Winston & Strawn

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/white-andrew-t.html Andrew White, Real Estate Practice Chair, represents real estate private equity funds, hedge funds, REITs, developers, and other institutional investors and operators in a wide variety of real estate transactional matters, including joint ventures and co-investments, real estate debt financings, complex acquisitions and dispositions, leasing (including sale-leasebacks), and ground-up development. Andy also advises clients across industries and asset classes on real estate issues including borrowers, lenders, landlords, and tenants.

Angela Machala

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/machala-angela-m.html#full-bio Angela Machala is the managing partner of Winston’s Los Angeles office. She represents business entities, independent directors, and executives in federal grand jury, SEC, and other government investigations. Angela has successfully defended clients charged with or investigated for theft of trade secrets, securities fraud, health care fraud, environmental crimes, FCPA violations, and defense contractor fraud. She has extensive experience assisting companies in conducting sensitive internal investigations. In the civil arena, she has represented businesses accused of negligence in hiring, Lanham Act, and civil RICO claims, as well as breach of fiduciary duty, usurpation of corporate opportunity, and fraud claims.

Angela Smedley

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/smedley-angela-a.html#full-bio Angela Smedley focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, leveraging insights from her federal court clerkship to defend financial services clients against individual and class actions across multiple jurisdictions. Angela also employs her years of sports litigation experience in representing professional sports unions and athletes in labor arbitrations, and complex disputes at the trial and appellate levels.

Angela Russo

Russo, Angela Rohman | Winston & Strawn Angela Russo concentrates her practice on the tax aspects of complex business transactions and regularly advises private equity and leveraged buyout funds and their portfolio companies. Angela has extensive experience in transactional tax matters, specifically in structuring and negotiating complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures of private and public companies in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, retail, food and beverage, professional services, technology, and health care. She also advises on the tax aspects of debt and equity financings, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, and various capital market transactions.

Basil Godellas

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/godellas-basil-v.html Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Services Practice, Basil Godellas represents clients in the asset management industry in a wide variety of regulatory and transactional matters, including the formation of private investment funds, new product development, securities offerings, and acquisitions and divestitures.

Bobby Malhotra

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/malhotra-bobby.html#full-bio Bobby Malhotra is a member of Winston’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy Group and focuses on navigating complex eDiscovery, digital forensics, cross-border, and data privacy issues in high-stakes litigation and investigations using his unique combination of both hands-on technical skill and two decades of business and litigation experience. A true “techno” lawyer, he uses his technical knowledge and legal expertise to serve clients across numerous sectors and industries. Bobby serves as a trusted eDiscovery advisor to Fortune 500 clients, and in this role, he provides counseling and guidance in connection with legally defensible and standardized company-wide discovery practices.

Brian Ferguson

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/ferguson-brian-e.html#full-bio Brian Ferguson is recognized among the leading patent lawyers in the United States. He has more than 30 years of experience representing Fortune 100 innovator companies before all of the major patent law venues — the International Trade Commission, district courts, the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board — in high-stakes IP disputes involving an array of technologies. A leading publication described him as a “master technician” who “calls the right play at every stage of a case, whatever the forum.”

Charlie Haag

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/haag-charles-t.html Charlie Haag advises on venture capital, IPOs, high-yield and investment-grade debt, convertible securities, tender offers, spin-offs, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, and takeovers. He also regularly counsels clients on corporate governance matters, including fiduciary duties and SEC filings.

Christopher Essig

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/essig-christopher-b.html#full-bio Christopher Essig focuses his practice in the areas of products liability, class actions, and intellectual property. He has deep experience with significant nationwide product liability matters, as well as consumer fraud class actions, involving multi-district and consolidated litigation in both state and federal courts. He also has substantial experience representing major pharmaceutical companies in disputes involving intellectual property.

David Coulson

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/coulson-david-a.html#full-bio With over 30 years of experience, Dave Coulson stands out for winning complex commercial matters, class actions, and product liability cases on motions and trying cases to successful outcomes, oftentimes against the odds in challenging venues in and beyond Florida. He is also praised by clients for his “business-oriented approach and ability to think outside of the box” to engineer settlements that align with clients’ business objectives. Dave is a trial lawyer who represents businesses in a wide array of disputes, including consumer class actions (typically involving claims of false advertising, statutory violations, or product defect) as well as lawsuits involving claims of breach of contract, business torts, trade secrets, trademark, RICO, product liability, product warranty, professional liability, shareholder securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and shareholder derivative actions. Dave is sought after by clients for his “analytical ability and knowledge of class action litigation” and “excellent courtroom manner.” Described by clients as “extremely experienced and strategic,” he has consistently developed successful strategies and implemented them with discipline, winning scores of cases on motions to dismiss or for summary judgment and defeating numerous motions for class certification.

David Scheper

David Scheper - Partner | Winston & Strawn A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, David Scheper is described by Chambers USA as a “premier, go-to lawyer.” David practices in the areas of complex business litigation, internal investigations, and white collar criminal defense. In the civil arena, David’s practice is both international and varied; he has represented numerous businesses and financial institutions in federal and state courts throughout the country. He served as lead counsel for an international law firm facing allegations arising out of its defense of a client that operated a Ponzi scheme. After granting in its entirety a motion to dismiss, the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge stated that David’s client was “fully entitled to hire the A-team and get a great service as they did. I’ve never used the word “superb” before in a fee motion and I don’t know if I’ll ever use it again, but [your] work was certainly superb.”

David Rogers

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rogers-david-e.html#full-bio David Rogers is the Managing Partner of Winston’s D.C. Office. He advises clients on the management of a variety of benefit plans, and regularly counsels on executive compensation arrangements. Clients describe him as “very knowledgeable, responsive, and practical” and “recommend David to any client seeking an employee benefits counsel” (Chambers USA).

David Enzminger

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/enzminger-david-p.html#full-bio David Enzminger has a nuanced understanding of cutting-edge technologies, as well as a track record of success as a “superb first-chair trial lawyer” (IAM Patent 1000). His extensive experience handling complex patent and trade infringement cases in state and federal courts for clients in the telecommunications, computer hardware and software, and manufacturing industries earned him recognition among The Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers in California” and as one of the “Top 75 California IP Litigators” in 2013. Clients praise his “command of subject matter” and “excellent client service” (The Legal 500 US 2018).

Drew Washington

Washington, Drew | Winston & Strawn Drew Washington is a litigation associate who has experience in sports, antitrust, and labor law. Drew worked on the litigation team that represented the U.S. Women’s National Team in its gender discrimination/equal pay lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation. She also works on matters for the NFL Players Association, one of which involved a successful Second Circuit appeal involving claims brought under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. While Drew was a summer associate in 2017, she published an article for the Daily Journal alongside Kathi Vidal, discussing the impact of the TC Heartland Supreme Court decision on patent litigation.

Edith Boucaya

Partner - Private Equity

Gretchen Scavo

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/scavo-gretchen-vetter.html#full-bio Gretchen Scavo is a solutions-driven litigator and former federal judicial law clerk with nearly 15 years of experience representing clients in complex civil litigation, government investigations, and internal investigations. Clients have complimented her ability to provide “clear, simple, and straightforward” advice on complicated issues.

Gustavo Membiela

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/membiela-gustavo-j.html Gustavo J. Membiela has over 20 years of experience handling a wide variety of commercial arbitration matters around the world. He has successfully represented consumer product companies, financial institutions and corporations, developers, and investors in multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Imad Kahn

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/khan-m-imad.html#full-bio Imad Kahn is an international disputes lawyer with particular experience in investment treaty and commercial arbitration – having represented private companies, state-owned entities and States in numerous arbitrations under rules of the ICC, ICDR, HKIAC, and LCIA.

Jason Goldstein

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/goldstein-jason-r.html#full-bio By building lasting relationships, Jason Goldstein has earned the respect of national leaders in arena and stadium development as well as real estate finance. His collaborative approach to working with his clients enables all parties involved in the transactional matters he leads to achieve their commercial goals. Jason also has significant experience handling all aspects of complex financing and real estate transactions.

Jeanifer Parsigian

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/parsigian-jeanifer-e.html#full-bio An accomplished antitrust, sports, and commercial litigator, Jeanifer Parsigian concentrates her practice on civil antitrust litigation with particular expertise in mixed issues of antitrust and intellectual property law, and class actions. She represents clients in some of the most complex antitrust, sports, and intellectual property disputes in the country at the trial and appellate levels. She has represented clients in high-profile matters such as the landmark Supreme Court decision against the NCAA on behalf of classes of D-I college athletes and Women’s National Soccer Team’s gender discrimination litigation. Jeanifer was recognized in 2023 as a Legal 500 US “Key Lawyer,” listed in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA as an “Up and Coming Practitioner,” named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, and selected as one of Law360’s Sports & Betting “Rising Stars” of 2022.

Jeff Smith

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/smith-jeffrey-m.html Jeff Smith represents a wide array of developers, private equity funds, investors, and large corporations in complex real estate transactions. His extensive real estate experience includes an emphasis on the representation of landlords and tenants in office, industrial and retail leasing, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, including industrial facilities, apartment complexes, and large ranches for commercial operations, and the representation of equity investors in joint ventures. He has also represented receivers in commercial real estate matters and lenders in secured commercial lending transactions ranging from construction to permanent financing workouts, foreclosures, troubled asset disposition and note purchase and sale transactions.

Jeffrey Amato

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/amato-jeffrey-j.html#full-bio Jeffrey Amato is a partner in the global Antitrust/Competition and Complex Commercial Litigation practices. He represents clients in a broad range of disputes with a particular focus on antitrust class actions. Jeffrey is skilled in the use of expert evidence and data analytics to devise innovative legal strategies.

Jeffrey Kessler

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/kessler-jeffrey-l.html#full-bio Co-Executive Chairman of Winston & Strawn, Jeffrey Kessler is one of the world’s leading antitrust, sports law, and trial lawyers. He has served as lead counsel in some of the most complex antitrust, sports, and intellectual property litigations in the country, including major jury trials, and has represented a number of U.S. and international companies in criminal and civil investigations in the antitrust, sports law, trade, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) areas. Jeffrey formerly served as the co-chair of Winston’s global Antitrust/Competition Practice and as the co-chair of the firm’s Sports Law Practice. Law360 recently named both practices as a “Practice Group of the Year” for their respective categories.

Jennifer Golinveaux

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/golinveaux-jennifer-a.html#full-bio Jennifer Golinveaux is an intellectual property litigator and Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s highly regarded Intellectual Property Practice. She represents clients in a wide variety of industries in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade dress, design patent, right of publicity, and Internet-related disputes. She is known as an industry leader in copyright and trademark litigation and counseling and is consistently recognized by Legal 500 US, Best Lawyers in America, and World Trademark Review.

Jennifer Stadler

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/stadler-jennifer.html Jennifer Stadler assists clients with executive employment agreements, the design and implementation of equity and incentive compensation plans, and other executive compensation arrangements and public company disclosure requirements relating to executive compensation. She also assists in the employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions.

Johanna Hudgens

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/hudgens-johanna-r.html#full-bio Johanna Hudgens counsels individuals and multinational clients in complex commercial, antitrust, and white-collar matters, whether it is working with them to avoid or resolve government intervention, or representing them in civil litigations on either the plaintiff’s or defendant’s side. Johanna’s dedication to client goals is enhanced by her focus on their business realities. Her experience as a judicial clerk in the Eastern District of New York offers clients behind-the-scenes insight into the judicial process and potential outcomes.

John Rosenthal

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rosenthal-john-j.html#full-bio With more than 30 years of trial experience, John Rosenthal litigates complex commercial, antitrust, and false advertising cases. He is ranked Band 1 in Chambers USA, and clients say he is “invaluable as a resource” with “extraordinary judgment” and “a lot of practical advice at his fingertips.” Chair of Winston’s eDiscovery & Information Governance Practice, John also has expansive experience in all areas of electronic discovery, privacy, information governance, and data breach.

Jonathan Birenbaum

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/birenbaum-jonathan.html#full-bio Jonathan’s practice focuses on complex acquisitions and dispositions, debt and equity financings, and general corporate law matters, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors. His experience includes deals involving numerous renewable and gas-fired projects, battery storage projects, transmission facilities, and pipelines. He is recognized in, among others, Chambers USA and The Legal 500 U.S.

Jonathan Brightbill

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/brightbill-jonathan-d.html An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Jonathan Brightbill was the nation’s lead environmental law enforcement official as Acting Assistant Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice. Jon is uniquely positioned to represent clients in government enforcement and investigations, regulatory challenges and counseling, and complex civil litigation including “greenwashing” class actions, citizen suits, and CERCLA allocation. Jon is a national leader on legal issues relating to climate change, ESG disclosure, and “green” advertising. Jon represents public and private companies, corporate officers, and other individuals across white collar, regulatory defense, and government and internal investigation matters, rulemaking challenges and administrative litigation, and complex commercial disputes, citizen suits, class actions, and environmental torts. His commercial litigation experience encompasses business disputes, false and deceptive advertising, consumer protection and fraud, securities and disclosure litigation, and False Claims Act matters; antitrust and unfair competition matters; and intellectual property litigation, such as trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.

Karl Kurzatkowski

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/kurzatkowski-karl.html#full-bio Karl Kurzatkowski is an associate in the tax practice of the firm’s New York and Washington DC offices. As a member of the tax controversy group, Karl focuses his practice on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters, including various subchapter L and insurance tax, transfer pricing, and state and local tax matters. Karl advises clients in audits, appeals and litigation process in addition to representing them on regulatory matters.

Katherine Preston

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/preston-katherine-ann.html Katherine Preston focuses on complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation. She represents individual and corporate clients in a variety of commercial disputes, including complex litigation in both state and federal courts, and she frequently practices in bankruptcy court. Although Katy focuses her practice on contractual disputes, she routinely works on a wide range of matters, including torts and valuation disputes. She also frequently defends clients against fraudulent transfer claims and other bankruptcy litigation matters, including both contested matters and adversary proceedings. Katy regularly advises clients in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, finance, and power.

Kenneth Betts

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/betts-kenneth-l.html Kenneth L. Betts concentrates his practice on representing issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and assisting public companies in the preparation of periodic reports and proxy statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In addition to representing companies in connection with the negotiation and structuring of joint venture, partnership, and other general business arrangements, he has extensive experience with representing companies in mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset transactions, exchange offers, and tender offers.

Kimball Anderson

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/anderson-kimball-r.html Kimball Anderson is recognized by Benchmark Litigation US as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” in the country. Additionally, as reported in Chambers USA, “Kimball Anderson is a renown practitioner concentrating in commercial litigation,” having tried cases over a range of issues for over 40 years. He concentrates in complex commercial matters, with specific expertise in consumer class actions, patent litigation, and antitrust investigations. According to a client, “he’s an excellent trial lawyer, he’s able to solve the most difficult problems, and he’s a real go-to guy when you have challenges above and beyond the norm.” As reported in the Leading Lawyers Magazine – Business Edition, Kimball is “widely respected in his field by peers, opposing counsel and clients.”

Larry Murphy

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/murphy-larry.html#full-bio Larry Murphy leverages over 20 years of business experience to represent private equity funds, portfolio companies, management teams, and other public and private companies in their mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and public and private capital transactions across multiple industries, including energy, energy transition, infrastructure, technology, telecommunications, and industrial services.

Laurae Rossi

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rossi-laurae.html#full-bio With more than 15 years of experience, Laurae Rossi represents both lenders and sponsors in energy project financings, energy tax equity partnerships, and energy acquisitions, particularly in connection with projects involving renewable energy and storage. She is not only consistently recognized for her ability to lead highly sophisticated and novel debt transactions, but also for the sheer volume of deals she undertakes.

Linda Coberly

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/coberly-linda-t.html Linda Coberly, co-chair of the litigation department, is a business litigator and leads the firm’s Appellate & Critical Motions Practice. She is known for her strong business sense, clear briefs, and compelling oral advocacy. She has argued nearly 70 appeals, including in the U.S. Supreme Court, eight different federal courts of appeals, and a variety of state appellate and supreme courts. She leads strategic, motions-intensive litigation matters at the trial court level and frequently serves in an appellate-lawyer-at-trial capacity in trial courts around the country.

Luke Connelly

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/connelly-luke-a.html#full-bio Luke Connelly is a commercial litigator, trial lawyer, and senior member of the firm’s renowned products liability practice. Named a Law360 “Legal Lion” and “Super Lawyer,” Luke represents pharmaceutical and consumer products companies in product liability, mass tort, and consumer protection litigation. Luke has deep experience in all phases of litigation in the state and federal courts, including MDLs and state court consolidations. In addition to his product liability work, Luke maintains a broad complex commercial litigation practice.

Marcelo Blackburn

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/blackburn-marcelo-m.html#full-bio Marcelo Blackburn is an experienced litigator whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, international arbitration, and government investigations. He has particular expertise advising clients with cross-border issues and has been recommended for international litigation and arbitration by The Legal 500 US.

Margaret Frey

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/frey-margaret-lomenzo.html Meg Frey is co-chair of Winston’s Funds Practice and concentrates her practice on private equity fund formations and investments. Meg leads fund formation matters for buyout, debt, secondary, venture, real estate, and other funds.

Maria Kenny

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/kenny-maria.html Maria Kenny is a partner in the firm’s New York office who focuses her practice in employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Maria assists in the employment, labor, compensation, and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions and securities transactions. She also assists clients with executive employment agreements, severance agreements and plans, equity and compensation arrangements, non-qualified retirement plans, and welfare benefit plans.

Mariana Pendás

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/pendas-fernandez-mariana.html#full-bio Mariana Pendás advises clients on U.S. and European economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws and regulations. Mariana also has extensive experience in conducting FCPA and AML internal investigations and participating in international commercial arbitrations. Her civil and common law legal experience and her multilingual skills make her an ideal lawyer to represent and advise clients on international matters.

Mark Rizik

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rizik-mark-e.html#full-bio Mark Rizik’s practice focuses on antitrust, class actions, contract disputes, and sports law. He has particularly significant experience defending large clients in antitrust class actions, and litigating high-stakes disputes involving contractual claims and counterclaims among multiple companies.

Matthew Stockstill

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/stockstill-matthew-r.html#full-bio Recognized by his peers as a D Magazine Best Lawyer (2020), a D Magazine Best Lawyer Under 40 (2018), and a Super Lawyer Rising Star (2015-2021), Matthew Stockstill focuses his practice on M&A, complex joint ventures, private securities transactions, and general corporate matters, and has extensive experience representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

Max Stubbs

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/stubbs-maxwell-l.html Max Stubbs has a broad energy practice with experience in commercial negotiations for midstream clients and acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream assets. He counsels clients on upstream/midstream asset purchase agreements, hydrocarbon gathering and agreements, gas processing agreements, fractionation agreements, hydrocarbon storage and terminalling agreements, produced water gathering, recycling, and disposal agreements, hydrocarbon purchase, sale, and exchange agreements, pipeline capacity leases and undivided joint-interest agreements, construction and operating agreements, and master service agreements.

Megan Devaney

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/devaney-megan-m.html#full-bio Megan provides fund formation and management advice to private equity funds. She also represents clients with the evaluation and negotiation of investments, transactions, and general corporate matters.

Michael Murphy

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/murphy-michael-t.html#full-bio Michael Murphy is an experienced trial attorney, having served as trial counsel in over 30 contested matters in state courts, federal courts, arbitrations, and administrative proceedings throughout the United States. His practice is focused on a wide range of complex commercial disputes and also includes significant experience in the defense of toxic tort, environmental, catastrophic event and insurance coverage litigation.

Michael Elkin

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/elkin-michael-s.html A widely recognized trial lawyer, Michael Elkin is known for his precedent-setting wins in “bet-the-industry” intellectual property disputes involving the streaming of motion picture, television, and music properties. His matters are frequently at the core of disputes arising from a digital media evolution that intersects at the crossroads of Silicon Valley and Hollywood. This winning experience has made him “the go-to litigator in new media law in the country” (The American Lawyer) and the “go-to attorney in digital copyright cases” (Chambers USA).

Michael Mullins

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/mullins-michael-t.html#full-bio Co-Chair of Winston & Strawn’s Finance Practice, Michael Mullins has extensive experience advising finance companies, asset managers, banks, and investment funds in connection with a wide range of financing transactions. Michael has a broad-ranging corporate finance practice, focusing primarily on commercial financings, fund finance, CLOs, warehouse/leverage facilities, and structured products. He represents finance companies, asset managers, banks, and investment funds in connection with a wide range of financing transactions. Michael also regularly represents issuers, investment banks, collateral managers, investment funds, and institutional investors in structured finance and debt transactions at all levels of the capital structure, with particular emphasis in transactions involving alternative asset managers, captive finance companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, and loan funds.

Nimalka Wickramasekera

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/wickramasekera-nimalka-r.html#full-bio Nimalka Wickramasekera has years of trial and counseling experience in connection with high-tech disputes. Paired with her strong technical background and significant stand-up courtroom experience, Nimalka’s deep IP knowledge has earned her industry praise and recognition, including by The American Lawyer as a Litigator of the Week runner up in 2019. IAM described her as having “trial smarts in abundance” and being “aggressive in pursuing early resolution to disputes.”

Nolan Bolduc

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/bolduc-nolan-r-p.html Nolan Bolduc is a corporate finance lawyer, focusing his practice primarily on structured finance, fund finance, and other commercial financings. He has represented leading financial institutions, asset managers, private equity sponsors and corporate issuers in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities, securitizations, CLOs, warehouse/leverage facilities, subscription facilities and private placements. Nolan has complementary experience in corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Olga Loy

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/loy-olga-a.html Olga Loy represents funds and fund sponsors in tax structuring, negotiating, and forming private equity and venture capital funds. She plans and structures other complex business transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and venture capital investments. Furthermore, she represents large public and private corporations on tax structuring of IPOs, SPACs, spin-offs, debt restructurings and general tax planning.

Oscar David

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/david-oscar-a.html#full-bio Regularly recognized as one of the country's top attorneys in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate finance, and joint venture work, Oscar David is a co-chair of the firm's Consumer Products Industry Group, and he was formerly chair of the firm’s M&A, Securities, and Corporate Governance practice. He serves as a trusted, strategic advisor to his clients and their C Suite executives and boards of directors. His clients include major public and privately-held businesses, family held businesses and private equity funds.

