Lawyers in United States

Kevin Paganini

Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Kevin Perra

Kevin J. Perra is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of Proskauer's Sports Litigation team. He is an experienced counselor, litigator and trial lawyer who represents a wide variety of clients in pre-litigation counseling, state and federal court litigation, arbitration and mediation. Kevin focuses on large, complex commercial cases, with an emphasis on litigation in the areas of (i) intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports; (ii) trademark and false advertising; (iii) hedge funds, private equity funds and private investment funds; and (iv) fiduciary duties, appropriation of trade secrets and employee-related restrictive covenants. As a result, he has substantial experience in obtaining and opposing applications for emergency relief for clients, including preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. In intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports matters, Kevin has represented record labels, music publishers, sports leagues and teams, computer software makers, and film and other media companies. Examples include Sony-BMG, EMI, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the New Jersey Devils, the Philadelphia Eagles and Take-Two Interactive. He also has handled intellectual property matters for individual artists, songwriters, managers, fashion designers and athletes (and their estates), including Madonna and the Estate of Leonard Bernstein. In trademark, false advertising and related disputes, Kevin has represented large consumer product, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage companies, including Accenture, S.C. Johnson & Son, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Diageo, Bausch & Lomb, Williams-Sonoma, Church & Dwight and Kraft Foods. In fund, investment banking and financial-related matters, Kevin has represented a large number of the world’s leading hedge funds, business development companies, private equity funds, venture capital funds and family offices. In other general commercial disputes, he has represented a host of public and private companies such as Dell, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Henry Schein, Barneys New York, Host Hotels, US Airways and MBIA.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Kevin Poli

Kevin leads the firm's Corporate Practice Group. He represents public and private companies in a variety of industries, including the upstream and midstream energy, renewables, clean tech, consumer products, and manufacturing industries in a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including equity and debt capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, SEC compliance, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. He represents investment banking firms, investors, and issuers in capital market transactions, including registered direct offerings, equity lines of credit and at-the-market offerings. He also counsels issuer and underwriter clients on high-yield offerings of debt securities pursuant to Rule 144A, IPOs and follow-on public offerings of equity securities, and private placements. Kevin has served in several leadership roles at the firm including on both the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging and Technology Committees, as well as serving as the former Chair of the Recruiting Committee.

Porter Hedges LLP

Kevin Post

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Kevin Post

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Kevin Post

Kevin Post is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm's New York office. Kevin works extensively with high-technology and life science companies handling their complex patent disputes. He has litigated patent cases in nearly every significant patent jurisdiction, including the International Trade Commission, the District of Delaware, the Northern District of California, the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Eastern District of Virginia, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on behalf of companies in a variety of technical fields, including cellular and wireless communications, video coding, networking, electronics, computer systems and software, network architecture and security, e-payments, e-commerce, imaging systems, GPS technology, process control systems, mechanical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Kevin has tried multiple cases involving standard-essential patents and F/RAND licensing issues, including breach of contract cases. From providing licensing support, patent portfolio analysis, and due diligence to handling all aspects of trial preparation and trial, Kevin’s experience has touched on all phases of IP litigation.

Sheppard

Kevin Reyes

Kevin Reyes is the Chair of the San Diego office’s Corporate Department. Kevin represents both private and public companies in a wide variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public securities offerings, corporate governance, venture financings, and securities law and stock exchange compliance matters. Kevin also has significant experience with periodic and current reporting requirements and proxy rules, and he co-authors the Annual Meeting Handbook, which is published annually and distributed nationwide. While attending the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Kevin served as a judicial extern for Judge Virginia A. Phillips in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

Latham & Watkins

Kevin Rinker

Kevin Rinker is the global Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a leader in the private equity and healthcare practices of the firm. Mr. Rinker has a broad-based transactional practice with extensive experience advising multinational corporations and private equity firms in structuring and negotiating mergers, acquisitions, investments, divestitures, licensing arrangements and other corporate transactions. He has handled matters across many industries, with experience in the business services, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrials, media and technology sectors, among others. Mr. Rinker has represented a number of leading corporate and private equity clients, including American Express, The Blackstone Group, Carlyle, Cerberus Capital Management, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, General Electric, Hospital Corporation of America, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley Private Equity, Nestlé S.A., Shiseido and Providence Equity Partners.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Kevin S. Reed

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Kevin Sadler

Partner Practice Group Chair - Commercial Litigation (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Kevin Samuels

Partner

Jones Day

Kevin Sarro

Kevin Sarro represents private equity funds, portfolio companies, and financial institutions in crafting pragmatic solutions to their complex U.S., international, and state and local tax issues. He advises on various tax matters, including the structuring and negotiation of private equity investments, growth equity investments, international (cross-border) activities, fund formations, reorganizations, financing transactions, debt restructurings, medical practice investments, and other general corporate and partnership matters. Kevin’s focus is always on the issues with the highest economic impact, a practical approach that clients appreciate as it keeps the team from getting bogged down with immaterial ancillary matters.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Kevin Schmidt

Kevin Schmidt is a corporate partner in the M&A Group and is Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Group. For three decades, he has counseled private equity sponsors and investors in deals spanning the full range of private equity investing, including public company take privates, carve-outs, joint control transactions, and sponsor-led liquidity solutions.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Kevin Serafino

Associate

Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC

Kevin Sher

Kevin Sher has experience representing private owners, partnerships, REITs, and public companies in all aspects of real estate matters including residential and commercial purchase and sale transactions, retail and office leasing, and real estate financing. Kevin has developed strong expertise within the industrial real estate space. Kevin has represented e-commerce enterprises, including a Fortune 100 company, negotiating millions of square feet of industrial warehouse space throughout the Western United States. In addition, Kevin works with a leading industrial real estate company in Southern California on dozens of acquisitions of mid-size and large industrial real properties involving millions of square feet of improvements, including multi-property portfolio acquisitions and seller leaseback transactions. In addition to the industrial sector, Kevin has extensive experience in the office and multifamily sectors. Kevin has represented a global financial investment company on its acquisitions and dispositions of large office campuses and towers. He has also worked with multi-family real estate investment groups to assist in the acquisition and financing of thousands of apartments units. In addition to commercial real estate deals in California, Kevin has also handled acquisitions, dispositions, and leases of industrial and office real properties in Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Colorado, Arizona, Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Kevin Simard

Kevin Simard works with clients to help them think out of the box and utilize creative structures in order to provide greater value to their borrowers. He has extensive experience advising national banks and private lenders on all aspects of providing asset-based credit facilities to borrowers in various industries, with a particular emphasis on retail and consumer products. With the perspective on both the upfront structuring and the back-end wind-down of facilities that comes from extensive experience, Kevin and his team represent clients for the full life cycle of their deals, from complicated front-end structuring, negotiation and documentation of transactions, to work outs and restructurings, to bankruptcy and exit financings. Kevin’s clients have included Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, Callodine Commercial Finance, Carlyle Private Credit, Citizens Bank, Eclipse Business Capital, First Eagle Alternative Credit, Gordon Brothers Funding LLC, Pathlight Capital, ReStore Capital, SLR Credit Solutions, and Wells Fargo. He has been at the center of some recent notable and high-profile bankruptcies in the country, including Rite Aid, Yellow Corporation, Sears Holdings, Tuesday Morning, Serta, J. Crew, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brands, The McClatchy Companies, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Payless Shoes, Sports Authority and Borders Books. Kevin plays an active role in the management of various aspects of the firm, and is a member of Choate’s Executive Committee.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Kevin Simpson

Winston Taylor

Kevin Smith

Partner

Wiggin and Dana LLP

Kevin Sullivan

Kevin J. Sullivan focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors and other investment funds, private and public companies, and family offices in a wide variety of transactional matters. He has a broad range of experience negotiating and closing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs and growth equity investments in the United States and abroad. Kevin represents private equity investors and their portfolio companies on key transactions across a variety of industries, including media, software/technology, sports and entertainment, professional services, and consumer goods and retail. He also has significant experience counseling founder-owned companies on general corporate matters and liquidity transactions. Kevin has more than 25 years of experience representing leading private equity firms, including Apax Digital Fund, CVC Growth, Francisco Partners, GSV, Guidepost Growth Equity, Providence Equity Partners, PSG Equity, Susquehanna Growth Equity, TA Associates, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Thompson Street Capital and TCV. He has also represented a variety of corporate clients, such as Ascend Learning, Blackboard, EverCommerce, CAC Specialty, Learfield Sports, Ministry Brands, Paycor, Signode and World Endurance Holdings (Ironman Triathlon). Recognized for the quality of his counsel and commercial approach, Kevin has been ranked as a leading practitioner by Chambers USA, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 US and numerous other legal ratings agencies and publications.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Kevin Sullivan

Co-Head of Weil's U.S. Private Equity practice and Co-Managing Partner of the Boston office

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Kevin Sweeney

Shareholder

Chamberlain Hrdlicka

Kevin Van Wart

Kevin Van Wart is of counsel in Kirkland's Chicago office, where he concentrates in complex litigation, including mass tort claims, class action lawsuits, product liability and pharmaceutical claims, and high stakes commercial disputes. Kevin has served as lead trial and appellate counsel in a wide variety of cases throughout the country and teaches trial advocacy at the University of Chicago Law School.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kevin W Yankowsky

Norton Rose Fulbright

Kevin White

Partner and Co-Chair of the firm's Labor and Employment Team

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP