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Abena Mainoo’s practice focuses on enforcement and complex civil litigation. Abena has represented companies in cross-border investigations and civil litigation involving allegations of fraud, sanctions violations and foreign corrupt payments. Abena also conducts internal investigations and advises on corporate compliance programs as well as corporate governance.

Adam Brenneman

Adam Brenneman’s innovative work on complex cross-border transactions includes some of the region’s largest capital markets, special situations financing, and restructuring transactions. He regularly works for issuers, underwriters, and capital providers in transactions ranging from initial public offerings (IPOs), bond issuances, liability management transactions, loans, special situations and distressed investing, and distressed exchange offers in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as other jurisdictions. Adam’s work has been lauded by Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, Latinvex, The Legal 500 Latin America, The Legal 500 U.S., and others.

Adam Fleisher

Adam E. Fleisher is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Fleisher is a corporate and securities lawyer whose practice focuses on a variety of corporate finance transactions. He has extensive experience across a number of areas, including: International and U.S. capital markets offerings, including IPOs, convertible bond offerings, rights offerings, block trades and high yield bond offerings Liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and open market repurchases Private equity firm structuring and private equity M&A Syndicated lending Securities and loan trading.

Alastair Goldrein

Alastair’s practice focuses on advising creditors, sponsors, insolvent companies, and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of cross-border and domestic restructurings, insolvency, and corporate rescues. He advises: - creditors concerning their distressed debt and special situations investments; - multinational debtor groups in complex international restructurings; - private equity investors on distressed M&A transactions or the protection of existing investments; and - insolvency practitioners, with a particular focus on emerging markets as well as restructurings in the energy sector.

Arthur Kohn

Arthur H. Kohn is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Mr. Kohn's practice focuses on compensation and benefit matters, including tax, securities law, corporate governance and other disciplines related to executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, pension compliance and investment, employment law and related matters. He advises public and private companies in financial services, retail, industrial, technology and other industries. He teaches the Taxation of Executive Compensation at NYU Law School, and has written and spoken extensively on compensation and governance matters. He also is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Weinberg Center.

Brian Byrne

Mr. Byrne’s practice focuses on the antitrust review of mergers and acquisitions by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the European Commission; criminal investigations, EU cartel proceedings, and other antitrust enforcement matters; and civil antitrust litigation. He has represented clients in a number of industries, including chemicals and plastics, metals and mining, oil and gas, consumer products, telecommunications and technology, defense, health care, finance and banking, pharmaceuticals, insurance, agricultural chemicals and biotechnology, grocery and other retail, building materials, airlines, and automotive and other manufacturing.

Chrishan Raja

Chrishan Raja’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, both equity and debt, with a UK or U.S. nexus. His recent equity experience includes several transactions which were the first of their kind, such as ACG Acquisition Company (London listing and 2024 de-SPAC, the first SPAC to complete an acquisition under the FCA’s new regime), Burning Rock Biotech (the first direct listing of its kind on the London Stock Exchange), and Hepsiburada (the first listing of a Turkish company on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange). His recent experience on the debt side includes English law governed debt issuances, Reg S/Rule 144A offerings of New York law governed notes, and many U.S.-registered offerings of debt securities by financial institutions.as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in the firm’s capital markets and M&A practices in Russia.

Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He is the co-head of the firm’s global international arbitration group. Chris has represented multinational corporations in complex international commercial arbitrations across a range of industries seated in the world’s most frequently selected arbitral seats and before tribunals formed under the rules of the leading institutional and ad hoc arbitration regimes, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and UNCITRAL, and in litigation matters before state and federal courts throughout the United States. Chris also has extensive experience acting as counsel in matters involving foreign states both in investor-state disputes under the rules of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and in international litigation proceedings, including litigation involving the immunity of foreign states and their agencies under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and public international law.

Christopher Austin

Christopher E. Austin focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.

Colin Lloyd

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Corey Goodman

Corey Goodman’s practice focuses on taxation. He advises clients on federal income tax matters including the structuring, documentation, and negotiation of a variety of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs, bankruptcy reorganizations, refinancings, securitization transactions, and cross-border and internal restructurings. Corey frequently speaks on tax topics involving corporate strategic mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and other international tax issues.

Craig Brod

Craig B. Brod focuses on a wide variety of complex securities, corporate governance and corporate matters. Advises senior management and boards of U.S. and non-U.S. entities on these subjects, including in connection with SEC filings, public–private offerings of debt and equity securities (including IPOs and cross-border financings) and corporate transactions, including spin-offs.

Dan Reynolds

Daniel C. Reynolds’ practice focuses on domestic and international real estate transactions, including the financing, acquisition, and disposition of real property. He has represented clients in the negotiation of joint ventures to acquire, finance, and develop office, retail, hotel, multifamily, and mixed-use properties throughout the United States, and he regularly advises both borrowers and lenders in mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions, including both securitized loans, balance sheet loans, bridge loans, and construction loans. He has also represented lenders and borrowers in the workout and enforcement of various financing structures, including mezzanine loan foreclosures.

Daniel Culley

Daniel Culley’s practice as a Partner at the firm focuses on antitrust counseling and antitrust litigation. His work includes counseling, merger control, antitrust litigation, and civil and criminal government investigations, particularly for high-tech industries and two-sided markets. Daniel has represented clients in federal and state courts and advised clients in both criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FTC, state agencies, and the European Commission.

David Lopez

David C. Lopez represents a broad range of corporate clients including in the retail, healthcare, insurance and technology sectors. He has a broad corporate advisory practice including governance, SEC disclosure and compliance, capital markets issuance and structuring, securities law, corporate finance transactions, buybacks and insider trading advice. He represents issuers and investment banks in capital markets transactions involving initial public offerings, public and private debt, convertible, investment grade and high yield debt, equity financings, structured securities and equity derivatives. His practiec maintains a specialty in liability management, including issuer tender offers, public and private exchanges offers related to corporate restructurings, acquisitions, and consent solicitations.

David Gottlieb

David I. Gottlieb’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border M&A transactions, including IPOs, investment-grade, sovereign and high-yield debt offerings, privatizations, SPAC transactions, and liability management. David is one of a small handful of U.S. securities law experts based in Europe for more than a decade, and regularly advises U.S. and foreign private issuer clients and global investment banks on disclosure, corporate governance, regulatory, and ESG matters. He is a current leader of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group and has extensive expertise in the European banking, oil and gas, metals and mining, and tech sectors. He has worked on transactions in numerous jurisdictions across Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, MENA, and Israel.

David Brodsky

David E. Brodsky is a partner based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Brodsky specializes in white-collar criminal defense, securities and commodities enforcement, internal investigations. He represents corporations and individuals in investigations involving alleged insider trading, accounting and securities fraud, foreign corrupt payments, money laundering, bid rigging and obstruction of justice.

David Gelfand

David Gelfand is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on a broad range of antitrust matters, including U.S. litigation, notifying mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, and providing antitrust advice to clients regarding potential transactions and various business practices. His clients have included companies in various industries, including computer software, computer hardware, information services, electronic platforms, chemicals, metals, pharmaceuticals, product manufacturing, retailing, and oil and gas. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and academic seminars.

David Leinwand

David Leinwand is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Leinwand's practice focuses on merger and acquisition transactions. David has represented a broad array of buyers and sellers, as well as their financial advisors, in a wide variety of public and private deals. In particular, he has significant experience advising private equity firms in their acquisitions and dispositions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.

David H Botter

Focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on creditors’ committees and bondholder committees in large, complex cases, both in and out of court. Represents bondholders, noteholders, institutional investors, hedge funds and other interested parties. Also has represented debtors in possession, post-petition lenders and acquirers of distressed assets. To learn more about David, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/david-h-botter.html

Derek Bush

Derek M. Bush advises U.S. and international financial institutions and foreign sovereigns on full range of U.S. bank regulatory matters and legislation, including: Dodd-Frank Act requirements, restructurings, corporate governance and investments; corporate transactions, including M&A, asset sales, privatizations, capital markets transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances; and internal investigations and in enforcement proceedings involving federal banking agencies.

Duane McLaughlin

Duane McLaughlin is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McLaughlin’s practice focuses on financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, focusing on bank financings, high-yield debt issuances and initial public offerings. He advises a number of NYSE and Nasdaq-listed U.S. and non-U.S. companies on corporate governance and disclosure matters. He has been involved in a number of transactions in Latin America.

Ed Aldred

Ed Aldred’s practice focuses on complex cross-border public and private leveraged acquisition and infrastructure financings, leading combined loan and high-yield bond financings, and senior and junior capital structures. Ed is a highly regarded leveraged finance lawyer, with more than 19 years’ experience advising on complex leveraged finance deals and developing innovative solutions and strategies for clients on their most strategically significant transactions. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds, corporates, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds on acquisition, infrastructure, and other event-driven finance transactions, as well as minority stake, holdco, and other structured finance transactions. In addition to working on buy-side financings, Ed also supports his clients across all aspects of sell-side finance work (including staple finance, vendor loans, certain funds, change of control, and other sell-side analysis) and with on-going portfolio and liability management work (including taps, A&Es, repricings, refinancings, and recapitalizations). Ed has led on many “firsts” in the loan market during his career and has acted on some of the largest and most innovative transactions. His knowledge and experience covers the full spectrum of loan products, from syndicated institutional cov-lite incurrence-based TLB facilities through to unitranche and covenanted maintenance loans, including super senior, senior secured, and junior debt instruments. In addition to his familiarity with the European loan market, Ed also has extensive international experience raising U.S. dollar debt in the syndicated U.S. TLB loan market under English law and acting for many international first-time issuers in the syndicated loan market. He has worked closely with the Loan Market Association to develop and deliver their training, including their financial covenant training in particular, and spoken at several Loan Market Association hosted conferences.

Edward Rosen

Edward J. Rosen is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosen’s practice includes domestic and international matters, specializing in the structuring of complex securities and derivatives transactions, U.S. securities and commodities law regulation and financial product development and documentation. Mr. Rosen advises a broad range of market participants, including trade associations, exchanges, clearinghouses, investment banks, commercial banks, brokers, electronic trading platforms, money managers, traders, professional intermediaries and end users, in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Rosen has served as counsel to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Futures Industry Association, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Institute of International Bankers. Mr. Rosen is a co-author of the two volume treatise U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets (Tenth Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2011).

Elaine Ewing

Elaine Ewing’s practice as a partner at the firm focuses on all areas of antitrust law, including merger reviews by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, and foreign authorities; civil antitrust litigation; criminal and civil antitrust investigations; and antitrust counseling. She frequently lectures and writes about antitrust issues.

Elizabeth Lenas

Elizabeth Lenas is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Lenas’ advises private equity, growth, credit, venture capital and co-investment funds and other alternative asset managers on fund formation, co-investments, spin-offs, joint ventures, shareholding arrangements, managed accounts and other transactions. She also acts as counsel on consortium and co-invest arrangements in numerous large acquisitions and advises LPs in connection with their investments in funds.

Erika Nijenhuis

Erika Nijenhuis is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Nijenhuis advises sovereigns and multinationals on capital markets transactions. She is a leading expert on the taxation of derivatives and bank regulatory securities and a highly regarded commentator on tax policy issues, resulting in rare debt/equity guidance, and tax regulations addressing subchapter C, withholding and information reporting. She is also a prolific author and speaker.

Ethan Klingsberg

Ethan Klingsberg’s practice comprises M&A, public company board and independent committee, activism-response, governance, corporate, and SEC matters. His M&A practice covers mergers of mature companies, acquisitions of start-ups, divestitures, and spin-offs. He regularly helps companies prevail against, manage, and work with “activist stockholders,” including in scenarios where these stockholders have board seats, are seeking board seats, and do not have board seats. In addition, he advises boards and controlling shareholder groups on creative capital structures and governance and liquidity arrangements, including in connection with IPOs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and the creation of autonomous subsidiaries. Ethan is recognized among M&A “MVPs” and “Dealmakers of the Year” by Law360 and The American Lawyer, and among the country’s leading corporate lawyers in every major guide.

Ferdisha Snagg

Ferdisha’s practice focuses on financial services law and regulation. Ferdisha has a wide range of non-contentious experience advising banks, investment banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures. She regularly advises on a variety of financial services and regulatory issues including financial markets regulation, financial collateral and financial market infrastructure regulation, and banking regulation.

Francisco Cestero

Financial and corporate transactions, particularly cross-border restructurings, special situations and capital solution transactions, financings and acquisitions. In addition, he advises on cross-border enforcement matters and internal investigations. Recent clients include major Brazilian and multinational corporations and financial investors. He has advised in numerous investments and restructurings throughout Brazil and the Americas.

Gareth Kristensen

Gareth Kristensen is a Partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s London office with a focus on UK, European and cross-border technology, AI, data and intellectual property matters. Gareth advises leading global corporations, high-growth companies and private equity/venture capital firms on the development, use and regulation of AI technologies, including copyright, data rights and training issues, AI and data regulatory compliance (such as EU AI Act, Data Act and GDPR matters), licensing, partnerships, collaborations and outsourcing deals, and AI business strategy, AI legislative reform and internal AI governance matters. He has extensive experience advising on technology transactions, global M&A and investments, and commercial contracts with a substantial IP, technology and data component. His practice covers the full range of IP rights including patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights, database rights, and trade secrets. Gareth is a member of the UK Financial Markets Law Committee’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group, and holds the CIPP/E accreditation (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

George Cary

George Cary is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb. He has decades of experience in sophisticated antitrust matters, representing companies on industry-transforming transactions and complex monopolization litigation. His recent merger highlights include Walt Disney/21st Century Fox, T-Mobile/Sprint, and Dow/DuPont. His recent litigation highlights include defending Sanofi US and Keurig Green Mountain in closely watched monopolization cases. Prior to joining Cleary in 1998, Mr. Cary served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he oversaw a record number of merger transactions.

Giovanni Prezioso

Mr. Prezioso’s practice is focused on securities and corporate law matters. He represents major financial institutions and corporations in securities enforcement and litigation matters arising out of the financial crisis, as well as in addressing post-crisis regulatory changes. He also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate governance and regulatory matters.

Ian Shawyer

Ian’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions. With over two decades of experience in private equity, Ian is a longstanding and trusted advisor to pan-European and international corporations, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, and investee companies for both transactional and advisory matters. Ian has in-depth experience advising on a full range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalizations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganizations, and restructurings. Ian also advises global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements), and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).

Jack Murphy

Senior Counsel

Jackie Holland

Jackie Holland’s practice focuses on EU and UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, State aid/subsidies, competition litigation, market investigations, and sectoral regulation. She represents clients before the Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission, and sectoral regulators, as well as in litigation in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Court of Justice.

James Peaslee

James M. Peaslee is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Peaslee's practice focuses on tax matters. He is the co-author of Federal Income Taxation of Securitization Transactions (4th Edition, www.securitizationtax.com), as well as a number of articles on tax subjects.

James Duncan

Mr. Duncan's practice focuses on tax aspects of acquisitions, restructurings and joint ventures; structural planning for global financial services companies, private equity funds and other multinational businesses, advice concerning the implications of domestic and multilateral regulatory and tax developments, including BEPS; derivatives and financial products; complex tax controversies.

James Norris-Jones

James has more than 20 years’ experience of English and international commercial dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, investigations, and enforcement. He regularly advises clients involved in class actions, including collective proceedings in the Competition Tribunal. He has particular experiences in the financial services and tech sectors, and in cases involving fraud and insolvency. Many of his cases have involved cross-border issues and/or proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.

James Brady-Banzet

James Brady-Banzet’s practice focuses on dispute resolution, investigations, and enforcement. James has substantial experience representing some of the world’s leading organisations on a wide range of commercial disputes, group and collective litigation, banking disputes, and international arbitrations. He has considerable trial experience, and his work frequently involves complex multijurisdictional matters and high-stakes disputes. James also has significant experience representing clients in investigations by regulatory and law enforcement authorities. He is cited as “clever, hard-working and very dedicated,” “sharp and thoughtful,” “personable and highly intelligent,” with the ability to “manage both the legal team and clients to achieve the best results” and “an exceptional partner on a major long-running dispute.” James also writes and speaks on topics including class actions, ESG litigation, parent company liability, M&A disputes, and crisis management.

Jared Gerber

Jared Gerber’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on securities litigation and other actions filed by shareholders. Jared has frequently litigated claims under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Investment Advisors Act, the Williams Act, state blue sky laws, and the common law in both federal and state courts, and at both the trial and appellate levels.

Jason Factor

Jason R. Factor's practice focuses on tax matters, particularly formation of investment funds and other partnerships, domestic and international acquisitions and divestitures (public and private), real estate, workouts and bankruptcy, sovereign client matters, partnership tax, private client work and compensation of partners and employees.

Jeffrey Karpf

Jeffrey D. Karpf is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Karpf’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions; corporate governance and board advice; securities regulatory matters. Represents issuers, sponsors and investment banks in IPOs; public and private equity, debt, convertibles and liability management transactions.

Jeffrey Rosenthal

Jeffrey A. Rosenthal is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosenthal’s practice focuses on general commercial and international arbitration and litigation, as well as sports law. Mr. Rosenthal has represented numerous foreign and domestic entities before a wide variety of judicial and arbitral bodies, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, and a number of federal and state courts. He has tried or arbitrated cases through merits hearings concerning international joint venture disputes, intellectual property, sports contract disputes, maritime issues, bankruptcy, breaches of contract, insurance law, bilateral investment treaty disputes and tort law, among others. Mr. Rosenthal also routinely advises several leading financial institutions with regard to actual or potential litigation issues concerning complex financial products including derivative transactions under ISDA master agreements, repurchase agreements and subprime-related matters.

Jennifer Park Kennedy

Jennifer Kennedy Park is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Kennedy Park’s practice focuses on litigation, particularly litigation related to capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions, and white-collar defense and corporate investigations.

Jeremy Calsyn

Jeremy Calsyn’s practice focuses on the full range of antitrust matters, including merger review, criminal and civil government investigations globally, and U.S. litigation, including complex class actions. Jeremy has represented clients in their most high-profile and sophisticated matters, including mergers and acquisitions requiring regulatory approval in dozens of jurisdictions, numerous global and U.S.-focused cartel investigations, and in litigation in federal and state courts. Recently, he has navigated several automotive parts suppliers through U.S. Department of Justice and worldwide investigations into industry-wide price fixing—described by the DOJ as the largest criminal investigation it has ever undertaken, and played a major role in arguing the defendants’ successful opposition to class certification in the bearings direct purchaser class action.

Jim Ho

Sui-Jim Ho’s practice focuses on finance, capital markets, and restructuring. He advises on a broad range of financial products including loans (ranging from investment grade to acquisition and leveraged finance), bonds, and derivatives. His clients include companies, financial institutions, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and sovereigns.

Jonathan Kelly

Jonathan Kelly is consistently recognized as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of disputes and enforcement, and as a “litigation veteran” with 30 years in practice. He is cited by UK and European legal directories and the media as one of “the UK’s leading banking litigators,” an “outstanding lawyer,” “esteemed litigator,” and “a formidable opponent.” He is described as a “class act…a real market leader” who is “top rated…keen and insightful, clear, concise” and “great to work with because you know he’s seen it all before.” He has advised on a wide range of significant disputes, involving antitrust and competition, banking and financial services, corporate and private equity, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and sovereign immunity. His cases invariably involve complex multijurisdictional elements.

Jonathan Blackman

Jonathan I. Blackman is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the firm’s New York and London offices. Mr. Blackman’s practice focuses on litigation, including international litigation and arbitration, securities law, banking and insurance law. Mr. Blackman has participated in numerous international arbitrations involving both public international law and complex commercial disputes, litigation involving the immunity of foreign states and their agencies under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and securities and commercial litigation in a variety of U.S. federal and state courts. Mr. Blackman regularly lectures at professional conferences and is widely published on various aspects of international litigation, securities litigation and letters of credit.

Katherine Mooney Carroll

Katherine Mooney Carroll focuses on advising financial institutions and investors on U.S. regulatory matters, including U.S. banking regulations, cybersecurity and privacy matters, regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and compliance with U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering laws.

Kathleen Emberger

Kathleen M. Emberger is counsel based in the New York office. Ms. Emberger’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters, including employee equity and equity-based compensation and incentive arrangements and the implementation of these arrangements on a global scale. She regularly advises on annual and periodic disclosure obligations related to executive compensation and compensation arrangements, including in connection with the preparation of compensation-related annual proxy disclosure, as well as on employment and executive compensation-related aspects of public and private merger and acquisition transactions and investments and acquisitions by private equity firms. Ms. Emberger has authored and co-authored various articles on topics related to executive compensation and disclosure issues.

Kenneth Reinker

Kenneth S. Reinker’s practice as a Partner at the firm focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, including litigation, government investigations, and merger review. Ken’s practice spans all industries, including extensive experience in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health care; high-technology industries; media; and financial institutions. Ken has particular experience in the application of economics to legal matters and in working with economic experts. In addition to appearing before U.S. courts and regulators, he has had in-depth involvement with China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and other global regulators.

Kimberly Blacklow

Kimberly Brown Blacklow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Blacklow’s practice focuses on real estate and other asset-based finance transactions as well as structured finance and capital markets transactions in both the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Blacklow has represented both lenders and borrowers in commercial mortgage loan origination, asset-based warehouse lending, credit tenant lease financing and other types of financing transactions. She regularly represents both issuers and underwriters in both public and private securities offerings, including commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Ms. Blacklow also has significant real estate acquisition and joint venture experience and has also represented a number of clients in loan acquisitions and participations, including transactions involving distressed assets. Ms. Blacklow is active in providing pro bono services to community-based nonprofit economic development organizations in New York.

Laura Bagarella

Laura Bagarella’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including the design, taxation and implementation of employee equity and equity-based compensation and incentive arrangements; annual and periodic compensation disclosure obligations; the employment and executive compensation-related aspects of public and private merger and acquisition transactions; and private equity compensation and governance matters.

Lawrence Friedman

Lawrence B. Friedman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Friedman’s practice focuses on international and domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, including in such fields as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, international banking, and marketing and licensing agreements, and in disputes concerning intellectual property infringement and misappropriation. Mr. Friedman has particularly extensive experience in counseling clients in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration.

Leah Brannon

Leah Brannon’s practice focuses on antitrust matters, including litigation, merger review, and government investigations. She has represented clients in various industries including high technology, advertising, consumer products, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals. Her work has involved cases in both federal and state courts, and she has advised clients in investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state antitrust authorities and the European Commission. Leah has helped to secure critical wins for clients in numerous cases, including monopolization and conspiracy litigation. She has also helped clients obtain global merger clearance in complex transactions and has guided clients through government conduct investigations. She is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice.

Lev Dassin

Lev L. Dassin's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including white-collar criminal defense, crisis management, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations.

Lewis Liman

Lewis J. Liman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Liman is an experienced commercial litigator and appellate lawyer. Mr. Liman's practice focuses on securities and commercial litigation; white collar criminal defense and governmental investigations. He has represented numerous companies, individuals, and financial institutions in complex commercial litigation and governmental and internal investigations. He has also successfully argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Ninth and Federal Circuits, and in the courts of New York State.

Lisa Schweitzer

Lisa M. Schweitzer is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Schweitzer’s practice specializes in complex bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including representation of debtors, creditors, investors and acquirers. Significant experience with distressed M&A transactions, IP issues and complex cross-border restructurings in the Americas, Europe and Asia. As a recognized leader in the field, Ms. Schweitzer speaks on a variety of bankruptcy and restructuring topics at conferences, including those organized by INSOL International, the American Bankruptcy Institute and Practising Law Institute. She also frequently writes articles on bankruptcy issues for publications, including The Journal of Bankruptcy Law, BankruptcyLaw 360, The Wall Street Lawyer, The M&A Lawyer and The New York Law Journal, and she is co-author of a bankruptcy blog published by Westlaw News & Insight, covering trends and developments in the bankruptcy arena.

Luke Barefoot

Luke Barefoot’s practice focuses on bankruptcy litigation, insolvency, corporate restructuring and related litigation matters, with a particular focus on cross-border and international bankruptcy disputes. Luke is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice.

Mark Nelson

Mark W. Nelson is a partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on global antitrust matters, with an emphasis on merger cases and U.S. civil litigation. His U.S. practice includes extensive merger work and antitrust counseling, and litigation experience in both civil and criminal matters, as well as in FTC administrative proceedings. Mark’s global practice involves merger cases before the EC Commission and national authorities throughout Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as defending actions involving alleged restraints of trade and abuses of dominant position in EU proceedings. He has also been actively involved in litigation, investigations, and counseling in matters involving the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law, in particular in the context of patent pools and standards-setting.

Mark Leddy

Mark Leddy's practice focuses on U.S. and European antitrust law, the analysis of competitive issues in mergers and acquisitions, and appearances before antitrust regulatory agencies and the courts in civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Leddy lectures and is widely published on criminal and civil antitrust enforcement and litigation issues. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School.

Mary Alcock

Mary E. Alcock advises on employee benefits and executive compensation matters, including design and regulatory compliance; advises on corporate governance issues and disclosure issues related to compensation matters; counsels financial institutions on the ERISA fiduciary aspects of financial products and transactions, including structured finance, derivatives and investment funds; pension and tax law issues with respect to their many and varied interactions with pension funds.

Matthew Salerno

Matthew P. Salerno is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Salerno’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, particularly public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and contests for corporate control.

Matthew Slater

Matthew D. Slater is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Slater’s practice focuses on international investment-treaty and commercial arbitration. He also regularly represents clients in related international litigation and in a diverse range of matters in U.S. courts, including government regulatory and enforcement actions; constitutional law; commercial and securities law; and product liability litigation. Mr. Slater is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice, including pending litigation on behalf of a class of homeless people who have been denied the minimum wage for their work for evictions companies. In his international arbitration and litigation practice, Mr. Slater often represents foreign sovereign governments. Mr. Slater frequently writes and speaks on international litigation and arbitration issues. Recent publications include regular articles for The International Lawyer's annual year in review issue and authoring a chapter on the Energy Charter Treaty in Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Energy Sector, published by the Association for International Arbitration. In addition, Mr. Slater has addressed topics involving arbitration of complex energy disputes, enforcement of international arbitral awards, the Energy Charter Treaty, and investment treaty arbitration.

Maurits Dolmans

Maurits Dolmans focuses on EU, UK and international competition law, as well as EU regulatory and IP law, arbitration, and sustainability. He has extensive experience in information technology, internet, telecom, media and entertainment, as well as in energy and financial services. Maurits lectures and is widely published on various aspects of sustainability, competition, and innovation.

Meme Peponis

Meme Peponis is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Peponis’ practice focuses on acquisition and distressed financing. She also has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; private equity, joint venture and other investments; and public and private securities offerings. M

Meredith Kotler

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Meyer Fedida

Meyer Fedida’s practice focuses on U.S. federal tax matters, with a particular emphasis on complex M&A transactions and joint ventures, private equity fund formation, and cross-border tax planning.

Michael Weinberger

Michael Weinberger is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Weinberger’s practice focuses on real estate law, with a particular focus on real estate finance, workouts, restructurings and commercial mortgage securitization. He frequently represents lenders, borrowers and issuers in complex multi-state mortgage and mezzanine loan transactions involving office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, multi-family, industrial, casino and other property types.

Michael Mazzuchi

Michael A. Mazzuchi is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Mazzuchi’s practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, particularly domestic and international structured finance and derivatives matters. He has extensive experience for banking, insurance and private equity clients in asset-based lending, asset securitisations, CLO transactions, collateralised fund obligations, repurchase agreement and total return swap financings, structured debt securities, epackagings and credit derivative transactions. He also advises on Dodd-Frank related provisions such as the Volcker Rule, swap and security-based swap regulation, ABS risk retention and related rules.

Michael Gerstenzang

Michael A. Gerstenzang is the firm's managing partner based in the New York office. Mr. Gerstenzang's practice focuses on private investment funds, including forming and advising private equity, credit, growth, special situations, infrastructure, venture capital and hedge funds, and other types of alternative investment vehicles. Practice also includes secondary transactions and co-investment arrangements, as well as representing LPs in connection with private investment funds. Has experience representing fund sponsors and investment teams in connection with negotiating “seed” investments, spin-outs, joint ventures, and other general partner/management company arrangements.

Michael Dayan

Michael D. Dayan’s practice focuses on structuring, documenting and regulatory analysis of complex over-the-counter and capital markets derivative products. He also works in the clearing of derivatives products. His clients include ISDA and major corporations, funds and financial institutions.

Michael Albano

Mr. Albano’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including disclosure, governance, taxation, design and negotiation of executive compensation agreements and arrangements; the executive compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions; pension investment and ERISA fiduciary matters, including in the fund formation context; private equity governance and compensation at the upper tier and portfolio company levels; and employment law and related matters.

Michael James

Michael has a broad corporate practice focusing on a range of international corporate and private equity transactions, including private fund formation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments, and consortium transactions.

Michael Krimminger

Michael H. Krimminger is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Krimminger’s practice focuses on domestic and international financial regulatory matters, including virtual currency, blockchain, and other FinTech developments. After playing a leading role in international efforts to enhance global resiliency, he advises on capital, derivatives, corporate governance, and resolution and recovery requirements.

Michael Preston

Michael J. Preston advises a broad range of financial sponsors and strategic investors on buy-outs, minority investments, joint ventures, restructurings and other transactions. He has experience across a range of business sectors, with particular experience in healthcare, technology, infrastructure, real estate and energy.

Mitchell Dupler

Mr. Dupler's practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and government regulation, ranging from structured financings to securities and banking regulatory matters.

Mitchell Lowenthal

Mitchell A. Lowenthal is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Lowenthal specializes in the prosecution and defense of complex civil litigations, with an emphasis on disputes arising out of securities and M&A transactions.

Nallini Puri

Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India. Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its €2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its €5.8 to €6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.

Naomi Tarawali

Naomi Tarawali’s practice focuses on international dispute resolution. She has represented corporates and high net worth individuals in commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration and international litigation proceedings, as well as in mediation and ADR processes.

Nicholas Levy

EU and U.K. competition law, notifying mergers to the European Commission, U.K. Competition & Markets Authority, and other competition authorities around the world, advising on cartels and abuse of dominance cases before competition authorities and courts.

Nick Rumsby

Nick Rumsby’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures, demergers, and equity financings. He is uniquely placed to advise on UK takeovers having completed a two-year secondment to the UK Takeover Panel as a senior case officer (2008-2010) where he was involved in all major decisions and policies made during that time. Following his secondment, Nick has spent over a decade advising targets and UK and overseas bidders on some of the largest and most high-profile takeovers in the UK market.

Nicolas Grabar

Nicolas Grabar’s practice focuses on international capital markets and securities regulation and on the representation of large reporting companies. Nick has extensive experience in international financing in public and private markets, US securities law applicable to foreign issuers, and regulation of financial reporting. Advises on securities considerations in M&A transactions. He plays a primary role in the firm’s work for public company clients, including leading Mexican and Brazilian businesses, sovereigns, and global investment banks, on their biggest and most complex capital markets and financing matters.

Pamela Marcogliese

Pamela L. Marcogliese is a partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s Capital Markets and Corporate Governance practices. She has extensive experience in corporate governance matters advising U.S. and non-U.S. issuers on disclosure and corporate governance issues, including SEC, stock exchange, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank compliance. She also regularly advises boards of directors and management on a variety of topics, including board composition and director independence; shareholder engagement and activism; shareholder proposals and proxy season trends; management and director succession planning; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Pamela is a frequent contributor to the Cleary’s M&A and Corporate Governance Watch blog.

Paul Stuart

Paul Stuart’s practice focuses on competition law and litigation. Consistently recognized as a specialist in competition litigation, Paul’s practice covers collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, standalone and follow-on litigation in the English courts, and appearing as an advocate before the EU General Court and Court of Justice. Paul also advises on all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance, and digital markets regulation. He is also an active member of Cleary Gottlieb’s pro bono practice.

Paul Shim

Paul J. Shim is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Shim's practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions for corporate, private equity, sovereign wealth fund and principal investor clients. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards, including advice related to shareholder activism preparation and response. Paul has been recognized multiple times as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, and is ranked among leading M&A lawyers in all major directories.

Paul Gilbert

Paul Gilbert’s practice focuses on EU and UK competition law, including merger control, anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and sectoral regulation. He has represented clients before the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (and its predecessors, the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission), as well as in litigation before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal.

Paul Tiger

Paul M. Tiger’s practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions and private equity investments. He also provides advice regarding stockholder activism, corporate governance matters, and fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.

Polina Lyadnova

Polina Lyadnova’s practice focuses on a broad range of cross-border debt transactions at various levels of capital structure. Her experience ranges from complex and transformational assignments to innovative middle-market transactions and covers debt restructuring, finance, special situations, sanctions laws and regulations, with a particular focus on the emerging markets. Polina provides a broad range of business advisory, strategic planning, and crisis management skills to achieve bespoke solutions for clients facing unique circumstances. She is a co-editor and contributor to Cleary’s Global Restructuring Insights, the monthly publication featuring select topics that highlight notable themes, trends and developments in bankruptcy and restructuring matters, and a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch blog providing regular updates on sanctions developments.

Richard Cooper

https://www.clearygottlieb.com/professionals/richard-j-cooper Richard J. Cooper is one of the preeminent cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the United States and is the recognized leader in cross-border and sovereign restructurings involving companies and countries in Latin America and other emerging markets. His practice focuses on domestic and international corporate, municipal, and sovereign restructurings. Rich is known for his innovative work on behalf of corporate debtors, state-owned entities, governments and institutional investors, creditor committees, and other notable clients in connection with in and out-of-court insolvency proceedings and complex financings, including rescue financings. He has advised clients involved in some of the most prominent and noteworthy restructurings in the United States and other markets over the last two decades.

Richard Lincer

Richard S. Lincer is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Lincer’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including international project financings and debt restructurings, corporate and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and high yield and leveraged finance transactions, as well as public and private offerings of corporate securities and investment funds.

Richard Sultman

Richard Sultman specialises in corporate taxation, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets and financial products.

Rishi Zutshi

Rishi Zutshi’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts, including class actions and securities litigation, with extensive experience in disputes relating to complex financial instruments and derivatives. Rishi also has experience in internal investigations and enforcement matters, including representing clients in matters involving federal, state and and overseas government regulators and agencies.

Robert Raymond

Robert J. Raymond is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Raymond’s practice focuses on organizing and advising private investment funds, including fund formation for buyout, real estate, special situations, growth and credit funds and other “alternative investment” funds. He advises private investment funds in their formation and capital-raising activities and internal governance, including GP Stakes, manager spin-offs, shareholder arrangements with co-investors and among consortium members, all forms of “upper tier” arrangements, including co-investment arrangements and carried interest programs and “founders” arrangements.

Robin Bergen

Robin M. Bergen is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Bergen’s practice focuses on SEC investigations and regulatory enforcement matters, structured finance and private investment funds. She also has extensive experience in the regulation of investment companies and investment advisers. Ms. Bergen has represented corporate clients and individuals in a broad range of government investigations involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and state regulators. She also advises boards of directors and audit committees on corporate governance matters and internal investigations. In the structured finance area, Ms. Bergen regularly represents underwriters and investment managers in collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and related products transactions and complex financial product offerings. Her substantial transactional and finance experience provides her with a unique perspective and ability to understand and analyze complex factual and legal issues faced by multinational companies and financial services firms in government investigations and enforcement matters. Ms. Bergen speaks regularly on issues relating to securities enforcement, government investigations, and structured finance.

Roger Cooper

Roger Cooper focuses on complex civil litigation, with an emphasis on shareholder, class action and derivative disputes relating to securities, M&A, antitrust, derivatives and corporate governance issues. He frequently represents foreign corporations in securities class action litigation in U.S. federal and state courts, including in some of the largest of such matters in recent years. Roger frequently publishes and speaks on securities litigation issues, particularly on cross-border issues affecting foreign defendants in U.S. proceedings.

Sandra Flow

Sandra L. Flow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Flow's practice focuses on capital markets and corporate governance. She has represented both U.S. and international issuers, as well as underwriters, in a variety of SEC-registered and private securities offerings, as well as domestic and cross-border listings. She has also participated in the development of new financial instruments and related offerings. Ms. Flow's corporate governance practice includes advising companies on their disclosure obligations and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and listing standards of the NYSE and Nasdaq. She has also advised a number of companies on issues relating to financial statement restatements. Ms. Flow frequently speaks on corporate governance and capital markets matters.

Sarah Lewis

Sarah’s practice focuses primarily on international capital markets transactions, with an emphasis on U.S. securities laws and their application to offerings by non-U.S. companies in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and particularly in the Nordics. Her work includes equity offerings and debt offerings. Her transactional experience covers a wide range of offerings, including IPOs, rights offerings, accelerated bookbuild offerings, block trades and direct share placements, in the case of ECM transactions, and investment-grade debt offerings, as well as convertible and exchangeable bonds, in the case of DCM transactions.

Sebastian Sperber

Sebastian Sperber specialises in US securities law and has extensive experience in international capital markets and M&A transactions. Mr Sperber has devoted a substantial amount of time to working on global equity offerings, including privatisation transactions. His practice also includes derivative products, and he has assisted a number of clients in structuring OTC and listed instruments.

Solomon Noh

Solomon’s practice focuses on financial restructuring matters, particularly the representation of credit funds and bondholder groups in distressed debt situations around the world. He also has a wealth of experience representing banks and investment managers in a broad range of commercial transactions, including financings and mergers and acquisitions.

Steven Wilner

Steven L. Wilner is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Wilner’s practice focuses on financial and corporate matters, ranging from global real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and finance to international mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, including private equity investments and joint ventures. He regularly represents major financial institutions, corporations and sovereigns in their largest and most complex real estate transactions, and frequently speaks on all aspects of real estate transactions and law.

Thomas Moloney

Thomas J. Moloney is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, based in the New York office. His practice focuses on big cases and complex dispute resolution including derivatives, bankruptcy, ERISA, securities, M&A, antitrust, and commercial litigation. He has lectured and written extensively on litigation and bankruptcy topics, including on the subjects of electronic discovery and derivatives litigation, including as co-author of the new chapter on Derivatives Litigation in the forthcoming Third Edition of the treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.

Tihir Sarkar

Mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring transactions; extensive experience in cross-border international transactions; involved in a number of transactions in the Middle East, India and in emerging markets.

Victor Lewkow

Victor I. Lewkow is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Lewkow's practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also advises corporations and their boards regarding governance issues and the fiduciary duties of directors.

William McRae

William McRae is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McRae’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including structuring investments into the United States for non-US sovereign investors; the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions; the tax aspects of forming and investing in private equity funds, real estate funds and other investment vehicles; international tax planning for multinational corporate groups (FTC planning and repatriation strategies), tax aspects of restructurings (preservation and utilization of NOLs and other tax attributes, management of COD income); and the taxation of equity derivatives and other financial products. He also regularly publishes articles on Section 892 issues, and was a principal author of a June 2008 report by the New York State Bar Association Tax Section, “Report on the Tax Exemption for Foreign Sovereigns Under Section 892 of the Internal Revenue Code.”

Yaron Reich

Yaron Z. Reich is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Reich’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions, restructurings, insolvencies and financing techniques. He has extensive experience in international transactions, taxation of banks and other financial institutions, foreign investment in the United States, leveraged leasing and project finance, joint ventures, partnerships, real estate transactions, transfer pricing and tax litigation. Mr. Reich has published several significant articles on international tax issues and tax policy. Mr. Reich is widely published on the various aspects of taxation.

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