Avocats – United States

Joseph Schuster

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Joseph Seliga

Partner

Mayer Brown

Joseph Serino

Joseph Serino, Jr. is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, with more than 50 bench and jury trials, administrative law trials, and arbitrations tried to verdict or final award. He is also recognized by Chambers USA 2022 in both Litigation: Securities and General Commercial: The Elite. He has a diverse litigation practice, including securities, antitrust, complex commercial, bankruptcy, and arbitration matters on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. According to Chambers USA, clients regard Joseph as a “great trial lawyer who has command of every aspect of a case,” and whose “presence and composure in court is exceptional.” Joseph was also named a 2018 Law360 MVP for Banking, where he was the only litigator named in the category. AML’s VerdictSearch has twice recognized Joseph for having Top 100 verdicts in the country. Joseph has litigated on behalf of numerous companies, including broker-dealers, investment banks, private equity sponsors, venture capital concerns, and hedge funds, as well as chapter 11 debtors and creditors, in a wide array of matters in courts and tribunals throughout the US and abroad.

Latham & Watkins

Joseph Silver

Partner; US Chair and Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Private Equity Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Joseph Smith

Joseph A. Smith represents private equity fund sponsors in connection with fund formation, the acquisition of portfolio investments and the implementation of exit strategies. In this capacity, Joe advises clients on securities, governance, ERISA, Investment Advisers Act and structural issues. He has extensive regulatory expertise, and wide-ranging experience with all alternative asset classes, including LBO funds, venture capital and later-stage growth equity funds, energy and infrastructure funds, credit funds, real estate funds and joint ventures, fund restructurings and other complex secondary transactions, and funds of funds. Joe has also represented many fund managers in connection with spinoffs and consolidations. In addition to domestic representations, Joe has advised private equity clients in connection with the acquisition and structuring of portfolio investments throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia. His representation of asset managers in the real estate sector includes advice concerning REIT offerings and privatizations, partnership roll-ups and cross-border investments. Joe’s clients include Arel Capital, Coller Capital, DRA Advisors, DuPont Capital Management, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, GE Asset Management (now State Street Global Advisors), Harbert Management Corporation, Hemisfério Sul Investimentos, Intel, Investors Diversified Realty, Kotak Mahindra Group, LCN Capital Partners, Mauá Capital, Ram Realty Services, REAL Infrastructure Partners, Royalton Partners, Value4Capital, VCFA Group, Vortus Investments and Westport Capital Partners. Joe has been recognized as a leading practitioner by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, The Legal 500 US and New York Super Lawyers. Most recently, Joe was quoted by Private Equity International in the article “LPAs: Finding the Right Balance” and by Private Funds Management in the article “Ringing the Changes.” Joe co-authored the “United States Fundraising” chapter in The Private Equity Review (Law Business Research Ltd.) and he contributed to the Fund Formation and Incentives Report (Private Equity International in association with SRZ).

McDermott Will & Schulte

Joseph Smith

Bartlit Beck LLP

Joseph Soliman

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Joseph Soltis

Partner

Freshfields

Joseph Sorkin

Joseph Sorkin is a trial attorney who has consistently achieved favorable results for clients in a wide range of settings, including federal and state courts around the country, as well as arbitrations. Joseph regularly represents clients engaged in contentious disputes related to corporate restructuring and handles a full range of contested matters and adversarial proceedings in complex Chapter 11 proceedings. To learn more about Joseph, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/joseph-l-sorkin.html

Akin

Joseph Sulzbach

Joseph Sulzbach | Morrison Foerster Joe Sulzbach is a partner in the Transactions Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Joe has represented numerous public and private entities in a variety of transactions, including domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. He has advised a broad range of clients across industries, including technology, media, and telecom (TMT), industrial, chemicals, consumer goods and retail, energy, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and real estate.

Morrison Foerster

Joseph Tagliaferro III

Consulting attorney

Withers

Joseph Theis

Partner

Goodwin

Joseph Thompson

Joe Thompson handles complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a primary emphasis on oil and gas related disputes. He is Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and serves as a member of the Board’s Oil and Gas Advisory Commission. Joe has tried and arbitrated disputes ranging from prospect generation fights in the Eagle Ford Shale to disputes involving exploration joint ventures in the Middle East. He has represented clients in connection with oil and gas operations in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming. Joe also has significant experience in insurance related matters, unfair competition, and business-related torts, as well as personal injury and product liability matters.

Porter Hedges LLP

Joseph Tootle

Joseph Tootle is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Joseph advises clients on the tax aspects of a wide range of matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, REITs and real estate transactions. He has a special emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. He also advises private equity clients on the tax aspects of raising closed and open-ended investment funds, including in the real estate and real estate credit space, and on GP stakes investments, liquidity solutions and continuation vehicle transactions. Joseph has advised many of the large investment fund sponsors, including Apax, Blackstone, Brookfield, Cinven, CVC, EQT, Global Infrastructure Partners, KKR, Lone Star Funds and Silver Lake. Joseph is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a “Next Generation Partner.”

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Joseph Topolski

For more than 25 years, Joe Topolski has helped banks, captive finance companies, independent specialty finance companies, private equity and hedge funds, and other financial entities obtain financing for their portfolios of consumer and commercial loans and other financial assets. Finance companies in a wide range of industries, including automotive, commercial equipment, marketplace lending and small business lending, rely on Joe's broad knowledge of the market to help them obtain cost effective, efficient and innovative solutions to their financing needs. Joe understands the importance to all parties in getting the deal done, and is well-known for his ability to come up with practical solutions and proactively manage the process to ensure smooth transaction execution. In addition to spending over two decades as outside counsel, Joe also spent a portion of his career as in-house counsel for a leading captive finance company. As a result, he has unique insights into issues facing finance companies beyond the immediate financing transaction, as well as the issues that concern their counterparties in the transaction. These insights, coupled with his years of experience, mean he can spot and avoid roadblocks that could otherwise cause delays. Joe's clients range from large public companies doing $1 to $2 billion financings to smaller private companies doing $50 to $100 million financings, involving a wide range of asset classes, including auto loans and leases, dealer floorplan finance loans, equipment loans and leases, small business loans and merchant cash advances, litigation and medical finance loans, and personal loans. Because he has worked with a wide variety of asset classes, Joe is able to use concepts for different sectors of the structured finance market to develop innovative solutions for his clients.

Katten

Joseph Turzi

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Joseph V. Mauch

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Joseph W. Bain

Partner

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Joseph Willey

Tracking the multitude of laws that govern the health care field can overwhelm any hospital system or other provider. As a former attorney with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Joseph Willey helps health care providers identify issues of concern and find workable solutions. When problems arise, he's skilled at litigating a range of claims, including reimbursement disputes. In recent years, he has recouped more than $320 million in additional Medicare reimbursement for hospitals. Reimbursements are the life blood of most hospital systems and health care providers. Joe's thorough understanding of the intricacies of the Medicare and Medicaid systems allows him to take aggressive yet grounded positions in disputes. He has convinced courts to dismiss enormous government claims against his clients and has settled other matters for a small fraction of the amount the government sought. His clients rely on him for guidance related to fraud and abuse matters, saying, "Joseph Willey is commended for his 'truly encyclopedic knowledge of Medicaid and Medicare law'" (Chambers USA). Joe's decades of experience allows him to provide clients with clear roadmaps through the complex regulatory landscape. He advises on federal anti-kickback and physician self-referral laws and represents providers in investigations and litigation under the False Claims Act. He also represents providers in federal and state government audits and before administrative tribunals, including the Provider Reimbursement Review Board. Clients also turn to him to help devise business strategies for their health care operations.

Katten

Joseph Wolfe

Associate

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Joseph Z. Fleming

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Joseph Zavaglia

Joseph D. Zavaglia is Cravath's Head of Leveraged Finance North America. He is a generalist corporate lawyer with more than 20 years of experience advising public and private companies and financial institutions across multiple disciplines, including IPOs and other capital markets transactions; leveraged loans (broadly syndicated and direct) and other complex financing arrangements; activism defense (shareholder and debtholder) and other liability management transactions; corporate governance and other Board of Director matters; public company reporting and other SEC matters; and joint ventures, acquisitions and other M&A transactions.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Joseph Zujkowski

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Josh Archer

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP