McDermott Will & Schulte

Adam Harris

Adam C. Harris is chair of the Business Reorganization Group. His practice includes corporate restructurings, workouts and creditors’ rights litigation, with a particular focus on the representation of investment funds and financial institutions in distressed situations. Adam has represented a variety of clients in connection with distressed acquisitions by third-party investors or existing creditors through “credit bid” or similar strategies, as well as in court and out of court restructurings. In addition to representing creditors and acquirers in distressed situations, Adam has represented Chapter 11 debtors, as well as portfolio companies in out-of-court exchange offers, debt repurchases and other capital restructurings. · Business Reorganization

Agata Todarello

Agata Todarello has significant experience in debt and equity transactions, working with domestic and international banks, corporations, financial institutions and investment funds on financing transactions, debt restructuring, acquisitions and disposals of portfolios of non-performing loans and assets, in bankruptcy proceedings, as well as extraordinary corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions) and market transactions (listings, placements of financial instruments, public M&A – OPAs and OPAS). She also advises companies (large or medium-sized, listed or unlisted, and family-owned companies) on a continuous basis in all phases of their business activity, with a particular focus on the organisation of corporate structures and the definition of all aspects of corporate governance and, in relation to regulated companies, compliance issues, as well as the definition of commercial contracts. · Banking and Finance

Ahsan Shaikh

Ahsan Shaikh serves as the head of McDermott’s Patent Prosecution practice. He focuses his practice on strategic patent portfolio management and client counseling for computer-related technology companies. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/shaikh-ahsan-a/ · Intellectual Property

Alan Waldenberg

Alan S. Waldenberg is co-head of the firm’s Tax Group. His practice focuses on income tax and international tax, including tax considerations in mergers & acquisitions, restructurings and workouts, and international investments with a particular emphasis on transactions involving investment funds. Representative engagements and transactions include serving as primary tax counsel to Albertsons Companies and an investor group led by one of the world’s leading private equity firms in the $9.2-billion acquisition of Safeway Inc., which won “Deal of the Year - Retail” at the 2015 ACG New York Champion’s Awards. He has also served as primary international tax counsel in connection with substantial investments by investment funds in distressed debt and real estate located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan. He was also involved in the recapitalization and subsequent IPO of BAWAG, the second-largest bank in Austria; and the $1.05-billion sale of LNR Property, a leading diversified real estate investment, finance, management and development firm. This transaction was named “Real Estate Deal of the Year” at the 2014 M&A Atlas Awards: Global Major Markets. Other significant transactions include serving as primary tax counsel for a group of investment funds in connection with the acquisition of a majority of GMAC from General Motors and the subsequent restructuring of that investment, including GMAC’s conversion to a bank and its receipt of an infusion of capital from the U.S. Treasury; the acquisition of a controlling interest in Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler; and the sale of Chrysler Financial for cash consideration of approximately $6.3 billion, a transaction named the biggest deal of 2010 by The Globe and Mail, the “Financial Services Deal of the Year” at the 2012 M&A Atlas Awards and the “Cross Border Deal of the Year over $100M” at the 2012 ACG New York Champion’s Awards. Alan’s other award-winning deals include the acquisition of AT&T’s Yellow Pages - Advertising Solutions and Interactive Businesses, named the “North America Large Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the 2012 Americas M&A Atlas Awards and the “M&A Deal of the Year (Over $500mm)” at the 2013 New York Champion’s Awards; and the acquisition of Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care, selected as Investment Dealers’ Digest magazine’s 2010 “Deal of the Year” award in the health care category and the “North America Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the 2011 Americas M&A Atlas Awards. In addition, Alan has worked on numerous other domestic and international private equity investments, including acquisitions of international banks, international finance companies, retail companies, manufacturing businesses and industrial operations, and has served as primary tax counsel in connection with the structuring of private equity funds and hedge funds, including funds investing primarily in domestic and international private equity, funds investing primarily in Asia and Europe, real estate funds, funds investing primarily in debt, and distressed opportunity funds. After earning his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974 from the University of Maryland, Alan became a certified public accountant in the State of Maryland. In 1978, he was awarded a J.D., cum laude, by Harvard Law School. Alan is a member of the Taxation Sections of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, and is a Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation. · Tax

Alessio Persiani

Alessio Persiani advises Italian and non-Italian resident medium-size and large companies on a wide range of tax matters, covering corporate income tax, value-added tax (VAT), and other indirect and municipal taxes. He advises corporate clients on their ordinary and extraordinary activities, providing assistance in tax litigation as well as in extra-judicial matters. Alessio is a member of several international research groups focused on tax implications of the national implementation of EU law in the field of taxation. He often lectures on particular aspects of International and EU taxation systems at the collegiate and post-graduate levels, and has authored several publications in major tax periodicals and Italian economic and financial newspapers. · Corporate Income Tax

Alexa Ningelgen

Partner Alexa Ningelgen advises clients on all aspects of public law, including administrative, regulatory and constitutional law. She has in-depth knowledge of administrative litigation and the relevant procedures. Alexa regularly represents major private and public companies and authorities with interests in a wide range of industries, including real estate, infrastructure, energy and the food sector. Other main areas of focus include public institution law and immigration law. For further details of Alexa's biography, please view McDermott website here. · Administrative Law

Alexander Southwell

Alex Southwell is one of the nation’s leading technology-focused litigators and investigations lawyers. He is regularly called upon by numerous prominent global companies to counsel on—as well as handle investigations, enforcement defense, and litigation related to—a wide array of privacy, data breach, theft of trade secrets, computer fraud, and network and data security issues, often for the most novel, challenging, or technical matters. A former federal prosecutor, he advises companies victimized by cyber-crimes and has extensive experience with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, and related federal and state statutes, as well as with privacy compliance counseling and FTC and AG regulatory enforcement. · Privacy Law

Alexei Cowett

Alexei J. Cowett is a leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate finance dealmaker, with a focus on emerging growth companies in the consumer and tech sectors and production companies, content creators, and high-profile talent in the media, entertainment, and sports industries. He is the co-head of the firm’s Media, Entertainment & Sports practice. In addition to his leadership role, Alexei advises high-profile talent in endorsement and equity deals tailored to their unique priorities. He also advises recognized brands in other industries, including the food and beverage and health and wellness sectors. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Alina Affeld

Alina Affeld focuses her practice on real estate law. In addition, she gained valuable corporate, M&A and real estate experience through several legal traineeships at law firms in Düsseldorf and London including McDermott. She also worked for the German Embassy of Myanmar. During her internships, Alina Affeld worked for the German Federal Cartel Office and in the corporate law department of a law firm in Düsseldorf. · Real Estate Law

Allison Wilkerson

Allison Wilkerson focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/wilkerson-allison/ · Employee Benefits

Alva Mather

Partner Alva Mather is head of the Firm’s Alcohol Regulatory & Distribution Group and focuses her practice on alcohol beverage and cannabis regulatory and commercial matters. She represents companies in the alcohol beverage industry, including brewers, distillers, wineries, importers and retailers. Additionally, she works with clients in the growing cannabis space and has in-depth knowledge of the evolving legal and regulatory issues facing this industry. A nationally recognized lawyer, Alva combines her extensive knowledge of the commercial and legal landscape as well as deep understanding of the beverage industry to help clients mitigate risk, respond to challenges, and capture and pursue new business opportunities. Her work spans a number of traditional areas of legal practice that affect alcohol beverage and cannabis companies, including litigation, governmental investigation, commercial agreements, alcohol beverage compliance, intellectual property, trade and tax. Please visit our website for further details: https://www.mwe.com/people/mather-alva-c/ · Alcohol Regulation

Andrea Tempestini

Andrea is a partner, he advises clients on domestic and international tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions transactions, corporate restructurings and the use of financial instruments, as well as other tax matters relating to their ordinary activities. He represents Italian and international companies from various industries on a broad spectrum of tax matters and often leads teams of tax advisors from various jurisdictions working on cross-border projects. For further details of Andrea's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/t/tempestini-andrea · Tax

Andrew Kratenstein

Andrew B. Kratenstein provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation, focusing on financial services, private equity, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, real estate and beverage distribution disputes. He represents national and multinational clients in a broad array of industries, including banking, private equity, real estate, hospitality, beverage distribution, sports, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and energy. Andrew currently chairs the Firm’s Litigation Training Committee and is also active in the Firm’s pro bono program. Among other matters, he has won several appeals on behalf of abused, neglected or abandoned immigrant children who have been denied the ability to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Andrew has been honored by Sanctuary for Families with its Above and Beyond Pro Bono Award honoring members of the legal profession for their outstanding pro bono representation and advocacy on behalf of Sanctuary’s clients. Andrew has guest lectured at Columbia Law School on best practices for electronic discovery, and he has served as faculty for the Practising Law Institute’s symposium on Best Practices for Complex Cases and for Thompson Reuters on recent developments in mergers and acquisitions litigation. · Commercial Litigation

Andrew Kummer

Andrew Kummer focuses his practice on international corporate transactions. He has significant experience representing national and multinational clients in a wide variety of complex, cross-border structured finance, capital markets and banking transactions. Andrew draws on his experience living and working abroad to guide his clients through the legal and cultural intricacies that influence multijurisdictional transactions. He regularly represents arrangers and investors on complex structured financings, securitizations, structured notes, receivables financings and other loan instruments. His experience also includes advising underwriters and issuers on a broad range of SEC-registered and exempt public equity and debt offerings. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/andrew-kummer/ · Structured Finance

Andrew Liazos

Andrew C. Liazos is the global chair of McDermott’s Benefits & Compensation Practice Group and has practiced at McDermott for over twenty-five years. Andrew is a nationally recognized leader representing boards and senior executives on significant, multi-disciplinary compensation and benefits related matters, with an emphasis on plan design, practice before regulators, litigation and governance. Chambers USA reports that Andrew is a “first-rate lawyer” and an “excellent, top-notch leader in his field.” Best Lawyers reports from clients that “Andrew’s responsiveness to problems is unequaled,” he “provides the utmost customer service,” “working with him is a great experience,” and that he has “a practical approach to issues.” Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/liazos-andrew-c/ · Employee Benefits

Andrew Lyonsberg

Andrew Lyonsberg focuses his practice on litigation in the Supreme Court and appellate courts across the country, as well as major motions at the trial-court level. He has briefed more than fifty appellate matters and dispositive motions, and has argued before the US Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits. Andrew also has extensive experience with agency litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act, including several recent victories setting aside federal agency action. Andrew has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023) for appellate practice, and was named a Rising Star in Supreme Court and appellate litigation by The Legal 500 (2022). He was also featured in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500, with clients praising his “big-picture thinking” and “sophisticated view on how the executive branch operates.” Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, he was a forum editor of the Yale Law Journal. · Dispute Resolution

Ann Marie Brodarick

Ann Marie Brodarick focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, and other general corporate matters. Ann Marie advises financial and strategic buyers, sellers and investors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other private equity investments, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations and similar transactions. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/brodarick-ann-marie/ · Mergers and Acquisitions

Anne-France Moreau

Anne-France Moreau has over a decade of experience counselling clients on corporate and general commercial law, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, health care and cosmetics industries. Anne-France assists French and non-French groups in the preparation and negotiation of collaborations, licenses and distribution agreements. She has experience on a number of merger, acquisition and private equity transactions, including divestitures, financing rounds and joint ventures for French and non-French corporations. Further, Anne-France regularly handles digital health matters as well as regulatory issues. · Corporate Law

Anne-Sophie Maes

Anne-Sophie Maes focuses her French tax practice on tax audits and controversies, transfer pricing and tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. She also has extensive experience advising clients on financings, capital markets transactions and employee offerings. · Tax Audits & Controversies

Anthony Paronneau

Anthony Paronneau is a partner, he advises clients on all aspects of corporate and business law, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech and health care industries. Anthony has significant experience advising life sciences companies, private equity funds and venture capital firms on a number of merger and acquisition (M&A) and private equity transactions, including acquisitions, financing rounds, joint ventures and divestitures. He also regularly advises life sciences companies on collaborations, licensing and distribution arrangements. For further details of Anthony's biography, please view McDermott website here. · Corporate Law

Anthony Upshaw

Anthony (Tony) Upshaw represents clients on product defense, class action, mass tort and complex civil litigation. Over the course of his career, Tony has tried more than 30 civil jury trials to verdict. Tony is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Often asked by clients and colleagues to “step into the breach” as trial counsel, he has been recognized nationally for his ability to relate to juries around the country. Tony frequently speaks at various legal association functions, particularly on issues surrounding voir dire, trial technique and diversity in the courtroom. He was a featured speaker at the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) Congress in Paris, France, presented the “Hot Topics in Product Liability Litigation” at the DRI Conference in New Orleans, and testified at the hearings for the American Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Diversity Summit in Boston. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/upshaw-anthony-n/ · Product Liability Defense

Antje Weiss

Counsel Antje Weiss focuses her practice on all aspects of public law, including administrative, regulatory and constitutional law. She has in-depth knowledge of administrative litigation and the relevant procedures. Antje advises clients on gaming law and represents private and public companies with interests in the gaming sector, especially in connection with setting-up of slot machines, the construction of amusement arcades, the organization of lotteries and draws, the organization and brokerage of horse race and sports betting and all aspects of online gambling services. Additionally, Antje advises clients on all issues of municipal fiscal law, economic and budgetary law. For further details of Antje's biography, please view McDermott website here. · Public Law

Antoine Vergnat

Partner Antoine Vergnat focuses his practice on advice to French and non-French investment funds, corporate groups and entrepreneurs operating in the industrial, service and real estate sectors on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters. Antoine focuses his practice on transactional tax law, with an emphasis on matters relating to the acquisition and sale of assets, the financing and restructuring of groups, as well as the management of tax affairs and controversies before tax authorities. Antoine also regularly provides tax advice to high-net-worth individuals on a broad range of domestic and international tax matters and has significant experience in the structuring of equity compensation schemes for management teams. For further details of Antoine's biography, please view McDermott website here. · Tax

Ari Aranda

Ari Z. Aranda focuses his practice on a variety of real estate transactions. He represents lenders and borrowers in connection with commercial mortgage and mezzanine financings, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, negotiation of joint venture agreements, and workouts and restructurings. · Real Estate

Arianne Plasencia

Arianne R. Plasencia focuses her practice on US & international tax matters. She provides international and domestic income, gift, and estate tax planning for entities and high-net-worth individuals with a focus on multijurisdictional families and inbound investment planning. She also represents clients in tax audits, offshore voluntary disclosures, and streamlined disclosures as well as advises them on criminal tax examinations and other criminal tax matters. Arianne provides estate and income tax advice, including pre-immigration planning, to wealthy families and works on a wide variety of real estate matters. · US & International Tax

Axel Schulz

Axel Schulz focuses his practice on European competition law and has a wealth of experience in merger control, global cartel defence and general antitrust advice in sectors including energy, chemicals, agri-commodities, container shipping, ports, pigments, medical devices and pharmaceuticals. Within the pharmaceutical sector, Axel demonstrates exceptional proficiency and industry insight. He has built a solid reputation assisting clients with competition law matters arising around loss of exclusivity; in addition, Axel has advised on distribution, co-marketing, licensing and various forms of vertical and horizontal cooperation agreements. Axel is adept in orchestrating advice across numerous jurisdictions, providing clients with clear and comprehensive solutions. This global aspect of his practice equips him to guide both national and multinational companies through the most intricate challenges. · Competition Law

Benedikt von Schorlemer

Dr. Benedikt von Schorlemer advises strategic and financial investors on national and cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures with a focus on the renewables and infrastructure sector. He accompanies clients on all stages of an investment cycle, from the acquisition of the target or project development to the exit. Benedikt also advises on management participations. During his practice of more than 20 years he gained particular expertise in the infrastructure and renewables sector, including digital infrastructure assets such as fiber networks. Benedikt also has a strong background in the chemical sector, where he advised on a number of projects. Benedikt studied at the universities of Freiburg, Geneva and Munich where he passed his first state exam. He gained an LL.M. in corporate law at New York University and was admitted to the German bar in 1997. He is co-author of a standard work on German limited liabilities companies and publishes regularly. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Benjamin Kryder

Benjamin focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings, leasing, development and joint ventures. He has represented private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts, developers, capital providers and other institutional and non-institutional investors in numerous sophisticated transactions across asset classes, including hotels, mixed-use projects, office and medical office buildings, multifamily residential complexes, manufactured housing, marinas, warehouse and industrial properties. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/benjamin-l-kryder/ · Commercial Real Estate

Benton Curtis

Benton (Ben) Curtis, a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial attorney, focuses his practice on leading matters, both domestically and abroad, that involve government enforcement defense, internal investigations, compliance counseling, and due diligence regarding third parties and business transactions. Ben regularly represents clients before, and in litigation against, government agencies, including clients accused of health care fraud, kickback violations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, money laundering, and securities fraud. Ben likewise regularly represents corporations and high net worth individuals who have been victimized through internal or third-party misconduct, often in the form of an exceptional theft or fraud. Ben has tried more than 25 federal jury trials in district courts all around the country, and calls upon that experience when counseling his clients in truly high-stakes matters. Ben’s capabilities stem, in large part, from his previous ten years with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which lengthy tenure included extended stints in Miami, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. In his last position, Ben served for almost five years as an Assistant Chief in DOJ’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section, where he supervised numerous large-scale health care fraud investigations and prosecutions around the country. He also oversaw significant FCPA investigations related to the entertainment and gaming industries in Asia, and a number of insider trading and high-yield investment matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/curtis-benton/ · White Collar Criminal Defense

Bertrand Delafaye

Bertrand Delafaye advises private and listed companies, investors and investment funds on complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and other major transactions, as well as private equity and securities law matters. He also has significant experience in the international arena, cross-border and domestic joint ventures, post-closing reorganizations, and negotiation of major industrial and commercial agreements. Bertrand regularly handles pre- and post-closing disputes in the context of M&A transactions, and advises on conflicts among shareholders and between joint venture partners. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/delafaye-bertrand/ · Mergers and Acquisitions

Betty Santangelo

Betty Santangelo focuses her practice on white-collar criminal defense and securities/bank enforcement. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, she specialized in securities and commodities fraud prosecutions. Her practice includes representing financial institutions (banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, FCMs, insurance companies, investment advisers, hedge funds and private equity funds), other corporate entities and individuals in matters brought by the U.S. Attorneys’ offices, by various regulatory agencies, including the SEC, the bank regulatory agencies, the CFTC, FINRA, SIGTARP, international regulators (such as the FCA) and state and local prosecutors. Betty also has significant experience conducting internal investigations for these entities. In addition, she has served as an independent consultant in SEC enforcement matters examining both the NYSE and a regional broker-dealer. Prior to joining SRZ, Betty served as First Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Merrill Lynch, where she managed the firm's securities and criminal regulatory investigations group and represented the firm and its employees in enforcement proceedings before federal and state regulatory agencies, and in criminal matters before U.S. Attorneys' offices and state prosecutors, as well as in foreign jurisdictions. She has also served as Division Director of the ABA Litigation Committee and Chair of its Securities Litigation and Broker-Dealer Subcommittees. She has contributed a chapter on “Representation Prior to Indictment” in the book Defending Federal Criminal Cases: Attacking the Government’s Proof (Law Journal Press, 2009, 2015), co-authored the “Civil and Criminal Enforcement” chapter of the Insider Trading Law and Compliance Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2011–2018) and contributed two chapters in Broker Dealer Regulation (Practising Law Institute, 2009–2010, 2014–2017). Betty is recognized as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, Ethisphere: Attorneys Who Matter, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading White Collar Crime Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, Who's Who Legal: Business Crime Defence and New York Super Lawyers. She was also presented with the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women's annual Women of Power and Influence Award. Nationally recognized for her expertise in corporate compliance issues, including anti-money laundering, OFAC and FCPA, Betty’s representation of financial institutions in white collar and regulatory matters frequently draws on these areas of expertise, including advising financial institutions on their anti-money laundering/OFAC/FCPA procedures. At Merrill Lynch, she was also responsible for oversight of all Bank Secrecy Act reporting and anti-money laundering activities, and the implementation of Merrill Lynch’s anti-money laundering procedures. Among her many professional activities, she has served as the Securities and Futures Industry’s representative on the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Betty also is a founding member of and has served as counsel to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Committee. In 2014, she was honored by SIFMA for her extraordinary contributions to the committee and recognized for her dedication to improving industry compliance. In 1998, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Treasury Department awarded Betty its Director’s Medal for Exceptional Service. That same year, she represented the U.S. securities industry at the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) meeting in Brussels, Belgium. In 2002, she represented SIFMA, the Futures Industry Association and the Investment Company Institute at the FATF meeting in Paris. Betty is a former adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she taught a course on money laundering and founded Fordham Law Women to raise awareness of the issues faced by women in the law school community. In 2019, Fordham Law established the Betty Santangelo Award to recognize female alumnae working to advance the careers of women in the legal industry. Betty is a much sought-after speaker on corporate compliance, anti-money laundering/OFAC/FCPA, white-collar criminal and securities law issues, including at SIFMA, the FIA, ACAMS, the ABA/ABA AML conference and FIBA. From the Emerald Literati Network she received an “outstanding paper” award in 2006 for an article she wrote on money laundering enforcement actions and a “highly commended” award in 2011 for an article she wrote on beneficial ownership information and USA PATRIOT Act obligations. In 2008, she won a Burton Award, which recognizes exceptional legal writing, for an article she wrote on the FCPA. She is a recipient of the YWCA Woman of Achievement award, as well as other awards. · Broker-Dealer Regulatory & Enforcement

Bhanu Sadasivan

Partner Bhanu Sadasivan, PhD, focuses her practice on patent litigation, with an emphasis in the life sciences industry. She has experience litigating patent cases concerning recombinant DNA technology, pharmaceutical formulation, computer hardware and software. For further details of Bhanu biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/sadasivan-bhanu-k/ · Patent Litigation

Bob Cohen

Robert (Bob) H. Cohen focuses his practice on transactional and securities work for a broad range of clients. He counsels clients on initial and follow-on public offerings, special-purpose acquisition (SPAC), at-the-market (ATM) and off the shelf offerings, registered direct and private investment in public equity (PIPE) financings, private placements, bridge financings and equity lines, and related transactions. Bob also has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, 1933 and 1934 representation, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/cohen-robert-h/ · Securities

Boris Uphoff

Boris Uphoff is a partner and member of the Intellectual Property, Media & Technology Department, where his practice focuses on litigation and dispute resolution. He has litigation experience in all major German courts and assists clients in cross-border disputes. Boris represents German and international clients in patent infringement litigation and in contentious matters relating to trade marks and unfair competition law. His practice also encompasses product liability and insurance law. He acts for international insurers, industrial clients and trading companies, representing them in disputes relating to product defects and consumer claims. He advises clients, particularly from the automotive and electronics sectors, on product recalls and recourse actions against suppliers of defective parts. He is active in the area of cartel damages, successfully defending clients against cartel damages claims brought by competitors and commercial customers. In relation to dispute resolution, Boris frequently represents clients in international arbitrations. He also acts as arbitrator in large commercial disputes. For further details of Boris' biography, please view McDermott website here. · Intellectual Property

Boris Ziser

Boris Ziser is co-head of the Structured Finance & Derivatives Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With over 25 years of experience across diverse asset classes, Boris focuses on asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, secured financings, commercial paper conduits and specialty finance. His practice encompasses a variety of asset classes, including life settlements, equipment leases, structured settlements, lottery receivables, timeshare loans, litigation funding, merchant cash advances and cell towers, in addition to other esoteric asset classes such as intellectual property, various insurance-related cash flows and other cash flow producing assets. He also represents investors, lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and finance companies in acquisitions and dispositions of portfolios of assets and financings secured by those portfolios. Recognized as a leading lawyer in the industry, Boris is ranked in Chambers USA, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 US for his work in structured finance. He serves as outside general counsel to the Institutional Longevity Markets Association (ILMA) and is a member of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Esoteric Assets Committee and Risk Retention Task Force of the Structured Finance Industry Group. A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, Boris has conducted various securitization, litigation funding and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad. Most recently, Boris was interviewed for the article “Attorneys Must Tread Carefully in Litigation Funding’s Next Stage,” published in Law360 and the articles “SRZ’s Leading Litigation Finance Practice: Holistic Expertise for a Booming Asset Class” and “Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps: Opportunities for Investors, Individuals, Insurers and Pension Funds,” both published in The Hedge Fund Journal. His speaking engagements have included “Flash Briefings on Alternative & Emerging Asset Classes — Structured Settlements” at SFIG and IMN Vegas 2018 and “Insurance Dedicated Funds and Related Strategies” and “Credit and Specialty Finance,” both at SRZ’s 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar. · Structured Finance

Brad Dennis

Brad Dennis advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity firms and their platform companies. Brad routinely provides transactional representation to such clients in connection with strategic affiliations, mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactional matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/dennis-brad/ · Healthcare

Bradley Giordano

Brad Giordano is a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Brad focuses his practice on representing debtors, creditors, direct lenders, ad hoc groups, sponsors and strategic investors in all aspects of complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. Brad is frequently consulted by leading private equity investors, hedge funds, and private credit lenders on domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, as well as on strategic acquisitions or dispositions of distressed assets. Brad has played a key role in some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases across a variety of industries, including among others, healthcare, retail, energy, technology, hospitality, media, airlines, aircraft manufacturing, telecom and heavy machinery. Recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer by Chambers USA, among other publications, Brad has earned praise from clients for being “thoughtful, responsive, and aggressive,” “commercial in every sense,” and delivering “much better than expected outcomes.” Additionally, Brad was listed by the American Bankruptcy Institute as a recipient of their 40 Under 40 Award. · Business Restructuring

Brooks Gruemmer

Brooks B. Gruemmer is a corporate partner with a wide-ranging practice representing private equity and other investment funds and private and public companies, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and the related financing required to fund such transactions. Brooks is a former member of the Firm’s Management Committee and served as head of the Chicago office’s Transactions Practice Group for over a decade. Brooks has represented clients in a wide range of transactions, business ventures and general corporate matters. He regularly represents a number of private equity and other investment funds in leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, divestitures and recapitalizations. He also represents privately held and publicly traded corporations in connection with a variety of corporate matters, including strategic mergers and other acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, securities law disclosure and compliance matters, and executive compensation. In recent years, Brooks has advised acquirers of financially distressed companies, inside and outside of bankruptcy, and in connection with debt and equity restructurings, workouts and related financings. Brooks brings a unique perspective to private practice, having spent approximately four years as vice president of administration and general counsel of Favorite Brands International, Inc., the fourth-largest manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States. While at Favorite Brands, Brooks was a member of the executive committee and oversaw numerous acquisitions, financings that raised more than $1 billion, and the eventual sale of the Company to Nabisco. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Bruce Richardson

Partner Bruce L. Richardson focuses his practice on electric energy law. He advises independent power producers (IPPs), merchant transmission developers, electric power marketers, energy asset managers and private equity firms in the energy sector. While Bruce routinely appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on regulatory matters and in administrative litigation, he represents energy sector clients on a wide range of regulatory, electric reliability, transactional and project issues. On regulatory matters, Bruce provides guidance on issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Energy Policy Acts of 1992 and 2005, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. The guidance includes independent power production, interconnection matters, affiliate utility issues, transmission access and pricing, ancillary services, cost-based rates, regional transmission organizations, organized power markets, market-based rates, reliability must-run service, power supply purchases and sales, retail wheeling and wholesale electric customer disputes. Bruce also counsels clients on regulatory compliance matters, including the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) electric reliability standards and requirements. For transactions, he assists clients regarding electric power contracts, utility restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.mwe.com/people/richardson-bruce-l/ · Electric Energy Law

Byron Kalogerou

Byron S. Kalogerou is the founder of the Firm’s Life Science Industry Group and the senior partner in the Boston Corporate Practice. He helps clients execute on their growth strategies by guiding them through complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and alliances. He also assists early stage life science companies in their capital raising efforts. Byron has extensive industry background in the life science, industrial and manufacturing sectors. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies. Read full biography here: https://www.mwe.com/people/kalogerou-byron-s/ · Mergers and Acquisitions

Caitlin Howe

Caitlin (Cate) Howe focuses her practice on outsourcing, technology, and commercial transactions. In the outsourcing space, Cate represents clients in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, and healthcare systems in revenue cycle management outsourcing. Cate also counsels clients in a wide variety of technology transactions, including cloud computing and other ‘as a service’ arrangements, software licenses, technology development and licensing agreements, e-commerce arrangements, technology maintenance and service agreements, and software compliance audits. In addition, she advises clients in strategic commercial transactions, including supply, manufacturing, distribution and reseller agreements. Cate also counsels clients on intellectual property and commercial contract issues that arise in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transition services agreements. · Outsourcing

Caitlyn Campbell

Caitlyn M. Campbell, a former US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Attorney, focuses her practice on representing clients in SEC investigations, securities class action and derivative litigation and compliance matters. Caitlyn has extensive experience in matters involving potential violations of the federal securities laws, including allegations of accounting and disclosure violations, fraud and regulatory violations by investment advisers and broker-dealers, insider trading, anti-corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations and whistleblower claims. She also assists companies in developing training programs and compliance policies and procedures. Prior to joining McDermott, Caitlyn spent eight years at the SEC, most recently as Senior Counsel to the Directors of Enforcement, assisting with the management of the Commission’s largest division, and as a member of the division’s COVID-19 Steering Committee. At the SEC, Caitlyn led all aspects of investigations involving accounting fraud, complex insider trading schemes, market abuse, market manipulation, misappropriation of investor funds, investment adviser fraud and the Immigrant Investor Program. She also worked extensively with foreign regulators, coordinating complex, global investigations. In addition to her investigative work, Caitlyn co-chaired the committee tasked with proactively detecting accounting and disclosure fraud in the New England region and served as the liaison to the national Financial Reporting and Audit Group and the Boston FBI. Caitlyn has conducted numerous internal investigations, including investigations for major public companies, their boards of directors and board committees. Further, she has represented Boards, senior management teams, hedge funds and private equity firms in connection with matters before enforcement and regulatory agencies including the SEC, US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She has also represented numerous corporations, as well as directors and officers, in securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation. More recently, Caitlyn has represented companies and officers in connection with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)-related litigation and SEC investigations, and works diligently to track developments in this area of the law. Caitlyn regularly speaks on topics relating to criminal and regulatory enforcement, as well as accounting fraud. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/campbell-caitlyn-m/ · SEC Investigations

Carl Fleming

Carl J. Fleming is a transactional lawyer whose principle areas of practice are renewable energy and private equity. He leads transactions throughout the US and worldwide for a number of the renewable industry’s leading developers, global private equity funds and Fortune 500 companies. He provides legal, commercial and strategic advice on the development, purchase and sale and financing of renewable energy projects in wind, solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and other low carbon solutions. A partner in our Washington, DC office, he also advises on a number of energy and climate change policy issues. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/fleming-carl-j/ · Renewable Energy

Carlo Maria Paolella

Carlo is a partner, he heads the Firm's Italian office and leads the Italian tax practice, where he advises clients on domestic and international tax issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, cross-border transactions, transfer pricing, capital markets and collective investment vehicles, and tax controversy. He also regularly advises on the tax profiles of employee incentive plans, debt restructuring and financial instruments. Carlo advises Italian and multinational companies on numerous tax law issues, providing opinions in both Italian and English. For further details of Carlo's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/p/paolella-carlo-maria · Tax

Caroline Ngo

Caroline H. Ngo is co-leader of the Firm’s International Tax Affinity Group and is based in Washington, DC. She advises publicly traded companies on international tax planning, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, application of bilateral income tax treaties, and other international tax matters. Since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), a substantial portion of Caroline’s practice has been advising clients on the new international tax provisions, including the new foreign tax credit regime (including expense apportionment), the GILTI regime, the participation exemption under section 245A, the BEAT, and the transition tax under section 965. Caroline recently served as lead counsel in a significant litigation in the US Tax Court, and her team secured a complete victory for the client. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/ngo-caroline-h/ · International Tax

Caroline Reignley

Caroline Reignley provides strategic legal, regulatory and compliance counsel to for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, health systems, other healthcare providers, life sciences and technology companies. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/caroline-reignley/ · Healthcare

Carolyn Gleason

Partner Carolyn Gleason heads the Firm's Global Regulatory Practice Group and International Trade Practice and is co-chair of the Firm's Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry Group. Carolyn has in-depth knowledge of dispute settlement proceedings under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO), and has served as government counsel and chief private sector counsel in numerous successful dispute settlement actions. She has been appointed member for the president's US Agricultural Private Sector Advisory Committee since 1994, advising the US government on US trade initiatives and objectives. For further details of Carolyn's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/g/gleason-carolyn-b · Global Regulatory Practice

Cate Battin

Catherine (Cate) A. Battin represents clients in state and local tax controversies at the audit, administrative and judicial levels in numerous jurisdictions. She provides national state tax strategies for clients on a full range of state tax issues, including income tax apportionment, nexus, combination and sales tax characterization of products and services. She has defended numerous internet sellers in cases brought under the Illinois False Claims Act alleging fraudulent failures to collect and remit use tax. Cate regularly speaks on state and local tax matters before groups that have included the Tax Executives Institute, the Chicago Tax Club and the Chicago Bar Association. Prior to joining McDermott, she worked at a major international accounting and consulting firm, where she focused exclusively on state and local taxes. · State & Local Tax

Charles Buck

Charles (Charlie) R. Buck advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax-exempt hospital systems, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, accountable care organizations, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other health insurers. Charlie is partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Boston Health Industry Advisory Practice Group. Charlie provides legal counsel and solutions in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, conversions to tax-exempt status, and other transactional matters. He advises clients forming and operating accountable care organizations (ACOs), including commercial ACOs and those in the Medicare Pioneer Program and Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs. Charlie focuses his regulatory practice on federal fraud and abuse laws (including the Stark Law), obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and health information privacy, state insurance licensure and determination of need law, and general corporate matters. After earning his law degree, Charlie clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, Charlie served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a policy analyst at the Jackson Hole Group, where he focused on rural healthcare and purchasing cooperatives. · Healthcare

Charles Moll

Charles (Chuck) Moll focuses his practice on state and local tax (SALT), primarily concentrating on the resolution of tax controversies. He regularly appears before the various California tax authorities—including the State Board of Equalization, the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, and the Office of Tax Appeals—as well as local authorities such as assessors and assessment appeals boards. He has litigated at all levels of California’s courts, the US Tax Court, and the US Supreme Court. Chuck’s practice includes tax matters in other states, as well as federal tax controversies, including representation of clients in federal courts and at appellate hearings before the Internal Revenue Service. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/moll-charles/ · State and Local Tax

Charles de Raignac

Charles de Raignac advises French and foreign companies on all aspects of intellectual property law (authors’ rights, software, patents, know-how, trademarks, designs) and assists them in the strategic management and protection of their intellectual property rights, including in litigation matters. Charles has also developed a valuable experience in the drafting and negotiation of contracts in the context of major projects (assignment, licensing, research and development). He also advises on the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions and due diligence matters. · Intellectual Property

Charlotte Michellet

Charlotte Michellet focuses her practice on public, administrative and regulatory law. · Public Law

Christian Krohs

Christian Krohs advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law, including antitrust litigation, as well as compliance matters. Christian has extensive experience in all areas of EU and German antitrust and competition law, particularly in relation to cartel investigations, cartel damages claims, abuse of dominance proceedings and both national and international merger control projects. He has also advised numerous clients regarding antitrust and anticorruption compliance as well as internal investigations. Christian is an experienced lawyer who has spent many years in the antitrust and competition law department of a prominent international law firm in Germany, Brussels and London, and headed the antitrust and merger control practice group of another international law firm. He is a well-respected author of several publications and continues to comment on relevant topics of antitrust and competition law. · Antitrust Law

Christian Masch

Christian is a partner, he focuses his practice in information technology (IT), intellectual property (IP), media and telecommunication, and data protection/privacy law. An experienced trial lawyer, Christian represents clients in commercial law litigation before German courts, as well as in arbitrations. Christian advises clients with respect to complex projects, inter alia compliance with data protection/privacy law. He has published numerous articles. For further details of Christian's biography, please view McDermott website here. · Information Technology

Christian Nemeth

J. Christian (Chris) Nemeth provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation and government investigations, including ERISA matters, financial and banking cases, business torts and breach of contract actions. Chris is the co-head of the Firm’s ERISA Litigation practice and works closely with the Firm’s Employee Benefits Practice Group on all types of Litigation matters, Department of Labor investigations and similar issues. Chris represents clients in courts at the state and federal levels across the country, and has successfully tried cases involving a wide range of matters. He also arbitrates cases in domestic and international forums. Chris has extensive appellate experience as well. He has successfully appealed cases to the Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and to the Illinois Court of Appeals. · Commercial Litigation

Christian Rolf

Dr. Christian Rolf focuses his practice on employment, labor, civil and commercial law, executive compensation and benefits schemes and human resources (HR) compliance and data privacy issues. He also has extensive experience in employment law-related matters in M&A and private equity transactions, restructuring scenarios and complex business litigation. · Employment Law

Christopher Gladbach

Partner Christopher Gladbach counsels clients in energy M&A, project development, tax equity and project finance transactions. Chris works with energy clients in structuring complex equity and debt investments, advises both buyers and sellers in the power sector in mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, and on the development of large-scale energy projects. He assists his clients in mitigating and allocating risk associated with these transactions in conjunction with achieving their primary business and financial objectives. Chris has extensive experience advising clients pursuing opportunities involving the development and financing of United States Department of Defense (DoD) energy projects. He counsels developers, purchasers, lenders and tax equity investors in government contracts and structuring project development and financing arrangements to account for unique risks. In addition, Chris represents market-leading private equity funds and institutional investors in power asset transactions, and understands the unique challenges and opportunities that these clients face. Please visit our website for further details: https://www.mwe.com/people/gladbach-christopher/ · Energy M&A

Chuck Gibbs

Chuck Gibbs focuses his practice on insolvency and restructuring. For nearly 40 years, he has been recognized as one of the country’s leading restructuring lawyers, being ranked by Chambers & Partners for over 20 years, including being ranked as Band 1 for more than a decade. Chuck has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2006, including being awarded “Lawyer of the Year” in 2019. He has been recognized as a “Leading Individual” by both The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers since 2008 and The Legal 500. Chuck has led public and private companies through challenging and complex financial restructurings. Throughout his career, Chuck has been on the cutting edge of novel restructuring issues ranging from Caribbean resorts to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Most recently, Chuck was tasked with leading the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange bankruptcy in history as of the date of filing. Chuck is frequently engaged in multijurisdictional and cross-border matters for debtors, secured creditors, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, equity committees and asset buyers. His cross-border experience includes representing joint liquidators in Caribbean insolvency proceedings, including the largest individual fraud case in history. Chuck partners with non-money center secured lenders, particularly in the real estate space, leveraging his deep experience in handling hundreds of real estate loan workouts on behalf of lenders, both in and out of court. · Insolvency

Clemens Just

Prof. Dr. Clemens Just advises clients on all aspects of corporate law and M&A transactions. He has extensive experience acting for financial and strategic investors and on private and public takeovers. His experience includes corporate restructurings and insolvency law issues. · Corporate Law

Craig Stein

Craig Stein is co-head of the Structured Finance & Derivatives Group. His practice focuses on structured finance and asset-backed transactions and swaps and other derivative products, including prime brokerage and customer trading agreements. He represents issuers, underwriters, collateral managers and portfolio purchasers in public and private structured financings, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Craig has been recognized in this area by the prestigious legal directory Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which noted that satisfied clients praised him for his “very broad knowledge of the markets” and for being “incredibly responsive and helpful in thinking through issues” and “very thoughtful about the market.” Chambers also stated: “He is known for his work in derivative products, representing issuers, underwriters and portfolio purchasers in CLOs. Peers find his work in structured products and derivatives impressive.” The Legal 500 US has noted that Craig is “recognized for his thought leadership on regulatory issues affecting both the securitization and derivatives markets.” Craig is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Structured Finance Association. He is a much sought-after speaker for structured finance and hedge fund industry conferences and webinars and the author of numerous articles on advanced financial products. He is the author of “U.S. CLOs: Past and Present” in The Journal of Structured Finance. Craig also co-authored “CLOs and LIBOR Transition” for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Securitisation 2020 and “CLOs in the Current Regulatory Environment” for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Securitisation 2019. · Structured Finance