Lawyers in United States

Shelby Bensinger

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Shelby Parnes

Shareholder

Vedder

Shelby Schepens

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Sheldon Nussbaum

Norton Rose Fulbright

Sheldon Zenner

Drawing on nearly 40 years of combined experience as a federal prosecutor and defense attorney, Sheldon Zenner expertly navigates his clients through high-stakes matters, including government and internal investigations, regulatory proceedings, all phases of criminal matters and related civil litigation. Sheldon's diverse client base is made up of corporations, high-ranking executives and company owners across a wide range of industries, including financial services, health care and entertainment. Importantly, his representation of clients goes beyond advising on purely legal issues; it encompasses practical business implications, operational issues, public scrutiny, reputational damage and other considerations relevant to corporate and individual clients with businesses or livelihoods on the line. The foundation of Sheldon's white-collar defense practice is the seven years he served as an assistant US attorney in Chicago, prosecuting hundreds of high-profile criminal matters and supervising the work of junior line prosecutors. Having a prosecutorial background gives Sheldon critical insights into, and the ability to anticipate, the government's strategic decision-making. It also informs Sheldon's approach as a defense lawyer. Although never anything short of zealous, he favors a search for common ground and reasonableness, whenever possible, over unproductive displays of aggression. That defense style has proven effective even when the government has opted for dramatic action. In one matter of note, 100 federal agents were deployed to execute a massive search of a client company's headquarter offices, seizing millions of dollars of products and attempting to interview executives. Sheldon immediately showed up on the scene to help control the situation, calm the employees and negotiate with the government and to address the press, which had been alerted by law enforcement to the raid. He then engaged with federal prosecutors in a year-long effort to persuade them that the company had engaged in no criminal conduct. Ultimately, after numerous meetings with the prosecutors and the submission of a lengthy legal analysis, the government was persuaded to decline any prosecution and return all of the seized products without any charges being filed. Although it is a paramount goal of any potential criminal matter to avoid prosecution, Sheldon is equally prepared to, and equally skilled at, trying cases. Among other victories, he convinced the government to abandon the first federal criminal computer-hacking prosecution after his damaging cross-examination of the government's expert at trial. Many of Sheldon’s matters involve alleged violations of antitrust, securities, tax, FCPA or anti-fraud laws. Given the international nature of his clients' businesses, his work takes him to many foreign jurisdictions, including China, Japan, Brazil and South Africa, as well as many European countries. In addition to advising on government inquiries, Sheldon also helps clients conduct internal investigations into suspected wrongdoing and respond when they have been victimized by white-collar crime. The breadth and depth of Sheldon's experience provides his clients with great assurance and comfort that they have counsel on board who can assist them to meet whatever challenges they may be facing.

Katten

Shelley Goto

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Shellie Freedman

Shellie Freedman is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions practice. She focuses her practice on complex transactions involving technology and intellectual property, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, collaboration agreements, IP licenses, outsourcing arrangements, cybersecurity and data privacy, and other strategic commercial contracts. Building on her scientific degrees in molecular and cell biology, Shellie also has extensive experience in life sciences transactions including M&A support, joint ventures, collaborations, and licenses. In addition, Shellie has experience counseling clients in a broad range of other industries, including healthcare, consumer products, technology, financial services, insurance and media.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Shelton Vaughan

Shelton M. Vaughan practices corporate law with a focus on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions and corporate governance. He serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Energy industry group. Mr. Vaughan represents large public companies, middle-market companies and startups in a variety of industries. His experience includes numerous capital markets transactions, including IPOs and public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, representing issuers and underwriters; mergers and acquisitions, representing targets and acquirers in both public and private transactions; extensive securities law compliance and counseling and corporate governance counseling; venture capital and private equity transactions; bank financings, representing both borrowers and lenders; advising special committees; and restructuring transactions and counseling.

Duane Morris LLP

Shemin Proctor

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Sheree Kanner

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Sheri Hunter

Counsel

King & Spalding

Sheron Korpus

Partner

Kasowitz LLP

Sherrese Smith

Sherrese Smith is the Global Managing Partner of Paul Hastings. As Global Managing Partner, Sherrese plays a central role in directing the growth, management and strategy of the firm. Consistently ranked as a Band 1 lawyer in Chambers USA, ranked by Legal 500 in multiple categories, and 2024 Managing Partner of the Year, Sherrese is recognized throughout the legal, media, communications and technology industries for her leadership, business acumen and dedication to clients. Sherrese also serves on the Board of Directors of two public companies, Gen (NASDAQ:GEN) and Cable ONE (NYSE: CABO), and as Chair of Northwestern University’s Law School Board. Sherrese is renowned for superior advisement on strategic and crisis issues and, as a result, corporate board members and C-suite members regularly seek her advice and counsel when facing their most challenging situations. Corporate leaders rely on her business-grounded counsel developed from her unique experiences as a public company board member, regulator, and general counsel. Sherrese is known as one of the country’s preeminent Data Privacy and Cybersecurity and Media and Technology attorneys and previously served as the Vice Chair of the firm’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice. She maintains an active practice advising clients throughout the technology, media, and telecommunications industries on strategic issues including complex transactions, regulatory investigations, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. Her work includes data privacy, cybersecurity and breach response issues, Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies strategy and governance, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, as well as counseling on global privacy and cybersecurity matters. Before joining Paul Hastings, Sherrese served as Chief Counsel to Chairman Julius Genachowski at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At FCC, she was responsible for determining the agency’s business and policy agenda on a multitude of media and technology matters and for leading the FCC’s cross‑agency efforts to refine and implement new rules on data privacy and cybersecurity for multinational companies navigating complex data and privacy rules in the U.S., EU and Asia. Sherrese’s work also involved extensive interaction with external stakeholders, including wireless, media, cable and telecommunications companies; industry groups and trade associations; federal and state agencies; and Congress. Prior to joining the FCC in 2009, Sherrese was Vice President and General Counsel of Washington Post Digital. In this role, she oversaw all legal and policy matters across 10 different business units, garnering a unique and valuable perspective on in-house counsel needs and challenges. Sherrese is a passionate advocate for meaningful causes. She provides legal support to Honored Schools, a program dedicated to celebrating exceptional educators, amplifying student voices and fostering a culture of consistent teacher appreciation within school communities. In addition, she has contributed her time and expertise to Sidwell Friends School’s A Night for Scholars, an initiative focused on raising financial aid for students in need.

Paul Hastings LLP

Sherri Snelson

Partner

White & Case LLP

Shira Bressler

Shira Bressler is counsel in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Real Estate Practice. Shira advises clients on all aspects of commercial real estate law with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions. Shira has worked on transactions involving portfolios of properties and single assets from both the purchaser and seller sides. She also has significant experience in real estate finance, including development projects, securitized financing, project finance, corporate banking, and secured high yield transactions. Her finance experience includes representation of lenders and developers in the financing of industrial facilities, hotels, power plants, coal and sand mines, office buildings, shopping centers, and casinos. Shira has represented joint venture partners and real estate private equity funds in the negotiation of complex joint venture agreements for purposes of developing and operating hotels, casinos, and oil and gas pipelines. In addition, Shira has represented landlords and tenants, including emerging companies, in commercial lease and sublease negotiations for office and industrial space. Shira is an active participant in the firm’s pro bono program, having worked extensively on the firm’s representation of Holocaust survivors seeking reparations from the German government. Shira has also represented nonprofit organizations in their lease negotiations. Most recently, Shira has assisted various charter schools leasing new space in the New York metropolitan area and Washington, D.C.

Latham & Watkins

Shira Franco

Partner

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Shira Helstrom

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Shira Sandler

Shira Sandler represents clients in connection with real-estate related disputes and commercial litigation. She has successfully represented property management companies, real estate firms, financial institutions, and corporations in disputes arising from real estate-related matters including partnership and joint ventures, complex commercial real estate mortgage foreclosures and UCC foreclosures, fraudulent conveyance litigation, construction-related disputes, and guaranty-related litigation. Shira has experience counseling clients through all stages of litigation, from discovery and depositions to motion practice, trials and appeals.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Shiukay Hung

Partner; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's National REIT Tax Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Shiva Aminian

Shiva leads our international trade practice on the West Coast, with a focus on providing critical support to west-coast based technology companies as clients grapple to understand and comply with evolving export controls and sanctions rules and evolving regulatory frameworks. She is one of the leaders of the firmwide technology industry group and assists with furthering the firm’s strength and depth across the technology industry. To learn more about Ms. Aminian, please visit his/her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/shiva-aminian

Akin

Shiva Sandill

Partner

White & Case LLP

Shlomo Fellig

Shlomo Fellig is an associate in the Boston office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department. Shlomo represents clients in complex business litigation, particularly involving class action defense, white collar matters, and high-stakes business-to-business disputes. As a versatile litigator, he aligns case strategies with clients’ unique business goals, crafting persuasive written advocacy and distilling complex issues to achieve successful outcomes. He also advises leading companies on cutting-edge issues in artificial intelligence, from regulatory compliance and corporate use policies to high-stakes litigation. Shlomo serves on the firm’s Technology Committee. Shlomo maintains an active pro bono practice, representing juveniles sentenced to life without parole, immigrants unlawfully detained, and the Department of Children and Families in an appeal relating to abuse and neglect of children. While in law school, Shlomo served as an editor for the Harvard Business Law Review and legal intern for the Federal Public Defender for the District of Massachusetts. He received the Joseph H. Beale Prize for excellence in Conflicts of Law. Before law school, Shlomo was a successful, serial entrepreneur.

Latham & Watkins

Shmuel Vasser

Partner

Dechert

Shreyansi Agarwal

Winston Taylor