Lawyers in United States

Joan-Elisse Carpentier

Joan-Elisse Carpentier provides legal representation in all areas of immigration and nationality law affecting individuals, corporations and other businesses. She has worked on evaluations of immigration practices of corporations, development of corporate policies and procedures for handling immigration matters and obtaining immigrant and non-immigrant visas, as well as citizenship and expatriation. Joan-Elisse assists businesses with I-9 compliance programs and provides representation during government audits and in settlement negotiations. She also provides advice concerning immigration issues during mergers and acquisitions. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/carpentier-joanelisse/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Joanna Gorska

Joanna Gorska is a member of the Project Development & Finance Practice of Latham & Watkins and is based in the San Diego office. Joanna's practice focuses on the representation of sponsors and borrowers as well as credit agencies, commercial banks, and other financial institutions in connection with the development and financing of projects across various sectors, including the energy and petrochemical sectors.

Latham & Watkins

Joanna Horsnail

Partner

Mayer Brown

Joanna Lin

venture financing, mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies, and complex transition services agreements. She also has experience with capital markets transactions, having represented US and international issuers, investment banks and investors in a wide range of securities offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offerings and private placements of equity securities. Joanna also regularly counsels clients on matters ranging from corporate governance to US Securities and Exchange Commission periodic reporting requirements and other general corporate matters. Joanna also represents clients in technology transactions, commercial contract and outsourcing transactions, including services agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, technology licensing, cloud-computing transactions and strategic alliances. Joanna represents clients from a broad array of industries, including companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. She provides pro bono services for various nonprofit organizations, including representing children in need of immigration-related legal counsel. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/lin-joanna/

Dechert

Joanna Sykes-Saavedra

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Joanne De Silva

Partner

Mayer Brown

Joanne Engeldrum

Joanne M. Engeldrum counsels insurance companies on complex first- and third-party claims, including general liability, construction defect, sexual abuse, personal and advertising injury, toxic tort, asbestos, environmental, product liability, employee practices liability, labor law, bad faith, and other emerging issues. Joanne is an accomplished litigator, obtaining victories on behalf of Rivkin Radler’s insurer clients on issues of late notice, additional insured coverage, trigger of coverage, New York Insurance Law §3420(d), and priority of coverage. On behalf of her insurance clients, Joanne has won summary judgment dismissing claims for defense and indemnity in a variety of matters, including cases of first impression. Notably, Joanne obtained summary judgment on behalf of her insurer client in a precedent-setting case involving late notice prejudice in New York.

Rivkin Radler

Joanne Gray

Partner

Goodwin

Joanne Osendarp

Co-Chair of International Trade Practice Joanne E. Osendarp advises and represents governments, industry associations, export credit agencies, and companies in international trade and investment matters, including countervailing duty, antidumping, and other trade remedy proceedings before the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission, as well as appeals to the Court of International Trade, the World Trade Organization, and panels under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Joanne has also represented governments in investment arbitrations, state-to-state arbitrations, and international trade negotiations. She is currently assisting the UK government in its negotiation of five free trade agreements, including the UK-Mexico, UK-India, and UK- Canada Agreements, as well as working with the UK on its accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Joanne has distinguished herself in international legal circles as Canada’s principal U.S.-based lawyer in its high-profile, ongoing softwood lumber dispute with the United States, called the “biggest trade battle on the planet” by The Economist. Chambers Global recognizes her as having “Foreign Expertise in Canada.” She has been described by her clients as “a senior experienced trade lawyer of international repute blessed with superb judgment.” For Joanne's full biography please visit Joanne E. Osendarp | Blank Rome LLP

Blank Rome LLP

Joanne Phillips

Special Counsel

Ballard Spahr LLP

Joaquin de Baca

Partner

Mayer Brown

Jocelyn Greer

Jocelyn Edith Greer | Morrison Foerster Jocelyn Greer is a member of Morrison Foerster's litigation practice. Her experience focuses on complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation, investigations, and transactional disputes. Jocelyn handles securities fraud claims at all stages of litigation, government investigations, and extensive and varied pro bono work. Jocelyn has extensive litigation experience in federal and state courts and with federal agencies. Jocelyn has played a first-chair role in litigating cases from discovery to trial in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She also recently managed a team representing a client in a SEC accounting fraud investigation that resulted in no charges. In addition, she has researched and drafted numerous successful filings, including several motions to dismiss securities and fraud claims, temporary restraining orders to halt the misappropriation of clients’ property, and complaints and arbitration demands alleging fraud, breach of contract and trademark infringement. Jocelyn is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she served as Staff Editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and as a member of the Black Law Students Association. She also provided legal assistance to incarcerated clients suffering from civil rights violations as part of a Columbia Law School clinic: “Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration.”

Morrison Foerster

Jocelyn Noll

Jocelyn Noll, Chair of the firm’s Transactional Tax Practice, focuses on corporate and partnership taxation. Jocelyn has experience representing public and privately owned corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, both US and non-US, with respect to federal tax matters pertaining to taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public and private financings, and securitizations.

Latham & Watkins

Jodi Fedor

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Jodi Simala

Partner

Mayer Brown

Jodi Stein

Jodi Stein is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's New York office. Jodi has significant experience representing real estate developers in obtaining discretionary land use approvals through New York City's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) and before the Board of Standards and Appeals. She also advises clients on the zoning and land use aspects of obtaining approvals or resolving issues that arise during the development and construction process. Jodi frequently appears before the New York City Department of City Planning, Department of Buildings and Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as well as the Landmarks Preservation Commission, City Council, Department of Transportation, local community boards and other city and state agencies. Prior to private practice, Jodi was vice president of acquisitions and development for one of the largest privately held real estate companies in North America. In that role, she was responsible for growing the company's $2 billion development platform in New York City, Miami and Los Angeles. Jodi worked on obtaining all approvals for all their new development projects — advising on acquisition and pre-development; directing and overseeing all discretionary and government approvals; forging relationships with community leaders in each city; and working with architects, general contractors, subcontractors and environmental consultants through the various approval and development phases of each project.

Sheppard

Jody Boudreault

Partner Chair - Antitrust Life SCiences & Healthcare

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Jody Erdfarb

Partner

Wiggin and Dana LLP

Jody Schisel-Meslin

Associate

Holland & Knight

Joe Adams

Winston Taylor

Joe Akrotirianakis

Partner

King & Spalding

Joe Babitz

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Joe Berger

Joe is counsel in the Government Contracts and Construction practice groups. He has extensive experience in the representation of government contractors in bid protests, litigation, investigations, False Claims Act (FCA) cases, and contract, compliance and regulatory matters. Joe’s government contract and litigation experience includes high-profile FCA matters, bid protests in multiple forums, wartime contracting investigations, and litigation over disputes encompassing contract formation and interpretation, proposal and award, subcontracts and teaming, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule, intellectual property and data rights. Joe has helped contractors reach favorable settlements in FCA matters involving hundreds of millions in alleged damages sought by plaintiffs; deposed and defended witnesses at depositions in FCA contract-related litigation; and won summary judgment and motions to dismiss in FCA, securities, and IP litigation involving government contracts. His FCA and litigation experience includes internal investigations, civil discovery proceedings, settlement negotiations, and government contract-related disputes involving dozens of federal agency procurement actions. Joe’s bid protest experience includes more than 75 protests before the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CoFC) and executive agencies; winning favorable decisions on behalf of both protesters and awardees; securing corrective action by agencies; and working with agency and Department of Justice (DoJ) attorneys to defend awards. Joe has secured contract awards and restoration to the competitive range in five protests over contracts with billion- or multibillion-dollar ceilings. He has also secured six decisions by GAO sustaining protests, numerous agency corrective actions, and favorable decisions for awardees, incumbents, and intervenors by the CoFC, GAO, and agencies. Joe handled all corporate split issues leading to GAO’s precedent-setting sustained decision in Wyle Laboratories, B-408112.2 (Dec. 27, 2013). Prior to joining Thompson Hine, Joe had more than ten years' experience in the field of government contracts at a Washington, D.C. law firm, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Susan G. Braden at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Thompson Hine LLP

Joe Binder

Joe Binder is a corporate partner and a member of Debevoise's Investment Management Group. His practice focuses on advising established and emerging sponsors on all aspects of private investment funds, including fund formation and ongoing fund and management company operations. Mr. Binder’s experience includes acting for clients such as Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Crescent Capital Group, Stone Point Capital, Morgan Stanley, and One Rock Capital. Mr. Binder first joined Debevoise as an associate in the tax and investment management groups in 2013, and later spent time as Associate General Counsel at Debevoise client, Sequoia Capital. He rejoined the firm as a counsel in 2022. He earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School summa cum laude in 2013. Mr. Binder is the co-author of “A Model for Measuring the Expected Value of Assuming Tax-Partnership Liability,” an article published by the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law in 2013. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Northeastern Illinois University in 2008. Prior to law school, Mr. Binder worked as a communications consultant to nonprofit organizations in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP