Lawyers in United States

Joshua Klatzkin

Partner

Goodwin

Joshua Klein

Josh Klein represents corporations and individuals in complex disputes involving corporate, securities and commercial issues. He advises clients, both as plaintiffs and defendants, in cases involving allegations of breach of contract, fraud, tortious interference, fiduciary duty, antitrust and violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organzaitions Act (RICO). Josh also advises entities and individuals in various enforcement investigations and proceedings brought on by governmental agencies and regulators.

Bracewell LLP

Joshua Klein

Partner

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Joshua Kogan

Joshua Kogan is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice regularly serves large and middle-market private equity/leverage buyout fund clients and their portfolio companies in connection with leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, venture capital/growth equity investments, and restructurings. Some of Josh’s clients include L Catterton, New Mountain Capital, Abry Partners, Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Avista Capital Partners, Irving Place Capital, KPS Capital Partners, and Trilantic Capital Partners.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Joshua Korff

Josh Korff represents private equity sponsors and public companies in connection with all forms of capital markets transactions. With a focus primarily on initial public offerings, high-yield and acquisition finance and complex restructuring matters, Josh shepherds multi-million-dollar deals for Kirkland clients in a broad spectrum of industries. Lauded by The Legal 500 U.S. as “a leader in his field,” he is often ranked first in the United States for IPO Issuer’s Lawyers by IPO Vital Signs. Clients turn to Josh for his ability to manage challenging transactions that contain a high degree of complexity and uncertainty. They say they appreciate his efficiency and ability to take a complicated situation, translate it into understandable terms and business principles, and advise them on proceeding wisely to achieve their goals. A sharp intellect, strong work ethic, practicality, market knowledge, and top-notch communication skills combined with a unique access to valuable resources make Josh an integral part of an exceptionally capable and results-oriented finance arena legal team. Josh brings these skills to bear for public companies while simultaneously guiding them through the tricky and ever-evolving compliance landscape that must be negotiated because of the heavier regulations governing their conduct, such as Securities Exchange Commission and Stock Exchange rules and liability laws. Josh’s experience negotiating very favorable terms in financing documents helps assuage private equity clients’ concerns about achieving optimal returns on their investments as they execute complicated transactions. For restructuring clients, Josh contributes a deep understanding of the various players, deal structures and commercial drivers that could help craft a creative and cost-effective strategy for their companies, whether it’s an overhaul of the balance sheet or a liquidation or bankruptcy filing.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Joshua Korr

Partner

Alto Litigation

Joshua Krebs

Josh is the head of the firm’s real estate practice, advising clients across all phases of property acquisition, due diligence, development, financing, leasing, and disposition. He represents purchasers, sellers, developers, landlords, tenants, and lenders in a variety of real estate transactions, including negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, easements, and other key documents critical to property ownership, development, and use. With a lifetime passion for real estate, Josh provides counsel on diverse projects spanning the energy, infrastructure, industrial, retail, public, and residential sectors. His experience includes energy projects such as solar, wind, hydropower, gas, battery storage, and transmission facilities; infrastructure projects including transit, utility, and port facilities; industrial projects including large distribution centers and warehouses; a wide variety of retail projects ranging from single sites to destination shopping centers; public projects involving housing and other civic facilities; and residential developments ranging from infill projects to master-planned communities.

Van Ness Feldman LLP

Joshua Lanning

Josh Lanning brings considerable trial and litigation experience to his cases with a wide-ranging background in complex commercial disputes. Josh has tried and won numerous cases to jury verdict and has successfully argued state and federal appeals in areas ranging from constitutional law to securities entitlements. Josh focuses his practice on class action defense, antitrust and commercial litigation, including matters involving state and federal antitrust laws; complex contractual disputes; fraud and other business torts; Civil RICO; unfair commercial practices; securities fraud; intellectual property; and fiduciary duties. In addition, Josh has managed multiple internal investigations for clients including Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and local government bodies. Josh has represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout North Carolina as well as in a number of other jurisdictions, having litigated significant disputes on behalf of his clients in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Maine, Georgia, Utah, Nebraska, Texas, and Louisiana. His clients are a diverse set of people and businesses ranging from individuals and families to large national and international banking institutions. In addition, Josh has made pro bono matters an important part of his litigation practice. His experience includes representing prisoners in need of adequate medical care; advocating for special needs children requesting special education services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; helping battered spouses obtain protective orders; representing families facing eviction; and assisting in obtaining debt relief for low-income families who were victims of a nationwide fraud ring. In 2023 Josh partnered with the NC NAACP, North Carolina Disability Rights, and Children’s Rights to file claims on behalf of a class of disabled foster children unnecessarily held in psychiatric residential treatment facilities. Prior to joining the firm, Josh worked for five years as an associate at a prominent litigation firm in New Haven, Connecticut.

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Joshua Lerner

Joshua N. Lerner | Morrison Foerster Josh Lerner is a partner in the Executive Compensation + Benefits Group based in the New York office of Morrison Foerster. Josh advises clients on all matters involving the compensation of senior executives, including employment, change in control, equity compensation, and severance arrangements.

Morrison Foerster

Joshua Lerner

Partner Co-Chair, Trade Secrets Practice

WilmerHale

Joshua Levy

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Joshua Lichtenstein

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Joshua Lipton

Josh maintains a broad-based antitrust and consumer protection practice, including litigation, merger and acquisition investigations, civil and criminal investigations by government authorities, and antitrust counseling. His representative matters include defending AT&T against DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner, defending Smithfield Foods in class action antitrust litigation, representing Marriott in securing global antitrust clearance in its $13.8 billion acquisition of Starwood, and authoring the briefs to the Supreme Court in the landmark Leegin case.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Joshua Matz

Partner

Hecker Fink LLP

Joshua Milgrim

Dechert

Joshua Naftalis

An accomplished trial lawyer and distinguished former federal prosecutor, Josh focuses on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations, high-stakes commercial disputes, and crisis management. Prior to joining Pallas, Josh was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) for eleven years, leading many of the government’s most significant white-collar prosecutions and trials during his tenure. As a senior member of the SDNY’s Securities & Commodities Fraud Task Force, he handled high-profile matters involving insider trading, corporate and accounting fraud, market manipulation, money laundering, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, cryptocurrency, sanctions evasion and export control violations, and racketeering. His headline prosecutions included United States v. Blaszczak, individuals at Visium, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Herbalife, KIT digital, and various SPACs, as well as KleptoCapture matters. His work involved extensive coordination of cross-border and multi-agency investigations, including with the SEC, CFTC, FBI, and IRS, and was featured in the movie Molly’s Game. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/joshua-a-naftalis

Pallas Partners LLP

Joshua Natzel

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Joshua Newville

Joshua M. Newville co-heads Proskauer’s Securities Enforcement group and is a member of the Securities Litigation and Asset Management Litigation practices. He represents private fund sponsors, investment advisers and financial institutions in SEC enforcement matters, complex regulatory investigations and high-stakes securities litigation. Josh represents asset managers, financial institutions and senior executives in SEC, DOJ and other regulatory investigations involving fund valuation, fees and expenses, MNPI/insider trading, and related fiduciary and disclosure issues. He has secured favorable resolutions — including declinations and settlements without disgorgement — in SEC investigations involving multi-billion-dollar funds, novel enforcement theories and emerging priorities. In addition to his enforcement practice, Josh advises private equity, hedge fund and registered fund sponsors and other financial services firms on regulatory risk, SEC examinations and compliance matters. He regularly leads sensitive internal investigations for fund managers, boards and audit committees involving accounting, disclosure and fiduciary duty issues. Before joining Proskauer, Josh served as Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, including in the Asset Management Unit, where he investigated and litigated violations of the federal securities laws involving investment advisers, broker-dealers and public companies. His SEC experience informs his approach to enforcement strategy and risk mitigation. Josh co-authors a regular column on corporate and securities law for the New York Law Journal. He has been named an “Enforcement Elite” lawyer by Securities Docket for the past two years, is ranked by Chambers USA for Securities: Regulation (Enforcement) and has been recognized by The Legal 500 for Securities Litigation and White Collar Defense.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Joshua Polster

Josh Polster represents and counsels insurers in coverage disputes and tries high-stakes cases in court and before arbitral tribunals. He is experienced in handling complex actuarial matters that arise in insurance disputes. He also regularly represents clients in securities and M&A disputes and advises family offices on litigation issues. Josh is recognized by Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation as a “Future Star” and is a repeat honoree on its “40 & Under List,” which honors the achievements of the nation’s most accomplished law firm partners under the age of 40. He also maintains an active pro bono practice. He has defeated an emergency motion in a Florida voting action and, along with the ACLU and AIC, secured a preliminary injunction blocking a fast-track deportation rule.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Joshua R. Thompson

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Joshua Rinesmith

Co-Chair, Land Use and Development Practice

Akerman LLP

Joshua Robichaud

Josh Robichaud represents clients in matters related to federal and state regulatory policies, regulations and rules applicable to the renewable power and broader electric industry. His experience includes obtaining Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state authorizations for major projects and transactions; FERC compliance and enforcement matters; FERC transmission and centralized markets issues; and rate, tariff and refund matters. Josh’s recent work has focused on energy transition issues, supporting generation and transmission infrastructure developers, data center development, and transactions involving renewable energy companies and assets. He also represents energy clients before the Department of Energy on matters concerning electricity export authorizations and 202(c) orders. Josh also advises clients on state and federal policy issues relevant to the development of offshore wind and data centers.

Bracewell LLP

Joshua Rottner

Partner

Goodwin

Joshua Rudin

Josh focuses his practice on all aspects of commercial real estate, with a concentration in real estate finance, digital infrastructure, and powered land transactions. He advises owners, operators, and developers on construction financing and complex credit structures, creating tailored long-term financing solutions that support evolving business objectives. Read full biography.

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