Avocats – United States

Drew Johnson

Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Drew Kastner

Principal

Offit Kurman

Drew Levin

Drew Levin is an insurance counseling and recovery partner in the Los Angeles office. Drew advises on a broad array of insurance issues, with extensive experience negotiating all forms of transactional insurance policies, including representations and warranties policies, non-US warranties and indemnities policies, tax risk, and other specific liability policies, and pursuing claims under those policies on behalf of Latham’s policyholder clients. Drew has negotiated hundreds of transactional insurance policies, and provided transactional insurance-related and other insurance advice across a wide array of industries, including: Aerospace, Defense & Government Services Automotive Energy & Infrastructure Entertainment, Sports & Media Financial Institutions Healthcare & Life Sciences Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Retail & Consumer Products Technology

Latham & Watkins

Drew McEwen

Counsel

Balch & Bingham LLP

Drew Richard Wisniewski

Drew Wisniewski helps leading financial institutions and corporate clients navigate a range of criminal and civil litigation matters, with a particular focus on government cross-border investigations and complex regulatory issues. Drawing on his broad-based investigatory and litigation experience, Drew regularly handles sensitive and high-profile matters on behalf of US and international clients. His work covers a variety of subject areas, including alleged financial crimes, criminal and civil fraud, and deceptive business practices. Drew brings particular experience advising clients on internal and government-facing investigations involving complex regulatory issues and cross-border matters. He frequently represents clients before government agencies and bodies, including the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Drew also assists clients during various phases of litigation. In particular, he works with clients to craft comprehensive defense strategies when a white collar investigation presents litigation risk. His background includes a variety of complex commercial, securities, and sports litigation. Drew also frequently advises on pro bono matters, including in relation to fair housing and criminal justice reform. Prior to joining Latham, Drew served as a political consultant to presidential campaigns and members of Congress. He also advised corporations on regulatory and strategic communication issues. Drew previously served as a legal fellow to the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Drew Steen

Partner

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Drew Svor

Drew Svor is a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm’s Telecom Team. Drew’s practice is focused on technology, media and telecommunications, with an emphasis on satellite, wireless and new technologies. Drew counsels companies on all aspects of communications law and regulations. He also represents companies in matters before the Federal Communications Commission, including rulemaking, licensing and enforcement matters. He counsels clients with respect to international telecommunications issues, including frequently representing companies before the “Team Telecom” Executive Branch agencies, as well as the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Drew frequently speaks and writes on telecommunications matters, including at events hosted by the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and the ABA Space Symposium.

Sheppard

Drew Taggart

Drew is a commercial litigator with jury trial, international arbitration, and first-chair bench trial experience. His energy and strategic thinking have been the key to quick and efficient resolution of many disputes. Drew has had the lead role in state and federal court hearings, mediations, trials, and depositions to resolve complex oil and gas, intellectual property, construction, environmental, and securities litigation. His clients range from multi-national corporations, to mid-sized companies, to small, startup businesses and individuals. And in addition to his dispute resolution practice, Drew routinely advises universities, private schools, healthcare institutions, and non-profits regarding internal governance, tax compliance, and fiduciary duty matters.

Bracewell LLP

Drew Young

Partner; DLA Piper's Transactional Tax Practice Lead - Northeast

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Driscoll Ugarte

Driscoll R. Ugarte serves as a team lead of the firm's Life Sciences and Medical Technologies industry group. He practices in the area of corporate law, including private equity financings, emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions and securities. Mr. Ugarte counsels public, domestic and foreign corporations through all stages of development, from formation and operation to capital-raising and exit, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions and recapitalizations. He is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. An increasing focus of Mr. Ugarte’s practice is advising single family offices on organization, tax-efficient structure and strategy with regard to direct investments and other acquisitions. He also advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs, venture capital investors and underwriters. Mr. Ugarte regularly counsels businesses in the industries of life sciences, biotech, medical devices, pharmaceutical and biologics; real estate; agribusiness; and aerospace. In addition to advising domestic business, he guides multinational and foreign companies in Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America on cross-border direct foreign investment and mergers and acquisitions activities.

Duane Morris LLP

Drue Santora

Drue represents top-tier private equity funds and their portfolio companies, Fortune 500 companies, corporate borrowers and financial institutions in connection with structuring, negotiating and documenting interest rate, currency, commodity, credit and equity derivatives transactions. He advises clients on derivatives issues across many practice areas, including mergers and acquisitions, debt finance, restructuring, energy and project finance. Drue also advises on cross-border derivatives regulation.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Duane Loft

Duane leads Pallas’s New York practice. He represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with a particular focus on restructuring disputes, contested issues in bankruptcy, and cross-border litigation. In the area of restructuring litigation, Duane has represented ad hoc groups of creditors in a number of significant corporate bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 cases of Intelsat S.A. and LBI Media, in each case serving as trial counsel in multi-week hearings on contested plans of reorganisation. In cross-border disputes, Duane has helped recover billions of dollars for institutional investors, including through Section 1782 discovery proceedings that have led to precedent-setting decisions in district and appellate courts throughout the United States. Find out more: https://pallasllp.com/team/duane-l-loft

Pallas Partners LLP

Duane McLaughlin

Duane McLaughlin is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McLaughlin’s practice focuses on financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, focusing on bank financings, high-yield debt issuances and initial public offerings. He advises a number of NYSE and Nasdaq-listed U.S. and non-U.S. companies on corporate governance and disclosure matters. He has been involved in a number of transactions in Latin America.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Duane Webber

Duane Webber is a member of the Firm's Global Executive Committee and chair of the North America region. He is principally involved in tax dispute resolution with the IRS and tax authorities in other jurisdictions, including a wide variety of alternative dispute resolution techniques and all administrative phases of a controversy through litigation in the US Tax Court, various US Courts of Appeal, the US Court of Federal Claims, and the US Supreme Court. The vast majority of his matters have been resolved without litigation, through appeals, competent authority, APAs, or other administrative dispute resolution processes. He has participated in cases involving a wide variety of domestic and international tax issues, including issues relating to Subpart F income, foreign tax credits, Administrative Procedure Act matters, transfer pricing, various excise tax matters, economic substance matters, insurance tax, consolidated returns, inventory and tax accounting, research tax credits, amortization of intangible assets, characterization of assets, and other matters.

Baker McKenzie

Duncan Greenhalgh

Partner

Goodwin

Dustin Edwards

Winston Taylor

Dustin Linden

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Dustin Womack

Dustin Womack is a litigation associate in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses primarily on complex commercial litigation.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Dwayne L. Mason

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Dwight S. Yoo

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Dwight Wheaton

Partner

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Dyann DelVecchio Hilbern

Dyann DelVecchio Hilbern is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP's Boston office. She provides high-level advising and U.S. immigration portfolio management for corporations, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations. Clients describe her as “passionate about her work and compassionate towards the foreign workers’ situations.” A frequent panelist and trainer, and an enthusiastic mentor to law students and junior practitioners, Dyann has co-authored a number of articles on immigration law and is often interviewed by the press on issues relating to immigration.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Dylan Brown

Partner

Goodwin