Lawyers in United States

Baldassare Vinti

Baldassare (“Baldo”) Vinti is the head of Proskauer’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Baldo is a first-chair trial lawyer known for navigating complex, bet-the-company intellectual property disputes across industry verticals and next-generation technologies. With over 25 years of experience, Baldo represents leading global companies and universities in patent, trade secret, false advertising, consumer class actions and technology-related breach of contract litigation in federal and state courts as well as before the International Trade Commission. Baldo is particularly sought after for his courtroom skill and strategic depth, having led trials, arbitrations and appeals in high-stakes disputes involving technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to encryption, digital media, diagnostics, mobile platforms and software. Baldo has represented global corporations, including Arkema S.A., British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Welch Foods, Inc. and Zenith Electronics LLC. With a background in pharmacy, Baldo brings deep domain expertise to pharmaceutical litigation. He has a proven record of driving successful outcomes in complex pharmaceutical milestone payment, royalty and licensing disputes—often stemming from collaboration agreements, co-development deals, and M&A transactions—where the financial and strategic stakes run high. In addition to representing corporate clients, Baldo works closely with university innovation and technology transfer offices to maximize the financial return of research investments. He develops tailored IP asset optimization strategies and aggressively enforces intellectual property rights to protect and monetize core innovations—whether through high-value licensing agreements, shaping and advancing spin-out company development, or successful litigation. Baldo also provides strategic counsel on IP due diligence, complex licensing, IP structuring, patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses, and infringement and validity opinions. He advises boards and executive teams on aligning IP strategy with business objectives, mitigating risk and maximizing the value of innovation assets. A frequent author and commentator on intellectual property topics, Baldo has been quoted in the National Law Journal, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Westlaw Journal and Inside Counsel magazine. He is also a regular contributor to articles published in Medical Product Outsourcing magazine that deal with the medical device industry. Baldo served as a judicial intern for Hon. John E. Sprizzo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Hon. Charles A. LaTorella of the New York Supreme Court.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Bambo Obaro

Co-Managing partner of Weil’s Silicon Valley office; Complex Commercial Litigation partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Barbara Becker

Barbara L. Becker is Chair and Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Prior to her election to this role, Barbara served as Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group for over a decade, and also created and led the firmwide Diversity Committee. Barbara Becker advises public companies, boards of directors and special committees on M&A, corporate governance and strategic matters. Her clients include Accenture, General Electric Company, Kraft Heinz, Merck, News Corp., PepsiCo, VMware, Xylem, and investment banks, including Centerview, Guggenheim and Lazard.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Barbara Duffy

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Barbara Grayson

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/g/grayson-barbara

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Barbara Hoey

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Barbara Jones

Barbara S. Jones, former judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, focuses her practice on corporate monitorships, compliance issues, internal investigations and arbitrations and mediations. During her 16-year term in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Jones presided over a diverse range of cases, including accounting and securities fraud, antitrust, fraud and corruption involving city contracts and federal loan programs, labor racketeering and terrorism. In May 2010, Judge Jones was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the seven-member Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation; she served on the panel until October 2012.

Bracewell LLP

Barbara Kelly

Counsel

Brown Rudnick LLP

Barbara Klementz

Barbara Klementz is the chair of Baker McKenzie’s North American Compensation Practice. She has practiced in the area of global equity and executive compensation for over 20 years. Barbara has authored several articles on global equity issues for the BNA Executive Compensation Journal, Journal of Corporate Taxation and San Francisco and Los Angeles Daily Journal, among others, and she is a contributor to a blog on global equity related topics called the Compensation Connection. She is also a frequent speaker on a variety of global equity topics. Barbara is a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer for 2024 and recognized as a ranked practitioner by Legal 500 for Employee Benefits: Transactional and by Chambers USA. Client feedback in Chambers states that "Barbara is absolutely phenomenal" and "Barbara is incredibly impressive in terms of expertise and the ability to be pragmatic and practical. She knows the laws and rules in a staggering number of countries." Barbara is admitted to private practice in California and Düsseldorf, Germany.

Baker McKenzie

Barbara Niederkofler

Barbara Niederkofler represents some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors, as well as a broad range of other investment clients, including credit funds, hybrid funds, family offices and institutional investors. Barbara’s practice focuses on the formation and operations of private investment funds along the liquidity spectrum, including structuring funds and managers in multiple jurisdictions, providing guidance on fundraising and solicitation issues, advising on seed arrangements, spinouts, joint ventures and “upper tier” arrangements, handling registrations and exemptive filing under securities and commodities laws with regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and advising on ongoing maintenance of fund structures as well as compliance issues for managers. Barbara has substantial experience with all aspects of investment adviser compliance and registrations. She has extensive experience in relation to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and she also regularly advises clients with respect to regulatory examinations and investigations. To learn more about Barbara, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/barbara-niederkofler.html

Akin

Barbara T. Kaplan

Co-Chair, Global Tax Practice

Greenberg Traurig

Barbara Tyson

Partner - Litigation and Investigations Co-Chair, Appellate and Supreme Court Group

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Barbra Broudy

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Barclay Nicholson

Norton Rose Fulbright

Bard Borkon

Partner

Bowman and Brooke LLP

Bard Brockman

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Bari Wolf

Associate - Real Estate

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Barrett Lesher

Barrett has extensive experience litigating cases in state and federal courts and arbitration throughout a variety of industries. He has a broad litigation practice with a concentration in business and commercial litigation, including healthcare litigation, employment litigation, general tort litigation, commercial transportation litigation, fiduciary obligations, director and officer liability, shareholder disputes and rights, real estate disputes, contract litigation, and copyright and trademark and patent infringement litigation. Barrett also has extensive experience representing professionals in administrative proceedings before the Texas Medical Board and State Office of Administrative Hearings.

Hallett & Perrin, PC

Barrett Reasoner

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Barrie Covit

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher's Investment Funds Practice. Focuses on alternative asset management. Has represented some of the largest and best known sponsors of private equity funds including Carlyle, KKR, BlackRock, J.C. Flowers, Lexington Partners, Corsair Capital, and EQT. He has represented sponsors of funds that focus on investments in specific asset classes—including energy, financial services and the secondary market—throughout the world, including in Western Europe, South Africa and Brazil. Mr. Covit represented the United States Treasury Department in connection with the establishment of its $30 billion Public-Private Investment Program to purchase legacy assets from financial institutions. Notably, Mr. Covit was named by Law360 as an “MVP” for 2024.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Barrie VanBrackle

Barrie VanBrackle, Global Co-Chair of the firm's Payments Practice, advises industry leaders on complex fintech transactions, specifically regarding payment technology and consumer financial services compliance. Barrie helps merchants, payment processors and fintech vendors navigate key areas at the intersection of technology and finance, including: Consumer-facing financial and banking Regulatory counseling and investigations, including for new US market entrants Payment card industry regulations, including brand operating rules and data security standards Money transmission Prepaid card access An authority on payments and consumer financial services compliance, she regularly guides clients on transactions involving payment systems participants, including large merchants and financial technology companies, with respect to payment acceptance, payment issuance, co-brand agreements, payment card industry data security issues, and payment regulatory matters. Barrie’s deep experience also includes advising corporate and private equity clients within the context of mergers and acquisitions and other fintech investments. She frequently speaks at industry events and writes on the evolving regulatory and compliance issues relating to payments and other e-commerce matters. Barrie is active in the community and regulatory volunteers with Merchant Acquirers’ Committee (MAC), a nonprofit trade association in the payment processing ecosystem. She holds a leadership position within MAC’s Government Relations Strategic Insights Group.

Latham & Watkins

Barron Wallace

As a result of his experience with virtually all types of governmental entities and diverse finance structures, Barron Wallace’s public finance practice is both unique and broad. His clients benefit from his knowledge of traditional and highly structured project finance conduit transactions involving state agencies, cities, school districts, airports, higher education, housing, industrial development, private and primary secondary schools, cultural arts organizations, regional mobility authorities, special districts and not-for-profit organizations. His multifaceted practice spans traditional municipal finance, tax increment finance, urban redevelopment, as well as general public law.

Bracewell LLP

Barron Weinstein

Barron (“Barry”) Weinstein exclusively represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes as Of Counsel at Blank Rome LLP. Barry began his practice in the field of insurance coverage in 1978 at a San Francisco-based law firm. In 1982, Barry began Weinstein & Buffington, where he continued his commercial litigation practice with an emphasis on insurance coverage. Following this, Barry joined the office of the San Francisco City Attorney where he served as Chief of Complex Litigation, supervising a team of 15 trial attorneys in complex litigation matters. At the City Attorney’s Office, Barry personally tried and argued on appeal cases in both state and federal courts. Barry also advised city departments and commissions on a wide range of legal matters involving potential and pending litigation, including matters involving insurance coverage disputes. In 1993, Barry formed another law firm, where he focused his practice exclusively on representing policyholders in complex insurance disputes, including litigation against insurance carriers in state and federal courts. Throughout his 40-year career, Barry has handled a wide range of cases involving both third-party liability and first-party property insurance coverage disputes. Barry has lectured on insurance coverage issues in numerous Continuing Legal Education courses, including the annual national conference of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (“RIMS”), the City Attorney’s Office for the City and County of San Francisco, the annual conference of the National Diocesan Attorneys Association, the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, the Alameda County Bar Association, and the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada. He serves as a Settlement Officer for the San Francisco Superior Court’s Mandatory Settlement program, and is well respected by carriers, risk managers and mediators for his ability to achieve settlements in complex and contentious matters. For Barry's full biography, please visit: Barron L. Weinstein | Blank Rome LLP

Blank Rome LLP

Barry Berke

Barry H. Berke is a nationally renowned trial lawyer who is routinely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers and white collar criminal defense attorneys in the country. Barry represents individuals and corporations in sensitive and high-profile trials, investigations, complex litigation and internal investigations.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP