Avocats – United States

James Robertson

James Robertson advises clients on sophisticated US and international energy transactions. James represents exploration and production companies, midstream companies, private equity clients, and financial institutions in complex transactions across the energy sector, including: Mergers and acquisitions Divestitures Joint ventures Project development Private equity investments

Latham & Watkins

James Robinson

James Robinson advises public and private companies on executive compensation and employee benefits matters. James counsels clients on a variety of matters, including: Equity incentive plans Deferred compensation plans Severance and change in control arrangements Employment agreements He also advises on compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and other corporate transactions.

Latham & Watkins

James Rollins

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

James Rosenthal

Wilkinson Stekloff

James Rosini

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

James Rouhandeh

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

James Rouhandeh

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

James Sammataro

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

James Saylor

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

James Schuelke

Partner

Hogan Thompson Schuelke LLP

James Smith

Winston Taylor

James Smith

Vice Chair

Blank Rome LLP

James Stefanick

Member

Cole Schotz P.C.

James Stewart

Associate

DLA Piper LLP (US)

James T. Thompson

James Thompson is Co-Chair of the firm's Energy Section. He represents public and private companies in a variety of corporate, transactional, and other commercial matters. He focuses on the upstream, midstream, and renewable segments of the energy industry with additional experience in other industries. He is also board certified in Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. James represents the entire spectrum of energy companies and participants – majors, independents, management groups, services companies, and mineral and royalty companies – with respect to assets and projects in over 20 states and in every major basin. His energy practice includes the following: Acquisition, divestiture and financing of upstream and midstream assets Joint ventures and exploration and development programs Renewable energy projects (carbon capture and sequestration, wind, solar and geothermal) Upstream and midstream agreements including farm out agreements, participation agreements, agreements related to seismic data acquisition and licensing, surface and subsurface easements, oil and gas leases, drilling contracts, master service agreements, marketing agreements, and gas, liquids and crude oil purchase, transport, and gathering agreements Oil and gas disputes

Porter Hedges LLP

James Taylor

Partner and Chair, Advanced Media & Technology; Co-Chair, Loeb & Loeb Diversity Committee

Loeb & Loeb LLP

James Thomas

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

James Tillen

Member; Vice Chair, International; Practice Co-Lead, FCPA & International Anti-Corruption

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

James Tucker

James A. Tucker | Morrison Foerster Jim Tucker is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement Practice Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Jim’s practice runs the gamut of litigation and counseling in federal procurement matters, with an emphasis on bid protests, Cost Accounting Standards disputes, and small business matters. He has represented both protesters and awardees in scores of protests before the Government Accountability Office, the Court of Federal Claims, and procuring agencies, in acquisitions ranging from small business procurements to multibillion-dollar contracts of global significance. His representative protest matters span the aerospace sector, the Intelligence Community, base operations and logistics, healthcare, nuclear and environmental work, and information technology and software acquisitions. His protests have included both classified and unclassified programs. In addition to prevailing in published decisions, Jim has also secured favorable corrective action on behalf of clients in a wide variety of protests that were resolved without a published decision.

Morrison Foerster

James V. Leito

Norton Rose Fulbright

James Vazquez-Azpiri

James counsels corporate clients on hiring and retaining foreign employees in his business immigration law practice. He advises businesses on labor certifications, specialty occupation petitions, and intracompany transfers. Clients rely on James for guidance through immigration law compliance during mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. He helps clients think and work proactively by providing them with traditional compliance policy reviews and audits, case management and litigation technology, and international executive travel and foreign resident worker visa processing. A co-head of the firm’s global immigration practice, James is part of Morgan Lewis’s cross-practice Global Workforce team. The group provides integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning across the spectrum of labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues. Legal and human rights groups have acclaimed James’s pro bono work. He has received both the C. Anthony Friedrich Memorial Award from the International Human Rights Law Group and the Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services from the State Bar of California.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

James W. Kapp, III

Partner James (Jay) W. Kapp, III, focuses his practice on corporate bankruptcies, reorganizations (including prepackaged and prearranged bankruptcy filings), out-of-court restructurings (including distressed financings and workouts), and creditor rights representation (with an emphasis on representing bondholders, indenture trustees and other secured creditors). Jay has significant experience representing debtors and creditors (secured and unsecured) with respect to such bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Jay counsels interested buyers in the acquisition of distressed assets out of court (including Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) foreclosures and assignments for the benefit of creditors) and through bankruptcy proceedings (including 363 sales and plans of reorganizations). In addition, Jay advises board of directors of insolvent companies with respect to fiduciary duties and related concerns. For further details of James' biography, please view McDermott website: https://www.mwe.com/people/kapp-james-w/

McDermott Will & Schulte

James Walston

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Real Estate Development and Transactions Group

Ballard Spahr LLP

James Weinberger

James Weinberger is an accomplished litigator and strategic advisor who helps his clients protect, enforce, and manage their intellectual property rights. His clients include global entertainment brands, professional sports leagues, multinational personal care products companies, and pioneering cosmetics. For these clients and others, James advises on a range of IP and commercial issues, including copyright, trademark, and trade dress infringement; unfair competition and false advertising; right of publicity disputes; internet-related matters; and First Amendment rights. As a litigator, James successfully argued an appeal before the Ninth Circuit on behalf of client DC Comics that resulted in the Batmobile being accorded full copyright protection as a character, and in which the Court set forth a new, three-part test for determining protection of a character appearing in comic books, television programs, or films under the 1976 Copyright Act, independent of any specific work in which it has appeared and irrespective of whether, like the Batmobile, it “lacks sentient attributes and does not speak.” James regularly represents clients through federal and state court litigation, mediation, arbitration, administrative litigation in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) proceedings in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He counsels clients on copyright and trademark enforcement strategy, execution, portfolio management, and clearance, and negotiates and drafts trademark and copyright licenses, co-existence and settlement agreements. James has been recognized by Chambers & Partners as a leading copyright and trademark lawyer for the past 16 years. He is a sought-after speaker and an active committee member on intellectual property for the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the New York Bar Association.

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.