Lawyers in United States

Shu Wei

Shu represents public and private companies, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. Her practice focuses on equity and debt financings, including initial and follow-on public offerings as well as private placements, and corporate finance and joint ventures. She also represents public companies in securities law compliance, disclosure and periodic reporting, stock exchange listing and corporate organization and governance matters. Shu serves as the firm's First-Year Associate Program Partner and is a member of the firm's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. During law school, Shu was an editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy and served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Thomas E. Carlson of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Shubi Arora

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Shukie Grossman

Shukie Grossman is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is co-chair of the Investment Funds Practice Group. He represents sponsors in structuring and negotiating terms of domestic and offshore private funds. He also negotiates employment/economic sharing arrangements among management team members, advises on the acquisition and sale of minority and majority stakes in sponsors as well as spin-outs of fund businesses and management teams and represents institutional investors in investing in private funds. He spent several years at the Division of Investment Management of the SEC and is an adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sibel Owji

Partner; Co-chair, US International Tax Practice

Baker McKenzie

Sid Lewis

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Siddartha Rao

Siddartha Rao is a commercial litigator who has represented clients ranging from small businesses and individuals to large corporations. His practice experience includes litigation in Federal and State trial and appellate courts, as well as arbitration forums such as AAA and JAMS. He has litigated issues including cryptocurrency disputes, Federal securities claims, intellectual property (copyright, trademark, trade secrets and unfair competition), business defamation and libel, business valuation, and commercial tort and contract claims. Siddartha’s nearly 20 years of practice experience includes a diverse range of matters covering cryptocurrency litigation raising issues of first impression concerning judgment computation, Copyright Act litigation for a famous radio and podcast host concerning the limits of Federal Copyright pre-emption, and Federal jury trial defense of a third-party defendant against claims arising out of an eight-figure COVID test kit contract. Siddartha seeks to distill complex business and financial risk issues into practical litigation advice, with an eye to resolving disputes without trial whenever possible. He was recognized as a New York Metro Rising Star by Super Lawyers from 2013-2022 and has been recognized as a New York Super Lawyer every year since 2023. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP

Sidhardha Kamaraju

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Sidney Bashago

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Sidney Levinson

Sidney Levinson is a partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Restructuring Group and a member of the Special Situations team. Mr. Levinson has extensive experience advising a range of clients, including bondholders, secured lenders, debtors, trustees and creditors’ committees in large and complex restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings. His representations include major league sports teams, the retail, manufacturing, automotive and gaming industries, airlines and real estate developers, among others. Among his recent engagements are noteholders of Avaya, Guitar Center, Bon-Ton Department Stores, Hot Topic, Hexion and Caesars Entertainment Operating Company; the sponsor of Robertshaw; term lenders of Tysers, NYDJ Apparel, Fontainbleau Las Vegas and Red Lobster; DIP lenders of Alpha Media and Barney’s; and the agent for lenders of subsidiaries of HNA Group. He also has represented numerous companies in out-of-court restructurings and in Chapter 11 cases, such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and, on behalf of the Chapter 11 trustee, Hawaiian Airlines. In addition, Mr. Levinson has served as lead trial counsel in a number of high-profile cases, including representing Hawaiian Airlines in obtaining an $80 million judgment (plus attorney fees of $3.9 million) against Mesa Air Group arising from Mesa's breach of a confidentiality agreement and representing a group of noteholders of Premier Entertainment Biloxi in winning a $9.5 million judgment (plus an award of $1.5 million in interest) against a solvent debtor for violation of a no-call provision. Throughout his career, Mr. Levinson has been recognized as a leading lawyer by various legal directories and trade publications and has spoken and written extensively on restructuring issues, and co-authored “The evolving scope and application of ‘Disqualified Lender’ lists,” AIMA (November, 2024); “Can “Golden Shares” and “Blocking Directors” Actually Prevent Filings?,” ABI Journal (March, 2023); and “Debevoise Discusses Key Questions Recent Crypto Bankruptcy Filings May Answer” for CLS Blue Sky Blog (July 2022). Mr. Levinson is ranked as a leading restructuring lawyer by Chambers USA (2025), where clients note that he “can bring a lot of experience to bear on complicated issues.” He is also recommended by The Legal 500 US (2025) and Who’s Who Legal (2024) and listed as Highly Regarded for Restructuring & Insolvency by IFLR1000 (2024). Mr. Levinson is a fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and previously served as a subcommittee co-chair for the ABA's Business Bankruptcy Committee. From 1992 until 1995, Mr. Levinson was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice (Civil Division), specializing in bankruptcy and commercial litigation. He currently serves on the board of directors of Let’s Win Pancreatic Cancer, a non-profit whose mission is to guide patients with vital information for better outcomes. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988 and his B.A. cum laude from Brandeis University in 1985.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Siegmund Gutman

Sige is a nationally recognized patent litigator and counselor who serves as Chair of the firm's Life Sciences Litigation Practice, Co-chair of our Patent Litigation Practice, and Co-chair of the firm's Life Sciences Practice. He has an educational background and extensive industry experience in molecular and cell biology and biophysical chemistry. He has successfully litigated numerous cases involving biologic drug patents, other life sciences innovations, and the Hatch-Waxman Act. His practice also encompasses developing and executing market exclusivity and freedom to operate strategies for a wide range of leading life sciences companies and handling inter partes patent office actions. Read full biography.

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

Sienna White

Associate

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sierra Elizabeth

Sierra Elizabeth has a wide-ranging complex commercial litigation practice including toxic torts and other environmental and products liability matters, trade secret, entertainment fee disputes and breach of contract. Sierra has tried cases in both federal and state courts, arbitration hearings and private mediations. Sierra also serves as a guest legal correspondent for CNN Headline News.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sigrid McCawley

Managing Partner

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Sigrid Neilson

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sigrid R. Waggener

Sigrid Waggener is a partner in the firm’s land use and energy practice. She focuses her practice on energy development, infrastructure development, and large-scale commercial development and redevelopment. Sigrid has extensive experience with respect to (1) advising on compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); (2) representing energy producers, national retailers and a wide range of developer entities in all phases of the land use permitting process; and (3) defending the issuance of land use permits when those permits are legally challenged. She also regularly handles related real estate matters, including site selection and acquisition due diligence, compliance with state and regional regulatory controls associated with energy development and cross-jurisdictional development, and project risk management. Sigrid also routinely handles a wide variety of litigation matters arising from the land use development process. She has acted as lead defense counsel for her clients in numerous writ proceedings alleging violations of CEQA and land development regulations.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Sijia Cai

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Silpa Maruri

Silpa Maruri is a founding partner of Elsberg Baker & Maruri. Silpa is an experienced litigator and trial lawyer who has led several teams to victory in a wide variety of disputes and trials. Most recently, Silpa obtained a significant arbitration victory in a bet-the-company dispute over an energy agreement following a nine-day hearing, garnering recognition as a “Litigator of the Week” by the American Lawyer for her performance. Although experienced in a wide array of forums, Silpa has specialized experience in the Delaware Court of Chancery, where she has litigated some of the most widely publicized disputes of the last decade, including Twitter v. Musk and In re Dell Technologies Class V Stockholders Litigation. In Dell, Silpa served as lead counsel in a class action on behalf of Dell stockholders relating to a 2018 stock-for-stock exchange, resulting in a historic settlement of $1 billion—the largest class action settlement in any state court. This record-setting win, which the Delaware Court of Chancery described as “real and unprecedented,” garnered widespread praise. Silpa has also played a key role in many of the recent COVID-19 related busted deal cases filed in the wake of the pandemic, including Snow Phipps v. KCAKE Acquisition Corp. Silpa’s recent representative matters also include several deal-related disputes regarding corporate acquisitions, several derivative lawsuits relating to shareholder claims of self-dealing, commercial contract disputes relating to investor rights, and matters involving financial fraud. Silpa is widely recognized as a skilled advocate and litigator, which has earned her a broad array of accolades. She is one of only two lawyers in America to be recognized by the American Lawyer as a “Litigator of the Week” twice in 2022. In 2021, Law360 named Silpa a “Rising Star” in the Private Equity field. She has also been named a Leading Plaintiff’s Lawyer by Lawdragon 500 in the area of financial litigation and a Recommended Lawyer for Dispute Resolution by the Legal 500. In addition to her active trial practice, Silpa regularly publishes, speaks and appears on matters of corporate governance and Delaware law. Silpa recently appeared on a panel regarding Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation for the Practicing Law Institute, alongside the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, a Justice on the Delaware Supreme Court. In 2021, Silpa was a panelist at the prestigious Tulane Corporate Law Institute, where she appeared alongside Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery. Silpa received her B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School. Prior to joining the firm, Silpa was a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where she served as a co-chair of the firm’s Delaware Practice. Following law school, Silpa also served as a judicial law clerk in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ‍Representative Matters Obtained landmark $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell DVMT stock in connection with Dell Technologies’ 2018 stock-for-stock exchange of DVMT shares for Class C shares. The Delaware Court of Chancery hailed the historic result as “unprecedented” and “real.” Following hard-fought discovery, including the deposition of Michael Dell, the adversaries settled the action. The settlement represents the largest shareholder recovery in a state court, and the seventeenth largest shareholder recovery in any court. Obtained historic bench trial victory for private-equity firm Snow Phipps Group in a first-of-its kind busted deal case concerning the sale of one of its portfolio companies, KCAKE, a $600 million cake-decoration company. Following a nine-day trial, the Delaware Court of Chancery ordered Kohlberg & Co. to close the acquisition, notwithstanding Kohlberg’s claims that COVID-19 excused its performance. The victory represented a precedent-setting development in M&A litigation, in which the court compelled KCAKE to complete the acquisition despite the lapse of its financing to do so. Represented Elon Musk in Twitter v. Musk, the headline-dominating $44 billion dispute between Musk and Twitter Inc. concerning the termination of his agreement to buy Twitter, based on claims of breach of contract and fraud. The case represented the largest busted-deal matter in recent history. Obtained landmark appellate victory for Express Scripts and United BioSource Corp. in an $80 million dispute concerning claims of fraudulent inducement in connection with the sale of a healthcare company to private equity firm Parthenon Capital Partners. The appellate victory established new law in Delaware concerning the scope of contractual waivers of intentional fraud in connection with M&A transactions. Obtained complete arbitration victory for Limetree Bay Terminals in a bet-the-company contractual dispute concerning the terms of a nine-figure oil storage lease agreement. Following a nine-day hearing dominated by complex fact and expert testimony concerning technical engineering concepts, the three-arbitrator panel ruled in Limetree’s favor, ordering the adversary to specifically perform the agreement and to pay Limetree damages. Defended affiliates of HPS Investment Partners in ten-figure securities class action asserting claims under Section 10(b) and Section 20 of the Exchange Act and state blue sky laws. The Class Plaintiffs alleged that HPS and its board-appointee, Don Dimitrievich, committed fraud in connection with their investment in Alta Mesa Resources, an oil-and-gas SPAC venture that declared bankruptcy one year after its de-SPAC transaction. Defended Fang Holdings Limited, Vincent Mo, Richard Dai, and related entities in a nine-figure derivative shareholder dispute governed by Cayman Islands law regarding Fang’s delisting, its spin-off of China Index Holdings, and its subsequent take private of the same entity. Represented significant shareholders of the Sheehan Family Companies in a complex, nine-figure breach of fiduciary duty action concerning allegations of self-dealing in connection with management and control of the companies, as well as the administration of trusts in the names of the shareholders. Obtained appellate victory in the Delaware Supreme Court for the Heyman family in a contract case adverse to Ashland Inc., arising out of the $3.2 billion sale of a chemical manufacturer, International Specialty Products Inc. Represented $4 billion lithium-mining company in a dispute with its former CEO and Board Chairman concerning his misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information in the wake of his departure from the company. Obtained complete arbitration victory following five-day hearing for confidential hedge fund, in contractual dispute relating to earn-out provisions governing complex real estate transaction. Represented confidential technology services company in complex, eight-figure dispute concerning claims of accounting fraud and fraudulent inducement in connection with stock purchase agreement governing the acquisition of a technology services vendor from confidential private equity firm. Obtained motion to dismiss victory for Bill Taylor in In re Mimedx Group Inc. Securities Litigation, a class action securities litigation involving claims of channel-stuffing. Represented Core Litigation Trust in $240 million dispute in New York state court alleging claims of tortious interference with contract in connection with the sale of a media company to Fox, Endemol, and private equity firm Apollo Global Management. The matter settled on favorable terms. Obtained trial victory for Crestview Partners in connection with $500 million dispute regarding Crestview's contractual rights to exit its minority investment in Oxbow Carbon LLC. Following a contentious six-day trial, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled in favor of Crestview, allowing the firm to compel Oxbow to complete a sale. Represented Forest Laboratories and Forest Pharmaceuticals in connection with multi-district products liability litigation involving claims that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, such as Celexa and Lexapro, caused birth defects. Obtained motion to dismiss victory and affirmance from the Second Circuit in Infrassure Ltd. v. First Mutual Transportation Assur. Co., a case of first impression in the reinsurance industry concerning the proper interpretation of a reinsurance certificate. Represented AI International Holdings (BVI), Ltd. in New York state supreme court, in connection with a dispute over loans issued to the Weinstein Group. Following the fallout ensuing at the Weinstein Group after Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in 2017, the Weinstein Group’s lenders declared a default under their loan and sought to their guarantees from Weinstein in court. Obtained favorable settlement for confidential hedge fund in nine-figure dispute concerning the restructuring of loans to Chilean-owned energy ventures. Represented Legal & General in a trademark dispute with Travelers Insurance Company. The case concerned a contractual letter agreement governing the rights to use an umbrella logo in connection with the sale of insurance services. The matter settled on favorable terms. Represented confidential Fortune 100 technology services company in connection with a contractual dispute relating to a long-term contract for technology-based services. Represented confidential foreign razor manufacturer in an arbitration concerning the scope of a release and license provided for in a settlement agreement between the parties. Obtained summary judgment dismissing claims of conspiracy against reinsurer National Indemnity in Ford Motor Co. v. National Indemnity (E.D. Va.), a case where plaintiff challenged a loss portfolio reinsurance structure. Obtained confidential victory for a reinsurer in connection with nine-figure dispute over the coverage available under a reinsurance policy that reinsured batch-insurance policies issued to an automobile manufacturer by its captive insurer. Represented National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh in an insurance coverage dispute with Modern Contingent Construction Company concerning property damage arising from the infamous Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapse in July 2006. Represented Sandoz AG, Sandoz International GmbH, and two individuals in New York state litigation arising out of the merger of Sandoz Inc. and Oriel Therapeutics, Inc. The action, which concerned claims of fraud, was dismissed at the motion to dismiss phase.

Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC

Silvia Marchili

Partner

White & Case LLP

Simon Consedine

Simon is a partner in the Washington, DC office. He has significant experience in commercial arbitration and investment arbitrations, having represented clients across a wide range of sectors. Simon has been recognised for International Arbitration in The Legal 500 US since 2020 and clients have described him as having “formidable analytical skills and great client service”.

Three Crowns LLP

Simon Cooke

Simon Cooke represents bulge-bracket banks and other lenders on leveraged finance transactions, with a focus on high-yield debt offerings, preferred stock offerings, and secured and convertible debt instruments. Simon draws on extensive capital markets knowledge to advise financial institutions and lenders on a full spectrum of complex financing transactions, including: High-yield debt offerings Preferred stock offerings Private credit and direct lending transactions Debt restructurings and liability management exercises Commitment papers and credit facilities His experience spans multiple industries, including energy and infrastructure, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail and consumer products, and technology. Simon brings a global perspective to his work, leveraging experience practicing law in Australia and London, including as an associate in Latham’s London office. Before rejoining Latham, Simon served as counsel at other global law firms, where he led leveraged finance, private credit, and capital markets practices.

Latham & Watkins

Simon Gerson

Counsel. Simon has more than 30 years of experience counseling and attending to the varied commercial and corporate needs of established privately-held businesses and their principals. He also attends to the special entrepreneurial needs of start-up companies and their founders, including the selection, organization, and governance of business entities, mergers and acquisitions and financings. Simon also has significant experience in residential and commercial real estate transactions, including commercial leasing, property acquisitions, multi-million dollar financings, and tax-advantaged exchange property transactions. More recently, building on his corporate experience, Simon has devoted significant attention to transactional and licensing matters in the technology area. Simon has served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as its Administrative Partner.

Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, PC

Simon Pulman

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts focuses his practice on patent litigation in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. He has nearly 30 years of experience practicing law in both the US and Europe. Simon leverages his background in chemistry to translate complex technical issues into relatable terms for clients. Simon has in-depth experience and knowledge in Hatch-Waxman related litigations involving small molecules as well as other pharma-related patent matters including those involving large molecule pharmaceuticals. With a proven track record in high-stakes litigation matters, Simon represents clients before the federal courts as well as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in contested proceedings including IPRs and PGRs. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/roberts-simon/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Simona Agnolucci

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/a/agnolucci-simona

Cooley LLP