Lawyers in United States

Amelia Munger

Senior Attorney, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Ames Filippini

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Amie Aldana

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Amir Azaran

Partner and Deputy Chair, Advanced Media & Technology

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Amir Ghavi

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

Paul Hastings LLP

Amir Nassihi

Partner and Co-Chair, Class Action & Appellate Litigation Practice Group

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Amish Shah

Partner

Holland & Knight

Amit Kalra

Amit Kalra, PC is a partner in the Tax, Employee Benefits and Trusts and Estates Practice Group in the firm's Chicago office. Amit concentrates his practice on tax controversy and partnership taxation, with an emphasis on partnerships and pass-through entities that own and operate assets entitled to significant federal income tax benefits. Amit is frequently involved in the structuring and formation of partnerships that own and operate alternative energy resources. His experience includes the pricing of partnership investments through the preparation of pro forma economic models that incorporate relevant federal income tax assumptions and constraints to accurately determine the expected after-tax return on a partnership investment. Amit is also actively involved in the emerging market for financing other alternative energy resources, including: ethanol, biodiesel, biomass, solar and fuel cell facilities. His partnership practice includes all forms of direct investments in partnerships and pass-through entities, including private equity fund formation and investment. In addition, he counsels clients in private equity and venture capital portfolio investments. Amit represents clients before the IRS Appeals Office on numerous federal income taxation issues, including the defense of purported tax shelters and their related penalties, the characterization of true lease transactions, the tax consequences of complex debt workouts and the treatment of sophisticated financial products.

Sheppard

Amit Kataria

Partner

King & Spalding

Amit Makker

Amit Makker represents clients in complex intellectual property disputes across a range of high technology sectors. Amit guides clients through the full life cycle of patent disputes in a broad range of technical industries, including: Networking technologies, both wired and wireless Cellular systems Internet and cloud technologies Semiconductors Computer hardware Medical devices Automotive Amit has experience in all phases of patent litigation, including claim construction proceedings, summary judgment proceedings, and trial. His background as an electrical engineer for a large defense contractor and his broad technical knowledge allow him to communicate effectively with engineers and distill complex concepts for judges and juries. He represents clients in district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and in post-grant proceedings including inter partes review (IPR) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). While in law school, Amit was a senior copy editor for the Southern California Law Review and Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property and Technology Society. He also served as a judicial extern for Judge Christina A. Snyder of the District Court for the Central District of California. As part of his active pro bono practice, Amit was part of the Latham team that led the 2020 US Census litigation (for which the team won the firm’s Robert M. Dell Prize for Extraordinary Pro Bono Service), successfully petitioned the Obama administration for clemency on a client’s behalf, and successfully sought expungement of a client’s criminal record.

Latham & Watkins

Amit Mehta

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

Paul Hastings LLP

Amit Parekh

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Ammara Khan

Gould & Ratner LLP

Amna Arshad

Special Counsel

Crowell & Moring LLP

Amy A. Zuccarello

Amy is a member of the firm's management committee and serves as the firm's Deputy General Counsel. She represents borrower and creditor clients in all aspects of distressed transactions, complex bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Amy’s practice includes a focus in the area of corporate trust, and she has experience representing indenture trustees, agents, collateral trustees, bondholders, lenders and investors in a wide range of complex asset-backed and unsecured financings and corporate debt restructurings, both inside and outside of Chapter 11. Amy has provided advice to clients across numerous industries, including retail, transportation, senior housing and hospital, recreation, real estate, insurance, clean and alternative energy, municipal distress, mining, military housing, financial services, medical devices and intellectual property. Equally comfortable as both a bankruptcy lawyer and a transactional lawyer, Amy has specialized experience negotiating aircraft sales and leases, public and private asset securitizations, real estate project financings and other structured transactions. Amy regularly advises secured lenders on perfection and remedial issues under the UCC and provides non-consolidation opinions, true lease opinions and true sale opinions on behalf of bankruptcy-remote, special purpose entities. Amy is also the co-chair of the firm's Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Amy Abeloff

Amy Abeloff is a partner in Kirkland’s Los Angeles office. Amy counsels on intellectual property matters and has extensive experience in full-service global trademark portfolio management. Amy has extensive experience advising clients on the availability to use and register trademarks worldwide, preparing trademark filing strategies ranging from single trademarks to large, multijurisdictional projects, advocating for her clients offensively and defensively in pre-enforcement activity, and developing complex enforcement strategies incorporating online marketplace and social media takedowns as well as anti-counterfeiting activities. She also provides counsel to clients regarding availability to use and register copyright protectable material. Amy is active in multiple committees of the International Trademark Association. She also represents a number of small businesses and nonprofit organizations in various pro bono matters, including trademark and copyright advising and counseling, prosecution and enforcement strategy. Amy has assisted multiple large-scale, international companies across the alcoholic beverage, healthcare, insurance, financial services and consumer goods industries with global trademark portfolio management matters, including prosecution, filing strategies, clearance, pre-enforcement, enforcement, domestic and international oppositions and cancellations, coexistence and settlement negotiations, license review and revisions, among other intellectual property matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Amy Adams

Of Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Amy Arellano (née Winters)

Partner

Harrison LLP

Amy Bess

Ms. Amy L. Bess' employment litigation experience includes the representation of employers before U.S. state and federal courts and administrative agencies, defending against claims of race, sex, disability and age discrimination; sexual harassment; whistleblower retaliation; restrictive-covenant disputes; wrongful termination; and wage and hour violations. She regularly counsels clients in all of these areas, drafts and negotiates employment and severance agreements, conducts on-site workplace investigations, presents training seminars and speaks to employer groups on avoiding workplace problems. Ms. Bess also has experience advising clients regarding their public accommodation obligations under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and representing clients in litigation involving related claims. Ms. Bess has extensive first-chair bench trial, jury trial and arbitration experience. She also is experienced in the defense of complex class action litigation, including wage and hour collective actions and pattern or practice litigation brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Bess is actively involved in a number of non-profit and charitable organizations. She is a board member and serves as general counsel for Everybody Wins!, a charity in the district focusing on promoting children's' literacy. She is also a member of the board of the District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In 2019 she was awarded the Tom Nees Award for Exceptional Service by Community of Hope, a non-profit organization pursuing a mission to aid low-income families experiencing homelessness and struggling with healthcare needs, in recognition of her long-standing, deeply-impactful service to the women, men and children who turn to Community of Hope for help.

Vedder

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.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Amy Carbins

Partner; Chair, Washington, DC Real Estate practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Amy Carver

Partner

Welsh & Recker

Amy Caton

Managing Partner, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Amy Conant-Hoang

Partner and Co-Chair of Government Contracts Practice Group, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Shaw LLP