Sidley Austin — United States

Amy M. Rubin

Partner · Executive Compensation

Bartholomew (Bart) Sheehan III

Partner · Capital Markets

Bonnie A. Neuman

Partner · Real Estate

Carter Phillips

Partner · Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation

Colleen M. Kenney

Partner · Antitrust

Corey Roush

Partner · Antitrust Law

Craig Hilts

Partner · Capital Markets

Daniel (Dan) F. Spies

Partner · Investment Funds

David E. Teitelbaum

Partner · Banking

David Lashway

Partner · Privacy and Cybersecurity

David Perkins

M&A/Corporate and Commercial

Edward (Ed) Petrosky

Partner · Capital Markets

George Vlahakos

Partner · Corporate/Securities

Holly J. Gregory

Partner · Corporate Governance

Irwin P. Raij

Partner · Private Equity

Irwin Raij

Partner · Entertainment

J. Gerard (Jerry) Cummins

Partner · Investment Funds

Jeffrey E. Ross

Partner · Leveraged Finance

Jeffrey Ross

Jeffrey Ross is Chair of the firm’s Finance Group and a member of its Private Equity Group and Special Situations team. His practice focuses on complex acquisition and leveraged financings, such as the $15 billion merger of Envision Healthcare with AMSURG; Discovery, Inc. in the financing aspects of the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion; the $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital by Activision Blizzard; the $5.5 billion merger of Ply Gem, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, with NCI Building Systems; and the $4.1 billion acquisition of Kindred Healthcare by TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Mr. Ross publishes frequently on legal matters related to finance topics, including “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the State of the LIBOR Transition,” Columbia Blue Sky Blog (August, 2021); “What’s Market: 2020 Mid-Year Trends in Large Cap and Middle Market Loans,” Practical Law (July, 2020); “Alternative Leveraged Lending Structures And Limitations,” Law360 (June, 2015); “SunGard 2.0,” The M&A Lawyer (2014); “Del Monte: Staple Remover?,” The Deal Pipeline (2012); and “Some Pitfalls In Financing Carve-Outs,” The Deal (2012). He is also a contributing author to the annual Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2019) and a former editor of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report. Mr. Ross is a guest lecturer on leveraged finance in a course entitled Private Equity Playbook at Cornell Law School and is co-chair for PLI’s Leveraged Financing and Private Equity Acquisition Financing Summit programs. Mr. Ross joined the firm in 2005 and became a partner in 2010. He received a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School in 1999, an M.A., first class honors, in International Relations from University of Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1995. · Acquisition Financing

Jonathan A. Nunes

Partner · Securitization

Justin Savage

Partner · Automotive And Mobility

Kai Liekefett

Partner · Shareholder Activism

Luke Maiman

Counsel · Capital Markets

Michelle Ramirez

Partner · Product Liability

Paul Boehm

Partner

Perry Shwachman

Partner · M&A

Randi W. Singer

Partner · Copyright

Sarah Tucker

Partner · Energy Law

Steven Rutkovsky

Leveraged Finance

Ted Murphy

Partner · International Trade

Torrey Cope

Partner · FDA Regulatory