McDermott Will & Schulte — United States

Adam Harris

Adam C. Harris is chair of the Business Reorganization Group. His practice includes corporate restructurings, workouts and creditors’ rights litigation, with a particular focus on the representation of investment funds and financial institutions in distressed situations. Adam has represented a variety of clients in connection with distressed acquisitions by third-party investors or existing creditors through “credit bid” or similar strategies, as well as in court and out of court restructurings. In addition to representing creditors and acquirers in distressed situations, Adam has represented Chapter 11 debtors, as well as portfolio companies in out-of-court exchange offers, debt repurchases and other capital restructurings. · Business Reorganization

Ahsan Shaikh

Ahsan Shaikh serves as the head of McDermott’s Patent Prosecution practice. He focuses his practice on strategic patent portfolio management and client counseling for computer-related technology companies. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/shaikh-ahsan-a/ · Intellectual Property

Alan Waldenberg

Alan S. Waldenberg is co-head of the firm’s Tax Group. His practice focuses on income tax and international tax, including tax considerations in mergers & acquisitions, restructurings and workouts, and international investments with a particular emphasis on transactions involving investment funds. Representative engagements and transactions include serving as primary tax counsel to Albertsons Companies and an investor group led by one of the world’s leading private equity firms in the $9.2-billion acquisition of Safeway Inc., which won “Deal of the Year - Retail” at the 2015 ACG New York Champion’s Awards. He has also served as primary international tax counsel in connection with substantial investments by investment funds in distressed debt and real estate located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan. He was also involved in the recapitalization and subsequent IPO of BAWAG, the second-largest bank in Austria; and the $1.05-billion sale of LNR Property, a leading diversified real estate investment, finance, management and development firm. This transaction was named “Real Estate Deal of the Year” at the 2014 M&A Atlas Awards: Global Major Markets. Other significant transactions include serving as primary tax counsel for a group of investment funds in connection with the acquisition of a majority of GMAC from General Motors and the subsequent restructuring of that investment, including GMAC’s conversion to a bank and its receipt of an infusion of capital from the U.S. Treasury; the acquisition of a controlling interest in Chrysler from DaimlerChrysler; and the sale of Chrysler Financial for cash consideration of approximately $6.3 billion, a transaction named the biggest deal of 2010 by The Globe and Mail, the “Financial Services Deal of the Year” at the 2012 M&A Atlas Awards and the “Cross Border Deal of the Year over $100M” at the 2012 ACG New York Champion’s Awards. Alan’s other award-winning deals include the acquisition of AT&T’s Yellow Pages - Advertising Solutions and Interactive Businesses, named the “North America Large Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the 2012 Americas M&A Atlas Awards and the “M&A Deal of the Year (Over $500mm)” at the 2013 New York Champion’s Awards; and the acquisition of Boston-based Caritas Christi Health Care, selected as Investment Dealers’ Digest magazine’s 2010 “Deal of the Year” award in the health care category and the “North America Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the 2011 Americas M&A Atlas Awards. In addition, Alan has worked on numerous other domestic and international private equity investments, including acquisitions of international banks, international finance companies, retail companies, manufacturing businesses and industrial operations, and has served as primary tax counsel in connection with the structuring of private equity funds and hedge funds, including funds investing primarily in domestic and international private equity, funds investing primarily in Asia and Europe, real estate funds, funds investing primarily in debt, and distressed opportunity funds. After earning his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974 from the University of Maryland, Alan became a certified public accountant in the State of Maryland. In 1978, he was awarded a J.D., cum laude, by Harvard Law School. Alan is a member of the Taxation Sections of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, and is a Fellow of The New York Bar Foundation. · Tax

Alexander Southwell

Alex Southwell is one of the nation’s leading technology-focused litigators and investigations lawyers. He is regularly called upon by numerous prominent global companies to counsel on—as well as handle investigations, enforcement defense, and litigation related to—a wide array of privacy, data breach, theft of trade secrets, computer fraud, and network and data security issues, often for the most novel, challenging, or technical matters. A former federal prosecutor, he advises companies victimized by cyber-crimes and has extensive experience with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, and related federal and state statutes, as well as with privacy compliance counseling and FTC and AG regulatory enforcement. · Privacy Law

Alexei Cowett

Alexei J. Cowett is a leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate finance dealmaker, with a focus on emerging growth companies in the consumer and tech sectors and production companies, content creators, and high-profile talent in the media, entertainment, and sports industries. He is the co-head of the firm’s Media, Entertainment & Sports practice. In addition to his leadership role, Alexei advises high-profile talent in endorsement and equity deals tailored to their unique priorities. He also advises recognized brands in other industries, including the food and beverage and health and wellness sectors. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Allison Wilkerson

Allison Wilkerson focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/wilkerson-allison/ · Employee Benefits

Alva Mather

Partner Alva Mather is head of the Firm’s Alcohol Regulatory & Distribution Group and focuses her practice on alcohol beverage and cannabis regulatory and commercial matters. She represents companies in the alcohol beverage industry, including brewers, distillers, wineries, importers and retailers. Additionally, she works with clients in the growing cannabis space and has in-depth knowledge of the evolving legal and regulatory issues facing this industry. A nationally recognized lawyer, Alva combines her extensive knowledge of the commercial and legal landscape as well as deep understanding of the beverage industry to help clients mitigate risk, respond to challenges, and capture and pursue new business opportunities. Her work spans a number of traditional areas of legal practice that affect alcohol beverage and cannabis companies, including litigation, governmental investigation, commercial agreements, alcohol beverage compliance, intellectual property, trade and tax. Please visit our website for further details: https://www.mwe.com/people/mather-alva-c/ · Alcohol Regulation

Andrew Kratenstein

Andrew B. Kratenstein provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation, focusing on financial services, private equity, securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, real estate and beverage distribution disputes. He represents national and multinational clients in a broad array of industries, including banking, private equity, real estate, hospitality, beverage distribution, sports, healthcare, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and energy. Andrew currently chairs the Firm’s Litigation Training Committee and is also active in the Firm’s pro bono program. Among other matters, he has won several appeals on behalf of abused, neglected or abandoned immigrant children who have been denied the ability to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Andrew has been honored by Sanctuary for Families with its Above and Beyond Pro Bono Award honoring members of the legal profession for their outstanding pro bono representation and advocacy on behalf of Sanctuary’s clients. Andrew has guest lectured at Columbia Law School on best practices for electronic discovery, and he has served as faculty for the Practising Law Institute’s symposium on Best Practices for Complex Cases and for Thompson Reuters on recent developments in mergers and acquisitions litigation. · Commercial Litigation

Andrew Kummer

Andrew Kummer focuses his practice on international corporate transactions. He has significant experience representing national and multinational clients in a wide variety of complex, cross-border structured finance, capital markets and banking transactions. Andrew draws on his experience living and working abroad to guide his clients through the legal and cultural intricacies that influence multijurisdictional transactions. He regularly represents arrangers and investors on complex structured financings, securitizations, structured notes, receivables financings and other loan instruments. His experience also includes advising underwriters and issuers on a broad range of SEC-registered and exempt public equity and debt offerings. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/andrew-kummer/ · Structured Finance

Andrew Liazos

Andrew C. Liazos is the global chair of McDermott’s Benefits & Compensation Practice Group and has practiced at McDermott for over twenty-five years. Andrew is a nationally recognized leader representing boards and senior executives on significant, multi-disciplinary compensation and benefits related matters, with an emphasis on plan design, practice before regulators, litigation and governance. Chambers USA reports that Andrew is a “first-rate lawyer” and an “excellent, top-notch leader in his field.” Best Lawyers reports from clients that “Andrew’s responsiveness to problems is unequaled,” he “provides the utmost customer service,” “working with him is a great experience,” and that he has “a practical approach to issues.” Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/liazos-andrew-c/ · Employee Benefits

Andrew Lyonsberg

Andrew Lyonsberg focuses his practice on litigation in the Supreme Court and appellate courts across the country, as well as major motions at the trial-court level. He has briefed more than fifty appellate matters and dispositive motions, and has argued before the US Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits. Andrew also has extensive experience with agency litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act, including several recent victories setting aside federal agency action. Andrew has been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch (2023) for appellate practice, and was named a Rising Star in Supreme Court and appellate litigation by The Legal 500 (2022). He was also featured in the 2021 edition of The Legal 500, with clients praising his “big-picture thinking” and “sophisticated view on how the executive branch operates.” Andrew served as a law clerk to the Honorable Kim McLane Wardlaw on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While in law school, he was a forum editor of the Yale Law Journal. · Dispute Resolution

Ann Marie Brodarick

Ann Marie Brodarick focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, and other general corporate matters. Ann Marie advises financial and strategic buyers, sellers and investors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and other private equity investments, corporate restructurings, recapitalizations and similar transactions. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/brodarick-ann-marie/ · Mergers and Acquisitions

Anthony Upshaw

Anthony (Tony) Upshaw represents clients on product defense, class action, mass tort and complex civil litigation. Over the course of his career, Tony has tried more than 30 civil jury trials to verdict. Tony is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Often asked by clients and colleagues to “step into the breach” as trial counsel, he has been recognized nationally for his ability to relate to juries around the country. Tony frequently speaks at various legal association functions, particularly on issues surrounding voir dire, trial technique and diversity in the courtroom. He was a featured speaker at the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) Congress in Paris, France, presented the “Hot Topics in Product Liability Litigation” at the DRI Conference in New Orleans, and testified at the hearings for the American Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Diversity Summit in Boston. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/upshaw-anthony-n/ · Product Liability Defense

Ari Aranda

Ari Z. Aranda focuses his practice on a variety of real estate transactions. He represents lenders and borrowers in connection with commercial mortgage and mezzanine financings, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial properties, negotiation of joint venture agreements, and workouts and restructurings. · Real Estate

Arianne Plasencia

Arianne R. Plasencia focuses her practice on US & international tax matters. She provides international and domestic income, gift, and estate tax planning for entities and high-net-worth individuals with a focus on multijurisdictional families and inbound investment planning. She also represents clients in tax audits, offshore voluntary disclosures, and streamlined disclosures as well as advises them on criminal tax examinations and other criminal tax matters. Arianne provides estate and income tax advice, including pre-immigration planning, to wealthy families and works on a wide variety of real estate matters. · US & International Tax

Benjamin Kryder

Benjamin focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings, leasing, development and joint ventures. He has represented private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts, developers, capital providers and other institutional and non-institutional investors in numerous sophisticated transactions across asset classes, including hotels, mixed-use projects, office and medical office buildings, multifamily residential complexes, manufactured housing, marinas, warehouse and industrial properties. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/benjamin-l-kryder/ · Commercial Real Estate

Benton Curtis

Benton (Ben) Curtis, a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial attorney, focuses his practice on leading matters, both domestically and abroad, that involve government enforcement defense, internal investigations, compliance counseling, and due diligence regarding third parties and business transactions. Ben regularly represents clients before, and in litigation against, government agencies, including clients accused of health care fraud, kickback violations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, money laundering, and securities fraud. Ben likewise regularly represents corporations and high net worth individuals who have been victimized through internal or third-party misconduct, often in the form of an exceptional theft or fraud. Ben has tried more than 25 federal jury trials in district courts all around the country, and calls upon that experience when counseling his clients in truly high-stakes matters. Ben’s capabilities stem, in large part, from his previous ten years with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which lengthy tenure included extended stints in Miami, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles. In his last position, Ben served for almost five years as an Assistant Chief in DOJ’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section, where he supervised numerous large-scale health care fraud investigations and prosecutions around the country. He also oversaw significant FCPA investigations related to the entertainment and gaming industries in Asia, and a number of insider trading and high-yield investment matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/curtis-benton/ · White Collar Criminal Defense

Betty Santangelo

Betty Santangelo focuses her practice on white-collar criminal defense and securities/bank enforcement. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, she specialized in securities and commodities fraud prosecutions. Her practice includes representing financial institutions (banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, FCMs, insurance companies, investment advisers, hedge funds and private equity funds), other corporate entities and individuals in matters brought by the U.S. Attorneys’ offices, by various regulatory agencies, including the SEC, the bank regulatory agencies, the CFTC, FINRA, SIGTARP, international regulators (such as the FCA) and state and local prosecutors. Betty also has significant experience conducting internal investigations for these entities. In addition, she has served as an independent consultant in SEC enforcement matters examining both the NYSE and a regional broker-dealer. Prior to joining SRZ, Betty served as First Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Merrill Lynch, where she managed the firm's securities and criminal regulatory investigations group and represented the firm and its employees in enforcement proceedings before federal and state regulatory agencies, and in criminal matters before U.S. Attorneys' offices and state prosecutors, as well as in foreign jurisdictions. She has also served as Division Director of the ABA Litigation Committee and Chair of its Securities Litigation and Broker-Dealer Subcommittees. She has contributed a chapter on “Representation Prior to Indictment” in the book Defending Federal Criminal Cases: Attacking the Government’s Proof (Law Journal Press, 2009, 2015), co-authored the “Civil and Criminal Enforcement” chapter of the Insider Trading Law and Compliance Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2011–2018) and contributed two chapters in Broker Dealer Regulation (Practising Law Institute, 2009–2010, 2014–2017). Betty is recognized as a leading lawyer by The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, Ethisphere: Attorneys Who Matter, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading White Collar Crime Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, Who's Who Legal: Business Crime Defence and New York Super Lawyers. She was also presented with the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women's annual Women of Power and Influence Award. Nationally recognized for her expertise in corporate compliance issues, including anti-money laundering, OFAC and FCPA, Betty’s representation of financial institutions in white collar and regulatory matters frequently draws on these areas of expertise, including advising financial institutions on their anti-money laundering/OFAC/FCPA procedures. At Merrill Lynch, she was also responsible for oversight of all Bank Secrecy Act reporting and anti-money laundering activities, and the implementation of Merrill Lynch’s anti-money laundering procedures. Among her many professional activities, she has served as the Securities and Futures Industry’s representative on the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Betty also is a founding member of and has served as counsel to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Committee. In 2014, she was honored by SIFMA for her extraordinary contributions to the committee and recognized for her dedication to improving industry compliance. In 1998, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Treasury Department awarded Betty its Director’s Medal for Exceptional Service. That same year, she represented the U.S. securities industry at the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) meeting in Brussels, Belgium. In 2002, she represented SIFMA, the Futures Industry Association and the Investment Company Institute at the FATF meeting in Paris. Betty is a former adjunct professor at Fordham Law School, where she taught a course on money laundering and founded Fordham Law Women to raise awareness of the issues faced by women in the law school community. In 2019, Fordham Law established the Betty Santangelo Award to recognize female alumnae working to advance the careers of women in the legal industry. Betty is a much sought-after speaker on corporate compliance, anti-money laundering/OFAC/FCPA, white-collar criminal and securities law issues, including at SIFMA, the FIA, ACAMS, the ABA/ABA AML conference and FIBA. From the Emerald Literati Network she received an “outstanding paper” award in 2006 for an article she wrote on money laundering enforcement actions and a “highly commended” award in 2011 for an article she wrote on beneficial ownership information and USA PATRIOT Act obligations. In 2008, she won a Burton Award, which recognizes exceptional legal writing, for an article she wrote on the FCPA. She is a recipient of the YWCA Woman of Achievement award, as well as other awards. · Broker-Dealer Regulatory & Enforcement

Bhanu Sadasivan

Partner Bhanu Sadasivan, PhD, focuses her practice on patent litigation, with an emphasis in the life sciences industry. She has experience litigating patent cases concerning recombinant DNA technology, pharmaceutical formulation, computer hardware and software. For further details of Bhanu biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/sadasivan-bhanu-k/ · Patent Litigation

Bob Cohen

Robert (Bob) H. Cohen focuses his practice on transactional and securities work for a broad range of clients. He counsels clients on initial and follow-on public offerings, special-purpose acquisition (SPAC), at-the-market (ATM) and off the shelf offerings, registered direct and private investment in public equity (PIPE) financings, private placements, bridge financings and equity lines, and related transactions. Bob also has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, 1933 and 1934 representation, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/cohen-robert-h/ · Securities

Boris Ziser

Boris Ziser is co-head of the Structured Finance & Derivatives Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. With over 25 years of experience across diverse asset classes, Boris focuses on asset-backed securitizations, warehouse facilities, secured financings, commercial paper conduits and specialty finance. His practice encompasses a variety of asset classes, including life settlements, equipment leases, structured settlements, lottery receivables, timeshare loans, litigation funding, merchant cash advances and cell towers, in addition to other esoteric asset classes such as intellectual property, various insurance-related cash flows and other cash flow producing assets. He also represents investors, lenders, hedge funds, private equity funds and finance companies in acquisitions and dispositions of portfolios of assets and financings secured by those portfolios. Recognized as a leading lawyer in the industry, Boris is ranked in Chambers USA, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 US for his work in structured finance. He serves as outside general counsel to the Institutional Longevity Markets Association (ILMA) and is a member of the Structured Finance Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Esoteric Assets Committee and Risk Retention Task Force of the Structured Finance Industry Group. A frequent speaker at securitization industry conferences, Boris has conducted various securitization, litigation funding and life settlement seminars in the United States and abroad. Most recently, Boris was interviewed for the article “Attorneys Must Tread Carefully in Litigation Funding’s Next Stage,” published in Law360 and the articles “SRZ’s Leading Litigation Finance Practice: Holistic Expertise for a Booming Asset Class” and “Life Settlements and Longevity Swaps: Opportunities for Investors, Individuals, Insurers and Pension Funds,” both published in The Hedge Fund Journal. His speaking engagements have included “Flash Briefings on Alternative & Emerging Asset Classes — Structured Settlements” at SFIG and IMN Vegas 2018 and “Insurance Dedicated Funds and Related Strategies” and “Credit and Specialty Finance,” both at SRZ’s 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar. · Structured Finance

Brad Dennis

Brad Dennis advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity firms and their platform companies. Brad routinely provides transactional representation to such clients in connection with strategic affiliations, mergers, equity and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and other transactional matters. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/dennis-brad/ · Healthcare

Bradley Giordano

Brad Giordano is a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Brad focuses his practice on representing debtors, creditors, direct lenders, ad hoc groups, sponsors and strategic investors in all aspects of complex in-court and out-of-court corporate restructurings. Brad is frequently consulted by leading private equity investors, hedge funds, and private credit lenders on domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, as well as on strategic acquisitions or dispositions of distressed assets. Brad has played a key role in some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases across a variety of industries, including among others, healthcare, retail, energy, technology, hospitality, media, airlines, aircraft manufacturing, telecom and heavy machinery. Recognized as a leading restructuring lawyer by Chambers USA, among other publications, Brad has earned praise from clients for being “thoughtful, responsive, and aggressive,” “commercial in every sense,” and delivering “much better than expected outcomes.” Additionally, Brad was listed by the American Bankruptcy Institute as a recipient of their 40 Under 40 Award. · Business Restructuring

Brooks Gruemmer

Brooks B. Gruemmer is a corporate partner with a wide-ranging practice representing private equity and other investment funds and private and public companies, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and the related financing required to fund such transactions. Brooks is a former member of the Firm’s Management Committee and served as head of the Chicago office’s Transactions Practice Group for over a decade. Brooks has represented clients in a wide range of transactions, business ventures and general corporate matters. He regularly represents a number of private equity and other investment funds in leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, divestitures and recapitalizations. He also represents privately held and publicly traded corporations in connection with a variety of corporate matters, including strategic mergers and other acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, securities law disclosure and compliance matters, and executive compensation. In recent years, Brooks has advised acquirers of financially distressed companies, inside and outside of bankruptcy, and in connection with debt and equity restructurings, workouts and related financings. Brooks brings a unique perspective to private practice, having spent approximately four years as vice president of administration and general counsel of Favorite Brands International, Inc., the fourth-largest manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States. While at Favorite Brands, Brooks was a member of the executive committee and oversaw numerous acquisitions, financings that raised more than $1 billion, and the eventual sale of the Company to Nabisco. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Bruce Richardson

Partner Bruce L. Richardson focuses his practice on electric energy law. He advises independent power producers (IPPs), merchant transmission developers, electric power marketers, energy asset managers and private equity firms in the energy sector. While Bruce routinely appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on regulatory matters and in administrative litigation, he represents energy sector clients on a wide range of regulatory, electric reliability, transactional and project issues. On regulatory matters, Bruce provides guidance on issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Energy Policy Acts of 1992 and 2005, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. The guidance includes independent power production, interconnection matters, affiliate utility issues, transmission access and pricing, ancillary services, cost-based rates, regional transmission organizations, organized power markets, market-based rates, reliability must-run service, power supply purchases and sales, retail wheeling and wholesale electric customer disputes. Bruce also counsels clients on regulatory compliance matters, including the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) electric reliability standards and requirements. For transactions, he assists clients regarding electric power contracts, utility restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.mwe.com/people/richardson-bruce-l/ · Electric Energy Law

Byron Kalogerou

Byron S. Kalogerou is the founder of the Firm’s Life Science Industry Group and the senior partner in the Boston Corporate Practice. He helps clients execute on their growth strategies by guiding them through complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and alliances. He also assists early stage life science companies in their capital raising efforts. Byron has extensive industry background in the life science, industrial and manufacturing sectors. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies. Read full biography here: https://www.mwe.com/people/kalogerou-byron-s/ · Mergers and Acquisitions

Caitlin Howe

Caitlin (Cate) Howe focuses her practice on outsourcing, technology, and commercial transactions. In the outsourcing space, Cate represents clients in information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, and healthcare systems in revenue cycle management outsourcing. Cate also counsels clients in a wide variety of technology transactions, including cloud computing and other ‘as a service’ arrangements, software licenses, technology development and licensing agreements, e-commerce arrangements, technology maintenance and service agreements, and software compliance audits. In addition, she advises clients in strategic commercial transactions, including supply, manufacturing, distribution and reseller agreements. Cate also counsels clients on intellectual property and commercial contract issues that arise in the context of mergers and acquisitions, including transition services agreements. · Outsourcing

Caitlyn Campbell

Caitlyn M. Campbell, a former US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Attorney, focuses her practice on representing clients in SEC investigations, securities class action and derivative litigation and compliance matters. Caitlyn has extensive experience in matters involving potential violations of the federal securities laws, including allegations of accounting and disclosure violations, fraud and regulatory violations by investment advisers and broker-dealers, insider trading, anti-corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations and whistleblower claims. She also assists companies in developing training programs and compliance policies and procedures. Prior to joining McDermott, Caitlyn spent eight years at the SEC, most recently as Senior Counsel to the Directors of Enforcement, assisting with the management of the Commission’s largest division, and as a member of the division’s COVID-19 Steering Committee. At the SEC, Caitlyn led all aspects of investigations involving accounting fraud, complex insider trading schemes, market abuse, market manipulation, misappropriation of investor funds, investment adviser fraud and the Immigrant Investor Program. She also worked extensively with foreign regulators, coordinating complex, global investigations. In addition to her investigative work, Caitlyn co-chaired the committee tasked with proactively detecting accounting and disclosure fraud in the New England region and served as the liaison to the national Financial Reporting and Audit Group and the Boston FBI. Caitlyn has conducted numerous internal investigations, including investigations for major public companies, their boards of directors and board committees. Further, she has represented Boards, senior management teams, hedge funds and private equity firms in connection with matters before enforcement and regulatory agencies including the SEC, US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She has also represented numerous corporations, as well as directors and officers, in securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation. More recently, Caitlyn has represented companies and officers in connection with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)-related litigation and SEC investigations, and works diligently to track developments in this area of the law. Caitlyn regularly speaks on topics relating to criminal and regulatory enforcement, as well as accounting fraud. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/campbell-caitlyn-m/ · SEC Investigations

Carl Fleming

Carl J. Fleming is a transactional lawyer whose principle areas of practice are renewable energy and private equity. He leads transactions throughout the US and worldwide for a number of the renewable industry’s leading developers, global private equity funds and Fortune 500 companies. He provides legal, commercial and strategic advice on the development, purchase and sale and financing of renewable energy projects in wind, solar, energy storage, electric vehicles and other low carbon solutions. A partner in our Washington, DC office, he also advises on a number of energy and climate change policy issues. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/fleming-carl-j/ · Renewable Energy

Caroline Ngo

Caroline H. Ngo is co-leader of the Firm’s International Tax Affinity Group and is based in Washington, DC. She advises publicly traded companies on international tax planning, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, application of bilateral income tax treaties, and other international tax matters. Since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), a substantial portion of Caroline’s practice has been advising clients on the new international tax provisions, including the new foreign tax credit regime (including expense apportionment), the GILTI regime, the participation exemption under section 245A, the BEAT, and the transition tax under section 965. Caroline recently served as lead counsel in a significant litigation in the US Tax Court, and her team secured a complete victory for the client. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/ngo-caroline-h/ · International Tax

Caroline Reignley

Caroline Reignley provides strategic legal, regulatory and compliance counsel to for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, health systems, other healthcare providers, life sciences and technology companies. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/caroline-reignley/ · Healthcare

Carolyn Gleason

Partner Carolyn Gleason heads the Firm's Global Regulatory Practice Group and International Trade Practice and is co-chair of the Firm's Food, Beverage and Agribusiness Industry Group. Carolyn has in-depth knowledge of dispute settlement proceedings under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and World Trade Organization (WTO), and has served as government counsel and chief private sector counsel in numerous successful dispute settlement actions. She has been appointed member for the president's US Agricultural Private Sector Advisory Committee since 1994, advising the US government on US trade initiatives and objectives. For further details of Carolyn's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/g/gleason-carolyn-b · Global Regulatory Practice

Cate Battin

Catherine (Cate) A. Battin represents clients in state and local tax controversies at the audit, administrative and judicial levels in numerous jurisdictions. She provides national state tax strategies for clients on a full range of state tax issues, including income tax apportionment, nexus, combination and sales tax characterization of products and services. She has defended numerous internet sellers in cases brought under the Illinois False Claims Act alleging fraudulent failures to collect and remit use tax. Cate regularly speaks on state and local tax matters before groups that have included the Tax Executives Institute, the Chicago Tax Club and the Chicago Bar Association. Prior to joining McDermott, she worked at a major international accounting and consulting firm, where she focused exclusively on state and local taxes. · State & Local Tax

Charles Buck

Charles (Charlie) R. Buck advises healthcare enterprises on complex transactions and regulatory compliance. He represents a wide range of clients, including proprietary and tax-exempt hospital systems, academic medical centers and faculty practice groups, accountable care organizations, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other health insurers. Charlie is partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Boston Health Industry Advisory Practice Group. Charlie provides legal counsel and solutions in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic affiliations, conversions to tax-exempt status, and other transactional matters. He advises clients forming and operating accountable care organizations (ACOs), including commercial ACOs and those in the Medicare Pioneer Program and Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs. Charlie focuses his regulatory practice on federal fraud and abuse laws (including the Stark Law), obtaining and maintaining tax-exemption, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and health information privacy, state insurance licensure and determination of need law, and general corporate matters. After earning his law degree, Charlie clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, Charlie served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a policy analyst at the Jackson Hole Group, where he focused on rural healthcare and purchasing cooperatives. · Healthcare

Charles Moll

Charles (Chuck) Moll focuses his practice on state and local tax (SALT), primarily concentrating on the resolution of tax controversies. He regularly appears before the various California tax authorities—including the State Board of Equalization, the California Franchise Tax Board, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, and the Office of Tax Appeals—as well as local authorities such as assessors and assessment appeals boards. He has litigated at all levels of California’s courts, the US Tax Court, and the US Supreme Court. Chuck’s practice includes tax matters in other states, as well as federal tax controversies, including representation of clients in federal courts and at appellate hearings before the Internal Revenue Service. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/moll-charles/ · State and Local Tax

Christian Nemeth

J. Christian (Chris) Nemeth provides legal counsel on complex commercial litigation and government investigations, including ERISA matters, financial and banking cases, business torts and breach of contract actions. Chris is the co-head of the Firm’s ERISA Litigation practice and works closely with the Firm’s Employee Benefits Practice Group on all types of Litigation matters, Department of Labor investigations and similar issues. Chris represents clients in courts at the state and federal levels across the country, and has successfully tried cases involving a wide range of matters. He also arbitrates cases in domestic and international forums. Chris has extensive appellate experience as well. He has successfully appealed cases to the Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and to the Illinois Court of Appeals. · Commercial Litigation

Christopher Gladbach

Partner Christopher Gladbach counsels clients in energy M&A, project development, tax equity and project finance transactions. Chris works with energy clients in structuring complex equity and debt investments, advises both buyers and sellers in the power sector in mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, and on the development of large-scale energy projects. He assists his clients in mitigating and allocating risk associated with these transactions in conjunction with achieving their primary business and financial objectives. Chris has extensive experience advising clients pursuing opportunities involving the development and financing of United States Department of Defense (DoD) energy projects. He counsels developers, purchasers, lenders and tax equity investors in government contracts and structuring project development and financing arrangements to account for unique risks. In addition, Chris represents market-leading private equity funds and institutional investors in power asset transactions, and understands the unique challenges and opportunities that these clients face. Please visit our website for further details: https://www.mwe.com/people/gladbach-christopher/ · Energy M&A

Chuck Gibbs

Chuck Gibbs focuses his practice on insolvency and restructuring. For nearly 40 years, he has been recognized as one of the country’s leading restructuring lawyers, being ranked by Chambers & Partners for over 20 years, including being ranked as Band 1 for more than a decade. Chuck has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2006, including being awarded “Lawyer of the Year” in 2019. He has been recognized as a “Leading Individual” by both The International Who’s Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers since 2008 and The Legal 500. Chuck has led public and private companies through challenging and complex financial restructurings. Throughout his career, Chuck has been on the cutting edge of novel restructuring issues ranging from Caribbean resorts to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. Most recently, Chuck was tasked with leading the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc., the largest cryptocurrency exchange bankruptcy in history as of the date of filing. Chuck is frequently engaged in multijurisdictional and cross-border matters for debtors, secured creditors, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, equity committees and asset buyers. His cross-border experience includes representing joint liquidators in Caribbean insolvency proceedings, including the largest individual fraud case in history. Chuck partners with non-money center secured lenders, particularly in the real estate space, leveraging his deep experience in handling hundreds of real estate loan workouts on behalf of lenders, both in and out of court. · Insolvency

Craig Stein

Craig Stein is co-head of the Structured Finance & Derivatives Group. His practice focuses on structured finance and asset-backed transactions and swaps and other derivative products, including prime brokerage and customer trading agreements. He represents issuers, underwriters, collateral managers and portfolio purchasers in public and private structured financings, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Craig has been recognized in this area by the prestigious legal directory Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, which noted that satisfied clients praised him for his “very broad knowledge of the markets” and for being “incredibly responsive and helpful in thinking through issues” and “very thoughtful about the market.” Chambers also stated: “He is known for his work in derivative products, representing issuers, underwriters and portfolio purchasers in CLOs. Peers find his work in structured products and derivatives impressive.” The Legal 500 US has noted that Craig is “recognized for his thought leadership on regulatory issues affecting both the securitization and derivatives markets.” Craig is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Structured Finance Association. He is a much sought-after speaker for structured finance and hedge fund industry conferences and webinars and the author of numerous articles on advanced financial products. He is the author of “U.S. CLOs: Past and Present” in The Journal of Structured Finance. Craig also co-authored “CLOs and LIBOR Transition” for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Securitisation 2020 and “CLOs in the Current Regulatory Environment” for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Securitisation 2019. · Structured Finance

Damon Lyon

Damon M. Lyon focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global planning and international controversies for multinational companies. He advises clients on a broad range of tax issues, including tax-efficient structuring of acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures. Damon also provides advice concerning multi-jurisdictional business structures, such as intangible holding companies and finance company structures. · International Tax

Dan Kusnetz

Dan A. Kusnetz concentrates on tax planning for complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, bankruptcy, workouts, corporate restructuring and distressed asset investing, structured finance and real estate. Some of Dan’s more significant engagements and transactions, throughout a professional career spanning more than 35 years, include his representation of Cerberus Capital Management in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Chrysler (and, later, the sale of Chrysler and its debtor subsidiaries’ assets in their Chapter 11 reorganization and sale of Chrysler Financial to TD Bank); a group of senior secured lenders in their acquisition and recapitalization of the assets of Westmoreland Resource Partners LP; an institutional real estate investor in a $3-billion leveraged recapitalization of a real estate joint venture; several major financial institutions in respect of the acquisition of over $2.5 billion of life settlement assets and several fund sponsors and other investment vehicles in the formation of litigation finance funds. Dan is a frequent speaker at tax seminars throughout the country and has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 United States as a leading tax lawyer. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Tulane University in 1980; his J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School, where he was Order of the Coif and managing editor of the Tulane Law Review, in 1982; and his LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law 1988. · Tax

Dana McSherry

Dana McSherry advises healthcare and life sciences companies in criminal and civil government enforcement matters and in related civil litigation, including civil False Claims Act litigation. She advises clients concerning all aspects of civil and criminal investigations relating to Medicare and Medicaid billing and other government contracting issues, including negotiating with the government and managing clients’ responses to civil investigative demands and large-scale investigative subpoenas. Dana also assists clients in conducting internal investigations and counsels clients across the healthcare industry on compliance and risk management issues. In late 2018, Dana successfully defended a pharmacist charged with racketeering, mail fraud, and Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDCA) violations. Following a two-month jury trial in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Dana’s client was acquitted of all charges. In addition to her life sciences practice, Dana also represents individual clients in securities fraud related government enforcement matters, both civil and criminal. Dana also maintains an extensive pro bono practice. In 2019, Dana successfully represented a parent in a Hague child custody case that involved a week-long trial in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She also successfully represented a civilly committed individual in a civil rights action. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/mcsherry-dana-m/ · False Claims Act Litigation

Daniel Campbell

Daniel R. Campbell is a trial lawyer with significant experience trying cases in state and federal courts. Daniel focuses his trial practice on a variety of commercial litigation matters, including collective and class actions, products liability actions, trust and estate litigation matters, private equity and corporate deal disputes and actions under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Read full biography here: https://www.mwe.com/people/campbell-daniel/ · Trial Practice

Daniel Eisner

Daniel Eisner has represented private equity firms and other corporate clients in high-stakes matters for more than 20 years. His practice focuses on business transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, restructurings and venture and growth capital investments. Previously, Dan was head of the private equity practice at DLA Piper and Proskauer Rose LLP. He also served as general counsel at Arsenal Capital Partners. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Daniel Gottlieb

Daniel F. Gottlieb counsels a wide range of healthcare industry clients, including healthcare providers, health plans, health information technology vendors, life sciences companies and data aggregators. He is sought out for his legal knowledge and practical approach on data protection, interoperability, and complex data and software licensing transactions, collaborations and strategic initiatives. Daniel counsels healthcare clients regarding compliance with US federal and state and international privacy, security, breach notification and information blocking laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 21st Century Cures Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Telephone Consumer Protection Act, CAN-SPAM and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He offers guidance on the intersection of privacy and security requirements with information blocking prohibitions under the 21st Century Cures Act and Medicare rules impacting the deployment of health information technology. Daniel has deep experience regarding requirements for de-identification, anonymization and other secondary uses of health information under HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR. Daniel regularly advises clients regarding their response to cyberattacks and other security breaches, and defends against subsequent investigations by state regulators and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. He advises healthcare clients on all aspects of data and software licenses and other agreements for the acquisition of electronic health record (EHR) systems and other mission-critical health IT and health content. He drafts and negotiates hosting, cloud computing and IT service agreements, as well as license agreements for health data and other health content. Daniel assists with compliance program implementations, compliance audits, and government program overpayment and refund matters, including drafting billing compliance policies and procedures. He also counsels clients on compliance with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, fraud and abuse laws; the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Health Care Professionals; and the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals. · Privacy and Data Protection

Daniel Graham

Dan Graham leads the Government Contracts practice. Highly regarded in Government Contracts litigation, Dan Graham has over two decades of experience assisting clients across industry sectors on bid protests, Contract Dispute Act appeals, prime and subcontractor disputes and commercial litigation. Chambers USA has ranked Dan in Band 1 for Government Contracts (Nationwide). A client quoted by Chambers said “He is a star in this field. The client added, “No task is too large or too small for Dan to take on and excel at. He has provided advice which has resulted in several great outcomes” (2019). Dan has litigated cases before the US Court of Federal Claims (COFC), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Boards of Contract Appeals, as well as before Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals across the country. In addition, Dan advises clients on cost accounting matters, identifying and resolving organizational and personal conflicts of interest, mergers and acquisitions, business restructurings and reorganizations, internal investigations and suspension and debarment proceedings. Dan also counsels clients on complying with ethics laws and regulations, including post-employment restrictions applicable to government employees. Dan is committed to pro bono service, and has argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in several veterans’ benefits cases. Dan also clerked for the Honorable D. Brooks Smith for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable Christine Odell Cook Miller for the US Court of Federal Claims. · Government Contracts

Daniel Hunter

Daniel F. Hunter has an established practice focused on building complex hedge funds and credit funds across the liquidity spectrum (evergreen, open-end and closed-end). His clients manage sophisticated funds investing in debt, including closed-end private debt funds, direct lending funds, loan funds, distressed credit funds, opportunity funds and more. In addition, Dan has extensive experience within Schulte’s iconic funds practice, advising some of the largest hedge funds in the world. He works on groundbreaking funds and strategies with new and emerging managers, as well as hedge fund formations for prominent brand-name global leading managers. Dan also provides day-to-day regulatory, operational, M&A and restructuring advice, and advises fund managers regarding the receipt of seed capital. Dan has been ranked by Chambers USA in the Investment Funds: Hedge Funds – Nationwide category as well as The Legal 500 US in its Investment Fund Formation and Management – Alternative/Hedge Funds category. Chambers notes that clients praised him as “outstanding to work with,” adding that “he is very smart, very experienced and very responsive.” A sought-after speaker, Dan has spoken at the Goldman Sachs Annual Hedge Fund conference on “Succession Planning” and the Wells Fargo Prime Services conference on “Assessing Your Fund for Institutional Growth.” He also presented at the AIMA Seminar: Navigating the Landscape of Side Letter Terms and was recently quoted in the HFMWeek article “Don’t Play Favourites With Your Investors.” Dan received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and his A.B., cum laude, from the University of Michigan. · Investment Management

Daniel Oshinsky

Daniel V. Oshinsky represents hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, specialty finance companies and investment banks in a wide range of financing transactions. Dan has particular expertise in liquidity facilities and structured credits, including CLOs, CBOs, warehouse lines, leveraged finance vehicles, capital call facilities and fund-of-fund loans. Dan’s practice also encompasses a variety of other secured and unsecured finance transactions, both on the borrower and lender side, including cash-flow and asset-based loans, acquisition financing, Term B loans, unitranche loans, mezzanine and subordinate loans, distressed debt investments, workout and restructuring transactions, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border transactions and other complex credit arrangements Dan has been recognized as a leader in his field by The Legal 500 US and New York Super Lawyers. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 1991 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Review of Law and Social Change, in 1995. · Finance

Daniel Simon

Daniel M. Simon represents public and private companies, secured and unsecured creditors, acquirers of distressed assets, and investors in all aspects of corporate restructuring transactions. He represents a diverse range of clients spanning numerous industries in complex and contentious bankruptcy cases. Daniel regularly helps clients navigate large-scale, complex, corporate bankruptcies, cross-border restructurings and a variety of special distressed transactions across industries. Daniel regularly lectures and publishes articles on restructuring topics, and has led several seminars held by leading industry organizations, including Turnaround Management Association. While in law school, Daniel served on the Duke Law Journal. · Corporate Restructuring

Darren Azman

Darren Azman is a member of the firm-wide Management Committee and a partner in the Business Restructuring group. Darren’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings, creditors’ rights and distressed acquisitions. His clients include troubled companies, official creditors’ committees, private equity sponsors, financial and strategic purchasers of distressed assets and others in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings. Darren has distinct restructuring experience in the fields of energy, manufacturing, healthcare, blockchain and cryptocurrency, technology, maritime and transportation, and cross-border restructurings, including insolvency proceedings involving Canada, British Virgin Islands, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He routinely litigates matters in US Bankruptcy Courts. Darren is a recognized leader in the cryptocurrency space, having led the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first-ever crypto chapter 11 case, Cred. Inc. His efforts in Cred have led to the development of novel case law that has generated millions of dollars of recoveries for creditors, including obtaining a court order requiring Cred’s former chief capital officer to return more than $6m of stolen cryptocurrency within 30 minutes after the court hearing concluded. Darren subsequently led the representation of the official committee of unsecured creditors in the chapter 11 case of Voyager Digital, a crypto exchange with more than 1 million customers. He also represented the official committee of unsecured creditors in the first crypto mining chapter 11 case, Compute North. Darren is currently representing Prime Trust, a leader in the crypto space with more than $3.8bn of crypto and fiat under custody at its peak, in its chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Darren is frequently asked to speak around the country on the intersection of bankruptcy and cryptocurrency, and regularly publishes articles on that topic, including in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, the Journal of Corporate Renewal, and Law360. · Business Restructuring

David Durham

David Durham concentrates his practice on representation and advice to businesses in all matters involving labor unions. He works in many sectors, including technology, real estate, retail, higher education, construction, marine terminal operations, rideshare, health care, alcoholic beverage producers, food service, hotel, newspapers, radio, television and live entertainment. David regularly advises companies on labor issues related to mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of real estate and businesses and provides counsel to employers on other strategic matters involving labor unions, such as union organizing drives and decertifications, outsourcing, automation, strike preparation, strike management, lockouts and permanent replacement situations. He has negotiated hundreds of collective bargaining agreements and has handled large, nationwide corporate campaigns including defense of employers in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings and collateral litigation. David defends clients in unfair labor practice cases before the NLRB, and in the Federal Court of Appeals regarding labor matters. In addition to his labor union related advocacy, David counsels clients in all facets of employment law, including discipline and discharge, outsourcing, preservation of management prerogatives, and change resulting from industry disruption such as international competition and automation. · Labor Law

David Efron

David J. Efron is co-managing partner of the firm. He serves as co-head of the Investment Management Group and as a member of the Executive Committee. With more than 25 years of experience, David has a broad practice advising private fund managers that employ a wide range of investment strategies. He represents many of the world’s largest private fund managers on formation, structuring, organization, compensation, operations, seed capital and joint venture arrangements and restructurings, among other types of matters related to their funds and management companies. Notably, David has advised on many of the largest start-up hedge fund launches in the industry over the past few years. Additionally, David also represents private fund managers in connection with SEC regulatory issues and compliance-related matters. Schulte’s Investment Management Group, which David co-heads, has been described as the “preeminent name in this area” and at “the forefront of this industry” by Chambers, a prominent industry publication that ranks firms and lawyers. David is listed in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, The Legal 500 US and Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers. In particular, The Legal 500 US has praised his “superb judgment and deep expertise” and recognized him as “an extraordinarily capable attorney. He has a mastery of the pertinent matters, but he also brings a pragmatic approach.” Chambers Global and Chambers USA noted that David is “an outstanding lawyer, with excellent judgment and the necessary soft touch during the delicate negotiations that occur during a start-up/launch” and that “he is attuned to the business considerations and provides measured, reasoned advice that reflects his deep experience and industry knowledge.” A published author on subjects relating to investment management, he is a sought-after speaker for hedge fund industry conferences and seminars and a frequent guest lecturer at New York-area law schools and business schools. David received his B.A. from Vassar College, his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and an LL.M. degree in securities regulation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center. · Investment Management

David G. Tewksbury

Partner David G. Tewksbury focuses his practice on federal energy regulatory law, particularly as it relates to electric power. He advises independent power producers, power marketers, trade associations and others on a wide range of federal energy regulatory, markets and reliability matters. David handles issues arising under various federal and state laws, including the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Natural Gas Act, the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. His portfolio of transactional matters include electric power and natural gas supply contracts, transmission service agreements, interconnection agreements, pipeline leases and capacity release agreements, mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy restructurings. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.mwe.com/people/tewksbury-david-g/ · Energy Regulatory Law

David Griffel

David S. Griffel concentrates his practice on tax issues related to the formation and operation of onshore and offshore investment funds and their investment managers, as well as tax issues prospective investors face with such investments; tax considerations related to employee and executive compensation, including deferred compensation programs; and partnership taxation. Recognized by The Legal 500 US as a leading tax lawyer, David has spoken on tax issues related to running investment management firms and their funds, as well as hedge fund tax considerations and compensation structures. He contributed to “Hedge Fund Employee Compensation,” published by Practical Law, and Hedge Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation (ALM Law Journal Press). David has presented on the topic of “Hedge Funds” at PLI’s Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances Conference for several years. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. David received his LL.M., and J.D., magna cum laude, from NYU School of Law, and his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University. · Tax Law

David Guedry

David Guedry is nationally recognized for more than 25 years of leadership advising global service providers and Fortune 1000 companies on complex sourcing relationships, including assisting with developing legal, operational and business strategies, and translating strategy into the practical negotiation and documentation of deals. David’s experience includes managing the complexities of information technology (IT) and telecommunication outsourcing agreements, business process outsourcing arrangements (with an emphasis on HR and finance and accounting (F&A) outsourcing), distribution relationships, licensing arrangements, and joint ventures, strategic alliances and teaming relationship. He also assists clients in turning unprofitable, troubled relationships into profitable, referable accounts by guiding the client through the process of identifying, developing and successfully implementing turnaround solutions. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/guedry-david/ · Corporate/M&A

David Kiefer

David (Dave) Kiefer focuses his practice on litigation and arbitration matters arising out of construction and engineering disputes over large, international energy and infrastructure projects, including megaprojects valued in the billions of dollars. He is intimately familiar with the technical and commercial aspects of these projects and routinely advises clients as project disputes arise, making him an effective and efficient advocate. Dave has successfully prosecuted and defended against large and complex claims before federal and state courts, as well as domestic and international arbitration panels, for over 25 years. He has represented clients in arbitrations before the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution and the American Arbitration Association. He is also currently the co-chair of the New York City Region of the Society of Construction Law, North America. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/david-kiefer/ · Construction Litigation

David Levine

Partner David Levine focuses his practice on all aspects of international trade and related regulatory matters. He counsels clients on import relief, customs, export controls, trade sanctions, anti-boycott and anticorruption laws, and related trade laws and procedures. David represents clients in antidumping and countervailing duty cases and related federal appellate litigation, trade controls and customs audits and enforcement proceedings, trade-related legislative and rulemaking proceedings, and trade negotiations. For further details of David's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/l/levine-david-j · International Trade

David Momborquette

David K. Momborquette focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, regulatory matters and internal investigations, primarily for clients in the financial services industry, including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and interdealer brokers. He has extensive experience representing entities and individuals in both private securities litigation and securities regulatory and other related matters, including investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, US Attorneys’ offices, New York Stock Exchange, state attorneys general offices and state securities regulators. Read Full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/momborquette-david-k/ · Complex Commercial Litigation

David Nestler

David Nestler is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group. He counsels private fund clients in connection with the formation and operation of private investment funds as well as legal, regulatory and compliance issues faced by their sponsors. He has served as legal counsel to numerous institutional and boutique sponsors across a spectrum of investment strategies, including buyout, real estate, credit, growth equity and venture capital, co-investment, fund-of-funds, and secondaries. He also represents clients in connection with the formation of managed accounts, funds-of-one, joint ventures, and other bespoke investment vehicles and products. David also specializes in representing investors in the acquisition and disposition of private investment fund interests, both on a primary basis and in secondary market transactions as well as advising investment professionals in connection with their employment arrangements with fund sponsors. He advises on the organization and documentation of internal firm arrangements and has also worked on a variety of other corporate transactional matters, such as strategic management company investments, emerging company representations and venture capital transactions. David maintains an active pro bono practice counseling local entrepreneurs and small businesses, and he regularly works with the Volunteers of Legal Service – Microenterprise Project as well as New York Law School’s Nonprofit and Small Business Clinic. · Investment Funds

David Nissenbaum

Co-Head of Credit Funds. Primarily represents alternative investment managers and private investment funds in all aspects of their businesses. Specializes in "Upper Tier Agreements" among the owners of private fund managers and the strategic investments, control transactions and succession planning that that are often part of the ownership lifecycle. David is known for his extensive knowledge of market terms and his commercial approach to evaluating risks and handling negotiations. For many years David has been named a “Leader in His Field” by Chambers USA and Chambers Global. His peers note that David is “considered one of the top fund lawyers around, and deservedly so.” He is “praised by clients for his unwavering commitment,” and is described as “very engaged, thorough, thoughtful and extremely useful as our quarterback.” David dedicates most of his practice to designing, structuring and advising credit, hedge, private equity, hybrid, distressed investing, activist and energy funds, co-investments vehicles, funds of funds, multi-manager platforms and co-investment platforms. Working with the Regulatory & Compliance Group his work includes counseling clients on finding practical solutions to regulatory and compliance requirements, including the Volcker Rule, and managing conflicts of interest. Since the early 2000s David has been at the leading edge of industry developments and market practices in “Upper Tier” management company partnerships, compensation plans and succession plans, seed and strategic investments and spinoffs of investment teams. In addition, David has been recognized as a key player in private fund formation by The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, PLC Cross-border Private Equity Handbook, The Legal 500 US, and Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers. He has authored or co-authored “Management Company Structures and Terms,” published by ALM Law Journal Press, and “Succession Planning White Paper.” · Investment Funds