Lawyers in United States

Lovita Tandy

Lovita Tandy is a seasoned litigator and well-recognized authority in the area of labor & employment law. She serves as a trusted advisor to multinational corporations, mid-size companies, and small businesses in a broad range of industries, and non-profits. Lovita relies on her more than 25 years of experience to guide clients in the defense of single plaintiff, class, and collective employment discrimination and retaliation claims involving federal and state anti-discrimination laws. She also assists clients in navigating the complexities of whistleblower laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Lovita litigates trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and class and collective action matters as well. Highly skilled at internal investigations and trained in trauma-informed interviewing techniques, Lovita is masterful at interviewing the accused as well as witnesses in a way that respects personal dignity and values operational effectiveness. Lovita also conducts employment-related training for corporations and high-level executives, designs ADA, FLSA, and other employment-related compliance programs, and offers advice and counseling on the full spectrum of employment laws. She has a passion for DEIB and advises clients across the country on strategies to ensure that companies achieve their diversity goals while remaining compliant with changes in the law. Lovita also designs and conducts DEIB training programs that are rooted in two and a half decades of experience on what actually works. Lovita is a thought leader on many current DIEB challenges including effectively embracing neurodiversity in the workplace. In addition to her employment and DEIB expertise, Lovita has extensive experience in traditional labor matters, including advising employers during union campaigns, negotiating collective bargaining agreements, arbitrating grievances, litigating matters before the National Labor Relations Board, and conducting due diligence in mergers and transactions involving unionized workforces. Lovita leads the Mosaic Project, which shares the lived experiences of neurodiverse legal professionals. She is also the former Partner in Charge of King & Spalding’s Diversity Committee and a former Vice President of the Association for Law Firm Diversity Professionals. Among her many professional accomplishments, Lovita became the first African American woman elected partner at King & Spalding. She also taught Contracts, Remedies, Transactional Drafting, and Negotiations while serving as a full-time professor at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School.

Krevolin Horst, LLC

Lowell Brown

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Lowell Yoder

Lowell D. Yoder focuses his practice on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global tax planning and international tax controversies, representing high-tech, pharmaceutical, e-commerce, financial, consumer and industrial companies. He advises on tax-efficient structuring of cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, financings, internal reorganizations and joint ventures, as well as tax-beneficial planning for intangible holding companies, global supply chains and multi-jurisdictional service arrangements. Lowell also represents clients before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), handling audits and obtaining tax rulings. He works with an extensive network of lawyers worldwide, developing tax-favorable transactional and operational cross-border structures. Lowell previously served as the global head of the Firm’s Tax Practice. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/yoder-lowell-d/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Loyti Cheng

Counsel

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Lucas Beirne

Lucas E. Beirne is of Counsel in Cravath's Corporate Department. He represents financial institutions and fintechs through all phases of the regulatory lifecycle. Mr. Beirne advises clients on bank charters, applications and transactions, supervision and enforcement, and deposit insurance matters, and on regulatory policy and related regulatory advocacy.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Lucas Giardelli

Lucas Giardelli is a Tax Transactions & Consulting associate in Mayer Brown’s New York office. His practice is focused on international tax planning (including controlled foreign corporations/Subpart F income, tax-efficient reorganizations, cross-border financing, IP planning, individual tax planning) and corporate tax matters, advising clients on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, financing arrangements and other transactions. Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2012, Lucas practiced tax law at a leading law firm in Argentina.

Mayer Brown

Lucas Loviscek

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Lucas Przymusinski

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Lucas Quass

Lucas Quass advises clients on environmental matters, including land use, regulatory approvals, water resources, and related litigation. Lucas helps clients develop a full spectrum of projects in the western United States and along the California coast. From project inception to completion and ongoing monitoring, he helps clients navigate: Regulatory approvals and permitting (including CEQA, the Coastal Act, and local planning and zoning laws) Water rights and adjudication Project opponents and community relations Related litigation from local courts through to the California Supreme Court Lucas has a sophisticated understanding of the interplay of regulation, water rights, and environmental factors that affect residential, commercial, and industrial development projects. He provides clients an unusual complementary litigation strength to his regulatory work, having litigated one of only a handful of water basin adjudications in California and successfully representing clients in disputes in state and federal courts. Lucas has been steeped in water issues his whole career; prior to graduating law school, he worked for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the largest supplier of treated water in the United States. Lucas currently serves as the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. He frequently writes and speaks on water and environmental issues, including CEQA, the Subdivision Map Act, and Prop 65. He also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, California.

Latham & Watkins

Lucas Rachuba

Lucas Rachuba is a partner in the Tax practice based in the San Francisco and Century City offices. Lucas focuses on private equity and public company M&A, credit funds, hedge funds, venture capital and real estate transactions. His clients include private equity firms, portfolio companies, public companies and stand-alone fund clients. He works with private equity principals, boards of directors and members of senior management. He also advises on various topics related to transaction and fund structuring, including on international issues, taxation of carried interests, QSBS and tax elements of compensation structuring.

Paul Hastings LLP

Lucas Walker

Lucas Walker's practice focuses on appellate litigation in federal and state court. He has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Seventh, Tenth, and Federal Circuits. He has also authored numerous briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court, various federal courts of appeals, and state supreme court. His practice also includes motions practice and issue development at the trial level. Mr. Walker’s experience covers a broad range of subject matter, including intellectual property, administrative and constitutional law, bankruptcy, foreign sovereign immunity, telecommunications, energy, and white collar defense.

MoloLamken LLP

Lucia Nale

Senior Counsel

Mayer Brown

Lucie Cohen

Partner

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Lucien Smith

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Lucille Hague

Luci Hague is a leading national security advisor to private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, asset managers and operating companies based in Kirkland’s Washington, D.C., office. Her practice focuses on CFIUS reviews, U.S. outbound investment controls and OFAC sanctions matters. She is widely recognized for her significant experience in addressing CFIUS and other national security considerations and risks across matter contexts and transaction types, including fund formation and design, transaction structuring, co-investments, joint ventures, license agreements and exits. Luci has also successfully led negotiations for many complex CFIUS mitigation agreements to address the U.S. government’s identified national security concerns in specific transactions, and maintains a leading practice on CFIUS non-notified, enforcement and penalty/settlement matters. Her experience includes securing CFIUS clearance for buy- and sell-side clients, including co-investors, across a range of industries including artificial intelligence, biotechnology, defense, real estate, logistics, infrastructure, telecommunications, cybersecurity, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and software.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Lucinda Althauser

Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Lucio Maldonado

Corr Cronin, L.L.P.

Lucy Farr

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Luigi De Ghenghi

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Luis F. Torres

Counsel

Latham & Watkins

Luis Gomar

Luis F. Gomar is a partner in the Corporate Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Houston office. Luis has over 18 years of experience advising on domestic and cross-border transactions in the energy, finance and private equity sectors. Luis counsels clients on both domestic and international transactions involving M&A, asset acquisition and divestitures, fund formations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, project development, and structured finance and equity products (including participating and non-participating preferred equity, convertible securities and related products). He regularly represents private equity sponsors or private equity backed management teams in connection with investments in energy and infrastructure assets.

Paul Hastings LLP

Luis Llamas

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Luis M. Lluberas

Luis Lluberas’ multidisciplinary practice encompasses a wide range of financial services matters with a focus on the resolution of troubled credits. Luis has extensive experience representing key stakeholders in connection with all aspects of financial restructuring matters in a myriad of industry sectors, including agriculture, commercial real estate, commercial services, consumer discretionary, energy, healthcare, government contracting, manufacturing, retail, technology and transportation. Luis routinely represents financial institutions, in both lender and agent capacities, in syndicated credit facilities and other secured lending transactions. He has also represented strategic investors, receivers and corporate debtors. His out-of-court experience includes creditor compositions, lender workouts, liability management transactions, debt-to-equity swaps and secured party sales. His in-court experience includes large corporate chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the acquisition of assets out of bankruptcy proceedings, receiverships and foreclosure actions. As a compliment to his vibrant financial restructuring practice, Luis regularly represents lenders and administrative agents in non-distressed lending transactions, including in preparing intercreditor agreements for first lien / second lien, senior / subdebt, and unitranche financing structures. For over three years concluding in December 2022, Luis served as the general counsel and secretary for the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance (formerly the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce), which is focused on the promotion and advancement of the 15-county Charlotte region. In that role, Luis was the primary source of legal advice for the enterprise and regularly advises on matters related to corporate governance, compliance, commercial transactions, human resources and risk management. He is a member of the firm’s Inclusion & Belonging Committee, has served on the firm’s Attorney Development Committee and for six years served as the chair or co-chair of the firm’s Lawyers of Color affinity group. Luis is fluent in Spanish.

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Luis Pérez

Chair, Latin America and the Caribbean Practice Co-Office Managing Partner

Akerman LLP