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Brian Kearney

Associate

Ballard Spahr LLP

Brian Kerwin

Brian Kerwin is a partner in Duane Morris' Corporate Practice Group, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s national governing Partners Board. Brian served as chairman of the firm's Corporate Practice Group, consisting of 200 plus attorneys in 16 offices, for more than a decade. Brian has extensive experience representing business entities, lenders, private equity funds and entrepreneurs in various business and financing transactions, including the buying and selling of companies, acquisition financings, syndicated secured loan transactions, asset-based financings, venture debt financings, capital raises, fund formations and equity investments. Brian prides himself on delivering high quality legal work, efficiently and responsively. Brian has led more than 1,000 financing transactions and over 200 company sale/purchase transactions. His clients have been located across the United States and have been involved in a myriad of businesses, including manufacturing, distribution, fintech, banking, healthcare, education, defense/military, fashion/retail, plastics, packaging, food and beverage, nutrition, pharmaceutical, technology, transportation logistics, automotive, lodging, gaming, home improvement, outsourcing and human resources, safety/test engineering and product safety, software, telecommunications, home and lawn care, investment management, private equity, among others.

Duane Morris LLP

Brian Kidd

Brian Kidd is a partner in Sher Tremonte’s Washington, D.C. office. Brian’s practice focuses on solving clients’ most difficult legal and regulatory challenges, often in the context of civil and criminal investigations and litigations. Brian has represented public and private companies and their executives in complex government-facing probes, resulting in favorable resolutions and declinations. He also advises boards of directors and companies in connection with complex internal investigations and compliance reviews. Brian regularly counsels his clients through sensitive matters, corporate crises, litigation, and other disputes involving U.S. federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Department of Education, District Attorney’s Offices, and state attorneys general, among others. Brian has first chaired over a dozen federal trials and is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C., bars. Before joining Sher Tremonte, Brian was a partner at a top-rated international law firm and served as the Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at DOJ. As Chief, Brian supervised a team of roughly 40 federal prosecutors and oversaw major fraud cases brought by the DOJ during his tenure, with a special focus on investigating and prosecuting complex securities, commodities, cryptocurrency, and other major corporate fraud cases. Brian also served as chair of DOJ’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group, where he worked closely with senior leaders at the SEC, CFTC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Reserve. Brian is a regular speaker on DOJ, SEC, and CFTC enforcement trends, cross-boarder investigations, cryptocurrency fraud, COVID-19 relief fraud, and compliance guidelines issued by U.S. regulators and law enforcement agencies. Brian earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Brian is a three-time recipient of the Assistant Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award. Brian has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Puerto Rico School of Law.

Sher Tremonte

Brian Kim

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian King

Brian King has more than 20 years of experience providing strong legal counsel, along with practical business advice, to clients in all facets of commercial real estate matters. Brian routinely works with developers, lenders, retailers, investors, and other companies around the country that are involved with commercial real estate on acquisitions, financings, leasing, and development of every asset class of real estate, including office, retail, hotel, and multi-family properties. His clients have included The Hanover Insurance Group, Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan Chase Bank, Gordon Brothers Group, Wells Fargo, Ipsen Pharmaceutical, Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and Perkins School for the Blind. To learn more about our Real Estate practice, please click here.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Brian Kittle

Partner

Mayer Brown

Brian Klock

Partner.

Venable LLP

Brian Kniesly

Brian Kniesly is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Group and a member of the Tax Practice Group. Brian focuses on the federal income taxation of REITs, investment funds, partnerships, real estate and mergers and acquisitions. He has been involved in tax planning on some of the largest real estate transactions in the United States and has provided extensive advice on structuring investments in real estate, debt and other investments for investment funds, foreign governments, other non-U.S. investors, corporations and individuals, including through the use of REITs to invest in hotels, health care facilities as well as other real estate. He also worked on a wide range of transactions including sales and dispositions of REITs, partnership reorganizations, asset sales, sale-leasebacks, and fund formations. Brian also has extensive experience advising on New York state and local tax issues, including transfer taxes, commercial rent and occupancy taxes and others.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brian Krause

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian Land

Of Counsel with more than 30 years of experience in the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, including environmental due diligence, environmental liability and risk allocation, financings, restructurings, public offerings, and SEC environmental disclosure. Negotiates indemnities and insurance coverage for complex environmental risks. Enforces environmental indemnification rights and manages the post-sale resolution of environmental issues. Advises and counsels on remediation and cleanup matters, including under CERCLA, RCRA, and state cleanup programs. Counsels clients regarding environmental regulatory compliance matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Brian Lavin

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian Lenihan

Brian Lenihan has more than 25 years of experience advising private equity funds in a broad range of financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, majority and minority recapitalizations, and growth equity investments. Brian also represents private technology companies in a wide range of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, and cross-border transactions. Brian regularly acts as special counsel to Canadian and UK companies and investors in cross-border transactions with US funds or issuers. He has particular domain expertise in financial technology and IT solutions within the healthcare and financial services industries. Brian is a former member of Choate’s eight person Executive Committee.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Brian Lerman

Partner

Goodwin

Brian Levey

Counsel

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Brian Lichter

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Brian Liu

Brian E. Liu is a corporate partner and a member of the firm’s Aviation Practice Group. His practice focuses on all aspects of aviation and equipment finance, and he regularly represents airlines, leasing companies and financial institutions. Mr. Liu’s extensive experience includes advising clients on enhanced equipment trust certificate and secured notes issuances, securitizations, syndicated credit facilities, second lien facilities, warehouse facilities, sale/leasebacks and restructurings. A number of transactions on which he has worked have been selected for “Deal of the Year” industry honors; these complex structured financings, encompassing portfolio securitizations and U.S. and foreign carrier EETCs, have been recognized within the aviation finance industry for their innovation and significance. Mr. Liu joined the firm in 2017. Prior to joining Debevoise, he served as partner at an international law firm, focusing on equipment finance matters. Mr. Liu earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2006 and received his B.A. from Northwestern University in 2003.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Brian Lutz

Brian M. Lutz is a litigation partner in the San Francisco and New York offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Brian serves as a Co‐Chair of the Firm’s National Securities Litigation Practice Group, which is consistently recognized as one of the leading securities litigation practices in the country. Brian’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on corporate control contests, securities class actions, and shareholder actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duties. He represents and advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, shareholder activist matters, and corporate governance issues, and regularly represents and advises boards of directors and board committees on litigation issues. Brian also handles a wide range of other business litigation, including real estate disputes, employment matters, and trade secrets litigation.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brian M. Janson

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian Maloney

Seward & Kissel LLP

Brian Mangino

Corporate partner. Focuses his practice on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, strategic partnerships, spin-offs and joint ventures, representing private equity firms and public and private companies. Also advises on corporate governance issues, defensive strategy, securities law compliance and other general corporate matters. Clients include private investment funds managed by Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Permira Advisors LLC; and Citadel Investment Group and their portfolio companies, and other public and private companies.

Latham & Watkins

Brian Matsui

Brian R. Matsui | Morrison Foerster Brian Matsui co-chairs Morrison Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice. Brian is a go-to appellate advocate for sophisticated clients in complex appeals. Brian has a nationwide appellate practice. He has argued many cases in federal and state appellate courts throughout the country, winning appeals involving federal preemption, securities litigation and enforcement, consumer class actions, and intellectual property. He has led appeals in the D.C., Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits. His arguments include significant victories in class action appeals and in appeals for leading financial services companies, with multiple victories in the Ninth Circuit, where he clerked. Brian recently has gone five for six when representing appellants, including a precedential victory in the Ninth Circuit in a licensing dispute concerning alleged patent misuse. He also argued and won a D.C. Circuit appeal against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the retroactivity of part of the Dodd-Frank Act. As a result of Brian’s win, the SEC had to change its enforcement practices against certain securities industry professionals. Clients frequently turn to Brian for his substantial experience with appeals in the Federal Circuit, praising him as “an invaluable advocate in patent matters” (Chambers USA). Brian has won 13 of his last 15 appeals in that Court. His arguments before the Federal Circuit include winning appeals from district courts, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the International Trade Commission. He has handled appeals in a myriad of industries, including mobile devices, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, semiconductors, and software. Brian also plays a key role on trial teams, advising clients on both critical legal issues and appellate preservation. He recently argued and prevailed against a summary judgment invalidity motion in a case involving Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s revolutionary antibody recycling technology, which ultimately led to a $775 million settlement on the eve of trial for Chugai. A former law clerk for the United States Supreme Court, Brian has authored many briefs in that Court, including on important constitutional and statutory interpretation issues. He often represents clients’ interests in amicus briefs in significant Supreme Court cases affecting the business community. Leading publications have recognized Brian for his appellate skills. The Legal 500 US recommends him for appellate litigation, and the National Law Journal named Brian a “Minority 40 Under 40.” Brian also dedicates significant time to pro bono matters. He argued and won two significant appeals—in the Second and Ninth Circuits—obtaining reversals of judgments that had denied private rights of action under the Child Welfare Act in precedential decisions. Brian also led the Morrison Foerster team who co-counseled a successful Eighth Amendment challenge to Florida’s imposition of a “life without the possibility of parole” sentence to a juvenile offender convicted of a non-homicide crime. For years, Brian chaired the ABA’s seven-person Standing Committee for Amicus Curiae Briefs. He served on the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s amicus committee and co-chaired the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s amicus committee. Brian served as an appellate lawyer representative for the Ninth Circuit. Brian also serves on the board of directors for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before entering private practice, Brian clerked on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. He also clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer in the Ninth Circuit and Judge David F. Levi in the Eastern District of California. While in law school, Brian served as managing editor of Volume 51 of the Stanford Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.

Morrison Foerster

Brian McPeake

Partner

Goodwin

Brian Mulhall

Partner

Goodwin

Brian Murphy

Partner; Chair of the Corporate and Commercial Transactions and Real Estate Practice Groups Brian Murphy is a partner at Couch White, LLP and chairs the Corporate and Commercial Transactions and Real Estate practice groups at the firm. In his practice, he plays the role of “first call” transactional counsel for growing businesses and leads bet-the-company deals spanning first fundraise to sale. He also advises family-owned enterprises on critical succession planning matters. Couch White’s M&A practice was founded by Brian and has steadily grown year-over-year with a focus on mid-market and lower mid-market transactions. During 2025 alone, Couch White’s M&A practice consummated nearly a dozen transactions comprising approximately $500 million in deal value across various sectors. Transactions have been on both the buy-side and sell-side and many have been in new or quickly evolving industries, such as FinTech, energy, construction and financial services. Brian has been recognized as a corporate transactions industry leader in the 2025 Chambers & Partners USA Guide for Upstate New York Corporate/M&A and by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers for his work in corporate law. Brian has also been recognized as an Economic Development Trailblazer by City & State New York for his contributions to the New York and Upstate New York business ecosystems. Brian is a member of Couch White’s Executive Leadership Committee, which oversees the firm’s strategic planning. Prior to joining Couch White in 2014, Brian practiced in the New York office of Milbank LLP and worked for the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.

Couch White LLP