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Aaron Charfoos

Aaron Charfoos serves as co-chair of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Group in the firm's Chicago office. He is a Chambers-ranked accomplished cybersecurity, privacy, class action and data protection trial lawyer. Aaron has litigated a variety of privacy and cybersecurity cases including data breach class actions, Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and other pixel and third-party tracking technology cases. Aaron also defends clients in regulatory investigations brought by various U.S. and international regulatory bodies. He has guided his clients through numerous data breaches, including breaches involving tens of millions of impacted individuals. Aaron is particularly skilled in guiding clients through cybersecurity vulnerability disclosures, including the Meltdown and Spectre computer chip vulnerabilities, supply chain interdictions, and various other matters, some of which have involved both congressional and regulatory investigations. · Data Privacy

Aaron Mahler

Aaron Mahler is a partner in the Consumer Financial Services and Litigation group at Paul Hastings, and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Aaron has established himself as a valued counselor for financial services companies and individuals navigating government enforcement, litigation, and regulatory matters. He focuses much of his practice on representing bank and nonbank financial institutions in government examinations, investigations, and enforcement actions. · Consumer Financial Services

Alex Farr

Alex Farr is a partner in the Tax Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Dallas office. He focuses his practice on federal income and international tax planning for partnerships, corporations, and individuals related to complex domestic and international business transactions across a variety of industries, including the technology, healthcare, real estate, and energy sectors. · Tax

Alex Herman

Alex Herman is a partner in the Securities & Capital Markets and Latin America practices of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Alex focuses on representing public and private companies, sovereign governments and financial institutions in cross-border capital markets, private equity and financing transactions, particularly those involving Latin American projects or parties. Her experience includes debt and equity offerings pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S, cash flow securitizations and private placements across a variety of industries including the energy and infrastructure sectors. She also advises on periodic SEC reporting obligations and regulatory and compliance matters under the U.S. securities laws. · Securities & Capital Markets

Alexander Temel

Alexander Temel is co-chair of the Private Equity practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Boston office. Alex focuses his practice on advising private equity clients in connection with leveraged recapitalizations, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, structured preferred and growth equity investments, and search fund transactions. Alex regularly represents clients in the software, financial services, business and consumer services, oil and gas, real estate, healthcare, and media industries. He also serves as primary general counsel to a number of privately held companies and represents entrepreneurs and management teams in connection with rollover transactions and new ventures. · Private Equity

Alexandro Padrés

Alexandro M. Padrés is a partner in the Infrastructure and Energy practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He focuses on infrastructure projects as they relate to the electricity (both conventional and clean/renewable), oil and gas telecommunications and mining sectors, with a particular emphasis on Mexico and Latin America. Most recently, his practice has consisted of portfolio financings in several jurisdictions in Latin America (in various modalities and levels of complexity), including advising sponsors and lenders on the financing of renewables projects being developed under the auspices of power purchase agreements under the new legislative framework in Mexico arising from the constitutional energy reform of 2013, as well as the development and financing of gas transportation infrastructure and legacy independent power producer projects in Mexico issued by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). · Infrastructure

Amir Ghavi

Amir Ghavi co-chairs Paul Hastings’ Technology Transactions practice and is widely regarded as a leading authority on legal and strategic issues involving emerging technologies. His practice centers on technology and IP, with a particular focus in AI, automation and robotics, and other disruptive technologies. Clients turn to Amir for strategic counsel on high-value technology matters, drawing on his extensive experience advising technology builders, adopters, investors, and regulators. He advises technology leaders on strategy, regulatory compliance & government affairs, intellectual property, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and M&A, product development, and data management. Amir is a trusted advisor to a broad array of stakeholders in frontier technologies, including AI foundation model developers, sovereign funds, private equity sponsors, and multinational corporations. His AI-focused counseling spans development and deployment strategy, governance, commercialization, hardware and infrastructure, joint ventures, regulatory compliance, and cross-border investments. Notably, Amir has represented AI model developers as defendants in landmark litigations involving first-of-their-kind copyright claims against AI systems, including three of the first four cases filed, and continues to counsel clients on some of the most consequential AI disputes underway. Amir is a recognized thought leader in promoting alignment between technology, society, and law. He lectures at Cornell Tech and the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he instructs on AI and the law, and is a frequent speaker, panelist, and media commentator on emerging technologies including AI, robotics, digital assets, and quantum computing. · Technology Transactions

Amit Mehta

Amit Mehta is the global co-chair of the Paul Hastings Corporate Department and is a partner in the firm's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisition practices. Amit’s practice is focused on private equity and corporate transactions, restructuring and distressed transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings, SPAC-related transaction and counseling boards and senior management on strategic business, corporate governance, financial, and transactional matters. He regularly represents companies in global acquisitions and dispositions, and also in connection with distressed assets. In addition, he represents parties in connection with transactional risk products, including the issuance of representations and warranties insurance policies. Amit serves as general counsel for companies, including providing advice and assistance, with respect to general corporate matters and corporate governance. · Private Equity

Andras Csonka

Andras Csonka is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Paris office. His practice focuses on the creation and structuring of investment funds, particularly private equity, infrastructure, and real estate funds. Andras additionally advises on the sale and acquisition of fund portfolios and direct investments as well as on the review of investment funds for French and international clients. · Investment Funds

Andrew Goodman

Andrew Goodman is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Shareholder Activism & Takeover Defense practices and is based in the firm’s Boston and New York offices. His practice focuses on friendly and hostile public company M&A, corporate governance, shareholder activism defense, and contested situations. He works with clients in a variety of industries, with substantial experience in life sciences and healthcare, technology, and REITs. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Anna Rips

Anna Rips is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Anna focuses her practice on direct lending, private debt and credit funds. She represents U.S. and non-U.S. fund sponsors, asset managers, and investment advisers in connection with the structuring and distribution of U.S. and international private offerings of investment funds, including open and closed-end funds, hybrid funds in various asset classes, negotiated seed and strategic investments, joint ventures, secondaries and continuation vehicles, and other transactions. Anna also advises clients on compensation and carry arrangements, fund sponsor structuring and other legal issues and considerations relating to the establishment, marketing and operation of private investment funds on a global basis. · Investment Funds

Antonin Lévy

Antonin Lévy is a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and is co-chair of the firm’s Paris office. He is one of the best-known and most highly regarded litigators in France, concentrating on complex criminal litigation and compliance work. His practice focuses on white collar crime litigation, corporate compliance, and internal investigations, with a particular emphasis on corruption, corporate criminal law, and business and human rights. Antonin’s extensive experience includes managing investigations conducted by multilateral development banks and handling high-profile ESG litigation. · Investigations

Art Zwickel

Art Zwickel is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and practices in the area of securities, corporate and investment management law. Art’s practice focuses on structuring and organizing both registered and private investment funds, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds, and fund-of-funds. He also counsels investment advisers and broker-dealers on federal and state regulatory issues, including SEC, CFTC, FINRA and NFA rules, and advises them on all aspects of their ongoing operations. Art frequently assists spinout and startup asset management firms in all facets of their organization, including investment adviser registration, preparing and negotiating agreements among the owners, and seed capital transactions. He also advises a variety of institutional investors in connection with their investments into alternative investment funds. · Securities

Arthur de Baudry d’Asson

Arthur de Baudry d’Asson is a Corporate partner, based in the Firm’s Paris office. His practice involves a wide range of corporate related matters. He regularly represents private equity and infrastructure funds in France and across Europe in all types of leverage transactions, including public-to-private deals. He also acts for public companies in high-profile domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, takeovers, joint ventures, business reorganizations, spin-offs and carve-outs, and advises board of directors and senior management in governance matters and the handling of sensitive situations. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Avi Weitzman

Avi Weitzman is co-chair of the Complex Litigation and Arbitration practice and a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings, based in the firm’s New York office. Avi has successfully served as lead trial counsel in high-profile white collar and civil trials, both while an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York and in private practice since then. · Complex Litigation

Barry Sher

Barry Sher is a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul Hastings. He served for more than a decade as chair of the department. He is recognized in Band 1 of Chambers USA for Commercial Litigation; by Euromoney’s Benchmark: by America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys; and as one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. He has earned the highest possible Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating, was named by The American Lawyer as its Litigator of the Week and is a recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, awarded each year for excellence in legal writing. Clients refer to Barry as “a true partner and a superstar” who “makes [you] feel as if [you are] his only client.” · Commercial Litigation

Benjamin Stein

Benjamin Stein is a Boston-based corporate partner at Paul Hastings. He advises private and public companies, from startups to major corporations, in transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, private equity and debt financings and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-registered securities offerings. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Benoît Thirion

Benoît Thirion is a partner in the Corporate Department, in charge of the Public Law practice, and is based in the firm’s Paris office. He advises and litigates public law/projects matters on behalf of public entities and private companies, investment funds and financial institutions. Benoît has developed significant experience with, and a keen understanding of, the strategic and legal issues of Energy and Infrastructure sectors (including transportation, telcos, data centers, water and waste, etc.) and has established close relationships with many key players in these sectors. Benoît assists his clients in the structuring, negotiating, drafting and executing their public contracts (concessions, complex public contractual arrangements, occupancy contracts) as well as project contracts (EPC, O&M, PPA contracts, etc.). He is involved in all matters relating to the granting of authorizations or regulations applicable to economic activities in a variety of contexts (capital transactions, structuring and implementation of greenfield projects, regulatory issues, and litigation). He specializes in regulatory, environmental law and state aid law. He works closely with the firm's M&A, Private Equity and Financing teams. Benoit is ranked “Up & Coming” in Chambers France 2026, with clients noted that “Benoît Thirion is an excellent professional. He provides very good level of service." Benoît teaches public law at Sciences Po Paris Law School. He regularly publishes articles on topics related to his practice. · Public Law

Blair Robinson

Blair Robinson is a partner in the Employment Law Department based in the firm’s New York office. Blair represents clients on a broad range of labor and employment matters, including class and collective actions, high-stakes individual plaintiff litigation, and sensitive investigations involving senior executives. · Class Actions

Brad Bondi

Brad Bondi is Global Co-Chair of the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and a nationally recognized litigation partner. He focuses on securities and financial investigations (SEC and DOJ) and securities and complex litigation. He also advises boards of directors and audit committees concerning significant governance matters. He is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. and New York offices. The publication Law360 recognized Brad as a national MVP in white collar in 2022, 2021, and 2019, Benchmark Litigation lists him as “national practice area star” in both securities and white collar, and The National Law Journal named him a Washington D.C. Trailblazer in 2020 to recognize his significant contributions to the field of securities law. The National Association of Corporate Directors has twice honored him for his work in the board room. Securities Docket describes Brad as “the first choice among Boards of Directors and Audit Committees of the Fortune 500 when their company is faced with SEC or DOJ problems.” Mr. Bondi has two decades of experience representing and counseling companies, financial institutions, boards of directors, audit committees, and senior executives in a broad range of investigations and complex business litigation, with an emphasis on securities and financial regulations and corporate governance matters. He previously held senior positions in government, including at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Bondi leads the representation of significant legal matters including major litigation in trial and appellate courts and in arbitrations (securities litigation, derivative litigation, and complex business litigation), SEC, FINRA, and PCAOB enforcement matters, criminal inquiries (including FCPA, DOJ, and USAO matters), and various investigations (including independent investigations overseen by audit committees and special committees). Mr. Bondi regularly serves as a senior advisor to boards of directors, audit committees, special committees, independent directors, and senior executives during corporate crises, significant transactions, and governance challenges. He has guided boards and board committees through the most extraordinary corporate events, including independent investigations, defense of derivative lawsuits against directors and officers, class actions, accounting irregularities and Restatements, auditor disputes, hostile takeover attempts and activist shareholders, mergers and acquisitions disputes, cyber intrusions and data breaches, and investigations of alleged misconduct by executives. Mr. Bondi advises clients in connection with regulatory enforcement actions, private lawsuits, and governmental and congressional investigations arising from suspected violations of securities laws, accounting irregularities, auditor disputes, internal controls, market manipulation, revenue recognition issues, tax-related matters, insider trading, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other commercial bribery law compliance, matters involving LIBOR and other reference rates, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts, potential antitrust concerns, and cybersecurity. He also oversees complex civil and criminal litigation, such as securities litigation, corporate control litigation, commercial litigation, contractual disputes, arbitrations, and criminal proceedings. Mr. Bondi has litigated significant legal disputes in various state and federal courts, including serving as counsel of record for successful briefs before the Supreme Court of the United States: for an investment bank in Credit Suisse First Boston Ltd. v. Billing (interpreting securities laws as implicitly precluding the application of antitrust laws in the IPO process) and for an amicus curiae in Yates v. United States (construing Sarbanes-Oxley’s criminal provision for document destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 1519). He also served as counsel of record for an amicus curiae brief before the Supreme Court of the United States in Salman v. United States (concerning the personal benefit element of insider trading law) and Liu v. SEC (concerning the SEC’s authority to seek disgorgement), and he has advised on other cases before the Court. Mr. Bondi regularly advises financial institutions, including banking institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, mutual funds, and hedge funds, and their respective boards on issues relating to compliance with securities laws, criminal laws, SEC and FINRA rules, and governance requirements. Mr. Bondi defends clients in enforcement actions, prosecutions, and investigations initiated by federal and state agencies and departments, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorneys and grand juries, State Attorneys General, Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC), Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). On occasion, he has served as an expert witness regarding issues relating to securities law and insider trading law. · Securities Enforcement Defense

Brad Drake

Brad Drake is a partner in the Insurance Private Equity and M&A practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. He frequently represents insurers, reinsurers, investment managers and other market participants in a broad range of insurance-related transactions, from company formations to innovative risk transfer solutions. Brad has advised insurers in connection with company and block acquisitions, and issuers and underwriters in connection with equity, debt, and hybrid securities offerings. He has also been involved in several alternative risk transfer transactions, including embedded value and closed block securitizations, regulatory reserve financings, pension risk transfers, and sidecars. Brad also advises participants in connection with premium finance and life settlement transactions. · Insurance

Brian Richards

Brian Richards is co-chair of the firm’s Private Equity practice and is a partner in the M&A practice at Paul Hastings. Brian has 30 years of experience leading complex domestic and international transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and growth equity investments in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, technology, distribution, and services. The volume and breadth of Brian’s experience is relatively unmatched in the middle market. In 2021 alone, he led more than 30 transactions of all sizes, including several multibillion-dollar deals. · Private Equity

Bruce Wexler

Bruce Wexler is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings. Mr. Wexler is a trial lawyer with extensive experience litigating high-stakes patent cases in a range of technologies. He has represented clients as lead counsel in enforcement and defense matters involving multi-million and multi-billion-dollar drug products. He forms close partnerships with his clients to support successful outcomes, including in their bet-the-company cases. In Hatch-Waxman Act matters, he has opposed challenges by most generic drug companies. He has helped his clients with important drug products such as Aricept®, Pradaxa®, Mirapex®, Cyltezo®, Basaglar®, Entereg®, Emend® oral and Emend® for Injection, Aciphex®, Banzel®, Gocovri®, Comirnaty®, and Opsumit®. He is a former judicial law clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he served under Chief Judge Glenn L. Archer, Jr. He clerked for Chief Judge Archer during the Chief Judge’s preparation of influential Federal Circuit decisions including Markman v. Westview. Mr. Wexler is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches an advanced course in “Life Sciences and Patent Law.” · Intellectual Property

Bruno Leroy

Bruno Leroy is a partner in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the Paris office. Mr. Leroy historically advises French and international companies in the context of complex tax structuring, including domestic and international acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, IPO, restructuring, development of international financings, optimization of funds flow, and transfer pricing. He has a wealth of experience in M&A transactions, tax structuring, and international tax planning. · Tax

Camille Paulhac

Camille Paulhac is a partner and heads the Antitrust and Competition Department in Brussels and Paris. Camille represents clients in contentious (cartels, abuse of dominance, state aids, follow-on actions) and noncontentious (merger control, FDI, FSR) matters before the European Commission (EC), the French Competition Authority (FCA), the French FDI authority, and European and French courts. Camille coordinates multijurisdictional cases before competition and foreign investment authorities around the world, across a number of sectors including tech, life science, digital, financial, aeronautical and energy sectors. · Antitrust

Caroline Texier

Caroline Texier heads the Financial Restructuring department of Paul Hastings in Paris. She has solid experience in restructuring companies in international distress, both in the context of amicable resolution and formal liquidation proceedings, in which she advises all types of parties. Her experience covers all aspects of restructuring, including bankruptcy litigation. · Financial Restructuring

Chad Vance

Chad Vance is a partner in the Insurance M&A practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. Chad focuses his practice on a variety of corporate, securities and regulatory matters relating to the insurance and financial services industry. His work includes the representation of both buyers and sellers in connection with mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions; the representation of underwriters and issuers in connection with public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities; and the representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with financing transactions. · Insurance M&A

Charles Cardon

Charles Cardon is a partner in the Corporate Department and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, for both listed and non-listed companies, as well as in LBO transactions. In private equity, Charles has significant experience in advising funds and founders in a wide range of transactions, including LBO and stock exchange related implications, such as PtoPs and IPO exits. He advises public companies in the context of their takeover bids (as advisor of target companies, bidders, or shareholders), governance matters, disclosure requirements, and relationships with shareholders as well as corporate law matters. In addition, Charles has significant experience in assisting French companies on their external growth projects, notably in the U.S., and in Latin America. · Corporate Law

Charles Filleux Pommerol

Charles Filleux-Pommerol is a partner in the Tax department of the Paris office of Paul Hastings. He advises mostly on tax aspects of private equity and M&A transactions. He has developed a very strong and extensive expertise in the tax and legal issues raised by private equity transactions and management packages. He also regularly assists clients in tax audits and litigation. · Tax

Charles Filleux-Pommerol

Charles Filleux-Pommerol is a partner in the Tax department of the Paris office of Paul Hastings. He advises mostly on tax aspects of private equity and M&A transactions. He has developed a very strong and extensive expertise in the tax and legal issues raised by private equity transactions and management packages. He also regularly assists clients in tax audits and litigation. · Tax

Chris Centrich

Christopher Erik Centrich is a partner in the Corporate Department at Paul Hastings and is based in the Firm’s Houston office. Mr. Centrich advises energy companies on M&A, public and private securities offerings, private equity financings, corporate finance transactions, securities law compliance and other general corporate matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Chris Daniel

Chris Daniel is the Chair of Paul Hastings’ market-leading Global Fintech & Payments Group and is a partner in the Corporate Department. As the founder of the firm’s Band 1 and Tier 1-ranked Fintech team, Chris is recognized as one of the country's leading attorneys in payment systems law, including electronic payments, mobile payments, virtual and digital currencies, and money transmission. Recognized as a “Fintech MVP” by Law360 and ranked Band 1 by Chambers, Chris is one of the most sought-after payments and cryptocurrency practitioners in the market. His unique strength lies in his ability to blend his financial services regulatory focus with unparalleled transactional experience in the Fintech industry. Chris has significant experience advising clients on issues related to investments into payment systems companies and banks, the creation of settlement networks, transactional matters involving payment systems companies, global money transmission, and anti-money laundering issues associated with payments. He regularly practices before every state banking department, all federal banking agencies, FinCEN, and OFAC, and his client base generally consists of: Private equity and venture capital firms. Fintech startups as they develop and commercialize their product offerings. Cryptocurrency companies along the entire range of crypto offerings from blockchain development to crypto exchanges, DeFi and DApps, and ecosystem development. Legacy depositories, payments companies, and card networks who are innovating or contracting with fintech companies. Trusted Platform Companies, for which financial services contribute a significant percentage of their business. Chris regularly practices before every state banking department, all federal banking agencies, FinCEN, and OFAC. · Fintech

Christopher Boies

Christopher Boies is partner in the Corporate Department at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He specializes in representing private credit funds, special situations and opportunistic funds, BDCs, investment and commercial banks, hedge funds and other investment advisors in connection with the entire life-cycle of financing transactions, from structuring and loan origination to in-court and out-of-court restructuring transactions. Christopher is regularly called upon by clients and colleagues in connection with navigating intercreditor and AAL (agreement among lenders) dynamics in complex multi-tranche credit structures, and has presented to both market participants and government agencies concerning unitranche credit facilities and related topics. · Private Credit

Christopher Ross

Christopher Ross is a Partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on representing banks and alternative lenders in commercial finance transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated and direct lending, cross-border transactions, special situations, refinancings, recapitalizations, asset-based lending, cash flow loans, first lien/second lien facilities, and mezzanine debt facilities. He has experience in various business sectors including healthcare, software, retail, media, franchising, manufacturing, and transportation. · Commercial Finance

Colin Diamond

Colin J. Diamond is co-chair of the global Securities and Capital Markets practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He advises issuers and underwriters on a broad range of U.S. and international capital markets transactions, including registered equity offerings, private placements and convertible bond offerings. Colin has worked on 30 completed IPOs in the last 10 years. His experience includes playing a leading role in the IPOs of Visa and Saudi Aramco, each the largest IPO globally at the time. Colin also advises public companies at critical times in their life cycles on their obligations and options. His practice includes advice on the full range of U.S. securities laws, including proxy statements, SEC no-action letters, and ongoing reporting requirements. · Securities

Damien Fenard

Damien Fenard is Of Counsel in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the Paris office. Mr. Fenard focuses his practice on tax matters, regularly advising French and international clients in contentious and advisory aspects of taxation. He has extensive experience in tax structuring of M&A transactions, both for industrial or private equity funds. Mr. Fenard regularly advises management teams in LBO transactions. He has also developed a strong experience in taxation of innovation, such as R&D tax credit, patent regime, or pharmaceutical taxes. · Tax

Dan Stellenberg

Dan Stellenberg is a partner in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings, focusing on executive compensation and employee benefits. Dan’s practice encompasses four broad areas: (i) support of the firm’s overall transaction practices, including Private Equity, M&A, Capital Markets, and Corporate Restructurings, (ii) employment restructurings, (iii) outside compensation/benefits counsel, and (iv) representations of individual executives and management teams. More specifically, his practice focuses on transactional employment matters, including advising on tax, accounting, employment and securities law issues in connection with executive employment and separation agreements, equity compensation arrangements, and bonus plans. · Executive Compensation

Dana Syracuse

Dana Syracuse is a partner in the Fintech practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on the blockchain, fintech, e-commerce and financial services sectors, working with clients on regulatory, business and product counseling, cyber and data security, and enforcement concerns. · Blockchain

Daniel Fliman

Dan Fliman is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Fliman has nearly two decades of experience working on high-profile restructurings and related litigations. He most often represents creditors, committees, debtors, shareholders, sponsors, and fiduciaries looking to mitigate exposure, or maximize recoveries, in contentious contexts. He is experienced handling a wide variety of disputes (from differing sides) in Federal and state courts, with particular focus on bankruptcy plan-related litigation and lawsuits involving claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent conveyance, and equitable subordination. · Financial Restructuring

David Avila

David Avila is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He focuses on project development and finance, including construction, tax credit bridge and back leverage financings, Term Loan A, Term Loan B, asset acquisitions and dispositions, private placement offerings, tax credit transfer transactions, and other corporate transactions in the power and renewable energy, battery storage and natural gas sectors. David’s clients include both sponsors and lenders, including developers, private equity, investment banks and other institutional investors. · Project Development

David Barash

David L. Barash is a partner in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice primarily focuses on advising leading investment banks, institutional investments funds, and commercial banks in public and private financing transactions, including high yield and investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings, mezzanine financings, unitranche financings, and leveraged loan financings. · Debt Offerings

David Broderick

David Broderick’s practice focuses on complex real estate transactions, including debt and equity transactions, and all types of restructurings, workouts and dispute resolutions. David concentrates on mortgage and mezzanine financing, construction lending, debt syndication, preferred equity, bridge financing and other structured financings. He also focuses on asset management, mortgage loan foreclosures, UCC public actions, intercreditor/co-lender disputes, real estate-related litigation, partnership disputes and bankruptcies. David also works on loan securitization transactions, real estate fund formations, financing facilities and private equity asset level transactions, sale/leaseback transactions and related financing. · Real Estate

David Elder

David Elder is a partner in the Corporate Department at Paul Hastings and is based in the Firm’s Houston office. Mr. Elder focuses on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, corporate governance and general corporate securities matters. He represents major corporate clients across the energy, oil and gas, sports and entertainment, and telecommunications sectors. He also advises issuers, underwriters and investment banking firms in public and private offerings. · Mergers & Acquisitions

David Hearth

David Hearth is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s San Francisco office. David has an investment management, corporate, and securities practice. He represents investment companies and partnerships, investment advisers, broker-dealers, and independent board members of registered investment companies. He also has broad investment management industry experience in general business matters, including merger and acquisition transactions. David actively represents investment management organizations in all phases of their activities, including launching new fund groups and innovative new products and services, handling special compliance and regulatory matters, obtaining exemptive and no-action relief from the SEC, working on acquisitions, and providing fiduciary counseling. · Investment Funds

Derek Roth

Derek Roth is a partner in the Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. He is also a member of the Hospitality & Leisure practice group, representing institutional real estate investors and real estate companies in joint ventures, finance transactions, acquisitions and dispositions, fund formation and operational issues. Having spent four years in Paul Hastings’ Hong Kong office, Derek also has extensive experience representing clients in cross-border transactions between the United States and Asia. · Real Estate

Derek Wetmore

Derek Wetmore is of counsel in the Investigations & White Collar Defense practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's San Francisco office. He represents clients ranging from individuals and closely held entities to Fortune 50 companies in the most sensitive, confidential matters. Derek's practice focuses on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) investigations and enforcement actions, state Attorney General investigations, global and domestic internal investigations, and Fintech regulatory matters and litigation. · Securities Enforcement

Eduardo Gallardo

Eduardo Gallardo is co-chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He has over 25 years of experience representing public company sellers and buyers, including boards of directors and special committees, in connection with mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, both negotiated and contested. Eduardo also represents public companies in connection with proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and other complex corporate transactions. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Elena Baca

Elena Baca is the Global Chair of the Paul Hastings Employment Law Department and leads a diverse group of more than 80 lawyers in 10 offices around the world. Elena is a first-chair litigator who regularly navigates high-stakes litigation, conducts sensitive investigations and advises C-suite executives and corporate boards on compliance and regulatory issues involving human capital. In her role as practice Chair, Paul Hastings’ Employment Department has anticipated and led the response to evolving employment issues, including employee and shareholder activism, AI, COVID, DEI and CSR. Elena is recognized as a leading trial lawyer by many notable publications. She has been consistently ranked by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 as one of the top employment defense lawyers in California. Chambers USA has noted that her “litigation track record and outstanding trial victories stand out in the legal marketplace, due to both her sheer volume of wins and the ways in which these decisions are helping to shape future employment and labor law, particularly in California.” In Chambers, Elena has been described as “second to none,” a “phenomenal lawyer and creative thinker,” “one of the preeminent labor and employment lawyers in Los Angeles,” and “one of the best attorneys I have ever worked with.” Elena also has been selected continuously since 2006 as one of the Best Lawyers in America in employment law. She has repeatedly been named as one of California’s “Top Women Lawyers” and as one of California’s “Top Labor and Employment Attorneys” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. She has been selected as one of Lawdragon’s Top 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers. The American Lawyer also recognized her in its “Top 45 Under 45” list. An experienced trial lawyer, Elena has established an impressive record of defense verdicts and arbitration wins representing a wide variety of corporate clients. Her adversarial practice is primarily focused on employment-related issues, such as employee mobility, discrimination, wage and hour, and whistleblower issues. She is considered a “go-to” employment lawyer for many large employers with high-profile disputes involving high-level executives and contentious high-stakes litigation (including class action claims). She is regularly called upon to assist with crisis litigation, with its unique demands and need for an experienced, sophisticated and broad strategic focus. Elena is frequently called upon to turn around cases that have been mishandled by other law firms and take them to trial. Her clients include talent agencies, entertainment companies, web-based services, online social media and networking platforms, video game developers and publishers, financial institutions, medical technology and research companies, law firms, public utilities, major manufacturers, and leading consumer brands. · Employment Law

Erec Winandy

Erec Winandy is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Dallas office. He leads a skilled and experienced team that prides itself on providing commercial and creative solutions for even the most complex deals, including acquisition and leveraged finance, asset-based lending and reserve-based lending, subscription-backed lending, and structured finance. · Banking & Finance

Eric Allendorf

Rick Allendorf is the head of the Real Estate Finance practice group and a partner in the Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Allendorf’s practice is concentrated in real estate lending with a national scope, with a particular emphasis on complex debt finance. He represents institutional lenders, alternative lenders, debt funds, and construction lenders in all aspects of real estate finance and restructurings. Mr. Allendorf’s experience includes representing lenders in originating loans intended for balance sheet, syndication, and securitization secured by commercial real estate projects of all asset types, including office, retail, hotel, multifamily, and industrial. He has extensive experience in structuring multi-stack deals with multiple layers of subordinate financing, representing both senior lenders and mezzanine lenders. Additionally, Mr. Allendorf has extensive experience in workouts and bankruptcies, having been involved in some of the largest restructurings in multiple real estate cycles. · Real Estate Finance

Eric Dittmann

Eric W. Dittmann is global co-chair of the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings, where he oversees the firm’s 100-plus lawyer IP group. Recognized as one of the nation’s leading IP litigators, Eric possesses extensive first-chair experience representing clients in patent litigations, post-grant proceedings, arbitrations, and appellate disputes across a wide range of technologies, with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. He is regularly trusted by some of the world’s most prominent companies to lead their most critical and business-defining IP disputes. Clients praise him as “an excellent attorney who brings a brilliant strategic mind to every issue” and “an excellent strategist and litigator” (Chambers USA 2025 — Intellectual Property: Patent). · Intellectual Property

Eric Landau

Eric Landau is a partner and Chair of the Real Estate Department at Paul Hastings, based in the firm’s New York office. He has developed a real estate practice representing a diverse group of clients and interests, focusing on sophisticated joint ventures, hospitality, borrowing, preferred equity, acquisitions and mixed-use development transactions. Representative of the clients who Mr. Landau regularly represents on their most complex real estate transactions include Millennium Partners, Related Fund Management, Fisher Brothers, The Witkoff Group, Lightstone Development Group, Investcorp International, Lionheart Strategic Capital, Ian Schrager Company, Silverstein Properties, Nobu Hospitality, Extell Development, Cipriani, Faena Group, Morgan Stanley and Turnbridge Equities. · Real Estate

Eric Schwitzer

Eric Schwitzer is the chair of the Fund Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice primarily focuses on fund finance and real estate finance. Eric represents major financial institutions, together with private credit and private equity funds in connection with complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including subscription line credit facilities, NAV financings, hybrid facilities, mortgage and mezzanine loans, and preferred equity financings. · Fund Finance

Eric Sibbitt

Eric Sibbitt serves as both Co-Chair of the Global Fintech & Payments and Vice Chair of the Securities & Capital Markets practice groups. As one of the most trusted legal advisors in the Fintech industry, Eric represents major trading platforms and other market intermediaries, leading innovators, and prominent investors in navigating the regulatory complexity presented by blockchain and new financial technologies and legacy regulation. Eric has broad experience advising issuers and underwriters on IPOs and other complex equity and debt capital-raising and liability management transactions, as well as M&A and other strategic transactions, and provides clients with boardroom counsel on SEC and corporate governance matters. · Fintech & Payments

Erik Hyman

Erik Hyman is co-chair of the Entertainment and Media practice and chair of the Century City office. Erik is well known in the entertainment industry as a cutting-edge dealmaker and a fierce protector of his clients, which include award-winning movie stars, high-level television creators and showrunners, lead cast members of popular programs on scripted and unscripted television, “first-dollar-gross” producers and preeminent writers and directors. He is a tenacious champion for his diverse clients, whether they are creative individuals, film financiers or high-net-worth families making entertainment and media industry investments. Erik also works closely with multiple publicly traded, nonentertainment companies, steering their television and motion picture industry strategies and branded entertainment projects. · Entertainment

Eugene Ferrer

Eugene Ferrer is the chair of the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the New York office. His practice focuses on securitization and structured finance, with a particular emphasis on structured credit products and collateralized loan obligation transactions. In the past, he has represented investment banks, financial institutions, collateral managers, issuers, investors, and end-users in a wide array of securitized financial products, including: cash and synthetic CDO/CLOs, credit-linked notes, and securities repackagings. · Securitization

Felicia Davis

Felicia Davis is the Chair of the Los Angeles Employment Law Department of Paul Hastings and works in the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Ms. Davis represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including pay equity, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, religious accommodation, and wage and hour issues in both single-plaintiff and class-action matters. She also represents clients in background check litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, government and workplace investigations, labor grievances, and collective bargaining. Ms. Davis’ clients span all industries, with an emphasis in media, entertainment, and technology companies. In addition to litigation, Ms. Davis regularly helps employers review and revise their employment policies and procedures, including policies on employee background checks, paid sick leave, and wage and hour issues, and provides anti-harassment training to management and executives. She also works with employers to review and analyze their compensation practices for pay equity and legal compliance. Ms. Davis frequently advises and speaks on the intersection of technology and employment law and is a past Co-Chair of the ABA Labor and Employment Law Committee on Technology in the Practice and Workplace. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Western Center on Law & Poverty. · Labor & Employment

Frank Lopez

Frank Lopez is the Chair of Paul Hastings. Recognized as a leading capital markets and finance lawyer, Mr. Lopez has been ranked by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Legal 500 for capital markets in each of the last 13 years and was included in The National Law Journal’s inaugural Trailblazers list, recognizing the nation’s leading lawyers in finance, banking & capital markets. He sits on the Board of Visitors of the Georgetown University Law Center. · Capital Markets

Frederik Mühl

Frederik Mühl is a private equity and infrastructure M&A partner in the Corporate Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Frankfurt office. He specializes in representing private equity and infrastructure investors on national and cross-border corporate transactions. In addition to his buy-out and infrastructure practice, Mr. Mühl has considerable experience with growth transactions and has advised on a number of distressed M&A transactions. · Private Equity

Gabe Sasson

Gabriel Sasson is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Gabriel Sasson concentrates his practice on bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructuring transactions. Gabriel has extensive experience representing ad hoc groups of bondholders, secured lenders and other creditors, DIP lenders, official committees of unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, equity holders and debtors in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings. In addition, Gabriel has experience in the representation of large insurance companies, as creditors, in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings. · Financial Restructuring