Lawyers in United States

Rowan Cunningham

Associate

Tenenbaum Law Group PLLC

Rowland Cheng

Rowland Cheng retired from the partnership in July 2024. Rowland advised Chinese and global clients on complex inbound and outbound transactions with a nexus in China. He helped clients negotiate and successfully execute cross-border transactions, including: Mergers and acquisitions Dispositions Joint ventures Investments Rowland brought clients a sophisticated global perspective and the ability to translate international practice to a Chinese context. He drew on his experience as a partner in Latham’s California offices, and more than two decades practicing in Asia. He established Latham’s presence in Mainland China in 2005 and was resident in Shanghai to witness the evolution of market practice in PRC — including the shift toward increasingly active Chinese corporates and the burgeoning life sciences market. He skillfully leveraged Latham’s global platform, to assemble teams to handle any regulatory, IP, or corporate issues that may arise in a transaction.

Latham & Watkins

Roxana Guidero

Wilkinson Stekloff

Roxane Polidora

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Roxane Reardon

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher's Global Capital Markets Practice, Roxane F. Reardon has advised issuers and investment banks on a wide range of public and private capital raises, including pre-IPO series financings and other private capital funding structures, IPOs, follow-ons, equity-linked, debt, and tender and exchange offers, for more than two decades. She regularly advises management and boards of directors on capital solutions, corporate governance matters, disclosure matters, and other general corporate matters.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Roxane Reardon

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher's Global Capital Markets Practice, Roxane F. Reardon has advised issuers and investment banks on a wide range of public and private capital raises, including pre-IPO series financings and other private capital funding structures, IPOs, follow-ons, equity-linked, debt, and tender and exchange offers, for more than two decades. She regularly advises management and boards of directors on capital solutions, corporate governance matters, disclosure matters, and other general corporate matters.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Roy L Goldman

Norton Rose Fulbright

Roy Tannenbaum

Roy Tannenbaum is a corporate partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in Fried Frank's New York office. He joined the Firm in 2015 and became a partner in 2021. Roy has experience in public and private M&A transactions involving strategic acquirers and financial sponsors, including mergers, stock and assets acquisitions and divestitures, cash tender offers, “going private” transactions, dividend recapitalizations and corporate restructurings. Roy has experience advising managements, boards of directors and special committees on corporate governance matters including takeover preparedness and contested situations. Roy also frequently represents investment banks in their capacity as financial advisors on various M&A transactions across various industries and jurisdictions.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Royce L. Tidwell

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Ruben Henriquez

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Ruben Muñoz

Rubén Muñoz represents public and privately-held companies in patent and trade secret litigation involving a wide array of technologies, including medical devices, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and electronics. He represents clients in federal and state courts, before the International Trade Commission and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent Office in inter partes review proceedings. He has been counsel of record in over 50 inter partes review (IPR) proceedings with nearly half of them as lead counsel. To learn more about Ruben, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/ruben-h-munoz.html

Akin

Ruchi Gill

Ruchi Gill advises clients on all aspects of complex national security matters. Ruchi counsels clients around the world on complex US national security regulatory issues involving the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), export controls, and economic sanctions. She draws on extensive experience representing clients before CFIUS and related national security regulators, including negotiating significant agreements with the US government to protect national security interests while preserving shareholder and business interests. Ruchi also advises clients on legal, policy, and enforcement issues that arise under: Sanctions programs administered by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the State Department The State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) The Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (EAR) Ruchi's US government executive and legislative branch experience allows her to provide clients with valuable insight into US national security and foreign relations issues. Before joining Latham, Ruchi served as Deputy Chief Counsel for the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, where she advised on legal and oversight matters, legislative activity, and nominations related to US foreign policy and national security for the Committee’s Democratic staff. She also managed a broad range of committee equities in larger legislation, including the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and annual defense authorization and appropriations bills. From 2007 to 2017, Ruchi served at the US State Department in various roles, including as an attorney-adviser and special assistant to the Legal Adviser, a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and as an economic officer in Guangzhou, China. She frequently participated in bilateral and multilateral consultations and negotiations, as well as advised on economic sanctions, export controls, foreign sovereign immunity, cyber activity, international arbitration, and treaty negotiation and interpretation. She received numerous State Department awards in recognition of her work.

Latham & Watkins

Rudene Haynes

Partner and Managing Partner of Hunton's Richmond Office

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Rudolf Koch

Rudolf Koch, director at Richards, Layton & Finger, litigates complex corporate and commercial disputes in Delaware’s state and federal courts and is “known by the courts as a real litigator” (The Legal 500). His practice focuses on stockholder class actions, derivative lawsuits, contested mergers and acquisitions, corporate control disputes, complex contractual disputes, appraisal actions, and books and records actions. Rudy also advises managers, general partners, corporate boards, and committees with respect to governance, litigation, internal investigations, and control disputes. He has extensive trial and appellate experience. Rudy frequently sits on panels about Delaware corporate law, including at the Tulane Corporate Law Institute, and has been published in The Business Lawyer; The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation; Insights: The Corporate and Securities Law Advisor; Business Law Today; and the Cornell Law Review. He has also lectured on corporate governance, class action litigation, and executive compensation. PRACTICES Investigative & Demand Committees Arbitration & Mediation Corporate & Chancery Litigation Corporate Transactions Corporate Governance Mergers & Acquisitions Commercial Litigation

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Russ Campbell

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Russ Carnahan

Senior Policy Advisor - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Russ Schlossbach

Partner

Gesmer Updegrove LLP

Russel Perkins

Russel G. Perkins is a partner in the Corporate Department and Asset Management Practice, resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Perkins’ practice is focused on a wide variety of fund formation, governance and compliance issues relating to private credit funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, funds of funds, secondaries funds and other private funds. He has extensive experience representing fund sponsors, asset managers and institutional investors in all stages of private funds, including managed accounts and other investment vehicles, both domestically and internationally. Additionally, he counsels clients in connection with venture capital and M&A transactions, with a particular focus on investment manager seed, joint venture and spinout transactions. Mr. Perkins also regularly advises on issues relating to the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act and ERISA. Mr. Perkins has devoted a significant amount of time to pro bono work, including social impact funds and the Innocence Project.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Russell Beck

Partner

Beck Reed Riden LLP

Russell Black

Russell Black is a business lawyer who helps clients on the variety of issues they encounter every day. Companies and their owners rely on Russ from the earliest stages of formation, as they grow and expand, and when they are eventually sold. With more than 30 years' experience representing closely held, entrepreneurial and growth-oriented businesses, Russ provides his clients not only with legal assistance, but strategic business planning input as well. Russ understands that as businesses grow and evolve, their legal needs do as well. His approach is to learn all he can about a business and its owners, so he can see the full path of their history, current location and desired destination. Then he applies his legal skills and business acumen gained over three decades working with a wide variety of business clients to counsel them in a manner that's geared toward their specific needs and goals. Efficiency of time and cost are always key considerations, so Russ works quickly to either provide the solution personally or to bring together and manage team members with the needed experience and knowledge to provide a legal solution that’s appropriately measured for the situation. Russ represents clients in a wide variety of industries, and as a result has developed a broad skill set. He counsels on a range of corporate issues, including operating agreements, stockholders' agreements, partnership agreements, manufacturing/distribution agreements, vendor/purchaser agreements, licensing of technology and intellectual property, agreements between service providers and users, leases and financing. Because the proper structuring and handling of personnel issues are a central element of business success, Russ focuses a portion of his practice on employment law, including compliance with federal and state laws and the negotiation of all manner of agreements and situations dealing with employees, independent contractors, compensation, noncompetition, proprietary rights and separation. He also has extensive experience negotiating acquisitions, sales and mergers of businesses.

Katten

Russell Cohen

Partner

Dechert

Russell Dumas

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Russell Hayman

Russell Hayman represents companies in the technology, health, life sciences and in other sectors in complex civil litigation nationwide. Drawing on his background as a federal prosecutor, he has also represented companies in government investigations and criminal proceedings. A successful trial lawyer having taken over 25 cases to trial, Russell has successfully defended clients in complex federal antitrust, patent infringement and theft of trade secret cases involving acoustic, cellular, Wi-Fi, software, mobile app, semiconductor and memory technologies. Russell’s trial experience in antitrust matters includes both horizontal and vertical restraint claims. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/hayman-russell/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Russell Hedman

Russell Hedman is a recognized leader in sports investments and middle-market private equity transactions. He represents clients in high-stakes deals and innovative structures around the world. Russell is a trusted advisor to private equity sponsors, individuals, family offices, and sports teams in a range of high-stakes matters involving: Acquisitions and dispositions of control and minority stakes in teams Ownership structures (including partnerships and consortiums), as well as strategy in respect of league approval Cross-border sports investments and related multi-jurisdictional considerations Expansion franchise transactions and other league-related opportunities Startup sports investments and similar transactions in emerging leagues Russell has advised clients on acquisitions, investments, divestitures, and other transactions across nearly every major league. He also supports the sports law curriculum at his alma mater, Harvard Law School, contributing to an acquisitions seminar and independent writing project. Complementing his sports practice, Russell has represented the preeminent private equity sponsors in Colorado for more than a decade. Russell started his legal career at Latham, working in the New York and Hong Kong offices. Before re-joining Latham, he was a partner at another global law firm.

Latham & Watkins