Lawyers in United States

Kregg Koch

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Kripa Raman

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Kris Ekdahl

Senior Associate

Linklaters LLP

Krishna Veeraraghavan

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Krista Miniutti

Partner in the firm’s Real Estate Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Women’s Committee. Krista represents private equity firms and portfolio companies in commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and financings. Named as “Real Estate Lawyer of the Year” for Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards 2022 and a Law360 2022 “MVP” in Real Estate, Krista has represented clients on a broad range of domestic and international real estate transactions, including public-to-private transactions, securitized and mezzanine financings, and portfolio acquisitions. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of their transactions, including coordinating advice from internal and external tax advisors and ERISA and Fund counsel. Krista’s clients include the real estate funds of The Blackstone Group, KSL Capital Partners and Westbrook Partners.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Krista deBoer

Krista S. deBoer | Morrison Foerster Krista deBoer’s practice involves the full range of environmental, climate, and green claims issues. As a partner in MoFo’s Complex Litigation + Advisement practice group, Krista represents clients in environmental and toxic tort litigation, Proposition 65 litigation, and consumer class actions involving hazardous material exposures and claims of health and environmental benefits. She is recommended by The Legal 500 for toxic tort defense (2022-2024). Krista has broad experience in Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and California Hazardous Substance Account Act (HSAA) litigation, multi-party allocation and cost recovery proceedings, natural resource damages claims, and contaminated site cleanup, often involving parallel agency enforcement, where she is skilled at developing integrated strategies to maximize outcomes in both actions. Krista also assists clients with regulatory approvals, compliance, and risk mitigation under federal and state environmental laws, including Department of Energy and California Energy Commission regulations, California Air Resources Board regulations, Federal Trade Commission Green Guides, hazardous waste management regulation, and climate disclosure laws. She has defended and negotiated favorable settlements for clients in enforcement actions brought by the Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, California Energy Commission, and California Regional Water Quality Control Boards. In addition, Krista leads environmental due diligence for clients in a range of corporate and real estate transactions involving environmental liability risks and advises on matters involving development of carbon-capture projects and transacting in carbon offsets.

Morrison Foerster

Kristen Buteau

Kristen Buteau, Chair of Choate’s Intellectual Property Department, counsels clients on protection strategies for small molecule therapeutics and other chemistry-related technologies and therapeutics. Her clients – comprised largely of pharmaceutical and biotech companies – benefit from her years of experience as a medicinal and process chemist in the Boston-area pharmaceutical industry. Working alongside scientists and/or in-house legal teams, she assists pharmaceutical and biotech companies in the strategic development of patent portfolios and product lifecycle management for clinical stage small molecules and related technologies. Kristen advises clients in all areas of drug discovery, from proof-of-concept through drug design, development, and product launch. She manages global patent portfolios for sophisticated pharmaceutical companies, while also facilitating investment acquisitions, financing, and licensing through IP due diligence and freedom-to-operate analyses. Her clients also look to her for advice on the Orange Book listability of patents, regulatory exclusivity estimates and timelines, and patent term extension applications.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Kristen C. Limarzi

Kristen's practice focuses on investigations, litigation, and counseling on antitrust merger and conduct matters, as well as appellate and civil litigation. She previously served as the Chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where she led a team of more than a dozen professionals litigating appeals in the Division’s civil and criminal enforcement actions and participating as amicus curiae in private antitrust actions. Kristen twice received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Kristen Fournier

Kristen Fournier is a litigation partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kristen has extensive experience in multidistrict litigations as well as mass tort and product liability litigation. She provides state-of-the-art defense strategies to companies facing high-profile, high-risk matters. Kristen is known for her sophisticated understanding of jury trends and her unique ability to craft messages that drive home her client’s objectives. She leverages her knowledge of human behavior to build long-term, litigation-wide strategies that ultimately guide judges and juries to the right conclusion for her clients.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kristen Grannis

Kristen Grannis, Global Vice Chair of Latham’s M&A and Private Equity Practice, advises private capital providers, private equity sponsors, and companies on a range of investments, acquisitions, and divestitures, with a focus on the life sciences and technology sectors. Kristen is former Co-Chair of Latham’s Boston Corporate Department and previously served as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Investment Funds Practice. A creative thinker and sophisticated strategist, Kristen regularly navigates multifaceted transactions featuring bespoke deal structures. She brings particular experience representing investors and companies in connection with equity investments involving structured preferred capital. Kristen also advises private equity sponsors and strategic buyers and sellers, as well as founder-owned businesses and their acquirers, in a variety of M&A and other corporate matters. An early member of Latham’s Boston office, Kristen draws on her in-depth market knowledge and business acumen to handle growth investments at the pre-IPO stage. She takes a proactive approach to tailoring transactions with the aim of protecting clients’ investments while also closing deals efficiently. Kristen supports various nonprofit and industry organizations through her pro bono and leadership efforts. She serves as outside counsel to Year Up, a nonprofit that provides professional training to low-income young adults. Kristen is also an active member of the Women’s Bar Association (WBA) in Massachusetts, serving as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors and as Co-Chair of the Law Firm Advancement Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Kristen J. Lonergan

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Kristen Mathews

Partner

Morrison Foerster

Kristen Matthews

Kristen Matthews is a corporate partner and a member of the firm’s Insurance and Financial Institutions Groups, where she advises clients on a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance and regulatory.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Kristen O’Shaughnessy

Partner

White & Case LLP

Kristen Petagna

Associate

Ballard Spahr LLP

Kristen Rohr

Partner

White & Case LLP

Kristen Savant

Norton Rose Fulbright

Kristen Truver

Kristen represents underwriters, placement agents, issuers, lenders, and borrowers in structured finance and securitization deals across all asset classes, including ABS, RMBS, and CMBS transactions, with distinct focus on consumer and small business lending and fintech. She also advises financial institutions and rating agencies connected to publicly offered CMBS and repurchase facilities. Kristen focuses her practice on securitization, warehouse finance, and other asset-backed transactions. She has extensive experience in the securitization and finance of various asset classes, including consumer loans, merchant cash advances, small and medium commercial business loans (including SBA 7(a) loans), factored receivables, equipment leases, aircraft leases, single-family rental properties, residential mortgage loans (jumbo, agency-eligible, investment, and non-QM), commercial mortgage loans (conduit and SASB), and triple-net lease properties and mortgages. She regularly represents underwriters and placement agents in private securitization transactions, particularly in assisting new issuers in navigating the operational and legal aspects of inaugural securitization transactions.

Alston & Bird LLP

Kristi Kung

Partner; Chair of DLA Piper's Healthcare Regulatory Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Kristian Herrmann

Kristian Herrmann is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group and a member of the Sports Group. Kris advises private equity sponsors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, and other strategic transactions. Within the sports industry, Kris has extensive experience in the growing role of private equity and institutional capital in professional sports and regularly advises both sports leagues and financial investors in the sports industry in the negotiation and structuring of equity transactions, joint ventures and other significant transactions. Kris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. Kris also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. Kris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as a member of the Firm’s Evaluation Committee. He is also a member of the Food and Beverage Committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Kristian W Gluck

Norton Rose Fulbright

Kristian Werling

Kristian (Krist) Werling represents private equity and strategic investors in a wide variety of transactional matters in the healthcare and life sciences industry. In this capacity, he works with cross-disciplinary teams to conduct legal due diligence and execute acquisitions and divestitures, as well as provide ongoing legal services to portfolio companies. Krist is a co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group. Clients look to Krist for his ability to lead teams of lawyers that develop creative transaction structures that enable deals to close. In the healthcare services arena, Krist has particular experience with transactions and joint ventures involving physician practice management, ambulatory surgical centers, specialty hospitals, dermatology, pain management and anesthesia physician practices and dental practice management companies. Krist had several years of experience serving as in-house counsel to Hospira, Inc., a generic specialty pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer that was sold to Pfizer.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Kristin A. Linsley

Kristin specializes in complex business and appellate litigation across a spectrum of areas, including water and energy law, cybersecurity and technology law, international and transnational law, data and privacy, and complex financial litigation. She has earned a national reputation for achieving favorable results for her clients in high-profile complex matters, and is noted for the strength of her legal analysis and the depth and breadth of her multinational litigation experience.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Kristin Achterhof

Kristin Achterhof is the national co-chair of Katten's Intellectual Property Litigation practice, as well as the national co-chair of the firm's Advertising, Marketing and Promotions practice. She also serves as Katten's national hiring partner. Kristin has represented some of the world's most recognizable companies and is often the first phone call that leading technology, manufacturing, consumer goods, entertainment and fashion-industry clients make on difficult trademark, copyright and other intellectual property issues. As a first-chair trial attorney, she handles intellectual property and all manner of complex business disputes in court. As an adviser on transactions, she maximizes her clients' rights and revenues. Both in and out of the courtroom, she is an advocate and adviser, with an eye to helping clients optimize and protect their tangible and intangible property rights and assets. Household names in the technology and entertainment sectors and famous brands in all areas of consumer products and services rely on Kristin as an advocate and trusted advisor on IP, general advertising and competition issues. She has counseled multinational clients in multiple high-profile disputes involving novel ecommerce issues. She also gives strategic advice to clients on exploiting their copyrights and trademarks over social media, and on how to best protect their IP rights in software and emerging technologies. Kristin acts as a first-chair trial attorney in disputes in federal court, state court and before the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. In addition to her extensive litigation experience, she represents clients in IP-related transactions that range from licenses to distribution agreements to vendor contracts. For many clients, Kristin is something more than an experienced first chair litigator. For them, she is a strategic counselor and partner, who takes the time to truly understand their business and what matters most when their brands are under attack, their IP is being exploited or when they simply need an effective advocate in their corner. Clients also benefit from her extensive knowledge and experience as a counselor and advocate in disputes involving their advertising, marketing and promotions practices. All of her abilities combine to make her a trusted advisor, a passionate and practical advocate, and, for her clients, the first phone call. Kristin is a frequent speaker and panel member for business, legal practice and educational groups across the country, and she is frequently quoted in national and international publications. She also is a skilled mediator and a member of the Panel of Neutrals for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, sponsored jointly by the International Trademark Association and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.

Katten