds to recapitalizations to M&A solutions). He has both company-side and investor experience. As a frequent speaker at real estate and hospitality events, Jeff regularly presents at The Nolan School of Hotel Administration at Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business, NYU's Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, and on M&A and investment matters at lodging investment conferences around the world, including the NYU Hospitality Industry Investment Conference in New York, Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles, the International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin and the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Jeff is a member of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) Hospitality Investment Roundtable and IREFAC (Industry Real Estate Financing Advisory Council), as well as the Advisory Board of the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance and has served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and a member of the Advisory Board of the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research. He is a director of The New York Hospitality Council, Inc., a not-for-profit forum for hospitality industry leaders, and is a member of the Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee of The Real Estate Roundtable. He also has served as a director of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. He was the Chairman of the Board of Labyrinth Theater Company and a director of The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan for more than 15 years, a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers' Division of UJA-Federation for more than five years and an officer of the Henry Kaufmann Foundation for more than a dozen years. He was a founder and chairman of The American Playwriting Foundation. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Building for the Arts and is a member of the Board of Directors of StreetSquash. He also served as a Vice Chair of the Associates' Campaign for The Legal Aid Society. Jeff has been with Proskauer for his entire career and lives in Manhattan and Connecticut.

Jennifer Yang

Jennifer Yang is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Litigation Department. She is a commercial litigator with a particular emphasis on false advertising and other intellectual property disputes, including Lanham Act and consumer class action false advertising litigation, advertising challenges before the National Advertising Division, as well as trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation. She has experience representing clients in a variety of industries, including medical device companies, consumer products companies, food and beverage companies, fashion retailers and art foundations. Jennifer is an author and editor of Proskauer’s advertising law blog, Proskauer on Advertising.

Jennifer Rigterink

Jennifer Rigterink is senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Her wide-ranging practice encompasses qualified retirement plans and non-qualified arrangements, health and welfare benefits, and fringe benefit programs. She counsels single-employer and multiemployer clients on matters pertaining to plan administration, design and qualification, as well as regulatory, legislative and legal compliance. In recent years, Jennifer has advised employers and plan sponsors with fiduciary and governance matters applicable to defined benefit plans and pension de-risking activities, including lump sum window programs, annuity purchases, and pension plan terminations. Jennifer frequently counsels clients on health and welfare arrangements, with a particular focus on all matters relating to family building and reproductive health care benefits. Her experience also includes working with employers and plan sponsors on mental health parity compliance issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, Jennifer clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Yvette Kane in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Dunn

Jennifer “Jenny” Dunn is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group and Hedge Funds practice. Jennifer focuses her practice on advising hedge funds, closed-end funds (including debt funds), hybrid funds, co-investment platforms and investment advisers in connection with their structuring, formation and ongoing operational needs, general securities laws matters, and regulatory and compliance issues. Her practice includes structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments, advising investment managers regarding the structure and sale of their platforms and the structure of their compensation arrangements. She also represents investment managers in connection with managed accounts and single investor funds.

Jeremy Naylor

Jeremy Naylor is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Jeremy works with fund sponsors across asset classes, and their investors, in all tax aspects of private investment fund matters. In addition, Jeremy works with his fund sponsor clients in designing and implementing carried interest plans and other compensation arrangements for the general partners of private funds. Jeremy also advises U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors, governmental investors, pension trusts and other tax-exempt organizations in their investments in private funds and joint ventures. He also frequently represents secondary fund managers in connection with the tax aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including restructurings and private tender offers), primary investments and co-investments. Jeremy also advises on M&A transactions involving his investment management clients, including minority sale transactions, preferred financing and control transactions. Jeremy has significant experience structuring inbound investment in U.S. real estate by non-U.S. investors. In addition, Jeremy has significant experience in structuring domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, advising on capital markets transactions and equity compensation arrangements. Jeremy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences related to private investment funds, including the Merrill Lynch Private Equity and Venture Capital CFO Conference and the Practising Law Institute's series on international tax. In addition, Jeremy frequently participates in webinars and provides other thought leadership in print media related to changes in the tax laws and their impact on private fund managers.

Jeremy Scemama

Jeremy Scemama is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Jeremy has been working for more than 20 years with listed and non-listed industrial and services groups on their corporate finance operations, restructuring and external growth operations. Jeremy also advises investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions. While working for corporate groups and investments funds, he has developed an extensive experience in transactions involving securities matters (tender offers, pipe transactions, squeeze out, public to private transactions). Jeremy's clients include Montefiore Investment, PAI partners, The Carlyle Group, MML Capital, Alpha Private Equity, European Camping Group, Worldline, and Groupe Premium. Publications SPACs in France, an original vehicle for accessing financial markets, likely to develop in France?, La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires (LJA), April 2021 Overview of the contractual engineer of M&A operations: latest trends in France and internationally a market already in transition? Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine, no. 314, January-February 2021

John Roberts

John E. Roberts is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. He litigates cutting-edge matters in federal and state appellate courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court. For the past several years, John has represented the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico—the entity established by Congress to oversee the restructuring of Puerto Rico’s massive public debt—in dozens of appeals, winning more than 90% of them. Recent victories include a Supreme Court decision upholding the Board’s sovereign immunity and a First Circuit decision affirming confirmation of Puerto Rico’s $33 billion plan of adjustment. John has an active patent appellate practice at the Federal Circuit. Among other notable victories, he prevailed in the landmark case of Nautilus Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., where the Supreme Court defined the standard for patent indefiniteness. John has also won some of the most important ERISA appeals in recent years. He has successfully litigated appeals in nearly every federal circuit and in state appellate courts in New York, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. John maintains a robust pro bono practice and is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Initiative Committee. His recent pro bono victories include a successful representation of a criminal defendant in a death penalty case and two wins at the Second Circuit on behalf of incarcerated individuals. John has also provided pro bono representation to various advocacy organizations in high-impact litigations, including the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, the Bronx Defenders, and the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. John graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor for the New York University Law Review. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude. He served as a clerk to the Honorable Bruce M. Selya, the most prolific opinion-writer in the history of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Roger Williams School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he teaches appellate advocacy, and he is a co-author of the treatise Principles of Appellate Litigation: A Guide to Modern Practice. Before John attended law school, he worked as a journalist for National Public Radio for many years, where he was a co-creator of the national news program, On Point, and won several awards for his reporting. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his husband, Michael.

John Verwey

John Verwey is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. John advises on a wide number of regulatory issues at a national UK and European level, including firm authorisations, appointed representative arrangements, change in control, market abuse. He represents a variety of clients that range from small start-up fund managers to established global fund advisers and managers. A particular area of focus for John is Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). This includes advising on pre-marketing and marketing strategies for fund managers, advising on the Level One and Lever Two requirements under AIFMD and implementing UK rules and legislation, and advising on the organizational and conduct of business requirements under MiFID II.

John Ingrassia

John is a partner at Proskauer, advising on the full range of foreign investment and antitrust matters across industries, including chemicals, pharmaceutical, medical devices, telecommunications, financial services consumer goods and health care. He is the first call clients make in matters relating to competition and antitrust, CFIUS or foreign investment issues. For more than 25 years, John has counselled businesses facing the most challenging antitrust issues and helped them stay out of the crosshairs -- whether its distribution, pricing, channel management, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, or price gouging compliance. John’s practice focuses on the analysis and resolution of CFIUS and antitrust issues related to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and the analysis and assessment of pre-merger CFIUS and HSR notification requirements. He advises clients on issues related to CFIUS national security reviews, and on CFIUS submissions when non-U.S. buyers seek to acquire U.S. businesses that have national security sensitivities. He also regularly advises clients on international antitrust issues arising in proposed acquisitions and joint ventures, including reportability under the EC Merger Regulation and numerous other foreign merger control regimes. His knowledge, reputation and extensive experience with the legal, practical, and technical requirements of merger clearance make him a recognized authority on Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust merger review. John is regularly invited to participate in Federal Trade Commission and bar association meetings and takes on the issues of the day.

John Mahon

John Mahon is a partner in Proskauer's Registered Funds group and a member of the Investment Management practice. John has nearly 20 years of experience working with asset management clients in structuring, launching and managing regulated fund products and other permanent capital vehicles. He represents private equity firms, credit managers and other financial sector participants in a wide range of fund formation, capital markets and securities law matters, including both public and private offerings of business development companies (BDCs) and other alternative vehicles, such as registered closed-end funds and interval funds. John also has extensive experience in advising asset managers on the unique regulatory complexities involved in launching and managing registered funds and BDCs, including as part of larger platforms, and has sought and obtained SEC exemptive relief on behalf of numerous clients. He has been involved with more than 100 debt and equity offerings, including over 20 initial public offerings (IPOs), reflecting an aggregate of over $10 billion in total proceeds. John’s work in securities law and mergers and acquisitions includes providing guidance to many New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq-listed companies in connection with ongoing corporate governance and SEC reporting and compliance matters. He has routinely handled issues involving tender offers, proxy solicitations, going-private transactions, and beneficial ownership reporting obligations. John previously worked in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, where he earned the SEC Capital Markets Award. He is a prominent and engaged member of the investment management community. He has spoken and written on topics ranging from SEC regulations and disclosure obligations to public and private capital raising structures, 1940 Act regulated funds and M&A issues. John has served as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School since 2009, and at the Georgetown University Law Center since 2023. He also formerly served as the chair of the Corporate Finance Committee of the Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar.

John Failla

John Edward Failla is a partner in Proskauer's Insurance Recovery & Counseling Group. With more than twenty years of experience focusing on insurance recovery for business policyholders, John has the practical and legal experience to assist clients in managing business risks and solving business problems. John has helped clients recover more than 2.5 billion dollars from their insurers through litigation, alternative dispute resolution or negotiation in some of the most significant insurance matters involving a wide range of issues, including: - directors' and officers’ liability, securities, and corporate governance matters, such as the AT&T coverage litigation - mutual fund market timing and sales practices claims - complex financial fraud recoveries - losses related to the global economic crisis, such as auction rate securities and the Madoff fraud - environmental, toxic tort, and products liability, such as the Exxon Valdez insurance litigation - property and business interruption claims arising from the September 11 terrorist attacks - secondary life insurance transactions - computer and electronic crime claims - privacy, cyber-risk, and data security claims Although he has handled claims under nearly every type of policy and against every major insurer, John has particular experience handling financial institution insurance matters. He regularly represents banks, securities broker-dealers, underwriters, asset management firms, mutual fund complexes, private equity firms, venture capital groups and hedge funds, as well as corporate officers and directors and securities issuers. John has pursued claims on behalf of a number of financial institutions under directors and officers’ and errors and omissions policies, as well as fidelity bonds, commercial crime policies and electronic and computer crime policies. Counseling: In addition to policyholder advocacy, John also advises and counsels clients on risk management and underwriting issues, including drafting and negotiating insurance policy language, insurance audits and historical program reconstruction, and structuring commercial and captive insurance programs. John regularly advises members of corporate boards and corporate officers on emerging liability risks and ways to improve their insurance coverage. He assists clients with insurance and indemnification issues in connection with corporate transactions by performing insurance due diligence, potential exposure and insurance recovery valuation and modeling, preparing risk transfer, insurance and indemnity provisions in stock and asset purchase and sale agreements, and advising clients regarding insurance transfer and succession issues. John has negotiated special insurance programs and drafted insurance policies intended to cover unique and emerging risks, such as specialty environmental policies and transaction-specific programs. John regularly advises insurance risk managers on all aspects of insurance risk management, including annual insurance program and policy wording reviews, program structure, captives, specialty insurance coverages, analysis of emerging risks, and indemnification provisions. In addition, John is a frequent speaker and writer on insurance coverage issues. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Insurance Law 360 and is leading a panel at the Risk Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Annual Conference called “E&O Insurance: Your Best Friend In The Economic Crisis.”

Jon H Oram

Jon H. Oram is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department, a member of the Sports Law Group and a member of Proskauer's Executive Committee. Jon has a broad-based transactional practice with an emphasis on clients in the sports industry, including teams, leagues, owners, financial institutions, corporate sponsors and private equity funds. Since joining Proskauer, Jon has represented the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the ATP Tour, the WTA Tour and various other sports leagues in their most significant transactional matters, including team ownership transfers, financings, expansions, relocations, bankruptcies and investigations. His experience includes representing MLB in connection with the Los Angeles Dodgers' television negotiations and bankruptcy proceeding, counseling MLS in its negotiations with David Beckham and all of its recent expansion transactions, and advising the NBA in the formation of NBA China, L.P. and its $253 million private placement. Jon is also serving as the primary outside counsel to Los Angeles 2028 in connection with its successful bid to host the 2028 Olympic Games. In addition, Jon regularly advises professional sports teams, including the Philadelphia Eagles, the New York Jets, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the New York Yankees, the San Diego Padres, the Washington Nationals, the Houston Astros and FC Barcelona in a wide array of corporate matters, including team acquisitions, secured and unsecured financings, employment contracts with coaches and other key executives, and the sale of telecast, naming rights, sponsorship, seat license, apparel, Internet and other new media rights. Recently, Jon represented an ownership group led by the O'Malley and Seidler families in their purchase of the San Diego Padres for $800 million. In 2011, he advised Jim Crane and his partners in their acquisition of the Houston Astros and Shahid Khan in his purchase of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Over the past two decades, Jon has counseled a variety of teams, leagues and owners seeking to develop new stadiums, arenas and other sports facilities. He has worked with, among others, the Eagles with the lease and development of Lincoln Financial Field, the Jets with regard to the financing of MetLife Stadium, the New Jersey Devils in their efforts to construct and finance the Prudential Center, and NBA China in negotiations with Anschutz Entertainment Group and to develop and operate the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai. Jon has also advised clients on many of the largest naming rights transactions in history, including the Jets and Giants in their $400 million naming rights deal with MetLife and Levi Strauss & Co. in its $220 million deal to name the 49ers’ new stadium in Santa Clara, California. Jon also represents both borrowers and financial institutions, such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and U.S. Bank, in financing transactions that involve teams and other sports properties. These have included the NBA's $3.6 billion league-wide credit facility, a $650 million bond issuance by an affiliate of the Jets, and a $450 million senior secured credit facility to fund the acquisition of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. In 2012, Jon was inducted into the SportsBusiness Journal's Hall of Fame after being named one of the "Forty Under 40" most influential executives in the sports industry for 2008, 2009 and 2012.

Jonathan Weiss

Jonathan Weiss is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the Asset Management Litigation Group. Jonathan represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of high-stakes litigation, including antitrust, class action, financial services, securities and other complex commercial litigation. Jonathan has won multiple noteworthy jury verdicts, including the fourth largest jury award in the history of the State of Arizona (over $110 million), and has significant appellate experience briefing and arguing appeals in both state and federal courts across the nation. In addition to his busy practice, Jonathan has taught courses on Ninth Circuit appellate advocacy throughout Southern California and has lectured at several universities nationally, including Harvard Law School, UCLA Law School, the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh. Jonathan is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Jonathan DeSantis

Jonathan (JD) DeSantis works with underwriters to help with their key financing transactions, including leveraged- and investment-grade committed financings, high-yield and investment-grade bonds and syndicated bank loans. He has also represented issuers on initial public offerings, high-yield notes and senior secured facilities. Having more than 20 years of experience, JD has represented most of the major financial institutions including, but not limited to, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Jordan Hurwitz

Jordan Hurwitz is a partner in Proskauer’s Private Funds Group. Jordan advises clients on primary investments in private equity funds and a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of private fund interests, fund restructurings, and GP-led liquidity solutions.

Joseph Drayton

A first-chair trial lawyer, Joe Drayton has represented some of the nation’s most prominent companies across a wide array of industries in all facets of intellectual property (IP) litigation before both state and federal courts, as well as the International Trade Commission and American Arbitration Association. Joe has more than two decades of experience specializing in both domestic and international intellectual property and complex commercial disputes, including patent, trade secrets, copyright, trademark and trade dress and false advertising across diverse industries. He also counsels clients in all aspects of IP acquisition, transfer, protection and enforcement. Joe is a trusted advisor for several corporate executives and a national leader in the legal community. He is regularly recognized as one of the top lawyers in the U.S., having consistently been named to the IAM Patent 1000 list. Most recently, Joe received the C. Francis Stadford Award by the National Bar Association, the highest award bestowed by the association that is given to a member whose leadership, integrity, legal skills and devotion have inspired colleagues and contributed greatly to the legal profession. A longtime bar leader, Joe served as the 76th president of the National Bar Association and is also a former vice president and Board chair of the New York City Bar Association.

Joseph Kasegian

Joseph E. Kasegian is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group with a specific focus on fund formations and the structuring and execution of traditional and complex secondary transactions. Joseph represents sponsors pursuing a number of strategies including venture capital funds, growth equity and buyout funds, evergreen funds, funds of funds, secondary funds, co-investment funds, “funds of one” and managed accounts. Joseph also represents alternative asset investors, including corporate pension plans, funds of funds and secondary funds, in their venture capital and private equity investments. In addition, he has deep experience with secondary transactions (including sponsor-led restructurings, continuation funds, private tender offers, non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies) and regularly counsels clients on day-to-day operational, regulatory compliance, internal governance and other matters.

Joseph Leccese

Joseph M. Leccese is the immediate past, and longest serving, Chairman of Proskauer. During his nine years as Chair, Proskauer reached more than $1 billion in revenues, dramatically expanded its transactional and trial practices and London office, and implemented a number of innovative talent management and diversity and inclusion programs. Throughout his term as Chair, Joe remained an active practitioner and co-chair of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Group. In those roles he has led many of the most significant deals in sports and media over the past three decades. His broad-based corporate practice emphasizes the representation of professional sports leagues, teams and owners; college conferences; media and marketing companies; and private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions that provide capital to the broad array of transactions that occur in the sports industry. Leagues, Teams and Owners Joe's sports experience includes numerous matters for the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, PAC-12 Conference, Big East Conference, ATP World Tour, WTA Tour, USGA and NASCAR, as well as for a number of teams, owners and media entities that he advises on a continuing basis. Mergers and Acquisitions Joe regularly handles matters relating to the acquisition, financing, operation and equity funding of professional sports teams, including the sale of the Buffalo Bills and the acquisition of the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles and Chivas USA. He also has represented bidders for many other teams across a broad variety of sports, both in privately negotiated sales and in auctions, and has advised leagues and governing bodies on scores of M&A transactions over the past 25 years, including advising the NBA on the recent $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers. Joe represented the NBA in its grant of expansion franchises to Charlotte, Toronto, Vancouver, Miami, Minnesota and Orlando; the NHL in its grant of expansion franchises to Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville and Minnesota; and MLS on many of its expansions and transfers. Stadium/Arena Construction and Financing Joe has been the lead negotiator in multiple stadium and arena deals and financings, including the facilities developed (or renovated) by the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, New Jersey Devils, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers; advised the Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns on their recent stadium projects; represented the lenders in connection with a number of facilities-related financings (including the financing for Citi Field); and has advised our league clients on numerous arena development projects and financings. Joint Ventures and Start Ups Joe has handled a variety of joint ventures and other innovative sports transactions, including the formation of NBA China, the WNBA, the NBA Development League and Legends Hospitality, and the sale to Providence Equity of an interest in Soccer United Marketing, the media and marketing affiliate of MLS. College Sports Joe is very active in college sports. Among other key engagements, he represented the "Basketball Seven" schools in the establishment of the "new" Big East Conference, the addition of three other universities to the new Conference, the negotiation of its television agreement with Fox and the assignment of the Big East Tournament agreement with MSG. Joe has advised the Pac-12 Conference in connection with a number of matters, including its television agreements with ESPN and Fox and the establishment of the Pac-12 Network. Joe also advises both the Pac-12 and the Big East on the broad range of issues and litigations currently facing college sports. In the M&A space, Joe represented Learfield, one of the leading companies in college sports marketing and sponsorship, in the sale of a strategic equity interest to a private equity fund affiliated with Shamrock Capital Advisors. Media and Sponsorship Joe has broad experience advising rights holders on regional, national and international television contracts with major telecasters; the exploitation of new media and technology rights; and a variety of matters relating to the exploitation of stadia and arenas, including naming rights, sponsorship agreements, seat licenses and related arrangements. Joe recently advised NASCAR, the USGA and MLS in their respective telecast rights agreements. Joe is a frequent speaker and lecturer on business and legal topics in sports.

Joseph Clark

Joseph E. Clark is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group where he focuses on complex employee benefits litigation. Joe represents a diverse range of clients from the time a claim is asserted through trial or arbitration, whether it is defending plan fiduciaries against class action claims of fiduciary breach or prohibited transactions or in connection with government investigations, or defending employers against multiemployer pension plan claims for withdrawal liability. These clients include financial service providers, investment managers, Fortune 500 corporations, and benefit plan committees. Outside of the context of litigation, Joe also advises fiduciary clients regarding their fiduciary responsibilities and employers regarding various withdrawal liability issues. Co-editor and a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation blog, Joe has authored pieces on employee stock ownership plans, excessive fee claims, fiduciary breach, investigation and determination of benefits claims, and best practices for plan drafting. He has also published several articles regarding these issues in BNA Insights.

Joseph Baumgarten

Joseph Baumgarten is a partner and former co-chair in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department. Joe represents publicly held and privately owned employers in virtually all areas of labor and employment law, including claims under the National Labor Relations Act, Title VII, the ADEA, ADA, FLSA, WARN and Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as breach of contract claims arising out of executive compensation disputes. He regularly: - defends employers in single and multiple plaintiff cases, and class actions, in federal and state trial and appellate courts, before federal, state and local administrative agencies, and in FINRA, AAA and JAMS arbitrations of employment claims; - represents unionized employers in collective bargaining negotiations, in grievance arbitrations and before the National Labor Relations Board; and - counsels employers with respect to internal investigations, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, restructurings, and labor and employment related issues related to corporate transactions. Joe practices across a range of different industries and has extensive experience representing employers in the banking, insurance, broker-dealer, television, professional sports, newspaper, health care, trucking and retail sectors.

Joshua Apfelroth

Joshua Apfelroth is a partner in Proskauer's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Josh’s practice involves advising a diversified mix of corporations, private equity funds, hedge funds, investment bank and family office clients on complex corporate transactional issues, including public and private mergers acquisitions and dispositions, corporate governance, contests for corporate control, tender and exchange offers, spinoffs and joint ventures. Josh also advises growth companies and investors in connection with venture capital and other alternative investments. In addition, Josh advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including restructurings, financings, investments, and mergers and acquisitions. Josh represents clients across a broad range of industries, including in the infrastructure, technology, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, life sciences, real estate and financial services sectors. Clients trust Josh to serve as a day-to-day legal advisor advising them on a wide array of governance, securities and other commercial matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities, board composition, public disclosure, and legal compliance.

Joshua Fox

Joshua S. Fox is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Sports, Labor-Management Relations, Class and Collective Actions and Wage and Hour Groups. As a member of Proskauer's Sports Law Group, Josh has represented a number of Major League Baseball Clubs in all aspects of the salary arbitration process. Josh also has extensive experience representing professional sports leagues and teams in grievance-arbitration proceedings, and has played a key role in representing professional sports leagues in all aspects of their collective bargaining negotiations with players and officials, including the Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, the National Football League, Major League Soccer, the Professional Referee Organization, and the National Basketball Association. Josh has also represented teams and arenas in all aspects of labor relations involving labor unions representing arena staff. In addition, Josh has extensive experience representing clients in the performing arts industry, including the New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, Big Apple Circus, among many others, in collective bargaining negotiations with performers and musicians, the administration of their collective bargaining agreements, and in grievance arbitrations. Josh also represents a diverse range of clients, including real estate developers and contractors, pipe line contractors, hospitals, hotels, manufacturers and public employers, in collective bargaining, counseling on general employment matters and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, New York State Public Employment Relations Board and arbitrators. Josh also serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations for several years, teaching a course regarding Major League Baseball salary arbitration. Prior to joining Proskauer, Josh worked for a year and a half at the National Hockey League, where he was involved in all labor and employment matters, including preparations for collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, contract drafting and reviewing and employment counseling. Josh also interned in the labor relations department of Major League Baseball and at Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board. He was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review and the Appellate Moot Court Honor Society and served as president of the Brooklyn Entertainment and Sports Law Society.

Joshua Newville

Joshua M. Newville is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of Proskauer's Securities Litigation Group and the Asset Management Litigation team. Josh handles securities litigation, enforcement and regulatory matters, representing corporations and senior executives in civil and criminal investigations. In addition, Josh advises registered investment advisers and private fund managers on regulatory compliance, SEC exams, MNPI/insider trading and related risks. Before joining Proskauer, Josh was senior counsel in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, where he investigated and prosecuted violations of the federal securities laws. Josh served in the Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit, a specialized unit focusing on investment advisers and the asset management industry. His prior experience with the SEC provides a unique perspective to help asset managers manage risk and handle regulatory issues.

Julia Bihary

Julia is an associate in Proskauer’s Litigation Department specialising in complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters. A solicitor advocate with Higher Rights of Audience, Julia advises corporate clients, high-net-worth individuals and fund managers in contractual, shareholder, professional negligence and other types of disputes. Julia is an active member of Proskauer’s London Pro Bono Committee and was selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women's Sponsorship Program, an initiative that champions high-performing mid-level and senior lawyers as emerging leaders. She is fluent in English, Hungarian and German.

Jurate Schwartz

Jurate Schwartz is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. She devotes her practice to counseling clients in employment matters, as well as representing employers in federal and state litigations, arbitrations and administrative proceedings. Jurate’s practice includes providing advice on compliance with various laws affecting the workplace, including the FMLA, ADEA, Title VII, ADA, FLSA and similar state and local laws. She counsels clients on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures and reviewing and revising multi-state employee handbooks under federal, state and local laws. Jurate also advises clients on policy and training issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, employee classification, accomodation of religious beliefs, pregnancy and disability, and leaves of absence, including vacation and paid time off policies, multi-state paid sick and safe leave laws and paid family and medical leave laws. Jurate is experienced in conducting wage-and-hour audits under federal and state wage-hour laws and advising clients on classification issues. She also assists clients in drafting employment, independent contractor, consulting and separation agreements as well as various restrictive covenants. In addition to counseling, Jurate litigates employment disputes of all types, including claims of employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, breach of contract, employment-related torts and claims under federal and state wage-and-hour laws. Jurate also assists clients in matters involving trade secrets and non-competes, as well as nonsolicitation, nondisclosure agreements and other restrictive covenants. Jurate’s pro bono work includes service on the HR committee of a not-for-profit organization, the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, Florida, and assisting other not-for-profit organizations with employment matters, as well as her successful representation of an unaccompanied immigrant child in an asylum proceeding referred by the National Center for Refugee & Immigrant Children.

Justin Alex

Justin S. Alex is a partner and a member of Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Justin advises private and public companies on all aspects of their employee benefits and executive compensation arrangements and plans, including the treatment of such arrangements and plans in corporate financings and transactions. In addition to Justin's general benefits and compensation practice, he spends a significant portion of his time advising employers and financial sponsors with respect to underfunded single-employer and multiemployer pension plans. As part of this practice, Justin often works hand-in-hand with Proskauer's labor and restructuring lawyers to find innovative and practical methods for clients to manage pension liabilities. Justin is also the co-editor and a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog. Prior to joining Proskauer, Justin was a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), where he gained significant experience with pension termination and underfunding issues. He also represented the PBGC in corporate bankruptcies and federal court litigation.

Justin Breen

Justin Breen is head of Proskauer’s Global Finance practice. His principal focus is the representation of leading private credit providers in complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Justin’s clients include leading institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, investment banks and business development companies, and he advises these clients on a broad range of financing transactions, including syndicated and non-syndicated senior and senior "stretch" loans, unitranche facilities, second lien financings, mezzanine financings, high yield bonds and structured preferred equity. Justin has also advised clients in connection with various debt and equity investments involving sports teams and leagues, including investments in U.S. soccer teams, multiple European soccer teams, Formula 1 teams and Rugby leagues. Justin has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value well in excess of $100 billion. His clients include market-leading investors, including Ares Capital, Antares Capital, Bain Capital, Churchill Asset Management, Golub Capital, Jefferies Finance, Thoma Bravo Credit and Varagon Capital.

Katelyn O’Brien

Katelyn O’Brien is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate Department. Her practice focuses primarily on the financing, development, management, acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate. Katelyn represents investors, developers and operators in joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, developments, leases and financing transactions relating to real estate. Her experience spans a variety of asset classes, including life sciences, office, hotels, resorts, senior housing, industrial and retail. Katelyn is actively involved in CREW Boston, New England’s leading network of professional women working in commercial real estate, serving on the Membership Committee and mentoring other members. She is also a member of the Real Estate Finance Association and the Real Estate Section of the Boston Bar Association.

Kathleen Semanski

Kathleen Semanski is an associate in Proskauer's Tax Department. She counsels corporate, private equity, investment fund and REIT clients in connection with domestic and cross-border financings, debt restructurings, taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions (inbound and outbound), securities offerings, fund formations, joint ventures and other transactions. Katie also advises on structuring for inbound and outbound investments, tax treaties, anti-deferral regimes, and issues related to tax withholding and information reporting. Katie is a regular contributor to the Proskauer Tax Talks blog where she has written about developments in the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions, among other topics. Katie earned her L.L.M. in taxation from NYU School of Law and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she completed a specialization in business law & taxation and was a recipient of the Bruce I. Hochman Award for Excellence in the Study of Tax Law. Katie currently serves on the Pro Bono Initiatives Committee at Proskauer and has worked on a number of immigration, voting rights, and criminal justice-related projects.

Kathleen McKenna

Kathleen M. McKenna is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. With a formidable track record for success in major employment matters, she has extensive experience litigating employment disputes of all types, including defending employers against claims alleging all forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, wage and hour and breach of contract as well as conducting high-profile investigations. Her clients include major multi-national businesses, such as television networks, pharmaceutical companies, international retailers and law firms. Adept at counseling clients at every turn of the litigation process, Kathleen employs a creative mix of litigation experience and business acumen to determine which cases should be litigated in court, which should be resolved in some alternative forum and which can and should be settled. While she is regularly successful on her clients' behalf through negotiation and dispositive motions, she possesses significant jury trial experience, and is well-versed in all forms of alternate dispute resolution. Kathleen is regularly called upon to support clients with strategies, counseling and training to help them avoid litigation and government investigations, and provides practical advice on all workplace-related issues to today's top employers. These topics include employee discharge and discipline, reductions in force, employment policies and procedures, and compliance with federal, state and local employment laws. Kathleen also has significant experience dealing with traditional labor matters. She has litigated the full range of labor proceedings and has served as the chief spokesperson or advisor in numerous collective bargaining negotiations. She also has advised management on National Labor Relations Act issues, including union organizing campaigns and representation elections, strikes, picketing, plant closings and work transfers, and purchase and acquisition issues. Kathleen is a member of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. She is also a sought after lecturer on labor and employment issues.

Katrina McCann

Katrina E. McCann is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Katrina advises a diverse group of clients on a broad spectrum of employee benefits matters, including: counseling clients with respect to the design, drafting, implementation and ongoing qualification of their qualified plans in both the single and multi-employer context, including profit sharing, money purchase, 401(k), ESOP, and defined benefit plans; providing counsel on the establishment, administration and continued legal compliance of health & welfare plans and programs; advising tax-exempt organizations regarding their 403(b) plans and 457 arrangements; creating and advising on non-qualified plans, including deferred compensation and supplemental employee retirement plans; providing technical and practical advice on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, COBRA, HIPAA, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as issues concerning plan administration, qualification requirements, correction of plan document failures, fiduciary issues and prohibited transaction issues; routinely working with clients and their service providers, advising on the RFP process, reviewing provider arrangements and collaborating to develop effective and compliant disclosures, government reporting forms and participant communications; analyzing the employee benefits and executive compensation issues in connection with corporate transactions, advising on withdrawal liability matters and structuring benefit plans following a transaction and providing counsel with respect to all aspects of benefit plan mergers; and advising both employers and senior executives in connection with various executive compensation matters, including the negotiation and drafting of equity plans and awards, employment agreements, severance agreements and other compensation arrangements. Katrina is a member and former co-chair of Proskauer Women's Alliance Steering Committee and serves on Proskauer’s Reproductive Rights Steering Committee. She is also a Board member of Playwrights Horizons, an off-Broadway theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights and the production of innovative new work, and a Board member of the Axe-Houghton Foundation. Prior to joining Proskauer, Katrina served as Special Assistant to the Mayor’s Office of Pension and Investments and was Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, Pensions Division, New York City Law Department. While in law school, Katrina was the Robert M. LaFollette/Keenan Peck Legal Fellow, serving in the offices of Senator Herb Kohl & the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Keisha-Ann Gray

Keisha-Ann G. Gray is a distinguished litigator and trial lawyer who has secured significant victories in federal and state courts (jury trial and otherwise) for organizations facing “bet the company”, high-reaching, reputational risk claims. An award-winning partner in Proskauer’s renowned Labor & Employment department and co-chair of the Firm’s Workplace Investigations practice group, she advises clients on high-stakes employment litigation and complex investigations matters. As important social change movements like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and LGBTQ Pride continue to shape society and businesses, Keisha-Ann is the go-to advisor when addressing issues related to discrimination, harassment and/or lack of diversity. With 20+ years in practice, Keisha-Ann frequently speaks and trains on employment matters such as litigation and trial practice, conducting effective investigations (the trauma-based approach), Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Anti-Discrimination/Anti-Harassment. Her “real talk” style of delivery provides clients with actionable and practical best practice solutions to today’s most challenging workplace issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, Keisha-Ann served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and federal law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The breadth of Keisha-Ann’s experience and background in federal government, coupled with her tenure in private practice as a Big Law partner and employment litigator, gives her the unique ability to meaningfully connect with diverse groups of people. This skill enables her to advocate effectively and successfully (in and out of the courtroom) for her clients. As a result, Keisha-Ann is also frequently called upon to conduct high-profile internal investigations. Because of her unique and varied skill set, clients routinely engage Keisha-Ann to handle their most sensitive matters which, due to her involvement, often successfully result in non-public, confidential resolutions – precisely the mandate required by her clients. Keisha-Ann enjoys giving back to the community and profession by serving as a member of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. She also serves on the Board of the Attorney Grievance Committee for the NY Supreme Court Appellate Division, 1st Department, the Board of the Federal Bar Council, and the Board of the Eastern District Association. In addition, Keisha-Ann co-Chairs the Federal Bar Council’s Employment Litigation Committee, and mentors junior attorneys.

Keith Barnett

Keith Barnett is co-chair of Proskauer's Real Estate Department. He advises international, national, and local clients in all aspects of commercial real estate, including real estate finance, development, acquisitions, sales, and leasing. With more than 30 years in the industry, Keith has represented a wide variety of clients, including private equity fund sponsors, developers, life insurance companies, commercial banks, and some of the world's largest publicly traded and private retailers through the successful completion of numerous large and complex real estate transactions. Recently, Keith has led numerous high-profile deals and developments which include, amongst others: luxury hotel and condominium projects, multibillion-dollar retail anchored mixed use developments, large distribution centers (including for some of the world’s largest online businesses) and multi-family residential projects. As a leading commercial real estate attorney, Keith counsels clients on a wide range of legal and business real estate matters across industries and sectors. He represents United States-based retailers in all their real estate needs, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, permitting and development. He also advises clients in connection with numerous major real estate developments, such as hotel projects, retail developments, office buildings, biotechnology and high technology facilities, residential developments, warehouse and industrial facilities and academic buildings. In addition, Keith has an active practice representing owners and tenants in connection with leasing transactions as well as buyers and sellers of real estate across asset classes. In the area of real estate finance, Keith has significant experience with traditional mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments and so-called "bond leases," "synthetic leases" and other accounting and tax sensitive transactions. He also advises clients in various positions with respect to options and opportunities, including loan workouts, foreclosure advice, and debt and equity restructurings. Keith regularly teaches and speaks on issues related to real estate law. For more than a decade, he has conducted graduate-level seminars for business, architecture and real estate students at MIT, New York University and Columbia University. He has also frequently taught Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education courses on the basics of commercial real estate law and has presented to many in-house business and legal groups.

Kelli Moll

Kelli Moll is a partner of Proskauer's Private Funds Group and Co-Head of the Hedge Funds practice. With over 25 years of experience amassed advising large institutional asset managers to independent sponsors across the spectrum of asset classes, Kelli is considered a leading lawyer in the funds industry. Kelli’s practice particularly focuses on counseling investment advisors on the formation and ongoing operations of hedge funds, credit funds and growth equity funds. Kelli regularly advises fund sponsors on fund formation, co-investment arrangements, upper tier arrangements, seed capital arrangements, asset manager M&A, complex fund restructurings, funds-of-one, managed accounts and various regulatory issues. Kelli is also a staple at industry events, where she is regularly engaged for her thought leadership on business and regulatory trends in the marketplace. Kelli is passionate for the arts and serves as a member of the American Ballet Theatre charitable board.

Kevin Perra

Kevin J. Perra is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of Proskauer's Sports Litigation team. He is an experienced counselor, litigator and trial lawyer who represents a wide variety of clients in pre-litigation counseling, state and federal court litigation, arbitration and mediation. Kevin focuses on large, complex commercial cases, with an emphasis on litigation in the areas of (i) intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports; (ii) trademark and false advertising; (iii) hedge funds, private equity funds and private investment funds; and (iv) fiduciary duties, appropriation of trade secrets and employee-related restrictive covenants. As a result, he has substantial experience in obtaining and opposing applications for emergency relief for clients, including preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. In intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports matters, Kevin has represented record labels, music publishers, sports leagues and teams, computer software makers, and film and other media companies. Examples include Sony-BMG, EMI, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the New Jersey Devils, the Philadelphia Eagles and Take-Two Interactive. He also has handled intellectual property matters for individual artists, songwriters, managers, fashion designers and athletes (and their estates), including Madonna and the Estate of Leonard Bernstein. In trademark, false advertising and related disputes, Kevin has represented large consumer product, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage companies, including Accenture, S.C. Johnson & Son, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Diageo, Bausch & Lomb, Williams-Sonoma, Church & Dwight and Kraft Foods. In fund, investment banking and financial-related matters, Kevin has represented a large number of the world’s leading hedge funds, business development companies, private equity funds, venture capital funds and family offices. In other general commercial disputes, he has represented a host of public and private companies such as Dell, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Henry Schein, Barneys New York, Host Hotels, US Airways and MBIA.

Kristian Herrmann

Kristian Herrmann is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Kris advises private equity sponsors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, and other strategic transactions. Kris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. Kris also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. Kris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as one of the Summer Program Chair’s for Proskauer's Los Angeles office. He is also a member of the Food and Beverage Committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Lauren Kim

Lauren S. Kim is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Lauren advises public and private companies in connection with domestic and cross border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buyouts, joint ventures, and general corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Lauren was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Lauren Boglivi

Lauren Boglivi is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of Proskauer’s global Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Through her extensive transactional experience, Lauren is a leading lawyer at the forefront of some of the most industry-defining M&A matters, particularly in the health care, media and entertainment, and gaming industries. Lauren advises both private and public companies, including private equity sponsors and family offices, in their most critical and complex deals. In working with influential and high-profile media giants, Lauren has worked extensively on transactions that structure and shape the way media content is viewed and accessed around the world. Lauren’s recent deal activity includes: Represented media giant Discovery in a variety of matters that have made headlines around the world, including its sale of Great American Country Network, its acquisition of Golf Digest, one of the world’s leading golf media brands, from Condé Nast, its $2 billion strategic alliance with the PGA Tour, its spinoff and equity investment in Curiousity.com, Sale of Discovery Education business for $120 million sale to Francisco Partners, a private equity firm Representing Ethos Veterinary Health, one of the industry’s most innovative veterinary organizations, in its pending acquisition by National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a leading global community of nearly 1,200 veterinary hospitals. Represented WestMed Medical Group, a multispecialty medical practice of nearly 500 physicians and advanced care providers and 1,500 clinical employees located in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT, in its combination with Summit Health, a company formed by the merger of CityMD and Summit Medical Group. Summit Health now includes more than 2,500 providers, 12,000 employees and over 340 locations in NJ, NY, CT, PA and central OR. Summit Health is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. Represented Blade Urban Mobility, Inc. in its $825 million de-SPAC business combination with KSL Capital’s SPAC - Experience Investment Corp. Represented Hearst’s healthcare subsidiary, Homecare Homebase, in its acquisition of CellTrak Technologies, a leading provider of care documentation software solutions in the personal care market. Represented Hearst Magazines in its sale of Marie Claire U.S. to British media company Future. Represented Harren Equity Partners, LLC in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Health Connect America, Inc., to Palladium Equity Partners V, L.P. Represented Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in the launch of a national management services organization (MSO) formed with an investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners. Represented Public Interest Registry (PIR), which was established by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage and operate the .ORG domain, in $1.135 billion sale to Ethos Capital, which was terminated by mutual agreement. Led the Proskauer team that advised Empire City Casino, one of the largest gaming facilities in the U.S. and one of only two facilities licensed to operate video lottery terminals in the New York City metropolitan area, in its $850 million sale to MGM Resorts International.

Lee Popkin

Lee Popkin is a trial lawyer in Proskauer’s Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s Product Liability Group. Lee represents clients in a wide range of industries in high-stakes trials in state and federal courts throughout the country. Lee’s experience includes developing case themes, examining expert and fact witnesses at trial, preparing key witnesses for deposition and trial, taking and defending expert depositions, and drafting and arguing case-dispositive motions. Lee’s notable representations and victories include: - Stephens v. Monsanto. Trial counsel to Monsanto in a product liability action relating to the company’s weedkiller, Roundup, and its alleged link to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After a five-month trial, the California jury returned a complete defense verdict on all claims. - Tiffany & Co. v. Costco. Counsel to Tiffany & Co. in successful pursuit of Lanham Act trademark infringement and counterfeit action related to Costco’s use of the TIFFANY mark to sell diamond engagement rings. - Universal Standard Inc. v. Target. Counsel to Target in successful pursuit of Lanham Act trademark infringement action related to its Universal Thread clothing line. - Echeverria v. Johnson & Johnson. Trial counsel to Johnson & Johnson in a widely publicized product liability case relating to the company’s talc-based products and their alleged link to ovarian cancer. After trial, the court entered judgment notwithstanding the jury verdict for the J&J defendants, and, in the alternative, granted J&J’s motion for a new trial. - Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. v. 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. Successfully represented Bed, Bath & Beyond in action to enforce agreement by 1‑800-Flowers to purchase PersonalizationMall.com. - Global Holdings v. Church & Dwight, Co., Inc. Secured dismissal of state and federal dilution claims in Lanham Act action regarding a consumer product. The court’s decision made new law in the Second Circuit on the issue of whether a valid registration preempts state law claims of dilution. - Daniels v. Johnson & Johnson. Trial counsel to J&J in product liability trial related to the company’s talc-based products in St. Louis. The jury returned a complete defense verdict on all claims and awarded zero damages. - Allied Lomar, Inc. v. Diageo North America, Inc. Counsel to Diageo in successful defense of Lanham Act trademark infringement action concerning Blade & Bow Whiskies and the Stitzel-Weller Distillery. - Diageo North America, Inc. v. Mexcor. Trial counsel to plaintiff Diageo in a Lanham Act trade dress infringement and dilution action against competitor involving Crown Royal whisky. Obtained a jury verdict and permanent injunction in favor of our client following a two‑week trial. In addition to her active practice, Lee regularly contributes to Proskauer’s false advertising blog, Watch This Space: Proskauer on Advertising Law. Lee also devotes significant time to pro bono matters, and was recognized by KIND for her work representing two sisters from El Salvador fleeing gang violence. Before joining Proskauer, Lee served as law clerk to the Honorable Sarah S. Vance of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Leslie Shanklin

Leslie Shanklin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of the Privacy & Cybersecurity Group and a member of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications group. Leslie’s practice focuses on privacy and data security, delivering comprehensive expertise around data-related risk and compliance. Leslie provides pragmatic, strategic and tech-savvy legal counsel to clients seeking to realize the essential value of data to their businesses while effectively managing risk and preserving trust. Leslie draws from deep legal, practical and technical expertise gained from leading global privacy teams and operations for multinational companies. Leslie’s experience includes advising on the legal and risk aspects of data strategy, building and operationalizing data protection compliance programs in all regions of the world, providing strategic legal counsel around data privacy and security issues in commercial transactions, advising on legal aspects of information security risk, compliance and incident response, and advising on federal, state and international regulatory enforcement actions. Leslie advises clients with a global lens, helping clients craft nimble, risk-based, forward-looking approaches to data management in the rapidly-evolving US and international privacy and information security legal landscape, including: Federal laws such as Section 5 of the FTC Act and FTC rules and guidance, COPPA, VPPA, TCPA, and HIPAA State laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA including CPRA amendments) and the California Medical Information Act (CMIA), as well as various existing and evolving laws in other US states such as Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Utah (UCPA), Iowa (ICDPA), Tennessee (TIPA), Indiana (ICDPA), Montana (MCDPA) and Washington (My Health My Data Act) International law and guidance such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive, the UK Data Protection Act, Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), and Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Leslie is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US) and Europe (CIPP/E) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She previously served as Co-Chair of the international Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television (HbbTV) Association Privacy Task Force. Prior to joining Proskauer, Leslie led global privacy teams for media and entertainment companies for over a decade and most recently served on the Privacy leadership team for Warner Bros. Discovery.

Liam Arthur

Liam Arthur is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Liam’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, equity co-investments, consortium transactions and joint ventures. Liam advises private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, corporations and management teams across a broad spectrum of UK and international transactions.

Lloyd Chinn

Lloyd B. Chinn is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice Group and of the Financial Services Practice Group. He litigates employment disputes of all types before federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals (e.g., FINRA, JAMS and AAA), and before administrative agencies in New York and across the country. Lloyd is a trial lawyer, having first-chaired 35+ trials or arbitrations to conclusion. His practice ranges from litigating compensation disputes to defending whistleblower, discrimination and sexual harassment claims and litigating non-compete and trade secret matters. Although he represents employers in a wide range of industries, including law, insurance, health care, consulting, media, music, education, and technology, he focuses a substantial portion of his practice on the financial services sector. Many of Lloyd's clients are international in scope, often based outside the U.S. Due to Lloyd’s litigation experience, clients regularly turn to him for advice regarding the full range of employment matters, including terminations, whistleblower policy and procedure, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, employment agreements, and employment policies. Lloyd has also been retained to conduct internal investigations of allegations of workplace misconduct, including claims leveled against senior executives. Lloyd has represented global businesses in matters involving Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims. He has taken an active role in the American Bar Association on these issues, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower subcommittee of the ABA Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Lloyd has spoken on whistleblowing topics before a numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the International Bar Association, ALI-ABA, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York University School of Law. He has testified twice before Congressional subcommittees regarding whistleblower legislation and has also published blog postings, articles and client alerts on a variety of topics in this area, including the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions. Lloyd is a co-editor of Proskauer’s Whistleblower Defense Blog, and he has been widely quoted by on whistleblower topics by a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal and Law 360. Lloyd has also become active in the International Bar Association, presenting on a variety of subjects, including: the #MeToo movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and employment law, and cross-border harmonization of employment provisions in transactions. Lloyd also hosts a quarterly roundtable discussion among financial services industry in-house employment lawyers. He has also published articles and given speeches on a variety of other employment-law topics, including non-solicitation provisions, FINRA arbitration rules, cross-border discovery, e-discovery, and the use of experts.

Lucie Rose

Lucie Rose is a special funds counsel in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. She has extensive and up-to-date experience in advising both fund sponsors and asset managers on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing fund maintenance. This work spans a range of asset classes and fund generations, and encompasses both first-time funds and subsequent generations of funds. Lucie advises institutional investors on primary investments including those directed into co-investment and continuation vehicles, as well as supporting fund sponsors in relation to various liquidity solutions (including situations where a fund’s investment period has expired and it has little dry powder available to be called or recycled to support existing investments or investments limitations have been reached), or situations where the manager itself requires liquidity (including complex and innovative preferred equity structures which secure underlying fund management fee and carried interest income streams). Lucie has also worked on a range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of large portfolios of fund interests. Lucie is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and brings a global perspective to her work. Her early career experience as in-house lawyer for a prominent sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East provided her with a deep understanding of what clients need – and deserve – from their trusted advisers.

Marc Friess

Marc B. Friess is a partner in Proskauer's Private Credit Group and a member of the Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on commercial and corporate finance transactions and the representation of hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial finance companies, investment banks and borrowers in a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including asset based and cash-flow facilities; acquisition and leveraged finance facilities; high-yield debt offerings; working capital facilities; debtor-in-possession and exit facilities; bridge and take-out facilities; first lien, second lien and first-out/last-out unitranche financings; secured financings; unsecured financings; subordinated debt financings; mezzanine debt financings; private equity portfolio financings; restructurings and workouts. Marc is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. Marc obtained his BA, cum laude, from Franklin and Marshall College in 1998, and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2001.

Marc Persily

Marc Persily is a partner in both Proskauer's Private Funds and Private Equity Groups. His practice focuses on advising private equity funds, investment banks and issuers in a variety of corporate transactions, including private equity fund formations, acquisitions, dispositions, equity financings, growth investments and venture capital transactions. Marc also has broad experience handling general corporate matters, including commercial arrangements, regulatory compliance, structuring and compensation advice. Clients of Marc's range from major financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Credit Suisse to privately held private equity sponsors, as well as company clients. He regularly advises these clients on sophisticated fund formation matters, including fund-of-funds, secondary funds and private equity funds, focused on buyouts, growth, venture capital and real estate. Marc also routinely assists clients in private equity transactions, including acquisitions, investments in major public and private leveraged buyout, growth and venture capital transactions, portfolio company sales and other exits. Marc actively represents pro bono clients with a particular emphasis on exigent humanitarian issues.

Margaret Dale

Margaret Dale is a trial lawyer and first-chair litigator handling complex business disputes across a wide variety of industries, including: consumer products, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications and technology, and higher education. She is a former vice-chair of Proskauer's Litigation Department, and heads the Department’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. Margaret’s practice covers the spectrum of complex commercial disputes, including privacy and data security matters, as well as disputes involving M&A, intellectual property, bankruptcy and insolvency, securities, corporate governance, and asset management. Margaret regularly counsels clients before litigation commences to assess risk, adopt strategies to minimize or deflect disputes, and resolve matters without going to court. Margaret is a frequent writer, including authoring a regular column on corporate and securities law in the New York Law Journal. She also serves as the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on commercial litigation, Minding Your Business. She also authored the chapter titled “Privileges” in the treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Haig, 5th ed.), as well as the chapter titled “Data Breach Litigation” in PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy. Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice advocating on issues relating to women, children and veterans. She serves on the Board of Directors of CFR (Center for Family Representation), VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts), JALBC (Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert), and the City Bar Fund.

Mark Batten

Mark W. Batten is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Class & Collective Actions Group. Mark represents employers nationwide at all stages of complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions on wage and hour matters and discrimination claims, and Commissioner’s Charges and other charges of nationwide import brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Outside of class and collective litigation, Mark assists clients with all aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, termination, leaves, accommodation of disabilities, and other matters. Mark also handles diverse civil litigation, including litigation of noncompetition agreements, discrimination and wrongful termination litigation in federal and state courts; proceedings before the EEOC and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; executive disputes; and wage and hour matters. He is also an experienced appellate attorney both in employment cases and other civil litigation, handling appeals at all levels in the state courts and in the United States Courts of Appeals. Mark also has substantial experience with traditional labor matters. He regularly represents employers in a variety of industries, including a number of newspaper and media companies, in collective bargaining, practice before the NLRB, labor arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, and day-to-day advice on administration of collective bargaining agreements. He regularly advises clients in both union and non-union settings on diligence matters in corporate acquisitions and financings. He also has experience on behalf of securities firms in arbitrations before the NASD and NYSE of customer and employee complaints. Before joining Proskauer, Mark was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where he was lead counsel in major litigation for over two dozen federal agencies, ranging from the U.S. Air Force, the CIA, and the U.S. Secret Service to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark regularly writes and lectures on employment-related matters, including, for instance, MCLE's Representing Clients Before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In his spare time, Mark is an experienced computer programmer, conversant in C, C++, and other languages. He has ported more than 35 commercial computer games between computer operating systems.

Mark Theodore

Mark Theodore is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. He has devoted his practice almost exclusively to representing management in all aspects of traditional labor law matters throughout the U.S. He is Co-Chair of Proskauer’s Labor-Management and Collective Bargaining Practice Group. Some recent highlights of his career include: - Successfully defended client against allegations that it had terminated a union supporter and isolated another. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 365 NLRB No. 15 (2017). - Successfully appealed NLRB findings that certain of client’s written policies violated the National Labor Relations Actions Act. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 363 NLRB No. 171 (2016), enf’d in part, rev’d in part 865 F.3d 265 (5th Cir. 2017). - Represented major utility in NLRB proceedings related to organizing of planners. Secured utility-wide bargaining unit. Bargained on behalf of grocery chain. After negotiations reached an impasse, guided the company through lawful implementation of five year collective bargaining agreement. - Coordinated employer response in numerous strike situations including a work stoppage across 14 western states of the client’s operations. Mark has extensive experience representing employers in all matters before the NLRB, including representation petitions, jurisdictional disputes and the handling of unfair labor practice charges from the date they are filed through trial and appeal. Mark has acted as lead negotiator for dozens of major companies in a variety of industries, including national, multi-unit, multi-location, multi-employer and multi-union bargaining. Mark has handled lockout and strike situations, coordinating the clients efforts. In addition, Mark has handled hundreds of arbitrations involving virtually every area of dispute, including contract interest arbitration, contract interpretation, just cause termination/discipline, benefits, pay rates, and hours of work.

Mark Harris

Mark Harris is head of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group and co-head of the Appellate Group. Mark is also a former federal prosecutor and law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court. An experienced white-collar criminal defense lawyer, he represents companies and individuals in their most complex and difficult litigation matters. Mark’s appellate cases span the gamut from intellectual property and labor relations to constitutional law and administrative law. Since 2017, Mark has represented the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico—the entity created by Congress to oversee Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy, the largest in American history—in dozens of appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In May 2023, he prevailed before the Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision that recognized the Board’s immunity from suit. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a past American Lawyer Litigator of the Week. Mark also maintains an active criminal docket in cases covering every form of financial crime and civil enforcement, including internal investigations. Clients draw on his experience as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he specialized in fraud cases and tried cases before federal juries. Mark is also a recognized expert on criminal sentencing, as a member of the Board of Editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, the leading legal journal devoted to the study of sentencing law and policy, for over 25 years. Mark is the editor and lead author of Principles of Appellate Litigation: A Guide to Modern Practice (PLI Press), a comprehensive treatise on appellate practice, updated every year, which has been described as “invaluable,” “the product of deep experience and keen insights,” and “a superior appellate practice hornbook.” He has lectured on both criminal law and appellate practice before the International Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, PLI, and the ABA Sections of Litigation, Criminal Law, and Employment and Labor Law. Mark has been interviewed by Bloomberg Radio, the National Law Journal, WINS AM-1010, Law360, Legal Times, and other news organizations. Mark is a former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Lewis Powell, Jr., and Judge Joel Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Mathematics.

Martin Bienenstock

Martin Bienenstock is chair of the Firm's Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group. Martin provides clients with multidisciplinary solutions that draw on his combined experience in restructuring, corporate governance, reorganization, litigation, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley. Martin’s restructuring practice focuses on restructuring troubled situations including Puerto Rico to benefit all their stakeholders including their people, investors and creditors. Martin’s governance practice is targeted at keeping healthy companies healthy and growing, and saving distressed companies, while protecting directors and officers with cutting edge best practices. Martin is repeatedly retained to solve momentous problems. Currently, Martin leads the Firm’s representation of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, charged with restoring fiscal responsibility and market access to the Commonwealth by developing fiscal reforms and restructuring its $74 billion of bond debt and $50 billion of unfunded pension obligations. Martin also leads the Firm’s representations of the Westinghouse creditors’ committee and the Caesars Entertainment creditors’ committee for unsecured claimholders. In the Caesars cases, the creditors Martin represents were offered four cents at the outset and are settling for approximately 65 cents. General Motors retained him to formulate the section 363 strategy that he presented to the U.S. Auto Task Force, which deployed it to save General Motors and Chrysler. He represented Enron in its chapter 11 case that has now paid multiple creditors in full. Recently, Martin developed the Colombian-U.S.-Canadian reorganization plan for Pacific Exploration, supported by its bank creditors and bond creditors. Martin routinely provides legal and strategic advice to directors, businesses, investors and creditors, advising on complex restructurings, acquisitions, trials and appeals. He handled the Owens Corning appeal, reversing substantive consolidation to increase the value of his bank clients' claims against Owens Corning from $600 million to more than $2.2 billion. He charted the takeover of troubled Finova for a joint venture between Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National Corp., and achieved the successful reorganizations of companies such as Enron and Republic Engineered Products over multiple objections. Martin developed successful reorganizations for Capmark and AMBAC. He also prepared the initial draft of what became Ireland’s reorganization statute. For the last 10 years, the National Law Journal listed Martin as one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." He has been listed at the top of his field by other leading legal publications and organizations, including Turnarounds & Workouts, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Chambers, and Euromoney Legal Media Group's "The Best of the Best." Martin also teaches corporate reorganization at Harvard Law School and University of Michigan Law School.

Martin Hamilton

Martin T. Hamilton is a partner in the Tax Department. He primarily handles U.S. corporate, partnership and international tax matters. Martin's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments and structured financing arrangements, as well as tax-efficient corporate financing techniques and the tax treatment of complex financial products. He has experience with public and private cross-border mergers, acquisitions, offerings and financings, and has advised both U.S. and international clients, including private equity funds, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies and multinational industrials, on the U.S. tax impact of these global transactions. In addition, Martin has worked on transactions in the financial services, technology, insurance, real estate, health care, energy, natural resources and industrial sectors, and these transactions have involved inbound and outbound investment throughout Europe and North America, as well as major markets in East and South Asia, South America and Australia. Martin also regularly represents clients in tax controversies and other matters before the U.S. tax authorities.

Mary Kuusisto

Mary B. Kuusisto is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group, a member of the Tax Department, the Firm's Executive Committee and head of the London office. Mary has almost 30 years of experience in the private equity industry. She advises clients on structuring and operations of private investment funds globally, including secondary transactions, with particular experience in tax-related matters. She has represented numerous private investment funds in their formation and operational activities, including venture capital, buyout, distressed debt, mezzanine finance, natural resource, secondary, and funds of funds, as well as geographic and sector specific funds. Mary also advises investment fund managers and general partners with respect to their internal governance, compensation arrangements and economic structures. Another significant aspect of Mary’s practice involves advising various types of institutional investors on their investments in global private investment funds. Among others, she has advised funds of funds, pension funds, endowments and foundations – both U.S. and non-U.S. – in connection with their alternative investment strategies. Mary also has extensive experience advising both buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests in connection with tax matters. Mary was registered as a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and, prior to becoming a lawyer, worked for several years as an auditor and tax accountant with Big 4 public accounting firms.

Mathilde Pépin

Mathilde Pépin is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department in Proskauer's Paris office. She previously worked as a judicial assistant at the labor chamber of the Rouen Court of Appeal, as an in-house counsel trainee at Sephora and Barclays and as a trainee lawyer at several law firms. She advises national and international companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment issues. She also assists clients in their contentious matters. She has developed her experience on data privacy law in particular by working on the practical implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Mathilde Pépin

Mathilde Pépin is an associate in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Department in Proskauer's Paris office. She previously worked as a judicial assistant at the labor chamber of the Rouen Court of Appeal, as an in-house counsel trainee at Sephora and Barclays and as a trainee lawyer at several law firms. She advises national and international companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment issues. She also assists clients in their contentious matters. She has developed her experience on data privacy law in particular by working on the practical implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Matt Clift

Matt Clift is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Sports Groups. Matt has a broad practice comprising transactional and general corporate advisory work. In particular, he advises private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds on the deployment of their capital, including buyouts, co- investments and secondaries. He has also advised banks with respect to raising regulatory capital. Alongside his legal expertise, Matt has a passion for financial technology and the legal developments associated with this nascent sector.

Matthieu Lampel

Matthieu Lampel is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Matthieu advises investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions, as well as domestic and international clients in a wide variety of M&A transactions. His practice focuses on a broad range of industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, energy, technology and consumer goods & retail. Matthieu also advises managers in the negotiation of their status and their remuneration, as well as in the context of operations with investment funds. He also has significant experience advising industrial and private equity clients in obtaining clearance from the relevant authorities in connection with French foreign investment regulations. Matthieu’s clients include Bridgepoint, The Carlyle Group, Experienced Capital and Eurazeo PME. Publications Reversal of jurisprudence in matters of criminal liability of legal persons in the context of a merger-absorption, Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine, March-April 2021, Les Echos Executives, December 2020 Matthieu Lampel is a regular contributor to The Private Equity Review - Law Business Research

Maud Manon

Maud Manon is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Finance and Private Credit Groups. With 25 years' experience, Maud's practice focuses on LBOs and leveraged acquisition finance, representing financial institutions (mainly debt funds) as well as sponsors and borrowers. Maud’s experience extends to the acquisition finance of listed companies, public offerings and block acquisitions. She also advises debtors, creditors and/or sponsors in the context of complex leverage debt restructuring operations. Maud’s clients include in particular ICG, Barings, Eurazeo, Pemberton, BlackRock, BOI, Bridgepoint, Bridgepoint Credit, The Carlyle Group, Marlin Equity, Tikehau, BNP Paribas, Capza, Artemid and Montefiore.

Megan Lawrence

Megan Lawrence is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance practice, London’s Leveraged Finance team and a member of the Proskauer’s Private Capital industry group. Megan specializes in domestic and cross-border leveraged acquisition financings. She advises market-leading banks and private credit funds at all levels of the capital structure, including broadly syndicated senior TLB financings, second lien financings, bank/ bond transactions, unitranche and PIK holdco financings. Megan has extensive knowledge of the syndicated and leveraged loan markets and regularly advises arrangers, lenders and agents on acquisition and other event driven finance transactions. In 2019/2020, Megan spent ten months on client secondment to the London-based financial sponsors group at J.P. Morgan.

Michael Mezzacappa

Michael M. Mezzacappa is the co-head of Proskauer's Private Credit Group and a member of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on representing agents, lenders and borrowers in a variety of complex financings and credit arrangements, including acquisition financings (sponsor-led and strategic acquisitions and "going private" transactions, to name a few), dividend recapitalization financings, asset based loans, cash flow loans, special situations loans, DIP loans, bridge financings and cross-border and multi-currency loans. He has extensive experience representing agents and lenders in multi-tiered financing facilities, second-lien and unitranche loan facilities (including "B" loans and other "last out" structures), mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, distressed debt facilities and intercreditor and subordination agreements. Michael also advises on distressed investing, debt restructuring and workouts. Michael is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section, the New York City Bar Association, the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association. Michael obtained his B.S., with honors, from City University of New York in 1993, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York Law School in 1998, where he served on the New York Law School Review.

Michael Lebowich

Michael J. Lebowich is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Labor-Management Relations Group. He represents and counsels employers on a wide range of labor and employment matters, with a particular interest in the field of traditional labor law. Michael acts as the primary spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations, regularly handles grievance arbitrations, assists clients in the labor implications of corporate transactions, and counsels clients on union organizing issues, strike preparation and day-to-day contract administration issues. He also has significant experience in representation and unfair labor practice matters before the National Labor Relations Board. His broad employment law experience includes handling of race, national origin, gender and other discrimination matters in state and federal court. A significant amount of his practice is devoted to counseling clients regarding the application and practical impact of the full range of employment laws that affect our clients, including all local, state and federal employment discrimination statutes, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and state labor laws. Michael has substantial experience in a wide variety of industries, including entertainment, broadcasting, newspaper publishing and delivery, utilities and lodging. He represents such clients as The New York Times, BuzzFeed, ABC, the New York City Ballet, PPL, Pacific Gas & Electric, Host Hotels and Resorts, and The Broadway League (and many of its theater owner and producing members). Michael also has significant public sector experience representing, among others, the City of New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Michael is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, the New York University Tisch School for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management, and is an advisory board member of the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations.

Michael Mervis

Mike Mervis is a veteran litigator who has tried dozens of cases in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals across the country. Mike represents clients in complex commercial matters, disputes over distressed debt and investments (particularly in large chapter 11 bankruptcy cases), real estate and entertainment industry disputes and intellectual property cases. Mike is the Vice-Chair of Proskauer's Litigation Department and heads the Firm’s Commercial Litigation Group. He is also the head of its Bankruptcy Litigation Group and co-head of the Private Credit Litigation Group. In bankruptcy matters, he represents debtors, lenders, and statutory and ad hoc committees in large chapter 11 cases in bankruptcy courts across the country. Mike has litigated the full spectrum of contested matters and adversary proceedings that arise during the lifecycle of complex chapter 11 cases. Mike is the immediate past chair of Proskauer's Hiring Committee and co-chair of Proskauer’s Summer Associate Program.

Michael Ellis

Michael E. Ellis is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department. He is a general corporate lawyer with a focus on public and private mergers and acquisitions and securities. He has participated in multiple buy- and sell-side representations in a variety of transaction structures, including tender offers, stock and asset purchases and sales, mergers and joint ventures. Mike has represented public companies in their ongoing corporate and securities law matters, including providing advice on corporate governance matters and drafting various types of documents required to be filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, such as periodic reports and proxy statements. Clients Mike regularly represents include Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Henry Schein, Inc. and Ascena Retail Group, Inc.

Michael Album

Michael J. Album is a partner in Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group, and represents companies and compensation committees, private equity firms and hedge funds, and CEOs, senior executives (in numerous business sectors) and portfolio managers on a full range of executive compensation matters. As part of his practice he has represented management teams in numerous management buy-outs (including in the health care, retail and asset management sectors) and has represented “founders” and partners in a variety of businesses on restructuring and “business divorce” matters. Michael also is a member of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition, which is an interdisciplinary group at Proskauer that represents clients on non-compete, trade secret and intellectual property matters. Michael has written and spoken extensively in the area of executive compensation. He has contributed to the NCEO publication Selected Issues in Equity Compensation (2019 Edition) and Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst – Global Compensation Study, and his articles on MBO compensation have been featured in two publications (Private Equity Mathematics and Human Capital in Private Equity). His other articles have appeared in The Business Lawyer, Bloomberg, New York Law Journal, Employment Relations Today, and Venture Capital Review and he has been a featured speaker on executive compensation developments at ALI-ABA, Dow Jones Private Equity and other webinars and seminars. In addition, Michael has served on the Board of Directors of the Yale Law School Fund, and as co-Chairman of his Reunion Class Campaign for the Yale Law School Fund.

Michael Choate

Michael Choate is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Capital Markets Group and both Real Estate Capital Markets and Private Equity Real Estate Groups. Michael's practice is broad and includes a focus on transactional matters involving both public and private real estate offerings as well as private equity and joint venture transactions along with mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and federal securities compliance matters.

Michael Firestein

Michael A. Firestein is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and formerly served as Vice Chair of the Department from 2018-2023. Michael handles a wide range of commercial litigation on behalf of private equity funds, financial institutions, securities brokerages, investment advisors, fiduciaries, real estate operating companies and entertainment corporations. During the past decade, Michael has emerged as a preeminent litigator and trial lawyer in some of the largest bankruptcy proceedings in the country. Specifically, he has a lead role in the Puerto Rico bankruptcy litigation on behalf of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. In recent years, he was a principal trial lawyer in the confirmation hearings for plans of adjustment for (i) the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority, which sought to restructure nearly $ 6 billion of bond debt and other obligations of the Authority (2022), (ii) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, and the Puerto Rico Employee Retirement System, which restructured tens of billions of dollars of bond debt and unfunded pension obligations (2021), and (iii) the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (COFINA), which sought to restructure $18 billion of bond debt (2019). Each of these confirmation proceedings saved the Commonwealth and its instrumentalities hundreds of millions of dollars of bond and other debt payments annually. Michael was also lead trial counsel in successful bankruptcy plan confirmations in two contested trials on behalf of Energy Future Holdings, where he addressed numerous intercompany/inter-debtor claims and other matters concerning this complex restructuring. Michael’s overall work in this space has led to his recognition as California’s Bankruptcy Litigator of the Year in Benchmark Litigation from 2020-2022. Michael also advises on probate and trust litigation matters, employment litigation disputes, including wrongful termination, as well as intellectual property and entertainment litigation. He represents publicly traded companies in internal investigations and before the SEC, FINRA, and other SROs. Additionally, Michael counsels individuals in securities aspects of high-net-worth family law disputes. Michael has tried cases before nearly every kind of tribunal (jury and bench), including state and federal court and before arbitration forums, including FINRA, AAA, JAMS, NYSE and others. Notable clients include Spectrum Equity Investors, The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, World Surfing League, The Nederlander Group Companies, Lincoln Military Housing, Energy Future Holdings, Aniplex, JP Morgan, New World Restaurant Group, NBC Universal, Telemundo Network, and The Pivotal Group. Moreover, community service is an important part of Michael's life. For almost 30 years, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Concern Foundation for Cancer Research, and served as its President from 1994-1996. Michael also serves on the Board of Directors of Bet Tzedek, a Los Angeles-based provider of pro bono legal services.

Michelle Annese

Michelle A. Annese is a partner in the Labor & Employment Law Department, Administrative Lead of the Investigations Practice Group, and a member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group. Michelle represents employers in a variety of industries including financial services, retail, entertainment and sports. She assists them with a wide range of labor and employment matters involving employment discrimination and retaliation, sexual harassment and wrongful discharge. She has conducted numerous investigations on behalf of employers. Michelle regularly appears in state and federal courts, as well as in proceedings before the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies. In addition to litigating, Michelle counsels clients on compliance with employment-related laws, and on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures.

Mike Suppappola

Mike Suppappola is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Mike specializes in representing asset managers across the globe in all aspects of their business and operations, with a particular focus on fund formation and the structuring and execution of secondary transactions. Mike also counsels clients on co-investments, portfolio investments and day-to-day operational and regulatory matters. He advises a broad spectrum of fund sponsors who pursue a variety of strategies and sectors, including secondaries, private credit, distressed and special situations, buyout, structured capital, growth equity, venture capital, real estate and funds-of-funds. After the fundraising period, Mike continues to serve as a trusted adviser throughout the lifespan of a fund, with a focus on general partner and management company internal governance and day-to-day operational issues. Mike is widely recognized in the private funds industry for his extensive experience in representing secondary fund managers in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales and preferred equity transactions), primary investments and co-investments. He also provides ongoing advice to private fund managers and other investment advisers on legal and regulatory compliance with federal and state securities laws, with particular expertise on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

Mitchell Gaswirth

Mitchell M. Gaswirth is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. His practice focuses primarily on income, gift and estate tax and related business planning. Mitchell counsels individuals, entrepreneurs and business entities in connection with the myriad income and other tax issues arising in sophisticated business transactions. Mitchell’s practice also encompasses a wide array of merger and acquisition, business formation and financing, debt restructuring, and real property acquisition, disposition and exchange transactions. His knowledge encompasses the complex and often arcane application of California’s property tax regime (“Proposition 13”) in a variety of business transactions directly or indirectly involving California real property. In addition, he provides income, gift and estate tax and related business planning advice to individuals, families, and their business enterprises to help them achieve wealth preservation and tax minimization objectives. This planning includes tax minimization strategies involving grantor trusts, family limited partnerships, charitable and family “split interest” and other irrevocable trusts, and other sophisticated wealth transfer and business succession vehicles. Mitchell’s wealth transfer tax planning practice focuses particularly on counseling executives, professionals, investors, and others concerning the preservation, administration and disposition of their capital. He also counsels individuals and businesses in connection with planning to minimize California income tax burdens. Mitchell also represents corporate and individual fiduciaries, and estate and trust beneficiaries, in a wide array of sophisticated personal planning and fiduciary administration matters, including representing U.S. Trust, JPMorgan Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, in their administrations of complex trust arrangements for high net worth families. His fiduciary practice also encompasses substantial “Family Office” representation for multi-member families seeking to achieve complex and sophisticated income and wealth transfer tax objectives. Mitchell’s tax practice also involves the administrative and judicial resolution of tax disputes with federal and state tax authorities. He represents taxpayers in income, estate and gift, sales and use, property, and employment tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, California Franchise Tax Board, and other tax authorities. Notably, Mitchell served as Lead Tax Counsel to the late Paul Newman, both at trial and in the California Court of Appeals, in the actor’s successful refund suit against the California Franchise Tax Board. The Newman case established the impropriety of the Franchise Tax Board’s formula for apportioning to California a non-resident entertainer’s income derived from both California and non-California sources. Prior to joining Proskauer, Mitchell was a partner of the Los Angeles law firm Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.

Monica Arora

Monica Arora is a partner and co-head of the Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Monica advises asset managers across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Her particular expertise concentrates within the areas of buyout, private credit, distressed debt, growth equity, infrastructure and real estate funds, including the establishment of bespoke fund structures, joint ventures and other strategic arrangements for sponsors globally. Monica is a thought leader in the industry. She is also a prominent and engaged member of the private funds community, including as a committee member and contributor on the New York City Bar Association’s Private Investment Funds Committee and a member of the Editorial Board of Law 360 Private Equity. Monica’s leadership in Proskauer extends well beyond her role in the department as she is a key member of numerous diversity and inclusion initiatives. She is also actively engaged in a number of charitable boards outside of the firm. Prior to joining Proskauer, Monica was the global head of the investment funds group at White & Case.

Myron Rumeld

Myron D. Rumeld has over thirty-five years of experience handling all aspects of ERISA litigation at both the trial and appellate level. His broad experience includes numerous representations of 401(k) plan fiduciaries defending class action employer stock and excessive fee claims, and representations of large multiemployer pension and health fund trustees in the defense of a large assortment of fiduciary breach lawsuits. He has defended class action suits against Charles Schwab, Barnabas Health, Inc., Neuberger Berman, and the American Federation of Musicians Pension Fund, among many other clients; and he has tried cases for The Renco Group and Foot Locker, Inc., among others. Myron is presently co-chair of Proskauer’s ERISA Litigation Group. He previously served as co-chair of Proskauer’s nationally renowned Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. He also served as the past co-chairman of the Board of Editors for the American Bar Association publication, Employee Benefits Law (BBNA).

Nathan Lander

Nathan Lander is a partner in Proskauer's Insurance Recovery & Counseling Group who represents clients in high-stakes disputes with their insurance companies as well as counseling them regarding a wide array of insurance issues. During the course of his career, Nate has assisted clients in recovering more than $1 billion in disputes with their insurers through litigations, arbitrations, mediations and negotiations. Nate prides himself in helping clients reach favorable resolutions with their insurers where possible, but when insurers refuse to pay, Nate has aggressively litigated coverage disputes against them in courts and arbitrations throughout the country. Although Nate has represented a wide range of policyholder clients – including Fortune 500 companies and professional sports teams, among others – Nate is particularly well-known for his representations of asset management clients in insurance disputes. Nate has represented numerous private equity firms and portfolio companies, hedge funds, registered funds, venture capital firms, and other asset managers in disputes with insurance companies, including claims for coverage under D&O, E&O, crime, life, property, and other policies. For example, Nate was recently lead counsel for a private equity firm in a litigation over $100 million of coverage its insurers refused to provide for claims against the private equity firm arising from the bankruptcy of a portfolio company. In addition to his litigation practice, Nate also regularly advises clients on risk management issues, including structuring of insurance programs and the negotiation and drafting of policy language, in order to help protect clients in the event of a claim or loss. Nate has particular experience with respect to the insurance markets and products for asset management clients. He has assisted numerous asset managers of all types and portfolio companies in reviewing and negotiating potential insurance policies or programs, including D&O, E&O, EPL, fiduciary, crime, cyber, reps & warranties and other specialized products.

Neil Shah

Neil V. Shah is a member of Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group, where he focuses on ERISA litigation. Neil represents some of the largest multiemployer pension plans in withdrawal liability and delinquent contribution matters. These matters include challenges to the plan’s assessment and calculation of withdrawal liability, as well as offensive actions to enforce the plan’s rights to collect these amounts from employers and their affiliates. Neil also represents plan sponsors in ERISA class actions alleging that the plan’s investments or other practices are imprudent, such as excessive fee and stock drop cases. Prior to joining Proskauer, Neil was an associate at a large regional firm, where he litigated individual and class actions involving challenges to insurer claims adjudication procedures under ERISA, fraud recoveries against healthcare providers, and claims for benefits. Neil has authored several articles, including those published in the New Jersey Law Journal and Bloomberg National Affairs. He is also a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog

Neil Abramson

Neil Abramson is the co-chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and head of the Public Sector Group. He handles all types of employment litigation, including discrimination claims, claims for breach of contract and claims arising from the collective bargaining relationship, as well as arbitrations, administrative proceedings and collective bargaining. Neil regularly handles complex collective bargaining disputes for private and public sector employers, including litigating matters before the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, various public interest arbitration panels, private grievance arbitrators and the National Labor Relations Board. Neil leads the legal representation of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in its collective bargaining disputes with transit and railroad workers and the City of New York in its collective bargaining disputes with teachers, police, fire, nurses and hospital staff. Neil also regularly handles collective bargaining disputes for multiemployer bargaining associations and single employers for such clients as Major League Baseball, The League of Voluntary Hospitals, The New York Times, Pratt Institute and The Broadway League. He also provides advice and guidance to clients, counseling employers on how to avoid litigation and achieve their employee relations objectives. Neil also has litigated single and multiple plaintiff matters in the state and federal courts of New York and a number of other jurisdictions and has extensive appellate advocacy experience. Among the clients Neil has represented are major corporations in such diverse fields as financial services, higher education, news media, transportation, sports, energy, entertainment and health care, as well as numerous public benefit and public service corporations.

Niamh Curry

Niamh Curry is a partner in the Private Funds Group. For over 20 years, she has advised private investment funds in a broad range of matters, consisting of secondary transactions and the structuring and formation of, and investment in, private equity funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds, and fund of funds. During the last 12 years, Niamh has had extensive experience representing secondary clients in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation/structuring, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales, fund restructurings and fund financing), primary investments and co-investments. She has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, in the U.S. and internationally. Niamh also provides ongoing advice to fund managers on all aspects of their business and operations including governance issues, structuring, day-to-day operational issues, legal and regulatory compliance with US securities laws, with a particular focus on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Nicholas Carter

Nicholas (“Carter”) Noon is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. He focuses on representing investment fund sponsors on fund formation, structuring, investments, regulatory and compliance issues and day to day operational matters. Additionally, Carter represents secondary fund managers in connection with secondary transactions, secondary restructurings, primary investments and co-investments as well as institutional investors when investing into private investment funds.

Nick Rose

Nick Rose advises fund managers on a range of issues, including the establishment and structuring of private investment funds, internal governance, carried interest arrangements and ongoing fund maintenance. Nick also advises various institutional investors on primary investments, traditional and non-traditional secondary transactions, preferred equity, GP-led and continuation vehicle transactions. Nick’s representative clients include Fidelio Capital, Litorina, Priveq, Quilvest Capital Partners, Rivean Capital, Segulah and Valedo Partners. Nick’s experience also includes spending four months on secondment in Luxembourg with the European Investment Fund.

Nicole Eichberger

Nicole A. Eichberger is a partner in Proskauer's Labor and Employment Law Department and head of the New Orleans office. She is a member of Proskauer's Class & Collective Actions and Wage and Hour Groups. Nici is an experienced trial lawyer and represents clients in all types of employment-related matters, from single-plaintiff and complex employment to large, complex class and collective actions alleging discrimination, non-compete violations, and wage and hour disputes. Nici has significant experience assisting clients in the defense of numerous class and collective actions. She frequently counsels employers, fiduciaries, and trustees on employment, wage and hour and benefit issues. In addition to her litigation practice, Nici assists in conducting workplace investigations and audits related to discrimination, managerial training, non-competes and employee classification. She is adept to counseling clients on a wide array of issues including reviewing and drafting employee handbooks, wage and hour issues, employee leave and training policies. She is a member of Proskauer’s eDiscovery Group and advises clients on eDiscovery matters, including day-to-day preservation, investigations and litigation strategies. Nici recently completed a three-year term was on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono & Public Service and serves as the Pro Bono Co-Coordinator for Proskauer’s New Orleans office. She is a prolific writer, frequently contributing to Proskauer’s Law and the Workplace Blog and a sought-after speaker on collective/class action topics.

Nigel van Zyl

Nigel van Zyl is a partner and co-head of Proskauer's Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Nigel specializes in advising asset managers, institutional investors and investment advisors across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Praised for his keen business sense and practical approach, Nigel advises leading international fund managers on all aspects of their fund business, including the formation, raising, maintenance and ongoing operation and compliance of their investment funds. He also advises on internal governance, compliance and organization, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, re-organizations and restructurings. Nigel represents institutional investors, including fund of funds, sovereign wealth funds, and global asset managers, with respect to their investments into private equity and other alternative asset funds. Nigel also advises buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests and the structures used for these transactions, including synthetic secondary and co-investment structures.

Nigel Telman

Nigel F. Telman leads the employment practice in Proskauer's Chicago office and is co-head of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group. Nigel's practice is concentrated in litigating single and class action disputes arising out of claims of workplace harassment and employment discrimination. He also represents employers in collective and class actions involving allegations of wage and hour violations under federal and state law. In addition, Nigel has significant experience defending and enforcing Restrictive Covenant Agreements, as well as protecting employers' trade secrets and other confidential information from misappropriation by former employees through the institution of emergency litigation seeking temporary and permanent injunctive relief. Nigel utilizes his experience litigating employment-related disputes to counsel clients on effective ways to avoid such litigation and when needed conducts investigations where there are allegations of harassment and discrimination. His counseling practice focuses on training and advising clients on ways to improve all aspects of the employment relationship, including techniques on how to make effective hiring decisions; reviewing and revising employment policies, practices and procedures; and advising on employee disciplinary matters, reductions in force and termination decisions. Nigel represents clients before state and federal courts throughout the country as well as before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the American Arbitration Association.

Noa Baddish

Noa M. Baddish is a senior counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Department. She is a member of the Sports, Employment Litigation & Arbitration, Class and Collective Action, Wage & Hour and Whistleblower & Retaliation Practice Groups. Noa is also the Administrative Lead of the Class, Collective and Complex Action Practice Group. Noa specializes in defending employers in various industries, such as sports, media and entertainment, on a wide variety of matters. With a particular focus on class and collective actions, Noa has successfully defended numerous organizations against complex employment-related claims. Noa’s approach to class and collective action defense is rooted in a thorough understanding of both federal and state employment laws. Noa’s expertise spans topics ranging from wage and hour disputes to discrimination and harassment claims. Noa is well-versed in the intricacies of class and collective action procedures, which allows her to provide comprehensive defense strategies tailored to each client’s objectives and circumstances. Noa also has experience navigating proceedings before government agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”), including Commissioner Charges and those involving complex, large-scale issues such as claims of pattern or practice discrimination. Noa also works closely with clients to develop proactive compliance strategies, focused on minimizing the risk of litigation. Noa has particular expertise in advising clients on how to conduct reorganizations or restructuring of businesses, otherwise known as “RIFs” and is experienced in all of the technicalities that come along with these types of group-wide employment actions. Prior to coming to Proskauer, Noa served as Assistant General Counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Labor Relations and defended the Mayor and City agencies against both employee grievances at arbitration and improper practice petitions before the Board of Collective Bargaining. Prior to that, she was a Law Clerk to Judge Ellen L. Koblitz of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. While in law school, Noa served on the Executive Board as Notes and Articles Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal.

Nolan Goldberg

Nolan M. Goldberg is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, co-head of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation Group, and a member of the Patent Law Group. His practice focuses on technology-centric litigation, arbitration (including international arbitrations), regulatory investigations (including federal and state regulators), privileged investigations and counseling, covering a range of types of disputes, including cybersecurity, intellectual property (including patent), and commercial. Nolan’s understanding of technology allows him to develop defenses and strategies that might otherwise be overlooked or less effective and enhances the “story telling” that is critical to bringing a dispute to a successful conclusion. Nolan is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office; and an International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certified Information Privacy Professional, United States (US CIPP) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (US CIPT). Cybersecurity Nolan’s electrical engineering background, coupled with a litigation and risk management-centric focus, allows him to assist companies in all phases of incident response. Nolan often acts as a bridge between the technical and legal response teams (both inside and outside forensic consultants). Nolan uses this deep familiarity with the company and its systems to defend the company in litigations, arbitrations and regulatory investigations, including before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC); New York State Department of Financial Service (NYS DFS) and before various State’s Attorneys General, including Multi-State investigations. Nolan has worked on incidents that range from simple phishing attacks on e-mail accounts by cyber-criminals to intrusions by (formerly) trusted inside employees to complex technical breaches of hosted systems by state-sponsored advanced persistent threats (APTs). These incidents have involved various compromised systems, including, but not limited to internal both client systems, and systems of a vendor of a client that hosted its data. It is often the case (both in response to an incident and for other reasons) that a company will want to undertake an assessment of its security posture, but has concerns about the discoverability of any such analysis. Accordingly, Nolan also frequently assists companies’ scope and conduct privileged security assessments, including “dual purpose” assessments where privileged analysis are also used for ordinary-course purposes. Commercial Disputes Nolan also assists companies with commercial disputes, particularly in cases where there is a technology component, including disputes arising from hosted software agreements; outsourcing and managed services agreements; software and technology development agreements and the dissolution of joint ventures. When these disputes cannot be amicably resolved, Nolan has litigated them in State and Federal Court and in arbitrations, including international arbitrations. Intellectual Property Nolan's work has included numerous patent and trade secret litigations and negotiations, primarily in cases involving computer and network-related technologies. In particular, the litigations have involved at least the following technologies: cybersecurity; hosted software; telecommunications, computer networking; network and computer-related security hardware and software; microprocessors, voice-over Internet protocol ("VoIP"); bar code scanners financial business methods and software, including securities settlement, fail management and trade execution and reporting software; data compression; handheld computers; pharmaceuticals; cardiac electro-stimulatory devices and prosthetics. Nolan also has experience prosecuting patent applications before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in encryption, CMOS, HDTV, virtual private networks ("VPN"), e-commerce, XML/XSL, financial instruments, semiconductor electronics, medical device technology, inventory control and analysis, cellular communications, Check 21 and business methods. Nolan also has conducted numerous freedom-to-operate searches, written opinions, and counseled clients in the areas of bar code scanners, imaging, book publishing, computer networking, business methods, Power Over Ethernet ("PoE"), and digital content distribution. He has assisted in evaluating patents for inclusion in patent pools involving large consumer electronics and entertainment companies concerning CD and DVD technology. Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery Nolan is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies to be used in all types of litigations, with a particular focus on selecting appropriate tools, developing proportionate discovery plans, cross border electronic discovery, managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process, and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. He also assists clients to develop and implement information management programs to reduce expense and risk, meet compliance obligations, and tame e-discovery burdens. Thought Leadership Nolan has authored numerous articles and given numerous presentations on emerging issues and trends in both technology and law, and has often been called upon to comment on various media outlets including Business Week, IPlaw360, IT Business Edge, CIO.com, Forbes, and The National Law Journal. Prior to practicing law, Nolan was a computer specialist at Underwriters Laboratories (UL).

Paul Tannenbaum

Paul Tannenbaum is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Finance Group (working closely with the Private Funds Group). Paul has extensive experience acting for lenders, borrowers and financial institutions on both fund financings and acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. His fund finance experience includes advising GPs and lenders in connection with traditional subscription lines, hybrid and NAV facilities, co-investment facilities, GP support facilities, management fee facilities, asset leverage facilities for credit funds, loans to separate managed accounts and fund of fund financings.

Paul Salvatore

Paul Salvatore provides strategic labor and employment law advice to companies, boards of directors/trustees, senior executives and general counsel in such areas as labor-management relations, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, international labor and employment issues, and corporate transactions. Paul negotiates major collective bargaining agreements in several industries, including real estate and construction. He represents the NYC real estate industry’s multi-employer organization, the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB), and its principal trade organization, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY). In 2022, he helped the RAB reach a new collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 32BJ, covering more than 30,000 residential building employees. Paul also represented the Cement League, a multiemployer group of NYC area superstructure contractors, in halting an illegal strike by the Carpenters Union and negotiating a significant new, more competitive, collective bargaining agreement. He previously negotiated, on behalf of The Related Companies with 18 New York City construction unions, a landmark project labor agreement (PLA) for Hudson Yards on Manhattan’s West Side, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history. In 2019, he assisted Related in resolving the very public labor disputes at Hudson Yards in time for its grand opening. He also represented REBNY in negotiating its 2019 landmark “Statement of Principles” with NYC’s construction unions. For his work in this sector, City & State magazine has named him one of the most powerful lawyers in New York. Paul tries arbitrations and litigations, and argues appeals, arising from labor-management relationships. Paul argued and won before the U.S. Supreme Court 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett. In a 5-4 decision of importance to employers, the Court held a collective bargaining agreement that explicitly requires unionized employees to arbitrate employment discrimination claims is enforceable, modifying 35 years of labor law. In 2016, he argued and won NBC Universal Media, LLC v. NLRB, where the D.C. Circuit -- rejecting the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) analysis -- found “the reasoning supporting the [NLRB’s] judgment … incomprehensible.” In 2017, Paul argued and won T-Mobile v. NLRB where the Fifth Circuit refused to enforce the NLRB’s ban on certain common sense employee handbook policy provisions, finding the NLRB’s analysis to be unreasonable. Paul represents universities and colleges in their labor and employment relations, including in the currently active areas of graduate student and adjunct faculty union organizing. He represented Yale, Duke, Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis and other universities in their response to graduate student unionization after the NLRB’s controversial 2016 decision finding graduate teaching/research assistants to be employees under the labor law. He has negotiated innovative non-NLRB election agreements at Cornell and Brown Universities. An honors graduate of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and the Cornell Law School, Paul served eight years on Cornell’s Board of Trustees, including on its Executive Committee. Upon completion of his terms, he was elected Trustee Emeritus and Presidential Councilor. Paul presently serves as a Trustee Member of the Board of Fellows of Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as on the Law School and ILR Deans’ Advisory Councils. In 2002, ILR awarded him the Judge William B. Groat prize, the school’s highest honor. At Proskauer, Paul was elected to its Executive Committee and served as co-chair of its global Labor & Employment Law Department. Paul counsels business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its Litigation Center. An active speaker and writer on labor and employment law issues, his publications include “One Dozen Years of Pyett: A Win for Unionized Workplace Dispute Resolution” in the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Journal, Volume 36, Number 2 at 257. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Cornell Law School.

Paul Polking

Paul Polking is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate Department. His practice includes the negotiating, structuring and documenting of real estate transactions, including commercial and retail leases and subleases, on behalf of both landlords and tenants. Additionally, Paul handles the purchase and sale of commercial and residential properties, and financings of various sizes, including construction financings, acquisition financings and refinancings. Paul’s experience includes handling matters such as: Purchases and dispositions of marquee assets by developers, financial services firms, banks and REITS Joint ventures for the development of commercial and residential projects Property management and development advisor agreements Lending transactions, representing financial institutions Commercial property workouts and the modification of loans and mortgages

Peter Olds

Peter Olds is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. He specializes in advising on the establishment of private funds in the UK, Europe and globally for private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate fund sponsors, cornerstone investments in private funds, and private fund carried interest and other executive incentive schemes. Peter also advises on co-investments alongside private funds (on both sponsor and investor sides), and associated UK and European regulatory matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Peter has been a member of funds groups at other international law firms, and was also a director at Actis, a leading emerging markets private fund manager.

Peter Samuels

Peter G. Samuels has served as co-head of Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group, and handles mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, change of control transactions, minority investments and other complex transactions. He regularly advises Boards of Directors, management and shareholders on difficult and demanding issues and transactions. Peter plays a leading role with respect to Proskauer’s pro bono initiatives relating to various criminal justice programs, including reform of New York’s pretrial release and bail systems and other efforts to reduce incarceration. He serves on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, which has played a leading role in the city’s ongoing efforts to close its Rikers Island jails. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Fedcap Group, a large multi-faceted not-for-profit, with programs relating to workforce development, education and economic development, where he is involved in many programs, including Fedcap's initiative to reduce the number of women detained in Rikers Island through a holistic combination of social service programs. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Argus Community Inc., a not-for-profit housing a number of high quality and innovative drug treatment and similar programs.

Peter Antoszyk

Peter J. Antoszyk is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, a member of the Private Credit Group and co-head of the Private Credit Restructuring Group. Peter represents direct lenders, private credit funds, asset managers, alternative lenders, sovereign wealth funds, BDCs, insurance companies, hedge funds, finance companies, and other direct credit funds on arranged, syndicated and “club” direct lending transactions ranging from $15 million to $1 billion. Peter has extensive experience with acquisition financing, dividend recapitalizations, growth capital loans, and cross-border finance transactions for sponsor and non-sponsor backed financings in North America and Europe across a wide array of industries including consumer, and retail; manufacturing; science and technology; health care; medical and medical device; and energy and energy related industries. Structures include uni-tranche, one-stops, first-in/last out financings, second lien loans, subordinated term loans, mezzanine, holdco structures, synthetic mezzanine, "silent firsts", preferred equity and other innovative private credit structures. Peter has been at the forefront of developing the unitranche and agreement among lender structures. Peter also has over 25 years of experience in special situations, bankruptcies and insolvencies, including in out-of-court debt-for-equity exchanges, section 363 acquisitions, Debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings, exit financings, chapter 11 plan acquisitions and restructuring (including restructuring support arguments), and other creditor rights strategies in both domestic and foreign jurisdictions. Peter combines his extensive insolvency and finance experiences to counsel clients not only on structuring financing transactions (including intercreditor issues) but also throughout any workout, exercise of remedies restructuring or insolvency proceedings. Peter lectures and writes articles for industry publications and has been quoted in Private Debt Investor, Financier Worldwide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Deal, The Secured Lender and other publications and appeared on CNN Street Sweep.

Peter Castellon

Peter represents issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in connection with capital markets transactions, including IPOs, follow-on and secondary offerings, block trades, rights offerings and offerings of convertible and exchangeable bonds. Peter also represents acquirors and targets in connection with public M&A transactions. Peter is active in bar association activities and has served as an officer of several committees, including the IBA Capital Markets Forum, the International Securities Matters Subcommittee of the ABA Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities and the ABA International Securities & Capital Markets Committee. Peter has written several articles on securities law topics, including the following: Follow-on Offerings: U.S. Publicity Considerations, PLC Magazine, April 2019 Executing Block Trades, PLC, September 2016 US Private Placements: When Rule 144A is unavailable, PLC, July, 2015. SAS 72 letters: Seeking comfort, PLC, May, 2013. Before joining Proskauer, Peter was Deputy General Counsel for Citi and advised the Equity Capital Markets Division and Investment Banking Division. While at Citi, Peter worked on most of Citi’s ECM transactions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Phil Anscombe

Phil Anscombe is a Private Credit associate and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and Private Capital Team. Phil's practice is focused on leveraged and acquisition finance (and other event-driven financing transactions), as well as refinancings and restructurings of leveraged assets. He recently spent seven months on a client secondment, adding invaluable insight to the key commercial drivers for our private credit clients. Phil has acted for a variety of clients in both the middle market and the large cap space, with a particular focus on alternative lenders and private credit funds. He is experienced across a broad range of debt products and capital structures, including TLB, unitranche/SSRCF, first-out/last-out unitranche, first lien/second lien and bank/bond. He has particular experience in advising with respect to subordinated debt products, including holdco PIK (both in relation to control equity investments and minority/back-levered structures) and preferred equity. He has been involved in negotiating some of the earliest cash-flow lending transactions in the European market that centre on testing recurring revenue streams rather than profitability. He also regularly negotiates complex inter-lender arrangements, pursuant to both European and trans-Atlantic intercreditor agreements and also agreements-amongst-lenders (AALs). Prior to joining Proskauer, Phil was a senior associate at Milbank, where he worked for the Leveraged Finance & Capital Markets team in the London office. Phil has previously undertaken two client secondments at global investment banks, working as an Analyst in the Distressed Products Group at Deutsche Bank (2015) and working in a specialist transaction execution role with the Financial Sponsors Group and the Leverage Finance Origination Group at Credit Suisse (2021). These roles gave him significant commercial insight and, in the latter case, exposure to many of the latest innovations on top-tier sponsored large cap transactions, which continue to influence the development of the broader leveraged finance market.

Philip Bowden

Philip Bowden is co-head of Proskauer's Global Finance practice, head of London’s Leveraged Finance team and a member of the Proskauer’s Private Capital industry group. Philip has extensive experience representing commercial and investment banks, private credit funds and corporate borrowers across a range of debt products, specialising in leveraged acquisition finance, structured finance and investment grade event driven acquisition financings. Prior to joining Proskauer, Philip served as Private Capital Sector Lead, and was the former Co-Head of the Global Banking Practice for 8 years at another prominent global law firm.

Philip Lenertz

Phil Lenertz is an associate in the Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Phil advises U.S. and non-U.S. fund managers pursuing a wide range of strategies across a variety of industries, including venture capital, credit, real estate, buyout and fund-of-funds, on the tax aspects of forming and operating their funds. Phil also represents investors making investments in private investment funds and has experience advising on fund secondary transactions, including GP-led secondary transactions.

Rachel Lowe

Rachel E. Lowe is a special regulatory counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. Rachel advises on financial services regulation specializing in sustainable finance and ESG regulation. She has particular expertise in drafting and advising on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Taxonomy Regulation. Rachel has also supported with EU MiFID and AIFMD sustainability updates for clients, including from a governance and organizational perspective, as well as providing drafting and training support. She also advises on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), including analysis of its applicability for large international group structures. From a UK perspective, Rachel supports clients with the TCFD-related requirements in the Financial Conduct Authority’s ESG Sourcebook and is increasingly engaged on the UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR). More broadly, Rachel has worked with litigation colleagues to assist clients with understanding and mitigating greenwashing-related legal and regulatory risk.

Rachel Philion

Rachel S. Philion is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, co-head of the Wage and Hour Practice Group and a member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration and Class and Collective Actions Practice Groups. Rachel represents management across all industries in a broad array of employment matters, including wage-and-hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, as well as whistleblowing, wrongful discharge and breach of contract disputes. In addition to jury trial experience, she has extensive experience litigating nationwide class and collective actions. In addition to Rachel’s active employment litigation practice, she regularly advises clients on litigation avoidance strategies and compliance issues, conducts wage and hour audits and leads workplace investigations.

Rebecca Villarreal

Rebecca Villarreal is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. She advises private investment funds, their portfolio companies and management teams on transactions across the financial and business services (in particular within insurance), real estate, industrials and chemicals, technology and consumer sectors throughout Europe. Rebecca has structured and negotiated the full spectrum of private equity deal types including leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, public-to-privates, growth capital, minority investments, consortium deals and co-investments, as well as the equity aspects of distressed situations.

Richard Miller

Richard Miller is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds, Private Equity Transactions and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Richard provides advice on a full range of UK and international tax matters. His practice specifically focuses on all aspects of the private fund lifecycle. Richard acts for private fund asset managers in structuring and raising investments funds, structuring carried interest and coinvestment arrangements, establishment and operation of fund management businesses, M&A and investment activity and finance transactions. Richard also represents institutional investors in structuring and negotiation their private fund investment activity including primary and secondary investments and bespoke transactions.

Richard Corn

Richard M. Corn is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. He focuses his practice on corporate tax structuring and planning for a wide variety of transactions, including: mergers and acquisitions cross-border transactions joint ventures structured financings debt and equity issuances restructurings bankruptcy-related transactions Richard advises both U.S. and international clients, including multinational financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, asset managers and joint ventures. He has particular experience in the financial services and sports sectors. He also works with individuals and tax-exempt and not-for-profit organizations on their tax matters. Richard began his career as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig and then went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Prior to joining Proskauer, he most recently practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell as well as Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz.

Richard Bull

Richard Bull is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Richard advises on a wide range of corporate work, including M&A, private investments, corporate venturing, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Richard has extensive experience of acting on private equity, growth and expansion capital transactions of all types and sizes for sponsors and management teams, both of a domestic and international nature, with a particular focus in the financial services and technology industries.

Rob Day

Rob Day is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of our Private Equity Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Sports Groups. Rob’s practice focuses on public and private M&A, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures, private equity and portfolio company transactions. His clients include global corporations, asset managers and private equity houses, advising on their strategically important transactions across financial services, consumer, sports, media and technology sectors.

Robert Friedman

Robert Friedman is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department whose practice focuses on representing clients in all facets of corporate and partnership related tax matters. In particular, Robert provides tax advice on public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, private equity fund formation, financial products and electric and gas utility tax issues.

Robert Shmalo

Robert Shmalo is a partner in Proskauer’s Real Estate Department and a member of the Private Equity Real Estate and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Groups. Rob has more than 20 years of experience representing real estate investors, private equity firms, asset managers and participants in complex real estate transactions. Rob regularly represents prominent international institutions on their real estate investments and has significant experience in structuring transactions on behalf of clients in both debt and equity positions. Rob works closely with real estate companies acquiring, developing, financing and managing their real estate investments across a broad range of industries and asset classes, including global gaming, hospitality and entertainment companies. Rob routinely advises clients on the formation, structuring and recapitalization of joint venture investments, including development and constructions projects, Class A and trophy assets, multi-property portfolios, triple net leased properties and programmatic joint venture vehicles. Rob has also structured master leasing arrangements on behalf of international gaming companies and has lead transactions involving the conveyance of gaming assets in numerous states throughout the U.S. Rob has significant experience in financings, preferred equity investments, intercreditor and recognition arrangements, ground leases, and the acquisition and disposition of real property, including entity level sales and secondaries transactions. In addition, Rob has advised clients on numerous distressed real estate investments and the restructuring of complex debt and equity investments, reorganizations and workouts. Representative clients over the course of his career have included Alexandria Real Estate, the Amherst Group, Ares Management, Atalaya Capital Management, Blackstone, BTS Bioenergy, CapRock Partners, Danaher, Eagle Point Hotels, ECapital Management, Extell, First Citizens Bank, MacNaughton, MGM Resorts International, Mindspace, Renewable Resources Group, Selby Transportation, Sixth Street, Tishman Speyer, Fortress, and Whitehorse Capital, among others. Rob currently sits on the Board of Directors of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Rob previously served as a member of the Athlete Advisory Committee of U.S. Figure Skating and a Trustee of the U.S. Figure Skating Foundation. On a personal note, he was a national medalist and international competitor in ice dancing and was named as an alternate to the U.S. Olympic team for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Robert Pommer

Robert W. Pommer III is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of Proskauer's Securities Enforcement, White Collar Defense & Investigations groups and the Asset Management Litigation team. Bob’s practice focuses on a broad range of securities-related enforcement and compliance issues. He represents private fund managers, financial institutions, public companies, and their senior executives in enforcement investigations and litigation conducted by the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other governmental entities and financial services regulators. He also conducts internal investigations and counsels investment advisers and public companies on regulatory compliance, corporate governance and other SEC-related issues. Prior to his career in private practice, Bob served as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement for nine years. While there, he investigated and litigated several high-profile cases involving complex financial fraud and audit failures. Bob also worked on enforcement actions involving insider trading, investment adviser and broker-dealer issues, market manipulation and other violations of the federal securities laws.

Robert Sutton

Robert Sutton is a partner of Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the Corporate Department. He is a seasoned practitioner with over 20 years of experience counseling managers and advisers of private funds on regulatory matters, as well as regulatory issues related to the formation and operation of private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge and other private funds. Rob has a deep knowledge of the market practice of asset managers and in particular, as it relates to Advisers Act-related issues. From some of the largest and most sophisticated firms in the global asset management industry to start-ups and mid-sized firms, Rob’s experience includes a wide spectrum of funds and asset classes across their life cycles. Rob regularly advises on matters in connection with: U.S. investment adviser registration and regulation; Advisers Act and other U.S. securities law issues relating to the formation, marketing and offering of private funds; Identifying and managing conflicts of interest, and addressing related Advisers Act risks, SEC examinations, and exam readiness preparation; Design and implementation of investment adviser compliance policies and procedures; U.S. regulatory issues relating to purchases and sales of investment advisory businesses (minority stake and control stake transactions, buy-side and sell-side representations); Advisers Act and other U.S. regulatory issues relating to private fund restructurings and recapitalizations, strip sales, continuation fund formations and similar transactions; Advisers Act issues relating to the formation of SPACs by investment advisers; and, Investment Company Act status analyses of private fund structures, investment transaction structures and other non-registered investment company structures.

Robert Freeman

Robert Freeman is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group and a member of the Sports Law Group. For over two decades, Rob has helped to structure and negotiate the transactions that shape the way consumers access and view content. As the co-head of Proskauer’s TMT group, Rob leads a team of attorneys focused on media, sports, entertainment and technology, representing clients such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Cox Communications, AMC Networks, The Big Ten Conference, TMRW Sports, ForgeLight, DISH/Sling, Hulu, NBA Media and NFL Media, among many others. Rob’s work for these clients includes a broad array of corporate transactions ranging from the negotiation of complex media and sports rights and content distribution agreements, including over both traditional (e.g., cable, satellite, telco) and digital (e.g., Internet, wireless) platforms, to the creation of joint ventures, strategic alliances and complex commercial licensing arrangements and industry-specific mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, Rob also has advised multiple clients on first-of-their-kind transactions related to sports betting. Recent examples of Rob’s work include representing ForgeLight LLC in its acquisition of a majority stake in Univision Holdings, Inc, the leading Hispanic media company in the U.S.; Discovery in its $2 billion+ joint venture with the PGA Tour to form “GOLFTV” and subsequent acquisitions of Golf Digest and Golf Channel Latin America; Cox Communications in the negotiation of the largest content acquisition deal in Cox’s history with The Walt Disney Company, which included all of Disney’s cable networks, ABC’s broadcast stations, and the ESPN family of programming services; and The Stars Group in its groundbreaking partnership with FOX Sports, which included the launch of sports betting platform FOX Bet and an equity investment by FOX of over $240 million in The Stars Group. Rob is a frequent lecturer on sports, media, intellectual property, licensing, emerging technology, digital rights and sponsorship issues and is the editor of Proskauer’s “Three Point Shot” sports e-newsletter. He is a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the T. Howard Foundation, whose mission is to increase diversity in the media and entertainment industries. Rob has also chaired the Golf Committee for the March of Dimes’ annual golf outing in the NYC area.

Robert Projansky

Robert M. Projansky is a partner in Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group and is currently a member of Proskauer's Executive Committee. Rob has a broad practice advising both multiemployer and single employer clients on all issues related to the legal compliance and tax-qualification of ERISA-covered pension and welfare plans. Rob’s clients include the largest and highest-profile U.S. media and entertainment industry clients, as well as a broad range of Fortune 500 companies. In the multiemployer context, he serves as counsel to the boards of trustees of a number of large and small funds and frequently assists clients in addressing issues related to the funding of defined benefit pension plans, including zone status, benefit suspensions, special financial assistance and withdrawal liability. He also advises these clients on healthcare compliance, cybersecurity and government investigations. In addition, his practice includes advising corporate clients on their responsibilities related to multiemployer plans, with particular expertise on the impact of multiemployer and collectively bargained plans in corporate transactions. Rob has extensive experience advising corporate clients regarding general compliance issues and fiduciary compliance matters, including plan asset and prohibited transaction issues. He also has addressed a myriad of issues related to complex plan investments, including negotiation of separately managed and collective investment vehicles for both traditional and alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds and fund-of-funds vehicles. Rob is a widely sought after speaker on topics related to employee benefits, fiduciary, cybersecurity and government investigations and speaks each year at the annual conference and various other conferences sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the largest educational organization in the employee benefits industry. Rob currently serves as one of the nine Advisory Directors on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation.

Robert Cantone

Robert Cantone is a corporate lawyer advising clients on transactional, corporate governance and disclosure matters. His practice is broad-based, with particular emphasis on the representation of public companies in the life sciences sector. His transactional practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances structured to advance innovative technologies. Working with management teams and boards of directors, Robert also advises on corporate governance policies, as well as matters relating to activist defense. Robert advises clients on public disclosures regarding a range of important corporate developments.

Robert Gaut

Robert Gaut is a tax partner and head of Proskauer's UK tax practice in London. Robert provides advice on a full range of UK and international tax issues relating to fund formation, private equity deals, finance transactions and private equity real estate matters, including experience with non-traditional equity transactions, such as debt-like preferred equity and co-investments for private credit investors. Robert is highly-regarded for his ability to provide sophisticated tax advice to many of the world’s preeminent multinational companies, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks and private equity and credit funds. Clients have commented to legal directories that Robert is “really technical and knows his stuff,” and “has a very strong knowledge of the various tax laws, but also presents more innovative techniques and strategies."

Robin Painter

Robin A. Painter is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was global co-head of that practice for several years. She also previously served as co-head of the Firm's corporate department. She has a global network of clients and contacts developed over her more than 30 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital industry. She advises fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on a broad range of issues, including structuring private investment funds, portfolio investments, spin-outs, secondary transactions, internal governance and divestments and distributions. The majority of Robin’s practice involves representing sponsors in structuring private investment funds and funds of funds and representing U.S. and global institutional investors and investment advisors in the private equity field. She routinely supervises teams of lawyers that represent sponsors in structuring their funds and institutional investors, or their advisors, in their investments across the alternative asset class. Robin also represents large institutional investors, or their advisors, in connection with the acquisition and sale of secondary partnership interests, and she has been involved in several of the largest bulk purchases of partnership interests in the industry. Over the last few years, Robin has managed teams of lawyers in fund structuring projects with capital commitments of well over $10 billion, and also has advised clients on significant secondary transactions, spin-outs and restructurings. Robin has served as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at several law and business schools, including Harvard School of Law, the Copenhagen Business School, Oxford University, MIT Sloan School, Yale School of Management and Boston College Law School. A frequent lecturer, author and industry board member, Robin takes an active role in the global private equity community. Some of her more recent lecture topics have included: - Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund - Private Equity Secondaries as an Asset Class - Connecting with Your Firm's Fundraising Efforts - Terms & Conditions: Ensuring a Successful Platform for All Parties - The LPs Perspective on Alternative Assets

Ron Franklin

Ron D. Franklin is co-head of Proskauer's Corporate Finance Group and leads Proskauer's Fund Finance practice. He advises clients across a broad spectrum of finance issues, including secured and unsecured lending transactions, domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, all types of fund financings, project financings, workouts, restructurings and general banking concerns. He also counsels corporate clients regarding stock and asset acquisitions, contract negotiations, and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Ron worked with another prominent law firm located in New York.

Ronald Sernau

Ron Sernau is part of New York’s real estate industry inner circle and has more than 37 years of experience in real estate law. His clients, some of which have relied on his advice for decades, routinely involve him in their strategic decision making. Ron offers clients the insight he has gained by representing opposing interests in similar transactions. He has advised landlords and tenants, lenders and borrowers, purchasers and sellers, equity investors and developers, managers and owners, and brokers and principals. Ron represents prominent New York City real estate developers in their investments in, and development of, premier properties. Various businesses, from large publicly traded companies to boutique investment firms, engage him to address their real estate concerns. He also provides general legal advice to luxury retailers, with a focus on real estate issues. At Proskauer, Ron serves as the co-chair of the Real Estate Department and co-chair of the Private Equity Real Estate practice. An avid speaker on real estate topics, Ron has appeared before groups sponsored by the Association of the Bar of The City of New York, the New York Hospitality Council, Inc., the New York State Bar Association, the Georgetown Commercial Leasing Institute, CB Richard Ellis, Inc., the Association of Attorneys and Executives in Corporate Real Estate, Practising Law Institute, The Real Estate Board of New York, Inc. and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

Russell Hirschhorn

Russell L. Hirschhorn is co-head of Proskauer’s premier ERISA Litigation Group, which is a significant component of the firm’s ERISA Practice Center and globally renowned Labor and Employment Law Department. Russell’s practice focuses on employee benefits issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including class action and complex litigation, U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service investigations, and counseling clients on best practices to avoid litigation. Russell has more than two decades of experience representing plan sponsors, fiduciaries, trustees, and service providers across the country. His work on behalf of clients has included all types of plans, including 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, defined benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, executive compensation plans, health and welfare plans, multiemployer plans, multiple employer plans, and severance plans. And, it has included the full gamut of claims arising under ERISA, including excessive investment and plan administration fees and investment underperformance claims; cash balance plan litigation; claims for benefits; company stock fund cases; claims for delinquent contributions; ERISA § 510 claims; ERISA statutory claims; ESOP litigation; executive compensation claims; independent contractor claims; independent fiduciary representations; multiemployer fund litigation; plan service provider claims; recoupment of plan overpayments; retiree benefits claims; severance plan claims; and withdrawal liability claims. Deeply dedicated to pro bono work, Russell has been recognized on several occasions for his commitment to pro bono work including by President George W. Bush in receiving the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award. His pro bono work has included serving as lead litigation counsel in several impact litigations: on behalf of social security recipients whose benefits were unlawfully suspended based on an outstanding warrant, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in Louisiana prisons seeking disability accommodations, and Swartzentruber Amish in upstate New York to obtain religious exemptions from certain building code requirements. Russell also was a principal drafter of several amicus briefs for the Innocence Project, a legal non-profit committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people.

Sandra Crawshaw-Sparks

Sandra A. Crawshaw-Sparks is a senior partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and Chair of the firm’s Entertainment, Copyright and Media Practice Group. Sandy maintains a bi-coastal practice, specializing in a wide variety of litigation and transactional matters in the entertainment industry with a special focus on music. A well-known and respected entertainment industry litigator with over 35-years of success, Sandy represents the most iconic names in music on recording, publishing, licensing and management contracts, copyright and trademark infringement claims, unfair competition claims, and the rights of privacy and publicity. While she fiercely fights high-profile battles for her entertainment clients and wins some of the most visible cases in the media today, Sandy also negotiates pre-litigation and pre-trial resolutions of highly sensitive and confidential personal and entertainment-related disputes, protecting her clients and their reputations from unwarranted media scrutiny and creative distraction. She is also recognized as an expert in the law respecting court approval of personal services contracts with minors. Sandy is the National Legal Counsel for the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (the not-for-profit organization responsible for the GRAMMY Awards) and she has long served on the Board of Directors of the GRAMMY Museum’s Entertainment Law Initiative, which promotes discussion and debate about the most compelling legal issues facing the music industry. Over the course of her career, Sandy's clients have included: Madonna; Lady Gaga; Sting; The Police; Britney Spears; Shania Twain; Luther Vandross; U2; Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails; Amerie; Fiona Apple; Hall & Oates; Matisyahu; Meat Loaf; Debbie Gibson; Sally Hershberger; Judd Hirsch; Living Colour; and Just Blaze. Sandy has also represented numerous entertainment industry leaders, including: Chris Blackwell; Jimmy Iovine; and Russell Simmons. The music industry companies she has represented include: Live Nation; Sony Music Entertainment (including Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records, Provident Music Group, RCA Records, Zomba Recording Corp., and Verity Records); Universal Music Group (including Interscope Records, Def Jam Records, Geffen Records, GRP Records, MCA Music Publishing, MCA Records, Island Pictures, Island Music, Island Records, Mercury Records, Motown Records, and PolyGram Records); Warner Bros. Records; Warner/Chappell Music; BMG Rights Management; Primary Wave Music Publishing; Kobalt Music Publishing; the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; American Recordings; Cash Money Records; EMI-Capitol Music Group; EMI Music Publishing; Gee Street Records; IslandLife; the Island Trading Company; JB Music Publishing; Jellybean Recordings Inc.; Palm Pictures; Maverick Recordings; Rykodisc, Inc.; Vagrant Records; and Wind-Up Records.

Sandra Lee Montgomery

Sandra Lee Montgomery is a recognized leader in banking & finance having closed more than $5 billion in transactions for first- and second-lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors across the country in 2021 alone. Sandra is a member of Proskauer’s Executive Committee, the Women Partners Advisory Committee and she was the co-Chair of the New Business Committee for the last four years. She is also a mentor in the Firm’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program. Her areas of focus include acquisitions, recapitalization and other leveraged financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border financings, unitranche and mezzanine financings and restructurings. Sandra has industry experience in a wide range of business sectors including retail, technology, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, general industrial, import/export, agriculture and services. She has extensive knowledge of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and other laws that relate to secured transactions. Sandra has also handled numerous cross-border transactions involving Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, England, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Scotland and Singapore.

Sarah Cherry

Sarah K. Cherry is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Her practice is focused on the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. private equity funds and managers in capital formation, regulatory compliance and operational issues. Sarah also regularly represents institutional investors and funds-of-funds in their investments in U.S. and non-U.S. private equity funds both in primary and secondary transactions. In addition, Sarah advises clients in relation to internal general partner dynamics and management company issues.

Scott Jones

Scott S. Jones is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Scott’s practice focuses on tax planning for private equity fund managers in connection with their fund-raising and internal organizational matters, as well as investment activities. In addition, he represents U.S. and non-U.S. investors in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, buyout funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships. In this capacity, as well as in connection with advising private equity funds with respect to their investment activities, Scott regularly advises on international tax issues that arise with investments in the U.S. by non-U.S. investors (including non-U.S. investors subject to special U.S. tax treatment, such as governmental pension plans and tax-exempt organizations), as well as investments outside of the U.S. by U.S. persons. He also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations. He also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations.

Scott Faust

Scott A. Faust is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group and a member of the Labor-Management Relations Group. He focuses his practice on all aspects of labor and employment law, and regularly handles collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration, mediation, counseling and litigation of labor and employment disputes on behalf of his clients. Labor-Management Relations Scott represents employers in collective bargaining negotiations, grievance arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, work stoppages, labor injunction proceedings and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board. He also has extensive experience advising distressed companies and their creditors, as well as buyers and sellers involved in M&A transactions in labor-intensive industries. Scott has negotiated numerous collective bargaining agreements with the United Steelworkers in more than a dozen U.S. states as well as in Canada. He also has negotiated agreements with the United Auto Workers, Canadian Auto Workers, SEIU, Teamsters, Machinists, Operating Engineers, Carpenters, Painters, United Plant Guard Workers, Electrical Workers, Sheet Metal Workers, Chemical Workers, Food and Commercial Workers, Massachusetts Nurses Association and Typographers unions. Employment Litigation and Counseling Scott represents employers in labor and employment disputes in state and federal courts and administrative agencies, as well as in mediation and arbitration. Cases he has handled include matters involving wrongful discharge, ERISA, employment discrimination, related employment torts, enforcement of and challenges to non-competition agreements, and administrative proceedings before state and federal agencies. He has litigated cases in state and federal courts in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Utah, Colorado and North Carolina, including appeals to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First and Tenth Circuits. He also provides day-to-day counseling on general employment matters, including equal employment opportunity and discrimination issues, development of employment policies, workplace restructuring, and employment law compliance. Thought Leadership Scott has published articles and given recent presentations on such subjects as Labor and Employee Benefits Issues in Corporate Transactions, Issues and Opportunities in Labor Intensive M&A Transactions, Trends in Private Sector Collective Bargaining, Electronic Workplace Monitoring and Surveillance, Duty to Provide Information in Bargaining, NLRA Compliance Issues, and Strikes in the Health Care Industry. Scott has been ranked in Chambers USA as a leader in labor and employment law.

Sean Boulger

Sean Boulger is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate department. He focuses his practice on a wide range of real estate transactions and development projects. He represents numerous investors, developers and operators in joint ventures, acquisitions, developments, leases, and financing transactions across a broad spectrum of real estate asset classes. Key knowledge areas include the following: Multi-family Housing Sean represents investors, developers and operators of multi-family housing projects across the United States. His experience includes the formation of joint ventures to acquire, develop and operate multi-family projects, as well as financing with conventional lenders, life insurance companies, government-sponsored enterprises and securitized lenders. Office He also represents institutional owners and developers of office projects, including office-lab buildings, on acquisitions, developments, financings, joint ventures, sales and leasing. Representative projects include the formation of joint ventures to recapitalize major office-lab projects in Cambridge, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California for publicly-traded REIT*. Seniors Housing Sean has extensive experience in the seniors housing industry. On the operating side, his clients include Benchmark Senior Living, LLC, which owns and operates more than 50 seniors housing communities in which he has been involved in the acquisition, development and financing*. On the investment side, he represents private equity funds which joint venture with prominent operators to acquire, develop and reposition seniors housing projects. Retail Sean represents investors, developers and operators of retail projects. His clients include institutional investors, as well as Fortune 100 big-box operators, which he represents on numerous acquisition, leasing and development projects. Industrial Sean is experienced in the acquisition and development of industrial warehouse projects for various investors including REITs. Leasing Sean has extensive experience representing office landlords and tenants. Among other matters, he has negotiated major corporate headquarter leases on behalf of tenants, and has handled numerous lease workouts for landlords and tenants. Design and Construction Contracts Sean has expertise representing owners and developers on design and construction projects. He has represented clients on numerous office, hotel, multi-family and senior housing projects, and manufacturing facilities.

Seetha Ramachandran

Seetha Ramachandran is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and a member of the White Collar and Asset Management Litigation practices. An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Seetha has conducted 10 criminal jury trials, argued 10 appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and handled ancillary civil proceedings in forfeiture cases. Seetha is a leading expert in anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act, economic sanctions and asset forfeiture matters. Her practice focuses on white collar and regulatory enforcement defense, internal investigations, and compliance counseling. She represents banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, private equity funds, online payment companies, and individual executives and officers in high stakes and sensitive matters. Seetha has deep experience representing institutions and individuals in financial penalty phase of criminal and regulatory matters, and is often retained to litigate forfeiture and restitution claims on behalf of victims and third parties in criminal cases, as well as handling these issues for individual defendants. Seetha served as a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, including as Deputy Chief in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (AFMLS), Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice. She was the first head of DOJ’s Money Laundering & Bank Integrity Unit, where she supervised DOJ’s first major AML prosecutions, and oversaw all of the Criminal Division’s AML cases. In that role, Seetha coordinated closely with state and federal banking regulators, including FinCEN, the OCC and the New York State Department of Financial Services, giving her deep experience with how these agencies work together, especially in matters involving civil and criminal liability. Her work developing and charging criminal cases under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) formed the model for AML enforcement that regulators and prosecutors follow today. Seetha also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for nearly six years, in the Complex Frauds, Major Crimes and Asset Forfeiture units where she investigated and prosecuted white-collar cases involving a wide range of financial crimes, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, stolen art and cultural property, and civil and criminal forfeiture cases. Seetha is a frequent speaker and prolific author on topics including enforcement trends in the financial services industry, OFAC sanctions, effective AML programs and asset forfeiture.

Seth Safra

Seth J. Safra is co-chair of Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Described by clients as “extremely knowledgeable, practical, and strategic,” Seth advises clients on compensation and benefit programs. Seth’s experience covers a broad range of retirement plan designs, from traditional defined benefit to cash balance and floor-offset arrangements, ESOPs and 401(k) plans—often coordinating qualified and non-qualified arrangements. He also advises tax-exempt and governmental employers on 403(b) and 457 arrangements, as well as innovative new plan designs; and he advises on ERISA compliance for investments. On the health and welfare side, Seth helps employers provide benefits that are cost-effective and competitive. He advises on plan design, including consumer-driven health plans with HSAs, retiree medical, fringe benefits, and severance programs, ERISA preemption, and tax and other compliance issues, such as nondiscrimination and cafeteria plan rules. Seth also advises for-profit and non-profit employers, compensation committees, and boards on executive employment, deferred compensation, change in control, and equity and other incentive arrangements. In addition, he advises on compensation and benefits in corporate transactions. Seth represents clients before the Department of Labor, IRS and other government agencies.

Stephanie Heilborn

Stephanie Heilborn is a partner in Proskauer's Private Client Services Department, leads Proskauer's International Private Client Services group and is a current member of Proskauer's Executive Committee. Stephanie counsels some of the world’s wealthiest families and largest financial institutions in the implementation of complex tax-planning strategies, international estate planning and trust administration as well as fiduciary litigation. She assists in the formation and provision of corporate tax advice to private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations. She also has experience in forming and advising domestic and international family offices regarding estate and tax planning. Stephanie frequently lectures and writes on estate-planning topics and has been quoted by The New York Times and Forbes. She has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

Stephanie Martinier

Stéphanie Martinier is a special international corporate counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department, working in the Paris office. Stéphanie advises French and international clients on the legal aspects of their investments in France. She has worked on a wide range of corporate transactions, including business acquisitions and sales (both for industrial clients and private equity funds), and joint ventures, and has been involved in the negotiation of sensitive commercial contracts. In addition, she has built long-term relationships with her clients advising them in this context on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other French data privacy regulations. Stéphanie has also developed expertise in the restructuring of corporate groups, in the negotiation of management packages and in dealing with the corporate aspects of the departure of top executives. In addition, she manages the pro bono work of the Paris office and, as part of this commitment, provides training on the legal aspects of the creation of a business to young entrepreneurs through the program run by the not-for-profit Yes Akademia.

Stephen Severo

Stephen Severo is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. Stephen represents corporate, private equity and investment fund clients in connection with all tax-related aspects of their businesses, including fund formation, secondary transactions, taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, tax-free spin-offs, taxable divestitures, domestic and cross-border bank financing arrangements, investments, partnerships and joint ventures, debt restructurings, securities issuances and REIT and other specialized real estate transactions. He provides tax advice and planning for U.S. inbound and outbound investments, including treatment of U.S. shareholders under the PFIC and CFC regimes, foreign tax credit issues, treaty issues and reporting obligations. Additionally, he provides ongoing federal income tax counsel to clients in connection with tax structuring and strategy to minimize tax liability and effective tax rate, improve tax efficiencies, and ensure proper tax treatment and reporting. Prior to joining Proskauer, Stephen was an associate in the tax department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Stephen Chuk

Stephen Chuk is a senior counsel in Proskauer’s Antitrust and Sports Groups. He advises companies in complex multidistrict litigation, cartel cases, and compliance matters. Stephen also counsels individuals and corporate clients facing criminal and regulatory investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general. Stephen has extensive experience advising on antitrust matters involving alleged claims of price fixing, monopolization, group boycott, and bid rigging across a wide range of industries, including fintech, sports, agriculture, and health care. In addition, he advises on consumer protection matters involving marketing practices and false advertising.

Stephen Gruberg

Steve is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Credit Group and Proskauer's Leveraged Finance Group. His principal focus is the representation of leading private credit providers, direct lenders and investment banks in a wide range of leveraged loan transactions across the capital structure spectrum, with a particular focus on leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and leveraged recapitalizations. Steve has industry experience in a wide range of business sectors including healthcare, software, restaurants, industrial and manufacturing, retail and financial services. Steve’s clients include many of the market leaders in upper-middle and middle-market lending space, including Ares Capital, Antares Capital, Golub Capital, KKR Capital, NXT Capital, Varagon Capital, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Stephen Rubin

Stephen W. Rubin is the former co-head of Proskauer's Private Equity Group and concentrates on representing sponsors of private equity funds. Steve has represented Charterhouse Group Inc., one of the leading private equity firms, in connection with the formation of each of its equity funds, as well as with respect to the related fundraising and negotiations with investors. He also has represented Charterhouse in the acquisition and disposition of most of its portfolio companies, including Charter Communications, CelluTissue Corporation, Oakleaf Waste Management, American Disposal Services, Cross Country Healthcare and Del Monte Foods. In addition, Steve represented Celebrity Cruise Lines in connection with its sale to Royal Caribbean International.

Stephen Pevsner

Stephen Pevsner is a tax partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds and Private Equity M&A Groups. Stephen's practice covers the broad range of corporate and individual tax advice, with particular emphasis on private fund formation across a wide range of buyout, debt and infrastructure asset classes, as well as UK and international M&A transactions (often private equity backed). He has wide experience in corporate reorganisations, structured finance, investment funds and new business set-ups, and also advises regularly on a wide range of employee and fund manager incentive arrangements arising from these transactions.

Stephen Boyko

Stephen A. Boyko is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of The Private Credit Group. His primary focus is in finance transactions, particularly those involving private sources of capital. He represents one of the largest client rosters in the industry, including an array of specialty finance companies, private debt funds, business development companies (BDCs), CLOs, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity investors and issuers in connection with leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, acquisition financings, going-private transactions, management buyouts, as well as other finance-related transactions, including innovative, first-in-kind transactions across the U.S. and in the UK. Steve has had extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and bankruptcy rights, debt restructurings, and private equity investments. In the past 20 years, he has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $75 billion. Steve has had extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and bankruptcy rights, debt restructurings, and private equity investments. In the past 20 years, he has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $75 billion. Steve actively represents over 50 clients in transactions that have ranged from $5 million to $1 billion. Steve also has extensive capital markets experience, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in offerings of high-yield securities, debentures, medium-term notes, preferred stock, common stock and other structured securities.

Stephen Mears

Stephen T. Mears is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was co-head of that practice for several years. He concentrates on private investment funds, including venture capital, growth equity and buyout funds. He represents fund sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, operation and management, including fund structuring, portfolio investments, sales and distributions, internal governance and management, regulatory compliance and ongoing maintenance and administration. Stephen also represents institutional investors in connection with their participation in private investment funds Stephen has recently represented sponsors in raising funds ranging in size from under $100 million to over $2.5 billion. Representative clients include: - GenCap America - General Catalyst Partners - New Enterprise Associates - Sterling Partners - Thrive Capital Partners

Stephen Hibbard

Stephen Hibbard is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Litigation, Asset Management Litigation, and White Collar & Investigations groups. A highly regarded complex commercial and securities litigator with more than 30 years of experience, Steve represents financial institutions, companies, and individuals in commercial litigation, securities class actions, merger & acquisition litigation, derivative actions, and corporate governance disputes. He routinely represents clients in regulatory or internal investigations, and regularly advises public companies on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues. Steve has led the defense of dozens of headline-making and high-profile matters from cryptocurrency to cyber-security, from fintech to greentech, and from the housing mortgage crisis to the age of digital assets and AI. Buyers, sellers, and financial advisors have relied on him in merger litigation, including in dozens of technology company mergers. Steve has also handled complex litigation matters involving corporate finance, accounting, antitrust, defamation, copyright, tax, employment, RICO, and unfair business practices claims for businesses in a wide range of industries including investment banking, commercial banking, venture capital, private equity, asset management, biotech, pharmaceuticals, hardware, semiconductors, software, and sports leagues and teams.

Steven Baker

Steven is a commercial lawyer who has a broad practice in international and domestic dispute resolution. He helps clients in English higher court proceedings and overseas. Steven also has a large international arbitration practice with experience of a wide range of arbitral institutions, including HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA, UNCITRAL and SIAC. Steven lectures on dispute resolution-related matters, including on the M. Sc. Major Projects course at Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is also the co-author of a leading publication on technology disputes entitled, “IT Contracts and Dispute Management: A Practitioner's Guide to the Project Lifecycle”, a second edition having been commissioned. Over the past 30 years, Steven has been heavily involved in advising upon and resolving disputes in the technology, communications, defence, financial services and energy sectors. Steven is also the co-author of a leading text on technology and outsourcing disputes (a 2nd edition now having been commissioned and due to be published in July 2023): IT Contracts and Dispute Management: A Practitioner's Guide to the Project Lifecycle, published in March 2018 (Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN: 9781784710118).

Steven Kirshenbaum

Steve Kirshenbaum is a corporate lawyer counselling clients in complex strategic transactions, corporate governance matters, and other commercial issues. Steve is a former member of Proskauer's seven-person Executive Committee, co- Chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and Managing Partner of Proskauer's Paris office. Steve has extensive experience advising on a wide range of domestic and international/cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, reorganizations and other business combinations and related commercial transactions. Boards of directors and management teams also look to Steve for strategic and practical business oriented judgment across a full range of other public company, operational and general corporate activities. He has advised clients in many different industries including manufacturing and distribution, technology, health care, entertainment and media, hospitality, farming and food production, industrial packaging, logistics, automotive, printing, insurance and financial services, building products, defense technologies, apparel and fashion, and retail sales. Steve’s clients have included, among others, public companies such as Henry Schein, Inc., Ascena Retail Group, United Industrial Corporation, Finley Enterprises, Inc. and C&D Technologies, Inc.; European companies including The Laird Group Plc., Tyman Plc., Dealogic Plc., Allied Domecq Plc, Belron S.A., The Albert Fisher Group Plc, Bollore SE, Bull SA, Club Méditerranée S.A., Cassina S.p.A., and Mauser-Werke GmbH; as well as private equity funds and individual entrepreneurs. Steve also has experience leading transactions in a chapter 11 reorganization context, including, among others, the sale by an Australian client of the Bonwit Teller store chain; the sale of a motion picture and video distribution company; the acquisition of three Mississippi stern-wheeler luxury cruise vessels (including the historic landmark, The Mississippi Queen); the acquisition by a German client of a manufacturer and refurbisher of industrial bulk containers; and the acquisition by a UK client of an auto-glass company with multiple locations. Steve has served on the board of directors of Ascena Retail Group (the Fortune 500 parent of seven retail fashion brands including Ann Taylor, the Loft, Lane Bryant and dressbarn), and on the boards of directors of Lawyers Alliance of New York, a not-for-profit provider of pro bono legal assistance, and the Summit Music Festival. He also chaired Practising Law Institute courses on negotiating commercial transactions and has sat on bar association committees.

Steven Lichtenfeld

Steven L. Lichtenfeld is co-head of Proskauer's market-leading Real Estate Capital Markets and Real Estate Finance Groups and a founding member of our Private Equity Real Estate Group. He regularly advises real estate funds, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, institutional lenders, specialty lenders, hedge funds, and pension advisors regarding public offerings and private placements of real estate-related debt and equity securities, real estate-related mergers and acquisitions, real estate preferred equity investments and joint ventures, real estate-related senior and mezzanine financings and other corporate, partnership and limited liability company matters. Steven has a unique skill set that allows him to quarterback a broad spectrum of transactions including public REIT offerings (both traded and non-traded), real estate mergers and acquisitions, real estate preferred equity investments and joint ventures and real estate recapitalizations and reorganizations. Steven also counsels his public REIT and other clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues and compliance matters as well as defensive measures and takeover tasks. Steven is a prolific author and speaker, having penned numerous articles and lectured before dozens of organizations throughout the country on various real estate capital markets, real estate private equity and real estate finance topics. Steven is also a member of the Board of Spark Youth NYC and is active on his Urban Land Institute council, UDMUC Bronze.

Steven Weinstein

Steven D. Weinstein is a partner in Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group and co-head of Proskauer's Strategic Corporate Planning Group. He has been practicing in the employee benefits field since 1984, representing clients sponsoring single employer and Taft-Hartley pension and welfare plans. Steven advises clients in all aspects of pension plan tax qualification and plan administration, including drafting of plan documents and employee communications; providing advice relating to corporate acquisitions and mergers; and negotiating investment management agreements, trust agreements, recordkeeping and custodial contracts, and other plan-related contracts. In the tax-qualified plan area, Steven assists clients concerning the rules relating to discrimination testing, participation, vesting, cash or deferred arrangements, plan limitations and plan distributions. He also counsels clients regarding voluntary correction programs offered by the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor. In addition, he counsels a wide array of clients on issues relating to fiduciary responsibility in connection with the administration and operation of employee benefit programs, particularly with respect to advice relating to the investment of plan assets. The latter advice includes the rules governing investment diversification, determination of plan assets, foreign indicia of ownership, prohibited transactions, and exclusive benefit and prudence. He also advises employers in connection with the implementation of all phases of reduction-in-force programs, including the drafting of severance plans and related documents, as well as employee communications required to effect these programs. Steven has wide-ranging experience with health and welfare plans, particularly regarding the new rules issued under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a member of Proskauer’s interdisciplinary Health Care Reform Task Force, he assists clients and other Proskauer lawyers in preparing for the numerous changes resulting from ACA. His experience is extensive in advising Fortune 500 companies with respect to the structure of their benefit plans and how such plans may be affected by corporate transactions. He also regularly counsels plan fiduciary committees as to best procedural practices to reduce potential exposure to fiduciary breach claims. His clients are most frequently in the manufacturing, financial services and entertainment sectors. Steven has significant experience in assisting clients with the implementation and ongoing operation of non-qualified retirement plans and other types of executive compensation, including issues relating to ERISA coverage, and Section 409A and Section 457A compliance. He also advises clients in connection with executive employment agreements and change-in-control or severance arrangements.

Steven Ellis

Steven M. Ellis is the former Chair of Proskauer. He is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Credit Practice, a practice that Steve proudly founded and led to its dominant position in the market today, serving as head of that practice for over 15 years. During his tenure as Chair of Proskauer, the Firm achieved record financial results and dramatically expanded its transactional platform and private capital offering. With a client roster boasting over 75 asset managers, he has represented an array of secured lenders, second lien lenders, debt funds and private equity funds in all types of transactions from recapitalizations to acquisitions. He specializes in private credit financing transactions, including innovative, first-in-kind structures. Steve serves as an active board member for Team IMPACT, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of kids battling diseases. A network of volunteers, coaches and players, Team IMPACT matches children facing serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams to form relationships that have life-changing outcomes.

Steven Hurd

Steve has extensive trial and appellate experience, in both federal and state courts, focusing on claims of alleged individual and class discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations, FINRA, whistleblowing and retaliation, defamation, fraud, breach of contract, wrongful discharge and other statutory and common law claims. Steve also advises clients on employment litigation avoidance, litigation strategy and alternative forms of dispute resolution. Steve also handles matters involving drafting, enforcing, and defending restrictive covenants, and protecting trade secrets. Steve is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of Proskauer's Employment Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group and is a member of Proskauer's Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group. Steve helps his clients stay in compliance with the ever-changing employment regulations with respect to FLSA and state law wage and hour requirements by providing advice and conducting comprehensive audits. Steve conducts investigations pertaining to reductions-in-force and individual employee terminations, and claims of gender, race, national origin, and disability discrimination. Steve earned his J.D. degree from Albany Law School, magna cum laude, and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, cum laude. He is admitted to and has practiced and handled cases in multiple jurisdictions around the country.

Steven Pearlman

Steven J. Pearlman is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and Co-Head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Group and the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group. Steven’s practice covers the full spectrum of employment law, with a particular focus on defending companies against claims of employment discrimination, retaliation and harassment; whistleblower retaliation; restrictive covenant violations; theft of trade secrets; and wage-and-hour violations. He has successfully tried cases in multiple jurisdictions, and defended one of the largest Illinois-only class actions in the history of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He also secured one of only a few ex parte seizures orders that have been issued under the Defend Trade Secrets Act, and obtained a world-wide injunction in federal litigation against a high-level executive who jumped ship to a competitor. Reporting to boards of directors, their audit committees, CEOs and in-house counsel, Steven conducts sensitive investigations and has testified in federal court. His investigations have involved complaints of sexual harassment involving C-suite officers; systemic violations of employment laws and company policies; and fraud, compliance failures and unethical conduct. Steven has served on Law360’s Employment Editorial Advisory Board and is a Contributor to Forbes.com. He has appeared on Bloomberg News (television and radio) and Yahoo! Finance, and is regularly quoted in leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has engaged Steven to serve as lead counsel on amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts of appeal. He was appointed to serve as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois in employment litigation matters. He has presented with the Solicitor of the DOL, the Acting Chair of the EEOC, an EEOC Commissioner, Legal Counsel to the EEOC and heads of the SEC, CFTC and OSHA whistleblower programs. He is also a member of the Sedona Conference, focusing on trade secret matters.

Steven Peck

Steve Peck is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group and its Structured Private Capital Group. He represents sophisticated private investment funds, multi-national corporations and other market participants in their most challenging transactional matters. Steve's broad practice focuses on private equity buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, growth equity, minority investments and distressed transactions. His buyout and M&A experience includes transactions ranging from middle market to multi-billion dollar transactions in a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, software and SaaS based companies, financial services (including fund manager M&A), other human capital management companies, manufacturing and consumer/retail. As a member of the Structured Private Capital Group, Steve has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps, lender remedies and related transactions involving troubled companies.

Steven Porzio

Steven J. Porzio is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of Proskauer's Labor-Management Relations Group. Steve assists both unionized and union-free clients with a full range of labor and employee relations matters. He represents employers in contract negotiations, arbitrations, and representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board. Steve has experience conducting vulnerability assessments and providing management training in union and litigation avoidance, leave management, wage and hour, and hiring and firing practices. He provides strategic and legal advice in certification and decertification elections, union organizing drives, corporate campaigns, picketing and union contract campaigns. Steve has represented employers in a number of different industries, including higher education, health care, construction and manufacturing in successful efforts against unions in election and corporate campaigns. In addition to his traditional labor law work, Steve assists companies with handbook and personnel policy drafting and review, daily management of employee disciplines and terminations, and general advice and counsel on compliance with federal and state employment laws. Steve’s litigation experience includes work on matters before state and federal courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the New York State Division of Human Rights and various other administrative agencies. He has litigated matters involving age, race, national origin, gender and disability discrimination, wage and hour, whistleblower and wrongful termination claims. While attending the Syracuse University College of Law, Steve served as the editor-in-chief of the Syracuse Science and Technology Law Reporter. He also received the Robert F. Koretz scholarship, awarded in recognition of excellence in the study of labor law.

Steven Davis

Steven Davis is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of its global Private Equity and M&A Group and co-head of the London office. Steven’s practice focuses on buyouts, buy-ins, and strategic mergers & acquisitions. He has considerable industry knowledge in the consumer, retail, financial, business services, sports and healthcare sectors, and has advised a broad range of clients, including private equity sponsors, management teams, financial institutions and public and private companies.

Stuart Rosow

Stuart Rosow is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a leader of the transactional tax team. He concentrates on the taxation of complex business and investment transactions. His practice includes representation of publicly traded and privately held corporations, financial institutions, operating international and domestic joint ventures, and investment partnerships, health care providers, charities and other tax-exempt entities and individuals. For corporations, Stuart has been involved in both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions. His contributions to the projects include not only structuring the overall transaction to ensure the parties' desired tax results, but also planning for the operation of the business before and after the transaction to maximize the tax savings available. For financial institutions, Stuart has participated in structuring and negotiating loans and equity investments in a wide variety of domestic and international businesses. Often organized as joint ventures, these transactions offer tax opportunities and present pitfalls involving issues related to the nature of the financing, the use of derivations and cross-border complications. In addition, he has advised clients on real estate financing vehicles, including REITs and REMICs, and other structured finance products, including conduits and securitizations. Stuart's work on joint ventures and partnerships has involved the structuring and negotiating of a wide range of transactions, including deals in the health care field involving both taxable and tax-exempt entities and business combinations between U.S. and foreign companies. He has also advised financial institutions and buyout funds on a variety of investments in partnerships, including operating businesses, as well as office buildings and other real estate. In addition, Stuart has represented large partnerships, including publicly traded entities, on a variety of income tax matters, including insuring retention of tax status as a partnership; structuring public offerings; and the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions among partnership entities. Also actively involved in the health care field, Stuart has structured mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures for business corporations, including publicly traded hospital corporations, as well as tax-exempt entities. This work has led to further involvement with tax-exempt entities, both publicly supported entities and private foundations. A significant portion of the representation of these entities has involved representation before the Internal Revenue Service on tax audits and requests for private letter rulings and technical advice. Stuart also provides regular advice to corporations, a number of families and individuals. This advice consists of helping to structure private tax-advantaged investments; tax planning; and representation before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities on tax examinations. A frequent lecturer at CLE programs, Stuart is also an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia Law School where he currently teaches Partnership Taxation.

Stuart Coleman

Stuart Coleman has counseled registered funds and their independent board members and market-leading investment advisers for more than 40 years, through cycles of industry expansion and innovation and in times of economic and regulatory crisis. His clients include funds and/or boards in more than 30 well-known complexes (including those with registered hedge and private equity funds, ETFs and BDCs), with assets of nearly 10% of all the money invested in investment companies. Stuart also has represented board litigation committees and has served as an expert in a significant matter before the SEC and in private litigation. A well-known individual in the industry, Stuart has chaired the New York City Bar Association Committee on Investment Management Regulation and has served on the ABA’s Task Force on the Fund Director’s Guidebook. In addition, he has spoken at numerous prominent industry conferences and before industry groups. He is passionate about the performing arts in New York City. He and his wife serve on the boards of a number of dance companies and performing arts venues. Before joining Proskauer, Stuart was the co-managing partner of a national law firm for 12 years.

Susan Gutierrez

Susan L. Gutierrez is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s Product Liability Group. As a commercial litigator and trial attorney, Susan specializes in high-stakes matters and complex disputes across industries. She has tried multiple high-profile cases to verdict in state and federal courts throughout the country. Susan also has significant experience coordinating and managing large, complex actions from the pleading stage through discovery and trial, including cross-jurisdiction matters involving multiple parties, counsel, and case issues. She represents many Fortune 500 companies in consumer products, pharmaceutical, media and entertainment and sports industries, including Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, National Football League and McDonald's.

Timothy Karcher

Timothy Karcher is a partner in Proskauer's Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group where he focuses his practice on bankruptcy, financial restructuring, insolvency, crisis management, financial reform, and the acquisition and sale of assets and troubled companies in and out of chapter 11. He is currently serving as counsel to the Debtors in Murray Metallurgical Coal Holdings, LLC. He played a leading role in the representation of the Creditors Committee in the chapter 11 cases of Westinghouse Electric Company, one of the largest chapter 11 cases of 2017 with estimated liabilities of several billion dollars. He is also counsel to the Trustee in ITT Educational Services, Inc., the largest for-profit college bankruptcy, and has held significant roles in some of the most important restructuring cases of the past decade, including Pacific Exploration and Production Corp. (debtors’ counsel for $6 billion international oil and gas exploration restructuring), Rotech Healthcare, Inc. (debtors’ counsel in $800m restructuring), MF Global (committee counsel), Enron Corporation (debtors’ counsel), Ames Department Stores (debtors’ counsel), G-I Holdings (debtors’ counsel), and Regal Entertainment (debtors’ counsel). In addition, Timothy has represented individual creditors, statutory committees and ad hoc groups in the restructuring cases of OneWeb Global Limited, McDermott International, iPic International, Weatherford International PLC, ENNIA Caribe Holding BV, Ultra Petroleum Corp., BFN Operations, TransCare Corporation, Hoop Holdings (Disney Stores), Kodak, New World Pasta, Coram Healthcare, American Airlines, Blockbuster, Trident Microsystems, Innkeepers Trust USA, Chrysler Financial Corporation, Midway Games,, and New Stream. Timothy has substantial experience representing public and private companies, secured and unsecured creditors, investors, hedge funds, private equity, family offices and financial institutions in a broad range of U.S. and international business restructuring and litigation cases. He advises companies and creditors in a wide array of industries, including oil and gas, health care, retail, technology, hospitality, financial services, airline and entertainment. In addition to his focus on financial restructuring, Timothy has extensive experience in the field of regulatory reform. He led a Proskauer team that worked with federal regulators from the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of Independent Foreclosure Review to reform mortgage servicing and foreclosure practices for borrowers who have sought bankruptcy protection. He has advised large institutional clients to develop strategies to ensure compliance with consent orders with the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. In connection with his work for ITT Educational Services, Inc., he has litigated against (and achieved consensus with) the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Education (ED) and multiple states attorney’s general.

Timothy Mungovan

Tim Mungovan is the Chair of Proskauer. He is also the immediate past chair of Proskauer’s Litigation Department and head of the Securities Litigation practice. His practice is focused on securities, commercial litigation, governance, and bankruptcy-related matters. He has a national reputation for advising sponsors of private investment funds (hedge, private equity, private credit and venture capital) in a wide variety of matters, including litigation, governance, securities, fiduciary obligations, and regulatory enforcement. Over the last six years, Tim has been the lead litigator representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in the historic restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debts. The scale and complexity of this restructuring has resulted in one of the most active litigation dockets in the U.S. Almost every aspect of the litigation involved matters of first impression in part because the restructuring is governed by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, which was enacted for Puerto Rico in 2016. The track record of success speaks for itself: in the more than 150 lawsuits filed, Tim and the Proskauer team have prevailed in almost 95% of the cases. Tim is recognized nationally for his experience in private fund litigation and disputes, having focused on the industry for more than 25 years. As part of that focus, Tim created and is the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on Private Equity litigation, The Capital Commitment.

Vinay Kohli

Vinay Kohli is a healthcare industry lawyer. Recognized for his focus and commitment to the healthcare industry, a wide range of healthcare businesses use Vinay as an outside general counsel to guide them on strategic planning, compliance matters, operational questions, and reimbursement concerns. He provides regulatory, compliance, and reimbursement advice on topics that range from venture formation, technology implementation, and risk management to day-to-day contract negotiations. Vinay’s background is unique in that he is also a seasoned trial lawyer. He is able to combine his regulatory expertise with a trial lawyer skillset for jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations arising in the healthcare arena—he represents hospital systems, physician practices, providers of post-acute care services, as well as healthcare technology and revenue cycle management companies. He defends health care fraud and abuse litigation, prosecutes managed care disputes against large national payors, and handles government investigations. And clients frequently call upon Vinay to serve as lead trial counsel in commercial litigation disputes that span the gamut from breach of contract and trade secret misappropriation to unfair business practices and breach of fiduciary claims. Vinay received his B.B.A., magna cum laude, M.A., and J.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005, 2006, and 2009 respectively. Prior to joining Proskauer, Vinay was a partner in the Healthcare group at King & Spalding.

Vincent Indelicato

Vincent Indelicato is co-head of Proskauer's Business Solutions, Governance, Restructuring & Bankruptcy Group and a member of the Private Credit Restructuring Group. Vincent's practice focuses on corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on the representation of direct lenders, ad hoc groups, bondholders and creditors’ committees both out of court and in chapter 11. He is frequently consulted by leading distressed hedge funds, BDCs, private credit lenders, private equity investors and creditors on complex domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, including intercreditor and interlender matters, across a variety of industries. Over the last decade, Vincent has played a lead role in some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases in the United States. These include his representation of the Statutory Committee of Unsecured Claimholders in the chapter 11 cases of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company Inc., which filed for bankruptcy with more than $18 billion of funded debt; the Los Angeles Dodgers in their $2 billion acquisition by Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners; Brookfield Asset Management in the $2.5 billion debt restructuring of Kerzner International’s Atlantis Bahamas Resort; and J.P. Morgan and other substantial creditors in the chapter 11 cases of MF Global, a financial services company with $41 billion in assets. Vincent has been widely recognized in the restructuring community as a thought leader. He writes frequently on restructuring topics, and his writing has been featured in, among other publications, The Wall Street Journal Bankruptcy Pro, The American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Law360 and The Bond Buyer. He has also assisted Martin Bienenstock as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Reorganization at both Harvard Law School and Michigan Law School. He serves as a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Views from the Bench Advisory Board, the Co-Chair of the Federal Bar Counsel Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of The Economic Club of New York. Vincent was selected to participate in the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges NextGen Program, and also serves as a Member of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Leadership Council. A Harry S. Truman Scholar, Vincent graduated from University of Michigan Law School as commencement speaker. Prior to law school, he served as the Special Assistant to United States Senator Charles E. Schumer and worked as a personal aide to John C. Whitehead, former chairman and senior partner of Goldman Sachs. He also led a team of entrepreneurs to bring the world’s first hybrid taxicab to New York City. Vincent graduated with an English degree from Haverford College, where he served as president of the student body and was one of 16 college students from the United States to be selected as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. He was a visiting student of English at Pembroke College, Oxford University. A native New Yorker, Vincent attended Regis High School, a tuition free private high school for young men who demonstrate superior intellectual and leadership potential.

Wai Choy

Wai Choy has deep expertise in technology, media and intellectual property-related transactions and counseling and is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department, Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Group, Life Sciences Group, and Blockchain & Digital Assets Group. He is recognized as a trusted advisor to asset managers, operating companies and other enterprises at various stages in their development and across industries, including technology, technology-enabled services, life sciences, health care, media, entertainment, sports, e-commerce, consumer, advertising and financial services. In the context of private equity, venture capital, mergers, acquisitions and financings, Wai: Structures and negotiates key transaction documents, such as purchase, merger, transition services and intellectual property license agreements; Leads teams in conducting legal due diligence and provides industry-specific market insights; Advises clients on technology, intellectual property, privacy and data security matters; and Represents portfolio companies pre-sale or post-acquisition in their business operations, including key commercial transactions, joint ventures and strategic agreements. Wai also helps operating companies navigate legal and business matters in their business operations and leads the structuring, drafting and negotiation of a wide range of contracts, such as: Service agreements for a variety of services, including outsourcing, software as a service (SaaS) and other hosted services, data analytics, digital marketing, software and website development, systems integration, technology implementation and payment processing; In the biotech, pharma and medical device arena, agreements covering research and development collaborations, intellectual property licenses, manufacturing, supply and distribution services, sponsored research, grants, revenue sharing and other strategic partnerships among commercial entities, academic institutions and/or charitable organizations; Collaboration agreements between strategic partners for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of new technology, products and services; Software license agreements and other complex intellectual property license and assignment agreements; Revenue sharing, joint venture, reseller, supply, equipment purchasing, manufacturing and other types of general commercial agreements; Content production, license and distribution agreements covering various business models and distribution methods; Terms of use, privacy policies and end user license agreements for websites, mobile apps and other software; and Advertising-related agreements spanning digital, radio and outdoor media, including programmatic advertising platform agreements, lead generation service agreements, advertising reseller and affiliate agreements, insertion orders and advertising terms and conditions. Wai is Co-Head of Proskauer’s Technology Strategy Committee and advises the firm and clients on artificial intelligence policy, issues and adoption. Wai also serves as Co-Editor of Proskauer’s Blockchain and the Law blog and counsels business and legal teams on blockchain and distributed ledger technology development, structuring and implementation, token offerings, digital assets, and associated legal issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, Wai worked in the Business & Legal Affairs departments of Marvel Studios in Los Angeles and Marvel Entertainment in New York. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Wai served as Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was a Levy Scholar.

Warren Allan

Warren Allan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Warren advises European sponsors on raising investment funds, and on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of fund interests and manager-led liquidity solutions. Warren also advises investors making direct and indirect co-investments.

Wayne Katz

Wayne D. Katz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, specializing in the sports industry. Wayne's experience includes the representation of the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League in their various corporate matters, including team ownership transfers and team financings. Major transactions he has worked on for the leagues include the NBA’s purchase and sale of the New Orleans Hornets; the NBA's grant of expansion franchises to Toronto, Vancouver and Charlotte; the NHL's grant of expansion franchises to Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus and Minnesota; the NBA’s $3.6 billion League-wide credit facility; and the formation of the Women's National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Development League. He also has worked on several proposed and completed acquisitions and sales of National Football League and Major League Baseball teams, including the sale of the Miami Marlins, Jimmy Haslam’s purchase of the Cleveland Browns, Jeffrey Lurie’s purchase of the Philadelphia Eagles, Robert Wood Johnson IV’s purchase of the New York Jets, Jeffrey Loria’s purchase of a controlling interest in the Montreal Expos, and Ted Lerner’s purchase of the Washington Nationals. In 2002, Wayne handled the seminal transaction in which the owners of the Expos sold the Expos to Major League Baseball and simultaneously purchased the Florida Marlins from John Henry. He also represented Red Bull GmbH in its purchase of the MLS MetroStars (now known as the New York Red Bulls), Cliff Viner in his sale of the NHL Florida Panthers and The Ralph Wilson Trust in its sale of the Buffalo Bills. Wayne has extensive experience with stadium and arena development, financing and lease transactions, including representing the Marlins in its development of Marlins Park in downtown Miami; the NBA in its temporary relocation of the New Orleans Hornets to Oklahoma City; Red Bull in its joint development and lease of a new stadium in Harrison, New Jersey; the Eagles in its financing of Lincoln Financial Field; the Jets in its financing of MetLife Stadium; the Minnesota Vikings in its lease and financing of a new stadium in Minneapolis; and the Cleveland Browns in its stadium renovation financing. Wayne also handles various financing and commercial agreements on behalf of his sports clients, such as bank credit agreements, naming rights agreements, concessions agreements and employment agreements. Outside of sports, Wayne has handled mergers, acquisitions, financings and investments, and has prepared partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements and various other corporate documents, for clients in a wide range of other industries.

Whitney Phelps

Whitney Phelps provides practical and strategic counsel, solutions and analysis for healthcare stakeholders of all kinds. She has particular expertise in managed care and value-based contracting, including with various alternative payment arrangements between providers and payers. Her experience includes advising on a broad range of complex healthcare transactions and regulatory matters relating to long-term care, home care, behavioral health, risk contracting and ambulatory services. Whitney has deep capabilities negotiating complex joint ventures and other transactions, with special attention to New York regulatory compliance. Whitney also has extensive experience representing health care entities before the New York State Executive Branch, including with respect to shaping health care policy and Medicaid redesign, as well as laws and regulations impacting regulated healthcare entities in New York. Whitney also served as Director of Managed Care and Associate Counsel at the Healthcare Association of New York State.

William MacGregor

William MacGregor is a partner in Proskauer's registered funds group and a member of the investment management practice. Over the last two decades, Bill has held roles in big-law and as in-house counsel at preeminent firms equipping him with a unique perspective and a deep understanding of asset managers in the registered funds space. His wide-ranging practice includes advising clients on regulatory and transactional matters involving registered open-end and closed-end investment companies and their investment advisers, as well as their independent board members. Bill works closely with clients on new product development, distribution arrangements and, development and application of compliance programs. In particular, he regularly counsels clients with respect to regulatory issues in relation to regulatory examinations and inquiries, as well as implementation of new regulations and regulatory changes. Prior to joining Proskauer, Bill served in-house as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, at Equitable Investment Management Group.

William Komaroff

Bill Komaroff is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, as well as a member of the Asset Management Litigation and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups. His practice is focused on counseling and defending institutional and individual clients in connection with a broad array of complex civil disputes, government investigations and prosecutions. Bill is an experienced trial lawyer, having conducted numerous trials both as a prosecutor and on both sides of the “v.” in private practice. He has also conducted internal investigations for a wide variety of clients including asset managers, sports leagues, medical device companies, hospitals and non-profits. Bill previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and prosecuted tax fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud cases, among others.

William Silverman

William C. Silverman is a partner responsible for leading Proskauer’s global pro bono efforts, which provide assistance to individual clients and nonprofit organizations in litigation as well as transactional matters. He focuses on identifying and securing pro bono opportunities and partnerships for Proskauer lawyers and ensuring widespread participation in these projects. Bill has robust private and public sector experience and a strong criminal and civil background. He has worked extensively on government investigations and white collar criminal matters, as well as complex civil litigation in federal and state courts. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he led criminal investigations, conducted trials and handled Second Circuit appeals. Throughout his career, Bill has dedicated himself to the promotion of equal access to justice through pro bono service, particularly in the area of family court, anti-trafficking, and immigration. Bill spearheaded a partnership among several law firms, corporations and the New York City Family Court to provide free legal advice to pro se litigants. The New York City Family Court Volunteer Attorney Program now has more than 400 volunteer attorneys from 40 major firms and corporations. Bill also co-authored a groundbreaking report for the New York City Bar Association and the Fund For Modern Courts on how COVID-19 impacted the New York City Family Court. Bill is currently serving as co-chair of the Court Modernization Action Committee (CMAC), a working group of judicial, bar, and community leaders formed to support and advise the New York State Court System in implementing technology to increase efficiency and enhance equal access to justice. Bill serves as counsel to the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition. In that capacity he has been a strong advocate for changes in the law and public policy to protect victims of human trafficking and bring perpetrators to justice. He also represents individual clients in this area, including a successful federal lawsuit brought on behalf of a trafficking victim against her traffickers. Outside of his work at the firm, Bill serves on various non-profit boards. Bill is currently chairman of the Fund for Modern Courts, a non-partisan citizen organization devoted to improving New York State courts, and is formerly chairman of Legal Information For Families Today (LIFT), an organization devoted to unrepresented litigants in Family Court.

Xavier Norlain

Xavier Norlain is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Xavier advises investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions, as well as industrial and services groups on their corporate finance operations, restructuring and external growth transactions. Xavier also advises managers in the negotiation of their status and their remuneration, as well as in the context of operations with investment funds. Xavier’s clients include Bpifrance, Bridgepoint, The Carlyle Group, Eurazeo, Circet and Sodexo. Publications Quoted in Les Echos Capital Finance “LBO, the end of golden years?”, December 2022 Trends and Developments for Private Equity in France. Chambers Global Practice Guides, 2021 L’attractivité du secteur de la profession d’avocat pour les femmes en question, La Semaine du Droit, Edition générale, n° 10, March 2021 Introduction à la seconde édition du Guide Numérique. La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires, 2019 La Défense écartelée. Centre d’étude et de prospective stratégique, April 2017 Les dernières tendances en matière de Capital Transmission et pratiques des « préemptives ». Les Echos Business, August 2016 Principales tendances des pratiques M&A comparées seton la typologie de profil des opérateurs: Private Equity vs. Corporate. Les Echos Business, January 2016 A favorable outlook in France. M&A Guide 2016, January 2016

Yomarie Habenicht

Yomarie “Jo” Habenicht is an associate in Proskauer's Tax Department, specializing in U.S. federal, corporate, partnership and international tax matters. Jo focuses her practice on tax structuring and planning for a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, cross-border transactions, restructurings, bankruptcy related transactions and joint ventures. Her practice also includes providing day-to-day tax advice to domestic and foreign companies on a broad range of tax issues. Jo represents companies before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities on tax examinations. A co-chair of the Proskauer Women’s Alliance Steering Committee, Jo was selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women's Sponsorship Program, an initiative that champions high-performing mid-level and senior lawyers as emerging leaders. Prior to joining Proskauer, Jo worked in the tax services department of a Big 4 accounting firm. She is fluent in Spanish.

Yuval Tal

Yuval Tal is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our internationally recognized Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Group. Yuval also heads our Asia practice. He is a general corporate and securities lawyer with diverse experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions (public and private, debt and equity), long-term joint ventures, private equity real estate and corporate and real estate finance. He advises clients on the full range of their activities including any form of financing, operational matters and commercial transactions. He advises sponsors and funds on the structuring, execution, entering into, restructuring and exiting of investments. Yuval has decades of experience representing clients on complex, first in kind transactions. His strength is providing original, workable and practical solutions that get the deal done. Qualified in New York, Hong Kong and Israel, Yuval has negotiated transactions in six continents and has experience representing clients on cross border transactions, including inbound to or outbound from Asia. Yuval regularly works with clients in various industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, sports, financial services, technology and life sciences. As an international M&A lawyer, Yuval has many years of experience dealing with complicated, non-customary transactions involving parties from different countries, cultures and legal systems. He has represented private equity, family offices, corporations and individuals in structuring, restructuring, managing and disposing of investments in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is typically called upon to strategize and structure complex transactions that do not follow a prescribed form or pattern. Yuval’s experience enables him to forsee future issues and clients have commented on his “ability to think seven moves ahead of the competition”. Yuval is also well known for his ability to broker deals between opposing parties in order to get the deal done, irrespective of the legal, business or practical obstacles. As co-head of Proskauer's Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Group, Yuval has worked on virtually any kind of transaction in the hospitality space, including mixed-use development and construction, acquisition and sale, restructuring and public offerings of real estate, hotel and casino companies. His experience covers traditional and more bespoke hospitality products such as hotels, casinos, branded residences, private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants and theme parks. He has completed numerous high profile transactions involving the buying, selling and combining hotel operating companies and brands, including AccorHotels’ [EPA:AC] US$2.9 billion acquisition of Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, its acquisition of Tribe, Australia’s first integrated modular hotel brand, Accor’s long-term alliance with Huazhu Hotels Group (also known as China Lodging Group [Nasdaq: HTHT]) and its strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banyan Tree Holdings [SGX:B58]. He also advised Formosa International Hotels’ sale and resulting joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. Recent transactions include the acquisition of sbe and subsequent formation of Ennismore, a worldwide hospitality lifestyle platform which currently owns 14 brands and operates over 100 properties, and the subsequent sale of a 10.8% interest to a Qatari based consortium; a strategic agreement for the development of the Faena brand, the sale of the Mexico-based Hoteles City Express brand to Marriott for $100 million, the reorganization of the Sydell brand and Accor’s sale and long term license concerning the Accor Vacation Club. His broader Private Equity Real Estate experience includes working on The Recording Academy’s (The Grammys) deal to develop Grammy Museums in China, a public/private deal to finance an office building in Delhi, India; acquisitions of hotels in Bangkok by a large Japanese institutional investor and a joint venture between a Hong Kong developer and an Asian based private equity fund for the acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Kowloon into a mixed use property including co-living and co-working properties. Yuval’s broader Private Equity Real Estate experience includes working on specialty real estate such as The Recording Academy’s (The Grammys) deal to develop Grammy Museums in China, a public/private deal to finance an office building in Delhi, India; acquisitions of hotels in Bangkok by a large Japanese institutional investor and a joint venture between a Hong Kong developer and an Asian based private equity fund for the acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Kowloon into a mixed use property including co-living and co-working properties. Yuval is a member of the Hospitality Development Council of ULI in both the United States and Asia and was d member of the Steering Committee of the Asian council; he was also a member of the Law 360 2020 Hospitality Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker at real estate and hospitality related conferences such as the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Prior to rejoining Proskauer in 1999, Yuval practiced law in Israel, representing Israeli clients in transactions in Europe and the United States and European and U.S.-based clients in transactions in Israel. He handled transactions for major publicly traded Israeli companies such as Clal (Israel) Ltd., LifeWatch, Kitan Consolidated Ltd., Orckit Communications Ltd., ECI Telecom Ltd., Scitex Corporation Ltd. and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. Since joining Proskauer, Yuval has continued to represent Israeli clients on a wide range of corporate and securities matters.

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