Lawyers in United States

Saba F. Syed

Partner

Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP

Sabing Lee

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Sabrena Silver

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sabrina Cua

Sabrina Cua advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as public companies and privately-owned businesses, in a range of complex transactions including leveraged buyouts, mergers, minority investments, carve-outs and joint ventures. She also assists clients with general corporate governance matters and commercial contracts. Clients appreciate her dedication to understanding each client’s business and objectives. Sabrina has experience working with companies in a range of industries, including technology and software, media, consumer products, and manufacturing.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Sabrina Wang

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Sada Jacobson Baby

Partner. Sada is a litigation attorney representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business-related disputes. Her practice focuses on matters involving business divorces, shareholder and LLC member disputes, restrictive covenants, employment disputes, insurance coverage, professional liability, defense of premises liability suits, and complex contractual interpretation and business torts. She also has experience in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation.

Krevolin Horst, LLC

Sadik Huseny

Sadik Huseny is a partner and represents some of the world's leading companies, Silicon Valley’s technology titans in antitrust litigation and government regulatory investigations. A former "40 Under 40" innovator and "Lawyer on the Fast Track,” he has successfully represented clients in diverse fields such as American Airlines, Dignity Health, Oracle, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Eaton Electrical, PG&E Corporation, ATMI and The Hearst Corporation.

Latham & Watkins

Saee Muzumdar

Saee Muzumdar is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. Saee Muzumdar is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice includes representing both strategic companies and private equity clients (including their portfolio companies) in connection with all aspects of their domestic and cross-border M&A activities and general corporate counseling. She has significant experience with acquisitions and divestitures of public and private entities (including both negotiated transactions and contested takeovers), venture capital investments, proxy contests, tender and exchange offers, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, carveouts, joint ventures and other complex corporate transactions. In addition, she has represented a number of major investment banks as financial advisors in M&A transactions and financial institutions in connection with their investment activities.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sai Pidatala

Senior Counsel

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Sailesh Patel

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Sal Favuzza

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Salim Rahim

Salim Rahim is the chair of the Firm's North America Tax Practice Group. He has extensive experience in transfer pricing matters, including transfer pricing planning, compliance, and tax controversy. He has represented clients in all administrative phases of a controversy. Salim has also represented companies in various alternative dispute resolution forums, particularly the Advance Pricing & Mutual Agreement Program. Salim is a frequent speaker on transfer pricing matters in seminars sponsored by various organizations and universities. He also participates in programs sponsored by Bloomberg BNA, Alliance for Tax, Legal and Accounting Seminars (ATLAS), Tax Executives Institute (TEI), International Tax Review, Organization for International Investment and the American Bar Association.

Baker McKenzie

Salima Merani, Ph.D.

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

Sally Bergmann

Sally Bergmann is a corporate partner and a member of Debevoise's Investment Management Group. Her practice focuses on advising sponsors of private equity funds, including buyout, venture, real estate and credit opportunities funds. Ms. Bergmann’s recent experience includes acting for clients such as Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, Breakthrough Properties, Burford Capital, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, EQT, Kelso & Company, KKR, Morgan Stanley, Odyssey Investment Partners, Pine Island Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Tishman Speyer and WeWork. Ms. Bergmann is recommended by Chambers Global (2023) and Chambers USA (2023), where clients note that she is “very sharp, practical” and “a tremendous legal adviser” who is “thoughtful, commercial and solution-oriented.” She has also received praise for her “unparalleled” client service, with sources saying that she is “very quick and knowledgeable” and “she always has her finger on the pulse.” She has also been named a Rising Star by Law360 (2023) and listed as a Rising Star for Investment Funds by IFLR1000 (2022). Ms. Bergmann is a co-author of “Expect Fundraising Market To Grow More Competitive,” Law360 (August, 2022). She is also the author of “The Application of Conduit Theory in Interest Rate Swap Transactions: Schering-Plough Corporation v. United States,” 63 Tax. L. 437 (2010). Ms. Bergmann is a member of the 2022 Associate Leadership Institute Planning Committee for the NY City Bar Association’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion and was Debevoise’s 2019 Fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a member of The Tax Lawyer. Ms. Bergmann joined Debevoise in 2011. She received a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2011, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis in 2008.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Sally Bryan

Venable LLP

Sally Yates

Partner

King & Spalding

Salvador Juncadella

Salvador J. Juncadella consults on business and finance matters relating to the laws, customs, and lawyers of more than 25 countries—spanning from Mexico to Argentina, and including the Caribbean nations. Salvador brings to Morgan Lewis’s clients more than 25 years’ experience as corporate counsel for Exxon Corporation’s affiliates in Latin America. He also served as general counsel of Esso Inter_America, Inc., a Florida-based regional office of Exxon Corporation petroleum interests in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Salvador is admitted to practice in Cuba only.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Salvatore Gogliormella

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Salvatore Vanchieri

Salvatore Vanchieri represents clients in a variety of complex corporate finance and capital markets transactions. Salvatore draws on broad experience across financing structures and industries to advise issuers, private equity firms, and financial institutions on the full spectrum of US and cross-border financing transactions, including: Preferred equity and holdco PIK financings Initial public offerings (IPOs) and subsequent equity financings Acquisition financings Debt exchange offers and tender offers Secured and unsecured high yield debt offering Investment grade debt offerings SEC related matters, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters He understands the nuances that arise at the intersection of law and finance, and skillfully walks clients through every stage of a transaction, from initial structuring to deal execution. Salvatore guides issuers from early stages and helps companies prepare for key milestones, including IPOs, as well as navigate life as a public company.

Latham & Watkins

Sam Barfoot

Associate - Real Estate

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sam Deka

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sam Dykstra

Sam Dykstra is an environmental partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sam advises private equity firms, financial institutions and strategic clients on a broad spectrum of environmental issues in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, real estate deals, and other transactional contexts. He leverages a sophisticated understanding of domestic and international environmental legal regimes to help clients achieve regulatory compliance and satisfy their risk management goals. Sam has significant experience with negotiating environmental contractual provisions and conducting due diligence, including retaining and working with engineers and other technical consultants. Additionally, he has advised clients in litigation, environmental insurance, and permitting matters. Sam has worked successfully with clients and targets across a wide array of industries, including transportation and logistics, healthcare, hospitality, agriculture, meat processing, retail, REITs, energy exploration and transmission, real estate development, environmental and restoration services, and the manufacturing and/or distribution of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food products, cosmetics, electronic components, and plastics.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sam Falcon Trimbach

Winston Taylor

Sam Kamyans

Sam Kamyans is a partner in the Tax Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He is known as a “very talented” advisor in partnership taxation, uniquely in structuring tax-driven transactions to invest in, finance, or acquire carbon capture, hydrogen, clean fuels, solar, storage, and other energy transition projects. Sam has developed tax structures to implement market leading transactions relying upon section 45Q, 45Z, 45V, and 45/48 credits. He advises energy clients, including domestic and international private equity funds, and major sponsors to structure creative transactions to optimize each clients’ commercial and tax goals. In addition, Sam brings a solutions-oriented approach to structure and implement mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity extractions, distressed asset restructurings, and public and private offerings. In addition, Sam frequently publishes articles that clients rely upon to structure their deals, including a carbon capture financing guide, a guide to evaluating how to optimize credits for multi-credit projects, and practical publications on implementing IRS guidance. Prior to joining Kirkland, Sam served at the Internal Revenue Service, where he assisted in issuing guidance on partnership taxation and energy-related matters. He has also served as tax counsel to Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 energy company, and as a partner at a prominent U.S. energy-focused firm.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP