Lawyers in United States

Shannon Reaney

Shannon Reaney Ph.D. | Morrison Foerster Shannon Reaney is the chair of the firm’s Patent Strategy + Prosecution Group and co-chair of the cross-disciplinary Intellectual Property Group. As a seasoned patent attorney, she provides strategic counsel to life sciences companies, specializing in developing and managing global patent portfolios. With over 20 years of experience, Shannon excels in IP strategy for a wide range of life sciences technologies, including pre-clinical and clinical stage therapeutics, drug delivery systems and diagnostics. She has worked on numerous patent portfolios related to approved drugs and has helped innovator companies secure valuable patent term extension for a variety of approved drugs and biologics. Shannon has particular experience with small-molecule pharmaceuticals, siRNA therapeutics, peptide therapeutics, blood-based therapies, conjugates, pharmaceutical forms and formulations as well as agricultural technologies and materials.

Morrison Foerster

Shannon Retzke Smith

Partner

Withers

Shanti Sadtler Conway

Shanti Sadtler Conway is a partner in Kirkland’s New York office. Shanti focuses her practice on intellectual property, including copyright, trademark, false advertising, right of publicity, social media, licensing and contract issues. Her practice includes litigation and counseling in connection with a wide range of industries, including consumer products, fashion, hospitality, financial and insurance services, health care and pharmaceuticals, and media and entertainment. Shanti represents clients in a variety of fora, such as in federal and state trial and appellate courts, the International Trade Commission and the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, including in high-profile cases that have been featured in the mainstream media, legal periodicals, and trade press. She has been recognized in The Legal 500, sits on the Unfair Competition Committee of the International Trademark Association, is the Secretary of the Copyright and Literary Property Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and is on Law360’s Media & Entertainment Editorial Advisory Board. Shanti also represents non-profit corporations and low-income individuals in various pro bono matters, including intellectual property advice, child support cases, asylum applications, and Violence Against Women (VAWA) and U-Visa petitions. She directs the Firm’s NYC Public Service Fellowships, is a member of the Board of Directors for Immigration Equality, and has received the Immigration Equality Safe Haven Award four times for her asylum work.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Shari Dwoskin

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Shari Krouner

Partner, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Shari L. Heyen

Co-Managing Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Shari Lennon

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Shari Ross Lahlou

Partner

Dechert

Shariff Barakat

Shariff represents clients involved in the acquisition, development and financing of power generation and infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on tax equity financing. His experience spans billions of dollars in closed and funded investments supporting gigawatts of renewable energy, including large and small utility-scale solar and wind projects, large and small residential solar portfolios, community solar projects, C&I solar projects, geothermal projects and biomass projects. More recently, Shariff has also worked on carbon capture, hydrogen and waste-to-product projects currently under development. To learn more about Shariff, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/shariff-n-barakat

Akin

Sharis Pozen

Sharis Pozen is a partner and is the Co-Head of the Global Antitrust Practice at Clifford Chance, based in Washington, DC. She has extensive experience in both government and private practice. Over the course of her career, Sharis has held senior positions at GE, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and two major law firms based in New York and Washington, D.C. Sharis is one of the few antitrust practitioners who has served in high-level positions at both the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Clifford Chance

Sharon Caffrey

Sharon Caffrey, a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, focuses her practice on products liability and toxic tort cases. She is sought after to try large exposure cases in the most difficult jurisdictions, often referred to as “judicial hellholes.” Ms. Caffrey has a distinguished record of success at trial; of the past ten cases she has tried, she obtained eight defense verdicts and two low-value verdicts. She has tried dozens of mass tort, toxic tort, health effects and medical negligence cases, the vast majority to defense verdicts. In 2024 she obtained a defense verdict in an alleged cancer arising from exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO). Ms. Caffrey is also able to leverage her deep experience to serve as national coordinating counsel for clients looking to guide the management of voluminous litigation consistent with their legal and business priorities. Ms. Caffrey's background includes defending pharmaceutical, medical device and biologics, automotive and industrial equipment products liability claims, as well as toxic tort claims involving EtO, diesel exhaust, PAHs, pesticides, asbestos, talc, microsilica, silica and benzene. She has also represented several clients in MDL proceedings and clients in a variety of industries in product defect claims. As a result, Ms. Caffrey has a deep understanding of defending a wide array of machinery, tools, equipment and related applications, as well as hazardous exposure claims. Her automotive experience includes investigating failures of electric powered vehicles and other equipment, such as gantries and forklifts. Ms. Caffrey also represents two Class I railroads in their Pennsylvania-area litigation, ranging from complex preemption issues and the defense of significant third-party personal injury claims. A testament to her tenacity and results, Ms. Caffrey was twice presented with an "Excellence in Trial Advocacy" award by CSX Transportation, Inc., is a fellow in the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers, and has been twice listed in Chambers USA in the category of Product Liability and Mass Torts – Nationwide.

Duane Morris LLP

Sharon Cohen

Partner

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Sharon Cook

Sharon Cook (formerly Poorak) is a Partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's national Business Immigration Practice Group. She focuses her business immigration law practice primarily on H, L, PERM, I140 and related I485 issues. Sharon represents corporate clients in a wide variety of industries, developing comprehensive immigration plans to ensure consistency among filed applications and compliance with all applicable regulations.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Sharon Desh

Winston Taylor

Sharon Freiman

Sharon Freiman is a capital markets partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sharon advises issuers and underwriters in a broad range of matters, including initial public offerings and other equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, and private placements of securities. Sharon also regularly counsels issuers on SEC disclosure and compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Sharon's experience ranges across a variety of industries, including life sciences, financial institutions, consumer goods and technology.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sharon Harrington

Counsel

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Sharon Leifer

Sharon’s practice focuses primarily on commercial leasing. She advises clients on all aspects of ground and space lease transactions, including sale leasebacks, lease negotiation, requests for proposals, letters of intent and brokerage agreements. She has experience across multiple asset classes, including office, medical, laboratory, retail, warehouse and hospitality. Sharon has also worked on deals in the commercial real estate development industry, and on leasing issues raised by corporate acquisitions and sales. Her clients include both landlord and tenant entities on a national basis.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Sharon Mayl

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sharon Weiss

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sharonmoyee Goswami

Sharonmoyee Goswami focuses her practice on intellectual property, antitrust and other litigation involving complex technical and scientific issues, including those surrounding artificial intelligence and emerging machine learning technologies. She represents companies and individuals in all stages of litigation, from pre‑complaint investigation through appeal, and routinely practices before the Federal Circuit and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With an “exceptional ability to parse complex legal and scientific details, translating them into arguments that resonate with judges, opposing counsel, and stakeholders alike,” Ms. Goswami draws on her extensive expertise to help companies address legal issues that arise during product development and commercialization. (The Legal 500 US)

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Sharre Lotfollahi

Sharre Lotfollahi is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis’ Intellectual Property Litigation Group and focuses on disputes involving patent, trade secret, trademark, and copyright, including licensing disputes regarding intellectual property. She has represented clients in disputes involving various areas of technology, including semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessor design, athlete tracking, online ad creation and customer service software, and medical devices and implants. Sharre has been a member of 11 trial teams, including serving as a first-chair on two trials. At trial, Sharre has conducted direct and cross-examinations of fact and expert witnesses, including preparing witnesses on jury-related performance. She has argued numerous motions, including at trial, and managed numerous other trial activities. She successfully led a trial team on behalf of low-income tenants against slumlords in South Los Angeles. Sharre also advises clients on matters before the Patent and Trademark Office, contractual and licensing issues, and commercial legal strategy.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Shaun Boedicker

Partner

Steptoe LLP

Shaun Clark

Shaun Clark is an experienced entertainment and branding attorney who practices at the intersection of content, branding, celebrity and technology. An “outside the box” lawyer, Shaun thrives most while collaborating with clients on high-profile, cutting-edge deals and new business models in the ever-evolving media and branding landscape. Representing studios, major brands, independent producers, advertising agencies and other entertainment and advertising-related entities, Shaun advises on the acquisition of intellectual property rights and the development, finance, production, distribution and exploitation of entertainment and branded content and related location-based entertainment, merchandising, social media and online and field marketing promotional campaigns. He has worked with celebrities, financiers and management teams to launch globally recognized celebrity-branded products and companies.

Sheppard

Shaun D. Hartley

Shaun Hartley is the Co-Chair of the Chicago Corporate Department and the former Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice. He advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on mergers and acquisitions, including The Carlyle Group, Onex Partners, Acentra Health, ASM Global, CorroHealth, Newport Academy, Loc Performance, and Two Six Technologies. Shaun works on a variety of M&A transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, divestitures of business divisions, going-private transactions, and other strategic acquisitions and dispositions, in the following industries: manufacturing, consumer products, hospitality, automotive, healthcare, and technology, among others. His practice also includes joint ventures and general company representation matters.

Latham & Watkins