Patrick Hogan

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/hogan-patrick-e.html Patrick Hogan is a litigation associate in Winston & Strawn LLP’s Washington, D.C. office. He represents clients in class-action and multidistrict litigation in courts across the country, focusing on false advertising and product liability cases. Pat has experience in most aspects of litigation, including developing arguments for and briefing pretrial procedural motions, developing and briefing motions to dismiss, managing document collections and reviews, drafting and responding to discovery, preparing fact and expert witnesses, opposing class certification, and examining witnesses at trial. Pat also has experience preparing briefing to the federal courts of appeal.

Paul Amiss

Partner

Paul Salvaty

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/salvaty-paul-b.html#full-bio Paul Salvaty is a business trial lawyer who handles complex commercial litigation, antitrust, entertainment, and intellectual property matters in both state and federal courts. Paul has been recognized repeatedly for his work in commercial litigation including being named the 2021 “Litigation Lawyer of the Year” by the Century City Bar Association.

Paula Hinton

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/hinton-paula-w.html#full-bio Paula Hinton is a go-to trial lawyer, as recognized by Chambers USA and U.S. News – Best Lawyers, and recognized as one of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Litigation. Her clients have told The Best Lawyers in America that “Paula is one of the best trial lawyers I have worked with. She easily grasps complex issues and is able to explain them to the fact ﬁnder in simple eﬀective terms.”

Rand Brothers

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/brothers-rand-k.html#full-bio Rand Brothers is an accomplished attorney in Winston’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s Chambers ranked Mass Tort & Product Liability practice. He regularly represents clients across a variety of industries in complex commercial and product liability litigation before federal and state courts across the country. Rand has represented both U.S. and international corporations across a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, transportation, telecommunications, and manufacturing. In connection with his product liability work, Rand frequently engages with experts in diverse scientific fields such as pharmacokinetics, pathology, epidemiology, oncology, genetics, and toxicology to develop compelling general and specific causation defenses for his clients. Rand has extensive experience in all phases of complex litigation, ranging from initial case assessment and development of defenses, to authoring critical briefs in courts across the country, to defending and examining fact and expert witnesses at deposition, hearings, and trials. He has also had leading roles in the development and implementation of cost-efficient pre-trial discovery plans for large product liability matters, including all defense-side discovery in a multidistrict litigation involving claims from nearly 4,000 individual plaintiffs.

Reid Smith

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/smith-reid-f.html Reid Smith focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and has a broad range of experience in federal, state, and appellate disputes. He has extensive experience managing class action, multidistrict, and other high-stakes commercial litigation. Reid has a track record of obtaining dismissals and favorable judgments and has been a member of several trial teams. He has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, technology services, financial services, and insurance. Reid is valued by clients for his vigorous pre-trial case management, positioning cases for favorable resolution through strategic discovery and critical motion practice while also preparing cases for trial. Reid has experience briefing critical motions at the trial court level and has also briefed disputes at every level of federal and state appellate court. He has also argued critical motions, including several successful arguments on case-dispositive motions and one argument in favor of class certification.

Ricardo Ugarte

http://winstonway2/spa/apps/index.html#/people/winston/rugarte Former chair of Winston’s International Arbitration Practice, Ricardo Ugarte applies his multilingual capabilities to advise clients in international arbitrations and lawsuits filed across the world, including in the U.S., Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe.

Rich Shutran

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/shutran-richard.html#full-bio Rich Shutran counsels development companies, investment funds, and strategic investors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance and project finance matters, and restructurings and reorganizations, with an emphasis on energy, transportation, and other infrastructure businesses. Rich also has extensive experience in transactions involving Latin America.

Richard Puttré

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/puttre-richard-p.html#full-bio Chair of the firm’s Projects Practice - Latin America, Richard has over 30 years of experience in complex, cross-border, project finance transactions and represents sponsors, developers, lenders, and investors in the development, financing, acquisition, and disposition of major capital-intensive assets, primarily in the energy and infrastructure sectors.

Robert Vlasis

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/vlasis-robert-tony.html#full-bio Robert Vlasis has more than 15 years experience representing innovator companies before all of the major patent law venues in high-stakes patent disputes involving an array of technologies and life sciences. Robert has advised clients in dozens of Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission and has second-chaired a dozen bench and jury trials.

Rodolfo Herrara-Moro

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/herrera-moro-saft-rodolfo-j.html Rodolfo Herrera-Moro works with United States and Latin America-based clients on arbitration, civil litigation, regulatory and FCPA/White Collar matters. Admitted to practice in Mexico, he has extensive experience in administrative and judicial proceedings both at the federal and state levels, and has assisted clients from the oil and gas, construction, publishing and services industries in numerous investigations and disputes. He currently assists on matters for one of the largest oil and gas companies in Latin America, and his recent experience includes extensive work for high-net-worth individuals from Mexico and Central America.

Ronald Rothstein

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/rothstein-ronald-y.html#full-bio Ron Rothstein is a first-chair trial attorney with experience in complex commercial matters. He is recognized for his “heavy-duty trademark and false advertising disputes” (World Trademark Review). Beyond litigation in trademark and false advertising, he has served as first-chair trial counsel in class action and multidistrict class action litigations.

Ryan Hunsaker

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/hunsaker-ryan-b.html#full-bio Ryan Hunsaker advises clients on commercial lending, alternative lending, and other finance transactions, with an emphasis on traditional reserve-based lending, midstream lending, asset-based lending, and alternative/direct lending.

Ryuk Park

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/park-ryuk.html#full-bio Ryuk Park is a seasoned intellectual property (IP) lawyer with years of experience counseling clients in connection with high-tech disputes. Ryuk leverages his experience as a semiconductor circuit engineer and as an in-house counsel for a video game company to advise technology companies on various IP matters, including matters involving semiconductor design and fabrication, telecommunications and networking, consumer electronics, computer hardware, and software.

Samantha Lerner

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/maxfield-samantha-l.html Co-chair of Winston’s Complex Commercial Litigation Practice and co-leader of the Chicago Litigation Group, Samantha Lerner is a trial lawyer who concentrates her practice on complex commercial and patent litigation. Her lengthy service as chair of the Chicago office chapter of Winston’s Women’s Leadership Initiative demonstrates her commitment to advancing gender diversity and inclusion in the legal community. Samantha has spent her career litigating complex commercial cases for Fortune 500 companies. She has represented clients in a variety of industries, including agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, financial services, healthcare, and insurance, and has litigated breach-of-contract, trade-secret-theft, Commodities Exchange Act, RICO, antitrust, employment, and fraud cases. Samantha has also represented clients in patent cases in courts across the country involving medical devices and instruments, telephone and computer technology, and pharmaceuticals.

Scott Ahmad

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/ahmad-scott-m.html#full-bio Scott Ahmad is an experienced litigation partner whose practice focuses on mass tort / product liability cases, financial services litigation, and high-stakes commercial disputes. Scott is extraordinarily responsive to client needs, and provides direct, practical, and strategic advice across all of his matters.

Scott Landau

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/landau-scott-e.html#full-bio Since 2012, Scott Landau has been ranked in The Legal 500 U.S. for employee benefits and executive compensation. Clients interviewed have described him as “an excellent specialist in executive compensation” and said, “the brilliant Scott Landau has a superior command of issues and the current state of the market, as well as incredible negotiation skills.” Notably, Scott has handled the EBEC aspects of transactions in more than 50 countries around the world.

Sean Hilson

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/hilson-sean-f.html Sean Hilson is a corporate partner in Winston’s Chicago office, with a practice focused on debt financing in complex transactional matters. He is a member of Winston’s Finance practice, with an emphasis on representing middle-market and upper-tier private equity sponsors, private and public companies, and lending institutions in a wide array of financing transactions.

Sean Suber

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/suber-sean-h.html#full-bio Sean Suber is a trial and appellate lawyer who focuses his practice on complex litigation, class actions, product liability, and mass tort matters. He represents clients in a wide range of industry sectors, with a focus on guiding clients through all phases of litigation in the consumer products, media & entertainment, technology, and health care industries.

Sharon Desh

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/desh-sharon.html#full-bio Sharon Desh is a courtroom-proven trial lawyer with extensive experience in multidistrict, class action, and complex commercial litigation, including cases involving parallel proceedings in state and federal courts. She is a frequent writer and speaker on trial strategy and case management, with a focus on emerging trends in mass tort and high-profile litigation. Named a “Key Lawyer” by The Legal 500 in life science and product liability defense, Sharon has extensive experience working with and examining witnesses, as well as in setting case strategy for joint defense groups in complex matters. Sharon concentrates her practice on product liability and mass torts and has represented Fortune 500 companies in high-profile class actions and multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the pharmaceutical and consumer product industries. She has been a key member of several trial teams, including representing a major pharmacy chain in litigation related to the distribution and sale of prescription opioid medications, described by the Washington Post as “the most complex civil lawsuit in U.S. history.” Sharon previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edith Brown Clement of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Shawn Obi

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/obi-shawn-r.html#full-bio Shawn Obi is an experienced litigator whose practice concentrates on defending clients in class actions and complex commercial litigation — often with bet-the-company stakes. Shawn is a fierce advocate for her clients, and they benefit not only from her skill at managing the highest-profile cases but her focus on resolving matters as quickly, efficiently, and effectively as possible. Shawn is a thought leader on class action defense and is cited as one to watch in high-profile commercial litigation cases. She has expertise that spans diverse industries including food and beverage, cosmetics and personal care, consumer products, financial services and automotive.

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Stephen D'Amore

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/d-amore-stephen-v.html Steve D’Amore, Chairman of Winston & Strawn, is an accomplished trial lawyer who advises clients on business disputes in state and federal courts across the nation and in U.S. and international arbitration forums. He has a successful practice in the areas of commercial, product liability, tax, and other business litigation. Steve represents clients operating in a wide range of industries, focusing on the life sciences, financial services, professional services, and agribusiness industries. In addition to counseling clients on litigation risk, he has successfully represented clients in complex litigation and jury trials throughout the country for over 30 years.

Steve Gavin

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/gavin-steven-j.html Routinely honored as one of the country’s top lawyers in M&A and private equity work, Steve Gavin advises clients on the full range of corporate finance transactions, counseling boards of directors and other key leaders on matters of governance, oversight and structure.

T. Reed Stephens

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/stephens-theodore-r.html#full-bio A nationally recognized legal authority in the life sciences industry, Reed Stephens focuses his practice on pharmaceutical fraud and abuse, corporate compliance, and risk management. He has extensive experience in Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Physician Self-Referral Law False Claims Act litigation. Reed represents pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, wholesalers and individuals, health care systems, and non-health care-related companies in various global industries. This includes the defense industry, government contractors in the gaming industry, as well as the financial services and banking sectors. He has experience in matters involving state and federal government law enforcement and U.S. congressional investigations. He represents health systems and managed care organizations in federal False Claims Act litigation, and counsels pharmaceutical manufacturers on government drug pricing and voluntary disclosures in the areas of Medicaid Drug Rebate, Federal Supply Schedule/Department of Veterans Affairs, and the 340B program.

Terrence Dee

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/dee-terrence-j.html#full-bio Terry Dee is a nationally recognized trial lawyer in product liability, mass torts and healthcare litigation. Clients rely on Terry to provide pre-market exposure mitigation strategies and his deep experience with preemption and expert admissibility challenges. Terry has also successfully litigated disputes in healthcare antitrust, earn-outs, post-closing, breach of contract, and other civil matters in a variety of commercial sectors.

Thomas Kearney

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/kearney-thomas-j.html Thomas Kearney has represented major internet service providers in high-stakes copyright and trademark lawsuits. Prior to joining Winston, he was a Research Fellow at Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology in copyright and privacy law, and holds a technical degree in Mathematics and Linguistics.

Thomas Walsh

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/walsh-thomas-b.html https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/walsh-thomas-b.html

Timothy Walsh

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/walsh-timothy-w.html Tim Walsh has represented debtors in possession, creditors’ committees, trustees, secured and unsecured creditors, bondholders, insurance companies, US and non-US lenders, and corporate clients in a broad range of bankruptcy and commercial real estate matters. He regularly represents and advises board of directors on restructuring issues. He is an experienced bankruptcy litigator and performs detailed investigations into insider transactions, fraudulent conveyances, and preference transactions. Tim also represents parties in out-of-court workouts and purchases of distressed debt and distressed assets.

Tyler Richards

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/richards-tyler-c.html#full-bio Tyler Richards is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department. Tyler concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation, drawing upon his prior experience as a paralegal at a large law firm and as a clerk at the Federal Trade Commission.

William O'Neil

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/o-neil-william-c.html#full-bio Bill O’Neil is an accomplished trial lawyer who litigates and facilitates resolution of high-stakes business disputes. Bill has tried over 20 cases to verdict, including three in the past 10 months alone. Bill is a sought-after counselor to some of America’s largest corporations and private equity funds. Widely regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent M&A litigators, Bill has litigated dozens of buyer-seller disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery, and won what is regarded as the largest working-capital dispute in U.S. M&A history. Bill is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal regarding the representation and warranty (R&W) insurance market.

Zach Weit

https://www.winston.com/en/who-we-are/professionals/weit-zachary-c.html Zach Weit is an associate in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office who focuses his practice on tax controversy and criminal tax matters. He draws on his experience as a former clerk at the U.S. Tax Court and at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to help clients navigate complex tax issues in a variety of forums.

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