Lawyers in United States

Angela Richards

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Angela Russo

Winston Taylor

Angela Smedley

Winston Taylor

Angela Ulum

Partner

Mayer Brown

Angelia Duncan

Partner - Litigation and Investigations Office Managing Partner - Charlotte

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Angelina Liang

Partner

Dechert

Angelo Bonvino

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Angie McEwen

Butler Snow LLP

Angélique Poret-Kahn

Angélique Poret-Kahn is a Global Equity Services associate in the Firm's Chicago office. Before transferring to the Chicago office, Mrs. Poret-Kahn practiced in the New York office and was a member of the Banking, Finance & Major Projects Practice Group and advised US- and European-based issuers, private equity firms, hedge funds, broker-dealers and asset managers on purchases and sales of securities, regulatory issues and disclosure obligations under the various EU Directives and Regulations. She also advised foreign and US banks and investment advisers on product offerings and equity investments in the US. Mrs. Poret-Kahn has significant knowledge in the global custody areas as she has advised major banks acting as global custodians in implementing and developing regulatory compliance programs. Angélique is recognized by Legal 500 USA as being “active across employee reward grants and stock option grants for international employees.”

Baker McKenzie

Ani Ravi

Partner

Dechert

Anisa Mohanty

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Anishiya Abrol

Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Anita Agajanian

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Anita Choi

Anita Choi | Morrison Foerster Anita Choi has decades of experience providing strategic advice to companies and investors in the Life Sciences and Food + Agriculture industries. She has helped start-up companies build IP portfolios around their core technologies, and counseled them on issues related to patents versus trade secrets. She has worked with larger, more established companies to manage global patent portfolios in a way that integrates IP with their business models. Combining her legal and business expertise enables her to navigate complex challenges that require complex solutions hence why she is so often called upon by clients to help with assessing, building and strengthening patent portfolios. She has also counseled investors in IP due diligence, identifying critical issues that may affect valuation and risk assessment in deals. Anita is part of the Life Sciences + Healthcare Leadership Team, as well as the Food + Agriculture Leadership Team within the firm. She co-leads the firm’s Chemistry Subgroup within the patent practice, which covers both the Pharmaceuticals and Materials sector within the chemistry space. She also co-leads the firm’s Food + Agriculture patent practice. Anita’s clients praise her ability to quickly gain a deep understanding of their technology and business, which allows her to think critically, creatively and practically in patent portfolio management.

Morrison Foerster

Anita Famili

Anita Famili is a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office and leads the Firm’s real estate transactions and finance practice and the cannabis and CBD practice. She represents owners, operators, lenders, developers, investors and others in a range of financing, development, leasing and investment-related transactions. Anita guides real estate investment trusts, national retail grocers, public utilities, and other commercial developers and owners/users in acquiring, entitling, developing, leasing, building, financing, deleveraging and joint-venturing property throughout the United States. Clients turn to her to assemble, lead and manage major real estate transactions as well as coordinate and collaborate with other legal experts, third-party operators, vendors, outside managers, developers and consultants. Anita is a leader in the cannabis and CBD legal space, having represented professional cannabis businesses for almost a decade on corporate structuring; joint venture formations; strategic partnership agreements; celebrity licensing deals; financings and equity raises; farm and dispensary acquisitions; development and land use matters; leasing; service agreements; Internet, media, advertising and FDA advisement; and licensing matters. As part of that, Anita manages Manatt’s cannabis and CBD practice, composed of over 50 professionals whose traditional practices include real estate, financial services, land use, corporate, tax, entertainment, advertising, intellectual property, litigation, digital media and government. Anita’s clients in the cannabis and CBD industries range from public to private companies. She has served as a guest lecturer at the UC Irvine School of Law Cannabis and the Law class. Anita has extensive experience in secured and unsecured financings (including multistate, syndicated, construction, bridge and mezzanine loans), leveraged acquisitions, complex subordination and intercreditor arrangements, and letters of credit, and in perfecting security interests in collateral. In the project development area, Anita represents governmental and quasi-public entities, private bidders, and other stakeholders in the long-term concession of major infrastructure projects and large project assets. Anita has been recognized as a Top-Ranked Attorney in Cannabis Law: Western United States and Real Estate (California: Southern) by Chambers USA. GlobeSt. identified her as one of CRE’s Women of Influence in 2024. The Daily Journal has also named her to its Top Cannabis Lawyer and Top Women Lawyer lists in 2022. She was included as a Top 100 Lawyer in 2022 by the Los Angeles Business Journal and as a Global Top 200 Cannabis Attorney in 2022 and 2023 by the Cannabis Law Journal. Anita was also named a 2022 Cannabis Law Trailblazer by The National Law Journal and a 2021 Cannabis MVP by Law360. She was also recognized as a Next Generation Partner in Real Estate by The Legal 500 US from 2020-2024, and as a commercial real estate “Visionary” in 2021-2022 and 2024 issues of the Los Angeles Times’ Commercial Real Estate Magazine. Additionally, she was recognized as a Real Estate and Construction Law Trailblazer by The National Law Journal in 2022. Anita has also been named in The Best Lawyers in America guide since 2020. Early in her career, Anita received the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award and has been named one of Real Estate Forum’s Women of Influence. She is a frequent speaker and author on current real estate and cannabis and CBD issues. She also serves on USC Real Estate and Business Law Forum’s Program and Planning Committees and as a member of Law360’s Cannabis Editorial Advisory Board.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Anita Girdhari

Anita Girdhari is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Projects and Infrastructure, Power and Renewables, Capital Markets, Global Finance and Latin America Practice Groups. Anita's practice focuses on infrastructure projects, with considerable practice in all aspects of public-private partnerships across all asset classes including significant experience in transportation (including roads, bridges, airports, rail and others), digital (including forming platform digital JVs related to satellite technologies and broadband transactions), water (including desalination plants, water pipelines and water metering deals), social (including various school transactions) and waste / energy (including biogas, landfills and waste-to-energy work). When involved in a project financing, Ms. Girdhari is involved in all portions of the transaction, from negotiating the related concessions or leases with the governmental entity; to drafting and negotiating construction, operating and interface arrangements; to all forms of financing including project bonds, corporate bonds, private placements, private lending arrangements, governmental loans, equity contribution arrangements and others; to ongoing representation of portfolio companies with refinancing matters, secondary market acquisitions and divestiture transactions, corporate governance questions, FOIA and similar requests, construction disputes, terminations by governmental grantors, and distressed scenarios. She also has significant regional experience working on financing transactions in Latin America.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

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.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Anita Mosner

Partner

Holland & Knight

Anita Spieth

Anita Spieth, co-chair of Choate’s IP Litigation Group, has more than 10 years of experience representing life sciences and technology companies in high stakes patent infringement, trade secrets, and other complex IP litigation. She provides an effective and user-friendly case management approach and counsels clients on litigation strategy to achieve their goals. She also represents clients in connection with inter partes review proceedings before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as in copyright issues (particularly related to software and artificial intelligence) and trade secret disputes. Anita makes her clients’ lives easier by taking tasks off of their plates and making their worries her own. She begins her work by gaining a thorough understanding of the internal workflow of her clients so that her work product is immediately useful and does not require additional cycles. She speaks in clear and plain terms that clients and – importantly – judges and juries can understand. Anita has developed a global strategy to help clients manage risk and protect US intellectual property while related cases proceed internationally, including directing EPO strategy and various litigations throughout the world. Anita’s team at Choate has experience mustering and managing various international law firms to ensure that international positions are consistent with those taken in the U.S. Anita’s clients include Takeda, Biogen, EMC/Dell, Alarm.com, and Pegasystems.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Anita Varma

Partner

White & Case LLP

Anita Wallace Thomas

Partner

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Anjan Sahni

Partner Managing Partner

WilmerHale

Ank Santens

Partner

White & Case LLP

Ankita Ritwik

Ankita Ritwik is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the International Arbitration, Transnational Litigation and Judgement and Arbitral Award Enforcement Practice Groups. Ankita has extensive experience in investment treaty and international commercial arbitration, including award enforcement in multiple jurisdictions. She has represented a variety of clients with investments in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, in the mining, energy, telecommunications, real estate, maritime and manufacturing industries in international arbitration and enforcement proceedings. Ankita also has experience working with a wide variety of arbitral institutions including ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC, HKIAC, SIAC, AIAC, TAI, DIA and OCC.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP