Lawyers in United States

Elisa Erlenbach Maas

Elisa Mass, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, is the chair of the firm’s Limited Liability Company and Partnership Advisory Group. She advises clients on the strategic use of Delaware entities to achieve their business goals, providing counsel and legal opinions on matters involving Delaware limited partnerships, general partnerships, and limited liability companies. Elisa regularly handles transactions involving some of the world’s largest banking institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and billion-dollar private equity funds. Her practice includes advising clients on investment fund, joint venture, structured finance, preferred securities, and cross-border transactions. She also provides counsel with regard to formation, governance, operations, mergers and acquisitions, conversions, divisions, and dissolutions of Delaware partnerships and LLCs. Elisa is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues concerning these Delaware entities. PRACTICES Fund Finance Legal Opinions Private Equity Funds Limited Liability Company & Partnership Advisory Structured Finance

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Elisabeth Moriarty

Elisabeth Moriarty is Chair of Greenberg Glusker’s Litigation Department. She is an experienced litigator who handles complex, high-profile disputes. Media, Entertainment, and Intellectual Property Litigation Liz has represented plaintiffs and defendants in some of the entertainment industry’s most significant, high-stakes disputes involving copyright, trademark and trade dress infringement, motion picture production and distribution, defamation, unfair competition, the licensing of intellectual property rights, and contractual disputes. She is skilled at working on large, high-profile entertainment matters where a confluence of issues come together to span a wide variety of disciplines. She has extensive experience litigating major profit participation matters on behalf of talent, artists and rights holders, including the Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien, Marvel Entertainment and the rights holders to the Winnie the Pooh property. Liz has close, long-standing relationships with the top entertainment auditors/accountants in the field, and has unique experience interpreting complex contractual royalty provisions and convoluted participation statements. Liz has also handled matters involving online and digital media, television and music rights and idea submission disputes. High-Net-Worth Divorce Proceedings While Greenberg Glusker does not have a traditional family law practice, Liz has significant experience litigating business issues in complex, high asset divorce proceedings, including cases involving marital property characterization, valuation and division, apportionment, marital agreements and complex marital property issues. Liz draws on her sophisticated litigation expertise, her creative, problem-solving approach and her discretion to help her clients successfully navigate and resolve, by way of settlement or trial, the contentious, sensitive, and challenging financial disputes that often arise in high-stakes divorce litigation.

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Elisabeth Read

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Elisabeth Watson

Liz Watson is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's downtown Los Angeles office. She is also a member of the firm's Wage and Hour Litigation Practice Group. Liz specializes in wage and hour class actions, single plaintiff cases, workplace investigations, OSHA, False Claims Act Retaliation, independent contractor, employment counseling, and other areas of labor and employment.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

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.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Elise Wagner

Partner, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Elissa Flynn-Poppey

Elissa is the Chair of the Government Law Practice and was a member of the firm’s Policy Committee. Elissa is known as a discreet, creative problem solver with the ability to help prominent clients resolve issues at the intersection of law, government ethics, and regulatory compliance. She works closely with private and publicly traded companies, government agencies, individuals, and nonprofits. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Eliza Kaiser

Partner, New York

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Eliza McDougall

Partner

White & Case LLP

Eliza Riffe Hollander

Eliza Riffe Hollander is a trusted advisor to lenders and lead arrangers and specializes in complex debt financings while representing clients in both secured and unsecured transactions. Her practice encompasses a wide range of financing activities, including leveraged buyouts, liability management transactions, syndicated and pro-rata financings, private credit transactions and fund financings. Clients consistently turn to Eliza for her unparalleled ability to navigate the most challenging and intricately structured transactions. Eliza has a proven track record of advising on sophisticated syndicated secured, asset-based lending (ABL), junior capital and preferred equity and unitranche financings. Her pragmatic approach and depth of knowledge make her a trusted partner for lenders seeking innovative solutions.

Ropes & Gray LLP

Elizabeth A. Brower

Member

Berkowitz, Trager & Trager LLC

Elizabeth Adler

Partner

King & Spalding

Elizabeth Bannigan

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Elizabeth Bawden

Partner

Withers

Elizabeth Bieber

Partner

Freshfields

Elizabeth Bierut

Elizabeth Bierut has a broad litigation practice in which she represents clients as plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of complex business disputes, including in connection with breach of contract, securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret, and business torts. She frequently represents creditors in bankruptcy-related contexts, including in litigation arising from liability management exercises. Liz also represents clients in investigations and other white collar matters. Liz has extensive experience with all stages of litigation, including motion practice, discovery, trial, and appeals, and regularly counsels clients pre-litigation concerning the strengths and weaknesses of claims and defenses, and the best tactical path forward. In addition to advising on disputes-related matters, she proactively collaborates with clients to solve business problems, improve corporate policies and procedures, and reduce litigation risk. Representative Matters Representation of a group of lenders holding over $600 million of first-lien debt in Serta Simmons Bedding in closely watched lawsuits in New York state and federal courts and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas challenging the validity and legality of the company’s uptier transaction with another group of lenders. Representation of a client, including as trial counsel, in a business dispute involving allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of a non-compete agreement, and trade secret violations that culminated in a seven-day arbitration hearing. Defense of the former Chief Financial Officer of a liquidated sports equipment manufacturer in a putative Rule 10(b)(5) securities fraud class action arising out of the company’s alleged failure to disclose that it engaged in sales practices that impaired future earnings and forced it into bankruptcy. Representation of a legal funding provider and members of its board of managers in a variety of disputes stemming from its acquisition of a company, including defense of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfer, and “alter ego” liability claims brought by preferred equity holders of the acquired subsidiary. Representation of a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in a multimillion-dollar breach of contract action by a supplier. Representation of a pharmaceutical company in multiple investigations into pricing of its drugs, including investigations conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the New York Department of Financial Services. Representation of a fintech company that provides banking and financing services to small and medium sized businesses, including in defense of various bankruptcy claims brought against it as a creditor. Representation of a technology company in defending preference and fraudulent transfer claims brought in the U.S Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. Defense of an international law firm and its partner in defense of a multimillion dollar claim for legal malpractice.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Elizabeth Bower

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Elizabeth Bowes

Elizabeth Bowes serves as counsel to issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of municipal bonds. She has particular experience in housing, transportation, prepaid natural gas and other structured project finance transactions. Elizabeth has worked on transactions utilizing multi-modal bonds, interest rate swaps and other advanced financial products. She advises clients with respect to primary and continuing disclosure matters and has advised issuers, bondholders and trustees on default, forbearance and work-out matters.

Bracewell LLP

Elizabeth Burkhard

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Elizabeth Caires

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Elizabeth Cohen

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Elizabeth Cooper

Simpson Thacher's Global Head of Private Equity and a member of the Firm's Executive Committee, Elizabeth regularly represents private equity sponsors, alternative asset managers, financial institutions and public and private companies in a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and other business combination transactions. Her M&A clients have included Blackstone, Brookfield, Carlyle, New Mountain, Oaktree, Silver Lake and Stone Point Capital.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Elizabeth Corradino

Elizabeth A. Corradino is a Partner and the Chair of the Intellectual Property, Entertainment/Media & Technology practice group.

Moses Singer

Elizabeth D. Ferrill

Leader, Electrical Practice Group

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP