Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

Alexander Geda

Alexander is an associate who advises clients on banking and finance law in cross-border transactions. He works frequently with multinational banks and financial institutions on transactions with Russian parties and with Russia-based clients on international transactions. In 2014 Alexander was seconded to ING Moscow. Alexander joined Morgan Lewis from the banking and finance practice of another international law firm. For more information, view Alexander's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ageda · Banking and Finance Law

Alexander Marchenko

Alexander is of counsel in the firm's energy transactions team, whose practice focuses primarily on upstream oil and gas, mining, and metals, advises clients throughout their corporate transactions. A native Russian speaker who also is fluent in English, Alexander counsels clients throughout the Russian Federation and Central Asian countries on onshore and offshore acquisitions and divestitures of exploration and production assets, including financing and parent guarantees; due diligence investigations; negotiating relevant sale-and-purchase; and amendment and reissuance of exploration and production licenses. For more information, view Alexander's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/amarchenko · Corporate Transactions

Alexandra Rotar

Alexandra focuses on advising companies investing and operating in the oil and gas, power, renewable energy, metals and mining, and natural resource sectors. Over the past 10 years, Alexandra has represented clients on some of their most significant transactions in the energy sector and major infrastructure projects. She also advises on complex commercial agreements as well as on compliance with corporate, industrial, and environmental regulations affecting companies doing business in the energy sector. For more information, view Alexandra's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/alexandrarotar · Oil and Gas

Alexandre Bailly

Alexandre is a partner in the firm's litigation practice who represents multinational and French clients in international business disputes, with a particular focus on complex business matters. Working closely with others on the Morgan Lewis team, he has litigated and arbitrated matters involving the industrial risks sector, commercial contracts, banking, bankruptcy, construction, and portfolio management. His clients include companies in the automotive, aerospace, construction, communications, technology, and consumer products fields, as well as banks, financial asset managers, and brokers. For more information, view Alexandre's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/abailly · Litigation

Alexey Chertov

Alexey Chertov represents both lenders and borrowers in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa in connection with the full spectrum of international banking and finance matters, from traditional bank financings to complex workouts, including prepayment finance, project finance, pre-export finance, acquisition finance, and syndicated lending. Alexey concentrates his practice on international commodity finance transactions, particularly in the oil and gas and metals and mining sectors. He also frequently advises clients on complex project finance transactions. Alexey speaks Russian and English. For more information, view Alexey's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/achertov · Banking and Finance

Alison Tanchyk

Alison handles government and internal investigations, complex civil litigation, and compliance and regulatory cases, with an emphasis on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters. She defends companies and individuals against criminal and civil investigations alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act (FCA), and involving allegations of healthcare, tax, and securities fraud, and other business frauds. Alison also counsels clients on matters related to developing, implementing, evaluating, and auditing internal compliance and ethics programs. Most recently, she represented Olympus Corporation of the Americas in connection with an FCPA investigation of Olympus’s sales and marketing practices in Latin America resulting in a deferred prosecution agreement and $22.8 million fine, announced March 1, 2016. In 2014, Latinvex named her one of Latin America’s Top 50 Female Lawyers, and in 2016, Latinvex named her as one of Latin America’s Top 100 Female Lawyers. · Government Investigations

Allison Soilihi

Allison is a partner in the firm's energy transactions practice. Representing oil and gas companies, she advises on issues involving acquisitions of oil blocks, hydrocarbon assets, and upstream, midstream, and downstream assets. Allison drafts and negotiates petroleum agreements, including those that involve production sharing, joint operating, and hydrocarbons transportation and supply. She also counsels on establishment conventions, joint ventures, and sale and purchase agreements of petroleum assets. For more information, view Allison's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/asoilihi.

Amy Maloney

Amy Maloney focuses her practice on project finance and development, working with sponsors and financing sources including commercial and investment banks, developers and independent power producers, private equity funds, insurance companies, and other institutional investors. Amy advises clients on the development, construction, operation, and debt and equity financing of various types of energy and infrastructure projects, including wind, solar, and other renewable assets, gas-fired facilities, gas and liquids pipelines, transmission lines, and transportation infrastructure. · Project Finance

Anastasia Dergacheva

Anastasia Dergacheva counsels major international companies in the telecommunications, media and entertainment, and technology industries. Anastasia’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and technology transfer transactions, as well as licensing, outsourcing, and professional services deals. For more information, view Anastasia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/adergacheva · Mergers and Acquisitions

Anastasia Kiseleva

Anastasia is an associate in the firm's Moscow office who represents clients in general corporate and intellectual property matters, primarily focusing on telecommunications, media, and technology matters. She also assists with mergers, acquisitions, and securities transactions. Additionally, Anastasia maintains an active pro bono practice. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Anastasia worked as a trainee law clerk in the corporate practice of an international law firm in Moscow. For more information, view Anastasia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/akiseleva · Corporate

Andrey Ignatenko

Andrey represents international and domestic clients in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, divestments, and corporate restructurings, and also advises on a wide range of general corporate, competition, regulatory, and compliance matters. He counsels clients across multiple industries with a primary focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, and life sciences sectors. For more information, view Andrey's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/aignatenko · Mergers and Acquisitions

Anne Gaustad-Hanken

Anne Gaustad-Hanken advises multinational public and private corporations and senior executives on cross-border investigations, sanctions, export controls, and business and human rights matters. She leads internal investigations and enterprise-wide risk assessments, including investigations and compliance reviews conducted in coordination with authorities such as the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, French regulatory and enforcement authorities, Norway’s Økokrim, and Multilateral Development Banks. Her work spans anti-corruption, EU and US economic sanctions and export controls, anti–money laundering, and corporate governance frameworks. Anne also designs, implements, and validates global compliance programs and represents clients in disputes arising from regulatory investigations and cross-border activity. For more information, view Anne's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/annegaustadhanken · Cross-Border Investigations

Artem Tamaev

Artem represents public and private companies and private equity sponsors on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, and strategic advice matters. He regularly advises clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, and has worked on deals across numerous jurisdictions in a broad range of industries, including agribusiness, consumer products, energy, pharmaceuticals, and manufacturing. For more information, view Artem's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/artemtamaev · Mergers and Acquisitions

Asem B. Bakenova

A partner in the corporate business transactions practice at Morgan Lewis, Asem Bakenova assists clients with all aspects of corporate law matters, infrastructure transactions, and intellectual property (IP) matters. She is admitted to practice as a patent attorney in Kazakhstan. Asem helps clients draft and negotiate agreements and other supporting documents, including fixed price, cost reimbursable, and hybrid engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) arrangements for major infrastructure projects in Kazakhstan; chemical feedstock and offtake agreements; and trademark protection, copyright, and technology licenses. For more information, view her bio at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/abakenova. · Corporate Law

Aset Shyngyssov

Aset is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis's Almaty and Astana offices. He concentrates his practice on corporate law and corporate transactions, primarily mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Aset handles transactions in Kazakhstan and throughout Central Asia involving clients in the oil and gas, banking, capital markets and hospitality industries. Chambers, Legal 500 and International Financial Law Review consistently rank him among the top Kazakhstan lawyers for his experience in natural resources and corporate and commercial law. For more information, view Aset’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ashyngyssov · Corporate Law

Bakhytzhan Kadyrov

Kazakh and international companies turn to partner Bakhytzhan Kadyrov for advice on a range of corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and tax. His client base spans industries and encompasses luxury hotel developers, mining companies, oil producers, and grain traders. He has advised on a sale of a large confectionary company in Kazakhstan. Bakhytzhan has also provided counsel on complex Kazakh legal issues to a major Kazakhstan real estate developer. For more information, view Bakhytzhan's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bkadyrov · Corporate

Bela Yu Pelman

Bela is of counsel in the firm's Moscow office, she counsels clients on corporate law, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance, as well as employment law, immigration, Russian data privacy law, and mobility issues. She also advises foreign investors on corporate and compliance issues to address when establishing a presence in Russia, including setting up wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures, or mergers and acquisitions. Additionally, Bela works with clients on Russian corporate and commercial matters, and antitrust, securities, and currency regulation. For more information, view Bela's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bpelman · Corporate Law

Brian L Zimbler

Brian is a partner in Morgan Lewis's corporate business transactions practice who splits his time between the firm's Moscow and Washington, DC, offices. He advises on cross-border investment and financial matters, primarily in emerging markets. He has more than 25 years of experience with transactions involving Russia, Kazakhstan, and other countries in the former Soviet Union. Brian has advised on some of the largest foreign investments in the region. He represents clients in a wide range of industries, including energy, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, real property, retail, and technology. For more information, view Brian’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/bzimbler · Corporate Business Transactions

Carl Valenstein

Carl focuses his practice on domestic and international corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, project development, and transactional finance. He counsels extensively in the life science, telecom/electronics, and maritime industries, and he has worked broadly in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Carl advises clients on international risk management, including compliance with the foreign investment review process (Exon-Florio/CFIUS), export control and sanctions, anti-money laundering, anti-boycott, and anticorruption (FCPA) laws and regulations. He also advises on internal investigations, enforcement cases, and dispute resolution proceedings relating to his transactional and regulatory practice. · Corporate Law

Chad Davis

Patent Prosecution

Charles Dauthier

Charles is an associate in the firm's labour and employment practice who advises French and international clients on both labour and employment matters, as well as data privacy and cybersecurity. He advises clients on executive terminations, collective terminations and other employment matters, as well as data privacy issues that surface in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing, and other types of reorganization. He counsels clients on employment matters attendant in employee benefits and employee representation matters. Charles has experience working with clients to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and managing employee misconduct investigations. For more information, view Charles' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/cdauthier · Labour and Employment

Chloé Lignier

Counsel · Private Equity

Christian Zschocke

Managing Morgan Lewis’s Corporate and Business Transactions (CBT) practice in Frankfurt since 1997, Christian Zschocke counsels clients on public takeovers, and on European and German antitrust law. He represents clients in large takeover transactions on the side of bidders, financial investors, or target companies. Before joining Morgan Lewis, he served clients of another international New York–based law firm in London, Brussels, and Frankfurt, and worked for law firms in Paris, Hamburg, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/czschocke · Corporate

Clément Vandevooghel

Clément Vandevooghel advises financial institutions, asset managers, servicers, corporates, private equity funds, and insurance and reinsurance companies on a wide range of financing transactions, including structured finance, securitization, asset-backed financings, derivatives and debt capital markets matters, in domestic and international markets. He also regularly acts for purchasers and sellers of loan portfolios. For more information, view Clément's biography at morganlewis.com/bios/clementvandevooghel. · Structured Finance

Danièle Darmon

Danièle Darmon advises clients on the acquisition, development, and leasing of commercial properties including office, hotel, retail, industrial, and warehouse assets. She has in-depth knowledge of the warehouse industry and related environmental issues (e.g., classified installations for the protection of the environment). Danièle is fluent in French and English. For more information, view Danièle's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/danieledarmon · Commercial Real Estate

David Brenneman

David is an associate in Morgan Lewis's antitrust and competition team, he represents clients primarily in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and civil antitrust litigation. In the merger process, David works on premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, international merger control, merger investigations, second requests, and compliance with consent orders. David represents pharmaceutical, chemical, and financial services clients before the Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice, and he coordinates filings for multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions worldwide. For more information, view David's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/dbrenneman · Antitrust

Dmitry Ivanov

Dmitry is a partner in the firm's Moscow office and is head of the firm's Russia dispute resolution practice. He counsels clients on cross-border and domestic litigation matters as well as international arbitration and general commercial matters. He also represents clients in state commercial courts and arbitration courts, and advises on disputes in real estate, construction, and contractual corporate matters, as well as on bankruptcy and insolvency matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Dmitry was a litigation associate at another international law firm. For more information, view Dmitry's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/divanov · Cross-Border Litigation

Emil Shagiakhmetov

Emil advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, private equity, corporate restructurings, and investments as well as general corporate governance matters. Emil has experience in advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions in various industries, including retail, ecommerce, and technology. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, he was an associate in the Moscow office of a leading international law firm. For more information, view Emil's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/emilshagiakhmetov · Mergers and Acquisitions

Eric Bord

Eric S. Bord counsels clients on corporate immigration issues involving the recruitment, hiring, transfer, and retention of personnel worldwide. He also advises businesses on compliance and risk management in connection with their global immigration programs. This includes counseling on compliance with I-9 and E-Verify rules, advising clients during immigration investigations, and conducting immigration due diligence for corporate transactions. Eric heads Morgan Lewis’s immigration compliance and risk management practice. · Corporate Immigration

Eric Sitarchuk

Eric represents clients in government investigations and white-collar litigation. With 30 years of experience in this area, he represents clients in a wide variety of white-collar criminal matters, False Claims Act (FCA) and qui tam litigation, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other complex federal and state investigations. Working with boards of directors, audit committees, and corporate management, Eric has conducted numerous internal investigations, and advised on the creation and implementation of corporate compliance and ethics programs. He serves as chair of the firm’s white collar and corporate investigations practice. A Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Eric defends clients in federal criminal and civil cases that allege healthcare fraud; defense contract fraud; FCPA violations and other official corruption; securities fraud; antitrust violations; import/export offenses; theft of trade secrets; money laundering; drug diversion; tax fraud; pyramid schemes; commercial bribery; and environmental violations. In defending organizations and individuals during US government investigations, Eric has persuaded prosecutors to take no action and close investigations of Fortune 500 companies, large healthcare institutions, and prominent lawyers, executives, and public officials. He has tried numerous cases. Eric has been listed in International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers (2003–2015) and International Who's Who of Investigations (2014–2016). · White Collar Criminal Defense

Ethan Johnson

Ethan W. Johnson counsels clients on a variety of regulatory and transactional matters, with a focus on hedge fund and private equity fund formation, and guides investment managers through the legal intricacies of international operations. He also advises clients on establishing offices and operations outside the United States, developing and offering financial products and services sold on a global basis, and building global compliance programs. · Hedge Fund Formation

Felipe Alice

Felipe Alice’s practice focuses on energy transactions and infrastructure projects relating to energy and corporate issues. Representing diverse clients, his work involves complex contracts, corporate restructurings, project finance, international data privacy issues, and real estate transactions. Additionally, Felipe is part of the cross-practice global workforce team that provides clients with integrated cross-border counseling and strategic planning on issues related to labor, employment, benefits, and immigration. · Energy Transactions

Gerald Kehoe

Gerald focuses on private investment capital formation and investment product structuring. He advises fund sponsors managing vehicles investing in energy, infrastructure, renewables, buyouts, and other strategies. He also advises sponsors and global institutional investors on structuring and implementing co-investments, direct investing pools, master feeder partnerships, and other complex investment structures. Jerry advises US and international sponsors in fund launches, raising substantial commitments for investments in power and energy generation and transmission assets, real estate, solar and wind projects, patent royalty strategies, leveraged buyouts, clean technology, and other infrastructure assets. Commitments are sourced from institutional US and international investors, including sovereign wealth funds, US and global pension plans, insurance companies, endowments, family offices, and foundations. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked Jerry from 2009 to 2015. He is active in international business associations and committees promoting the development of commercial law and trade. · Private Investment Capital Formation

Gilles Saint Marc

Gilles Saint Marc advises corporates, asset managers, and investors across a wide range of alternative financing, offering a global and integrated vision on regulatory, tax, and transactional matters. Gilles is one of the pioneers of French securitization since 1988 with a focus on Pan-European trade receivables, mortgage-backed securities, and synthetic and EU securitization regulations. Gilles also advises on the structuring, formation, fundraising, and investment of French and Luxembourg funds across a wide range of asset classes, including private debt, private equity, infrastructure, funds of funds, continuation funds, and secondaries (GP-led or LP-led). He also advises more than 20 fintech companies. Gilles speaks French and English and is fluent in German. For more information, view Gilles' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/gilliessaintmarc. · Securitization

Grigory Marinichev

Grigory Marinichev represents international lenders and borrowers in prepayment finance, asset-based lending, structured finance, syndicated lending, debt restructuring transactions, and insolvency matters. Grigory advises clients in the metals, mining, telecommunications, commodities, oil and gas, and power generation industries on a range of financial transactions – from syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, refinancing, and bond issues to export financing, loans, and loan restructurings. · Prepayment Finance

Hubert de Vauplane

Hubert de Vauplane is in charge of Fintech practice in the Paris office with partner Gilles Saint Marc, offering a global and integrated vision on regulatory and transactional structuring and operations matters. Hubert advises on EU and French laws on financial services, banking regulation, e-money payment services, virtual assets regulation, blockchain legal issues. Hubert advises mainly FinTech, VASP, Funds, corporates and financial institution. Hubert is also professor at the Paris Institute for Political Sciences (IEP Paris), teaching banking law and blockchain legal issues. · Financial Services Regulation

Hugues Bouchetemble

Hugues Bouchetemble focuses on financial and banking regulatory issues. He assists banks, investment firms, management companies, life insurers, and payment service providers on a wide range of regulatory matters. Hugues regularly provides strategic advisory service in the creation of regulated institutions, internal organization, compliance, creation and distribution of financial products, remuneration schemes, and anti-money laundering issues. He is particularly active for banking and financing cross-border issues, including banking and financial monopoly matters, solicitation and advertising rules, EU passports, finders arrangements, and international private law questions. For more information, view Hugues' biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/huguesbouchetemble · Financial Services Regulation

Humberto Padilla Gonzalez

Humberto represents clients in mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. He assists clients with complex financial, cross-border and US domestic M&A transactions, private equity fund investments, and internal compliance investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as data privacy issues and simple operational matters throughout Latin America. Part of a cross-practice Global Workforce team providing integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning, Humberto also advises clients on labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues in Latin America. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Irene De Beni

Irene is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Brussels office who represents clients in significant antitrust matters in a variety of industries, including the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, chemical, retail, and financial services industries. Fluent in Italian, English, and French, she represents clients before the European Commission as well as national competition authorities of the European Union (EU) Member States. She has coordinated competition merger filings around the world involving the Brazilian, Chinese, South African, and Ukrainian authorities, among others. For more information, view Ms. De Beni's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/idebeni. · Antitrust

Izzet M Sinan

Izzet is a partner in the firm's Brussels office who counsels clients on European Union (EU) law. He advises on all aspects of EU competition law, helps companies obtain clearance for mergers and joint ventures before the European Commission and Member State agencies, and counsels on agreements and issues relating to requests for information. He also advises and defends clients involved in cartel agreements—including onsite European Commission dawn raid investigations and possible leniency and settlement issues—and implements compliance programs. For more information, view Izzet’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/isinan · EU Competition Law

James Vazquez-Azpiri

James counsels corporate clients on hiring and retaining foreign employees in his business immigration law practice. He advises businesses on labor certifications, specialty occupation petitions, and intracompany transfers. Clients rely on James for guidance through immigration law compliance during mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. He helps clients think and work proactively by providing them with traditional compliance policy reviews and audits, case management and litigation technology, and international executive travel and foreign resident worker visa processing. A co-head of the firm’s global immigration practice, James is part of Morgan Lewis’s cross-practice Global Workforce team. The group provides integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning across the spectrum of labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues. Legal and human rights groups have acclaimed James’s pro bono work. He has received both the C. Anthony Friedrich Memorial Award from the International Human Rights Law Group and the Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services from the State Bar of California. · Business Immigration

Jerome Akman

Jerry maintains a multidisciplinary international law practice, including work on foreign investment in the United States and abroad (acquisitions and establishment of new companies); general legal representation of foreign companies and their US subsidiaries in connection with matters both within the US and abroad; negotiation of agreements (financial, licensing, distribution and agency and other commercial agreements); defense of foreign clients in US and foreign litigation; protection of foreign creditors’ interests in US bankruptcy proceedings; and matters arising under US trade laws (antidumping, countervailing duty, US customs, trade sanctions, and other import and export restrictions).

Joachim Heine

Joachim Heine leads clients through complex public and private mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures, private equity transactions, and venture capital financings with an emphasis on life sciences transactions. During his accomplished career of more than 20 years, he has handled over 100 international projects ranging from multibillion-dollar public takeovers, to mid-size M&A deals and venture capital financing for clients in Germany, Sweden, the United States, China, and Japan. For more information, view Joachim’s biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/joachimheine · Mergers and Acquisitions

Jon Hines

Jon is a partner in the firm's energy transactions team. He represents private and state-owned companies in major transactions, including project development, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions. Jon focuses primarily on large-scale oil and gas projects, including liquefied natural gas deals, as well as mining development and other industrial ventures. He advises on such transactions—including related financings—in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and the other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and assists major Russian companies in their projects worldwide. For more information, view Jonathan's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/jhhines · Energy Transactions

Julio Vega

Julio represents public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including biotechnology, medical devices, nanotechnology, advanced materials, software, networking, e-commerce, and fintech. Julio has experience counseling clients on venture capital and other private equity financing transactions, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, and corporate partnering transactions. He regularly counsels clients on general corporate, employee compensation, and corporate governance matters. Julio is also very active in the representation of start-up and emerging growth companies in the life sciences and technology industries. Julio has experience on international transactions and has been listed in Chambers Global for Life Sciences. · Corporate Law

Jörg Siegels

Jörg Siegels advises clients on corporate tax matters. His practice covers tax-related issues, including international and domestic tax planning. He counsels clients on the tax implications of mergers, acquisitions, and group reorganizations, such as spinoffs and outsourcings. He also works with foreign investors on their German-market activities, including permanent establishments, branches, partnership structures, subsidiaries, and joint ventures. Additionally, Jörg advises businesses on tax issues related to employee compensation, and financial instruments and investments. For more information, view Jörg's biography at https://www.morganlewis.com/bios/jsiegels · Corporate Tax

Kamilla Abdykarymova

Kamilla Abdykarymova focuses her practice on development of investment projects, corporate matters, mining and natural resources, and renewables. She advises clients from various industries on a wide range of regulatory, transactional, construction and dispute resolution matters. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Kamilla was a part of an in-house legal team at the largest Kazakhstan steel producing and mining company for more than 12 years, where she was responsible for handling various matters, including project development, financing, and corporate law matters. · Investment Projects

Karen Butcher

Recognized for her intellectual property (IP) work, Karen A. Butcher advises clients on maximizing the value of their IP and protecting their intellectual assets. She focuses on brands, creative works, technology, and related IP. Karen handles transactions and helps clients to structure the ownership and licensing of IP within their corporate group and to resolve complex disputes when they arise. A practice leader in the firm’s intellectual property practice, Karen brings an international perspective to strategic business issues and regularly speaks and writes about IP. · Intellectual Property

Karina Mazhidenova

Karina Mazhidenova focuses her practice on corporate, antimonopoly, securities, and labor law, with a particular emphasis on investment projects. Karina has been involved in a number of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and investment projects. She is also actively engaged in the firm’s pro bono initiatives. · Corporate Law

Katherine Dobson

Katherine focuses her practice on financial services transactions involving the application of derivatives in trading, distressed debt transactions, and legal and regulatory issues. She represents hedge funds, banks, broker-dealers, and other market participants in complex cross-border and US futures, derivatives, and commodities transactions as well as creditors’ rights matters including workouts and corporate reorganizations. · Derivatives

Kelly Kuschel

Kelly is part of a team of attorneys representing real estate owners and stakeholders in connection with their ownership, use, and financing of real estate. Clients include national and international companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), institutional lenders, private equity funds, pension funds, and advisers. While attending law school, Kelly served as an associate editor of the Journal of International Law. He earned a certificate in Latin American and Latino studies and served as the mentor and recruiting liaison for the Latin American Law Students Association. · Real Estate

Konstantin Kochetkov

Konstantin is a partner in the firm's Moscow office who focuses his practice on banking and finance law and advises on project finance, sovereign debt, and infrastructure transactions. He has experience in various financing transactions in the Russian Federation, and representing both lenders and borrowers, including major metals and mining groups. For more information, view Konstantin's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/kkochetkov · Banking & Finance

Ksenia Andreeva

Ksenia Andreeva focuses her practice on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property (IP) as well as data protection, information technology, and cybersecurity matters in connection with business transactions. Based in the UAE office, Ksenia helps companies working in the MENA region evaluate the risks and opportunities related to the use of transformational technologies, the implementation of innovative technology and digitalization strategies, and new business-driving trends such as data monetization and artificial intelligence. Ksenia is a registered trademark attorney. For more information, view Ksenia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/kandreeva · Technology Transactions

Laetitia De Pelet

Laetitia is an associate who has a dual practice spanning litigation and arbitration as well as labour and employment. She advises companies facing business and corporate disputes, criminal allegations, and on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Additionally, She counsels on data privacy and cybersecurity issues. For more information, view Laetitia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/laetitiadepelet · Litigation

Laura Stamkulova

Laura Stamkulova has more than 15 years of experience working as an in-house lawyer in the commercial and non-profit sectors. Laura’s legal experience includes serving as head of the legal department at a geological and drilling company and a leading educational institution, in addition to senior in-house positions at a large uranium joint venture of a major European company, a sovereign wealth fund, and an educational holding. Laura’s practice areas span subsoil use, education, corporate, contract and labor law matters. · Subsoil Use

Leila Madieva

Leila Madieva advises clients on corporate, finance, tax and regulatory matters in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. She has significant experience representing multinational companies and investors in cross-border transactions, merges and acquisitions, joint ventures, and major investment projects. Leila regularly counsels on subsoil use, licensing, labor, customs, and tax issues and has represented clients in administrative and judicial proceedings. Her background includes leadership roles in a Big Four firm, senior positions with international law firms, and sector experience spanning mining, construction, and retail. · Corporate

Leiv Blad

Leiv Blad focuses on antitrust investigations and litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and class action and multiparty litigation. He represents clients in government investigations and private litigation raising price fixing, monopolization, and intellectual property issues in various industries, including the financial services, high technology, pharmaceutical, and energy industries. · Antitrust

Louis Ramos

Louis Ramos is a former federal prosecutor and in-house lawyer whose practice focuses on white collar litigation, government and internal investigations, and compliance counseling. Lou’s experience includes leading investigations and counseling clients on matters involving issues of anticorruption, antibribery, antikickback, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act, and good research and manufacturing practices. He has led investigations in the United States and around the world, including Latin America, China, Japan, Korea, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Pakistan. Lou also has a strong litigation background from his time in public service—he served for nearly six years as an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Columbia, was the lead federal prosecutor in 19 jury trials and more than 30 bench trials, and directed numerous grand jury investigations into violations of federal and local criminal laws. · White Collar Litigation

Luis Torres-Cervantes

Luis represents both institutional lenders and corporate borrowers. He works with clients on secured credit facilities, acquisition financing, film financing, loan syndications, litigation funding, and other financial matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Luis was a staff editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. · Secured Credit Facilities

Marcus Marsh

Marcus Marsh represents traditional banks, business development companies, and other institutional lenders and financing sources such as hedge funds, borrowers, and issuers in a variety of financing transactions, including acquisition financings, senior and mezzanine financing arrangements, and debt restructurings. Marcus also advises clients in matters related to structured finance transactions, including the use of derivatives in securitizations. · Acquisition Finance