Avocats – United States

Janice Ryan

Venable LLP

Janicelynn Asamoto Park

Janicelynn Asamoto Park is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. She counsels fund sponsors and their investors as to the tax and economic considerations relating to forming, operating, and investing in private investment funds, co-investment vehicles, and other investment partnerships across asset classes. Janicelynn also regularly advises investors and sponsors in buy-side and sell-side secondary transactions (including in connection with GP-led fund restructurings). Her practice also includes advising on domestic and cross-border financings and investments, inbound and outbound private mergers and acquisitions, and equity-compensation arrangements. Janicelynn currently serves on the board of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a not-for-profit organization that partners with physicians to promote early literacy in low-income communities. Before joining Proskauer, Janicelynn served as a law clerk for the Honorable Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a youth development volunteer in Honduras with the U.S. Peace Corps.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Janine Carlan

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Janine Durand

​Janine Durand is a Senior Counsel in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and a member of the firm’s Energy, Regulation & Litigation and Energy & Infrastructure Groups.​ Janine's practice involves the representation of clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). She represents businesses engaged in the development and management of energy transmission and generation, including merchant transmission projects, and renewable energy. Janine has represented and advised independent power producers, electric power marketers, merchant transmission developers, interstate pipelines, local distribution companies and utilities in connection with a wide range of regulatory, administrative litigation and transactional matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Jared Axelrod

Jared Axelrod, a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a co-head of the Structured Capital & Insurance Solutions team, leads the Firm’s collateralized loan obligation (CLO) platform. Jared advises clients on negotiating and structuring CLOs and other complex securitizations and has nearly a decade of experience advising clients within the sector. He has advised domestic and international asset managers and issuers across a wide variety of CLO transactions, as well as other complex structured credit financing arrangements, including private credit securitizations, rated note feeders and insurance solution products. Jared has extensive experience in the various regulatory regimes applicable to securitizations, including U.S. and EU Risk Retention Rules, the Volcker Rule and the Investment Advisers Act. He has also leveraged his significant experience in rating agency methodology to assist clients in developing novel rated securitization structures. Jared also works closely with the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group where he advises sponsors on the formation of CLO equity funds and other credit funds, as well as continuation credit fund transactions in the private funds secondary market.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jared Bartie

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/b/bartie-jared

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Jared E. Joyce-Schleimer

Jared Joyce-Schleimer advises borrowers, sponsors, lenders and investors in financing major energy and infrastructure projects at all stages of the project lifecycle. He has covered conventional and renewable power and storage projects, as well as data centers, oil and gas, ports, satellites, toll roads and water. He advises on a range of financing structures, including development and construction financings and traditional project finance, portfolio financings, direct lending, term loan B financings, syndicated debt financings, subordinated and mezzanine financings, private placements and project bonds, sustainable finance, acquisition finance and M&A, and restructurings. He has also represented debtors and creditors in restructuring matters. His matters have included material legal work in over 40 jurisdictions.

Bracewell LLP

Jared Fertman

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/f/fertman-jared

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Jared Gerber

Jared Gerber’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on securities litigation and other actions filed by shareholders. Jared has frequently litigated claims under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, the Investment Advisors Act, the Williams Act, state blue sky laws, and the common law in both federal and state courts, and at both the trial and appellate levels.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Jared Kagan

Jared Kagan is a counsel in the firm’s Intellectual Property group. His practice includes litigation and counselling on trademark, false advertising, copyright, and defamation matters, and has litigated cases in both state and federal court, before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and before the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jared Kessler

Winston Taylor

Jared Ruocco

Jared is a founding partner of Elsberg Baker & Maruri. He is an experienced trial lawyer specializing in complex commercial litigation. Jared has successfully litigated a wide array of commercial matters, including shareholder and corporate governance disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, “busted” M&A transactions, commercial contract disputes, fraud claims, business torts, and employment disputes. Jared has represented clients in a diverse mix of industries, including private equity, commercial real estate, pharmaceuticals, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, software, consumer product wholesale and distribution, and startups. Jared regularly appears before federal and state courts across the country and has represented clients in several confidential arbitrations before JAMS, AAA, and FINRA. Jared has extensive experience litigating in the Delaware Court of Chancery and has successfully represented clients in a number of matters there, including through trial. In addition to his legal practice, Jared also served as a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School where he taught courses related to litigation practice. ‍Representative Matters Won trial victory after one-week bench trial in Delaware Court of Chancery in the first COVID-era busted deal case in which the client sought to walk away from a $6 billion deal. In addition to being released from deal, client obtained full recovery of its $600 million+ deposit and was awarded its full attorneys’ fees and costs. Affirmed on appeal by the Delaware Supreme Court in an opinion setting the precedent on ordinary course covenants in deal documents. Obtained complete plaintiff’s jury verdict with punitive damages in the US District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of renowned entrepreneur and chemist, Dr. Anton Toutov, in a multi-million shareholder dispute concerning the attempts by Dr. Toutov’s co-venturers to freeze him out of their lab testing company, KorvaLabs. Jared was recognized for this decisive trial victory by the American Lawyer in its “Litigator of the Week” publication. Currently representing beneficial family shareholders in a corporate governance dispute concerning several companies in a nationwide network of beer distributorships known as the “Sheehan Family Companies.” The case involves numerous claims and counterclaims, including breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment. Representing renowned investment bank in a fee dispute concerning $300+ million equity financing transaction. Successfully represented trust beneficiaries in removing the trustee of their donative trust, which holds over $100 million in trust assets, through a summary proceeding in the Massachusetts Superior Court, Business Litigation Session. Represented Lion Copolymer Holdings LLC and its controlling shareholder in defending a suit brought by several minority shareholders in the Delaware Court of Chancery related to a contested multi-million dollar capital raise. Represented Menalto Advisors LLC in a Delaware Superior Court action against a former client regarding a multi-million-dollar investment banking fee on a complex M&A transaction. Represented a market leading Amazon brand aggregator in multi-million-dollar arbitration regarding breaches of representations and warranties and disputed inventory liabilities arising from complex M&A transaction. Represented an advanced stage startup in multiple disputes with M&A counterparties in matters concerning millions of dollars in contested earnout payments. Represented a healthcare technology startup in multiple disputes with former advisors to the company who demanded equity in the company. Represented a pharmaceutical research and development company in contract dispute adverse to company retained to market innovative chemotherapy antidote on the pharmaceutical company’s behalf. Represented Skype co-founder against claims for breach of contract and tortious interference relating to a series of private investment funds. After motion practice challenging personal jurisdiction and seeking dismissal of the claims, successfully obtained stay of all discovery and the matter settled on confidential terms.

Elsberg Baker & Maruri PLLC

Jared Rusman

Jared Rusman’s practice spans all aspects of corporate and partnership tax matters, with a particular emphasis on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, divestitures, spin-offs and split-offs for public and private companies.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jared Sorin

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Jared W. Newton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Jared Wilner

Jared Wilner is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, where he leads the Firm’s insurance transactional and regulatory team. He has extensive experience advising domestic and international insurers, reinsurers, investors and other industry participants on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reinsurance transactions, and capital raising transactions. His work also spans related regulatory compliance and corporate governance issues, as well as bespoke investment structures designed to meet the needs of insurers and asset managers. Prior to private practice, Jared served at the New York State Department of Financial Services, and later as corporate counsel at Prudential Insurance’s life and annuities business units.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Jared Zola

Jared Zola is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice, formerly the insurance practice of Dickstein Shapiro LLP. One of the nation’s preeminent policyholder trial lawyers, his work litigating high-stakes cases across the country for blue chip corporate clients has earned him consistent praise. Recent accolades include: Jared was recently named one of the “Top 500 Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon. He is also ranked highly in insurance based on client feedback, including by Chambers USA (Nationwide and New York), as a Legal 500 “Leading Lawyer” (one of seven nationally in the Insurance Policyholder category), and in Benchmark Litigation. Lexology, Inc. named him the 2020 “Exclusive Winner of the Client Choice Award for Insurance & Reinsurance for the USA” (finalists can only be nominated by corporate counsel). The New York Law Journal named Jared a “New York Trailblazer” in its inaugural list (the only insurance lawyer across all practices). In its most recent editions, Who’s Who Legal named Jared a “Global Leader” and a “Thought Leader.” Before Jared turned 40 years old, Law360 named him a “Top Attorney Under 40” in four consecutive years for his work on behalf of insurance policyholders—he is the only attorney to ever be named a “Rising Star” more than once in the insurance category. Jared is a Fellow of the invitation-only American College of Coverage Counsel. Jared is a frequent analyst for the Financial Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News, Business Insurance, Insurance Business America, and Law360. For more information about Mr. Zola, please click here to view his full biography

Blank Rome LLP

Jaren Janghorbani

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jarod Taylor

Counsel

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Jarred Reiling

Of Counsel

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Jarret Hitchings

Counsel - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jarrett Arp

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Jarrett Hale

Partner and Co-Chair of the firm's Financial Service Litigation and Compliance Practice Group

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Jarrett S. Taubman

jarretttaubman@lwcom

Latham & Watkins