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Sidley Austin

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Sidley Austin is an international law firm with more than 2,300 lawyers across 21 offices worldwide. The firm has offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, and advises clients across a range of transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters.

Practice areas

AntitrustCapital MarketsEnergyFinanceInvestment FundsLife SciencesLitigationArbitrationTradeMergers And AcquisitionsPrivate EquityRegulatory ComplianceRestructuring And Insolvency

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Lawyers at this firm

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Alun Evans

Partner · Energy and Infrastructure

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Amy M. Rubin

Partner · Executive Compensation

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Bartholomew (Bart) Sheehan III

Partner · Capital Markets

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Bonnie A. Neuman

Partner · Real Estate

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Bruce Dailey

Partner · Capital Markets

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Carter Phillips

Partner · Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation

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Charlie Wilson

Partner · M&A

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Chen Yang

Senior Counsel · Life Sciences Regulatory

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Claudia Yu

Partner · Capital Markets (Equity)

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Colleen M. Kenney

Partner · Antitrust

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Corey Roush

Partner · Antitrust Law

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Craig Hilts

Partner · Capital Markets

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Daniel (Dan) F. Spies

Partner · Investment Funds

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David E. Teitelbaum

Partner · Banking

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David Lashway

Partner · Privacy and Cybersecurity

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David Perkins

M&A/Corporate and Commercial

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Dominic James

Partner · Investment Funds

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Edward (Ed) Petrosky

Partner · Capital Markets

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Eldon Chan

Senior Managing Associate · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Elisabetta Righini

Partner · EU Regulation

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George Vlahakos

Partner · Corporate/Securities

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Giancarlo (Gian) Sambalido

Counsel · Capital Markets

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Holly J. Gregory

Partner · Corporate Governance

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Hussein Baxter

Counsel · Private Equity

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Irwin P. Raij

Partner · Private Equity

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Irwin Raij

Partner · Entertainment

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J. Gerard (Jerry) Cummins

Partner · Investment Funds

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Jeffrey E. Ross

Partner · Leveraged Finance

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Jeffrey Ross

Jeffrey Ross is Chair of the firm’s Finance Group and a member of its Private Equity Group and Special Situations team. His practice focuses on complex acquisition and leveraged financings, such as the $15 billion merger of Envision Healthcare with AMSURG; Discovery, Inc. in the financing aspects of the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion; the $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital by Activision Blizzard; the $5.5 billion merger of Ply Gem, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, with NCI Building Systems; and the $4.1 billion acquisition of Kindred Healthcare by TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Mr. Ross publishes frequently on legal matters related to finance topics, including “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the State of the LIBOR Transition,” Columbia Blue Sky Blog (August, 2021); “What’s Market: 2020 Mid-Year Trends in Large Cap and Middle Market Loans,” Practical Law (July, 2020); “Alternative Leveraged Lending Structures And Limitations,” Law360 (June, 2015); “SunGard 2.0,” The M&A Lawyer (2014); “Del Monte: Staple Remover?,” The Deal Pipeline (2012); and “Some Pitfalls In Financing Carve-Outs,” The Deal (2012). He is also a contributing author to the annual Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2019) and a former editor of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report. Mr. Ross is a guest lecturer on leveraged finance in a course entitled Private Equity Playbook at Cornell Law School and is co-chair for PLI’s Leveraged Financing and Private Equity Acquisition Financing Summit programs. Mr. Ross joined the firm in 2005 and became a partner in 2010. He received a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School in 1999, an M.A., first class honors, in International Relations from University of Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1995. · Acquisition Financing

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Jonathan A. Nunes

Partner · Securitization

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Josefine Sommer

Partner · Food Drug and Medical Device Regulatory

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Josephine Law

Counsel · Investment Funds

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Justin Savage

Partner · Automotive And Mobility

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Kai Liekefett

Partner · Shareholder Activism

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Lei Li

Partner · Regulatory

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Luke Maiman

Counsel · Capital Markets

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Maarten Meulenbelt

Partner · Life Sciences

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Maurits J.F. Lugard

Senior Counsel · Life Sciences

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Meng Ding

Partner · Capital Markets

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Michelle Ramirez

Partner · Product Liability

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Mimma Barila

Partner · Capital Markets

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Parthiv Rishi

Partner · Private Equity

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Paul Boehm

Partner

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Perry Shwachman

Partner · M&A

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Randi W. Singer

Partner · Copyright

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Sarah Tucker

Partner · Energy Law

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Shu Min Ho

Partner · White Collar Defense and Investigations

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Steven Rutkovsky

Leveraged Finance

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Ted Murphy

Partner · International Trade

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Torrey Cope

Partner · FDA Regulatory

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Yuet Ming Tham

Partner · White Collar Defense