Lawyers in United States

Molly Swartz

Molly Swartz is a partner in the Global Fintech & Payments practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's San Francisco office. Recognized as a “Rising Star” by Law360 in 2023 and a “Next Generation Partner” by The Legal 500 in 2023, Ms. Swartz advises Fintech and financial services companies, internet marketplaces, and commercial and consumer lenders regarding a broad spectrum of product, regulatory, and transactional matters. As part of Paul Hastings’ Band 1-ranked Fintech and Payments practice, she is one of a few preeminent financial services attorneys in the US that companies turn to as they seek to commercialize their product offerings further. Ms. Swartz has extensive experience with financial services and consumer protection laws, including the Truth-in-Lending Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, state money transmission and licensed lending laws, gift card laws, payment network rules such as the Nacha, Visa and Mastercard Rules, and other state and federal statutes related to money movement. Ms. Swartz advises household name companies regarding a host of product and regulatory issues. From ideation and strategy through launch and beyond, Ms. Swartz assists in all aspects of product development. She frequently negotiates commercial agreements in the financial services space, including bank-Fintech partnership agreements and commercial agreements between Fintech companies. Ms. Swartz drafts user-facing documentation for financial services clients including foundational contracts between clients and their customers, and advises on design elements of the user experience. Beyond product development, Ms. Swartz supports clients through financing services licensing, and registration, and assists clients in responding to regulatory inquiries. Ms. Swartz is one of the foremost experts in non-recourse liquidity and earned wage access (collectively, “NRL/EWA”). She was part of the original legal team that helped define the space, and has engaged with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and numerous state agencies on a variety of EWA/NRL issues. Ms. Swartz has helped numerous clients to develop no-fee, non-recourse forms of financing.

Paul Hastings LLP

Monica Arora

Monica Arora is a partner and co-head of the Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Monica advises asset managers on the full spectrum of investment fund matters across a wide variety of strategies including buyouts, credit, growth equity, energy transition, real assets and infrastructure funds. Monica is a prominent and engaged participant in the private funds community, including as a member of the Private Investment Funds Forum, the New York City Bar Association’s Private Investment Funds Committee, Women in Private Equity and the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN). Monica’s influence extends beyond her role as co-head of the Department and a leader in the private funds community. She plays a key role in numerous internal and external DEI initiatives. She is an active board member of Her Justice, a leading organization that provides free legal advice to low-income women living in New York City and is actively engaged in several charitable boards outside the Firm.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Monica C. Groat

Monica Groat advises companies on regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters involving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the life sciences industry. Monica counsels pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, tobacco, dietary supplement, food, and other related industry clients regarding all aspects of the FDA-regulated product life cycle, including: Pre-market product development and clinical and pre-clinical testing Product submissions Compliance with good manufacturing and quality system regulations Product marketing, promotion, and labeling Regulatory inspections and product recalls Monica draws on her science background and experience with all stages of life science product regulation and enforcement to help clients resolve litigation against the FDA and other federal agencies. She also regularly advises on regulatory matters in connection with capital markets and M&A transactions involving FDA-regulated entities. Before joining Latham, Monica was a trial attorney for the Consumer Protection Branch of the US Department of Justice’s Civil Division. Previously, she worked as a food, drug, and medical device enforcement associate at an international law firm. During law school, Monica was a member of The University of Chicago Legal Forum. She currently serves as a member of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Webinar Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Monica Loseman

Monica K. Loseman is a co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Securities Litigation Practice Group and co-chair of the Accounting Firm Advisory and Defense Practice Group. She has substantial experience in complex civil litigation matters. While she has represented clients in a variety of substantive matters, Monica focuses her practice in corporate and securities litigation, financial reporting, accounting and related investigations, and accountant defense. She has assisted clients in defending federal and state litigation, responding to investigations by various government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Department of Justice. Monica also has substantial experience in corporate governance matters, including litigation related to mergers and acquisitions and similar “deal” litigation. Her trial experience includes three trials before SEC administrative law judges, several bench and jury trials, and private arbitrations. Monica represents Board committees in conducting independent investigations involving allegations of corporate fraud and issues relating to financial reporting, accounting, internal controls, as well as special litigation matters and other issues, and is skilled at interacting with Board committees and other stakeholders in presenting results and recommendations.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Monica McCarroll

Partner

Redgrave LLP

Monica Patel

Partner

Goodwin

Monica Rodriguez

Monica Rodriguez is a seasoned advisor and litigator dedicated to addressing her clients' most complex employment challenges, particularly in wage-and-hour and labor matters. Her expertise spans various industries, encompassing wage-oriented issues in higher education, technology, retail, restaurants, hospitality, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing, and extending to comprehensive strategic planning relevant to employers in all sectors. With extensive experience in both California and federal courtrooms, Monica stands as an indispensable advocate for her clients in high-stakes disputes. These include class, representative, and single-plaintiff actions involving wage-and-hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. She also helps her clients navigate the full spectrum of labor relations issues. Monica has successfully defended employers against unfair labor practice charges, union grievances, and other labor-related disputes, while striving to prevent litigation altogether by providing practical advice on collective bargaining contract interpretation issues, among other labor relation matters. When it comes to collective bargaining, clients consistently seek Monica's expertise at the negotiating table. Monica also runs a robust employment counseling practice. Monica advises employers on their employment policies and practices, including hiring and termination decisions, disability accommodations, mass layoffs and furloughs, and high-level severance negotiations.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Monica Sargent

Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Monica Shilling

Monica Shilling is a transactional partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has a broad corporate, M&A and securities law practice that focuses on advising asset managers, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies on the full lifecycle of transactions. She also represents public companies, financial advisors, investment banks and issuers. She has over 25 years of experience with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings, leveraged buyouts, general corporate law and corporate governance, securities laws, and NYSE/Nasdaq compliance. Monica’s practice also has a particular focus involving specialty finance enterprises. She advises companies on the establishment of business development companies (BDCs), special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and other private and public equity vehicles. She is among a relatively limited number of attorneys in the country who actively represent BDCs.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Monica Thurmond

Monica Thurmond is the co-head of Fried Frank's US Finance practice. She is a finance and capital markets lawyer who represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a variety of leveraged financing engagements, such as leveraged acquisitions, syndicated loans, ABLs, bridge financings, debt restructurings and mezzanine debt. She represents issuers in a variety of public and private equity and debt securities offerings, including initial public offerings, as well as high-yield debt offerings. She also represents both issuers and investors in private placements of convertible debt and preferred stock.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Monica Wallace

Partner Monica A. Wallace focuses her practice on complex regulatory and transactional counseling to health care organizations, including health systems, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dental providers, integrated delivery systems, academic medical centers, DMEPOS and pharmaceutical manufacturers and suppliers, home health agencies, and venture capital and private equity firms and their health-related portfolio companies. Monica concentrates her regulatory practice on health care fraud and abuse, Medicare and Medicaid enrollment, reimbursement and billing, legal assessments and audits, compliance programs, and other general regulatory matters including licensure, survey/certification and accreditation. Her transactional practice includes mergers, acquisitions and affiliations, divestitures, hospital/physician joint ventures and corporate reorganization. For further details of Monica's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/wallace-monica/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Monte Starr

Partner

Holland & Knight

Moon Hee Lee

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Moorari Shah

Moorari Shah leads Sheppard’s consumer finance and fintech team, advising fintechs, banks, consumer finance companies, investors and their partners across the financial ecosystem on how to innovate, scale and navigate complex regulatory challenges. His counsel combines commercial acumen with deep regulatory insight, shaped by extensive in-house and law firm experience. A Strategic, Trusted Adviser Clients say Moorari feels like an extension of their team, anticipating issues before they surface, distilling complex rules into concise, practical guidance, keeping them informed of developments they “would not have known about,” and making them look good to their own stakeholders. Practical and Risk-Savvy Clients repeatedly emphasize Moorari’s pragmatism—his skill in risk assessment and proposing workable options when a perfect path is not available—and his ability to help clients find ways to mitigate the risk without stalling business objectives. Deal-Making and Corporate Expertise Nationally recognized by Legal 500 for M&A/Corporate and Commercial work, Moorari has negotiated asset and stock purchases, fintech bank partnerships, startup financings through IPO, complex payment processing and acquiring deals, and technology outsourcing arrangements. He is equally adept in real estate, asset-based, and unsecured financings, and in enforcing creditor rights in workouts. A Partner Clients Trust Personally Clients remark on Moorari’s character as much as his counsel, describing him as someone who cares about their careers and well-being—a partner rather than merely a service provider. Earlier in his career, Moorari served as a Manhattan assistant district attorney and spent nine years in-house at Toyota Motor Credit Corporation. He currently chairs the Legislative and Regulatory Subcommittee of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA), and he is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Sheppard

Morgan A. Davis

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Morgan Bale

Morgan Bale is a partner in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Bale has wide experience in all areas of domestic and cross-border bank financing. Mr. Bale regularly represents investment banks, other financial institutions, and corporate borrowers in acquisition finance and other event-driven lending transactions, encompassing investment grade, leveraged cash-flow, and asset-based syndicated credit facilities (including first and second lien-secured loans), as well as loan restructurings, debtor-in-possession financings, and exit financings. Consistently ranked by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Legal 500 US, and IFLR1000, Mr. Bale is known for his deep market knowledge, and, in particular, as a trusted advisor for high-profile investment-grade financings. Mr. Bale’s clients include Barclays, Bank of America, CIBC, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Wells Fargo, and other major investment banks.

Paul Hastings LLP

Morgan Bassett

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Morgan E. Brubaker

Morgan Brubaker represents a broad range of clients in drafting and negotiating complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions relating to technology. Morgan regularly advises clients with respect to: Artificial intelligence GPU acquisitions and financings, data center leases and colocation arrangements Cloud computing and data strategy Acquisitions Strategic alliances Joint ventures Intellectual property licensing Development, manufacturing, supply, and commercialization agreements Data privacy and security matters Morgan takes a commercial approach to solving clients’ business issues using risk-based legal strategies to protect clients’ interests while helping them achieve their business goals. Drawing on experience as a technology consultant advising Fortune 500 corporations on global IT planning and strategy, she understands clients’ commercial, operational, and regulatory challenges in the jurisdictions where her clients do business. Morgan serves as pro bono liaison for the Nature Conservancy and helps a range of pro bono clients with technology licensing matters.

Latham & Watkins

Morgan Forsey

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Morgan Hayes

Morgan Hayes is a corporate partner based in New York. Mr. Hayes is a member of the firm’s Finance, Capital Markets and Private Equity Groups. His practice covers a broad range of financings, including fund finance transactions. Mr. Hayes regularly represents private equity firms, issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and counsels public and private companies on disclosure, corporate governance and general corporate matters. Mr. Hayes is recommended by The Legal 500 US (2025) for his capital markets practice. His recent experience includes acting for clients such as Providence Equity Partners, KKR, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle, Kelso & Company, DoubleVerify, Verizon and Cornerstone Building Brands. Prior to joining Debevoise in 2010, Mr. Hayes was an associate at an international law firm in Palo Alto, California from 2007 through 2010. Mr. Hayes received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2007 and a B.A. from Cornell University in 2002. He was admitted to the bar in California in 2008 and New York in 2012. Mr. Hayes’ articles include “SEC's Crypto Statement Offers Clarity On Disclosures,” Law360 (May, 2025); “Debt Finance 2025,” Chambers & Partners Practice Guides (April, 2025); “How Cos. Can Prepare Now For SEC E-Filing System Changes,” Law360 (February, 2025); “Equity Finance in the USA 2024 – Trends and Developments,” Chambers and Partners (October, 2024); “SEC Charges Now Suspended Auditor BF Borgers with Massive Fraud Affecting More Than 1,500 SEC Filings,” Insights - The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor (July, 2024); “BF Borgers Clients Should Review Compliance, Liability,” Law360 (May, 2024); “Debevoise Discusses Fifth Circuit Decision on Fixing Share Repurchase Rules,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (November, 2023); “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses SEC’s Proposed SPAC Rules and Investment Banks,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (May, 2022); “Rumblings of Unicorn Stampede to Market Start to Appear,” The Deal (February, 2019) and “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses Developments in the Enforcement of Token Sales,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (November, 2017).

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Morgan Hollins

Partner

White & Case LLP

Morgan Maddoux

Morgan Maddoux represents government contractors in high-stakes investigations and litigation involving the False Claims Act (FCA) and other allegations of fraudulent conduct, bid protests, and government contract compliance matters. Morgan has represented IT, aerospace, defense, and other government in connection with all phases of government investigations and complex commercial litigation involving the FCA. Morgan combines deep regulatory knowledge with extensive FCA experience to secure successful resolutions for her clients. Morgan also counsels clients regarding compliance with a wide variety of regulatory and contractual requirements related to performing government contracts, including: Cybersecurity requirements under the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Procurement integrity Small-business size status and affiliation Socioeconomic clauses Subcontracting obligations Cost and accounting requirements She has also represented government contract clients in bid protests before individual agencies, the Court of Federal Claims, and the Federal Circuit. Morgan also helps clients navigate mandatory and voluntary disclosure requirements, as well as suspension and debarment matters. A former member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, Morgan maintains an active pro bono practice and serves as the D.C. office’s liaison to the Tahirih Justice Center. She regularly represents pro bono clients in immigration cases before the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, including successfully obtaining a T visa for a client who was the victim of severe human trafficking and derivative T visas for the client’s minor children and mother.

Latham & Watkins

Morgan Spina

Associate

Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP

Morgan W. Tovey

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP