Proskauer Rose LLP — United States

Adam Lupion

Adam Lupion is the co-chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Labor Management Relations, Sports Law and Employment Litigation Groups. A trusted litigator and counselor, Adam has developed a particular expertise representing sports leagues and teams. He has been at the center of many of the most significant labor and employment matters in the sports industry. For example, Adam helped guide Major League Baseball (MLB) through its most recent work stoppage with players, represented MLB in grievance arbitrations challenging player discipline for violations of the league’s domestic violence and drug policies, successfully defended MLB against discrimination claims brought by Angel Hernandez, and defended MLB and its member Clubs in class and collective actions involving pay practices of minor league players and claims of age discrimination by scouts. In addition, Adam has handled several litigations and arbitrations for the National Hockey League and National Football League, and has advised college athletic conferences and universities across the broad spectrum of labor and employment laws. Adam also leads the Firm’s MLB Salary Arbitration practice, and is one of the most sought-after practitioners to represent Clubs during contract negotiations and at arbitration hearings against some of the game’s most prominent players. Adam’s practice extends far beyond the world of sports, as he has extensive experience representing healthcare, higher education, financial services, media and entertainment, telecommunications, energy, retail and hospitality clients in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters in state and federal court, and before administrative agencies. He has lectured on labor and employment law at Cornell University, New York University School of Law, and Cardozo Law School. He frequently represents the Firm and the Sports Law Group on panel discussions and at career seminars for current and prospective lawyers. · Labor And Employment Law

Alexandria Zeizel

Alex Zeizel is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Alex counsels private equity fund sponsors across all facets of their business with a particular focus on the formation of private investment funds, co-investment funds and managed accounts, fund ownership and operational matters, as well as a broad spectrum of complex secondary transactions. Her fundraising experience spans the private equity asset class for sponsors, including strategies such as buyout, venture and growth capital, real estate, private credit, fund-of-funds and special situations. Alex also regularly advises secondary clients and private fund sponsors on a diverse range of secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, fund restructurings, co-investments, stapled secondaries and GP-led liquidity transactions. In addition, Alex regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their primary investments. Alex has significant experience with a wide range of private investment firms and select clients include Atlas Holdings, Atomico, Lexington Partners and Värde Partners. te fund sponsors on a diverse range of secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, fund restructurings, co-investments, stapled secondaries and GP-led liquidity transactions. In addition, Alex regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their primary investments. Alex has significant experience with a wide range of private investment firms and select clients include Atlas Holdings, Atomico, Lexington Partners and Värde Partners. · Private Equity

Aliza Cinamon

Aliza Cinamon leads Proskauer’s Environmental Group. She is a trusted advisor to leading U.S. and international clients on a broad spectrum of environmental issues and strategies in connection with complex corporate, financing, bankruptcy and real estate transactions. Drawing on her extensive experience, Aliza offers a broad range of capabilities, guiding clients on matters involving environmental liability and risk allocation, remediation, brownfields, ESG, sustainability and climate change, public company disclosures and environmental insurance. Her practice also includes advising clients in superfund litigation matters, and environmental compliance, permitting and enforcement at both the federal and state levels. Aliza represents both public and private companies spanning a wide variety of industries including aerospace, mining, pharmaceuticals, chemical manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, real estate construction and development, sports, retail and financial services. Aliza is also devoted to pro bono matters, including heading the Firm’s efforts on behalf of Holocaust victims eligible for reparations, obtaining disability benefits for veterans, identifying and assisting potential victims of trafficking, helping persecuted Iraqis seeking refuge in the U.S. and providing corporate counseling for a number of the Firm’s other pro bono clients. Before joining Proskauer, Aliza interned for the U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District with Judge Shira Scheindlin. · Environmental Law

Allan Bloom

As the leader of Proskauer’s Wage and Hour Practice Group, Allan has been a strategic partner to a number of Fortune 500 companies to help them avoid, minimize and manage exposure to wage and hour-related risk. Allan’s views on wage and hour issues have been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and Fortune, among other leading publications. His class-action defense work for clients has saved billions of dollars in potential damages. Allan is regularly called on to advise operating companies, management companies, fund sponsors, boards of directors and senior leadership on highly sensitive matters including executive and key person transitions, internal investigations and strategic workforce planning. He has particular expertise in the financial services industry, where he has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated disputes for more than 20 years. A prolific author and speaker, Allan was the Editor of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Journal from 2012 to 2017. He has served as an author, editor and contributor to a number of leading treatises in the field of employment law, including ADR in Employment Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Employment Discrimination Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Cutting Edge Advances in Resolving Workplace Disputes (Cornell University/CPR), The Employment Law Review (Law Business Research, U.S. Chapter Author), and The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual (SCCE). Allan has served as longtime pro bono counsel to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Public Theater, among other nonprofit organizations. He is a past Vice Chair of Repair the World, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes volunteers and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, and a past recipient of the Lawyers Alliance Cornerstone Award for extraordinary contributions through pro bono legal services. · Labor and Employment

Ally de Padua

Ally de Padua is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance Practice, where she serves as a trusted advisor to leading banks and private credit funds on complex corporate financing transactions. With extensive experience in private equity-backed leveraged finance, Ally specializes in representing creditor clients across a wide range of financing transactions, from initial acquisition and recapitalization to cash flow financing, out-of-court restructurings, and debtor-in-possession facilities. Ally is also a skilled advocate in negotiating intricate cross-border debt transactions. In addition to advising on cross-border transactions involving both the U.S. and Europe, Ally has a proven track record of advising clients on investment opportunities across Latin America and the Caribbean, navigating the complexities of the region’s financial markets. · Global Finance

Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer's Tax Department as well as a member of the Private Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual,which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co. · Tax

Andrea Rattner

Andrea S. Rattner is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and member of the Compensation & Benefits Group. For more than 30 years, her practice has focused on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, advising clients on an ongoing basis as well as in the context of corporate transactions and other transformative and unique situations. Her clients include public and private companies, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives in a broad range of industries. Andrea has been involved in Firm management for many years, having served as a member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of the Tax Department. Andrea counsels clients with respect to the tax, securities, corporate governance, stock exchange, ERISA and other implications affecting executive compensation arrangements. Andrea regularly provides advice regarding equity arrangements (such as stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, LLC/partnership interests and phantom equity), employment agreements, change-in-control agreements and all other types of compensation arrangements (including incentive awards, SERPs, deferred compensation and "409A" covered and exempt arrangements). She counsels clients on benefits and compensation matters arising in all types of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings, joint ventures, debt and equity offerings and bankruptcies. In numerous transactions, she has addressed the treatment of stock options and other equity awards, change-in-control and "golden parachute" tax issues, severance obligations and separation agreements, the negotiation of new employment agreements and other executive arrangements, retention and other bonus plans, benefit plan liabilities, COBRA, PBGC-related issues and post-closing benefit plan and compensation structures and integration. Andrea also advises clients on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as plan design, administration, termination, fiduciary duty issues, prohibited transactions, qualification requirements and other matters concerning pension, profit-sharing, employee stock ownership, 401(k), and other types of plans. She has extensive experience with respect to the legal consequences relating to the use of employer stock in tax-qualified plans such as ESOPs, profit-sharing, stock bonus and pension plans. She writes and lectures frequently on employee benefits and executive compensation matters and is a co-editor and chapter author of Executive Compensation (Law Journal Press). Since 1993, she has served as an adjunct professor on the faculty of Cornell University (New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations-Management Programs). Andrea is also active in Proskauer’s relationship with the Women Corporate Directors (WCD), the only global membership organization of its kind focused on helping women obtain and succeed in board positions. · Executive Compensation

Anthony Cacace

Anthony S. Cacace is a partner in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Compensation & Benefits Group. Anthony serves as legal counsel to the boards of trustees and other fiduciaries of Taft-Hartley multiemployer pension and welfare benefit plans subject to ERISA in a variety of industries. These include construction, transportation, private sanitation, trucking, industrial, media, food service, health care and maritime. Anthony provides strategic and practical advice to his clients on all issues confronting multiemployer plans and their boards, including fiduciary compliance, governance, plan investments, cybersecurity, defined benefit pension plan funding, fund mergers, service provider arrangements, prohibited transactions and the exemptions thereto, special financial assistance, plan drafting, participant claim administration, welfare plan regulations, submission of corrective applications with the IRS and DOL, among others. Anthony is frequently called upon by those in the multiemployer plan community to advise on – and ultimately resolve – complicated and nuanced problems that often involve many stakeholders and material financial consequences. Anthony’s practice is unique because of his background in ERISA litigation. He advises trustees and fiduciaries from a litigation avoidance perspective, solving problems and rendering advice in risk exposure situations before they evolve into disputes or litigations. His litigation experience, when combined with the depth of his fiduciary counseling practice, makes him especially effective when representing trustees and fiduciaries during investigations and audits conducted by governmental agencies (including the U.S. DOL, U.S. DOJ and the IRS). Anthony also has experience counseling his multiemployer pension fund clients in all matters pertaining to withdrawal liability, including the establishment of withdrawal liability procedures and the maintenance of an effective withdrawal liability program. If adversity arises, Anthony represents his fund clients in disputes relating to the assessment and collection of withdrawal liability, from responding to withdrawn employer requests for review of withdrawal liability assessments, to the statutorily mandated arbitration of withdrawal liability claims, and then the enforcement of arbitration awards in federal district court. Anthony has quickly developed into an industry leader when it comes to the legal representation of multiemployer funds. Anthony is a member of the Professionals Committee of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and a frequent lecturer for the industry’s leading organizations, including: The National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans The National Labor Management Committee The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans The American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee Anthony is also an accomplished author on issues confronting trustees of multiemployer funds. He has authored several articles featured in Bloomberg Law Reports and Benefits Magazine and serves as a chapter editor of the withdrawal liability section of the American Bar Association's published Employee Benefits Law treatise. · Labor and Employment Law

Anthony Oncidi

Anthony J. Oncidi is the Co-Chair Emeritus of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters. Tony is the author of the treatise titled Employment Discrimination Depositions (Juris Pub’g 2020; www.jurispub.com), co-author of Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2023), and, since 1990, has been a regular columnist for the official publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Tony has been a featured guest on Fox 11 News and CBS News in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading national media outlets such as The National Law Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and Newsweek and Time magazines. Tony is a frequent speaker on employment law topics for large and small groups of employers and their counsel, including the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM"), PIHRA, the National CLE Conference, National Business Institute, the Employment Round Table of Southern California (Board Member), the Council on Education in Management, the Institute for Corporate Counsel, the State Bar of California, the California Continuing Education of the Bar Program and the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. He has testified as an expert witness regarding wage and hour issues as well as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and has served as a faculty member of the National Employment Law Institute. He has served as an arbitrator in an employment discrimination matter. Tony is an appointed Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission Board of Rights and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law and a guest lecturer at USC Law School and a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School. · Labor and Employment Law

Antonio Piccirillo

Antonio N. Piccirillo is the head of Proskauer's São Paulo office and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Antonio’s practice focuses principally on transactional and finance matters in Latin America. He has extensive experience in bank finance, securities law and corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), capital markets, project finance, debt restructurings (including tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers), securitizations and mergers & acquisitions. While serving on the Fordham International Law Journal, Antonio authored “The Metamorphosis: Expected Changes in The Brazilian Debt-for-Nature Swap Process and Policy Implications,” and co-authored “A Citation Manual for European Community Materials.” In 2008, he authored a chapter titled, “Bridging the Gap – Recent SEC Initiatives to Ease Burdens on Foreign Private Issuers,” in International Business Transactions with Brazil. · Bank Finance

Arnold Jacobs

Arnie Jacobs has a broad background in general corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. His practice includes representing diverse private equity funds and public companies, and working on public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions. He twice was a member of Proskauer’s six-person Executive Committee, which governs the firm. As a result of his most recent election to the Executive Committee, he gave up his position as co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. While he was Chairman of the Committee on Securities Regulation of the New York City Bar Association, he testified on securities legislation before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Arnie was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School for 12 years, was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School for 12 years, and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School for 15 years. Arnie is the author of 25 books and numerous articles on various aspects of securities and corporate law, which have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court a number of times (most recently in 2011), as well as in hundreds of other cases and authorities. As a result of one of those articles, he holds the world's record for the law review article with the most footnotes (4,824 to be exact). His books include: Disclosure and Remedies Under the Securities Laws, a seven-volume, 7,500-page treatise discussing what disclosure is required under federal and state securities laws, and the remedies for noncompliance Litigation and Practice Under Rule 10b-5, a six-volume, 5,000-page treatise dealing with securities fraud Section 16(b) of The Securities Exchange Act, a 1,400-page treatise dealing with short-swing profits Manual of Corporate Forms for Securities Practice, a four-volume, 4,000-page treatise setting forth forms to be used Opinion Letters in Securities Matters, a three-volume, 3,500-page treatise dealing in depth with opinions lawyers are to render The Impact of Rule 10b-5, a three-volume, 1,500-page treatise explaining various aspects of securities fraud The Williams Act - Tender Offer and Stock Accumulations, a 1,100-page treatise on takeovers and Schedule 13Ds · Corporate Law

Arnold May

Arnold P. May is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on tax planning for private equity fund managers in connection with their fund-raising and internal organizational matters, as well as investment activities. In addition, Arnold represents U.S. and non-U.S. investors in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, buyout funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships. In this capacity, as well as in connection with advising private equity funds with respect to their investment activities, he regularly advises on international tax issues that arise in connection with investments in the U.S. by non-U.S. investors (including non-U.S. investors subject to special U.S. tax treatment, such as governmental pension plans and tax-exempt organizations), as well as investments outside of the U.S. by U.S. persons. Arnold also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations. Arnold is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Financial Research Associates Tax Practices for Private Equity Funds, Institute for International Research Private Equity Tax Practices, Private Equity International Strategic Financial Management for Private Equity Firms, and Private Equity CFO Association. Highly-regarded for his thought leadership, Arnold is the editor of Private Equity International's "US Tax Considerations for Investment Fund Structuring", which was published in August of 2015. He also co-authored an article on "Management Company Structuring" (with Scott Jones) for the April 2008 Private Equity International Fund Structures Supplement. · Tax

Atoyia Harris

Atoyia Harris is Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s Labor and Employment Law Department, Co-Chair of the Black Lawyer Affinity Group, and a member of the Women’s Alliance Steering Committee. She represents employers in all aspects of employment law, including litigation, counseling, compliance, and workplace investigations. With over a decade of experience, Atoyia provides strategic guidance to help clients manage workplace crises and achieve favorable outcomes in complex, high-stakes disputes. She has successfully defended employers in cases across jurisdictions and forums at both the trial and appellate levels. Leveraging her litigation background, she also advises clients on risk mitigation, helping to prevent issues before they escalate. Atoyia regularly conducts investigations and trainings on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other employment-related matters, and counsels employers on employment and separation agreements, reductions-in-force, WARN Act compliance, workplace policies, and DEI initiatives. An active leader in the legal community, Atoyia serves as Chair of the Employment Law Committee for the International Association of Defense Counsel, Chair of the Young Lawyers Board for the Federal Bar Association’s New Orleans Chapter, and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Defense Research Institute (DRI). She has also served as President of the Vernon Crawford Bay Area Bar Association and on the Executive Board of the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Society. Atoyia earned her J.D. with an International Law Certification from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she served on the Moot Court Board and the Loyola Law and Technology Journal. She also clerked for the Honorable Jay C. Zainey of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the Honorable Robin Giarrusso of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court. She was a member of the award-winning Robert F. Wagner Labor and Employment Moot Court Team. Before law school, Atoyia received her Bachelor of Music in Industry Studies (classical piano emphasis) from Loyola University New Orleans, where she was also a member of the women’s basketball team. · Labor and Employment

Aymeric Robine

Aymeric Robine is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. · Private Equity

Baldassare Vinti

Baldassare (“Baldo”) Vinti is the head of Proskauer’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Baldo is a first-chair trial lawyer known for navigating complex, bet-the-company intellectual property disputes across industry verticals and next-generation technologies. With over 25 years of experience, Baldo represents leading global companies and universities in patent, trade secret, false advertising, consumer class actions and technology-related breach of contract litigation in federal and state courts as well as before the International Trade Commission. Baldo is particularly sought after for his courtroom skill and strategic depth, having led trials, arbitrations and appeals in high-stakes disputes involving technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to encryption, digital media, diagnostics, mobile platforms and software. Baldo has represented global corporations, including Arkema S.A., British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Welch Foods, Inc. and Zenith Electronics LLC. With a background in pharmacy, Baldo brings deep domain expertise to pharmaceutical litigation. He has a proven record of driving successful outcomes in complex pharmaceutical milestone payment, royalty and licensing disputes—often stemming from collaboration agreements, co-development deals, and M&A transactions—where the financial and strategic stakes run high. In addition to representing corporate clients, Baldo works closely with university innovation and technology transfer offices to maximize the financial return of research investments. He develops tailored IP asset optimization strategies and aggressively enforces intellectual property rights to protect and monetize core innovations—whether through high-value licensing agreements, shaping and advancing spin-out company development, or successful litigation. Baldo also provides strategic counsel on IP due diligence, complex licensing, IP structuring, patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses, and infringement and validity opinions. He advises boards and executive teams on aligning IP strategy with business objectives, mitigating risk and maximizing the value of innovation assets. A frequent author and commentator on intellectual property topics, Baldo has been quoted in the National Law Journal, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Westlaw Journal and Inside Counsel magazine. He is also a regular contributor to articles published in Medical Product Outsourcing magazine that deal with the medical device industry. Baldo served as a judicial intern for Hon. John E. Sprizzo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Hon. Charles A. LaTorella of the New York Supreme Court. · Intellectual Property Litigation

Bart Williams

Bart Williams is one of the nation’s most sought after trial lawyers and commercial litigators. He has served as lead counsel for numerous companies in their most challenging and high-profile matters. Bart has served as a counselor and trial lawyer for Fortune 500 corporations in a variety of industries, including: sports, media and entertainment, financial services, consumer products, technology and telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and private equity. He has represented multiple major law firms in their most serious professional negligence cases. He has also represented celebrities, government officials and corporate executives individually in high-stakes matters. Bart’s background as a former Assistant United States Attorney has also helped establish him as a “go to” lawyer for internal corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense matters. In a case Bart handled for the Motion Picture Association of America, CNET News reported, “Real [Networks] has hired some very able attorneys . . . . to represent it. But should it go to trial, Real would do well to hire a lawyer with the same kind of charisma and courtroom presence as Bart Williams. He's the lawyer . . . who is representing the MPAA. I'm no legal expert, but I've got eyes and the judge appeared to be more engaged when Williams addressed her. . . . Cases are supposed to be judged on facts but I'm guessing every advantage helps.” A leader within Proskauer, Bart is an immediate past member of Proskauer's Executive Committee and also serves as worldwide chair of the Litigation Department and head of Proskauer’s Los Angeles office. Bart served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California where he concentrated on complex criminal prosecutions involving allegations of fraud or other business crimes. He obtained convictions in 11 out of 11 jury trials. He received several special commendations during his tenure, including one from the Honorable Louis J. Freeh, then-director of the FBI. Bart is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He was a starting guard for four years on the Yale Varsity Basketball Team, and received the George McReynolds Award as the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Player his senior year. · Commercial Litigation

Ben Orlanski

Ben Orlanski is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Capital Markets Group. Ben focuses on major corporate transactions and strategically solving critical business challenges. He has significant experience in securities and public company representation; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions; special committee, board of directors and general corporate representation; and corporate governance. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including software-as-a-service, REITs, digital media, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Capital Formation and Securities Ben has significant experience in managing, structuring and executing sophisticated securities and capital raising transactions. His approach reflects understanding of market operation, well-designed capital structure and the practical realities of the capital raising process. He represents public companies and investors in public offerings, registered direct transactions, self-tenders, warrant exchanges/flush transactions, recapitalizations, defensive strategies and secondary offerings. He also advises clients on corporate finance transactions for private businesses, ranging from venture capital and private placements to public offerings and debt restructurings. Mergers and Acquisitions Ben has completed scores of transactions representing buyers, sellers, investment bankers and financiers through all phases of the M&A process. He is actively involved in planning, structuring, negotiating and documenting strategic merger and acquisition transactions as well as dispositions of sophisticated enterprises. General Counsel, Public Reporting and Strategic Advice Ben acts as outside general counsel for numerous public and private companies, applying a business-like approach to produce practical legal solutions to both day-to-day and exceptional legal challenges. In representing his public clients, Ben has successfully guided the public reporting process for clients facing accounting and SEC challenges, proxy contests, cash flow issues, litigation, shareholder activism and strategic alternatives. He frequently advises on issues related to compliance with insider trading laws and major compliance challenges. He also represents boards of directors and special committees of public companies in special situations, including “interested” transactions, investigations, executive succession planning and sensitive corporate governance issues. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Bharat Moudgil

Bharat K. Moudgil is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Credit Group. He has experience acting for lenders on a wide range of transactions, including senior secured, mezzanine and second-lien financings. Bharat focuses his practice on corporate finance transactions and represents a wide array of credit providers, including private debt funds, BDCs, banks, and other investors in connection with acquisition financings, restructurings, recapitalizations and other financings. Bharat has industry experience in a wide range of sectors including software and technology, healthcare and business services. During law school, Bharat served as managing editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and was a judicial intern for the Honorable James S. Moody of the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida. · Corporate Finance

Blake Gilson

Blake Gilson is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Structured Credit group. His practice focuses on structured finance transactions involving insurance capital, including rated note feeders, collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), and other vehicles tailored to support investment in private fund strategies. Blake represents fund sponsors, institutional investors, and underwriters across the structured credit landscape, offering strategic guidance throughout the lifecycle of complex transactions. He is highly skilled in navigating complex, multi-party negotiations and liaising with rating agencies to ensure alignment with both market dynamics and regulatory frameworks. · Structured Finance

Bradley Ruskin

A preeminent litigator and trial lawyer, Brad Ruskin is a senior partner at Proskauer and co-chairs its Sports Law Group. He has served as co-chair of the Litigation Department and has been the Firm’s longest serving member on its worldwide Executive Committee. Brad has tried a significant number of high stakes, headline-making cases to verdict or appellate victory on issues ranging from “bet-the company” antitrust challenges and novel Delaware Corporate law, to complex commercial disputes. Sports Law: As co-chair of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group, a significant portion of Brad's practice is dedicated to litigating issues and counseling clients active in the sports business. He Brad has represented virtually every sports and conference league, including Major League Soccer, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, ATP Tour, WTA, WSL, and various college conferences. In addition, Brad has represented ownership groups and clubs across major U.S. sports, including the Washington Nationals, the Miami Marlins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Jersey Devils as well as media companies in sports-related disputes. Technology, Media and Telecommunications: Brad represents numerous technology, media and telecommunications companies in a wide variety of litigated disputes, including partnership issues, communications and copyright law issues, bankruptcy disputes, data breaches, contract rights and complex class actions. He has represented a diverse set of clients including T-Mobile USA, Tech Mahindra, ML Media Partners, Madonna, the RP Media Companies and the Rascoff/Zysblat Organization. Antitrust and General Commercial Disputes: Brad regularly defends clients in major antitrust and complex commercial cases. In the antitrust arena, he has litigated cases across myriad industries. In addition to literally a score of sports matters, he has represented companies such as Weyerhaeuser, Sanofi, Henry Schein and Lupin. In one precedent setting case, Most recently, Brad led the team representing Major League Soccer in a high-profile jury trial in the Eastern District of New York. After seven years of litigation, the jury returned a complete defense verdict in under one hundred minutes. Other notable sports antitrust cases include representation of the ATP Tour in multiple actions and proceedings in the US and abroad, and representation of the NFL in a variety of antitrust challenges to various parts of its business, including online sales and trading cards. Brad also regularly handles a wide range of litigation matters, including contract, fraud, licensing, trademark, franchising, partnership, intra-corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, unfair competition and other commercial disputes. He has litigated matters throughout the country before both state and federal courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitral forums. Brad has also handled proceedings (along with foreign co-counsel) before the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading. Throughout his decades long career, Brad has been a leader in a wide array of public service activities. He currently serves as a Member of the Executive Committee and Vice Chair of the Legal Aid Society, the Chairperson of the Board of the Student Leadership Network (and recipient of its “The Man We Love Award”), a Member of the ADL Sports Leadership Council, and a Member of the Jewish Theological Society’s Advisory Board (and recipient of its Simon Rifkind Award). In addition, Brad frequently publishes articles, has taught a graduate school class at NYU's Tisch School, and has testified before legislative and other bodies concerning administration of justice and court operations in New York State. · Sports Law

Cameron Clark

Cameron Clark is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Cameron advises a wide variety of emerging and large fund managers on the formation and ongoing operation of credit, hedge and private equity funds, as well as complex hybrid and evergreen funds. Cameron regularly counsels sponsors on fund formation and marketing, upper-tier arrangements, asset manager M&A, co-investment arrangements, seed transactions, treaty structures, funds-of-one, managed accounts, restructurings and internal governances and compensation arrangements as well as various regulatory issues. Cameron also advises institutional investors regarding their investments in private funds. · Corporate Law

Camille Higonnet

Camille Higonnet is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Camille concentrates in the areas of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on representing private investment fund sponsors in structuring funds and portfolio investment activities, as well as regulatory and compliance matters. Camille’s practice includes advising on marketing and fundraising as well as key trends in fund terms, conducting negotiations with investors, and advising on ongoing operational issues. In addition, Camille represents both U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in private investment funds, as well as in connection with secondary market activities, including traditional portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries and fund restructurings. Camille is also co-chair of Proskauer’s Diversity Task Force and she is actively involved in Proskauer's Women's Sponsorship Program, as well as in Proskauer’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program (MCP). Camille spent two years on secondment at the firm’s London office. · Corporate Law

Caryn Greenspan

Caryn Greenspan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group with over 15 years of experience in the investment funds industry. Caryn’s practice focuses on hedge funds, credit funds and growth equity funds. She advises clients in launching private investment funds, including commingled funds and funds-of-one as well as negotiating managed account agreements. She counsels sponsors on all aspects of their business, including upper tier arrangements, fund restructurings, seed capital arrangements, employment issues and regulatory issues. She also regularly represents start-up managers. · Private Funds

Casey L. Miller

Casey Miller is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Structured Credit Group. She specializes in advising asset managers, issuers, banks, underwriters and investors on a broad range of structured finance transactions, with a focus on ABLs and collateralized loan obligations secured by broadly syndicated and middle-market loans. Previously, Ms. Miller served as a senior legislative assistant to then-U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge. She earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and served on the George Washington University Law School’s Law Review. · Structured Finance

Charles Dale

Chad Dale is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of both the Restructuring and Private Credit Restructuring Groups. Chad has 30 years of experience in corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings. As a member of the Private Credit Restructuring Group, Chad’s practice focuses on direct lenders and ad hoc groups of direct lenders, hedge funds and BDC’s. He also represents troubled companies, equity sponsors, creditors’ committees, trustees and receivers in complex out-of-court debt restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings. Chad has also served as a court-appointed chapter 11 trustee and frequently represents purchasers of financially distressed businesses. Chad offers extensive experience handling debt restructurings, reorganizations and distressed asset transactions. Chad has written articles and spoken frequently on a wide range of matters including debtor-in-possession financings, healthcare restructurings, intellectual property licensing in bankruptcy, executory contracts, director and officer liability and income and property taxation in bankruptcy. · Corporate Law

Charles Sims

Chuck Sims joined Proskauer after nine years of service as national staff counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. At the ACLU, Chuck litigated First Amendment and national security cases, oversaw the ACLU’s Supreme Court docket, and argued two cases in the Supreme Court as well as appeals in the Second and District of Columbia Circuits. Since joining Proskauer, Chuck has concentrated on copyright, First Amendment, defamation law, and complex federal appellate and trial matters.He obtained a unanimous victory representing the petitioners in Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, a class action copyright case argued in the Supreme Court in the fall of 2009. After serving as trial counsel, he argued the Second Circuit appeal for the motion picture studios in their groundbreaking and successful litigation, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, against hackers who were publicly providing illegal software for decrypting DVDs. He represented Lexis-Nexis in its victory against an Internet start-up which had attempted to steal the entire Lexis database for uploading onto the Web. Chuck has worked on numerous other copyright matters for clients such as the Association of American Publishers (representing eight leading publishers of trade, professional, and educational books in a groundbreaking and successful suit against a national copyshop chain, gaining one of the largest statutory damage awards at that time and an injunction against further unconsented anthologizing of the publishers’ copyrighted works); Houghton Mifflin; and England’s Royal Court Theatre. In the First Amendment field, Chuck has represented The New York Times and The Discovery Channel in class action litigation testing the right to engage in newsgathering, and obtained an order quashing an unprecedented subpoena seeking copies of “any and all” copies of a classified document that had been leaked to the ACLU. He has litigated challenges to content-based federal restrictions of cable television programming, which the Supreme Court largely invalidated in Denver Area Educational Television Consortium v. FCC; and he has handled (with Ron Rauchberg) a facial First Amendment challenge to New York’s Son of Sam law for Simon & Schuster, which the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated. In addition to counseling leading cultural institutions in New York City on First Amendment issues, he has handled major libel actions (for clients including Prudential Equities Group, the Philadelphia Eagles, Multimedia Entertainment, Phil Donahue, NBC, and a major shipping company), with none decided adversely. For many years Chuck organized Proskauer’s pro bono activities. · Copyright

Chip Parsons

Chip Parsons is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was co-head of that practice for several years. He also served as co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department from 2018 to 2024 and is currently a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. He regularly advises clients on the organization, raising and ongoing operation of credit funds (including distressed credit funds), private equity funds, real estate funds and a variety of types of funds of funds. Chip represents a wide range of private fund clients, from large financial institutions to newly formed asset managers. His clients include Almanac Realty Investors, AllianceBernstein, Ares Management, DFW Capital, Global Infrastructure Partners, JP Morgan, Radian Capital and Thoma Bravo. · Private Funds

Christine Harlow

Christine is a partner in the Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group, advising clients on the tax aspects of private funds, including hedge funds, credit funds, private equity funds and joint ventures. She represents private fund managers in the formation of private funds, ongoing operations and the tax consequences of purchasing and disposing of investments. She also represents investors regarding the tax consequences of investing in private funds. She advises fund managers and investors on a variety of fund structures, including closed-end, open-end, hybrid, and evergreen. Her experience also includes structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments and advising private fund managers with respect to the sale of investment management and general partner entities. Prior to joining Proskauer, Christine served as special counsel at a prominent law firm focused on private capital, where she addressed a broad range of tax matters related to private funds. · Tax

Christine Lazatin

Christine Lazatin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer’s Sports Group. Christine regularly represents professional sports teams, leagues, owners, financial institutions and private capital firms in a variety of transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on acquisition and stadium financings, working capital facilities, and league-wide and league-level credit facilities. Over the years, she has advised major sports leagues (including the the NBA, NHL and MLS), as well as a number of NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB teams, in significant multi-billion dollar financing transactions, and she is known as one of the nation’s leading sports finance attorneys. In addition to her finance work, Christine has advised on numerous expansion and ownership transactions for the NHL, NBA and MLS. She played a leading role in launching several emerging sports leagues, including MLS NEXT Pro, Major League Table Tennis, the Professional Women’s Hockey League and League One Volleyball, and she continues to represent such leagues on ongoing governance matters. Christine is a vice chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and a partner liason to the Proskauer Women’s Alliance. · Corporate

Christopher Ahn

Chris Ahn is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Chris advises private equity sponsors, other investors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, growth equity investments and other strategic transactions. Chris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to numerous operating companies, including many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients, and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. He also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. From 2018 until 2021, Chris served as General Counsel of James Perse, a global apparel, furniture, furnishings and lifestyle brand based in Los Angeles. Chris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as co-chair of the Hiring Committee for the Los Angeles office. · Mergers & Acquisitions

Christopher Ondeck

Chris Ondeck is head of Proskauer's Washington, DC office and co-head of the Firm’s Antitrust Group. Chris is one of the most highly rated antitrust trial lawyers in the United States. In 2023, Chris won the largest antitrust jury trial of the year, and one of the largest in history, by defending Sanderson Farms as the sole non-settling defendant where the direct purchaser plaintiffs alleged $7 billion in damages. The significance of the trial victory was widely reported by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Law360 and other publications, calling it a “blockbuster case.” Law360 noted that Chris “blasted” the plaintiffs’ assertions at trial and called it one of the biggest trial decisions of the year. Chris and his team were named Litigators of the Week by the American Lawyer. Chris is a go-to litigator for clients in high-profile antitrust matters, including litigations, government investigations, and merger reviews. Chris has extensive experience advising on the antitrust issues for the creation of multi-party collaborations in the financial sector including electronic trading platforms, exchanges and clearinghouses, as well as syndicated lending and club deals. He also has 30-years’ expertise with the Capper-Volstead Act’s application and interpretation for agricultural cooperatives and serves as outside counsel to a large number of industry groups, including trade associations and cooperatives. · Antitrust

Christopher Robinson

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in the Private Funds Group. He primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, continuation vehicles, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions. In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situations and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts. Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Acorn Growth Companies, Angeleno Group, Antares Capital, Aquarian Private Credit, Astara Capital Partners, Atlas Merchant Capital, Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Carrick Capital Partners, Catalyst Investors, CleanArc Data Centers, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, Factorial Funds, Freeport Financial, Greycroft Partners, Hark Capital, Havencrest Capital Management, Hudson Structured Capital Management, Inovia Capital, Kayne Anderson, Lateral Investment Management, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital, Monogram Capital Partners, MPE Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), New Mountain Capital, Nuveen, Palladium Equity Partners, Reynolda Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Stellus Capital Management, Treville Capital Group, WestCap, Vesey Street Capital Partners and ZCG, among others. In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market. Select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, A&M Capital Secondaries, Apollo S3, Arena Investors, Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Blackstone (Strategic Partners), Blue Owl Capital, BNY Advisors, Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), Cross Ocean Partners, CVC Secondary Partners, Dawson Partners, FlowStone Partners, GCM Grosvenor, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, H.I.G. Capital, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Leonard Green Partners, Lexington Partners, New Vintage Partners, Neuberger Berman, Northleaf Capital Partners, Pacific General, Painswick Capital Management, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors, Quilvest Capital Partners, RCP Advisors, Revelation Partners, StepStone, and W Capital, among others. · Secondary Transactions

Christopher Wells

Chris Wells has been a leading lawyer in the hedge fund industry for more than 30 years. During that time, he has assisted on hundreds of hedge fund launches, counselling and assisting hedge fund managers as they grew from often very modest beginnings to become some of the world’s largest and best known hedge funds. He advises fund managers and investors on all aspects of the hedge fund business, including fund structuring and formation, seed investments, asset manager M&A transactions, agreements among principals, employment and compensation issues, and regulatory and enforcement matters. Chris’s long and deep experience in the hedge fund industry gives him a unique ability to counsel clients dealing with some of the most challenging situations that fund managers can encounter, including complex fund restructurings, evolving hedge fund investment terms, hybrid and alternative fund structures, liquidity challenges and constraints, internal disputes, and complex enforcement matters. · Hedge Funds

Colin Cabral

Colin Cabral is co-head of Proskauer's Life Sciences Litigation group. He is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer with a proven track record of success trying cases in federal district courts, state courts, Delaware Chancery Court, the International Trade Commission, and before domestic and international arbitration tribunals. Colin specializes in complex patent and commercial litigation. He represents a broad range of clients in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. Colin also serves as lead trial counsel in cases involving other technologies, including computer software and consumer products. Recently, Colin won a defense verdict for a medical device company following a jury trial in the District of Delaware. The jury rejected the plaintiff’s claim of fraud. The Court also excluded the plaintiff’s damages expert in advance of a subsequent jury trial involving claims on patent infringement. In late 2023, Colin secured a landmark victory for Sanderson Farms in a blockbuster broiler chicken antitrust conspiracy case, defeating $7 billion in damages claims. Following a six-week trial, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois returned a complete defense verdict. Colin previously served as in-house litigation counsel for a global life sciences company in San Diego, CA. He also served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Dorchester, MA. Colin volunteers as regular faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also the Board Chairman of FreeFrom, a charitable organization that helps survivors of domestic violence achieve financial independence. · Life Sciences Litigation

Colin Kass

Colin Kass is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of Proskauer’s Antitrust Group. As a seasoned trial lawyer, Colin has handled many of the nation’s most complex and innovative antitrust cases over the past 20 years. Colin’s practice involves a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, sports, media, pharmaceuticals, and automotive markets, and spans the full-range of antitrust and unfair competition-related litigation, including class actions, competitor suits, dealer/distributor termination suits, price discrimination cases, criminal price-fixing probes, and merger injunctions. Colin also has extensive experience interfacing with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, obtaining clearance for competitively-sensitive transactions and handling anticompetitive practices investigations. As a trusted advisor, Colin also counsels clients on their sales, distribution, and marketing practices, strategic ventures, and general antitrust compliance. Selected Publications Trial Graphics and Your Antitrust Story, Trial Practice Committee of the ABA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (Spring 2017) New FTC Leadership Continues to Flex Their Muscles: New Practice of Issuing Warnings Imposes Unnecessary Uncertainty on Merging Parties, co-authored with David Munkittrick and John Ingrassia (October 2021) Can Purchasing Efficiencies Save Mega-Mergers?, co-authored with John Ingrassia and Rucha Desai (May 2017) Has the Supreme Court Thrown Health Care Regulation into Disarray? A Comment on the Court’s Reworking of the State Action Doctrine, Antitrust Source, co-authored with Scott Abeles and John Ingrassia (Fall 2015) The International Comparative Legal Guide to Competition Litigation 2015, 7th Edition, Competition Litigation: USA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (September 2014) DOJ Merger Policy Shines New Light on Conduct Remedies, Association of Corporate Counsel, Lexology, co-authored with John Ingrassia (June 2011) Demanding Antitrust Side-Letter Disclosure, LAW360, co-authored with John Ingrassia (April 2011) The Uncertain State of Class Action Waivers, LAW360, co-authored with Amy Crafts (March 2010) Predatory Pricing Redux, National Law Journal (2010) Going Horizontal: Why File and Duck Strategies No Longer Work, Association of Corporate Counsel (2010) Holding Parent Companies Liable for Their Children’s Wrongs, LAW360, co-authored with Mireille Dany and Marianne Le Moullec (August 2010) Cartel Investigations: Selective Disclosures and Privilege Preservation By the Target Company Seller, Competition Law International, Vol. 3, No. 2, co-authored with James H. Mutchnik and David Spiegel (October 2007) Consumer Pricing Will Never Be the Same, Antitrust Litigator (Summer 2007) Bundled Rebates: A Temporary Blip on the Antitrust Radar, Antitrust Litigator (Fall 2006) Competition is Good Again, Legal Times, co-authored with Tefft W. Smith and Scott M. Abeles (March 2007) · Antitrust

Colleen Hart

Colleen Hart is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Colleen advises companies, executives and boards on complex executive compensation matters. She offers a multidisciplinary approach to compensation and benefits issues with a focus on tax planning, securities laws and corporate governance. Matters she handles include the negotiation, structuring and implementation of employment and change-in-control agreements and deferred compensation, equity and incentive compensation plans. She advises on golden parachute and deduction limitation rules, securities reporting, registration and disclosure requirements and California employment laws. In addition, Colleen has extensive experience advising clients on compensation and benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, bankruptcies and finance transactions. Colleen is a contributing author of The 409A Handbook (BNA 2016) and lectures frequently on executive compensation matters. As a U.S. Navy veteran, Colleen devotes a substantial amount of time to organizations that provide legal and support services to U.S. veterans. · Tax

Craig Whitney

Craig Whitney is a seasoned litigator with a focus on all facets of intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition. He is co-head of Proskauer's Trademark & False Advertising practice group. With over two decades of experience, Craig is a leading false advertising litigator and specializes in IP, antitrust, and complex commercial disputes and counseling, including copyright, trademark and trade secrets. He is also a certified arbitrator and has deep experience in class action defense, strategic IP portfolio management, investigations and enforcement. A first-chair trial lawyer, Craig represents prominent clients across a diverse array of industries including technology, media and entertainment, industrials, pharmaceuticals, consumer products and finance. He has a proven track record of success working with multinational companies to protect their most valuable assets before both federal and state courts, as well as the American Arbitration Association and other tribunals. Craig is an active contributor to U.S. and international IP policy discourse. He served as Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and on the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Craig routinely advises on IP-related legislation and co-authors amicus briefs on topical matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Craig clerked for the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. · Intellectual Property

Daniel Ganitsky

Daniel Ganitsky is co-head of Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Over the course of his career, Daniel has had significant roles in numerous public company transactions, acquisitions of private companies or businesses, restructurings, proxy contests and financial advisor representations. Since joining Proskauer less than a decade ago, he has worked on over 125 publicly announced transactions with an aggregate value of more than $175 billion. Since joining Proskauer in the summer of 2010, Daniel has been particularly active in the Firm's representation of clients in public company transactions, cross border matters and private equity investments. Daniel was also part of the team that represented the Pac-12 Conference in the creation of Pac-12 Networks, an innovative arrangement providing unprecedented exposure for the conference's athletic and academic programs. In addition to his transactional work, Daniel routinely advises corporations, stockholders, directors and officers in connection with SEC reporting obligations and periodic reports (including proxy statements, registration statements, Form 8-Ks, and Schedule 13Ds), formation of entities, board governance, stockholders affairs, SEC no-action letters, "poison pen" letters, shareholder rights plans and other corporate law and securities matters. Born in Colombia, Daniel is fluent in Spanish and has worked on transactions throughout Latin America with many of the leading law firms and investment banks in the region. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Daryn Grossman

Daryn A. Grossman is a seasoned leader with more than three decades of experience guiding organizations through complex transactions, and high-stakes operational and strategic challenges. She combines deep experience as a corporate transactional lawyer with the crystallized judgment of an executive who has led, transformed and stewarded major organizations. As the immediate past global Managing Partner of Proskauer, Daryn oversaw the strategy, operations, and business performance of the firm. Her tenure was marked by decisive leadership, organizational alignment, and meaningful revenue growth -- during a period of unprecedented market conditions and significant uncertainty. Clients and colleagues describe Daryn as a skilled and tactical advisor with exceptional instincts for building alliances and orchestrating teams for maximum impact. Daryn built and led Proskauer’s transactional technology and life sciences groups. She continues her legal practice, while bringing the full breadth of her leadership, operational experience, and strategic insight to her clients. She advises players across IP-driven and innovation-focused sectors on collaborations, partnerships, licensing, M&A and strategic corporate initiatives. Her experience gives her a unique ability to bridge legal, business, and operational considerations -- understanding not only how to effectively structure, negotiate and execute meaningful transactions, but how those decisions resonate inside complex organizations. Boards, C-suites, and senior leadership teams regularly seek Daryn’s judgment at critical inflection points. She is recognized for her clarity, candor, and ability to synthesize complexity into actionable direction. Her leadership style blends experience, conviction, and operational insight -- enabling her to mobilize teams, navigate uncertainty, and create the conditions for progress. Daryn is formally trained as a professional mediator. She is energized by opportunities to support organizations to progress with purpose and alignment. · Corporate Law

David Fenwick

David Fenwick is a partner in Proskauer's Latin America Group, where he focuses on international finance and other cross-border matters. David represents underwriters, issuers and credit enhancers on international debt, securitization, equity and equity-related offerings, arrangers and borrowers on international loan facilities and infrastructure finance projects, and debtors and creditors on balance sheet management and debt restructuring transactions. In addition, he represents international investors in their Latin American transactions and Brazilian investors in their transactions abroad. · International Finance

David Fioccola

A seasoned litigator and trial lawyer, David Fioccola specializes in the defense of complex commercial disputes and consumer class actions. With more than 25 years of experience, David has tried cases in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals throughout the U.S. He regularly defends Fortune 500 companies in bet-the-company litigation as well as financial institutions against claims involving federal and state law violations, including antitrust laws, trust claims, and breach of contract. David has extensive experience handling large-scale internal investigations and represents clients before U.S. federal and state agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state agencies, such as the New York Department of Financial Services and state attorneys general. Moreover, he has significant experience counseling clients in various U.S. federal laws and statutes. Prior to joining Proskauer, David was the co-chair of the Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group as well as the Trial Practice Group at Morrison & Foerster. · Complex Commercial Litigation

David Hillman

David M. Hillman is the Global Co-Chair of Proskauer's Restructuring Group and co-head of the Private Credit Restructuring Group. David has 30 years of experience with an emphasis on representing private credit lenders, private funds, sovereign wealth funds and other alternative lenders and distressed investors in special situations and restructurings both in and out of court. He has substantial experience in every phase of restructuring and distressed investing, including credit bid sales under section 363, debt-for-equity swaps, chapter 11 plans, out-of-court restructurings and foreclosures, as well as navigating inter-creditor issues involving liability management transactions the relative rights of majority and minority lenders. David also litigates the issues facing private credit lenders, including issues involving plan confirmation, solvency, valuation, inter-creditor disputes, financing and cash collateral disputes, fraudulent transfers, equitable subordination, recharacterization, breach of fiduciary duty and similar disputes. · Restructuring

David Manko

David is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and Chair of the Health Care Group. With more than 30 years of experience, David has represented virtually every type of stakeholder in the health care services sector. David leverages his industry expertise to provide practical, creative and actionable advice to healthcare clients in connection with complex business transactions and regulatory matters. Across his career, clients have included investors, lenders, management companies, payers, hospital organizations and health systems, medical practices, provider networks, medical technology companies, digital health companies, nonprofit entities and public benefit corporations. David has particular expertise representing clients involving large, national provider networks and risk bearing entities, including in connection with regulatory structuring issues, fraud and abuse and value-based contracting. In the community, David is dedicated to expanding access to primary care services for underserved populations. For almost 10 years, he has been an active member of the Board of Directors of Primary Care Development Corporation (“PCDC”). PCDC is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to providing low-cost debt financing to not-for-profit organizations to expand and improve primary care in underserved communities. · Corporate

David Miller

David Miller is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. David advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international corporate tax issues. His practice covers the taxation of financial instruments and derivatives, private and public REITs, cross-border lending transactions and other financings, international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, multinational corporate groups and partnerships, private equity and hedge funds, bankruptcy and workouts, high-net-worth individuals and families, and public charities and private foundations. He advises companies in virtually all major industries, including banking, finance, private equity, health care, life sciences, real estate, technology, consumer products, entertainment and energy. David is strongly committed to pro bono service, and has represented more than 500 charities. In 2011, he was named as one of thirteen “Lawyers Who Lead by Example” by the New York Law Journal for his pro bono service. David has also been recognized for his pro bono work by The Legal Aid Society, Legal Services for New York City and New York Lawyers For The Public Interest. David has taught the taxation of financial instruments at Columbia Law School, and tax policy at New York University School of Law. He is also a frequent author and has written a number of articles and chapters in various tax publications. David is the former chair of the tax section of the New York State Bar Association. Prior to joining Proskauer, David was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. · Tax

David Munkittrick

David Munkittrick represents companies in consequential disputes where competition, innovation, and creative enterprise intersect. He is often engaged when legal doctrine is evolving, business models are under pressure, and the outcome of litigation carries industry-wide implications. Known for his calm approach to complex issues, he develops strategies that are creative but disciplined. David brings clarity and structure to intricate matters while grounding advocacy in a rigorous understanding of how his clients’ businesses function. David’s practice spans antitrust, copyright, and high-stakes commercial litigation across the modern economy, from pharmaceuticals and healthcare, to automotive, music and live entertainment, sports and trading cards, agriculture, financial services, hospitality, and technology. He is increasingly called on for matters at the intersection of antitrust, copyright, and AI, where market-power and creative-rights questions entangle. He is at the forefront of data access issues, having represented Bright Data in closely watched and precedent-setting litigations involving the right to access public web data and testing the contours of competition law in technology-driven markets. David has tried bench and jury cases involving price discrimination and group boycott claims, defended Fortune 500 companies in some of the highest-profile investigations and litigations of the past decade, and counseled clients through the full litigation life cycle. His antitrust experience also includes defending clients in federal class actions and competitor suits alleging monopolization and exclusionary conduct, as well as representing companies in investigations before the DOJ and FTC. A former practicing musician, David represents major music and entertainment companies and artists in infringement, ownership, and licensing disputes, including matters involving digital distribution and evolving media platforms. His clients include the NMPA, Sony Music Entertainment, U2, Madonna, Live Nation, UMG, and Warner. An active commentator on developments in antitrust and copyright law, David writes and speaks frequently. In addition to his monthly Law360 column, “FTC Focus,” his writing has been featured in the GCR Private Litigation Guide, Proskauer’s privacy and antitrust treatises, and the Fordham IPLJ Symposium. Outside the firm, David serves on the board of the Lorelei Ensemble and was previously on the board of the New York Choral Society. He has taught the Law and Music course at the Eastman School of Music. An accomplished classical pianist, David made his Carnegie Hall debut while at Proskauer, performing as part of a piano trio. · Antitrust

David Slotkin

David Slotkin is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Asset Groups. David’s practice specializes in public and private transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, divestitures, tender offers, joint ventures, spinoffs, debt and equity securities offerings, restructurings and corporate governance. He has extensive experience advising clients on complex transactions across all real assets classes, including digital infrastructure and hospitality. He works with both U.S. and international clients, ranging from newly formed public companies to established global brands, both benefiting from his deep expertise in complex transactions, strategic decision making, governance and compliance. In addition to his transactional practice, David provides strategic counsel to management teams, boards of directors, audit committees and special committees on corporate governance matters. He advises public companies on all aspects of regulatory compliance, including federal securities laws and securities exchange listing requirements. · Mergers and Acquisitions

David Tegeler

David Tegeler is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and the Private Funds Group, and also head of the Boston office. He previously served as global co-head of the Private Funds Group for many years. David concentrates his practice on representing asset managers in a broad range of matters, including private investment fund formation; governance, succession planning and other “upper tier” concerns; regulatory advice; and asset manager M&A. In addition, David has significant experience in buy and sell side secondary transactions, fund restructurings, direct secondary transactions and private investment fund finance. He also represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in all types of private investment funds. David has over 30 years of experience in the private equity industry. He has represented numerous domestic and international private investment firms in their fund formation and operations, including buyout, growth equity, credit, venture capital, natural resource, special situation, secondary, and funds of funds, as well as geographic and sector specific funds. · Private Investment Fund Formation

David Teigman

David Teigman is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. David focuses his practice on executive compensation and benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and senior executive employment relationships. David regularly counsels public and private companies on compensatory and benefit arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives and employment, change-in-control, retention, separation and consulting agreements. He also advises on corporate governance, tax law and securities law related to employment matters. A frequent author, David has published the following articles: “Share Reserve and Other Limits in Public Company Equity Plans” (Practical Law) “Roadmap to Providing Appropriate Incentives to Employees When Your Company is Going to be Sold” (The M&A Lawyer) “Taxation of an Option Exercise When the Shares are Subject to a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture” (Practical Law) David received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Buffalo, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Buffalo Law Review and the Executive Editor of the Public Interest Law Journal, and his B.S. from Cornell University. · Tax

David Weinberger

David J. Weinberger is co-head of Proskauer's Real Estate Finance Group, the immediate past co-chair of the Real Estate Department, and a founding member of the Real Assets Group. David regularly represents real estate funds, banks, family offices, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, and institutional and specialty lenders in connection with financings, acquisitions, sales and public offerings of equity and debt. He has developed extensive experience in the origination and securitization of complex mortgage and mezzanine loans. David is nationally recognized for his representation of both borrowers and lenders with respect to the origination of both balance sheet and securitized mortgage and mezzanine loans involving properties across the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. David also has extensive experience in the structuring of “A/B” loans, participations and preferred equity transactions. He has been involved in the origination of numerous large loans which were securitized in single-borrower transactions, as well as thousands of conduit and balance sheet loans. He often represents clients in connection with the origination of revolving and term credit facilities and repurchase facilities. David also has extensive experience representing hospitality companies, both owners and managers, and REITs in all aspects of their businesses. He also has been involved in numerous workouts of problem mortgages and mezzanine loans and is the chief author of “Proskauer Workout Primer: Issues to Address When Dealing with Mortgage Loans in Distress.” · Real Estate Finance

Dietrich Snell

Dietrich L. Snell is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group. Dieter has extensive experience in law enforcement-related matters spanning a wide range of disciplines. He has both federal and state level prosecutorial and investigative experience, having served for nearly two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; as New York Deputy Attorney General; and as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Clients and Areas of Concentration Dieter’s clients include corporations and senior executives involved in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions performed by federal and state law enforcement and regulatory authorities, in such diverse areas as money laundering foreign assets control antitrust false claims Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) securities fraud (including New York's Martin Act) civil rights environmental law online gambling He frequently handles sensitive internal investigations for corporate clients and other entities. Dieter’s practice also includes commercial litigation in both federal and state court. Prosecutorial Experience As the New York Deputy Attorney General, Dieter was responsible for the investigation, litigation and regulatory activities performed by the Division of Public Advocacy under former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He supervised approximately 300 professional staff and oversaw complex cases and investigations involving: Unlawful discrimination in lending, housing, and employment; Bid rigging and other deceptive business practices by major participants in the insurance industry; Securities law violations stemming from market timing activities within the mutual fund industry; Conflicts of interest between research and investment banking functions of major Wall Street firms and the negotiation of a settlement between those firms and federal, state, and industry regulators; Violations of the Clean Air Act by power plants and challenges to related Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking; Federal court litigation over preemption claims by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act; Before joining the New York Attorney General’s office, Dieter served for 11 years as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, notably handling the successful prosecution of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef for Yousef’s role in the 1994-95 plot to destroy 12 passenger jets in midair, as well as cases involving securities and commodities, bank and computer fraud, narcotics, money laundering, and racketeering offenses. As Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, he supervised the preparation and submission of briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The 9/11 Commission In his role as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, Dieter led the team assigned to investigate the plot that culminated in the September 11 attacks. He negotiated with the law enforcement, intelligence and diplomatic communities regarding access to documents, evidence, and witnesses; reviewed voluminous classified and unclassified materials; conducted witness interviews; advised commission members and assisted them at public hearings; and drafted and edited substantial portions of The 9/11 Commission Report. · White Collar Defense

Don Melamed

Don Melamed is a Partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and Co-Head of the Firm’s Real Assets Group. He has extensive experience in the real assets, buyout, growth equity and impact investing sectors, with leading clients in several industries. Don’s expertise goes beyond traditional private fund formation matters to include a broad range of complex transactions including recapitalizations and reorganizations at the platform level and through GP-led deals, direct investments, co-investment arrangements and joint ventures. Leveraging his extensive experience in the asset management space, Don also advises executive management teams, operators and money partners on a variety of fundraising and investment initiatives. · Private Funds

Douglas Frank

Douglas B. Frank is the administrative co-head of Proskauer's Los Angeles office and partner in the Real Estate Department. His practice focuses on real estate private equity investment, real estate related joint ventures, secured lending, mezzanine lending and structured finance activities, as well as real estate acquisition and sales transactions. Doug advises private equity investors and real estate advisors with respect to a broad scope of real estate investments – particularly in the areas of acquisition and disposition of core real estate properties, and joint ventures for the development, construction, financing and operating of office, retail, multifamily, condominium, hospitality and industrial projects. Doug also has 25 years of experience representing commercial banks, life insurance companies, fund investors and advisors, and pension funds with respect to real estate-secured lending and structured finance activities for land acquisitions and construction. He has represented lender clients in connection with their permanent, term, revolving, workout, conduit/securitization, and mezzanine financings transactions. · Real Estate Private Equity

Edward Brill

Edward A. Brill is the former co-head of Proskauer's Appellate Practice Group. Ed devotes a significant amount of time to representing educational institutions, including Columbia University, New York University, Yale University and Polytechnic Institute. He has served as lead counsel in numerous employee representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board, and employment litigation involving faculty, senior administrators and staff. He has represented each of these institutions in disputes involving union efforts to organize graduate student teaching and research assistants. Ed also represented Quinnipiac University in a widely publicized Title IX class action alleging that the university’s athletic program fails to comply with various requirements of Title IX. Among other issues, the case involves the issue of whether competitive cheer is properly recognized as a varsity sport for purpose of Title IX. Over the course of his career, Ed has briefed and argued dozens of appeals in both the federal and New York state appellate courts. He was a principal author of the brief in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a collective bargaining agreement provision requiring arbitration of age discrimination claims is enforceable. Other recent cases include: Carroll University v. NLRB (D.C. Cir.), setting aside an NLRB order requiring the college to bargain with a union representing faculty members on the grounds that the NLRB did not have jurisdiction over the college as a religious institution Adams , et al v. Suozzi, et al (2d Cir.), reversing a lower court decision that Nassau County violated due process rights of county employees in implementing a wage deferral plan Lorna Perez & Elena Leffler v. Saks Fifth Ave., (11th Cir), upholding decision of a district court setting aside jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in an age and retaliation discrimination case Raghavendra v. The Trustees of Columbia University (2d Cir.) upholding and enforcing an agreement settling multiple state and federal discrimination claims. Ed has represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings before the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He also has represented employers in all types of employment litigation, both in New York and a number of other jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, California, Georgia, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. He also provides guidance to clients, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including employee discharge and discipline, equal employment opportunity obligations, development of personnel policies, and downsizing and reductions in force. · Appellate Practice

Edward Kornreich

Past long-standing chair of Proskauer’s Health Care Department, Ed Kornreich is a recognized authority on the legal, regulatory and business issues related to health care services. Areas of Concentration Ed works primarily on health care transactions, regulatory compliance, health care payment and governance issues for varied providers (both for-profit and not-for-profit), vendors, GPOs, distributors and entrepreneurs. His approach combines sensitivity to meeting regulatory business goals with a comprehensive and realistic assessment of the health care environment, and he is particularly experienced in dealing with the complex issues related to integrated health care systems. Industry Experience After working for the Legal Aid Society, Ed entered private practice, where he helped represent a major public hospital corporation in a series of reimbursement disputes with the state and federal governments, and counseled New York area hospitals and nursing homes on reimbursement and operational issues. Thereafter, Ed served as General Counsel of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York. After leaving St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Ed joined Proskauer as a Partner in 1990. Thought Leadership Ed frequently writes and lectures on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, health care integration, not-for-profit law and corporate governance issues, and the application of federal and state anti-kickback and “Stark” laws to health care transactions. · Health Care

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak’s practice focuses on the representation of debtors and creditors, including creditors’ committees, as well as investors in complex distressed situations. Ehud represents a wide range of clients in chapter 11 cases in in- and out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcy litigation, including appeals. Currently Ehud is one of the leaders in representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico in its effort to restructure Puerto Rico’s outstanding debt load of more than $70 billion. He was instrumental in the $6 billion Title VI restructuring of the Governmental Development Bank’s debt. He is also focusing on overseeing the restructuring of over $8 billion of debt of Puerto Rico’s electric utility. He serves as a co-chair of the ABA’s Business Bankruptcy Committee Mass Torts and Environmental Subcommittee. Ehud also serves as a member of the SDTX committee for drafting rules re: complex chapter 11 local rules. Prior to working in the United States, Ehud practiced law at one of Israel’s leading law firms, focusing primarily on complex commercial litigation cases. · Bankruptcy

Elise Bloom

Elise M. Bloom is widely hailed as one of the nation’s top employment lawyers and one of the most creative and effective discrimination, wage and hour, class/collective action trial lawyers. She is particularly well-known for handling high profile, bet-the-company matters on behalf of significant national employers. With 30+ years in practice, Elise possesses extensive pre-trial and jury trial experience as well as conducting high-profile investigations. She is a leading authority in class action litigation involving non-traditional workers—including interns, trainees, volunteers, and other contingent or entry-level personnel. She secured a landmark, precedent-setting victory for Fox Searchlight Pictures in the high-profile “Black Swan” case. Elise also handled several other precedent-setting cases, including Hoffman v. Parade Pubs, Doe v Bloomberg, L.P. Court of Appeals, Hamby v. WNBA, LLC, and Chen v. Major League Baseball. · Employment Law

Erik Milch

Erik Milch is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, co-head of the Patent Law practice and a member of the Intellectual Property and Trials group. As a first-chair trial lawyer, Erik brings more than 25 years of experience litigating in key jurisdictions across the U.S., as well as before the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Erik litigates complex matters involving medical devices, life sciences instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, electrical and computer technology, and consumer products. He regularly counsels clients in a range of industries in connection with patent procurement, development of patent portfolios, patent licensing, valuation of patent portfolios in business transactions and transactional diligence. Erik has extensive experience in all aspects of patent litigation from pre-filing through appeal, including enforcement of patents against competitors and defense of patent infringement allegations. His technical background includes microfluidics, lab automation, optical imaging instruments, wound closure, surgical instrumentation, orthopedics, autoinjectors, tissue resection and sealing, pharmaceuticals, haptic feedback systems, computer software, consumer products, fluid mechanics applications, automotive engines and mechanical and electrical components, aerospace propulsion and control systems, weapons systems, and telecommunications. Prior to pursuing a legal career, Erik earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, where he developed a deep appreciation for cutting-edge technology and its potential to drive progress. His background in engineering equips him with a unique ability to comprehend intricate technical concepts. This enables him to effectively navigate the intricate world of patent litigation, combining his legal skills with technical know-how to provide comprehensive and strategic counsel to his clients. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Erik served as an officer in the United States Navy. His military background instilled in him a strong sense of discipline, leadership, perseverance, and attention to detail; qualities that continue to guide him in his legal practice. · Litigation

Evandro Gigante

Evandro is the go-to employment litigator and counselor when clients face their most challenging, bet the reputation claims, or want to develop policies and practices that mitigate legal risk. As an award-winning partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, member of the Employment Litigation group, and co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity group, he represents clients on a variety of labor and employment matters, including allegations of sexual harassment, race, gender, national origin, disability and religious discrimination. In addition, Evandro handles restrictive covenant matters, including non-compete, non-solicitation and trade secret disputes. Evandro also counsels employers through the most sensitive employment issues, including matters involving employer diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. With a focus on discrimination and harassment claims, Evandro has extensive experience defending clients before federal and state courts. He tries cases before juries and arbitrators and routinely represents clients before administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as state and local human rights commissions. Evandro often draws on his extensive litigation experience to help clients avoid the courtroom by effectuating positive change in the workplace through impactful anti-discrimination and harassment training, as well as robust employment policies. Working in a wide range of industries, Evandro has experience representing clients in professional services, including law firms, financial services, including private equity and hedge funds, higher education, sports, media, retail, and others. Evandro also advises charter schools and other not-for-profit organizations on labor and employment matters on a pro bono basis. · Labor and Employment

Fangli Chen

Dr. Fangli Chen is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and chair of the Life Sciences Patent Practice. She is a distinguished IP lawyer known for her strategic foresight and exceptional problem-solving skills. Fangli represents a diverse range of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, seamlessly integrating her team with client her clients' in-house operations to ensuring a deep understanding of their business and proactively anticipate their needs. Her sharp legal and business instincts and collaborative approach enable her to provide swift, effective solutions that safeguard her clients' intellectual property rights and optimize success, while saving her clients valuable time and resources. Fangli effectively identifies and transforms technological developments into valuable intellectual property assets, specializing in the strategic development of complex IP portfolios for companies that align with their business objectives. Fangli’s practice also focuses on post-grant review before the USPTO, pre-litigation and litigation strategy, due diligence investigations, freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and invalidity analysis, licensing and other IP matters in connection with commercial transactions. Fangli also has a wealth of experience in the following areas: IP Diligence: advising companies and investors in evaluating intellectual property assets, assessing FTO risks and providing thoughtful and pragmatic advice aligned with business goals. IP Landscape analysis: conducting complex IP landscape analysis and identify white space. Post-grant challenges: representing clients in inter partes review interference and various foreign opposition proceedings. Technology transactions & licensing: advising clients on matters relating to technology or material transfer, licensing and research collaborations. · Litigation

Frank Oliver

Frank Oliver is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance Practice. He represents creditors in syndicated loans and private credit loans in matters involving leveraged acquisitions, restructurings and asset-based finance. He has experience across a broad range of industries and sectors. Frank has previously represented financial institutions and direct lenders in structuring and executing acquisition financings, leveraged lending transactions and other complex financing structures. Frank also has deep knowledge in the restructuring of existing debt in special situations, both in and out of court. · Finance