Lawyers in United States

Forrest Murphy

Associate

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Foster Clark

Of Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Fradyn Suárez

Partner

King & Spalding

Fran Faircloth

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Franca Harris Gutierrez

Partner Chair, Financial Institutions Practice Co-Chair, Securities and Financial Regulation Practice

WilmerHale

Frances Bivens

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Frances Mosley

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Frances Smith

Principal

Offit Kurman

Frances Wilburn

Principal, Practice Group Leader - Creditors' Rights, Reorganization and Bankruptcy

Offit Kurman

Francesca Marie Pisano

Francesca Pisano provides strategic advice to leading companies seeking merger clearance from US regulators for complex deals and defending themselves in civil and criminal antitrust investigations. Francesca draws on her experience to guide clients in strategic mergers and transactions before the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice (DOJ), including defending clients facing merger litigation. She also represents companies in government conduct and internal investigations, as well as providing business-centric, sophisticated compliance counseling. She advises a broad spectrum of companies across highly regulated industries, including telecommunications and technology, entertainment, government contracting, and healthcare. An active member of the antitrust bar, she serves as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s Transportation and Energy Industries Committee. Before joining Latham, Francesca was a senior associate at a global law firm in Washington, D.C., where she focused on antitrust matters.

Latham & Watkins

Francesca Odell

Francesca L. Odell is a member of Cleary Gottlieb’s Executive Committee, Leader of the Americas Corporate Practice, and Co-Leader of the Public Company Group. Her practice focuses on corporate advisory and governance matters, particularly as they relate to public companies and their management and boards of directors. She also has deep transactional experience, specifically in capital markets, as well as mergers and acquisitions and financing. Francesca leads Cleary’s corporate advisory group and frequently speaks and publishes on corporate governance topics. She regularly advises boards of directors and management on a variety of topics, including: disclosure and compliance; stock exchange listing requirements; board composition and director independence; shareholder engagement and activism; shareholder proposals and proxy season trends; management and director succession planning; cybersecurity; crisis management; artificial intelligence (AI) governance and risk management; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Francis (Frank) R. Bradley III

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Francis A. Citera

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Francis J. Acott

Francis Acott focuses his practice on complex civil litigation and is a member of the Litigation & Trial Department. Francis defends technology, banking, financial services, healthcare, and pharmaceutical companies in securities, antitrust, and consumer class actions. Francis has also had an active pro bono practice representing individuals and non-profit organizations in connection with criminal proceedings, government inquiries, and civil litigation. Prior to joining Latham, Francis was a litigation associate at another leading law firm. He received his JD from Northwestern University School of Law, magna cum laude, where he was an associate editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. While attending law school, Francis interned with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois and the District of Montana, and was a judicial extern for Judge John J. Tharpe, Jr. of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and participated in the Law School’s Supreme Court Clinic.

Latham & Watkins

Francis J. Serbaroli

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Francis Purcell

Francis E. "Chip" Purcell, Jr. is the partner in charge of the Washington, D.C. office and the leader of the Government Contracts practice group. He focuses his practice on all aspects of government contracts law and litigation. Chip counsels clients on issues involving the formation and performance of government contracts and represents clients in pre­- and post-award disputes involving the government as well as prime contractors and subcontractors. He assists clients in conducting due diligence relative to mergers and acquisitions of government contractors, drafting teaming agreements and subcontracts, addressing organizational conflicts of interest, protecting intellectual property in government contract transactions, addressing small business and other socioeconomic issues and conducting contractor compliance training and internal investigations. Chip represents clients in disputes before federal courts and administrative bodies, including the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and the Government Accountability Office. He also advises clients on issues involving commercial contracting under government agency programs, including the General Services Administration's Federal Supply Schedule program.

Thompson Hine LLP

Francis Zou

Partner

White & Case LLP

Francisco Balduzzi

Partner

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Francisco Cerezo

Partner; Chair, Latin America Corporate & Finance

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Francisco Flores

Winston Taylor

Francisco J Lanusse

Francisco Lanusse is an associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Francisco is a member of the Corporate Department as well as the M&A and Private Equity and the Latin America Practices . Francisco frequently advises companies and private equity firms on cross border acquisitions, divestures and corporate matters in industries such as energy and infrastructure and telecommunications. Francisco has particular experience on: Asset and share acquisitions, divestures Partnership and joint venture agreements Francisco has practiced in Madrid and New York. He has also practiced in Buenos Aires at a leading international law firm, where he primarily handled corporate and M&A transactions. Francisco is qualified both in New York and Buenos Aires.

Latham & Watkins

Francisco Jijón

Partner

White & Case LLP

Francisco Mendez

Managing Partner

Mayer Brown

Frank Azzopardi

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP