Avocats – United States

Jeffrey P. Doss

Partner

Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC

Jeffrey P. Dunning

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Jeffrey Parker

Jeff Parker is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. He is a trial attorney who has specialized for over 30 years in complex commercial, products liability, and environmental litigation, as well as environmental law and counseling. He is based in Los Angeles, but routinely handles matters in state and federal courts throughout California and federal courts in other states. Prior to practicing law, Jeff worked as an aerospace engineer on the design team for the U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft. Jeff draws on his three decades of experience and technical background to quickly understand his clients' businesses and goals, develop strategies to guide them through disputes to achieve the best results, and advocate for them at trial and appeal. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including energy, petroleum, chemicals, aerospace & defense, aviation, real estate, construction, mining, asphalt and aggregate production, manufacturing, food and beverage, in-store and online retail, cosmetics, apparel, and consumer products. Jeff was named by Best Lawyers as the 2020 and 2024 "Lawyer of the Year" for Environmental Litigation in Los Angeles and has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer by Chambers USA, a Recommended Lawyer by Legal500, and a Best Lawyer in America by Best Lawyers.

Sheppard

Jeffrey Patt

Jeffrey Patt represents entrepreneurs, high-growth companies and the investors who invest in these companies. Jeff regularly handles complex and strategic financial M&A transactions and recapitalizations, serves as board and special committee counsel in going-private and related-party transactions, and represents management teams and executives in change in control transactions. Jeff represents a wide range of clients in a variety of corporate matters, including public and private capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. He has been recognized by The Legal 500 US and Chambers USA for his middle-market M&A practice for the past several years and, more recently, by Chambers USA for his work with startups and emerging companies. According to Chambers USA, clients say Jeff "finds pragmatic solutions to complex problems and convinces the other side that is the right approach." Clients rely on Jeff's candor and efficient problem-solving. Jeff regularly speaks on a range of topics, including corporate governance and structuring considerations, stockholders' agreements, appraisal rights and remedies, and incenting and retaining management and key employees. Jeff has served as a judge for the Loyola Family Business Center's annual Illinois Family Business of the Year awards. He also is a member of the advisory board to the Chicago office of BBVA Compass. Since 2006, Jeff has been an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, teaching a mergers and acquisitions class as part of the LLM program in International and Comparative Law. Additionally, Jeff serves on the alumni board for The Chicago-Kent Law Review, and Jeff's contributions to his alma mater were recognized with a Distinguished Service Award in 2018. Jeff is the co-author of a book on stockholders' agreements.

Katten

Jeffrey Pawlitz

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Jeffrey Perry

Co-Chair of Weil’s US antitrust practice

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Jeffrey Poss

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Jeffrey Price

Special Counsel, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Jeffrey Quinn

Jeffrey Quinn is a partner in Kirkland's employee benefits practice in the Chicago office. His practice is principally concentrated in the areas of employee benefits, ERISA and tax issues, and corporate transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Jeffrey R. Recher

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jeffrey R. Wolters

Morris Nichols partner Jeff Wolters counsels corporations, boards of directors and investors on Delaware law. His practice ranges from advising venture-backed companies to counseling public company boards and board committees. He has been “Delaware counsel” to hundreds of public and private Delaware companies over the years and many of the leading VC and PE funds. Jeff also provides formal legal opinions on Delaware corporate law and related matters under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

Jeffrey Robins

Norton Rose Fulbright

Jeffrey Robins

His practice focuses on representing broker-dealers, swap dealers, banks, securities exchanges, industry associations and buy-side institutions in regulatory and transactional matters. Throughout his career, Mr. Robins has carved out a reputation as a leading broker-dealer and derivatives lawyer with a sophisticated practice. He has substantial experience helping clients navigate registration, margin, capital, custody, and sales and trading issues, cross-border transactions, structuring transactions using multiple regulated entities, the development of compliance and supervisory policies and procedures, the regulatory characterization of securities and derivatives transactions and a number of other regulatory issues. He also has extensive transactional experience in bilateral financing and derivatives transactions, particularly those that are heavily regulated.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen, Senior Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department, is one of the leading M&A lawyers in New York. Mr. Rosen is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Capital Markets Groups. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, his practice has focused on complex joint ventures, restructurings and securities offerings, and corporate governance matters. He also counsels boards and senior management on critical governance issues, including risk management, activist challenges and restructurings.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Jeffrey Rosenthal

Jeffrey A. Rosenthal is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosenthal’s practice focuses on general commercial and international arbitration and litigation, as well as sports law. Mr. Rosenthal has represented numerous foreign and domestic entities before a wide variety of judicial and arbitral bodies, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, and a number of federal and state courts. He has tried or arbitrated cases through merits hearings concerning international joint venture disputes, intellectual property, sports contract disputes, maritime issues, bankruptcy, breaches of contract, insurance law, bilateral investment treaty disputes and tort law, among others. Mr. Rosenthal also routinely advises several leading financial institutions with regard to actual or potential litigation issues concerning complex financial products including derivative transactions under ISDA master agreements, repurchase agreements and subprime-related matters.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Jeffrey Ross

Jeffrey Ross is Chair of the firm’s Finance Group and a member of its Private Equity Group and Special Situations team. His practice focuses on complex acquisition and leveraged financings, such as the $15 billion merger of Envision Healthcare with AMSURG; Discovery, Inc. in the financing aspects of the acquisition of WarnerMedia from AT&T in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction that values the combined entity at approximately $130 billion; the $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital by Activision Blizzard; the $5.5 billion merger of Ply Gem, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, with NCI Building Systems; and the $4.1 billion acquisition of Kindred Healthcare by TPG and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. Mr. Ross publishes frequently on legal matters related to finance topics, including “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses the State of the LIBOR Transition,” Columbia Blue Sky Blog (August, 2021); “What’s Market: 2020 Mid-Year Trends in Large Cap and Middle Market Loans,” Practical Law (July, 2020); “Alternative Leveraged Lending Structures And Limitations,” Law360 (June, 2015); “SunGard 2.0,” The M&A Lawyer (2014); “Del Monte: Staple Remover?,” The Deal Pipeline (2012); and “Some Pitfalls In Financing Carve-Outs,” The Deal (2012). He is also a contributing author to the annual Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book (Practising Law Institute, 2019) and a former editor of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report. Mr. Ross is a guest lecturer on leveraged finance in a course entitled Private Equity Playbook at Cornell Law School and is co-chair for PLI’s Leveraged Financing and Private Equity Acquisition Financing Summit programs. Mr. Ross joined the firm in 2005 and became a partner in 2010. He received a J.D. cum laude from Cornell Law School in 1999, an M.A., first class honors, in International Relations from University of Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and a B.A. from Columbia University in 1995.

Sidley Austin LLP

Jeffrey Ross

Mr. Ross is an Executive Compensation & ERISA partner, chair of the department, resident in the Firm’s New York office. He focuses his practice on ERISA fiduciary matters, with particular emphasis on the application of ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules to the structuring, operation and administration of a wide range of private investment funds and investment management arrangements. He counsels extensively regarding ERISA’s “plan asset” regulation and routinely assists clients wishing to operate plan asset hedge funds in compliance with ERISA. More generally, he has experience with a broad variety of benefits and compensation matters and the numerous federal and state laws that govern the field. In this regard, he often assists in the negotiation of employment, non-competition and severance agreements as well as equity-based compensation arrangements. Clients also frequently call upon him to advise on the employee benefits and executive compensation matters arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions and related transactions.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Jeffrey Rotblat

Jeffrey Rotblat is a partner in Cadwalader's Capital Markets group. Jeffrey practices primarily in the area of commercial real estate securities representing financial institutions and real estate funds in their roles as issuers, loan sellers, underwriters and placement agents in both public and private offerings of mortgage-backed securities, CRE CLOs and other structured finance products. He also represents investment banks, specialty finance companies and investment funds structuring and negotiating mortgage loan trades, mortgage loan participations, subordinate loans and asset-backed securities. He also represents special servicers and specialty finance funds in work-outs and restructurings of non-performing commercial mortgage loans in CMBS and CRE CLO transactions. An active participant in CMBS industry trade organizations, Jeffrey often participates in panel presentations at industry conferences. He has been active on behalf of various CMBS industry trade groups in their communications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding legislation affecting the ABS industry.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Jeffrey Russell

Senior Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Jeffrey S. Gerchick

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Jeffrey S. Muñoz

Corporate Partner

Latham & Watkins

Jeffrey Saferstein

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Jeffrey Scharff

For 35 years, Jeff Scharff has helped clients resolve their critical real estate and structured financing issues and close their deals. He handles all aspects of acquisitions, including drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, loan documents (both conventional and tax-exempt bond financing), and partnership agreements with large national equity investors. In 20 years, he has closed acquisitions totaling almost $20 billion for one of the largest national multi-family operators. Jeff also represents large New York City-based developers on the financing of major multi-family and mixed-use projects involving bond financing. Jeff also represents owners of senior living facilities on acquisition and financing matters. In addition to the acquisition work on multi-family and senior living facilities, Jeff also works regularly on the acquisition and sale of office buildings. Jeff has also handled restructuring and disposition of distressed assets (mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, asset-backed securities and other asset types), including representing the Resolution Trust Corporation, lenders, underwriters and developers over the course of his career. He has also represented large national banks and pension funds on construction and permanent lending as well as equity investments, as well as significant experience on commercial leasing matters representing both landlords and tenants on a wide range of leases, including headquarters leases, more traditional office leases and data center leases.

Katten

Jeffrey Schatz

Jeffrey Schatz is a corporate partner resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Schatz’s practice focuses on asset management work and concentrates on advising investment managers and financial institutions on all aspects of the structuring and formation of domestic and offshore private equity funds, hedge funds, credit funds, GP stake funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and co-investment vehicles. He also advises fund sponsors on negotiating separately managed accounts and funds-of-one. Additionally, he regularly counsels a diverse client base on sponsor-led secondary transactions and the structuring and negotiation of carried interest and other internal economic arrangements.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP