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Adam R. Beringer
Adam R. Beringer
With a focus on commercial aircraft finance, Mr. Beringer has significant experience representing operating lessors, commercial banks, finance companies, manufacturers, private equity funds, hedge funds and other aircraft investors in all manner of aircraft finance transactions, including portfolio securitizations and warehouse financings involving substantial commercial aircraft portfolios, Rule 144A capital markets transactions, M&A transactions, cross-border operating lease transactions, distressed-debt transactions involving debt secured by commercial aircraft portfolios, and numerous aircraft portfolio acquisition and disposition transactions. Mr. Beringer also has experience representing investors and commercial banks in business aircraft and railcar finance transactions. Mr. Beringer advises clients on various day-to-day matters, such as tax-based corporate structuring, aircraft and engine maintenance agreements, aircraft consignment agreements, aircraft modification and conversion agreements, aircraft servicing and management agreements, and aircraft and engine fund-style joint ventures, as well as general corporate and securities law matters. Prior to joining Vedder Price, Mr. Beringer served as general counsel to Q Aviation, a global aircraft operating lessor. At Q Aviation, Mr. Beringer advised senior management in the establishment of the company (from inception), developed portfolio and risk management processes and procedures, and had primary responsibility for all legal matters. With this background, Mr. Beringer is able to offer legal advice to aircraft investors that is both practical and based on real-world experience.
Amy Bess
Amy Bess
Ms. Amy L. Bess' employment litigation experience includes the representation of employers before U.S. state and federal courts and administrative agencies, defending against claims of race, sex, disability and age discrimination; sexual harassment; whistleblower retaliation; restrictive-covenant disputes; wrongful termination; and wage and hour violations. She regularly counsels clients in all of these areas, drafts and negotiates employment and severance agreements, conducts on-site workplace investigations, presents training seminars and speaks to employer groups on avoiding workplace problems. Ms. Bess also has experience advising clients regarding their public accommodation obligations under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and representing clients in litigation involving related claims. Ms. Bess has extensive first-chair bench trial, jury trial and arbitration experience. She also is experienced in the defense of complex class action litigation, including wage and hour collective actions and pattern or practice litigation brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Bess is actively involved in a number of non-profit and charitable organizations. She is a board member and  serves as general counsel for Everybody Wins!, a charity in the district focusing on promoting children's' literacy. She is also a member of the board of the District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In 2019 she was awarded the Tom Nees Award for Exceptional Service by Community of Hope, a non-profit organization pursuing a mission to aid low-income families experiencing homelessness and struggling with healthcare needs, in recognition of her long-standing, deeply-impactful service to the women, men and children who turn to Community of Hope for help.
Anthony Renzi
Anthony Renzi
Mr. Renzi focuses his practice on international and U.S. corporate transactions, and advises a broad range of clients, particularly those in the energy, shipping and offshore services sectors. He represents clients in public and private equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and private equity investments. For over 25 years Mr. Renzi has represented European and Asian issuers and investment banks developing strategies for raising capital or making acquisitions in cross-border transactions, and advised private equity firms in connection with portfolio company acquisitions and dispositions, including emerging market investments. Mr. Renzi has advised a variety of clients in connection with planning, structuring and executing cross-border equity and debt capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings (IPO) involving issuers listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, LSE, Euronext and Oslo Bors. He has also counseled non-U.S. issuers and underwriters in connection with cross-border transactions, including global securities offerings, rights offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, tender offers, US OTC trading, establishing ADR programs and stock and asset purchase and sale transactions. Mr. Renzi has acted on behalf of private equity clients in connection with significant portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, and represented public company boards and board committees in connection with annual shareholder meetings, post-IPO matters, periodic reporting, public disclosure obligations and fiduciary duties in the context of transactions for corporate control, legislative developments and internal investigations.
Anthony Ashley
Anthony Ashley
Anthony J. Ashley is a Shareholder and Chair of the Litigation practice area based in Chicago. Mr. Ashley has been serving clients for over 30 years with a global, complex commercial litigation and employment law practice, which includes counseling and litigating in geographically diverse U.S. federal and state courts, international courts and tribunals, and arbitration forums. He has also served for the past 15 years as outside general counsel to multiple organizations that range in size and industry.
Arianna Goodman
Arianna Goodman
Ms. Goodman is a trial attorney who regularly represents individuals and corporate clients in matters involving the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission and related agencies. Trial Experience Ms. Goodman is well-known for her trial experience. She has tried numerous state and federal jury trials across the country, defending a variety of federal criminal charges including health care fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, honest services fraud, securities fraud, tax violations, anti-kickback allegations and bribery. Internal Investigations Ms. Goodman has led numerous internal investigations relating to regulatory compliance, internal accounting practices, financial crimes, campaign finance, employee misconduct and violations of export laws and bribery. She has also conducted internal investigations on behalf of universities, pharmaceutical companies, staffing companies, medical entities and physician groups. Health Care Ms. Goodman has extensive health care experience from the initial investigation through trial. She regularly represents physicians, hospitals, pharmacists, compounding pharmacies, dentists and marketers in investigations and prosecutions. Politics and Public Corruption Ms. Goodman has extensive experience representing elected officials under investigation and under indictment. Her experience includes representing a state senator on federal bribery charges, conducting an internal investigation for a state’s lieutenant governor, and investigating misappropriation of state funds. Firm Leadership Ms. Goodman serves on the firm’s Associate Hiring Committee. Ms. Goodman also serves as the Dallas Lead for the Pro Bono Committee. She demonstrates a commitment to pro bono legal service in criminal defense matters including the Buried Alive Project, a nonprofit organization that fights to free people sentenced to life without parole under federal drug laws. Ms. Goodman successfully freed two individuals service life sentences in the Southern District of New York after serving over 33 years in prison.
Christine De Pree
Christine De Pree
Ms. De Pree focuses her practice on disclosure document and prospectus review, as well as proxy statements. Additionally, she has extensive knowledge in counseling investment companies and investment advisers in connection with regulatory, compliance and transactional issues. Ms. De Pree started her law career with Vedder Price in 1996 as an Associate with the firm’s Investment Services group, and has now rejoined the firm as a Shareholder after many years working in-house. She received her law degree from DePaul University College of Law and her undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, with honors.
Hoyoon Nam
Hoyoon Nam
Mr. Nam focuses his practice on maritime and transportation finance. Mr. Nam frequently represents banks, investment funds, corporate borrowers and financial sponsors in connection with financing and restructuring transactions. He also works on direct lending and other private credit matters, representing private debt providers in connection with acquisition debt, special situations, rescue and bridge financings as well as working capital and liquidity-enhancing credit transactions. He has extensive experience in asset finance matters, including lending transactions involving clients in the maritime and transportation industry sectors. Mr. Nam is qualified in New York, England and Wales and the Marshall Islands.
Nicholas Anaclerio
Nicholas Anaclerio
Mr. Anaclerio has decades of experience as a Labor and Employment trial and appellate attorney helping clients in the defense of wage and hour, discrimination, and other employment class actions, lawsuits and charges involving alleged sexual harassment and retaliation, gender, race, age, national origin, disability and religious discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Illinois Whistleblower Act, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 and related state and federal laws. His practice has likewise included hundreds of restrictive covenant and trade secret misappropriation disputes, claims and lawsuits, including numerous high stakes temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction hearings. He is a seasoned trial attorney with extensive first-chair jury trial, bench trial and arbitration hearing experience. He provides practical and insightful human resource counseling to management clients facing ongoing employee relations and employment law compliance issues, and he has represented corporate and institutional clients in a wide range of industries and professions. Mr. Anaclerio regularly publishes and speaks on employment topics including the ethical dimension of restrictive covenant and trade secret disputes, wage and hour compliance, sensitive workplace investigations, generational workforce issues, employee privacy, workplace retaliation claims and many others.
Todd Lurie
Todd Lurie
Todd F. Lurie is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Investment Services group in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice on cleared and non-cleared derivatives, and investment management advising, including fund formation and regulation. Before entering private practice, Mr. Lurie was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for MetLife, where he was responsible for strategic advisory for MetLife’s global derivatives platform, including documentation, transactional review and engagement with state, federal and global regulators. Over the course of his career, Mr. Lurie has also spent several years working for corporate financial institutions. Additionally, Mr. Lurie regularly draws on his experience in advising on insurance M&A, reinsurance securitizations, pension risk transfer transactions and structured credit transactions to provide clients with thoughtful but practical advice. Mr. Lurie received his law degree from New York University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta.