BakerHostetler — United States

Adam Forman

Partner, BakerHostetler · Intellectual Property

Ann O’Brien

Ann O'Brien is a partner and co-leader of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. She also leads the firm’s Criminal Antitrust and Cartels team. Ann is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. Ann's practice focuses on advising clients facing criminal and civil government antitrust investigations or litigation. Ann’s insight on antitrust agency priorities, goals and policies are a valuable asset to companies facing international, domestic and multi-agency exposure. She has substantial experience leading every aspect of domestic and international antitrust and white collar investigations and prosecutions, including litigating federal criminal jury trials. Additionally, she provides clients with cutting-edge compliance counseling and training that can help deter or quickly detect antitrust exposure, informed by what is most important to the Antitrust Division and the courts. Ann has extensive knowledge of antitrust enforcement practices and policy decisions, gained from her time working at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Antitrust Division and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland. During her nearly 20-year tenure, she assumed numerous senior leadership and management positions in the Antitrust Division, notably as the Assistant Chief of two sections and as the Acting Director of Criminal Enforcement. She was involved in virtually every major criminal enforcement and policy decision made by the Antitrust Division for nearly two decades, and reviewed and approved hundreds of case recommendations, leniency recommendations, search warrants, and requests for grand jury or preliminary inquiry authority. Notably, she gained comprehensive knowledge of antitrust corporate compliance and developed strong relationships with domestic and foreign antitrust enforcers and regulators. Additionally, Ann served as the Antitrust Division representative on the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, as well as a member of the Grant Fraud Working Group and Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group. Ann also has extensive experience advising clients on price-gouging issues and representative client's facing state price-gouging investigations. Having established herself as a thought leader in the antitrust community, Ann regularly speaks and writes on a broad-range of antitrust topics, including serving as co-editor of Competition Policy International’s Cartel column. She has also trained hundreds of antitrust prosecutors and law enforcement agents, and served as a liaison to other DOJ components and government agencies. Utilizing her in-depth understanding of antitrust policy and prosecution, Ann skillfully guides clients through their unique antitrust and white collar matters. · Antitrust

Bradley Pensyl

Partner · Dispute Resolution

David K. Brown

Partner · Corporate

Eric Gyasi

Partner, BakerHostetler · Cybersecurity

Eric Sagerman

West Coast Senior Consultant - Office of the Chair · Restructuring

JR Lanis

JR Lanis is the firmwide co-leader of BakerHostetler’s Capital Markets and Securities and Corporate Governance practice. He advises clients on public company securities offerings and reporting, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate transactional and governance needs. He structures and negotiates public stock and debt offerings, tender offers, rights offerings, IPOs, all forms of mergers and acquisitions, licensing deals and other commercial matters. JR serves as outside counsel to numerous public companies, investment banks and registered investment companies and is experienced in listing and reporting for OTC, Nasdaq and NYSE-listed issuers. He represents strategic and private equity and family office-backed buyers and sellers of businesses and product lines. JR’s clients include publicly traded and privately held companies and investors in a variety of industries, including professional sports, food and beverage, technology, financial services, hospitality, entertainment and life sciences. In addition to his role as co-leader of the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities and Corporate Governance practice, JR leads the Los Angeles office’s Business practice team and chairs the firm’s West Coast Business Development Committee, which is responsible for client relationship, marketing and branding initiatives among BakerHostetler’s Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco and Seattle offices. · Capital Markets

Jeffrey E. Decker

Partner · Corporate and M&A

Jennifer G. Solari

Partner · White Collar Crime

Jimmy Parrish

Partner · Finance

John Siegal

John Siegal is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer in federal and state courts in New York and across the nation. He advises, litigates and arbitrates primarily for financial services, media and real estate industry clients in private business disputes and matters involving public agencies and controversies. John has a 30-year track record of successful results for clients in the areas of fiduciary duties, business divorces, partnership disputes, contracts, financial fraud, trade secrets and noncompetes, government investigations and government contracts, Article 78 proceedings, real estate development and property management disputes, defamation, privacy and reporter’s privilege, false advertising, civil rights, class actions and other constitutional and business disputes. · Trial Practice

Jonathan Forman

Partner, BakerHostetler · Financial Services Regulatory and Compliance

Lisa Collins

Partner · Intellectual Property

Mark Itri

Mark Itri is the Partner-in-Charge of the firm’s Orange County office. He concentrates his practice on the preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications and litigation matters, focusing on high technology relating to electronics and computer software arts, semiconductors, analog circuitry, microprocessor design, Internet of Things, image processing, pattern and speech recognition, server and network systems, WiFi and Bluetooth, mechanical devices, medical devices, solid state memories, authentication, cyber security, instruments, AI and machine learning, and unmanned and autonomous vehicles. He also negotiates and drafts technology transfer agreements, joint development agreements and licenses and advises his clients on strategic IP planning, patent and trademark portfolio management, freedom to operate and other opinion work and due diligence in connection with technology and trademark acquisitions. A former electrical engineer, Mark worked in the research and development of microprocessor designs and flight control systems in the private aerospace industry, giving him an insider's perspective of the patent and trademark process. He has been named among the Daily Journal's Top 25 Portfolio Managers, one of the leading lawyers in the U.S. for utility and design patent prosecution by The Legal 500, and as one of "The World's Leading Patent Practitioners" by Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Patent 1000. · Patent Prosecution

Matthew Baker

Matthew Baker represents clients in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments and related general corporate counseling. He has worked with a broad range of industries that encompasses technology, healthcare, consumer, business services, industrials, aerospace and defense, life sciences, financial services and media. Matt assists clients in defining their business objectives and then developing the most practical strategies to achieve them. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Melissa Mannino

Melissa Mannino, co-leader of the International Trade and National Security team and a Chambers ranked attorney, is an experienced export controls, foreign investment (CFIUS) and economic sanctions practitioner. Her broad based national security practice includes advising a range of companies, from start-ups to industry leading businesses, across a variety of sectors on compliance with the U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations and the CFIUS laws and regulations. She also represents clients through each stage of proceedings before the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury and State on export control, CFIUS and sanctions matters. Melissa previously served as the Chief of the Enforcement and Litigation Division, Office of Chief Counsel for Industry and Security, at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She leverages her government and private practice experience to provide strategic and practical legal advice to clients. · Export Controls

Nicholas Melillo

Partner, BakerHostetler · Real Estate

Nicole Sterling

Partner, BakerHostetler · Digital Assets and Data Management

Rakesh Mehta

Partner, BakerHostetler · Intellectual Property

Ryan S. Hedges

White Collar Crime

Stephanie Hatzikyriakou

Counsel, BakerHostetler · Patent Litigation

Steven Goldberg

Partner, BakerHostetler · Mergers and Acquisitions

Theodore Kobus III

Ted has been a leader, mentor and counsellor in the digital risk space for more than 20 years. He has earned authority in the areas of privacy, data security and cybersecurity, leading clients to entrust him and his attorneys with more than 15,000 data breach responses. Businesses, government and other organizations turn to Ted for sound advice on compliance, developing response strategies, breaches implicating domestic and international laws, and defense of both class action litigation and regulatory actions. Ted leads the fastest-growing practice group at the firm, the Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group, which was formed in January 2020 and focuses on the data lifecycle. Notably, he has developed key relationships with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he and his team have helped to establish protocols to protect corporate victims following a data breach. He knows the most proactive regulators involved in this space and interacts with them regularly. Ted has led the defense to hundreds of regulatory investigations, including those brought by the Attorney General Multi-State, Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, Departments of Insurance, SEC and FTC. In the healthcare space, Ted has defended more than 300 OCR investigations and has negotiated more privacy/security-related resolution agreements than any other lawyer. Under his leadership, the DADM group has garnered ongoing recognition from industry heavyweights such as BTI, Law360, ALM, Vault and others. Ted also provides pertinent quotes and contributions when contacted by major media outlets who are looking for the latest news and trends in privacy and data security. Ted has spoken at the National Association of Attorneys General on data security issues in a closed session, as well as the National Security Cyber Specialist’s Training Conference organized by the DOJ. Ted is the firmwide chair of BakerHostetler’s Digital Assets and Data Management Group and, as of January 2023, is serving his third three-year term on the Policy Committee. · Privacy

Theresa Weisenberger

Partner · Intellectual Property

Will Chuchawat

Will Chuchawat is the firmwide Co-Leader of Mergers and Acquisitions. He represents PE, VC, public companies and private companies in all industries, including technology, healthcare, consumer, business services, industrials, A&D, life sciences, financial services, telecom and media. He has closed hundreds of deals over the course of his career. Will has been consistently recognized as one of the top attorneys in the nation, including by the Legal 500, Law360, Super Lawyers and the M&A Advisor, among others, and the Los Angeles Business Journal has named him one of the Most Influential Minority Lawyers. · Mergers And Acquisitions