Ballard Spahr LLP — United States

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The firm: Ballard Spahr LLP, an AmLaw 100 law firm with 19 US offices, serves clients in more than 50 practice areas. The firm’s mission: to provide nothing less than excellence in every legal representation. - Main areas of practice Business and Transactions: Business and transactions department attorneys design strategies, share insights, and assist clients in realizing their goals in a wide array of sectors. The firm’s mergers and acquisitions lawyers structure, negotiate, and close transactions, and its securities attorneys advise on capital-raising activities and compliance with public reporting and proxy obligations. Consumer financial services lawyers advise on regulatory matters, assist in the design and documentation of credit products, and represent clients in class action and regulatory enforcement proceedings. Privacy and data security attorneys identify potential vulnerabilities and create protective compliance policies and procedures. Employee benefits and executive compensation lawyers design and implement benefits packages that comply with applicable regulatory requirements. Dealmakers turn to the firm’s private equity attorneys for knowledge of the unique issues and complexities inherent in designing and effectuating those often-complex transactions. Tax lawyers help clients minimize their tax burden and maximize the benefits of tax credits, deductions, and exemptions. Intellectual Property: The intellectual property department counsels clients on developing, commercializing, enforcing, and defending their intellectual property assets. The firm provides a full range of services, including assisting with IP procurement and licensing, protection of patent, trademark, and copyright portfolios, and developing strong brands. It brings protective actions for clients’ property in the United States and globally. The team has the experience, resources, and versatility to handle the most complex IP issues. IP litigators try complex, high-stakes cases involving cutting-edge technologies for clients across industries in jurisdictions nationwide and before the Patent and Trademark Trial and Appeal Boards. Litigation: Commercial litigators handle disputes involving breach of contract and UCC-related matters; antitrust/unfair competition; business torts; breach of fiduciary duty; fraud; securities laws; class actions; corporate governance; real estate litigation/transactions; construction claims; lending/finance agreements; contracts for business sales or acquisitions; privacy and data security; trade secrets and other IP matters; wealth management issues; and product liability, insurance, professional liability, and civil rights claims. Labor and employment attorneys handle discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims, and issues involving FMLA, ERISA, and wage-and-hour matters. White Collar attorneys conduct internal investigations, represent clients facing government enforcement, and handle matters involving FCA, AML/BSA, and FCPA issues. Environmental attorneys represent clients in administrative, civil, and criminal proceedings and advise on national and regional compliance, permitting, rulemaking, develop­ment, and contamination matters—focusing on climate change and sustainability. Bankruptcy attorneys handle corporate restructurings, municipal insolvencies, Chapter 11 creditor/debtor matters, distressed real estate, and M&A. Government relations attorneys help clients effectively interact with government entities and advise on regulatory, administrative, and legislative matters. Media and entertainment law attorneys counsel and litigate on behalf of content providers across media platforms. Securities and Chancery attorneys advise on securities and corporate governance claims. Ballard Spahr is one of the few national law firms with an established Chancery Court practice. Finance: The firm’s finance department focuses on specific industry sectors, project types, and deal structures. The Project Finance Group is a leader in representing government participants and private sector developers, investors, and lenders in innovative public-private partnerships. They handle the development, acquisition, and financing of energy assets, helping clients meet regulatory compliance considerations. They counsel clients on regulatory issues, financing options, transactional considerations, and litigation avoidance strategies necessary for capital-heavy projects. The real estate finance group represents lenders, special servicers, private equity firms, REITs, life insurance companies, CMBS lenders, and borrowers in loan transactions and distressed real estate deals. The housing finance attorneys represent housing authorities, underwriters, investors, and lenders in some of the nation’s largest affordable housing transactions, as well as GSE and HUD financing and tax credit transactions. The commercial finance group represents clients with lending, borrowing, and arranging of capital through varied deal structures and project types. Real Estate: The real estate department serves a diverse client base nationwide. The development and transactions group offers comprehensive services in development, zoning and land use, tax structuring, construction, leasing, condomini­ums, mixed-use projects, and condemnation. The resort, hospitality, and timeshare group advises on complex projects across a range of industry investment, including project financing, ground-up construction, hotel development, management and repositioning, mixed-use, and first-to-market timeshare products. The housing group represents housing authorities, under­writers, developers, and lenders in some of the nation’s largest affordable housing transactions, as well as GSE and HUD financing, LIHTC, RAD, and tax credit transactions. - Chairman: Peter V. Michaud - Number of partners: 265 ### Languages - English

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Alan Kaplinsky

Senior Counsel and former longtime Practice Leader of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services Group · Consumer Financial Services

Alan Ritterband

Partner · Real Estate

Alicia B. Clark

Partner · Real Estate

Alyssa Domzal

Partner · Real Estate

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Amy McClain

Partner and Chair of the Real Estate Department · Real Estate

Andrew J. Petrie

Partner · Commercial Lending

April Hamlin

Partner · Corporate Law

Ashley DeLuca

Partner · Real Estate

Barbara Duffy

Partner · Commercial Litigation

Bart Mellits

Partner · Real Estate

Brian Doerner

Partner and Practice Co-Leader of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Brian Kearney

Associate · Commercial Litigation

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Brian Pedrow

Partner · Labor and Employment

Brian Pinheiro

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group · Employee Benefits

Bruce Cahn

Partner · Commercial Litigation

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Bruce Johnson

Partner · Real Estate

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Casey Watkins

Of Counsel · Litigation

Chad Bowman

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Media and Entertainment Law Group · Media and Entertainment Law

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Charles Tobin

Partner and Practice Leader of Media and Entertainment Law Group · Media Law

Christopher Jones

Partner · Tax

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Christopher Payne

Partner and Practice Leader of the Resort, Hospitality, and Timeshare Group · Real Estate

Craig Ganz

Partner and Co-Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Non-Bank Lending Team · Real Estate

Damon O. Barry

Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Daniel McKenna

Partner and Practice Co-Leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group · Consumer Financial Services

David Axelrod

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Securities Enforcement and Corporate Governance Litigation Group · Securities Enforcement

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David Haworth

Partner · Environmental

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David Schulz

Senior Counsel · Litigation

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Denise Keyser

Partner and Practice Leader of the firm's Labor and Employment Group · Labor and Employment

Dominic De Simone

Partner · Finance

Douglas Fox

Partner · Corporate Law

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Edward Leeds

Counsel · Employee Benefits

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Edward Rogers

Partner and Leader of the Eminent Domain and Loss Recovery Teams · Eminent Domain

Emilia McKee Vassallo

Partner · White Collar Defense

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Glenn Figurski

Senior Counsel · Real Estate Finance

Gregory Seltzer

Partner · Mergers and Acquisitions

Henry E. Hockeimer, Jr.

Partner and leader of Ballard Spahr's White Collar Defense and Investigations Group and co-leads the State Attorneys General Consumer Finance Response Team · White Collar Defense and Investigations

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J. Matt Thornton

Associate · Commercial Litigation

J. Thomas Bashore

Partner · Business Formation

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James Mitchell

Partner · White Collar Crime

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James Walston

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Real Estate Development and Transactions Group · Real Estate Development

Jason Leckerman

Partner and Chair of the firm's Litigation Department · Antitrust

Jay Ward Brown

Partner · Litigation

Jennifer McMillan Beyerlein

Partner and Co-leader of Ballard Spahr’s Real Estate and Construction Litigation Group · Construction Law

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Joanne Phillips

Special Counsel · Zoning and Land Use

John Culhane

Senior Counsel · Consumer Financial Services

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John Socknat

Partner, Co-Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Mortgage Banking Group and Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C., office · Mortgage Banking

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Jon Laria

Partner · Real Estate

Joseph P. Anderson III

Partner · Patent Prosecution

Joseph Schuster

Partner · Consumer Financial Services

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Joshua Natzel

Partner · Employee Benefits

Justin Brown

Partner · Estate Planning

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Kaitlin Gurney

Partner · Media Law

Katie Bass

Partner · Litigation

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Katie Leesman

Associate · Project Finance

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Kelly Wrenn

Partner · Banking and Financial Services

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Kimberly Magrini

Partner · Public Finance

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Kristen Petagna

Associate · Commercial Litigation

Laurel Roglen

Partner · Bankruptcy

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Leita Walker

Partner · Media and Entertainment Law

Lynn Rzonca

Partner and Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Department · Intellectual Property