Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Adam Cohen

Adam B. Cohen represents public and private companies and private equity firms in cross-border and domestic M&A transactions. Adam’s practice focuses on mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, majority and minority investments and joint ventures, co-investment transactions, carve-outs, and corporate restructurings. Adam has significant experience in transactions across a broad array of industries, including healthcare, industrials, retail and consumer products. He also advises boards of directors and management teams on corporate governance matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Adam Shiff

Adam L. Shiff is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Mr. Shiff’s practice focuses on all aspects of restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and related litigation. He has thirty years of experience working on all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings including bankruptcy proceedings. He regularly represents distressed businesses, formal and informal committees comprised of hedge funds, private equity funds, financial institutions and other holders of debt and equity securities, trustees, and investors in, and purchasers of, distressed debt, assets and businesses. Mr. Shiff is also the author of numerous articles on these subjects. · Restructuring

Adam Summers

Mr. Summers is a partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice, resident in Fried Frank's New York office. He focuses his practice on credit and capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience advising investment banking clients, debt funds and other lenders throughout the deal process, from the early stages through closing and funding. He also has represented various corporate clients on a wide range of financing transactions. Additionally, Mr. Summers represents banks and commercial lenders in both syndicated credit facilities and high-yield bond financings related to leveraged buyouts and other acquisitions, and provides ongoing counsel to agents and arrangers under those facilities. He assists clients in understanding and evaluating existing debt capital structures for targets of acquisitions and has particular expertise negotiating commitment letters in connection with acquisition financings. In addition, Mr. Summers has worked on numerous subscription credit facilities for private equity and debt funds. · Corporate

Alan Kaden

Tax Partner. Chair of Washington, DC Tax Department and managing partner of the Washington office. Mr. Kaden has experience in all the principal areas of tax law, with particular emphasis on the structuring and negotiation of taxable and tax-free corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-off transactions and dispositions of ongoing business enterprises, the structuring of investment funds, the development of partnership and other joint-venture arrangements for various business ventures and tax planning for financings and other capital formation transactions. He also has extensive tax litigation experience, the combination of which, with his transactional tax work, is a distinguishing element of his practice. · Tax

Aleksandr Livshits

Antitrust Partner. Mr. Livshits focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including complex cross-border transactions, criminal and civil antitrust litigation, and antitrust compliance counseling. He has represented a variety of clients before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and he has extensive experience in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive, retail, media, and high technology, among others. · Antitrust

Alexander Ginsberg

Litigation partner, Government Contracts Practice. Mr. Ginsberg’s practice focuses on the representation of government contractors in all areas of government contracts law, including bid protests, contract disputes, enforcement defense, small business issues, cost accounting, compliance efforts, and mergers and acquisitions involving government contractors. · Government Contracts

Alexander Sutherland

Alexander Sutherland is a partner in the Real Estate Department resident in the New York office. Mr. Sutherland represents developers, lenders, owners and institutional investors in a variety of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development and leasing of commercial, residential, hospitality and mixed-use properties. · Real Estate

Amy Blackman

Amy Blackman is an executive compensation & ERISA partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. She joined the Firm in 2003 and became a partner in 2011. Ms. Blackman has extensive experience advising clients regarding all aspects of executive and director compensation programs, including tax, securities law disclosure requirements, corporate governance and other design and documentation considerations. Her work also includes participation in Fried Frank's transactional corporate practice, advising clients on employee-benefits aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, corporate restructurings, financings and capital markets matters, as well as advising private equity clients regarding the regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. In addition, Ms. Blackman also specializes in advising tax-exempt organizations with respect to corporate governance and compliance matters. · Employee Benefits

Andrea Gede-Lange

Ms. Gede-Lange represents private equity firms, investors and public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including leveraged buyouts, stock purchases, asset purchases, divestitures, carve-out transactions, joint ventures and recapitalizations. She also advises clients on corporate governance issues, securities laws compliance and general corporate matters. Also, she is head of the sustainability committee in New York and assists in the M&A knowledge management function at the firm. · Corporate Law

Andrea Pollak

Andrea Pollak focuses her practice on ERISA regulatory matters relating to the structuring, formation and operation of a variety of investment funds and management arrangements. In addition to working closely with the Firm’s asset management clients with respect to avoiding ERISA regulation where desired (e.g., by way of ERISA’s so-called “25% exception” and the “venture capital operating company” and “real estate operating company” rules), Andrea has extensive experience counseling clients and funds wishing to comply with the complex ERISA rules that apply to the management of “plan assets.” Andrea deploys this ERISA expertise in assisting the Firm’s corporate department with strategic transactional matters in the asset management space, including “seed and stakes” transactions. Andrea also counsels clients in connection with fund financings, private fund formations and trading documentation. · ERISA

Andrew Barkan

Mr. Barkan is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice on corporate finance and capital markets transactions, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in domestic and international public offerings and private placements such as initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary equity offerings, high-yield, investment grade and convertible debt offerings, acquisition financings, debt tender offers and consent solicitations, and related capital market and private equity transactions. He also advises clients on a variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. · Capital Markets

Andrew Penman

Andrew Penman advises clients on federal income taxation, with particular emphasis on the structuring and formation of private equity and hedge funds. Andrew’s practice encompasses funds focused on equity, debt, infrastructure, and real estate, as well as funds-of-funds. Fund sponsors and investors trust Andrew to prepare and negotiate fund disclosure, organizational documents, and side letter agreements. Our clients benefit from Andrew’s wide-ranging experience on the tax aspects of transactional matters, including the formation of joint ventures, private and public mergers and acquisitions, and investments in US real estate, including transactions involving REITs. · Tax

Anita Laremont

Anita Laremont advises clients on various land use, zoning, and development matters. Anita has worked with numerous large-scale economic development and land-use projects in New York City and throughout the state. · Land Use

Arinze Onugha

Arinze N. Onugha’s practice focuses on the formation and operation of domestic and offshore private investment funds that span asset classes, including senior credit, junior debt/mezzanine, growth equity, sustainable/impact assets and real estate credit. He also advises clients on the negotiation of separately-managed accounts, funds of one, multi-strategy platform agreements and other bespoke sponsor-investor arrangements. Arinze’s client base is diverse, ranging from global financial institutions with trillions of assets under management to middle-market sponsors and institutional investors. · Asset Management

Ashley Katz

Mr. Katz is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank's London office. He has extensive experience advising distressed investors, borrowers, financial institutions, bondholders and insolvency practitioners in relation to all aspects of restructuring and insolvency matters. He advises on a range of cross-border and UK restructurings and insolvencies including matters in the automotive, real estate, construction, financial services, retail and leisure sectors. Mr. Katz has lectured on a range of insolvency topics including the Eurozone crisis, cross border insolvency administration, anti-avoidance provisions, employment/ insolvency law, directors’ duties and customer insolvency. · Restructuring and Insolvency

Audra Cohen

Audra Cohen advises clients on all aspects of the formation, fundraising, negotiation and ongoing compliance of private investment funds across various asset classes. Her practice focuses on closed-end and open-end real estate funds private equity funds, infrastructure funds, growth equity funds and credit funds as well as co-investment and other customized arrangements. Audra has particular expertise in core and core-plus open-end real estate funds. She also has represented clients in connection with their investments in private equity vehicles. Audra has experience counseling fund sponsors on compliance with the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act and the “bad actor” rule in addition to other regulatory compliance matters, fund-related aspects of real estate and mergers and acquisitions transactions, continuation funds and internal sponsor governance and economic arrangements. · Investment Fund Formation and Management

Barry Nigro

Barry Nigro is Chair of Fried Frank’s Global Antitrust and Competition Department. Mr. Nigro’s practice is focused on the clearance of mergers, antitrust investigations and litigation, grand jury proceedings, and compliance counseling and training. Mr. Nigro rejoined Fried Frank from the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General he served as the second highest-ranking Division official responsible for overseeing all civil and criminal antitrust enforcement, including all major merger reviews. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. While serving at the Department of Justice, Mr. Nigro played a critical role in advancing the Department's antitrust enforcement priorities and numerous policy developments, including implementation of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines issued in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission, and modernization of the Department's Merger Remedies Manual and merger review process. He also served as Deputy Director for the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he managed the Bureau’s merger and anticompetitive practices investigations and litigation. · Antitrust

Brad Eric Scheler

Mr. Scheler is a senior partner of the Restructuring and Insolvency Department. In his work, Mr. Scheler leads teams attending to investment in, recourse related to and the financial restructuring and rehabilitation of, complex and often distressed businesses either out-of-court or in connection with formal restructuring and insolvency proceedings in the United States and abroad. Mr. Scheler represents parties seeking to invest in and/or acquire the assets and businesses of financially troubled and other companies, buyers and sellers of distressed securities and businesses, financial institutions that are lenders to and investors in financially troubled companies, and corporate debtors, creditors' committees, bondholders' committees, equity holders' committees and trustees. Drawing upon his substantial experience in corporate boardrooms and judicial proceedings, Mr. Scheler acts as outside general counsel and strategic adviser to financially strong corporate and institutional clients in connection with financings and capital market transactions, including the issuance and exchange of debt and equity securities and the structuring and implementation of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Scheler also represents and provides corporate finance and strategic planning advice to corporate, institutional and governmental clients. Mr. Scheler's experience on some of the largest and most complex transactions — including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and capital markets transactions — has given Mr. Scheler perspective and insight into realizing maximum value from and flexibility for businesses and assets. Mr. Scheler also serves as a trustee of certain complex trusts and as an advisor to such trusts. · Restructuring

Bradford Lucas

Bradford R. Lucas is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's Washington, DC office. Mr. Lucas's practice is focused primarily on asset management work, including the structuring and offering of hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative investment products. In addition, he has worked on a variety of other transactional and securities law matters, including securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions, and has provided general corporate counsel on governance issues. · Corporate

Brian Murphy

Mr. Murphy is a corporate partner resident in the New York office. He has represented financial institutions and businesses in a wide variety of financing transactions, with a focus on those involving the senior component of the issuer's capital structure (both secured and unsecured). He represents financial institutions in the structuring, documenting, negotiating and closing of senior secured credit facilities for sponsored acquisitions and other leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and spinoffs, and senior syndicated loans to large corporate and middle-market borrowers. · Corporate Law

Carol Rosenthal

Carol E. Rosenthal, a real estate partner, has over 30 years of experience as development and land use counsel to developers, businesses, and non-profit institutions. She has successfully guided clients seeking zoning amendments, special permits, variances, state and city environment quality reviews, landmarked site approvals and other governmental approvals for some of New York City’s most significant development projects. She has broad-based experience in project development, housing, transportation and joint public-private initiatives, and has represented clients in numerous transactions for the transfer of development rights, government acquisitions, and turn-key developments. · Real Estate

Caroline Sandberg

Caroline Sandberg is the Head of Fried Frank’s Private Credit practice and a member of our Corporate Finance and Securities Group. She represents lenders, private and public companies, and private equity sponsors on a wide variety of financing transactions. Clients turn to Caroline in connection with syndicated and non-syndicated senior facilities, unitranche facilities, second lien facilities, and mezzanine and other junior debt financings, as well as structured preferred equity in connection with mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, recapitalizations, and debt restructurings and liability management transactions. · Private Credit

Christopher Bell

Litigation associate, Government Contracts Practice. Mr. Bell’s practice focuses on the representation of government contractors, including major defense and aerospace clients, in a wide range of matters involving bid protests and regulatory compliance. Mr. Bell also represents clients in a variety of white-collar criminal investigations and internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act qui tam litigation, and other laws. Mr. Bell further represents clients in diverse commercial litigation matters. · Government Contracts

Christopher Ewan

Mr. Ewan is a partner and concentrates his practice in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions representing private equity firms and public and private corporations. · Private Equity

Colin Kelly

Colin Kelly provides our clients with tax counsel, with a distinct focus on asset management. Investment funds and their portfolio companies seek Colin’s advice on a variety of complex international and domestic transactions, particularly in connection with the formation of funds and fund managers, joint ventures, divestitures, mergers and acquisitions, and “seed” and “stake” investments in fund managers. Our clients benefit from Colin’s extensive experience on a broad range of tax issues relating to investment funds, qualified opportunity zone investments, public and private C corporations, S corporations, partnerships and LLCs, individuals, inbound and outbound cross-border investments, foreign governments and sovereign wealth funds, bankruptcies and restructurings, and financial products. · Tax

Daniel Bursky

Mr. Bursky is head of the Firm's Capital Markets Practice and a member of the Finance Practice. Mr. Bursky has one of the strongest securities and financing practices in the market, with experience advising the full spectrum of participants across an array of industries. He represents both issuers and underwriters in a variety of capital markets transactions, including equity offerings, convertible securities, high-yield debt and private placements. He advises investment banks, private equity firms and corporate borrowers with respect to acquisition financings, including bank, mezzanine and high-yield debt. He also regularly represents companies on their SEC disclosures and corporate governance matters. Mr. Bursky represents issuers such as Catalent, Merck, T-Mobile and Under Armour in billions of dollars of debt and equity offerings. He has advised either the issuers or the underwriters on the IPOs and follow-on offerings of such companies as Athene, Emerald Expositions, JELD-WEN and Shake Shack. He also acts as designated underwriters' counsel for Athene, Procter & Gamble, Quest Diagnostics, USAA Capital Corporation and Warrior Met Coal, among many others. Mr. Bursky advises on the credit facilities for over 20 corporate borrowers, including Carestream, Catalent, Harsco, T-Mobile, Under Armour and WestJet, among others. He also represents many well-known financial institutions as agent banks, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, Jefferies and Royal Bank of Canada, for such borrowers as Alliance Laundry, Ascend Performance Materials, Athene, Authentic Brands, Clarivate Analytics, MDVIP, SIG Combibloc, SMG, Steinway Musical Instruments and Zest Dental Solutions. Additionally, Mr. Bursky has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors and funds, including Onex, Cranemere, OMERS, Wendel and Goldman Sachs, and their portfolio companies, in their most sophisticated and complex matters. · Capital Markets

Daniel Forman

Daniel Forman represents both debtors and creditors in large, complex, chapter 11 cases and out of court restructurings. He also regularly represents sponsors, investors, acquirers and lenders in chapter 11 cases and non-judicial restructuring matters. Dan also has significant experience in mass tort restructuring matters, including representing claimant committees, a future claimants’ representative, and settlement trusts. · Bankruptcy

David Karnovsky

David Karnovsky, a real estate partner, focuses on land use, zoning, real estate development, and environmental review. Since joining the Firm, Mr. Karnovsky has worked on a number of high-profile zoning and land use matters in the Hudson Yards area, Lower Manhattan, and Brooklyn on behalf of Tishman Speyer, Related Companies, and Madison Equities, among others. · Real Estate

David Mitchell

Corporate partner. He is a leading practitioner in commodities, futures and derivatives. He offers his clients a full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation-related advice in connection with product development; structuring funds and other investment vehicles; establishment of electronic trading facilities and clearing solutions for swaps and derivatives; and compliance, investigations and enforcement matters relating to futures, swaps and derivatives. · Commodities

David Shapiro

Tax Partner. Mr. Shapiro is a tax partner and co-chair of the Firm’s Tax Department. His practice spans numerous types of tax issues, including in the areas of fund formation and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents leading fund sponsors in fund formation, including funds and funds-of-funds with a focus on equity, mezzanine debt, senior loans, distressed debt and real estate, and also focuses on M&A and other corporate transactions, frequently for fund clients. Mr. Shapiro has also regularly represented public and private companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, as well as in public and private debt and equity financing transactions. Clients include Bain, BlackRock, Brookfield, Fortress Investment Group, Goldman Sachs & Co., KKR, HPS Investment Partners, Neuberger Berman, and Permira, among others. · Tax

Donald Carleen

Mr. Carleen is an executive compensation & ERISA partner and regularly advises corporations, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including ERISA and tax, employment and securities law matters. Advises in complex M&A, leveraged buyouts, private equity, hedge fund, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions. Specializes in structuring and negotiation of executive employment, severance and equity participation arrangements in M&A transactions. · Bankruptcy

Dorothy Mehta

Dorothy D. Mehta is a corporate partner and member of the firm’s Asset Management Practice, resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Dorothy has experience in the structuring, formation and operation (domestically and on a cross-border basis) of a variety of alternative investments products, including US and non-US hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds, funds of funds, collective investment trusts and commodity pools (both privately and publicly offered), and the establishment of separately managed account arrangements. She regularly represents US and non-US investment advisers, wealth management platforms and family offices. Dorothy also advises clients on registration and related compliance requirements of the SEC and CFTC, as well as on matters pertaining to the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act, the Commodity Exchange Act and federal and state securities laws generally. · Corporate

Emil Buchman

Mr. Buchman is a corporate partner. He advises financial institutions and corporations on numerous types of complex financial transactions. He has substantial experience in representing both lenders and borrowers in connection with the financings of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. His work also includes mezzanine financing transactions, private placements and master limited partnership financings. Mr. Buchman has worked on a large number of project finance and lease financing transactions, as well as securitized transactions and sports financing transactions. · Corporate Law

Emilie Cooper

Emilie B. Cooper is a partner in the Real Estate and Litigation Departments, resident in the New York office. Emilie is an accomplished litigator and trusted advisor with extensive experience handling complex commercial disputes in the real estate and hospitality arenas. Emilie has successfully represented real estate and hotel owners, lenders, investors, developers, managers, and operators in a wide variety of matters including partnership disputes, breach of contract claims, lease-related actions, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty suits, and foreclosures. Her in-depth knowledge of relevant law and all aspects of the real estate and hospitality industries has proven invaluable to her clients, and they frequently turn to Emilie as a thought-partner regarding their most complex problems. Emilie prides herself on understanding her clients’ business needs and operational environment, enabling her to litigate more effectively and adopt a practical, solution-oriented approach. She works hand-in-hand with her transactional colleagues to advise clients concerning the potential litigation implications of their agreements, adding value by providing a litigator’s point of view in a transactional context. · Real Estate

Erica Jaffe

Erica Jaffe is a corporate partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Ms. Jaffe focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, having represented public and private companies, financial sponsors, and investment banking firms across a range of sectors in stock and asset acquisitions, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, and investments in hedge fund and private equity fund managers. She also advises clients on corporate governance issues and general corporate matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Evan Barr

A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Barr has represented individuals and companies in high-profile and sensitive investigations and prosecutions conducted by the Department of Justice, various US Attorneys' Offices, the SEC, the Internal Revenue Service, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, FINRA, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Over the course of his 20 year career, he has handled matters involving virtually all aspects of white-collar crime. · Litigation

F. William Reindel

Mr. Reindel is a corporate partner, resident in the Firm’s New York office. He represents private equity sponsors, investment banks, hedge funds and public and private companies on a broad range of leveraged financing transactions. His practice includes advising sponsors, corporations and lenders on syndicated senior facilities, second lien facilities, US and European mezzanine financings, private placements and commodities hedge financings, as well as assisting private equity and mezzanine funds in raising fund level financings. · Corporate

Fiona Kelly

Fiona J. Kelly is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's New York and London offices and is co-head of the Firm's Corporate Real Estate Transactions Practice. Ms. Kelly advises private equity funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, developers and investors on joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions of interests in private real estate companies and other transactions relating to the real estate industry. Her practice is largely international in nature and she regularly represents clients investing in overseas markets and international clients investing in the United States. · Corporate Law

Franz Rassman

Franz Rassman focuses his award-winning practice on commercial acquisitions and dispositions, office and retail leasing, real estate finance, workouts, and creditors’ rights. Franz represents private and public commercial real estate investors and developers, retail tenants, investment advisors, investment funds, pension funds, banks, and other financial institutions. · Commercial Acquisitions And Dispositions

Geoffrey Berman

Geoffrey Berman is a litigation partner and head of Fried Frank's White Collar Defense, Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations Practice, resident in the New York office. Mr. Berman also serves on the Firm's Governance Committee. His practice focuses on representing clients in connection with a wide range of white-collar matters, regulatory and internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. · White Collar Criminal Defense

George Wolfe

Antitrust Associate. Mr. Wolfe represents clients in merger control and anticompetitive conduct investigations before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the state attorneys general, as well as in antitrust litigation matters brought by the antitrust regulators and private plaintiffs. Mr. Wolfe also counsels clients on a wide variety of antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, antitrust compliance and arbitrage opportunities. Mr. Wolfe has experience representing clients in a wide array of industries, including specialized expertise in healthcare and life sciences, ecommerce, chemicals and oil and gas. Mr. Wolfe has litigated merger control and anticompetitive conduct cases with the US federal government. · Antitrust

Ilan Graff

Ilan Graff represents clients in connection with white collar matters, regulatory and internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation. He has significant experience representing corporations, executives, and their boards of directors in internal, government and cross-border investigations, as well as related enforcement proceedings and litigation, in matters involving allegations of fraud, insider trading, accounting irregularities, FCPA violations, executive misconduct, anti-money laundering violations, and more. He has helped clients navigate complex corporate governance and compliance matters across a range of industries including financial services, technology, healthcare, aerospace and defense, consumer and retail, real estate, and hospitality. · White Collar Defense

J. Christian Nahr

Mr. Nahr is a corporate partner and head of the Firm’s global Leveraged Finance Practice. Mr. Nahr represents private equity sponsors, corporations, hedge funds and investment banks in a broad array of complex cross-border and domestic financing transactions. He has significant experience representing borrowers in leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings, recapitalizations and restructurings. Mr. Nahr's practice includes advising on syndicated secured facilities, second lien loans, mezzanine financings and private placements. · Leveraged Finance

James McCullough

Litigation Of Counsel and Head of Government Contracts. Mr. McCullough is litigation of counsel and head of the Government Contracts Practice and member of the Aerospace & Defense Practice. His experience spans a broad range of industries and government agencies, with a focus on aerospace and defense companies. Mr. McCullough’s practice includes pre-award litigation and counseling on contract formation issues, post-award disputes and litigation, and the representation of government contractors in various civil proceedings, including Procurement Integrity and Freedom of Information Act disputes, and enforcement matters involving mandatory disclosure and suspension and debarment. He has been lead counsel in numerous bid protests before the US Government Accountability Office, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and other federal courts. Mr. McCullough also has extensive litigation experience involving claims and terminations at various Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. In addition, he has frequently participated in the resolution of government contract disputes through the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques, including mediation and arbitration, and has frequently participated as government contracts counsel in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and joint venture transactions involving aerospace and defense companies. · Government Contracts

Jamie Wareham

Global Chair of Litigation Department. Substantial experience in both civil and criminal matters. Has served as lead counsel on behalf of multinational public companies, boards of directors, and senior executives in the defense of securities class actions, in connection with cross-border government investigations, and proceedings before the United States Congress. Has also led internal investigations around the globe arising out of bribery allegations, securities and accounting irregularities and related matters. · Securities Class Actions

Janice Mac Avoy

Janice Mac Avoy is a member of both the Real Estate Department and the Litigation Department, co-head of the Real Estate Litigation Practice and a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Janice concentrates her practice in complex real estate-related transactions and disputes, commercial litigation and arbitration, partnership and joint venture disputes, complex commercial landlord tenant disputes and commercial fair market rent arbitrations. She also has extensive experience in creditor's rights, including complex commercial real estate mortgage foreclosures and UCC foreclosures, intercreditor disputes, workouts and restructuring of real estate loans. Janice works to resolve issues without resorting to litigation, but if litigation is inevitable, Chambers USA described her as "the best real estate litigator in New York." · Real Estate Litigation

Jason Greenberg

Jason Greenberg leads our technology transactions team and counsels clients in connection with intellectual property and technology contracts. Jason’s practice encompasses licensing, development, strategic alliance, distribution, merchandising, services, outsourcing, and other commercial agreements. He regularly counsels established and emerging companies, as well as private equity firms, banks, and hedge funds on the intellectual property and technology aspects of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity and debt financings, joint ventures, and other complex corporate transactions. Clients benefit from Jason’s strong technology background. Clients also rely on Jason’s advice regarding open-source best practices, data strategy, digital media, trademark and copyright portfolio development, and infringement disputes. · Technology Transactions

Jason Koenig

Jason Koenig represents asset managers on the formation, fundraising and management of funds across a wide range of strategies, including private equity funds, growth equity funds, multi-manager hedge funds, managed credit funds and tactical opportunities funds. Jason also has experience counseling sponsors on various regulatory and strategic issues including LP negotiations, conflicts management, carry plans, among other issues. · Asset Management

Jeffrey Ross

Mr. Ross is an Executive Compensation & ERISA partner, chair of the department, resident in the Firm’s New York office. He focuses his practice on ERISA fiduciary matters, with particular emphasis on the application of ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules to the structuring, operation and administration of a wide range of private investment funds and investment management arrangements. He counsels extensively regarding ERISA’s “plan asset” regulation and routinely assists clients wishing to operate plan asset hedge funds in compliance with ERISA. More generally, he has experience with a broad variety of benefits and compensation matters and the numerous federal and state laws that govern the field. In this regard, he often assists in the negotiation of employment, non-competition and severance agreements as well as equity-based compensation arrangements. Clients also frequently call upon him to advise on the employee benefits and executive compensation matters arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions and related transactions. · Executive Compensation

Jeffrey Schatz

Jeffrey Schatz is a corporate partner resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Schatz’s practice focuses on asset management work and concentrates on advising investment managers and financial institutions on all aspects of the structuring and formation of domestic and offshore private equity funds, hedge funds, credit funds, GP stake funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and co-investment vehicles. He also advises fund sponsors on negotiating separately managed accounts and funds-of-one. Additionally, he regularly counsels a diverse client base on sponsor-led secondary transactions and the structuring and negotiation of carried interest and other internal economic arrangements. · Corporate

Jennifer Rodburg

Jennifer L. Rodburg is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Ms. Rodburg focuses her practice on the representation of creditors and investors in corporate restructurings both in and out of court. She represents hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, property owners, asset acquirers and other strategic parties in connection with prepackaged and traditional bankruptcy proceedings, DIP and exit financings, Section 363 sales and other distressed situations. She has a broad range of experience in representing official and unofficial creditors' committees and equity committees in connection with chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructuring situations. Ms. Rodburg also counsels investment funds, financial institutions and other clients on issues involved in trading distressed debt, analyzing the risks associated with potential investments and acquiring financially distressed companies. · Restructuring

Jeremy Berry

Jeremy Berry is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Mr. Berry's practice focuses on private investment funds and complex corporate transactions, with a particular focus on private equity and hedge fund formation and other alternative investment matters. Mr. Berry regularly represents some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investment banks, as well as a broad range of other investment management clients. Mr. Berry consistently advises clients on matters involving private equity and hedge fund formation, fund investment, manager-level transactions and other complex transactions. Mr. Berry brings a global perspective to his investment funds work, which includes a growing practice representing many of the world's largest private equity and hedge fund managers. He provides each client with comprehensive representation; from entity formation through the fundraising process to ongoing operational advice, his knowledge across a range of investment funds structures gives him the ability to keep abreast of emerging trends in the private equity, hedge fund and real estate industries, enhancing the value he provides for his clients. In addition, Mr. Berry also represents institutional investors in the acquisition of positions in private equity, real estate, venture capital and hedge funds. In addition to representing investment fund sponsors and investors, Mr. Berry's practice includes advising clients on investment and financing transactions, with particular emphasis on international or otherwise complex transactions. · Private Equity

Jessica Forbes

Jessica Forbes is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Ms. Forbes concentrates her practice on securities regulation, including the regulation of investment advisers, investment companies and broker-dealers, with particular expertise in the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act. She regularly provides advice on trading and credit regulation to hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, broker-dealers, other professional traders and high net-worth individuals. She has extensive experience with the structuring and ongoing operations of hedge funds, private equity funds, business development companies and other alternative investment products. She also regularly advises publicly traded companies and their senior management in connection with trading and hedging activities, such as issuer repurchase transactions, sales of restricted stock and the use of financial derivatives to diversify concentrated stock positions. Ms. Forbes also advises on the regulatory implications of merger and acquisition transactions in the financial services industry. · Securities Regulation

Jonathan Adler

Jonathan Adler is a corporate partner and focuses primarily on representing financial institutions and asset managers with respect to large, complex transactions involving alternative investment vehicles, including hedge funds, real estate funds, private equity funds and hybrid funds. In particular, he provides advice regarding fund formation and regulation as well as acquisitions and dispositions of interests in alternative investment managers. He also focuses on areas including Regulation D, Section 13(d), Section 16 and Rule 144. · Corporate

Jonathan Mechanic

Jonathan Mechanic, a real estate partner and chairman of the Firm’s Real Estate Department, routinely counsels developers, owners, investors, REITs, and lenders in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition and development of office, retail, hotel and mixed-use properties; commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing; acquisition and sale of distressed debt; and joint ventures and restructurings. · Real Estate

Joseph Fox

Tax Partner. Mr. Fox focuses on domestic and cross-border tax issues relating to capital markets, financing and derivatives transactions. He regularly represents US and non-US clients in a variety of contexts, such as equity and debt offerings, bank financing transactions, debt restructurings and derivatives transactions, and is experienced with specialized vehicles and industries, including RICs, REITs, credit funds, real estate funds, insurance companies and shipping companies. He also advises on asset management tax considerations and international tax issues. · Tax

Joshua Coleman

Mr. Coleman is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice in corporate finance transactions, including the representation of both issuers and underwriters in high-yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, including acquisition financing commitments, equity offerings and related capital market and private equity transactions. In addition, Mr. Coleman advises clients on a variety of securities law and corporate governance matters. · Corporate Finance

Joshua Wechsler

Mr. Wechsler is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice in corporate finance and the US securities laws, representing issuers, underwriters and sponsors in a variety of financing transactions, including initial public offerings, private placements, high-yield debt offerings, and cross-border financings. Mr. Wechsler has represented an array of underwriters including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Clarksons Platou, Credit Suisse, Fearnley Securities, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, JP Morgan, KBW, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Wells Fargo. In addition, he has acted for a number of issuers in connection with corporate governance matters and reporting under the US securities laws, including, among others, Extended Stay, Goldman Sachs BDC, Grindrod Shipping, Grupo Televisa, Humana, IDEXX, MasTec, Navios Maritime Holdings (and its related public companies), Perry Ellis, RedBall Acquisition Corp., Seritage, Spanish Broadcasting System, Tapestry (f/k/a Coach), and Viavi. Mr. Wechsler has worked on a number of cross-border transactions in Asia, Canada, Denmark, Europe, Greece, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, and South Africa. · Capital Markets

Kabaye Liku

Ms. Liku's practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate finance and development. She has experience representing lenders and institutional investors in the origination and restructuring of mortgage and mezzanine loans for capital markets; syndicate and balance sheet lenders for the acquisition, development and construction of hotels, shopping centers, office buildings and mixed-used projects located throughout the United States; and in the purchase and sale of mortgage and subordinated debt, including the negotiation of intercreditor, participation and co-lender agreements. · Commercial Real Estate Finance

Kathy O\'Neill

Kathy O’Neill is a partner in Fried Frank’s Antitrust and Competition Department. Kathy focuses on clearance of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as investigations and litigation under federal and state antitrust laws, and antitrust compliance counseling and training. Kathy previously served nearly 16 years in the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Antitrust Division. While at DOJ, Kathy served as the senior-most career official overseeing all civil antitrust enforcement. She previously served as chief of the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, and as a trial attorney in the Telecommunications and Media Section. During her tenure, Kathy played a leading role in advancing numerous high stakes antitrust investigations and litigations across a wide range of industries including agriculture, airlines and aerospace, banking, communications, energy, media and entertainment and technology, among many others. Her more than 20 years of government experience also includes roles as assistant attorney general for the New York Attorney General’s Office and as an attorney advisor at the Federal Communications Commission. · Antitrust