Lawyers in United States

Susan K. Hori

Susan Hori’s practice focuses on obtaining land use development entitlements for landowners and developers, including local land use approvals, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance, and state and federal regulatory agency permits for real estate development projects. The hallmark of Susan’s practice is her track record of success in navigating the complex process of multiagency permits and approvals. Her clients include landowners, financial institutions, developers and builders in the residential, retail, hotel/resort, and commercial and industrial development industries. Susan has represented clients on issues involving CEQA, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the California Coastal Act, Section 404 permitting under the Clean Water Act, National Historic Preservation Act compliance and Endangered Species Act permitting, including work on habitat conservation plans. Susan also serves as the co-leader of Manatt’s Energy, Environment and Real Estate group, in addition to her role as the administrative partner of the Firm’s Orange County office. She is a member of Manatt’s Land Use practice and has previously served on the Firm’s board of directors. Susan has been repeatedly recognized as a “distinguished land use practitioner” by Chambers and Partners. According to the Chambers USA 2021 guide, she is “extremely thorough, detail-oriented, and provides great perspective on both the legal and business aspects of a project.” Sources praise her as “tenacious” and say she is an “effective advocate for her clients.” Susan has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 and has been named a Top 25 “Land Use Leader” by the Daily Journal. Prior to entering private practice, Susan clerked for the Alaska Supreme Court and served as an attorney with the Solicitor’s Office in the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., where she represented the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Susan Krumplitsch

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Susan L. Heller

Co-Managing Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Susan L. Saltzstein

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Susan Leader

Susan Kay Leader is a partner in the Complex Litigation and Arbitration practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. Ms. Leader litigates and tries cases in high-stakes commercial matters and class actions in federal and state courts. She has chaired more than a dozen trials, arbitrations, and international arbitrations and has represented clients in a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, hospitality, funds, and renewable energy sectors. Ms. Leader’s broad base of experience includes handling a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, employment disputes, products liability disputes, franchise law violations, False Claims Act, and RICO and Sherman Act violations. Ms. Leader is a sought-after instructor in trial advocacy, frequently lecturing in southern California and overseas.

Paul Hastings LLP

Susan M C Kovarovics

Susan Kovarovics focuses her practice on matters involving the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. antiboycott laws and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She leverages this specialized experience to play a vital role in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, helping her clients conduct due diligence and evaluate risk related to export and sanctions compliance, antiboycott and anticorruption matters. To learn more about Susan, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/susan-mc-kovarovics

Akin

Susan Mac Cormac

Susan H. Mac Cormac | Corporate + ESG Attorney | Morrison Foerster Susan (“Suz”) co-chairs the ESG + Sustainability and Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practices. Her practice focuses on late-stage financings, secondaries, and other corporate transactions for investors, such as SoftBank and Temasek, and on investments for some of the top investors dedicated to impact, from “impact first” foundations to family offices to private equity funds. She co-led the drafting group for the first of the new corporate forms (the Social Purpose Corporation in California), has created hybrid/tandem corporate structures and crafted debt and equity instruments that blend impact with traditional financial terms, and has used corporate law to develop creative capital market solutions to pressing environmental problems. She also advises the boards of public and private companies on corporate governance and fiduciary duties as applied to sustainability and climate change.

Morrison Foerster

Susan Maples

Partner

Watson Farley & Williams (New York) LLP

Susan Muck

Retired Partner

WilmerHale

Susan Nash

Winston Taylor

Susan Niver

Shareholder

Vedder

Susan Phillips Read

Of Counsel

Greenberg Traurig

Susan R. McAuliffe

Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Susan Reagan Gittes

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Susan Ryba

Susan E. Ryba focuses her practice on federal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, particularly advising clients in the technology, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as high-net-worth individuals. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/ryba-susan-e/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Susan Schroeder

Partner Chair, Securities & Financial Services Department

WilmerHale

Susan Seabrook

Winston Taylor

Susan Smith

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Susan Vargas

Partner

King & Spalding

Susan Vignola

Susan Vignola is Partner in Patterson Belknap's Tax-Exempt Organizations department, where she advises nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations and their affiliates, donors, partners, and other stakeholders in the philanthropy sector. Ms. Vignola's clients include a wide range of mission-based organizations, including national and international funding intermediaries; aggregators and accelerators; community foundations and donor-advised fund sponsors; operational/direct service charities; social justice and advocacy organizations; private, family and corporate foundations; schools and universities; museums and cultural institutions; 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations and 501(c)(6) trade associations; along with other entities, affiliates, and trusts. Ms. Vignola also counsels individual, family, and corporate donors and investors on philanthropic planning and engagement. Ms. Vignola regularly advises nonprofit boards and executives on compliance, risk, and related regulatory matters; corporate and board structuring and governance; lobbying and political campaign activity; fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, designated funds, and other intermediary matters; establishing and working with affiliates, public-private partnerships and joint ventures; international and cross-border philanthropy; management and expenditure of endowments and investments; impact and mission-related investing; and related corporate, tax, and regulatory matters, investigations, and disputes. Ms. Vignola has extensive expertise working with charitable intermediaries, 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) affiliations, navigating the rules relating to lobbying and political activity, equity and compliance reviews, and risk management. Ms. Vignola regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and delivers client trainings on a variety of topics. Recent talks have focused on pursuing equity goals and compliance amid policy and regulatory shifts, corporate governance, navigating lobbying and political campaign activity, managing restricted funds and endowment funds under New York law, and intellectual property issues for nonprofit organizations. Ms. Vignola is a member of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Ms. Vignola spent over a decade working for non-profit institutions in the U.S. and overseas. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, M.A. from the George Washington University, and B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Susan Williams

Susan Williams is a partner in the Entertainment and Media practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Century City office. She is chair of the firm’s Entertainment and Media Finance group.P Highly regarded as one of the entertainment industry’s top dealmakers, Ms. Williams is frequently sought to represent clients on some of their most significant finance and restructuring transactions. Ms. Williams represents financial institutions, senior, mezzanine, and equity funds, major independent production companies, and high-net-worth individuals in a wide variety of capital transactions involving film and television content. Her vast experience includes overall company capital raises, slate financings, first and second lien financings, single-picture production loans, print and advertising financing, securitizations, structured financing transactions, co-productions, and domestic and foreign tax-incentivized financings, as well as distressed debt and restructuring transactions. She handles numerous transactions involving new and emerging distribution platforms and represents companies at the intersection of entertainment, media, and technology that are involved in various content transactions, including distribution and co-financing agreements with major studios and with international distribution companies. In addition, she has significant experience handling private equity, M&A, and joint ventures, and has extensive experience successfully guiding secured creditors through the unique issues surrounding entertainment and media assets in bankruptcy. Widely recognized as one of the most influential women in Hollywood, Ms. Williams has been named multiple times to The Hollywood Reporter’s annual “Power Lawyers” list of the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America, has been repeatedly recognized in Variety’s annual “Dealmakers Impact,” “Legal Impact,” and “Women’s Impact” issues, and has been repeatedly named among the Daily Journal’s Top Women Lawyers. She is also ranked by Chambers USA in California Media & Entertainment, where clients note that she is “highly experienced in the entertainment space” and a “very strong technical lawyer who also brings a commercial sensibility to the legal aspects” of the industry. Beyond her legal accomplishments, Ms. Williams dedicates a significant portion of her time to mentoring and serving as a role model to the next generation of female lawyers. She is a partner advisor to our Women’s Paul Hastings Affinity Network whose mission is to promote inclusion, while providing various leadership, professional, and business development opportunities for women at the firm. She is also a regular speaker on promoting women in the legal profession.

Paul Hastings LLP

Susan Wiltsie

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Susan Wood Waesco

Susan’s practice focuses on proceedings in the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court, including litigation involving corporate mergers and acquisitions, statutory challenges to transactions under Sections 242 and 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, and shareholder class and derivative actions. She also represents national and regional clients in complex business disputes pending in the Delaware Superior Court, including the Complex Commercial Litigation Division (CCLD), and the Delaware District Court.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

Susan Y. Tull

Susan Tull, a seasoned patent trial lawyer, represents clients across a range of technologies in all phases and forums of litigation. Trial ready and technically knowledgeable, Susan delivers pragmatic advice to plaintiffs and defendants in complex patent disputes. Her experience covers a multitude of industries, including the mechanical, industrial, electrical, and medical device fields. Susan tries cases in venues across the country, including the US district courts, the US International Trade Commission, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial Appeal Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office. She also brings experience representing clients in jury trials through verdict and post-trial motions. Susan participates in and manages every aspect of patent litigation, including examining and cross-examining fact and expert witnesses, developing litigation strategies, taking complex discovery, working with technical and damages experts, and drafting and arguing motions. Susan also frequently advises on pro bono matters. Her work has included serving as lead appellate counsel in a post-conviction appeal before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Susan is currently an adjunct professor of Patent Litigation and Dispute Resolution at George Mason University School of Law. She previously served as an adjunct professor of scholarly writing at George Washington University School of Law.

Latham & Watkins