Avocats – United States

Katherine Gillespie

Katie Gillespie has more than 20 years of experience representing sponsors and financing parties in connection with the development, acquisition and financing of renewable energy projects. Nationally ranked in Chambers USA (2021–2025) for her work on renewable energy projects, she is a recognized innovator in the field. Under her leadership, Sheppard closes more than 14 GW of renewable energy financing and M&A projects annually. Trusted by some of the largest players in the industry, Katie advises on cutting-edge tax credit transactions that expand available investor tax capacity and spur renewable energy development.

Sheppard

Katherine Hacker

Bartlit Beck LLP

Katherine Hand

Associate

Goodwin

Katherine Helm

Partner

Dechert

Katherine Imp

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Katherine Jahnke Dale

Partner; Co-Location Head of DLA Piper's Chicago Real Estate Practice; Co-Managing Partner of DLA Piper's Chicago office; Co-Managing Partner of DLA Piper's Minneapolis office

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Katherine Katz

Katherine Katz is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office. Her practice includes a broad range of complex commercial litigation and class action matters in federal and state courts. Katherine has represented clients in litigation matters involving a wide range of practice areas including products liability, antitrust and commercial disputes. In addition to litigation matters, Katherine represents and advises companies faced with investigations and enforcement actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and State Attorneys General.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Katherine Keating

Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Katherine Lauer

Katherine Lauer is a partner in the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins, and is a global Co-chair of the firm's Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice. Ms. Lauer focuses her practice on healthcare litigation, with emphasis on healthcare fraud defense. She has defended some of the country's largest and most high-profile civil and criminal government healthcare fraud investigations and qui tam cases, representing such clients as HCA, Tenet Healthcare, Catholic Healthcare West and University Hospitals Health System of Cleveland.

Latham & Watkins

Katherine Mackillop

Norton Rose Fulbright

Katherine McCullough

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Katherine Mooney Carroll

Katherine Mooney Carroll focuses on advising financial institutions and investors on U.S. regulatory matters, including U.S. banking regulations, cybersecurity and privacy matters, regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and compliance with U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering laws.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Katherine P. Padgett

Katherine’s practice focuses on international trade matters, including CFIUS reviews, export controls, economic sanctions, national security and litigation strategy in international investment and arbitration. She has significant experience representing both foreign investors and U.S. companies across different sectors before CFIUS, as well as with respect deal related-considerations such as transaction structuring and deal term negotiations. To learn more about Katherine, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/katherine-p-padgett

Akin

Katherine Padgett

Katherine Padgett’s practice focuses on a variety of international trade matters, including Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) reviews, export controls, economic sanctions, national security and litigation strategy in international investment and arbitration. To learn more about Ms. Padgett, please visit her full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/katherine-p-padgett.html

Akin

Katherine Peluso

Venable LLP

Katherine Perrelli

Ms. Perrelli is a partner in the Litigation Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. She is a trial lawyer with over 25 years of experience representing regional, national, and international corporations in the financial services, transportation, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, and staffing industries. Her commercial practice focuses on trial work and counseling in the areas of trade secrets and restrictive covenants, unfair competition and complex commercial disputes, including dealer/franchise disputes, and contract disputes. Her experience spans all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, as well as litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies across the country. On the employment side, Ms. Perrelli’s practice focuses on trial work and counseling regarding executive compensation and employer compliance with the ADA, ADEA, Title VII and all other state and governmental laws affecting employers.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Katherine R. Goldstein

Katie is co-head of Akin’s white collar defense & government investigations practice. She represents banks, private investment funds, corporations and their senior executives in investigations and enforcement proceedings arising under federal securities and commodities laws. She also counsels clients on sensitive internal investigations. She has extensive experience with the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, New York Attorney General’s Office and other regulators. An experienced trial lawyer, Katie’s practice builds on nearly 12 years of experience as a federal prosecutor where she served in several significant leadership roles. After joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in 2004, she prosecuted a wide range of securities fraud cases, among others, and was promoted to Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force after serving as Deputy Chief for one year, and before that Co-Chief of the General Crimes Unit. During her tenure as Chief, Katie supervised a team of senior prosecutors in connection with some of the most complex and high-profile white collar and securities matters in the country. To learn more about Katie, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/katherine-rachel-goldstein

Akin

Katherine Reilly

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Katherine Rhoades

Bartlit Beck LLP

Katherine Rocco

Katherine (Kate) Rocco is the Co-Chair of Latham’s New York Litigation & Trial Department and is a partner in the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice. Kate is a nationally recognized leader in the antitrust bar who regularly leads clients through their most complex antitrust matters, including by securing clearances from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for high-stakes mergers, and defending companies in a wide range of antitrust litigations, investigations, and criminal cartel matters. In her practice spanning nearly two decades, Kate has advised private and public companies on more than US$200 billion worth of transactions and hundreds of individual matters. She has litigated multiple matters through trial and appeal and appeared before numerous agencies including the European Commission. Kate’s broad industry experience encompasses semiconductors, consumer products, life sciences, sports, entertainment, social media, healthcare, financial services, agriculture, and technology. Kate currently serves on the board of the Legal Aid Society and has an active pro bono practice. For nearly a decade, Kate served on the Civil Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association, including by serving as an independent legal observer at the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals in Cuba in 2012 and 2014, and by preparing amicus briefs for the Supreme Court of the United States on issues like warrantless wiretapping. During law school, Kate was an editor for the Fordham Law Review and interned for Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (SDNY). She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2005 (Malaysia) and served as an intern at The White House in 2002.

Latham & Watkins

Katherine Smith

Katherine Smith is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She serves as co-chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group. Katherine practices with the firm's Labor and Employment and Litigation Departments. Katherine has extensive experience representing employers in individual, representative and class action litigation at both the trial court and appellate level. Her practice focuses on high stakes litigation matters such as large-scale class actions, actions brought under the California PAGA, whistleblower retaliation cases, and executive disputes. She also advises employers on government investigations, enforcement of non-solicitation and non-competition covenants, reductions in force and reorganizations, independent contractor/employee status, C-suite on-boarding and separations, and other employment-related issues. She has also been involved in multiple independent investigations of high profile #metoo complaints alleging systemic sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Katherine Swift

Bartlit Beck LLP

Katherine Tapley

Norton Rose Fulbright

Katherine Taylor

Katherine Durnan Taylor is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Public Company Advisory Groups. Her practice focuses on advising public and private companies, including private equity firms, in connection with mergers and acquisitions and other significant corporate matters across a broad range of industries.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP