Corporate lawyers

Miriam Steets

Miriam Steets is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity/venture capital investments as well as cross-border and national mergers and acquisitions. Miriam represents both, private equity/venture capital investors and corporate clients in connection with growth oriented investments as well as transaction situations and general corporate matters. In addition, she advises clients on capital market related matters. Prior to joining Willkie, Miriam was a senior consultant at a Big Four accounting firm.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Mirko Daidone

Managing Partner

CMS

Mirko Kikkamägi

Mirko Kikkamägi has extensive international experience and specialises in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and corporate law. He is actively involved in the start-up sector, advising on early-stage investments and supporting founders as they grow their businesses. Mirko has served as in-house counsel at Swedbank and gained international experience at the Frankfurt office of Clifford Chance, where he focused on financing transactions across Central and Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Turkey. His expertise includes investment-grade deals, leveraged and real estate finance, export finance, and transactions in developing markets.

TEGOS (Formerly TGS Baltic)

Mohamed Ibrahim

Partner

Ibrachy & Dermarkar

Mohammed Al Mandeel

Partner, Head of Riyadh Office

GLA & Company

Mohammed Alharthi

Senior Attorney

The Law Firm of Salah Al-Hejailan in association with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Mohd Iqbal Butt

Partner, Corporate & Commercial, M&A, Real Estate, Non-Profit Organisations. Advising on: o FDI Policy; o Foreign Exchange Laws; o Share Purchase Agreements, Shareholders Agreements, Subscription Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements; o Due Diligence on Target companies; o Corporate and Commercial laws involved during day to day affairs of businesses; o Employee related issues; o All kinds of commercial contracts; o IPOs, Offers for Sale, Public Offers; o Acquisition, sale, lease of residential and commercial properties; o Legal audit of businesses to ensure compliance; o Corporate Social Responsibility; o Representing before the authorities.

Dua Associates

Monica Castro Pereira Cavalcanti

Partner

Trench Rossi Watanabe

Monica Lagercrantz

Partner

Advokatfirman Lindahl KB

Monica Shilling

Monica Shilling is a transactional partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has a broad corporate, M&A and securities law practice that focuses on advising asset managers, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies on the full lifecycle of transactions. She also represents public companies, financial advisors, investment banks and issuers. She has over 25 years of experience with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings, leveraged buyouts, general corporate law and corporate governance, securities laws, and NYSE/Nasdaq compliance. Monica’s practice also has a particular focus involving specialty finance enterprises. She advises companies on the establishment of business development companies (BDCs), special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and other private and public equity vehicles. She is among a relatively limited number of attorneys in the country who actively represent BDCs.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Morgan Hayes

Morgan Hayes is a corporate partner based in New York. Mr. Hayes is a member of the firm’s Finance, Capital Markets and Private Equity Groups. His practice covers a broad range of financings, including fund finance transactions. Mr. Hayes regularly represents private equity firms, issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and counsels public and private companies on disclosure, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Mr. Hayes is recommended by The Legal 500 US (2025) for his capital markets practice. His recent experience includes acting for clients such as Providence Equity Partners, KKR, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle, Kelso & Company, DoubleVerify, Verizon and Cornerstone Building Brands. Prior to joining Debevoise in 2010, Mr. Hayes was an associate at an international law firm in Palo Alto, California from 2007 through 2010. Mr. Hayes received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2007 and a B.A. from Cornell University in 2002. He was admitted to the bar in California in 2008 and New York in 2012. Mr. Hayes’ articles include “SEC's Crypto Statement Offers Clarity On Disclosures,” Law360 (May, 2025); “Debt Finance 2025,” Chambers & Partners Practice Guides (April, 2025); “How Cos. Can Prepare Now For SEC E-Filing System Changes,” Law360 (February, 2025); “Equity Finance in the USA 2024 – Trends and Developments,” Chambers and Partners (October, 2024); “SEC Charges Now Suspended Auditor BF Borgers with Massive Fraud Affecting More Than 1,500 SEC Filings,” Insights - The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor (July, 2024); “BF Borgers Clients Should Review Compliance, Liability,” Law360 (May, 2024); “Debevoise Discusses Fifth Circuit Decision on Fixing Share Repurchase Rules,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (November, 2023); “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses SEC’s Proposed SPAC Rules and Investment Banks,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (May, 2022); “Rumblings of Unicorn Stampede to Market Start to Appear,” The Deal (February, 2019) and “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses Developments in the Enforcement of Token Sales,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (November, 2017).

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Moshe Sendacz

Founding partner

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

Murat Aygün

Senior Partner

Abcoo Law Firm

Muriel Goldberg-Darmon

Managing Partner

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Mutasim Khalil Ismail

Mutasim is a Senior Legal Consultant in the Dispute Resolution department in Abu Dhabi. He has over 20 years’ experience in the UAE. He has extensive experience in a wide range of litigation and dispute resolution matters involving construction, bankruptcy, insurance, corporate, Islamic banking, commercial agency, medical malpractice, real estate, lease disputes and employment disputes. Prior to joining Hadef & Partners, Mutasim worked for the Bank of Khartoum (Sudan), and regional law firms in Dubai. Mutasim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Khartoum, Sudan and is fluent in Arabic & English. He is also a member of the Sudanese Bar Association.

Hadef & Partners

Mårten Willamo

Managing Partner Sweden

Bird & Bird

Nadia Sager

Nadia Sager serves as global Co-chair of the firm’s Investment Funds Practice and Chair of the San Diego office’s Corporate Department. Ms. Sager represents top private fund sponsors and investors in forming, investing in and operating leading private funds.

Latham & Watkins

Nahum Ayliffe

Principal - Insolvency & Restructuring and Litigation & Dispute Resolution

KHQ Lawyers

Naji Hawayek

Partner

Addleshaw Goddard

Nanda Al Qazaz

Mayer Brown

Naoise Harnett

DLA Piper Ireland LLP

Natalia Kapsi

Natalia is a senior associate of our healthcare, pharma & life sciences practice. She focuses on corporate, commercial, pharmaceutical and intellectual property law. She has experience in advising multinational healthcare companies on regulatory, commercial and compliance issues, with an emphasis on regulations, standards and codes of practice related to the marketing and promotion of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Natalia also provides advice to multinational tobacco companies on a wide variety of regulatory and commercial matters, particularly the marketing, promotion and advertising of Next Generation Products (NGPs). In addition, she focuses on all areas of IP—such as trademarks, copyrights and patents—advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious IP issues and representing them before the Administrative Committees, as well as Civil and Administrative Courts. Natalia regularly represents international and domestic clients on corporate and commercial matters of day-to-day operation, including the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2015 and joined us in 2019. Natalia is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Zepos & Yannopoulos

Natasha Kapp

Natasha Kapp is a partner in Carey Olsen's trusts and private wealth group in Guernsey. Natasha deals with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious trust matters. She advises professional trustees, family offices and ultra high net worth families and individuals on the establishment, administration and restructuring of complex trusts and foundations and underlying structures. She has acted on the establishment of and continues to advise some of the largest family offices and philanthropies established on the Island. Natasha also advises on insurance regulation. She regularly appears before the Royal Court of Guernsey in trust administration proceedings including applications regarding the interpretation of trust powers, the variation of trusts, the doctrine of mistake, the application of the Rule In Hastings Bass, Beddoe applications, rectification and the blessing of momentous decisions. Natasha is a regular contributor to law and industry journals and is the author of the Guernsey chapters in Trusts in Prime Jurisdictions and Private Foundations - A World Review. She is ranked as a leading individual for Private Client, Trusts and Tax, in Guernsey in the Legal 500 and is also ranked in the Chambers UK, Global and HNW Guides. Natasha is listed by Who's Who Legal for Private Client and also features in the Private Client Global Elite Directory, a respected global directory of the world's top private client and trust and estates litigation talent.

Carey Olsen

Natasha Tsiouris

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP