Lawyers in United States

Tara D. Elliott

Tara Elliott, a first-chair trial lawyer, focuses on high-profile intellectual property disputes and commercial litigation. She utilizes a unique combination of private practice and government experience to help navigate clients’ most complex legal issues. Tara has represented many of the world’s leading technology, retail, and manufacturing companies in infringement matters, corporate disputes, and appeals concerning patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and commercial contracts, among other issues. Tara currently serves as a Trustee on the Foundation for the Advancement of Diversity in Intellectual Property Law. She previously served on the Federal Circuit Lawyers’ Advisory Council and chaired the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee by appointment of the Chief Judges of those courts. She also served on the District of Delaware Merit Selection Panels for the US Magistrate Judge and Bankruptcy Judge vacancies. Prior to joining Latham, she was appointed to serve as a Special Master in the US District Court for the District of Delaware to assist the court in resolving disputes in complex commercial matters. She clerked for Judge Gregory M. Sleet, then Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Delaware, and Judge Raymond C. Clevenger of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She began her career at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where she was a computer engineer in the Directorate of Science and Technology and an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence (now known as the Directorate of Analysis). Tara served for over a decade as a board member of a regional healthcare system in various capacities including on committees for governance, audit, and cybersecurity. Tara is consistently recognized by leading legal publications as a top intellectual property litigation lawyer including The National Law Journal, IAM Patent 1000, Lawdragon 500, Benchmark Litigation, Savoy, and Managing Intellectual Property, as an IP Star.

Latham & Watkins

Tara Elgie

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Tara Ellis

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Tara J. Hoffner

Tara Hoffner, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, represents trustees, banks, trust companies, and administrative service providers in asset-backed securities transactions and structured finance transactions. She counsels clients on securitizations, debt issuances, equipment and project finance transactions, leveraged lease transactions, trust preferred transactions, liquidating trusts, litigation trusts, and collateral agency, escrow, custody, paying agent, and registrar roles. Tara’s experience in trust, trustee, and service provider representation spans virtually all asset classes and transaction structures, and she has represented trustees, administrators, paying agents, escrow agents, and custodians and acted as Delaware trust counsel in some of the world’s most complex and significant Delaware trust transactions. Serving as special Delaware counsel in Delaware statutory trust and common law trust transactions of all types, Tara’s broad opinion practice encompasses statutory trusts, series trusts, federal and state banking institutions, trustees, common law trusts, and other matters of Delaware law. PRACTICES Legal Opinions Corporate Trust & Agency Services Structured Finance

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Tara Kowalski

Partner

Jones Day

Tara L. Reinhart

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Tara Lee

Partner

Dechert

Tara Lynn Tavernia

Tara Tavernia represents sophisticated clients in complex antitrust matters, including strategic mergers and government conduct investigations. Tara draws upon her extensive experience to efficiently guide market-leading companies and private equity clients through high-stakes antitrust matters involving: Transaction reviews, including securing unconditional approvals and, when necessary, Second Request compliance and merger remedy negotiation Investigations brought by federal enforcers Antitrust litigation She leverages her deep understanding of the agency landscape to deliver high-level client service in the face of government scrutiny across a broad range of industries. Tara is a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section and currently serves as the Co-Chair of The Antitrust Source online magazine.

Latham & Watkins

Tara Shabahang

Tara Shabahang is a partner in the Real Estate Transactions and Finance group. She represents real estate developers, investors, property owners and operators in all aspects of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, joint ventures and leasing. Her project coverage is national and spans a variety of asset classes, including office, multifamily, retail, industrial, hotel and mixed-use. Tara is a member of the firm’s borrower-side finance practice, with expertise in mortgage and mezzanine debt, construction financing, secured and unsecured lines of credit, and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan servicing. She also represents borrowers of distressed assets in connection with loan workouts and modifications, special servicing, and foreclosures. With a particular focus on commercial real estate development, Tara routinely navigates complex large-scale development projects, from the evaluation and acquisition of a development site through project entitlement and construction until assets are operational and stabilized. Leading developers and investors trust Tara to ensure that every step in a real estate project achieves their goals with the “next step” in mind—whether it’s financing, equity investment, construction, leasing or asset operation. Tara earned a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Amherst College and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis. During law school, she served as a judicial extern for the Honorable John T. Noonan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Tara is an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Manatt’s DEI and Women’s Initiative committees.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Tara Sugiyama Potashnik

Venable LLP

Tara Vance

Partner

Holland & Knight

Tara Ward

Tara L. Ward represents a wide variety of companies that do business with the federal government, ranging from small and emerging tech companies looking to break into or expand their stake in the federal marketplace, to well-established defense, professional services and information technology contractors and subcontractors. Tara’s diverse practice covers the full range of government contracting issues, including litigation and counseling related to bid protests, contract claims and disputes and teaming agreement and other strategic alliance issues. Tara regularly helps clients navigate some of the most nuanced areas of government contract law, including other transaction agreements, small business regulations and supply chain issues. Tara is recognized as a top government contracts lawyer across notable publications, including Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, Law360 and Super Lawyers. She is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington Law School, the only law school with a nationally recognized Government Procurement Law LLM program. She also serves as editor-in-chief for Public Contract Law Journal. Tara received her AB (magna cum laude) from Princeton University and her JD (with honors) from The George Washington University Law School.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Tarek Ismail

Partner, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP

Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP

Tarik J. Haskins

Tarik’s practice covers a range of commercial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, secured financings, joint ventures, securitization and business counseling. Tarik also provides alternative-entity related advice in the context of transaction and alternative entity litigation. Tarik also focuses on organizational and operational issues related to limited liability companies, limited partnerships and statutory trusts. In addition, he regularly represents sponsors and conflicts committees of master limited partnerships (“MLPs”). He is involved in the preparation of third-party legal opinions in connection with a range of transactional matters, and he regularly counsels other attorneys domestically and internationally on matters relating to Delaware partnerships, limited liability companies and statutory trusts.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

Tariq Mundiya

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Taryn Zucker

Partner

Freshfields

Tasha Dickinson

Partner

Day Pitney LLP

Tashwanda Pinchback Dixon

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Tasos Paindiris

Principal and Co-Leader of the firm's Advice and Counsel Practice Group

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Tatiana Lapushchik

Tatiana Lapushchik is Co-Head of Cravath's Banking and Credit Practice. Her practice spans both leveraged and investment grade bank financings across a variety of industries, including industrials, oil and gas, consumer and technology and media. Ms. Lapushchik dedicates a significant portion of her practice to advising on financings for private equity clients and their portfolio companies.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Tatiana Martins

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Tatiana Monastyrskaya

Tatiana Monastyrskaya is an infrastructure finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Tatiana represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of energy and infrastructure financing transactions, including commercial bank debt, Term Loan B, private placements and bank-bond deals. She works across energy transition and renewables industries, including battery storage, RNG, carbon sequestration and storage, hydrogen, as well as transmission, LNG, and digital infrastructure (including financing portfolios of data centers). In addition to single-asset project financings, she advises on structuring back leverage and mezzanine financings for acquisitions of portfolios of projects in the context of joint ventures. While Tatiana focuses primarily on representing sponsors in infrastructure financings, she also represents developers in energy transition development projects, and credit funds as direct lenders. Tatiana has been recognized by The Legal 500, where clients note, "Tatiana Monastyrskaya is unrivaled in terms of brilliance, creativity, speed, and business-minded focus." She has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA and Chambers Global, where commentators note, "Her due diligence and risk mitigation abilities are excellent. She is very diligent, knowledgeable and capable of distilling significant amounts of information for clients."

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Tatiana O. Sullivan

Counsel

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Taylor Evans

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP