Avocats – United States

Ed Pease

Ed brings more than two decades of experience to the representation of high-growth businesses and the venture capital, private equity, and other investors who support those companies. With extensive experience representing entrepreneurs and companies operating in a broad range of industry verticals, including technology, financial services, life sciences, digital & social media, and energy & sustainability, he is a trusted advisor throughout the life cycle of his clients, from formation to exit. Founders have come to rely on Ed’s creative and strategic legal solutions and sound business advice in connection with equity structuring, intellectual property protection, complex commercial transactions, and strategic licensing and partnership transactions. Read full biography.

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

Ed Siskel

Ed Siskel, an experienced litigator, crisis manager, and strategic advisor, combines experience at the highest levels of government and the private sector to help clients navigate high-stakes legal, policy, reputational, and business challenges. Combining his experience at the White House, Justice Department, private practice, and in-house at a global alternative asset manager, Ed skillfully counsels clients through: Government-facing litigation and investigations Regulatory and policy change Risk management Business strategy Before joining Latham, Ed served as White House Counsel for President Biden, and Deputy White House Counsel for President Obama. In those roles, Ed advised the President and senior White House staff on a broad range of legal, policy, and compliance matters — including issues of executive authority, national security, domestic policy, and judicial nominations. Leading a team of White House lawyers and working closely with counsel across Executive Branch agencies, he managed the Biden and Obama Administrations’ responses to Congressional and other high-profile investigations, complex litigation, and policy matters. Ed also draws on extensive experience in the private sector as in-house counsel, having served as chief legal officer at Chicago-based alternative asset management firm, Grosvenor Holdings LLC. He also leverages experience at another global law firm where he advised corporate clients on litigation, crisis management, and government investigations. Ed’s Chicago roots include serving as Corporation Counsel — the city’s chief legal officer — during Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration. In that role, Ed advised Mayor Emanuel and city leadership on all legal issues as well as overseeing a department of 300 attorneys and staff, managing high-profile litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters for Chicago. Ed’s public service includes high level roles in the Department of Justice, including serving for two years as Associate Deputy Attorney General during the Obama Administration, working on significant DOJ investigations and policy matters across all U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Criminal Division, law enforcement agencies, and the criminal components of the department’s litigating divisions. Prior to his service with the DOJ, Ed served as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he: conducted eight jury trials to verdict, including a four-month long corporate and securities fraud case; argued several appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and supervised numerous fraud and public corruption investigations and indictments. Earlier in his career, Ed was a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court, and for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Latham & Watkins

Ed Zacharias

Edward G. Zacharias is the managing partner of McDermott’s Boston office. He represents clients across the healthcare industry and beyond on healthcare compliance and transactional matters. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and advises healthcare providers, insurers, health information technology and digital health companies, pharmacies, drug and device manufacturers, life sciences companies and health services vendors on a range of information privacy and cybersecurity laws, including the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), 42 C.F.R. Part 2, the California Consumer Privacy Act and multiple other privacy and data security regimes. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/zacharias-edward-g/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Eddie Frastai

Eddie Frastai is a partner in Clifford Chance's Real Estate group, based in New York. Eddie specializes in advising real estate owners, developers, operators, managers, investors and financial institutions on a broad range of real estate transactions pertaining to large office, hotel, retail, residential and mixed-use projects, including sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing, debt restructurings and discounted payoffs. Eddie has been a guest lecturer at New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate and a panelist at the Law and Business Association of New York University School of Law.

Clifford Chance

Edgar Fernando Orozco Ceballos

Associate

Greenberg Traurig

Edgar Khalatian

Partner

Mayer Brown

Edgar Lewandowski

Edgar Lewandowski is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Corporate Department, focusing his practice on capital markets and corporate governance matters. Edgar has wide-ranging experience advising a variety of REIT and other issuers, private equity sponsors and investment banks. The transactions he has handled include IPOs and other equity offerings, spin-offs, high yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings, tender and exchange offers and risk management. Edgar also advises boards of directors on general corporate and compliance matters. He represents clients in numerous industries, including real estate, hospitality, financial services, manufacturing, insurance and human capital and technology services.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Edmond Parhami

Edmond Parhami advises private equity firms and public companies on their most complex and important M&A and joint venture transactions. Edmond represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as well as public companies on a broad range of transactions, including: Acquisitions and dispositions Leveraged buyouts Cross-border carve-outs Joint ventures Recapitalizations Controlling and minority investments Spin-offs and RMTs Corporate governance and other matters Edmond regularly advises clients forming joint ventures across industries, jurisdictions, and positions, including controlling, minority, and 50/50 investors. He draws on vast experience advising on transactions in the energy and healthcare industries, as well as a range of other sectors from retail and consumer products to technology and manufacturing.

Latham & Watkins

Edmund J Haughey

Venable LLP

Edmund Mokhtarian

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Edmund Polubinski

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Edmund Robb

Edmund Robb focuses his practice on commercial disputes arising out of the energy industry. He has experience prosecuting and defending complex commercial litigation, oil and gas disputes, energy agreements, environmental and regulatory matters and securities claims. Edmund works closely with in-house teams to manage and prepare cases at all stages, from initial investigation to final judgment. He has represented clients in state court, federal courts and in arbitration, and has conducted numerous internal investigations on behalf of corporations, boards and board committees. Edmund also has experience handling probate, product liability and construction cases.

Bracewell LLP

Eduardo De la Peña Bernal

Partner

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Eduardo Gallardo

Eduardo Gallardo is co-chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He has over 25 years of experience representing public company sellers and buyers, including boards of directors and special committees, in connection with mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, both negotiated and contested. Eduardo also represents public companies in connection with proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs, divestitures, restructurings, recapitalizations, joint ventures and other complex corporate transactions.

Paul Hastings LLP

Eduardo Leal

Eduardo Leal is a corporate partner in the Miami office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focuses on complex corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Edward (Ed) Petrosky

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Edward Ackerman

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Edward B. Micheletti

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Edward Baxter

Attorney

Offit Kurman

Edward Best

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Edward Black

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Edward Brill

Edward A. Brill is the former co-head of Proskauer's Appellate Practice Group. Ed devotes a significant amount of time to representing educational institutions, including Columbia University, New York University, Yale University and Polytechnic Institute. He has served as lead counsel in numerous employee representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board, and employment litigation involving faculty, senior administrators and staff. He has represented each of these institutions in disputes involving union efforts to organize graduate student teaching and research assistants. Ed also represented Quinnipiac University in a widely publicized Title IX class action alleging that the university’s athletic program fails to comply with various requirements of Title IX. Among other issues, the case involves the issue of whether competitive cheer is properly recognized as a varsity sport for purpose of Title IX. Over the course of his career, Ed has briefed and argued dozens of appeals in both the federal and New York state appellate courts. He was a principal author of the brief in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a collective bargaining agreement provision requiring arbitration of age discrimination claims is enforceable. Other recent cases include: Carroll University v. NLRB (D.C. Cir.), setting aside an NLRB order requiring the college to bargain with a union representing faculty members on the grounds that the NLRB did not have jurisdiction over the college as a religious institution Adams , et al v. Suozzi, et al (2d Cir.), reversing a lower court decision that Nassau County violated due process rights of county employees in implementing a wage deferral plan Lorna Perez & Elena Leffler v. Saks Fifth Ave., (11th Cir), upholding decision of a district court setting aside jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in an age and retaliation discrimination case Raghavendra v. The Trustees of Columbia University (2d Cir.) upholding and enforcing an agreement settling multiple state and federal discrimination claims. Ed has represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings before the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He also has represented employers in all types of employment litigation, both in New York and a number of other jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, California, Georgia, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. He also provides guidance to clients, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including employee discharge and discipline, equal employment opportunity obligations, development of personnel policies, and downsizing and reductions in force.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Edward Colbert

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Edward Cramp

Edward M. Cramp represents institutions of higher education around the United States in accreditation, regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters. He is a team lead for the Duane Morris Education industry group. He also serves as the managing partner of the firm’s San Diego office. Mr. Cramp is active in the higher education community. He regularly speaks at conferences and events throughout the country on a variety of issues. Mr. Cramp also teaches higher education law and compliance as an adjunct faculty member at the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and College of Education. Mr. Cramp served as a judge advocate in the United States Navy, where he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant Commander. During his time in the naval service, he defended numerous matters before courts-martial and administrative boards. He also represented the interests of the United States in claims brought against and on behalf of the Navy.

Duane Morris LLP