Clifford Chance — United States

Alberto Haito

Alberto Haito has extensive experience in financial markets and project financing and has represented various financial institutions, including multilateral organizations, commercial banks and sponsors in numerous energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America. · Banking & Finance

Alejandro E. Camacho

Alejandro E. Camacho has extensive experience in the area of cross-border capital markets transactions, particularly transactions involving issuers from emerging market countries. He has acted as counsel in connection with public and private international offerings of various types of securities including debt, equity and convertible securities of both public and private issuers. Alejandro has also been involved in several privatizations in Latin America. He has also acted as counsel in a variety of other international and domestic transactions including joint ventures, commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital transactions. · Capital Markets

Alistair Dunlop

Alistair Dunlop is a partner in the Structured Capital Markets Group of Clifford Chance, based in New York. He has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including residential mortgage-backed securities, credit risk transfers, online consumer loans, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations and other structured products. · Structured Finance

Andrew Epstein

Andrew Epstein’s practice focuses primarily on public and private capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Andrew represents issuers, underwriters, initial purchasers/placement agents and purchasers in public and private capital markets transactions and buyers, sellers and financial advisors in M&A transactions. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including specialty finance, asset management, real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), hospitality and healthcare. Andrew has also advised clients in IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO/144A offerings, Regulation S offerings and other private placements. Mr. Epstein has also advised institutional clients in the structuring of real estate opportunity funds and the continuing investment activities of these funds. · Capital Markets

Andrew Young

Andrew Young is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. Andrew advises lenders, corporates, sponsors and investors in all aspects of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged loans, syndicated credits, direct loans, fund finance and private placements. He also advises clients in respect of restructurings, recapitalizations, intercreditor arrangements and bankruptcy issues. Previously with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Mr. Young joined Clifford Chance in 2015. He earned his JD, magna cum laude, from New York Law School. · Banking & Finance

Anthony Candido

Litigation

Anthony Oldfield

Anthony Oldfield has more than 25 years' experience focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers, joint ventures and venture capital transactions, particularly in Brazil and Latin America. Anthony also acts for a variety of issuers and underwriters advising on disposals, acquisitions, joint ventures and raising debt and equity. · Corporate / M&A

Ash Masrani

Ash Masrani is an associate on our Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing Team. She focuses on strategic technology and commercial transactions across various industry sectors, with a keen emphasis on complex outsourcings and digital transformation initiatives. Ash excels in guiding clients through the lifecycle of a transaction, from structuring deals and provider selection to negotiations, contract execution and post-contract management. Ash holds extensive experience in advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; branding agreements, reseller agreements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions. · Outsourcing

Avrohom Gelber

Avrohom Gelber practices U.S. tax law, focusing on cross-border finance and capital markets transactions. Avrohom provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including the formation of investment funds, corporate acquisitions and restructurings and derivative financial instruments. · Tax

Benjamin Berringer

Ben Berringer represents clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation. He has specific experience in private fund litigation, as well as complex trading and market issues. Ben has represented individuals and corporations in connection with regulatory investigations before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and numerous non-US regulators. Ben also has extensive experience representing and advising corporations on litigation and regulatory matters arising under US privacy and data protection laws. · Litigation

Benjamin Fisher

Ben focuses on cross-border asset finance transactions in the aviation sector. He advises financial institutions and corporate clients on a broad range of matters, including structured debt transactions, capital markets transactions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset portfolio transfers, leasing, export credit agency-supported financings, secondary debt trading, and complex restructurings and workouts. Ben previously worked in our London and Hong Kong offices before relocating to New York, and he is qualified to practice in both New York and England and Wales. · Asset Finance

Benjamin Sibbett

Benjamin Sibbett's focus is on mergers and acquisitions and related securities as well as corporate law matters, representing U.S. and non-U.S. buyers, sellers and other stakeholders, including financial sponsors and strategic investors, in a broad range of negotiated domestic and cross-border transactions, including negotiated acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts, reorganizations, joint ventures and other strategic investments. Benjamin has been involved in transactions across a wide range of geographies and industries, with particular experience in healthcare and TMT sectors. · Corporate / M&A

Carla Ruggero

Carla Ruggero is a partner in the Corporate/M&A practice and a member of the Clifford Chance Latin America Group and the Clifford Chance Energy and Infrastructure Group. Originally from Argentina and dual qualified in New York and Argentina, she regularly advises financial investors and corporate enterprises in complex cross-border M&A transactions. Carla has extensive practice in cross border M&A transactions, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure. · Corporate / M&A

Catherine McCarthy

Catherine McCarthy is a partner in the Americas Energy & Infrastructure Group. She has extensive experience in power, mining, energy, telecoms, transportation and other infrastructure projects acting for clients including IFC, IDB, Citibank, Natixis, HSBC SMBC, Credit Agricole, CAF, , FMO, Proparco, DEG, BNP Paribas. Kate is one of firm's main relationship partners in the US for both agency lenders such as IFC, IDB and IIC and commercial banks such as Citibank, HSBC and SMBC. She has significant expertise in ECA financing, having acted for lenders in deals backed by COFACE, SACE, Hermes, US Exim, K-Sure, EKF, EKN, GIEK and CESCE. She also has expertise in multilateral guarantee and insurance products including the World Bank partial risk guarantee and the MIGA sovereign non-honoring and PRI policies. · Energy & Resources

Celeste Koeleveld

Celeste Koeleveld has over 25 years of experience in government enforcement, regulatory and civil litigation matters that span federal, state and local government in the United States. Over the course of her career, she has held senior positions in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the New York City Law Department. Celeste represents clients, both corporates and individuals, with regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and all phases of civil, criminal and regulatory litigation, from inception through the appellate process. Her significant government experience imparts a particularly insightful perspective to her advice and counsel in matters involving regulatory agencies. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Celeste served on the executive committee of DFS, joining in 2016 as General Counsel, and ultimately serving as Deputy Superintendent and Special Counsel. During her time at DFS, she handled a broad spectrum of regulatory and enforcement actions, including disciplinary and enforcement proceedings, licensing matters, implementation of legislation and promulgation of regulations. In particular, as General Counsel, Celeste was instrumental in the development and implementation of DFS cybersecurity and transaction monitoring regulations. In addition to her recent role at DFS, Celeste previously served for 16 years in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, rising to serve as the Chief of the Criminal Division. In that role, she led a team of more than 160 Assistant US Attorneys and oversaw all criminal investigations and prosecutions. She also served as the Chief Appellate Attorney of the SDNY for four years, overseeing the extensive appellate practice. During her tenure with the SDNY, she also served as the Chief of the General Crimes Unit. Prior to joining DFS, Celeste served for eight years as Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department. In this role she oversaw several litigation and trial divisions and provided legal advice to City agencies responding to governmental investigation from a variety of federal, state and local prosecutors and investigative bodies. · Government Enforcement

Christopher McIsaac

Christopher McIsaac is joint head of the Americas Energy and Projects Group, which is focused on the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects. Christopher has a broad-based finance experience including lender and sponsor representation across a range of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, power generation and other energy projects. He is Counsel to commercial lenders, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, and project sponsors. Christopher has structured, drafted and negotiated credit facilities involving recourse, non-recourse, mezzanine, capital lease, and offshore trust structures, among others. He has also structured and documented a variety of equity arrangements on behalf of sponsors and developers including: the negotiation of project contracts with concession grantors, power purchasers and other offtakers, EPC contractors, equipment suppliers, and fuel suppliers; negotiated and documented financing arrangements in the public and private markets involving commercial banks, export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions, institutional lenders, and underwriters. Christopher spent nearly five years in Asia, where he was the attorney in charge of the Singapore office of a major New York law firm. · Project Finance

Christopher Morvillo

Christopher J. Morvillo has extensive experience representing corporate and individual clients in white-collar government investigations, related regulatory and civil proceedings, and internal investigations. Chris' recent representations have included investigations and prosecutions of alleged insider trading, trade secret theft, securities fraud, accounting fraud, healthcare fraud, and alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the Arms Export Control Act. He has also recently conducted internal investigations for corporate clients involving possible corporate espionage, violations of the Endangered Species Act, insider trading, and embezzlement. From 1999 to 2005, Chris served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he investigated, tried and handled appeals in a wide variety of criminal cases, including in the area of healthcare fraud, insurance fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, counter-terrorism, and narcotics. Among other notable prosecutions and investigations, Chris assisted in the criminal investigation arising out of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and served as one of the lead prosecutors on the successful 10-month counter-terrorism trial of defense attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-conspirators, one of the longest criminal trials in Southern District history. · White Collar Crime

Daniel Drabkin

Daniel Drabkin is a partner in Clifford Chance's Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Daniel specializes in the representation of sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, structuring, marketing and operating alternative investment funds, with significant experience in real estate, private credit, private equity and fund-of fund strategies. Daniel also represents institutional investors in negotiating LP-side investments into funds, co-investments and other managed accounts, and has significant experience with secondaries transactions (both buy-side and sell-side) involving the purchase and sale of mature fund interests. Daniel has a broad spectrum of legal experience, having previously worked in-house as corporate counsel to a public real estate and investment management firm. · Fund Formation

Daniel Silver

Daniel Silver focuses on regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal defense matters. Dan represents individuals, investment funds, banks and other corporate entities in matters before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state enforcement agencies. Dan also counsels clients on risk mitigation strategies with respect to cybersecurity, anti-corruption, sanctions and anti-money laundering issues. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Dan spent ten years as a federal prosecutor, serving in several senior leadership positions and as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section within the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Dan supervised a team of more than one hundred federal prosecutors, personally led complex cross-border investigations, conducted more than a dozen jury trials, and argued numerous appeals. · White Collar Crime

David Brinton

David Brinton engages in a corporate and securities law practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions. David regularly represents sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions as well as advising on a variety of financing transactions. David is experienced in public and private debt and equity offerings by both US and non-US companies with extensive experience advising funds and fund managers. · Mergers & Acquisitions

David DiBari

David D. DiBari is the practice area leader for US Litigation & Dispute Resolution, the US lead Partner for the Firm's Global Risk Team, and the Managing Partner of Clifford Chance’s Washington, D.C. office. He has over 25 years of experience in complex civil, regulatory and criminal matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, US economic sanctions and export controls, US securities and banking laws and regulations, and other laws and regulations affecting the conduct of international business. David has extensive experience in defending global companies in multi-jurisdictional investigations and litigation, advising companies on crisis management, and in developing and implementing cross-border risk mitigation and compliance programs. David has represented both domestic and multi-national companies before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve, New York Department of Financial Services, Department of State, Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Justice, US Congress and other Federal and state authorities and SROs · Litigation

David Evans

David Evans has been involved in energy and finance matters his entire career, including positions as Chevron's chief natural gas lawyer, Vice President and General Counsel of an independent power developer, and as a partner in two major law firms. His current practice primarily involves representing lenders to, investors in, and developers of energy and infrastructure projects. He also advises clients on energy regulatory matters in the United States, including the Federal Power Act, the Natural Gas Act, the Atomic Energy Act , and the Energy Policy Act. · Banking & Finance

David Moldenhauer

David T. Moldenhauer, a partner in the US Tax, Pensions and Employment group, practices international tax law. David provides tax and structuring advice for a wide variety of international financial and business transactions, including investment funds, carried interest and management co-investment arrangements, private equity investments, corporate acquisitions and restructurings, domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, joint ventures, financing transactions, financial instruments, equipment leasing and project finance. David also regularly consults on tax compliance and other technical US tax issues. David is an Adjunct Professor of International Tax at New York Law School. · Tax

David Sweeney

Corporate / M&A

Donald Carden

Donald Carden regularly advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies and funds on issues of Federal and New York State income taxation, with a particular emphasis on corporate and partnership taxation and the tax aspects of structured finance transactions. Donald is a regular speaker on tax issues at industry events and is the author of numerous articles on tax issues. Since 2008, Donald has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" in Legal 500 and has been acknowledged as a leading practitioner in Chambers and the Tax Directors Handbook, and is a New York "Super Lawyer" for 2011. · Taxation

Douglas Deutsch

Douglas E Deutsch is a partner in Clifford Chance's Global Financial Markets group, based in New York. He has earned a reputation as a skilled practitioner in the bankruptcy and corporate arenas. Douglas advises lending groups, lenders, agents and indenture trustees and other financial creditors and debtors, in U.S and cross border restructuring matters. · Bankruptcy

Eddie Frastai

Eddie Frastai is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group, based in New York. Eddie specializes in advising real estate owners, developers, operators, managers, investors and financial institutions on a broad range of real estate transactions pertaining to large office, hotel, retail, residential and mixed-use projects, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing, debt restructurings and discounted payoffs. Eddie has been a guest lecturer at New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate and a panelist at the Law and Business Association of New York University School of Law. · Real Estate

Emily Wicker

Emily Wicker focuses on secured lending and leasing transactions with an emphasis on aircraft leasing and financing. Emily is experienced in all aspects of aircraft finance, leasing and related restructuring transactions, including pre-delivery payment facilities, aircraft and spare parts credit facilities, EETCs and similar structured finance transactions. · Aviation Finance

Evan Cohen

Evan Cohen has over twenty five years of experience representing clients in the areas of acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, syndicated lending and restructurings. His clients include commercial and investment banks, borrowers, institutional investors and project sponsors. Evan’s extensive experience spans multiple jurisdictions including the Americas, UK, Europe and Asia. He spent eight years in Asia leading the US Banking practice and heading up the Asian Distressed Debt practice · Banking & Finance

Fabricio Longhin

Fabricio Longhin is co-head of the firm's Latin America group and advises developers, commercial banks, multilateral organizations, export credit agencies, infrastructure and energy funds and institutional investors in all aspects relating to the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America and the US. · Project Finance

Gareth Old

Gareth Old is a derivatives and structured finance lawyer in New York. His practice concentrates on risk management strategies for banks and financial investors, including cash and synthetic securitisations, derivatives and repo transactions, capital and regulatory advice. His clients include prominent fund and investment managers, banks, investors and service providers. · Derivatives

George Kleinfeld

George Kleinfeld, a senior partner in Clifford Chance's Washington, D.C. office, holds extensive experience and deep insight in sanctions and compliance. With a comprehensive understanding of US and international sanctions laws, George has advised a wide array of financial institutions and corporations over four decades on navigating complex regulatory environments. He advises financial institutions, industrial enterprises, trading companies and global investors on US sanctions issues and compliance with US sanctions laws and regulations. He has participated in a wide range of US sanctions investigations and enforcement actions as well as designing compliance programs and providing compliance training and risk analyses for multinational corporations and financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Asia and the Americas. He also advises clients on compliance with US export controls and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and has obtained scores of national security clearances for foreign acquisitions of strategic US business assets from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). George works closely with the firm's global corporate, capital markets and finance practices to resolve complex due diligence and transactional issues in his areas of expertise. George is a member of our global Sanctions & Export Controls team. · Sanctions & Export Controls

Gianluca Bacchiocchi

Gianluca Bacchiocchi is a partner in the Global Financial Markets team with a focus in the energy and infrastructure sector. Gianluca has significant experience financing energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally on behalf of developers, financial sponsors, issuers, banks, initial purchasers and placement agents in the capital markets, the bank lending market, private capital financings, and hybrid transactions. He has financed everything from data centers to renewable and traditional power, metro lines, roads, hospitals, ports, airports, bridges, water transportation, water desalination, parking and FPSOs. Gianluca has been involved in some of the most innovative, award-winning financings and advises clients in structured and hybrid capital financing transactions. · Banking & Finance

Glen Donath

Glen Donath is in the firm's White Collar and Regulatory practice. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, governmental enforcement actions, internal investigations, health care fraud and abuse, corporate compliance and complex civil litigation. A highly regarded former federal prosecutor, Glen has successfully represented health care providers, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies and various other corporations in an array of complex civil and criminal proceedings, including matters arising under securities, tax, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), environmental, healthcare, False Claims Act, bribery, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), anti-money laundering and other criminal statutes. He also has successfully defended many prominent corporate officers and high-ranking public officials in similar matters. Additionally, he has conducted internal investigations for major corporations and their audit committees. Glen previously served for a number of years as a Senior Assistant US Attorney in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he conducted grand jury investigations and prosecuted cases involving a wide variety of white collar matters, including health care fraud, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, tax offenses, bankruptcy fraud, and government corruption. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Glen first-chaired dozens of trials involving a wide range of criminal offenses to successful verdicts. He received numerous Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards for sustained superior performance. Glen appears frequently in the media as an authority on white collar criminal defense and government investigations. Recently he has appeared on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront, and NPR's Morning Edition. He has also been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Bloomberg Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, LA Times, AP, Reuters, and many others. · White Collar Crime

Howard Adler

Howard Adler is Chairman of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group in the Americas. Howard's practice focuses on the treatment of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in M&A transactions, designing and implementing equity-based, employment, separation, deferred compensation, change in control and similar compensation arrangements and advising boards of directors on fiduciary duties and governance matters with respect to their executive officers and directors. · Executive Compensation

Hugo Triaca

Hugo Triaca's practice focuses on capital markets and finance transactions, primarily in Latin America. He has extensive experience on high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings, and liability management transactions. His experience includes advising financial institutions and corporate, sovereign and sub-sovereign entities across jurisdictions, sectors and products, such as green, social and sustainable capital markets and financing transactions, acquisition and project financings, exchange offers, tender offers, consent solicitations and other transactions. Mr. Triaca also advises foreign private issuers in connection with corporate governance, US securities laws and general corporate matters. · Capital Markets

Jacqueline Landells

Jacqueline Landells' advisory practice is focused on international economic regulation and foreign trade controls. Ms. Landells has experience counseling on the regulation of international trade and investment transactions under US foreign trade controls, including US economic sanctions administered by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and US export controls. She advises US and international clients on compliance with these regulations in regard to ongoing and going forward business and transactions, as well as assisting with investigations and reviews of historic practices. She also regularly advises clients on obtaining national security clearances from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for foreign acquisitions in the United States. · International Trade

Jake Farquharson

Jake Farquharson focuses primarily on domestic and international capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions. Jake represents sponsors, issuers and investment banks in their public and private capital raising activities. He advises clients across a range of industries, including real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs), FIBRAs, specialty finance, energy, infrastructure and hospitality. Since 2010, Jake has participated in more than US$8 billion of capital raising transactions, including IPOs, follow-on equity and debt offerings, pre-IPO financings, 144A and Regulation S offerings and other private placements. · Capital Markets

James Gouwar

Jim Gouwar is a partner in the Tax, Pensions & Employment group in New York. His practice concentrates on the tax aspects of structured finance transactions such as mortgage- and asset-backed transactions, collateralized loan and debt obligations (cash and synthetic) and real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs). Jim has been involved in the development of innovative securitization structures and has worked with a broad range of financial assets. Jim has experience with private equity funds, hedge funds, regulated investment companies, and other pooled investment vehicles. · Tax

James McPhillips

James McPhillips advises clients in a variety of industries on complex technology and commercial transactions, with a particular focus on strategic outsourcing, digital transformation projects and cloud services transactions. James’ most recent experience includes counseling clients on the legal implications of developing, purchasing, deploying, and using artificial intelligence systems and tools. James is a core practitioner in the firm's Complex Commercial Transactions & Outsourcing team and is consistently recognized by Chambers USA in the area of Technology & Outsourcing with a specific focus on cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He also has extensive experience advising clients on strategic information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) transactions; software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements; core systems implementations; software licensing and development arrangements; and other related corporate and commercial transactions. · Technology & Outsourcing

Jason Myers

Jason D. Myers' practice focuses on public and private capital markets transactions and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions in the real estate, hospitality and specialty finance sectors. He has advised sponsors, investment banks, REITs, specialty finance companies, and business development companies in their capital raising activities, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity and debt transactions, 144A offerings and other private placements and PIPEs, raising more than US$4 billion in the past few years. Jason has done extensive work in connection with REITS (both traded and non-traded) and privately held funds formed for the purpose of investing in real estate, including joint ventures. This work has included the formation and structuring of such entities, and the initial financing and investment in such entities. Jason has also advised on the structuring, acquisition and financing of investments made by such entities. · Capital Markets

Jay Bernstein

Jay Bernstein is Chair of the US REIT, Specialty Finance and Permanent Capital Vehicle Practices. He has also served as Chair of the Firm’s US Corporate Finance group for more than ten years. His practice is focused on the creation of innovative permanent capital vehicles. Jay represents clients in both domestic and international markets, sponsors, investors, investment banks, specialty finance companies, REITs and clean energy and other companies in their capital raising and merger and acquisition activities. He is recognized in the US market as a true innovator and the person to turn to when any real asset company is looking to break new ground or implement new strategies or market firsts. He has a long and successful track record of guiding clients through many truly transformative transactions. Over the past 20 years, he has participated in more than $50 billion in capital raising, fund formation, strategic joint ventures, platform formations and mergers and acquisitions for clients around the globe. He has been ranked as a top tier lawyer for REITs in the Chambers USA guide and Legal 500 USA since 2009. · REITs

Jeanne Roig-Irwin

Jeanne Roig-Irwin is in our Real Estate Group and specializes in complex real estate acquisitions, financings and joint ventures. Her work also includes representing real estate developers, banks, funds and REITs in real estate dispositions, leasing and other real estate transactions. · Real Estate

Jeff Berman

Jeff Berman is a partner in the firm’s US Financial Services Regulatory Group, with a practice that focuses on regulatory matters involving US and non-US investment funds, asset managers, banking organizations and bank holding companies, and includes private equity and hedge fund formation and financial institutions M&A. Jeff has over 25 years’ experience with US bank and securities regulation. He advises clients on the operations of foreign banking organizations in the United States, capital adequacy rules and prudential standards, and regulatory approvals for acquisitions and new activities, as well as on compliance matters involving investment advisers, private offerings, and fund governance. Most recently, Jeff has been advising the firm’s global clients on the strategic impact of regulatory reform under the Dodd-Frank Act and the JOBS Act, including with respect to private equity and hedge fund marketing, investment adviser registration and reporting, Volcker Rule compliance, and enhanced supervision of systemically important banks. · Banking & Finance

Jeff Butler

Jeff Butler has a broad range of experience litigating complex commercial cases in federal and state courts, including substantial experience coordinating cross-border litigation and other litigation in multiple jurisdictions. Jeff has particular experience representing non-US clients with respect to contentious matters in the US, including securities class actions, financial product litigation, M&A litigation and bankruptcy-related litigation. · Litigation

Jennifer DeMarco

Jennifer DeMarco primarily represents financial institutions in US and international debt restructurings and financial transactions including in connection with debtor-in-possession financings. Complementary to her corporate restructuring experience, she is also an experienced bankruptcy court litigator, having appeared in bankruptcy courts throughout the US. · Restructuring & Insolvency

John Friel

John Friel is a partner in Clifford Chance's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice, based in New York. John represents corporate and financial institution clients in complex litigation and government enforcement actions. His practice focuses on antitrust, securities, and derivatives matters, both criminal and civil, and he has particular expertise in cross-border matters. John represents clients before a number of US agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, as well as numerous enforcement agencies around the world. · Litigation

John Healy

John Healy advises acquiring, selling and target companies and their financial advisors on both negotiated and unsolicited acquisitions for privately and publicly held corporations. · Corporate / M&A

John Howitt

John Howitt is a partner in the US Finance and Restructuring Group of Clifford Chance specializing in asset finance. In particular, he focuses on aircraft finance, including leveraged lease transactions, operating leases (domestic and cross-border), new and used aircraft purchases (including portfolio acquisitions), sales (including portfolio sales) and sale-leasebacks, securitizations, restructurings and manufacturer support arrangements. John also has considerable experience in bank and private placement credit transactions, including asset-based financings; domestic and Latin American debt restructurings; acquisition and recapitalization financings; project financings; domestic, Eurodollar, and Eurocurrency loans; loan and note swaps; sales and participations; letter of credit facilities; and commercial paper facilities. · Asset Finance

Jonathan Zonis

Jonathan Zonis concentrates in representing issuers and underwriters in cross-border equity and debt (including high-yield) offerings. Jonathan has been involved in public and private transactions in equity and debt offerings by issuers in a variety of industries including banking, energy, manufacturing, real estate, infrastructure, luxury goods, telecommunications, media and shipping. · Capital Markets

Joshua Berman

Joshua Berman, a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer, has over twenty years of experience handling white collar and government investigations matters both in the private sector and in government. Josh represents and provides counsel to corporate clients, Boards of Directors and individuals in government, Congressional and internal investigations, civil litigation, information security, and securities enforcement proceedings. Josh has expertise in developing global compliance and training programs for companies, and handling due diligence in connection with anti-corruption and other potential fraud matters. · Litigation

José García Cueto

José García Cueto focuses his practice on commercial and investor-state international arbitration and mediation matters in Latin America and the US. He has extensive experience advising in infrastructure (oil & gas, renewables, power plants, and construction disputes generally) post M&A disputes and investment related disputes. He has experience advising on ICSID, ICC AAA, UNCITRAL, ICDR and ad hoc arbitrations, among others. · International Arbitration

Julian Hurtado Vallejo

Julián is an associate in the Americas Energy and Infrastructure Group. He has vast experience advising multilateral organizations, commercial banks, institutional investors and sponsors in all aspects of the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America. · Energy & Infrastructure

Karalyn Mildorf

Karalyn Mildorf has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) mitigation matters. She also advises clients on the US Outbound Investment Security Program and in national security reviews before Team Telecom. Karalyn has advised clients on CFIUS issues in thousands of transactions covering a wide variety of industries and investor countries. She strategically guides clients through assessing national security risks for deals, transaction structuring and jurisdictional considerations, negotiation of deal terms, all stages of the CFIUS filing and review process, engagement with relevant government officials, CFIUS mitigation negotiation and implementation, CFIUS inquiries regarding non-notified transactions, and CFIUS enforcement actions. Karalyn also has extensive experience representing clients in FOCI mitigation matters. She has negotiated, prepared, and advised regarding compliance with, and implementation of, numerous FOCI mitigation arrangements, including Special Security Agreements, Proxy Agreements, Security Control Agreements, and FOCI Board Resolutions. · International Trade

Kathleen Werner

Kathleen L. Werner is a Partner in the Capital Markets practice of Clifford Chance. Kathleen primarily represents companies and investment banks in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in the financial services, real estate and media industries. She acts as regular outside corporate and SEC counsel to many of her clients. In addition, Kathleen frequently represents investment banking firms acting as underwriters and initial purchasers in public and private securities offerings. Kathleen's clients include public and private companies in a variety of industries, including the financial services, real estate, healthcare and media industries. · Capital Markets

Kevin Lehpamer

Kevin Lehpamer focuses on public and private M&A transactions. He regularly advises sellers, purchasers and other parties in negotiated cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, joint ventures and investment transactions. Kevin has represented a broad range of clients including Ingersoll-Rand, Blackstone, Toshiba, Tyco, Barclays, Owens –Illinois, KKR and JPMorgan. · Mergers & Acquisitions

Lee Askenazi

Lee Askenazi has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including all aspects of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, re-REMICs, repurchase facilities and other structured products. · Structured Finance

Lee Askenzai

Lee Askenazi has extensive experience in structured capital markets, including all aspects of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations, collateralized debt obligations, re-REMICs, repurchase facilities and other structured products. · Capital Markets

Lori Ann Bean

Lori Ann Bean specialises in the development and financing of infrastructure and energy projects worldwide. Lori Ann has an extensive broad-based experience in project and acquisition finance, representing export credit agencies, multilateral development institutions and other governmental and commercial lenders, as well as project sponsors and other project participants. Lori Ann advises clients in various other financing vehicles for infrastructure and energy transactions, including 144A offerings and other bond issuances, guarantee facilities, equity funds and corporate finance. Experience crosses a broad range of industry sectors, including power, oil and gas, transport infrastructure (airports, toll roads and rail), telecom and petrochemical · Banking & Finance

Marcia Hook

Marcia Hook is an energy regulatory partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Drawing on a deep understanding of complex laws, regulations, and market rules, Marcia provides clients with practical advice to navigate opaque energy regulatory requirements and complicated energy litigation. She has represented clients across the energy industry before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, state public utility commissions, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Her experience representing clients across the energy industry helps Marcia provide transactional advice that extends beyond standard-issue regulatory matters such as approvals and filings to transaction strategy and deal structure, tailored to the needs and objectives of the client. Marcia also advises clients regarding the negotiation and development of commercial agreements, including agreements for the purchase and sale of power, transmission rights, hydrogen, natural gas, and LNG. Marcia was recognized as “Up and Coming” in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers USA for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), Nationwide, and “Up and Coming” in the 2022 and 2023 editions of Chambers Global for Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), USA. · Energy Regulatory