Troutman Pepper Locke LLP — United States

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Chair: Thomas J. Cole Jr. Vice Chair: David Taylor, Ashley L. Taylor Jr. - Managing Partner: Amie V. Colby ### Firm Overview Troutman Pepper Locke helps clients solve complex legal challenges and achieve their business goals in an ever-changing global economy. With more than 1,600 attorneys in 30+ offices, the firm serves clients in all major industry sectors, with particular depth in energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, and real estate. Learn more at troutman.com. ### Main Areas of Practice Troutman Pepper Locke has noted depth across industry sectors, including energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, and real estate. ### Construction For decades, Troutman Pepper Locke's multifaceted construction team has quickly and effectively handled large, complex problems in a wide range of transactional, project management, and litigation matters. The firm's experienced construction attorneys have a global perspective on construction and project development, partnering with clients to build winning projects around the world. ### Consumer Financial Services Clients in the financial services industries rely on Troutman Pepper Locke's top-ranked, national team to resolve litigation, provide regulatory guidance, and assist with government investigations and enforcement actions. ### Corporate Consistently recognized as a top-tier practice, Troutman Pepper Locke’s corporate attorneys regularly handle strategic deals for Fortune 100 corporations and middle market transactions for private equity clients. ### Energy Troutman Pepper Locke offers a solution-oriented, execution-driven, and nationally recognized team of 220+ energy lawyers representing clients on their most important and complex matters throughout the United States and beyond. ### Finance Troutman Pepper Locke offers comprehensive support to financial services businesses in today’s challenging and ever-changing environment. ### Bankruptcy and Restructuring Clients impacted by distressed situations rely on the firm's know-how to enforce their rights and maximize value. The team's deep understanding of pre- and post-insolvency issues from every stakeholder’s perspective enables the firm's attorneys to help clients prevent and prepare for a financial crisis and, when needed, serve as trusted advisors to respond effectively to financial distress. ### Health Care and Life Sciences Experienced, industry-savvy legal counsel enables clients to bring value quickly to the market and to their stakeholders. Troutman Pepper Locke's health care and life sciences practice was founded more than 60 years ago, and encompasses the entire spectrum of health care and life sciences companies. ### Insurance and Reinsurance Troutman Pepper Locke's international team provides clients with practical and efficient legal solutions for the unique challenges and complexities of insurance and reinsurance. With more than 100 years of experience in insurance law, the firm helps clients succeed as they face new market forces, emerging risks, and evolving regulations. ### Intellectual Property This nationally ranked team of attorneys, patent agents, and other professionals develops and implements global protection and commercialization strategies for clients with intellectual property assets in virtually all industry areas. ### Litigation Whether it is high-stakes, bet-the-company cases, sensitive government investigations, or complex insurance coverage cases, clients consistently bring the firm their toughest challenges. When litigation is unavoidable, Troutman Pepper Locke offers clients a deep bench of first-chair trial attorneys and appellate attorneys with a strong record. ### Private Equity Troutman Pepper Locke is a leader in middle-market private equity and growth equity deals, providing creative and pragmatic advice on deal structures, market terms, and industry trends. ### Real Estate Clients continually call on this team for complex real estate transactions because they know that the firm makes their business goals a priority. The firm seamlessly delivers real-time, innovative solutions to help them identify real estate opportunities, increase efficiencies, and minimize risk. ### State Attorneys General Troutman Pepper Locke's nationally ranked State AG practice has handled AG investigations involving all 50 states. The team combines strong legal skills with firsthand experience developed from resolving hundreds of matters with AGs across the U.S. to bring order to the chaos. ### Tax The firm's tax lawyers provide comprehensive services to domestic and international clients on multinational, federal, state, and local tax issues. ### Technology Troutman Pepper Locke has a rich history representing clients in the technology space and advises vendors and technology users, as well as venture capital and private equity firms that focus on investing in technology companies.

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Aaron Abraham

Aaron represents owners and developers in both transactional and litigation matters in the construction law area. Aaron's clients include prominent corporate and institutional owners and developers as well as real estate and hospitality industry companies, that turn to him for guidance on some of the largest commercial, residential, and mixed-use projects nationally and internationally. Chambers USA ranks Aaron as a top construction attorney. Aaron drafts and negotiates a full range of development, design, and construction agreements, and resolves and litigates complex construction and design-related disputes. He counsels clients on the structuring of major construction projects, including complex development, joint venture, budget, design, project management and controls, risk management and mitigation, insurance, and dispute resolution issues. · Construction Law

Adrienne Thompson

Energy Regulatory

Alison Grounds

E-Discovery

Anne Loomis

Tax

Ashley Taylor

Ashley is co-leader of the firm's nationally ranked State Attorneys General practice, vice chair of the firm, and a partner in its Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) Practice Group. Ashley has been ranked by Chambers USA for 12 consecutive years — including in the State Attorneys General category every year since its inception — longer than any other US attorney in the category. He helps his clients navigate the complexities involved with multistate attorneys general investigations and enforcement actions, federal agency actions, and accompanying litigation. Ashley's clients benefit from his experience as a former deputy attorney general and the insights gained from handling high stakes matters before every state attorney general (AG) in U.S. as well as the federal agencies that regulate his clients' businesses. While he is experienced across a wide range of heavily regulated sectors, Ashley offers exceptional experience in the financial services industry, including issues involving the Federal Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), State Consumer Protection laws, and before agencies such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The outcomes Ashley achieves on behalf of his clients are due, in part, to his knowledge of the regulatory enforcement priorities of each state AG and their approaches to enforcement actions and investigations. His long-standing relationships with personnel at all levels in state AG offices throughout the U.S., combined with his ability to apply effective risk management strategies in the face of multiple government actions and litigations, enables him to efficiently resolve his clients' largest and most mission-critical challenges. As government scrutiny continues to intensify across many consumer facing industries, Ashley informs his clients of the latest regulatory trends and emerging issues through comprehensive counseling and frequent thought leadership. Ashley is deeply involved with attorneys general organizations, including the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). He founded, and co-chairs the American Bar Association committee on state attorneys general matters. He previously served as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by President Bush from 2004 to 2010. · State Attorneys General

Case Towslee

Case focuses his practice on energy and corporate law. His energy practice involves advising domestic energy companies in a variety of energy transactions in the upstream and midstream sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas assets, joint ventures, and various oil and gas agreements. In addition to his hydrocarbon energy practice, Case counsels clients on wind, solar, and other renewable energy matters, including those relating to project development, power purchase agreements, and hedging and offtake arrangements. Case's corporate practice includes representing public and private clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate restructurings, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. · Energy Law

Christopher Jones

Energy Litigation: Electric Power

Clayton Friedman

State Attorneys General

David Navetta

Data Privacy

Donna Byrne

Energy Regulatory

Mark J. Furletti

Consumer Financial Services Regulatory

Matthew Greenberg

Private Equity

Mindy McGrath

Energy