Avocats – United States

Jan-Philip (JP) Kernisan

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Jana Kovich

Jana Kovich advises life sciences and technology startups and venture capital investors on a full range of transactional and operational matters across the company lifecycle. Market-savvy and technically skilled, Jana leverages trusted relationships and creative pragmatism to guide emerging and growth companies on: Company formation and structuring Corporate governance and investor relations Venture capital raising, from seed stage through late-growth equity Day-to-day corporate advice Mergers and acquisitions Exit strategy and initial public offerings US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and compliance She partners with founders, management, and investors to develop a sophisticated understanding of their long-term business objectives. Jana distills complex legal concepts into actionable commercial advice across high-growth sectors, helping clients flourish at all stages of the venture lifecycle. Her work encompasses dozens of venture capital, growth equity, and exit transactions every year, across a wide range of geographies. A recognized thought leader, Jana lectures on a variety of topics related to venture capital issues, including at Duke University School of Law and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Jana actively contributes to Latham’s recruiting, mentoring, diversity, and training and development programs, and is a former leader of the Chicago Women’s Lawyers Group. She is an auxiliary board member of the Center for Conflict Resolution Chicago, a not-for-profit helping individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions resolve conflict through mediation. She maintains an active pro bono practice, including general corporate governance work on behalf of A Better Chicago, a venture philanthropy that invests in the nonprofits helping Chicago children escape poverty.

Latham & Watkins

Jane Engelhardt

Jane Engelhardt is the head of the primary investor-side practice. She is a partner and a member of the Investment Management and Private Equity Groups, as well as a leader of the Private Fund Transactions Group. Her practice involves a wide variety of private equity and venture funds and focuses on representations of clients in connection with primary investments and secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, and “stapled” primary and secondary transactions, fund structured co-investments, anchor/seed investments and platform arrangements. Her clients include Citigroup, HarbourVest Partners, The Ford Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Liberty Mutual Insurance, The Nature Conservancy, PSP Investments, Prudential Insurance Company, Sequoia Capital, Silk Road Fund, Pantheon Ventures, OMERS and Zurich Alternative Asset Management as well as sovereign wealth funds and family offices. Ms. Engelhardt is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Global (2023) and Chambers USA (2023), where clients note that she is “analytical and practical while providing a great market perspective.” Sources say she is “a total superstar,” “one of the best in the industry,” “amazing” and “her depth of knowledge is very thorough, she’s very practical and her customer service is great.” She has also been described as a “very experienced campaigner who makes points with vigor and makes a very sound legal argument.” Ms. Engelhardt joined the firm in 1996. She received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1996, where she was a Stone Scholar all three years, and an M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature. Ms. Engelhardt received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jane Ernst

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jane Goldstein

co-head of the Mergers & Acquisitions group for North America and Co-Managing partner of the Boston office; Head of the Retail & Consumer Brands industry group

Ropes & Gray LLP

Jane Hinton

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Jane Love

Jane M. Love, Ph.D. is a partner and Chair of the Life Sciences and the Intellectual Property Litigation practices at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. Dr. Love is resident in the New York office. Jane is a first chair trial lawyer focusing exclusively on intellectual property life sciences litigation. Over the past 20 years, Jane has been extensively involved in all aspects of patent litigation, including (both bench and jury) trials and appeals to the Federal Circuit. She has been lead counsel in numerous patent cases in federal district courts as well as before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jane most frequently litigates Hatch-Waxman cases and biologics cases, including fast-paced preliminary injunction matters. Jane also provides strategic patent advice to public and private clients and in the context of corporate transactions. Jane has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell Medical School in Pharmacology before attending law school. She served as a Captain, and Company Commander, in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Service Corp from 1991 to 1997.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Jane Macon

Jane Macon focuses her practice on public finance and administrative law, public and private partnerships, real estate, civil litigation, zoning, platting, condemnation and municipal bonds.

Bracewell LLP

Jane Metcalf

Jane Metcalf is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation department. Her practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on class action defense, advertising disputes, unfair competition, and data privacy and security. Jane’s diverse client base includes cutting-edge financial technology firms; Fortune 500 companies in the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and home care industries; financial services firms; and national retailers. While her primary focus is advertising litigation and class action defense, she has a broad range of experience in complex commercial litigation. She has represented clients in civil enforcement proceedings and commercial disputes throughout the United States, and her trial experience includes serving as lead trial counsel to a multinational consumer goods company in a breach of contract dispute with a vendor.

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Jane Ross

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Jane Willis

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Jane Wise

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Janene Marasciullo

Principal

Offit Kurman

Janet Andolina

Partner

Goodwin

Janet Hickson

Partner

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP

Janet Kim

Janet Kim focuses on outbound trade compliance issues that arise under US economic sanctions, export control laws, investment restrictions, antiboycott regulations, anti-money laundering laws and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She represents and advises US and non-US companies in criminal and regulatory proceedings, internal investigations, and compliance audits relating to these areas of law. She also advises on the extraterritorial application of these laws in cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, and other international commercial activities. Her practice includes the development and implementation of workable, risk-based internal compliance programs and procedures for companies in a wide range of industries. Janet currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Firm’s International Commercial Practice Group and has been with the Washington, DC office since 1994.

Baker McKenzie

Janet Lee

Senior Counsel, Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

Linklaters LLP

Janet McCrae

Partner and New York office Hiring Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Janet McDavid

Senior Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Janet Vance

Janet's experience includes representation of private equity sponsors, funds, public and private corporate borrowers and lenders with respect to secured and unsecured lending transactions, senior and subordinated debt financings, first lien/second lien transactions, subscription facilities, mezzanine loans, high-yield notes, loan syndications, restructurings and other credit and banking matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Janet Xiao

Partner

Morrison Foerster

Janette McMahan

Janette McMahan is a partner in the Structured Finance & Structured Private Credit Practice Group in Kirkland’s New York office. She has significant experience in auto loan, auto lease, marketplace loan and trade receivables transactions. Additionally, Janette has represented clients in single-family rental deals, whole business securitizations, equipment financings, health care receivables transactions, restructurings, investments and acquisitions. Janette has worked with ABS sponsors in drafting comment letters on regulatory reform since 2010, including on Regulation AB II, shelf eligibility, loan level disclosures and risk retention. She has given numerous presentations to ABS sponsors and underwriters on these new rules. Janette was the lead outside counsel on the second effective Regulation AB II shelf. This shelf was declared effective prior to all other shelves other than one SEC pilot program issuer shelf.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Janice M. Schneider

Janice M. Schneider is the former Global Co-Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Practice. She draws on more than 30 years of experience on environmental and natural resource issues. Prior to rejoining Latham, Janice served as Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management for the US Department of the Interior where she oversaw four Interior Department agencies: the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), and the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), including more than 12,000 employees and a combined budget of US$1.5 billion. As Assistant Secretary, she oversaw the Department’s management and use of federal lands, waters, and mineral and non-mineral resources on about 245 million acres of federal surface lands, 700 million acres of federal mineral interests, and the 1.7 billion acre Outer Continental Shelf, successfully completing an extensive array of agency rules and initiatives. She was confirmed by the US Senate in May 2014. Prior to joining the US Department of the Interior, Janice was a partner in Latham’s Environment, Land & Resources Department, served as Chair of the department in Washington, D.C., and served as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Project Siting & Approvals Practice where she handled a broad range of matters in federal court and before federal agencies, members of Congress, and its staff. Before that she served as Counselor to the Deputy Secretary of Interior, a trial attorney at the US Department of Justice in the Wildlife Section, and in the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor in the Division of Indian Affairs and the Honors Program. Her experience includes: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Endangered Species Act (ESA) and other wildlife laws Federal Land Policy and Management Act and National Forest Management Act Mineral Leasing Act Mining laws Clean Water Act Tribal and cultural resource issues Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) Janice has extensive experience guiding clients to successful outcomes in the energy and infrastructure development sector both onshore and offshore. She works across the energy spectrum, including renewable solar and wind energy, battery storage, hydropower, oil and gas, LNG,coal, hydrogen, carbon capture, pipeline and transmission line development, licensing, operation,and compliance; the minerals and mining sector; and public land, national forest, American Indian land, national wildlife refuge, and national park use and management. Janice is a first-chair litigator handling cases in the federal district and appellate courts and is well versed in federal policy development and legislative and regulatory activities, including working effectively with states and local government and industry, tribal, and non-governmental stakeholders; analysis and drafting of legislative language and testimony; preparing and commenting on rules; and other agency initiatives. She is a frequent public speaker and has testified before Congress numerous times. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Before entering the legal field, Janice worked for six years as a biologist and consultant with the National Park Service, University of Miami, Florida Department of Transportation, and a private firm.

Latham & Watkins

Janice Mac Avoy

Janice Mac Avoy is a member of both the Real Estate Department and the Litigation Department, co-head of the Real Estate Litigation Practice and a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee. Janice concentrates her practice in complex real estate-related transactions and disputes, commercial litigation and arbitration, partnership and joint venture disputes, complex commercial landlord tenant disputes and commercial fair market rent arbitrations. She also has extensive experience in creditor's rights, including complex commercial real estate mortgage foreclosures and UCC foreclosures, intercreditor disputes, workouts and restructuring of real estate loans. Janice works to resolve issues without resorting to litigation, but if litigation is inevitable, Chambers USA described her as "the best real estate litigator in New York."

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP