Avocats – United States

Karen Kepler

Karen has a general commercial real estate development and finance practice representing owners, developers and financial institutions in construction, term and bridge financing transactions for all commercial real estate asset classes. She also leads the firm's Affordable Housing and Community Economic Development Group and has significant experience representing owners, developers, financial institutions and quasi-public agencies in HUD and Fannie Mae-financed developments, federal and state low income housing tax credit, historic tax credit and tax-exempt bond financed projects, New Markets Tax Credit developments and "Comprehensive Permit" projects under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40B. Karen also has extensive experience structuring complex, multi-tiered and multi-phased projects using creative land use tools such as condominiums, air-rights and ground leases. Karen is also co-chair of Sullivan's Women's Initiative and serves on the firm's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Karen King

Karen R. King has more than 20 years of experience in complex commercial litigation, BSA/AML and OFAC compliance and enforcement matters, securities litigation and regulation, internal investigations, and strategic advice. She is a skilled trial attorney and advocate, representing clients in numerous federal and state courts, including in jury and bench trials. She has also represented multiple global institutions before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Department of Financial Services, the Federal Reserve, FinCEN, OFAC, and FINRA. In March 2022, Karen argued the groundbreaking case, Golan v. Saada, before the U.S. Supreme Court. To listen to the audio recording, click here. In 2021, Karen was named a "Notable Woman in Law" by Crain's New York Business. She is also a recipient of the Federal Bar Council’s Thurgood Marshall Award for Exceptional Pro Bono Service and the Pro Bono award from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Her pro bono clients include Asian police officers, survivors of domestic violence, students with learning disabilities, and victims of gun violence. She serves as the Co-Chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and is a member of the Federal Bar Council and Second Circuit Pro Bono panel.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Karen Leviton

Litigation & Trial Of Counsel

Latham & Watkins

Karen Lovitch

Karen draws on her deep health care regulatory and enforcement experience to advise clients navigating complex and high-stakes matters across the health care and life sciences industries. She counsels clients on transactions and strategic growth initiatives, as well as government investigations, bringing a practical understanding of how business decisions may be examined by regulators over time. Clients value her ability to connect regulatory considerations with business objectives and to guide them through issues requiring both strategic judgment and technical precision. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Karen M. Lent

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Karen Potter

Karen G Potter Ph.D. | Morrison Foerster Karen Potter is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Life Sciences Patent group. Her practice focuses on patent preparation, prosecution, and strategic counseling for start‑up, emerging, and established life sciences and biotechnology companies. She advises clients in the development and management of comprehensive patent portfolios that match their scientific and business objectives. Karen also helps identify and evaluate patentability, ensure freedom to operate, and perform due diligence review of patent portfolios for clients, including investor-side and target-side due diligence. Building on her technical expertise in cellular and molecular biology and immunology, Karen has experience managing and developing patent portfolios in the areas of cell and gene therapies, including T-cell therapies, Natural Killer cell-based therapies, stem cell therapies and gene-based therapies; protein therapeutics such as immunotherapies, including antibody and protein-based therapies; virus therapies; companion diagnostics; and diagnostic assays and bioassays.

Morrison Foerster

Karen Ritter

Karen Ritter advises clients in various real estate transactions, including commercial mortgage loans, joint ventures, commercial dispositions and acquisitions, and development projects. Karen's finance experience includes commercial mortgage and mezzanine loan originations, and sale leaseback transactions. Karen also has experience with the real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate banking, secured high yield transactions, and corporate finance including the financing of coal mines, industrial plants, office buildings, and mixed-use projects. Karen also has assisted in the structuring of entities and performance of due diligence in connection with real estate transactions.

Latham & Watkins

Karen Silverman

Karen Silverman is a partner in the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. She is currently Co-chair of the firm's Information Technology: Systems & Solutions Industry Group and the former Office Managing Partner of the San Francisco office.

Latham & Watkins

Karen Steinberg Kennedy

Special Counsel, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Karen Turk

Partner

Goodwin

Karen Ubell

Partner

Goodwin

Karen Yates

Partner

Withers

Kari K. G. Chandler

Counsel

Latham & Watkins

Kari Krusmark

​Kari Krusmark is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the Corporate Transactions, Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions, and Technology Transactions practice groups. Kari's practice focuses on the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of transactions, including agreements for cloud services; information technology outsourcing (ITO) services; business process outsourcing (BPO) services; systems implementation and integration; application development, licensing and maintenance; consulting services; transitional services; strategic alliances; OEM and reseller arrangements; contract manufacturing; the purchase and sale of goods and services; and other technology-related matters. In the outsourcing area, she assists clients from the RFP stage through renegotiation, dispute resolution and termination. Her ITO experience includes application development and maintenance, infrastructure, end user computing, help desk and call center operations, IT security, and managed networks. Her BPO experience includes facilities management, finance and accounting, claims processing and other back-office functions, human resources, logistics and distribution, and procurement.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Kari Larsen

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Kari Rollins

Kari M. Rollins focuses on data privacy and data security, and complex commercial litigation matters. She is an office managing partner of the New York office. Kari has successfully represented clients in the financial services, audit and accounting, retail and fashion, food services, hospitality, manufacturing, and technology industries before state and federal courts, as well as in front of state attorneys general, federal regulators, and U.S. and international commercial arbitration forums. A trusted advisor to her clients, Kari brings a focused, strategic approach to complex litigation and data security matters alike. Her clients praise her ability to efficiently and effectively manage complex matters with multiple moving pieces, and to concisely and persuasively communicate the core issues of her clients' cases to judges, regulators, and opposing counsel. These traits have enabled Kari to successfully argue critical motions, procure dismissals, and achieve successful resolutions for her clients in the context of complex commercial litigation, as well as effectively managing high-intensity incident response matters and regulatory inquiries arising from data privacy and security issues. As it relates to her data security practice, Kari offers her clients the continuity of effective assistance during all three critical stages of the data security lifecycle: (1) cybersecurity preparedness (the before); (2) data breach investigation and response (the during); and (3) data breach litigation and regulatory enforcement (the after). As part of cybersecurity preparedness, Kari assists clients in crafting their existing security and compliance practices in the context of the ever-changing data security regulations so they are as well positioned as possible in the event of the inevitable data incident or inquiry. When a data incident occurs, Kari draws on her significant litigation and internal investigation experience to manage and direct all aspects of incident response for her clients—from directing forensic investigators, to liaising with insurance counsel, to determining whether the facts of the incident give rise to a duty to notify, to overseeing notification to consumers and regulatory bodies, and to assisting with communications to Boards and responding to media inquiries. Finally, post-breach, in the event litigation or regulatory inquiries ensue, Kari draws on her significant litigation experience to offer clients strategic assistance in defending against complex data privacy litigation and/or regulatory inquiries from state and/or federal regulators. Recognizing her effective assistance in the area of data security, Kari was named to Cybersecurity Docket's 2019, 2020, and 2021 Incident Response 30, which recognizes 30 of the best and brightest data breach response lawyers in the business who are key players in the most significant data breach responses worldwide. Crain's New York Business named Kari as one of their Notable Women in Law in 2020, and Legal 500 recognized Kari as a Leading Lawyer in Cybersecurity in 2020 and 2021. Global Data Review also named Kari to its first annual "40 under 40" list in 2018, praising her as one of the top 40 practitioners in data privacy globally under the age of 40. Kari is also a partner in the Privacy and Cybersecurity team of Sheppard, which was recognized as a "2018 Practice Group of the Year" by Law360. Kari is invited annually to give numerous speeches and seminars on data privacy and data breaches by organizations across the country, and regularly writes articles and blog posts on emerging trends and topics in data privacy. Notably, Kari wrote a chapter on cybersecurity standards and data breach response in Volume III of The US Privacy Equity Fund Compliance Guide published by Privacy Equity International, and currently sits on the Drafting Committee of the Sedona Conference WG11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability, which is responsible for drafting and publishing the Sedona Conference WG11 Incident Response Guide, a practitioners guide to navigating the law and issues relating to preparing for, managing, and responding to data breaches. Prior to her move to New York, Kari brought her experience to the classroom as an adjunct law professor at DePaul University's College of Law in Chicago, teaching a course on data breach law.

Sheppard

Kari Sutherland

Butler Snow LLP

Karin Barkhorn

Counsel - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Karin DeMasi

Karin A. DeMasi is Managing Partner of Cravath's Litigation Department. Commended as an “excellent litigator” with “strong court presence,” she focuses her practice on complex litigation, including class actions, in the areas of antitrust, securities, derivative, ERISA and general commercial disputes. (The Legal 500 US) Although many of her cases have been successfully resolved for her clients on pre‑trial motions, Ms. DeMasi’s experience also includes numerous jury and bench trials, as well as domestic and international arbitrations. She has represented a wide range of companies, including boards of directors and individuals, across industries.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Karin Orsic

Karin Orsic, a partner in the Investment Funds Group, focuses her practice on structuring, forming and advising private investment funds covering a broad range of strategies, including leveraged buyout funds, distressed investment funds, growth equity funds, venture capital funds and funds of funds. In addition to spearheading their fund formation transactions, Karin also counsels her fund sponsor clients on various operational and firm management issues. She routinely assists clients in implementing management, executive compensation and succession planning arrangements and counsels such clients on a wide variety of deal-structuring and regulatory compliance matters. Karin has also guided clients through various extraordinary events such as key person events, executive separation arrangements, conflict resolutions and spin-outs of private equity executives and teams from more established firms. Karin also represents select investors in their fund investments, co-investments and secondary transactions. Karin is a founding partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s San Francis

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Karl G. Dial

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Karl Gunderson

Karl Gunderson is a litigation and white-collar partner with extensive experience in complex commercial, environmental, and products liability litigation, including multidistrict civil litigation and international arbitration, as well as governmental investigations and risk and compliance counseling. Karl’s practice has focused on representing clients in heavily regulated industries, including oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and automotive manufacturing. He has extensive experience in various stages of litigation and investigations, including efficiently managing the discovery process to limit costs and effectively integrate it into the trial-preparation process.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Karl Heisler

Partner

King & Spalding

Karl Karg

Karl Karg's environmental practice includes enforcement defense, litigation, crisis response and management, permitting and compliance counseling, and transactional counseling. He is particularly experienced in the defense of US Department of Justice/EPA and state enforcement actions and citizen suits under the Clean Air Act, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, RCRA, and a variety of other environmental statutes. Karl's current representations include: The defense of EPA and state Clean Air Act enforcement actions and citizen suits Negotiations to modify past Consent Decrees under the Clean Air Act for new owners and/or repowered or reconfigured facilities Complex contaminated site and sediment cleanups at NPL and non-NPL sites under CERCLA and other environmental authorities Clean Water Act enforcement and permitting, including multi-party and multi-jurisdictional permitting and waste water disputes The defense of EPA and RCRA hazardous waste enforcement actions Advising on environmental/ESG and Environmental Justice issues and risks associated with mergers and acquisitions, financing, public offerings, and the post-transactional resolution of such issues Prior to joining Latham & Watkins in 2001, Karl was an Associate Regional Counsel for the US EPA, Region V (Chicago), where he enforced virtually every major federal environmental law against facilities in the Midwest. While at the EPA, Karl worked extensively on Clean Air Act matters, including enforcement against the chemical, oil and gas, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. Karl is a frequent speaker and writer on environmental topics. He is a member of the Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Section of the ABA, and the Illinois State Bar Association.

Latham & Watkins