Lawyers in United States

Stefan Schick

Partner and Co-Chair, Theater & Live Entertainment

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Stefan Staedter

Stefan Staedter is a Partner in the Investment Management practice of Arendt & Medernach. He became Head of the New York office in 2023, focusing on developing relations with markets in the US and more widely in North America. He promotes Arendt’s entire value chain, which encompasses the Luxembourg Legal & Tax, Regulatory & Consulting and Investor Services aspects. Stefan specialises in regulated and unregulated investment fund work, and mainly advises clients on the structuring and life cycle management of alternative investment funds – including real estate/infrastructure funds, private equity funds and debt funds, RAIFs/SIFs/SICARs and Luxembourg Part II funds, as well as their respective management entities. Stefan is also one of the firm’s experts on European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs), and he advises the majority of ELTIFs established in Luxembourg.

Arendt & Medernach

Stefan dePozsgay

Stefan regularly represents clients in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, growth and venture capital investments, and other significant transactional matters in the U.S. and cross-border. Stefan dePozsgay has extensive M&A experience across a broad range of industries, including the media, sports, entertainment and technology sectors. His clients include, among others, private equity firms and other financial sponsors, buyout groups and consortiums, special purpose acquisition companies, large family offices with direct investment capabilities and sports franchises and their owners. His practice also covers a range of growth equity, venture capital and emerging company transactions.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stefani Wittenauer

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Stefanie Fogel

Partner; Vice Chair of DLA Piper's Markets and Sectors

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Stefanie Gitler

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Stefanie Karidis

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Stefanie Lipson

Stefanie J. Lipson is Co-Chair of the Private Client Services Group at Greenberg Glusker and leads their Family Office Advisory practice. Stefanie provides comprehensive counsel to domestic and international families, family offices, real estate and tech entrepreneurs, high-profile entertainment figures, private investors, and closely held business owners and founders in all aspects of personal wealth, tax, estate, and succession planning. Stefanie is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), is a full member (TEP) of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and is recognized in Chambers' High Net Worth Guide in the area of Private Wealth Law and featured in The Best Lawyers in America.®

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Stefi George

Chair, State and Local Tax Practice

Akerman LLP

Steig D. Olson

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Stelios Saffos

Stelios G. Saffos, Global Chair of Latham’s Capital Markets and Public Company Representation practices and Global Chair of the Hybrid Capital Practice, advises many of the world’s leading private equity sponsors, asset managers, financial institutions, and companies on investments and financings at all levels of the corporate structure, from initial public offerings and traditional loan and bond structures through complex structured equity and mezzanine financings. Stelios advises clients on investments and accessing capital through: IPOs, direct listings, and de-SPAC mergers Secured and unsecured high-yield debt offerings Direct lending and other private capital transactions Bridge lending and loan commitments Preferred, growth, and control equity investments Debt exchange offers and tender offers Workouts and restructuring transactions Mezzanine financings He also serves as a strategic adviser to both domestic and foreign companies with respect to their most sensitive and highest-stakes general corporate, finance, and securities matters. Stelios provides clients a sophisticated understanding of what is at market, drawing on diverse financing experience and deep relationships with global investment banks, private equity funds, venture capital funds, direct lenders and alternative capital providers, and innovative companies, including high-growth and disruptive entities in the technology, consumer, retail, and healthcare sectors. Prior to joining Latham, Stelios served as a Judicial Clerk to United States District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez. He is a former member of the firm’s Strategic Client Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Stephan Becker

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Stephanie A. Capistron

Partner

Dechert

Stephanie Avakian

WilmerHale

Stephanie Berdik

Stephanie’s practice focuses on advising U.S. and non-U.S. private investment fund sponsors on all aspects of their business, including establishment of private investment funds, portfolio investment activities, capital raising, fund regulatory and compliance matters, and firm ownership and operational issues. She has worked with a variety of private fund sponsors and, in particular, has extensive experience advising managers of credit platforms on a wide-range of issues. Stephanie’s experience includes the formation of closed-end and open-end direct lending, tradable credit, special situations, opportunistic and distressed funds as well as separate account structures for a variety of U.S. and non-U.S institutional investors. Stephanie has also advised diversified asset managers in connection with the launch of a credit platform, including regulatory, compliance and operational issues related thereto. Stephanie’s experience also includes representing institutional investors in their investments in U.S. and non-U.S. private investment funds, co-investment funds and managed accounts across a range of asset classes.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Stephanie Bergeron Perdue

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Stephanie Breslow

Stephanie R. Breslow is co-head of the Investment Management Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She maintains a diverse practice that includes liquid funds, private equity funds and the structuring of investment management businesses. She focuses her practice on the formation of private equity funds (including LBO, mezzanine, distressed, real estate and venture) and liquid-securities funds (including hedge funds, hybrid funds, credit funds and activist funds) as well as providing regulatory advice to investment managers. She also represents fund sponsors and institutional investors in connection with seed-capital investments in fund managers and acquisitions of interests in investment management businesses and funds of funds and other institutional investors in connection with their investment activities, including blockchain technology and virtual currency offerings and transactions. Recently serving as chair of the Private Investment Funds Subcommittee of the International Bar Association, Stephanie is a founding member and former chair of the Private Investment Fund Forum, a member of the Advisory Board of former Third Way Capital Markets Initiative, a former member of the Board of Directors and current member of 100 Women in Finance, a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and a member of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. Stephanie has received the highest industry honors. She was named to the inaugural Legal 500 US Hall of Fame in the category of “Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds.” Stephanie is also listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers, Crain’s Notable Women in Law, IFLR1000, Best Lawyers in America, Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (which ranked her one of the world’s “Top Ten Private Equity Lawyers”), Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers (which ranked her at the top of the world’s “Most Highly Regarded Individuals” list), Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Global Elite, Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Private Funds, Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and PLC Cross-border Private Equity Handbook, among other leading directories. Stephanie was named the “Private Funds Lawyer of the Year” at the Who’s Who Legal Awards 2014 and the Euromoney Legal Media Group’s “Best in Investment Funds” and “Outstanding Practitioner,” both at the Americas Women in Business Law Awards. She is also recognized as one of The Hedge Fund Journal’s 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds and was named one of the 2012 Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. Stephanie’s representation of leading private investment funds has won numerous awards, including most recently Law360’s Asset Management Practice Group of the Year. She is a much sought-after speaker on fund formation and operation and compliance issues, and she regularly publishes articles on the latest trends in these areas. Stephanie co-authored Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (Practising Law Institute), co-authored Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation (ALM Law Journal Press), contributed a chapter on “Hedge Fund Investment in Private Equity” for inclusion in PLC Cross-border Private Equity Handbook 2005/06 (Practical Law Company), contributed a chapter on “Advisers to Private Equity Funds — Practical Compliance Considerations” for Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation, Volume 2 (Practising Law Institute), and wrote New York and Delaware Business Entities: Choice, Formation, Operation, Financing and Acquisitions (West) and New York Limited Liability Companies: A Guide to Law and Practice (West).

McDermott Will & Schulte

Stephanie Brooker

Stephanie Brooker, a partner in Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering, and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Stephanie Brooker’s practice focuses on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement defense, white-collar criminal defense, and compliance counseling. She handles a wide range of white collar matters, including representing financial institutions, multi-national companies, and individuals in connection with criminal, regulatory, and civil enforcement actions involving sanctions; anti-corruption; anti-money laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); securities, tax, and wire fraud, foreign influence; “me-too;” cryptocurrency; and other legal issues. She routinely handles complex cross-border investigations. Ms. Brooker’s practice also includes BSA/AML and FCPA compliance counseling and deal due diligence and significant criminal and civil asset forfeiture matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephanie Brown Cripps

Partner

Freshfields

Stephanie Bruce

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Stephanie Clouston

Stephanie Clouston is a partner in the Litigation Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Dallas office. She is a seasoned litigator and trial lawyer who focuses on complex commercial litigation and government investigations, enforcement and compliance matters. She has been recognized by Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America for her commitment to delivering resolutions in courtrooms and before government and regulatory agencies on behalf of her clients.

Paul Hastings LLP

Stephanie Connor

Stephanie Connor, Of Counsel, practices primarily in the areas of international trade compliance and white collar investigations. She focuses on a range of issues arising under U.S. international trade regulations, including national security reviews conducted by the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), economic sanctions and embargo regulations administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and U.S. export controls implemented by the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State. She has significant experience advising multinational companies on the effectiveness of their internal compliance controls and has counseled clients on matters arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephanie DeBrow

Norton Rose Fulbright

Stephanie Duchene

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP