Avocats – United States

Joe Cohen

Joe Cohen leads the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and is ranked nationally by Chambers USA among the leading lawyers for Product Liability & Mass Torts. His practice focuses on handling the defense of catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases arising from allegations of products liability (including pharmaceuticals and medical devices), chemical and substance exposure, general negligence, and commercial litigation. Joe has successfully tried cases to verdict and engaged in extensive motion practice, including complex summary judgment issues and intricate challenges to experts in a variety of disciplines. He has handled matters in over 35 states and in multiple counties throughout the state of Texas. Joe also provides individual representation to employees (current and former) of pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and biotech companies in both civil and criminal contexts, including U.S. Department of Justice and State Attorneys General investigations. In particular, Joe has extensive experience representing these individuals as defendants and non-party witnesses in lawsuits, and as Witnesses and Subjects in governmental investigations, including preparing and presenting individuals for proffers and before grand juries. While Joe has represented these current and former employees across multiple divisions and at multiple levels within pharmaceutical and device companies, he has a particularly significant amount of experience representing individuals from the Sales and Marketing departments of those companies. In addition to his products liability practice, Joe handles disputes related to fraud, theft of trade secrets, non-competition matters, deceptive trade practices, breach of contract, commercial and residential lease disputes, and copyright and trademark infringement, including the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). He is currently a member of the IADC Board of Directors and a former National Director on the DRI Board of Directors.

Porter Hedges LLP

Joe Fernandez

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Joe Guay

Partner, Real Estate Section Leader

Holland & Knight

Joe Hall

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Joe Leavens

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Joe McCorkle

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Joe Morrel

Joe Morrel represents public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, as well as in general corporate matters and compliance with securities laws. He advises clients on acquiring and disposing of businesses through mergers, equity purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements (including out of Section 363 bankruptcy proceedings), and other forms of combination or exchange agreements. He also represents clients in negotiating and forming new companies and joint ventures, stockholder agreements, and LLC agreements. In addition, Joe prepares and reviews various commercial agreements, including supply, master services, confidentiality, licensing, employment, and consulting agreements. Joe’s experience with energy-related mergers and acquisitions includes asset and equity transactions involving oilfield services companies and equity transactions in the midstream and upstream segments. Joe serves as the Firm’s Hiring Partner leading the Recruiting Committee and is also a member of the Technology Committee.

Porter Hedges LLP

Joe Nguyen

Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Joe Pennell

Partner

Mayer Brown

Joe Robertson

Partner - Real Estate

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Joe Stefano

Partner; Head of DLA Piper's US Projects & Energy Group

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Joe Tomaselli

Partner, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP

Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP

Joe Watson

Partner

Holland & Knight

Joe Wetzel

Joe Wetzel is a trial lawyer who focuses on cutting-edge music and technology copyright issues, representing clients from emerging companies to the biggest household names. He serves as Co-Chair of Latham’s Bay Area Litigation Department. For twenty years, Joehas represented clients in trial and appellate courts in a variety of complex litigation matters. He also regularly counsels clients on various copyright and licensing issues faced by traditional and new media platforms. Joe is often recognized for his work in copyright law. He is ranked by Chambers USA and recommended in Copyright by The Legal 500 US. Billboard magazine has named him a Top Music Lawyer for five years running. And he was named to the inaugural LawDragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors. Law360, Benchmark Litigation, and The Daily Journal have also all recognized Joe's litigation work in intellectual property, media, and entertainment.

Latham & Watkins

Joe Zujkowski

Joe Zujkowski is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization practice group. Joe represents debtors, ad hoc creditor groups, and individual creditors in in-court and out-of-court restructurings and in executing complicated financing transactions. Recognized as a rising star by a number of publications, Joe has extensive experience in restructurings across a variety of industries including retail, energy, transportation, gaming, healthcare, and real estate.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Joel C. Beauvais

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Joel Cavanaugh

Joel Cavanaugh advises clients on complex securities regulatory and compliance matters. Joel leverages extensive federal government experience to help asset managers and both registered and unregistered funds — including private equity funds, open- and closed-end mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and business development companies — navigate: SEC examinations, investigations, and enforcement proceedings Seeking and obtaining exemptive and no-action relief from the SEC Investment company status issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940 Investment adviser status, registration, and reporting issues under the Investment Advisers Act Before joining Latham & Watkins, Joel served as Senior Counsel in the Chief Counsel’s Office of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, where he advised the Divisions of Enforcement and Examinations on issues arising under the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act. Before joining the Chief Counsel’s Office, Joel was Senior Counsel in the Division of Investment Management’s Investment Company Regulation Office and played a key role in the proposal and adoption of several significant SEC rules under the Investment Company Act.

Latham & Watkins

Joel Cohen

Partner

White & Case LLP

Joel D. Maser

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Joel Ephross

Joel N. Ephross, P.C. practices in the area of corporate law with an emphasis on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and energy. He has structured debt transactions, including project finance; real estate lending; leveraged and non-leveraged lease financings; structured finance; asset securitization; bankruptcies and reorganizations; letters of credit; and credit enhanced transactions. He has worked in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leases, acquisitions and divestitures, mortgages and easements. Mr. Ephross has substantial experience in all aspects of energy and natural resources, including transactions involving mining, upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas assets; merchant electric generation facilities; and energy commodity trading, and include acquisitions and divestitures of assets and companies, joint venture arrangements, structured finance, leveraged finance, project development and project finance. He has experience in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including advising buyers and sellers on CFIUS-related issues.

Duane Morris LLP

Joel Green

Deputy Managing Partner Co-Chair, Congressional Investigations Practice

WilmerHale

Joel Grosberg

Joel R. Grosberg is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and assists clients on civil and criminal antitrust matters, including obtaining merger clearances, counseling and litigation. He has represented clients in obtaining antitrust approvals in numerous challenging transactions, and in other government antitrust investigations before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and foreign competition authorities. Joel has significant experience in the high tech, chemical, health care and life sciences industries, including counseling on matters related to pricing and distribution practices and other competition-related issues. Joel is consistently recognized in Chambers USA and was ranked as a leading antitrust lawyer in The Legal 500 United States and SuperLawyers. Chambers USA reports that Joel has “notable agency experience at the FTC,” and is “very knowledgeable…on merger related work.” Earlier in his career, Joel was an attorney with the FTC’s Bureau of Competition (Mergers II), where he handled a full range of antitrust matters involving the chemical, computer hardware semiconductor, automotive parts, plastics, toy and paper industries.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Joel H. Trotter

Joel Trotter is the Co-Chair of the National Office, a central resource for clients and Latham lawyers facing complex issues arising under the US securities laws. Joel has successfully guided public companies of all sizes, from Fortune 100 to emerging growth companies, through major transactions, bet-the-company corporate crises, and regulatory matters. He served previously as Global Co-Chair of the Public Company Representation practice and, for 10 years, as Co-Chair of the Corporate Department in Washington, D.C. Members of Congress credited Joel, in a 2023 hearing, as “a leading member of the IPO Task Force” and “a principal author of the IPO-related provisions” of the JOBS Act of 2012, enacted by a nearly unanimous Congress to reform the IPO process. The Wall Street Journal described Joel’s role in having “advised Congress on the 2012 legislation,” and his views on securities regulation have appeared in Bloomberg, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. Joel has testified repeatedly before Congress on the federal securities laws, and his publications include contributions to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal against overzealous SEC enforcement, “Nothing to Fear From the SEC?” (October 2015).

Latham & Watkins

Joel Haims

Joel C. Haims focuses his practice on securities litigation, including class actions, shareholder derivative cases, and corporate control litigation, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations. He regularly represents public companies and their officers, directors, and board committees in cases before trial and appellate courts throughout the country and in mediation to facilitate settlement. He defends clients across a diverse range of industries and has extensive experience representing foreign-based companies in US securities litigation. He is also frequently called upon by boards and senior executives to advise on directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance coverage. Joel also has extensive experience litigating complex commercial cases, including commercial real estate disputes and bankruptcies. For example, he has represented clients, including secured lenders, property owners, developers, and loan participants, in state and federal courts on a wide range of issues, including contractual matters such as buy-sell agreements and security enforcement, and recovering secured or unsecured assets. In addition, Joel has extensive experience litigating religious rights cases, particularly under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). For example, he served as lead trial counsel for the Westchester Day School in its landmark litigation against the Village of Mamaroneck and its Zoning Board of Appeals under RLUIPA, and he successfully defended the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in a religious discrimination lawsuit.

McDermott Will & Schulte