Corporate lawyers

Koji Yamamoto

Partner

Withers Japan

Kokila Alagh

Founder & Managing Partner

KARM Legal Consultants

Konstantina Tsourouni

Senior Associate Konstantina specializes in the fields of real estate, civil and commercial law. Her practice focuses on drafting various transaction documents (e.g. sale – purchase and lease agreements) and participating in negotiations regarding real estate developments and construction projects. She is further involved in legal due diligence exercises within the context of acquisitions and project finance transactions. Konstantina has experience in transactional and civil litigation practices, disputes arising from corporate and commercial transactions and contractual relationships. She advices both national and international private sector clients with regard to day-to-day real estate, regulatory compliance and corporate governance issues across a variety of industries.

Papapolitis & Papapolitis

Kornelius Kleinlein

Partner

Raue

Krishna Veeraraghavan

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Krista Miniutti

Partner in the firm’s Real Estate Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Women’s Committee. Krista represents private equity firms and portfolio companies in commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings. Named as “Real Estate Lawyer of the Year” for Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards 2022 and a Law360 2022 “MVP” in Real Estate, Krista has represented clients on a broad range of domestic and international real estate transactions, including public-to-private transactions, securitized and mezzanine financings, and portfolio acquisitions. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of their transactions, including coordinating advice from internal and external tax advisors and ERISA and Fund counsel. Krista’s clients include the real estate funds of The Blackstone Group, KSL Capital Partners and Westbrook Partners.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Kristen Grannis

Kristen Grannis, Global Vice Chair of Latham’s M&A and Private Equity Practice, advises private capital providers, private equity sponsors, and companies on a range of investments, acquisitions, and divestitures, with a focus on the life sciences and technology sectors. Kristen is former Co-Chair of Latham’s Boston Corporate Department and previously served as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Investment Funds Practice. A creative thinker and sophisticated strategist, Kristen regularly navigates multifaceted transactions featuring bespoke deal structures. She brings particular experience representing investors and companies in connection with equity investments involving structured preferred capital. Kristen also advises private equity sponsors and strategic buyers and sellers, as well as founder-owned businesses and their acquirers, in a variety of M&A and other corporate matters. An early member of Latham’s Boston office, Kristen draws on her in-depth market knowledge and business acumen to handle growth investments at the pre-IPO stage. She takes a proactive approach to tailoring transactions with the aim of protecting clients’ investments while also closing deals efficiently. Kristen supports various nonprofit and industry organizations through her pro bono and leadership efforts. She serves as outside counsel to Year Up, a nonprofit that provides professional training to low-income young adults. Kristen is also an active member of the Women’s Bar Association (WBA) in Massachusetts, serving as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Law Firm Advancement Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Kristen Matthews

Kristen Matthews is a corporate partner and a member of the firm’s Insurance and Financial Institutions Groups, where she advises clients on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance and regulatory.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Kristin Mendoza

Kristin L. Mendoza is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kristin advises public and private companies, including private equity firms and strategic investors, in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, reorganizations and other general corporate matters, focusing in the energy and infrastructure sector.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kyle Seifried

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Kyoo Sang Moon

Partner

DR & AJU LLC

Ladislav Karas

Attorney

KPMG Legal, Czech Republic

Lakshmi Ramanathan

Special Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Lamyaa Gadelhak

Lamyaa Gadelhak is a Partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she co-heads the Banking & Projects Practice Group.

Baker McKenzie, Cairo

Lan Phuong Nguyen

Baker McKenzie

Larry Medvinsky

Larry Medvinsky | Morrison Foerster Larry Medvinsky is widely recognized as a creative, commercially focused attorney who guides clients through complex transactions. Larry serves as co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s REITs practice group and has nearly 30 years of experience advising boards of directors, public and private companies, and executive management teams on a broad range of corporate transactions. His practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters, particularly in the REIT and Specialty Finance spaces, in IPOs and securities offerings, private equity and other sponsors in the raising of capital for funds, private REITs, and permanent capital vehicles and other private companies in transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (including UPREIT and DownREIT, and real estate acquisitions), joint ventures, dispositions, and other exit transactions, among others.

Morrison Foerster

Laura Bavoux

Laura Bavoux is a partner in Proskauer's Restructuring and Special Situations practice in Paris. Laura advises listed and unlisted companies, industrial groups, investment funds, shareholders, debt funds and investors, both French and international, in the context of financial or operational restructurings, whether amicable or judicial. She also deals with governance conflicts or disputes with company lenders, as well as LBO debt restructurings.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Laura Birene

Laura Birene’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing and capital market transactions.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Laura C. Turano

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Laura Rogers

Laura is a family lawyer who advises on the various aspects of relationship breakdown, covering both financial claims and children arrangements arising out of separation and divorce. She has experience of complicated financial proceedings where there are trust assets and corporate issues such as jointly owned companies. She also has experience of third-party interventions where the ownership of assets is disputed within divorce proceedings. She works closely with other professionals such as expert valuers and accountants.

Keystone Law

Laura Stamkulova

Laura Stamkulova has more than 15 years of experience working as an in-house lawyer in the commercial and non-profit sectors. Laura’s legal experience includes serving as head of the legal department at a geological and drilling company and a leading educational institution, in addition to senior in-house positions at a large uranium joint venture of a major European company, a sovereign wealth fund, and an educational holding. Laura’s practice areas span subsoil use, education, corporate, contract and labor law matters.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Lauren Boglivi

Lauren Boglivi is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of Proskauer’s global Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Through her extensive transactional experience, Lauren is a leading lawyer at the forefront of some of the most industry-defining M&A matters, particularly in the health care, media and entertainment, and gaming industries. Lauren advises both private and public companies, including private equity sponsors and family offices, in their most critical and complex deals. In working with influential and high-profile media giants, Lauren has worked extensively on transactions that structure and shape the way media content is viewed and accessed around the world. Lauren’s recent deal activity includes: Represented media giant Discovery in a variety of matters that have made headlines around the world, including its sale of Great American Country Network, its acquisition of Golf Digest, one of the world’s leading golf media brands, from Condé Nast, its $2 billion strategic alliance with the PGA Tour, its spinoff and equity investment in Curiousity.com, Sale of Discovery Education business for $120 million sale to Francisco Partners, a private equity firm Representing Ethos Veterinary Health, one of the industry’s most innovative veterinary organizations, in its pending acquisition by National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a leading global community of nearly 1,200 veterinary hospitals. Represented WestMed Medical Group, a multispecialty medical practice of nearly 500 physicians and advanced care providers and 1,500 clinical employees located in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT, in its combination with Summit Health, a company formed by the merger of CityMD and Summit Medical Group. Summit Health now includes more than 2,500 providers, 12,000 employees and over 340 locations in NJ, NY, CT, PA and central OR. Summit Health is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. Represented Blade Urban Mobility, Inc. in its $825 million de-SPAC business combination with KSL Capital’s SPAC - Experience Investment Corp. Represented Hearst’s healthcare subsidiary, Homecare Homebase, in its acquisition of CellTrak Technologies, a leading provider of care documentation software solutions in the personal care market. Represented Hearst Magazines in its sale of Marie Claire U.S. to British media company Future. Represented Harren Equity Partners, LLC in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Health Connect America, Inc., to Palladium Equity Partners V, L.P. Represented Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in the launch of a national management services organization (MSO) formed with an investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners. Represented Public Interest Registry (PIR), which was established by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage and operate the .ORG domain, in $1.135 billion sale to Ethos Capital, which was terminated by mutual agreement. Led the Proskauer team that advised Empire City Casino, one of the largest gaming facilities in the U.S. and one of only two facilities licensed to operate video lottery terminals in the New York City metropolitan area, in its $850 million sale to MGM Resorts International.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Lauren Kelly

Norton Rose Fulbright

Lauren Kim

Lauren S. Kim is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Lauren advises public and private companies in connection with domestic and cross border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buyouts, joint ventures, and general corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Lauren was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Proskauer Rose LLP