Avocats – United States

David S. Passes

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

David Sakowitz

Winston Taylor

David Saltzman

Ropes & Gray LLP

David Sands

David Sands is a seasoned dealmaker who guides businesses of all sizes through strategic, financial and operational transactions. Drawing on deep experience in legal and business strategy earned in more than 400 deals, he helps media, entertainment, technology and financial services industry clients navigate risks, understand market realities and achieve their personal and professional goals. Clients value that David prepares them for complex transactions and ensures they are confident and informed from the start. Recognized for his practical, business-focused approach and responsiveness, he counsels clients throughout the company lifecycle, handling matters such as: Corporate finance and capital raising Mergers and acquisitions, including take-private transactions and joint ventures Formation planning and initial capitalization Executive compensation and retention strategies Strategic alliances and institutional partnerships Public and private equity and debt offerings With a long history of counseling service-based businesses and family owned companies, David understands his clients’ success depends on their people and incentivizing excellence. He helps companies design incentive structures and cultures where key people thrive and enables founders to monetize effort while retaining talent. Outside of work, David enjoys baking for friends and family, fishing, skiing in the Mammoth area (and an occasional heli-ski trip) and attending live music performances at venues like the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl, where he and his wife Yvonne have been longtime supporters and contributors. David also is known for his dedication and perseverance as a result of his 50+ year support of the NY Mets and NY Jets.

Sheppard

David Saunders

David P. Saunders (CIPP/US, CIPM) is an experienced litigator who focuses his practice on privacy and cybersecurity matters. David helps clients through the life cycle of their data privacy needs. He helps them mitigate and manage risks related to data privacy and cybersecurity by assisting their government affairs teams with the development of new privacy legislation, their legal and compliance teams through the implementation of privacy programs, and their litigation teams through regulatory investigations and civil class action litigations. David has experience working with clients in a wide variety of industries. From food and alcohol to telecommunications and energy, and from PE funds and portfolio companies to small businesses and start-ups, David helps clients design a data privacy strategy that works for them. David has experience in all aspects of privacy program implementation from conducting risk assessments and drafting privacy policies to planning around cross-border data transfers, and negotiating vendor agreements. He regularly counsels on GDPR, GLBA, TCPA, CAN-SPAM, and the growing list of state law privacy laws and regulations, including CCPA. He is also there for his clients in their most difficult times, having navigated data breaches, and successfully resolved both regulatory investigations and class action litigations related to corporate privacy practices. David also regularly performs due diligence for corporate transactions. David has worked with a number of state attorney general’s offices and federal regulators, and advocated on behalf of clients in the telecommunications, cybersecurity, health and financial services sectors. His work also includes collaborating with clients to provide testimony and comment on existing and planned data privacy legislation at the state and federal levels. David maintains an active pro bono practice, having represented inmates in various actions in state and federal courts, and providing privacy program development, counseling and training to non-profits.

McDermott Will & Schulte

David Scheper

Winston Taylor

David Schiller

Special Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

David Schindler

Finance Partner

Latham & Watkins

David Schmidt

Partner

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

David Schnabel

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

David Schulman

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig P.A

David Schulz

Senior Counsel

Ballard Spahr LLP

David Schwartz

David Schwartz is a corporate partner in the Investment Management Group and a leader in the firm’s Alternative Assets Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group. He is also a member of the Private Equity Group. Mr. Schwartz represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, emerging markets, funds of funds, infrastructure, real estate and venture capital funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts. He also advises sponsors and investors in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, listed fund transactions, secondary direct transactions, “manager for hire” arrangements, synthetic secondaries, “stapled” primary and secondary transactions and fund recapitalizations and restructurings. Mr. Schwartz represents numerous private equity clients, including Capital International, Ford Foundation, HarbourVest Partners, Morgan Stanley and major sovereign wealth funds.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

David Seifer

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP

David Shannon

Chair, Intellectual Property, Technology and Media Litigation Practice Group Chair, Privacy and Data Security Practice Group

Marshall Dennehey, PC

David Shapiro

Tax Partner. Mr. Shapiro is a tax partner and co-chair of the Firm’s Tax Department. His practice spans numerous types of tax issues, including in the areas of fund formation and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents leading fund sponsors in fund formation, including funds and funds-of-funds with a focus on equity, mezzanine debt, senior loans, distressed debt and real estate, and also focuses on M&A and other corporate transactions, frequently for fund clients. Mr. Shapiro has also regularly represented public and private companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, as well as in public and private debt and equity financing transactions. Clients include Bain, BlackRock, Brookfield, Fortress Investment Group, Goldman Sachs & Co., KKR, HPS Investment Partners, Neuberger Berman, and Permira, among others.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

David Shargel

Dave Shargel is a business litigator with extensive experience representing clients in complex commercial disputes and arbitrations. Dave has built his practice representing clients in a wide range of business sectors and circumstances. His experience includes litigating contract disputes, shareholder disputes, business valuation, insurance coverage and fraud. He also handles real estate, construction and employment disputes as well as matters involving constitutional law such as under the Commerce and Due Process clauses. Additionally, as co-head of the firm’s ePractice Department, Dave assists firm attorneys with eDiscovery best practices and guidance, as well as case-specific discovery strategy and management. Dave is also a member of the firm’s COVID-19 Crisis and Recovery Task Force, advising clients on various issues related to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, including matters related to the government’s stimulus loan programs.

Bracewell LLP

David Shaw

David Shaw represents technology and life sciences clients in high-stakes patent litigation and International Trade Commission (ITC) matters. David draws on significant trial experience and technical knowledge to guide sophisticated clients through intellectual property disputes involving: Section 337 investigations before the ITC Patent litigation in US district courts and the Court of Federal Claims Appeals before the Federal Circuit Inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board David has led complex patent disputes from inception through to successful trial and appeal and key business outcomes. He leads all aspects of representation, from primary responsibility for trial strategy through to case development and courtroom execution. David leverages his scientific background, including graduate training in tumor biology and commercial experience with pharmaceutical manufacturing, to help clients navigate enterprise-threatening matters. A recognized thought leader, he serves as a member of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association and an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School. Before joining Latham, David was a partner at another global law firm, where he focused on ITC and patent litigation. Earlier in his career, he worked as a manufacturing associate at Bristol Myers Squibb and Human Genome Sciences.

Latham & Watkins

David Shaw

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Morrison Foerster

David Sheinbein

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

David Sherman

David Sherman is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he focuses his practice on advising sponsors regarding private equity fund matters, including forming, marketing and managing investment vehicles, launching new business lines, as well as operational, legal and regulatory issues at both the fund and sponsor level. David represents a wide range of sponsors, including publicly traded global asset managers, prominent middle-market sponsors and first-time fund sponsors, across various investment strategies, including buyout, aviation/transportation, credit, special situations, real estate, senior equity and growth equity funds, with fund sizes ranging from $100 million to $10 billion. He also frequently represents sponsors on raising capital for targeted individual investments or subsets of investments, including forming co-investment vehicles, overage funds, annex funds, warehouse vehicles and continuation funds. David also counsels sponsor clients on internal economic and governance arrangements, seed investments, spin-outs, conflict transactions and other corporate transactions involving private investment funds.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

David Shevlin

Head of Simpson Thacher’s Exempt Organizations Practice, David Shevlin counsels a variety of international and domestic exempt organizations, including all forms of private foundations and public charities. He also advises donors to exempt organizations, such as family offices, as well as the governing bodies of exempt organizations. In particular, David advises universities, foundations, hospitals and cultural institutions on the investment of their endowments. David has particular experience in working with charitable organizations in connection with social enterprise and program-related investments. David also has been involved in assisting governing bodies on internal investigations.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

David Siegal

Forbes magazine recently called David “one of the top white collar attorneys in the country.” David is a Chambers-ranked trial litigator who counsels companies, executives, and high-level professionals in complex white collar and business investigations, government enforcement actions and related criminal and civil cases. He has successfully represented clients in the financial services sector and other industries in courts and before the DOJ, SEC, FINRA, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as state regulatory agencies, federal grand juries and union arbitration panels. In his 31 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts, and achieved remarkable victories in several high-profile matters. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

David Siegel

David Siegel represents clients in a broad range of structured finance transactions, with a focus on digital infrastructure, emerging and up-and-coming asset classes, and other esoteric assets. David draws on extensive experience to help banks and other financial institutions, issuers, borrowers, and sponsors navigate the securitization and other asset-based financing of primarily non-traditional assets, such as: Data centers, industrial distribution centers, fiber, cellular towers, broadcast towers, wireless site assets, and other infrastructure assets Short-term vacation rental properties, triple net properties, billboards, ground lease, easement assets, and other real estate assets Entertainment and sports contract rights, including royalty stream, production rights, and TV syndication rights NAV assets, including private equity and other illiquid or hard-to-value assets Aircraft, including enhanced equipment trust certificate (EETC) transactions, aircraft engines, and aircraft leases Automobile and automobile fleet leases He works closely with all parties to develop innovative financing structures and solutions custom-crafted for the asset being securitized. David also represents asset managers, institutional investors, and others in financing transactions involving complex structured products, securitizations, and debt investment funds, as well as in a number of traditional ABS products. A recognized thought leader in the structured finance arena, David participates in the Structured Finance Association’s SFVegas and IMN’s ABS East conferences and delivers CLE trainings on diligence and liability management in ABS transactions. David maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented clients in asylum matters, Violence Against Women Act cases, name changes, and matters involving under-resourced small businesses.

Latham & Watkins