Avocats – United States

Donald Bernstein

Special Counsel

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Donald Carden

Donald Carden regularly advises multinational corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies and funds on issues of Federal and New York State income taxation, with a particular emphasis on corporate and partnership taxation and the tax aspects of structured finance transactions. Donald is a regular speaker on tax issues at industry events and is the author of numerous articles on tax issues. Since 2008, Donald has been recognized as a "Leading Lawyer" in Legal 500 and has been acknowledged as a leading practitioner in Chambers and the Tax Directors Handbook, and is a New York "Super Lawyer" for 2011.

Clifford Chance

Donald Carleen

Mr. Carleen is an executive compensation & ERISA partner and regularly advises corporations, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including ERISA and tax, employment and securities law matters. Advises in complex M&A, leveraged buyouts, private equity, hedge fund, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions. Specializes in structuring and negotiation of executive employment, severance and equity participation arrangements in M&A transactions.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Donald Cooley

Donald Cooley is a member of the Finance Department and the Private Equity Finance Practice. He focuses on representing private equity clients in subscription credit facilities. Donald represents borrowers in secured and unsecured lending and other financing transactions, including: Private equity and private debt subscription lines of credit ESG-linked credit facilities Acquisition and carve-out financings Debt restructurings He thrives on the complexity of large-scale finance transactions, develops long-term relationships with clients, and brings a very commercial approach to his representations. In addition to his commercial work, Donald serves on the Associates Committee. He served as a Global Chair of Latham’s First Generation Professionals Affinity Group from 2018-2021 and as a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. He maintains an active pro bono practice, regularly advising non-profits on corporate governance issues and individual clients on legally changing their gender identify or name. Outside of Latham, Donald is a member of the Fund Finance Association’s Diversity Committee. He is also an active alum of Sponsors for Educational Opportunities.

Latham & Watkins

Donald E Sonnenborn

Partner/Co-Chair

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Donald English

Baltimore Office Managing Principal

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Donald F. Donovan

He serves as Co-Chair of Debevoise’s Public International Law Group and for some 20 years also served as Co-Chair of its International Disputes Group. He serves as counsel in international disputes before international courts, international arbitration tribunals, and courts in the United States.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Donald Goff

Winston Taylor

Donald Houser

Donald has more than a decade of experience defending clients against privacy and data breach class action lawsuits. He has represented clients—including clients in the consumer, financial services, and health care industries— in high-stakes, high-profile cases in courts across the country. As the prevalence of privacy and cybersecurity class actions continues to grow, Donald is at the forefront, routinely defending clients in some of the biggest and most complex privacy and data breach cases in the country. His experience spans all aspects of privacy and data breach litigation, including developing global defense strategies, defending motions for class certification, and negotiating extremely favorable resolutions. In addition, Donald has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes litigation, both consumer and business-to-business. He represents some of the world’s largest companies including health care organizations, financial service institutions, and consumer products companies.

Alston & Bird LLP

Donald Kilpatrick

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Donald Mosher

Donald J. Mosher, co-head of the firm’s Bank Regulatory Group, focuses his practice on the regulation, acquisition and sale of payments companies and money transmitters, licensing and registration of traditional and non-traditional money services businesses (including online transmitters, global B2B providers and cryptocurrency exchanges) and the laws and practices applicable to mobile, digital, virtual, electronic, paper- and card-based payment products and systems. Don has represented leading banks, payments companies, card associations, money transmitters and private equity firms in transactional and regulatory matters associated with payments, prepaid cards, digital currencies and money transmission. Don recently served as regulatory counsel to Trans-Fast Remittance, a leading money transmitter, in connection with its pending acquisition by MasterCard International; First Data Corporation, a leading payment processor to merchants and financial institutions, in connection its pending acquisition by Fiserv, and Cambridge Global Payments, a leading B2B international payments provider, in its acquisition by FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. Don also represented Travelex Group, the world’s largest foreign exchange company, in connection with its acquisition by a consortium led by the owner of UAE Exchange, a leading global money transfer and foreign exchange provider, and Centurion Investments, an Abu Dhabi-based private equity firm; Priority Payments, in its merger with Cynergy Data, creating one of the largest merchant acquirers in the nation; Securus Technologies in its acquisition of JPay Inc., the market-leading technology company that introduced electronic payments to the corrections space, and Securus Technologies in its subsequent acquisition by Platinum Equity affiliated funds; and Gary Jonas Computing Ltd., in its acquisition of substantially all the assets of Club Solutions Inc., a leading provider of payment services and enterprise software in the fitness, sports and leisure industry, from Fiserv Inc. Don has also acted as regulatory counsel to Western Union in its acquisition of Vigo Remittance, Custom House and Travelex Global Business Payments, and to Western Union and Green Dot in their initial public offerings. In recognition of Don’s role as banking and payments law regulatory counsel for First Data Corp. in connection with its acquisition by an investor group for $29 billion, International Financial Law Review awarded SRZ its prestigious Americas Private Equity Deal of the Year Award. Don is a frequent author and public speaker on topics of interest to the payments industry. He spoke at the Money Transmitter Regulators Association 2017 Annual Conference & Examiners’ School on “Payment Processing – A Deep Dive” and SRZ 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar (2019) on “Blockchain and Digital Assets.” At recent ACI forums, he addressed “The Future of Virtual and Crypto Currencies and the ICO Phenomenon,” “Prepaid Card Compliance 101,” “State Regulatory and Enforcement Efforts Including Latest Challenges Associated with Money Transmitter Licensing Enforcement” and “Evolving State Regulatory and Enforcement Framework Governing Crypto, Virtual and Digital Currencies.” His recent publications include co-authoring “FinCEN Issues Assessment Against Virtual Currency Exchange – the First Enforcement Action Against a Foreign-Located Money Services Business” in PaymentsJournal, “OCC Issues Draft Guidance and Requirements for Fintech Charter Applications” in Bloomberg BNA – Banking Report and “Final Rules Relating to Money Services Business (MSB) Definitions” in the Journal of Investment Compliance. Don has been recognized by Chambers, The Legal 500 US, IFLR1000 and New York Super Lawyers as a leading attorney in banking, mergers and acquisitions and consumer law. He is ranked in the Chambers FinTech guide in the category of Payments & Lending.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Donald R Pongrace

As chair of Akin’s American Indian law & policy practice, Don Pongrace provides strategic advice and advocates on behalf of tribal groups, governments and corporations. He has been involved in significant policy issues around the world, and he currently focuses his attention on policy issues relating to U.S. domestic policy at the federal, state and tribal levels. Don’s work on the federal aspects of tribal policies in the United States includes serving as lead counsel on the two largest Indian water settlements in U.S. history and one of the largest trust mismanagement claims in U.S. history. He also provides guidance to his clients on federal, state and tribal responses to the Colorado River mega-drought and the corresponding federal regulatory processes. To learn more about Don, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/donald-r-pongrace.html

Akin

Donald Rocap

Don’s practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, formation of private equity funds, and liquidity solutions for private equity funds and private equity sponsors. He is a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and is a co-author of 'Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts,' by Martin Ginsburg, Jack Levin and Donald Rocap, and of 'Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions,' by Jack Levin and Donald Rocap.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Donald Zakarin

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Doneene K. Damon

Chair of the firm’s Corporate Trust and Agency Services Group, Doneene Damon focuses her practice on formation and operational issues relating to Delaware statutory trusts and Delaware and New York common law trusts in all types of commercial and business transactions, representing issuers, underwriters, investors, and trustees. She advises clients on the use of common law trusts, statutory trusts, owner trusts, master trusts, series trusts, and titling trusts in connection with capital markets transactions. Her practice includes representing banks and trust companies in connection with their trust and agency services under Delaware and New York law in various commercial transactions, including their roles as trustee, collateral agent, verification agent, custodian, master servicer, depository agent, securities intermediary, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent, and exchange agent. She also served as primary Delaware counsel in a series of first-to-market structured finance transactions employing the use of blockchain distributed ledger technology. Doneene’s varied corporate trust transactional practice includes asset-backed securities, including auto loans and leases, credit cards, student loans, consumer loans, residential mortgages, home equity loans, equipment leases, litigation settlements, insurance policies, and intellectual property collateralized loan obligations cross-border leasing transactions mutual funds and exchange traded funds health care receivables liquidation trusts voting trusts independent director and independent manager private equity funds defeasance transactions capital securities and hybrid capital securities royalty trusts PRACTICES Legal Opinions Corporate Trust & Agency Services Structured Finance

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Donna Byrne

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Donna Mezias

Donna Mezias advises employers on a wide range of employment issues, including management of risks associated with employee terminations; sexual harassment and other employee investigations; reductions in force and facility closures; discrimination issues; trade secret and employee mobility issues; disability accommodation; family and medical leave laws; wage and hour compliance; drug testing; and employee privacy rights. She represents employers in all types of employment litigation including class action and individual discrimination cases; wage and hour class actions and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions; retaliation; whistleblower; wrongful termination and employment contract cases; trade secret; employee solicitation; defamation; and unfair competition litigation. To learn more about Ms. Mezias, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/donna-m-mezias.html.

Akin

Donna Welch

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Donnelly McDowell

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Dora Arash

Dora Arash is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Her practice concentrates on federal income tax planning for corporations and partnerships. She has advised clients on the tax consequences of partnership and corporate formations, taxable stock and asset acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, public and private offerings of stock and debt, spin-offs and joint ventures. She has also represented clients in a variety of tax controversy matters, including matters before the Appeals Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Tax Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Doris Rodríguez

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Dorit Ungar Black

Partner

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Doron Goldstein

Partner US Head of Data Innovation, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice

Withers

Dorothea Regal

As head of the Insurance Recovery Group at Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney—the women-owned litigation boutique she co-founded 30 years ago—Dorothea W. Regal has obtained hundreds of millions of dollars for corporate policyholders from insurers. She has extensive litigation and arbitration experience in the U.S. and internationally, securing policyholder recoveries in complex, high-stakes coverage disputes involving environmental, asbestos, and products liability claims, including long-tail claims arising from decades-old injuries or exposures under old occurrence-based liability policies. She also handles D&O, E&O, and employment practices liability claims as well as property insurance and business interruption coverage. Among her notable matters, Dorothea and her team won a groundbreaking trial court ruling for Syngenta in New Jersey state court in a $170 million insurance coverage dispute over nationwide class-action product liability claims alleging property damage from decades of commercial use of the company’s herbicide, and in another case won a trial for Syngenta in the Delaware Superior Court establishing the primary insurer’s coverage obligation over thousands of personal injury claims allegedly arising from exposure to another product and secured a precedential decision from the Delaware Supreme Court upholding the trial court’s two summary judgment rulings in favor of Syngenta on the issue of whether a threat of a claim constituted a claim under Delaware law. Dorothea has been named the Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year by Euromoney (2021); a Distinguished Leader by the New York Law Journal (2021); a Notable Diverse Leader in Law and a Notable Woman Business Owner by Crain’s New York Business (2022 and 2021, respectively); and an Elite Boutique Trailblazer by The National Law Journal (2018). She has also been recognized by Chambers for Insurance: Dispute Resolution for Policyholders since 2023 and as a top litigator by Benchmark Litigation since 2018.

Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP