Avocats – United States

Fred Sgroi

Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Fred Tannenbaum

Gould & Ratner LLP

Freddie Akrouche

Partner

Goodwin

Frederic Krieger

Partner, Co-Chair, Broker-Dealer

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Frederic Levenson

Frederic (Fred) L. Levenson is the co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group. He provides legal counsel to clients on a broad range of corporate counseling and sophisticated domestic and international transactions. He focuses primarily on private equity (leveraged buyouts), domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital investments and financings, private and public offerings of equity and debt securities, restructurings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and real estate acquisitions and financings. Fred is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Private Equity practice. Fred advises public and private companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, management groups, senior and subordinated lenders, real estate investment funds, and intermediaries in sophisticated, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, financings, divestitures and going private transactions. He also represents issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt offerings. Fred draws on his experience with clients in a variety of industries and with diverse financial requirements to offer practical and creative advice. He has represented private equity firms, financial institutions, investment banks, start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. Fred’s industry experience includes health care, energy, manufacturing, services, retail, internet and technology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, transportation, marketing, staffing, consumer electronics, and real estate.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Frederick Ball

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Frederick Bartelsmeyer

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Frederick G. Helmsing, Jr.

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Frederick Green

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Frederick L. Cottrell III

A leading force in Delaware’s IP bar, Fred Cottrell has “phenomenal knowledge of the judges and courts” (Chambers USA). Fred regularly handles significant IP litigation before the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and in Delaware’s state courts. Clients cite his “incredibly deep knowledge,” calling him a “standout trial attorney” (Chambers USA). Fred’s practice also includes several other areas of litigation, including antitrust, products liability, and commercial law. Acclaimed as “an outstanding litigator” (Chambers USA, 2025), Fred has represented such industry giants as: Google Micron Technology Advanced Micro Devices Apple 10x Genomics Universal Robots Gilead L’Oréal A prominent figure in Delaware District Court practice, Fred participated in a recent panel on IP practice with several judges handling such cases. He is past chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Division Advisory Committee for the Delaware Superior Court and past co-chair of the Delaware District Court’s IP Advisory Committee. Fred has spoken at numerous seminars in his fields of practice, including at the Federal Circuit Bar Association on the use of injunctions in patent cases and at the ABA spring meeting on judicially assisted ADR. He has also been a frequent speaker on Delaware District Court practice. PRACTICES Intellectual Property Commercial Litigation

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Frederick Lark

Frederick (Fritz) J. Lark advises clients on M&A transactions, with a focus on energy, utilities and digital infrastructure. He represents infrastructure funds, utilities and other investors in public and private company mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and debt and hybrid securities issuances among other transactions. Fritz has experience advising clients in transactions across a variety of sectors, including energy, power and utilities, insurance, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals and technology. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/lark-frederick-j/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Frederick McGrath

Senior Counsel

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Frederick Smith

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Fredric A Weber

Norton Rose Fulbright

G. Alan Rafte

Alan Rafte serves clients in transactions that involve offshore and onshore wind generation facilities; carbon capture, sequestration and utilization projects; upstream oil and gas projects; pipelines and other midstream facilities; and merchant fossil-fuel electric generation facilities. He represents energy industry companies, private equity investors, alternative lenders and financial institutions in transactions that include acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint venture arrangements, structured finance, leveraged finance, project development and project finance.

Bracewell LLP

G. Michelle Ferreira

Co-Managing Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

G.J. Ligelis Jr.

G.J. Ligelis Jr. is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. He advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate matters. His M&A practice has a particular focus on cross‑border transactions. Mr. Ligelis’s clients have included AerCap, Anheuser‑Busch InBev, Aramex, Biogen, Buckeye Partners, Casa Cuervo, Hain Celestial, INEOS, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, National Grid, Novartis, Siegfried, Synthomer, Texas Capital Bank, Unilever, Viatris and WiseTech Global.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Gabe Quistorff

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Gabe Sasson

Gabriel Sasson is a partner in the Financial Restructuring group at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Gabriel Sasson concentrates his practice on bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court restructuring transactions. Gabriel has extensive experience representing ad hoc groups of bondholders, secured lenders and other creditors, DIP lenders, official committees of unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, equity holders and debtors in connection with in-court and out-of-court restructurings. In addition, Gabriel has experience in the representation of large insurance companies, as creditors, in Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings.

Paul Hastings LLP

Gabor Balassa

Gabor Balassa is a senior litigation partner and trial lawyer. Gabor has successfully tried significant commercial disputes in federal and state courts and in arbitrations across the country, including in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Wilmington. He represents a diverse client base, ranging from big-four accounting firms, to oil & gas, telecommunications, and pharmaceutical companies, to private-equity firms. Gabor’s broad experience encompasses class actions, accounting malpractice, breach of contract, fiduciary-breach, common-law and securities fraud, fraudulent transfer, and non-compete matters. He was recently commended in The Legal 500 for his trial work in the energy space.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Gabriel Celii

Counsel

Offit Kurman

Gabriel Gomez-Giglio

Gabriel Gomez-Giglio is partner at Baker McKenzie’s Buenos Aires office, chair of the Latin America Banking & Finance Practice of Baker McKenzie and a member of the Global Steering Committee of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group. He advises clients on a variety of general commercial issues. His practice focuses on the areas of transactional and regulatory matters, including but not limited to multinational financial transactions, commercial agreements and mergers and acquisitions. Gabriel is a member of the Board and Adjunct Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and a visiting professor with the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London.

Baker McKenzie

Gabriel Green

Gabriel G. Green is an experienced trial attorney and the Firmwide Chair of Buchalter’s Litigation Practice Group. Focusing his practice in the areas of complex business disputes, commercial real estate, intellectual property, and franchising, Mr. Green is known as a problem solver who is able to win the most difficult cases. Understanding that cases are won through decisive and strategic planning, Mr. Green works in partnership with his clients to formulate plans designed to meet his clients’ objectives. Moreover, with litigation being a dynamic and ever-changing process, Mr. Green consistently evaluates strategy throughout a matter to meet his clients’ goals and prevail in their cases. Mr. Green’s business litigation experience involves a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, oil and gas exploration and distribution, financing, professional services, hospitality, medical providers, commercial leasing and sales, real estate development, wholesalers and distributors of consumer products, internet based as well as brick and mortar retailers, elder care facilities, and franchising. Mr. Green has assisted his clients in rescinding and unwinding fraudulent business acquisitions, pursuing competitors for unfair and anti-competitive business practices, litigating claims involving misappropriation of trade secrets, securing damages for business interference or contractual claims, and obtaining injunctive relief. Often times, Mr. Green is sought out to handle the complicated, hard to prove case involving fraud or similar unfair business practice. Indeed, Mr. Green has prevailed in a number of cases prosecuting and securing the rescission of the fraudulent sale of businesses where the fraud was only discovered after the sale was completed. Mr. Green also has extensive experience in litigating trade libel actions, defamation claims, and right to publicity matters. With regard to commercial real estate, Mr. Green has extensive experience in litigating a wide array of disputes involving acquisition or development financing, broker representation or commissions, buy and sale transactions, easements and property line challenges, and leasing. Mr. Green has successfully prosecuted lawsuits involving the purchase and sale of multi-million dollar real estate transactions and has secured specific performance of sale agreements. Conversely, Mr. Green has also succeeded in defending against claims involving disclosure requirements, commission claims, financing obligations, and contractual disputes. With regard to commercial tenancy, Mr. Green represents both commercial landlord and tenants in resolving leasing disputes and eviction proceedings. Mr. Green’s intellectual property practice involves prosecuting and defending trademark infringement claims as well as false advertising and unfair competition claims under the Lanham Act, California law, and common law. Mr. Green represents restaurateurs, professional service providers, scientific labs, franchisors, manufacturers, and entrepreneurs in protecting their valuable trade and service marks. Additionally, Mr. Green is well-versed in litigating copyright infringement actions and guides his clients through the nuisances of the Copyright Act. Mr. Green’s representative experience includes litigating copyright infringement claims involving video game graphics, jewelry designs, sculptural works, musical compositions, and literary works. Mr. Green’s franchise litigation practice derives from his representation of nationally and internationally renowned franchisors with brands in a range of industries. Understanding the valuable aspects of a franchised system, Mr. Green has obtained affirmative relief for franchisors against third-parties misappropriating a brand mark and/or a franchised trade secret. Likewise, Mr. Green has assisted his franchisor clients in pursuing claims against defaulting franchisees for violations of their operative franchise agreements and/or causing harm to the franchised brand. Mr. Green also represents franchisees encountering issues with troubled franchise systems or problematic franchisors. Mr. Green serves on the Executive Committee of the Litigation Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He was named one of the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers” in 2020 and 2023, and was recognized as one of the publication’s Top 100 Lawyers in 2025.

Buchalter Law Firm

Gabriel Gregson

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP