Corporate lawyers

Rishabh Shroff

Partner

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Rita Al Semaani Jansen

Rita is a highly experienced corporate and commercial law specialist with experience in the UAE and wider MENA region. She advises clients on corporate and commercial law including in relation to national and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring and franchising.

Watson Farley & Williams

Rita Marchetti

Rita Marchetti joined Baker McKenzie in 2000 and currently is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group. She is admitted to practice in Italy and in the state of New York. Ms. Marchetti’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate issues as well as commercial transactions with a special focus on the hotels, restaurants and tourism industry and real estate transactions. As a corporate and M&A lawyer, she has represented US-based, European and other multinationals in a broad range of M&A transactions in such diverse industries as automotive products, consumer electronics, fashion products, home appliances and fixtures, gaming, medical products and devices and hotels and real estate.

Studio Professionale Associato a Baker & McKenzie

Rita Patel

Partner; Chair of DLA Piper's US Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Transactions Services Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Rob Little

ASAR - Al Ruwayeh & Partners

Rob Rust

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Robert Alessi

Partner; Global Vice Chair, Energy Sector

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Robert B. Schumer

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert Freeman

Robert E. Freeman is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group and a member of the Sports Law Group. Rob began his career as an antitrust and intellectual property litigator before transitioning to a corporate transactional attorney. For almost three decades, Rob has helped to structure and negotiate the transactions that shape the way consumers access and view content. Today, Rob leads a team of attorneys focused on media, sports, entertainment and technology transactions, representing clients such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Cox Communications, FanDuel, The Big Ten Conference, The Big 12 Conference, TMRW Sports, ForgeLight, Minute Media, Ziff Davis, Seminole Hard Rock Digital, 776 Management, X Games, League One Volleyball, and NFL Media, among many others. Rob’s work for these clients includes a broad array of corporate transactions ranging from industry-specific mergers and acquisitions, minority and control investments, the negotiation of complex media and sports rights and content distribution agreements, and the creation of joint ventures, strategic alliances, and complex commercial licensing arrangements. Rob also has advised multiple clients on first-of-their-kind transactions related to sports betting. More recently, Rob has led the launch of emerging sports leagues such at TGL (initially a joint venture between TMRW Sports and PGA TOUR), the X Games League, LOVB (women’s professional volleyball league) and ATHLOS (a proposed women’s professional track league), which has included corporate structuring, team sales, media rights, arena development and leasing, and sponsorship. Other examples of Rob’s work include representing Discovery in connection with its merger with Warner Media to form Warner Bros. Discovery, The Big Ten Conference and The Big 12 Conference in the negotiation of their media rights deals, ForgeLight LLC in its acquisition of a majority stake in Univision Holdings, Inc, the leading Hispanic media company in the U.S.; Discovery in its $2 billion+ contractual joint venture with the PGA Tour to form “GOLFTV” and subsequent acquisitions of Golf Digest and Golf Channel Latin America; Cox Communications in the negotiation of all of its largest content acquisition and distribution deals, including with The Walt Disney Company, Paramount, NBCU, and FOX; and The Stars Group in its groundbreaking partnership with FOX Sports, which included the launch of sports betting platform FOX Bet and an equity investment by FOX of over $240 million in The Stars Group. Rob is a frequent lecturer on sports, media, intellectual property, licensing, emerging technology, digital rights and sponsorship issues and is the editor of Proskauer’s “Three Point Shot” sports e-newsletter. He is a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the T. Howard Foundation, whose mission is to increase diversity in the media and entertainment industries. Rob has also chaired the Golf Committee for the March of Dimes’ annual golf outing in the NYC area.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Robert Gago

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig Nowakowska-Zimoch Wysokinski Sp. k

Robert Gruendel

Partner; Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Energy and Natural Resources Sector; Chair of DLA Piper's US Shipping and Maritime Sector

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Robert K. Smith

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Robert Kindler

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Robert Kornhaas

Partner

Wiggin and Dana LLP

Robert Pelikán

Partner.

Wolf Theiss

Robert Sherman

Partner; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Entertainment Finance Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Robert Sutton

Robert Sutton is a partner of Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the Corporate Department. He is a seasoned practitioner with over 20 years of experience counseling managers and advisers of private funds on regulatory matters, as well as regulatory issues related to the formation and operation of private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge and other private funds. Rob has a deep knowledge of the market practice of asset managers and in particular, as it relates to Advisers Act-related issues. From some of the largest and most sophisticated firms in the global asset management industry to start-ups and mid-sized firms, Rob’s experience includes a wide spectrum of funds and asset classes across their life cycles. Rob regularly advises on matters in connection with: U.S. investment adviser registration and regulation; Advisers Act and other U.S. securities law issues relating to the formation, marketing and offering of private funds; Identifying and managing conflicts of interest, and addressing related Advisers Act risks, SEC examinations, and exam readiness preparation; Design and implementation of investment adviser compliance policies and procedures; U.S. regulatory issues relating to purchases and sales of investment advisory businesses (minority stake and control stake transactions, buy-side and sell-side representations); Advisers Act and other U.S. regulatory issues relating to private fund restructurings and recapitalizations, strip sales, continuation fund formations and similar transactions; Advisers Act issues relating to the formation of SPACs by investment advisers; and, Investment Company Act status analyses of private fund structures, investment transaction structures and other non-registered investment company structures.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Roberta Crivellaro

Roberta is managing partner of Withers in Italy and head of the 'Italian desks' worldwide. Roberta specializes in cross-border corporate, commercial and real estate transactions in many different business sectors, such as food and wine, luxury, fashion and furniture. She is a point of reference in the Italian market for transactions involving family offices or family businesses with a particular focus on corporate reorganization issues and generational business transitions. She completed her legal training abroad, qualifying as a solicitor. She worked for many years in London and was the first Italian woman to become a partner in a City law firm. Upon returning to Milan in the early 2000s, in 2010 she launched the Italian practice of Withers, immediately taking on the role of Managing Partner. For nine years, she also served as European Leader of Withers’ Business Division. She remains today among the very few women managing partners of business law firms in Italy. In 2026 and 2025 she was listed by Citywealth among the Top 50 advisors for Non-Doms and UHNW individuals in Italy. In 2025, Forbes Italy included her among the 100 most successful women in Italy, highlighting her role in driving economic and other forms of progress in the country. In 2024, Forbes Italy mentioned her among the top 100 consulting professionals in Italy. Since 2019, she has been a regular presence among the Best 50 Italian lawyers, a directory promoted by the publication LegalCommunity. In 2020, the same publication listed her among the few women managing partners of a law firm in Italy, recognizing her contribution to a historic transformation within the Italian legal market, historically led by men. In 2025 she led the Italian offices of Withers to obtain the UNI/PdR 125:2022 certification for gender equality. Since 2014, the international directory Legal 500 EMEA Italy has consistently listed her as a recommended lawyer in the areas of corporate and commercial, real estate, food and beverage, and fashion and luxury.

Withers Società tra Avvocati S.r.l.

Roberto Cristofolini

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Roberto Guerrero

Associate

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.

Roberto Guerrero Comella

Associate

Greenberg Traurig, S.C.

Roberto Lipari

Roberto Lipari is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Italy and Europe.

Dentons

Robin Painter

Robin A. Painter is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was global co-head of that practice for several years. She also previously served as co-head of the Firm's corporate department. She has a global network of clients and contacts developed over her more than 30 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital industry. She advises fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on a broad range of issues, including structuring private investment funds, portfolio investments, spin-outs, secondary transactions, internal governance and divestments and distributions. The majority of Robin’s practice involves representing sponsors in structuring private investment funds and funds of funds and representing U.S. and global institutional investors and investment advisors in the private equity field. She routinely supervises teams of lawyers that represent sponsors in structuring their funds and institutional investors, or their advisors, in their investments across the alternative asset class. Robin also represents large institutional investors, or their advisors, in connection with the acquisition and sale of secondary partnership interests, and she has been involved in several of the largest bulk purchases of partnership interests in the industry. Over the last few years, Robin has managed teams of lawyers in fund structuring projects with capital commitments of well over $10 billion, and also has advised clients on significant secondary transactions, spin-outs and restructurings. Robin has served as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at several law and business schools, including Harvard School of Law, the Copenhagen Business School, Oxford University, MIT Sloan School, Yale School of Management and Boston College Law School. A frequent lecturer, author and industry board member, Robin takes an active role in the global private equity community. Some of her more recent lecture topics have included: Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund Private Equity Secondaries as an Asset Class Connecting with Your Firm's Fundraising Efforts Terms & Conditions: Ensuring a Successful Platform for All Parties The LPs Perspective on Alternative Assets

Proskauer Rose LLP

Robyn Berger

Executive: Tax

Bowmans