Lawyers in United States

Sandra DiVarco

Partner Sandra (Sandy) M. DiVarco focuses her practice on the representation of hospitals and health systems. She has counseled health care facility and system clients regarding all aspects of health law transactions and health system restructurings. In addition to maintaining an active transactional practice, Sandy has a deep knowledge of regulatory, licensing and accreditation issues of particular concern to health care providers in today’s heightened enforcement climate. Sandy regularly advises clients on the legal aspects of clinical regulatory issues and policy/procedure and operational matters. A significant component of her practice involves assisting health care provider clients across the United States with regulatory, licensure and accreditation issues, including state-level and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) survey responses, formulation of successful plans of correction, Joint Commission complaint responses and Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)/regulatory investigations. Drawing on her experience as a registered nurse, and holding a current license in the state of Illinois, Sandy brings a pragmatic perspective and first-hand knowledge of health care operations to these complex and mission-critical matters. For further details of Sandra's biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/divarco-sandra-m/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Sandra Edwards

Winston Taylor

Sandra Flow

Sandra L. Flow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Flow's practice focuses on capital markets and corporate governance. She has represented both U.S. and international issuers, as well as underwriters, in a variety of SEC-registered and private securities offerings, as well as domestic and cross-border listings. She has also participated in the development of new financial instruments and related offerings. Ms. Flow's corporate governance practice includes advising companies on their disclosure obligations and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and listing standards of the NYSE and Nasdaq. She has also advised a number of companies on issues relating to financial statement restatements. Ms. Flow frequently speaks on corporate governance and capital markets matters.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Sandra Goldstein

Sandra Goldstein is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s New York office and was a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. She has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on securities, M&A, and commercial disputes. Her clients have included 3G Capital, Barnes & Noble, Constellation Brands, CrowdStrike, Grubhub, Honeywell, IBM, J. Crew, Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Qualcomm, Starwood Hotels, Target, United Airlines and Xerox. Sandra represents clients, including corporations and their boards, in all manner of securities litigation—stock drop class actions, shareholder derivative suits, litigation demands—often securing pretrial wins, including a major summary judgment victory in a multibillion dollar securities fraud class action lawsuit. She has also regularly represented clients in contemplated or hostile transactions, with a cumulative value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and has aided clients in navigating complex corporate governance issues. Sandra is lead courtroom counsel, winning dozens of favorable decisions after oral argument at both the trial and appellate court levels concerning dispositive motions, motions for preliminary injunctions and expedited discovery. Recently, Sandra had two major victories for Constellation Brands. First, in March 2023 she secured a unanimous verdict after a two-week trial against Grupo Modelo, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch, by persuading the jury that hard seltzer is beer under the applicable contract. Then, in March 2024, Sandra successfully argued the defense of the Second Circuit appeal in that matter, which the Court affirmed in full. She also routinely advises boards, in house counsel and company executives on litigation and corporate governance considerations at various stages of a deal, in collaboration with the Firm’s transactional attorneys.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sandra L. Brown

Sandy is a member of Thompson Hine's Executive Committee and a partner in the firm's Transportation group. She represents bulk commodity shippers and other entities that use transportation services. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, electric utilities, government entities and ports that buy, sell or move coal, aggregates, chemicals, crude oil and other hazardous materials by rail. Sandy also has past experience representing a Class I Railroad. This unique blend of experience assists Sandy in providing strategic counsel for the transportation of bulk commodities. Sandy counsels on ways to increase competitive leverage including counsel on rail construction options, contract negotiation and drafting, federal preemption, rate challenges, rail service and practices, rail mergers and other regulatory proceedings before the Surface Transportation Board. Sandy also defends shippers in contract and derailment disputes with railroads. Before entering private practice, Sandy worked on Capitol Hill and worked as an attorney with the White House Counsel's office and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Thompson Hine LLP

Sandra L. Musumeci

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Sandra Lee

Partner Practice Group Co-Chair - Patent Prosecution (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Sandra Lee Montgomery

Sandra Lee Montgomery is a recognized leader in banking & finance having closed more than $5.5 billion in transactions for first- and second-lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors across the country in 2023 alone. Sandra is a former member of the Proskauer's Executive Committee, the Women Partners Advisory Committee and she was the co-Chair of the New Business Committee for the last four years. She is also a mentor in the Firm’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program. Her areas of focus include acquisitions, recapitalization and other leveraged financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border financings, unitranche and mezzanine financings and restructurings. Sandra has industry experience in a wide range of business sectors including retail, technology, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, general industrial, import/export, agriculture and services. She has extensive knowledge of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and other laws that relate to secured transactions. Sandra has also handled numerous cross-border transactions involving Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, England, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Scotland and Singapore.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Sandy Collins

Administrative Team Partner for the Litigation Group and Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Sanford I. Weisburst

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sanford Perl

Sanford (Sandy) Perl serves as a lead advisor and counsel in complex business transactions including LBOs, mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, PIPEs, IPOs, management compensation arrangements and restructurings. Fund clients include Beecken Petty O'Keefe, Clearlight Partners, Flexpoint Partners, Glencoe Capital, GTCR, Insignia Capital, Lake Capital Partners, Lake Pacific Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, Maranon Capital, Mountaingate Capital, New Harbor Capital, Periscope Equity, Shorehill Capital, Stephens Group, Victory Park Capital, and their portfolio companies. Mr. Perl also represents entrepreneurs, management teams and public and private companies. Mr. Perl also chairs Kirkland’s Audit Committee.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sanford Stark

Sanford W. Stark is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. Sanford counsels on a wide range of complex domestic and international tax issues, including a significant emphasis on cross-border transfer pricing. He has served as counsel in a number of the largest tax controversy and litigation matters in recent years. He advises clients in various industries and on all aspects of the tax controversy process, including pre-audit, audit, administrative appeals, Advance Pricing Agreements, and Competent Authority proceedings. Sanford litigates tax disputes in federal trial and appellate courts and State courts, and his transfer pricing experience includes planning and internal restructurings in addition to controversy and litigation.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sang Ji

Partner

White & Case LLP

Sang Kim

Partner; Chair of Markets and Sectors; Chair, Asia Committee; Co-Chair, Global Tax practice; US Management Committee; Global Board

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sanjay Shirodkar

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sanjay Wadhwa

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Sanjee Weliwitigoda

Senior Attorney

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Sanjeet Ganjam

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Santiago Bejarano

Santiago Bejarano advises clients on a range of high-stakes international disputes around the world, under both civil law and common law regimes. Santiago regularly represents domestic and multinational corporations and state-owned enterprises in a wide variety of industries and business sectors in their highest-stakes international disputes. Drawing on his dual qualification as an attorney in Colombia and New York and his in-depth understanding of Latin America’s legal systems and business practices, he has particular expertise advising clients on matters involving this region. He regularly conducts advocacy in Spanish-language or dual-language arbitrations. Santiago brings over a decade of experience representing clients in international commercial and investment arbitrations held under all major institutional and ad-hoc rules, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) , and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). He has conducted arbitrations seated in all major arbitral hubs, including New York, Washington D.C., London, The Hague, and Paris, among others. He has handled disputes relating to the licensing of intellectual property, M&A transactions, distribution contracts in various sectors including pharmaceutical and luxury goods, and energy, oil, and gas development, distribution , and commercialization. Santiago is Lecturer in Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he teaches International Arbitration, and is a frequent speaker at international arbitration conferences around the world. In addition to his work on arbitration matters, Santiago has advised clients in connection with high-profile government investigations and inquiries, white collar matters, and complex, multi-jurisdictional internal investigations. Santiago keeps an active pro bono practice, advising clients on immigration-related matters. He received the Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2015 for his work on immigration cases.

Latham & Watkins

Sara Alexander

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Sara B. DeBlaze

Shareholder

Vedder

Sara Beiro Farabow

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Sara Beth Rizzo

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sara Brauner

Sara Brauner represents official creditor committees, bondholders, noteholders, institutional investors, hedge funds and other interested parties in large-scale financial restructurings. Sara has experience across an array of industries, including retail, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & life sciences, media, gaming & hospitality. Sara is also the firm’s Hiring Partner for the New York Office and oversees student recruitment efforts and the summer associate program. Recent representations include Alex E. Jones, Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt, Lucky Bucks, Sears, HONX, among others. To learn more about Sara, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/sara-l-brauner

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