Lawyers in United States

Sean Glynn

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Sean Goldstein

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sean Gorman

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sean Griffiths

Sean P. Griffiths is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, and previously served as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Private Equity Practice. Sean has extensive experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, and companies in complex carve out and spin-off transactions and acquisitions. He also has extensive experience in corporate finance in both public and private capital markets, troubled company representation (crisis management), and general corporate and securities compliance matters. Recent private equity clients include CVC Capital, Investcorp, J.H. Whitney, Leonard Green, Littlejohn & Co, and RoundTable Healthcare Partners among others.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sean Hecker

Partner

Hecker Fink LLP

Sean Hill

Sean is a partner in Kirkland’s Investment Funds Practice Group. He advises investment managers and sponsors across the full life cycle of their businesses, with a focus on private fund formation, secondaries and liquidity solutions, and other fund- and sponsor-level matters. Sean works with managers across the spectrum of size and maturity, from emerging managers to well-established multistrategy firms, bringing a practical, market-informed perspective to complex mandates. Sean counsels sponsors on the formation and structuring of private funds across buyout, credit, special situations, secondaries-focused funds and funds of funds. His experience includes hybrid and evergreen structures, funds of one, separate accounts, co-investments, rated note offerings and collateralized fund obligation structures. Sean has more than 25 years of experience advising on the full spectrum of secondaries and other liquidity transactions, including GP-led transactions, preferred equity investments, NAV-based financings, structured and synthetic transactions, tender offers, leveraged secondaries and fund liquidations. He regularly advises on the structuring and execution of complex single-asset, multi-asset and credit portfolio GP-led and continuation fund transactions, as well as fund recapitalizations and restructurings. Beyond fund formation and liquidity transactions, Sean advises sponsors on firm ownership and operations, succession planning and incentive arrangements. He also advises on strategic transactions involving alternative asset managers, including seed capital arrangements, minority and strategic investments, structured capital transactions, investment team spin-outs, joint ventures and asset management mergers and acquisitions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sean Hill

Sean has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, other strategic investment firms and other public and private companies on the technology, software, intellectual property, cybersecurity and data privacy aspects of mergers and acquisitions, financings and other complex transactions. Sean’s range of capabilities include drafting and negotiating various technology agreements and related documentation, such as software and technology licenses, distribution and reseller arrangements, data processing and sharing agreements and joint research and development. His industry experience includes digital media, enterprise and consumer software, consumer packaged goods, sports, retail, blockchain and cryptocurrency and energy. Sean has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Intellectual Property Law. Prior to joining Massumi + Consoli, Sean practiced at Vinson & Elkins. In law school, Sean was a member of the Texas Law Review.

Massumi + Consoli LLP

Sean Hilson

Winston Taylor

Sean Kramer

Sean Kramer is a partner in the Firm’s private equity practice on the West Coast, primarily located in the Bay Area office, where he supports top-tier financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on all types and sizes of M&A transactions. Sean regularly represents large cap, middle market and growth equity funds — including Alpine Investors, Blackstone, Francisco Partners, Genstar Capital, H.I.G. Capital, Origami Capital Partners, Permira, TA Associates, Truelink Capital, TSG Consumer and Turn/River — across sectors, with a particular focus on technology; healthcare and consumer; and business services. Sean’s broad experience in business, law and education provides a unique perspective to dealmaking, and Sean’s clients value that his legal judgment is complemented by a deep understanding of the commercial implications of transactions for investors and other stakeholders.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sean Kulkarni

Sean G. Kulkarni is a senior associate in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Banking & Finance and Latin America and Global Projects groups. His practice focuses on the representation of sponsors, owners, lenders (including commercial banks, investment funds and development finance institutions), underwriters and investors in connection with the development, construction, financing, acquisition and/or sale of high-profile, capital-intensive energy and infrastructure projects. Sean's experience includes the preparation and negotiation of financing documentation for syndicated loan and capital markets transactions, project agreements (including engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), operation and maintenance (O&M), and power purchase (PPA) and other offtake agreements), and various classes of offshore and onshore collateral agreements. His recent experience has focused on Latin America, where his fluency in Spanish enables him to draft, negotiate and review documents in that language in addition to English. Sean has represented clients in several of the most innovative and noteworthy Latin American project financings in recent years, including multiple “Deal of the Year” award winners and honorees. In addition to his global projects experience, Sean has advised clients on a wide range of corporate, structured and leveraged lending transactions in Latin America and elsewhere around the globe.

Mayer Brown

Sean M McChristian

Sean McChristian is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Construction Law and his practice covers the full life cycle of complex design and construction projects in the private and public sectors. He frequently drafts and negotiates design and construction contracts, including EPC agreements, design-build agreements, BOP agreements, and master service agreements. Once a project enters the execution phase, Sean is often asked to aid in resolving project performance issues that impact the cost of the work, the time required to complete the work, or the quality of the work. In those situations where an early resolution is not achieved, he represents his clients in the mediation, arbitration, and litigation of complex design and construction claims and disputes. In addition to serving as an advocate for his clients, Sean is also a mediator. His mediation practice covers all manner of civil disputes with a particular focus on commercial litigation matters. Sean regularly speaks on legal issues in the construction industry and conducts client training sessions specifically tailored to the needs of a client team. Sean has also been deeply involved in legislative issues related to the construction industry. He has appeared before Texas Senate and House committees to provide testimony on various bills and served as the legislative affairs advisor for the Construction Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. Sean also has significant experience with real estate and property disputes, including boundary disputes, encroachments, drainage and flooding issues, and landlord-tenant disputes.

Porter Hedges LLP

Sean M. Berkowitz

Sean Berkowitz, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and former Global Chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, represents clients in complex litigation and regulatory investigations. Sean is a nationally recognized trial lawyer who regularly advises Fortune 500 companies and individual executives on their most important litigation matters in courts and venues throughout the United States. He also advises clients on government and regulatory investigations, and develops strategies to resolve those matters short of litigation. He has an established track record of successfully resolving cases at trial or before trial in a variety of subject areas, including: Securities fraud Antitrust Deceptive business practices Complex commercial litigation Sean is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and has successfully tried more than 35 cases to verdict. His successful representation of Gary Winemaster, the former CEO and founder of Power Solutions International, Inc., in a criminal, four-week bench trial against the DOJ in the Northern District of Illinois in 2021 earned Sean an Impact Case Award by Benchmark Litigation. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, Sean served in several federal government positions, including as: Deputy Chief of the General Crimes Section for the United States Attorney’s office in the Northern District of Illinois Director of the special task force created to investigate the Enron corporate scandal, and lead prosecutor in the criminal case against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Leadership Sean recently completed a five-year term as Global Chair of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department. He is the former Illinois Chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is a past president of the Chicago Inn of Court. He serves on the boards of the Chicago Area Project and A Better Chicago, an innovative non-profit organization that invests in and supports a portfolio of educational charities.

Latham & Watkins

Sean Malone

Sean Malone is an investment funds partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He focuses his practice on advising private equity sponsors on the formation, marketing and management of investment products. He has counseled private fund sponsors on legal, compliance and governance matters, internal economic arrangements, spin-outs and separately managed accounts. Additionally, he has advised private equity sponsors on minority investment transactions, joint ventures, liquidity events and seeding arrangements.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sean Marotta

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Sean McEldowney

Sean McEldowney is a partner in Kirkland’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Sean has litigated patent, trade secret, breach of contract, and other intellectual property cases in federal district courts around the country, the International Trade Commission, and in state courts. He has been trial counsel in more than 10 patent and trade secret cases, and he has also represented clients in appeals at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In addition to his trial experience, Sean also prides himself on developing litigation strategies that drive favorable settlements or summary judgments. He has represented clients in litigation matters involving a variety of technologies including chemical technology, semiconductor technology, medical equipment, various software and hardware applications, and industrial technologies. Sean was selected as a “Rising Star” in Washington, D.C. by Super Lawyers Magazine for 2014–2016.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sean McElenney

Partner - Litigation and Investigations Office Managing Partner - Phoenix

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sean Monahan

Sean Monahan, co-chair of Choate’s Finance & Restructuring Group, brings depth of experience and a business-oriented outlook to one of the preeminent sports law practices in the United States. He represents major financial institutions and teams in a range of high profile, complex commercial financing transactions. Sean advises clients with team loans, stadium construction loans, securitizations, investment banking transactions, and general business matters involving member clubs of Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Soccer, NASCAR, and Minor League Baseball, as well as major college conferences. He has long-standing relationships with key personnel at leagues, teams, and financial institutions and his extensive knowledge of ownership and debt and securitization rules, media contracts, and collective bargaining agreements enables him to resolve even the most challenging issues for his clients. Sean also represents banks and institutional investors in a full range of financings, including asset-based and cash flow financings. Sean’s clients include Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Bank, U.S. Bank, Citibank, Truist Bank, PNC Bank, and John Hancock.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Sean Monroe

Sean Monroe is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Entertainment & Media practices, based in the Century City office of Paul Hastings. Sean's experience is in complex mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and corporate finance transactions, including fund formation and investments, portfolio company acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures and restructurings, venture capital and early-stage formation and investment transactions, and executive employment and compensation structures. He has particular focus in advising entertainment and media clients in all aspects of transactions in these industries, including motion picture financings, television business acquisitions and investments, digital and new media venture formations, and other investment, disposition, and licensing matters involving these businesses.

Greenberg Traurig

Sean Odendahl

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions Office Managing Partner - Denver

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sean P. O\'Neill

Associate

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Sean Parish

Sean Parish advises clients on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Sean draws on his extensive transactional experience and Latham’s robust global platform to guide public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and their portfolio companies on: Cross-border M&A Leveraged buyouts of public and private companies Strategic investments Carveouts Mergers of equals Joint ventures General corporate matters He devises practical solutions for clients across multiple industries, with a particular focus on the healthcare and insurance sectors.

Latham & Watkins

Sean Pribyl

Partner

Holland & Knight

Sean Prosser

Sean is a highly experienced litigator with significant experience defending clients facing shareholder litigation, SEC, FINRA, and DOJ investigations and enforcement actions, and other civil and criminal government and regulator investigations and enforcement proceedings. His clients have included public and private companies, officers and directors, board committees, broker-dealers, banks, investment advisors, hedge funds, certified public accountants, individual stock traders, and public officials. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Sean Royall

Partner

King & Spalding