Lawyers in United States

Sean S. Pak

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sean Scott

Partner

Mayer Brown

Sean Shimamoto

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sean Shirley

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Sean Suber

Winston Taylor

Sean Sullivan

Partner

Holland & Knight

Sean Turnipseed

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Sean Vogt

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sean Wheeler

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Sean Wieber

Winston Taylor

Sebastian Chan

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sebastian Kaplan

Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Seetha Ramachandran

Seetha Ramachandran is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and a member of the White Collar and Asset Management Litigation practices. Seetha is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer with extensive experience in civil and criminal forfeiture matters. Her practice includes white collar and regulatory enforcement defense, internal investigations and compliance counseling. A leading expert in anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act, economic sanctions and asset forfeiture matters, Seetha has deep experience representing institutions and individuals in financial penalty phase of criminal and regulatory matters. She is often retained to litigate forfeiture and restitution claims on behalf of victims and third parties in criminal cases as well as handling these issues for individual defendants. Her practice also includes general commercial litigation and trials involving antitrust, civil frauds and First Amendment/defamation claims. Seetha served as a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and later as the first chief of the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering & Bank Integrity Unit, where she led DOJ’s first wave of anti-money laundering cases against global financial institutions and oversaw all of the Criminal Division’s AML cases. During her tenure, she worked with executive leadership across agencies, including the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, state and federal banking regulators, including FinCEN, the OCC and the New York State Department of Financial Services. Her strategic approach to developing and prosecuting criminal cases under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) established the framework for AML enforcement that regulators and prosecutors follow today. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Seetha served in the Complex Frauds, Major Crimes and Asset Forfeiture units where she investigated and prosecuted white-collar cases involving a wide range of financial crimes, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, stolen art and cultural property as well as both civil and criminal forfeiture matters. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics including enforcement trends in the financial services industry, crypto, OFAC sanctions, effective AML programs and asset forfeiture. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Forum on Risk Regulation and Enforcement in FinTech for three years.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Sehj Vather

Sehj Vather is a partner in Kirkland's tax group. His practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Senet Bischoff

Corporate Partner

Latham & Watkins

Seniz Yakut

Seniz Yakut advises financial sponsors and borrowers on a full spectrum of debt financing, including leveraged buyouts. Seniz combines her strong business acumen with a client-centric approach to help borrowers — including private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies — navigate complex capital needs, including: Senior secured first and second lien facilities Asset-backed loans Unitranche financings Mezzanine financings Refinancings and restructurings Liability management transactions, exchange offers, unrestricted subsidiary financings, and other liquidity facilities Secured convertible notes Cross-border financings She partners with clients to identify short-term and long-term needs and devises customized, creative solutions that advance their objectives. Her clients include leading sponsors with private equity assets under management of several billion dollars for portfolio companies across a wide range of industries. A recognized leader at the firm, Seniz is a member of the Pro Bono Committee and serves on various Private Equity Group subcommittees for training, mentoring, and recruiting. She mentors through Latham’s formal channels and proactively fosters an environment that yields collegiality and efficiency. Seniz maintains an active pro bono practice, including negotiating two loan agreements for the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park, a nonprofit that offers family and social services to the community.

Latham & Watkins

Seo Salimi

Seo Salimi is a partner and the Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets and Co-Chair of the Corporate Life Science Group of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. His practice focuses on representing life science companies and investment banks in public and private capital markets transactions, such as initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, at-the-market transactions, and private placements. Mr. Salimi has extensive experience in cross-border financing transactions, representing issuers and investment banks in complex dual listings and cross border initial public offerings and follow-on offerings. Mr. Salimi is a trusted advisor to both public and private companies in their capital raising strategy and ongoing corporate matters, including SEC compliance and corporate governance. Mr. Salimi has been recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Capital Markets: Equity by The Legal 500 US, where clients note he is “committed, hard-working and driven; his ability to manage across his team, both up and down, as well as his interactions with counsel from the other party makes [Mr. Salimi] invaluable.” In 2020, Mr. Salimi was nominated for the “US Rising Star – Financial & Corporate” award by LMG Life Sciences.

Paul Hastings LLP

Serena Mentor

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Serge Krimnus

Head of Litigation

Bochner PLLC

Sergey Kotelnikov

Partner, Corporate

Akerman LLP

Sergio Broholm

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Sergio Torres

His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, complex joint ventures, venture capital and private equity investments and corporate governance matters for private equity sponsors, financial institutions and other corporate clients. His experience includes advising clients such as Kelso & Company, Carlyle, Blackstone, Gympass, Naviera Ultranav, Ambev, CPPIB, BTG, H.I.G, Southern Cross and Globo Ventures.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Sergio Urias

Sergio Urias represents leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide range of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border (primarily in Latin America) M&A, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, restructurings, reorganizations, growth equity investments and other corporate transactional matters. In addition, he negotiates, structures and executes corporate transactions on behalf of strategic buyers and sellers. Sergio has extensive industry experience representing clients across a broad spectrum of sectors, including technology, media, telecommunications, consumer products, energy, mining, health care, life sciences, food and beverage, software, manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, aerospace, defense and hospitality. As a result, he can anticipate and address industry-unique issues that often arise in the transaction process and structure the transactions efficiently. To learn more about Mr. Urias, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/sergio-a-urias.html.

Akin

Serrin Turner

Serrin Turner is a member of the firm’s Privacy & Cyber Practice, Complex Commercial Litigation Practice, and White Collar Defense & Government Investigations Practice. A former federal prosecutor, Serrin is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer who represents and advises clients on a wide range of cybersecurity and privacy-related matters, including: Class-action litigation Regulatory investigations Commercial disputes Incident response Serrin joined Latham following six years as an Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he served as the Office’s lead cybercrime prosecutor. In that role, Serrin handled a wide range of cybercrime investigations and prosecutions, including matters involving computer hacking, data breaches, trade-secret theft, black-market websites, trafficking in stolen payment card and personal identity information, and money laundering through digital currencies. While at the US Attorney’s Office, Serrin also handled high-profile litigation involving US electronic surveillance statutes, including Amnesty International v. Clapper, a constitutional challenge to a key foreign-intelligence surveillance statute, as well In re Microsoft Search Warrant, a challenge brought by a leading email provider to a search warrant for data stored overseas. Prior to his service at the US Attorney’s Office, Serrin served in the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice. He is a two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, the Justice Department’s second-highest award, and he has also received the John Marshall Award for Trial of Litigation, the Justice Department's highest award for trial litigators.

Latham & Watkins