Avocats – United States

Kathryn Gusmer Cole

Kate serves as Co-head of the firm's Intellectual Property team. She provides strategic leadership and counsel on complex intellectual property matters for domestic and international clients, including start-ups, private equity groups, and large private and public companies. Her broad IP experience positions her to serve as a valued business partner to her clients on a variety of IP transactional and litigation matters. She represents clients in matters relating to IP development, portfolio acquisition, and complex licensing, and leads teams in advising on the IP aspects of various debt and equity investments. Clients look to Kate for her collaborative approach to deals, ensuring that both sides work together on creative solutions to reach a mutually positive outcome. Kate also routinely assists clients in protecting their IP rights through enforcement and litigation, with experience in federal courts throughout the country in IP disputes including patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation. Kate is ranked in IAM Strategy 300 as a leading IP strategist in licensing and M&A, and is recommended by IAM Patent 1000, where clients note that she is “an adept litigator as well as deal lawyer” and describe her as “brilliant – she is responsive, thorough, and careful but very creative. She has an extremely strong skill set when it comes to IP and corporate matters, so she can efficiently and effectively solve any problem that comes her way.” She has also been recognized by Best Lawyers in America, Business North Carolina Legal Elite, North Carolina Super Lawyers, and World Trademark Review 1000, with clients commenting that she is “extremely customer focused and looks for – and accomplishes – business wins.” “She always takes a business-sensitive tack on disputes, looking for the best value proposition for the client. She communicates promptly and responsively, and works closely with her patrons. I have had uniformly excellent results from her and her team.” Kate has also been named a Charlotte Business Journal Women in Business Achievement Award winner for her significant contributions to her firm, industry, and community.

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Kathryn H. Ruemmler

Litigation Partner

Latham & Watkins

Kathryn Kelly

Kathryn A. Kelly is a partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Kathryn represents clients in a broad range of tax matters, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, restructurings, and financing transactions.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Kathryn Matthews

Partner

Meister Seelig & Schuster

Kathryn Riley Grasso

Partner; US Vice Chair of DLA Piper's Patent Litigation Practice; DLA Piper's Co National Hiring Partner — Associates

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Kathryn Scott

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Kathryn Weiss

Partner

King & Spalding

Kathryn-Ann Stamm

Kathryn-Ann Stamm is of Counsel in Cravath's Corporate Department. She advises and provides support to the Firm’s clients regarding the protection, growth and management of their intellectual property and technology assets, data security and general privacy matters. Ms. Stamm has in‑depth knowledge and experience implementing these strategies in the context of corporate transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs and separations, licensing arrangements, partnerships, joint ventures and collaborations.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Kathy O\'Neill

Kathy O’Neill is a partner in Fried Frank’s Antitrust and Competition Department. Kathy focuses on clearance of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as investigations and litigation under federal and state antitrust laws, and antitrust compliance counseling and training. Kathy previously served nearly 16 years in the Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Antitrust Division. While at DOJ, Kathy served as the senior-most career official overseeing all civil antitrust enforcement. She previously served as chief of the Antitrust Division’s Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, and as a trial attorney in the Telecommunications and Media Section. During her tenure, Kathy played a leading role in advancing numerous high stakes antitrust investigations and litigations across a wide range of industries including agriculture, airlines and aerospace, banking, communications, energy, media and entertainment and technology, among many others. Her more than 20 years of government experience also includes roles as assistant attorney general for the New York Attorney General’s Office and as an attorney advisor at the Federal Communications Commission.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Kathy Patrick

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Katie Anderson

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Katie Bass

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Katie Brossy

Katie Brossy’s practice focuses on representing Indian tribes, tribal governmental instrumentalities and tribally owned enterprises. She has worked on several highly significant tribal matters, including one of the largest Indian water rights settlements in U.S. history and the largest tribal trust claim settlement. She represents tribal clients on a variety of matters, including: Indian water law, including Congressional enactment and implementation of Indian water settlements S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Services funding opportunities Tribal trust accounting litigation and settlement Withdrawal of trust assets pursuant to the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act Negotiating 105(l) leases with the Department of Interior and Indian Health Service Federal appropriations and Congressional representation Bureau of Indian Education school construction and financing Tax law Indian gaming law Land trust and restricted-fee land matters Environmental regulation Contract support costs under the Indian Self-Determination Education and Assistance Act Tribal sovereign immunity To learn more about Katie, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/katie-brossy.html

Akin

Katie Clarke

Counsel

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Katie Giannasi

Husch Blackwell LLP

Katie Gonzalez

Katie Gonzalez’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on Latin America. Katie has experience representing international and domestic clients (both sovereign and private entities) in international arbitration matters, as well as in state and federal courts. Katie is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches a course on international investment arbitration.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Katie Hood

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Katie Insogna

Partner; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Product Liability Sub-Practice Group

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Katie Kimbrell

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Katie Kohn

Katie is a partner in the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation group. Katie advises clients on all aspects of qualified retirement plan compliance. As a former attorney with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), she has a unique background concerning single and multiemployer defined benefit pension plan issues. In addition to day-to-day compliance counseling, Katie assists clients in finding practical and valuable solutions regarding retirement plan mergers and spinoffs, plan de-risking transactions, plan terminations, plan corrections, and overfunded plans. Katie has a strong track record advising clients on retirement and benefit plan issues arising in corporate transactions and in- and out-of-court restructuring. Katie also frequently guides clients through regulatory enforcement processes and regularly advises clients in investigations by the DOL, IRS, and PBGC. Katie has significant experience assisting clients with participation in multiemployer pension plans, including structuring ERISA-compliant asset sales and evaluating or disputing withdrawal liability assessments. Additionally, Katie advises private funds and benefit plan investors on ERISA compliance issues, particularly regarding disclosure, plan investment issues and negotiations. Katie has a strong litigation background and represents clients in federal court and arbitration involving corporate and multiemployer benefit plans, benefits litigation, ERISA preemption and actuarial malpractice claims.

Thompson Hine LLP

Katie Leesman

Associate

Ballard Spahr LLP

Katie McEvilly

Senior Associate

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Katie St. Peters

Katie St. Peters is a partner in the Investment Funds Group, where her practice focuses on advising private investment fund sponsors on all aspects of their business, including the establishment of private investment funds, fund investment activities, product and strategy expansion, co-investment programs, warehousing arrangements, alternative investment structures, fund regulatory and compliance matters, conflicts issues, investor relations matters and firm ownership and operational issues, including governance matters, succession planning and separation arrangements. Katie has advised a wide variety of private fund sponsors in connection with structuring and forming private investment funds ranging from a hundred million to tens of billions of dollars, as well as structuring and establishing separate account structures for a variety of U.S. and non-U.S institutional investors. Her experience includes advising sponsors ranging from emerging managers to leading global asset managers across a variety of investment strategies.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Katie Viggiani

Katie Viggiani | Morrison Foerster Katie Viggiani is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Complex Litigation + Advisement practice group and a partner in the firm’s New York office. She specializes in the defense of complex commercial disputes and consumer class actions, crafting strategies that look beyond a single dispute to further clients’ holistic goals inside and outside the courtroom. Katie is a versatile commercial litigator who represents U.S. and international companies in courts and arbitral tribunals throughout the country. Her clients include technology, retail, e-commerce, healthcare, and financial firms from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Consumer Class Actions and Privacy Litigation Katie regularly represents companies against consumer class actions, including ones asserting privacy claims based on novel theories of liability. She has defended companies against claims under federal wiretap statutes, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and other privacy laws. She also defends companies in high-profile cases involving data security issues and the handling of sensitive information. Mass Arbitration, Mass Torts, and Multijurisdictional Claims Katie has extensive arbitration experience. She helps companies navigate mass arbitrations—the coordinated filing of a large number of nearly identical claims—guiding companies to favorable resolutions and outcomes, including in cases involving parallel class actions. Katie’s practice also includes defending corporate clients in serial mass tort and class action litigation filed and pending in multiple jurisdictions. In 2023, The Legal 500 recommended Katie in Product Liability, Mass Tort and Class Action Defense. Enforcement Actions and Trial Experience Katie also represents clients at the intersection of enforcement actions and civil litigation. She has represented clients facing regulatory investigations and enforcement actions involving securities fraud, benchmark manipulation, market manipulation, tax evasion, and accounting brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Katie was also part of a trial team that represented the founder and former CEO of a high-tech company in a criminal prosecution alleging stock option backdating and improper revenue recognition. The team achieved two separate criminal trial victories, obtaining acquittal on six counts and a hung jury on the one remaining count. More About Katie Katie maintains an active pro bono practice with a particular focus on indigent criminal defense, civil rights work, and legal issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. She was a founding member of the firm’s NY LGBTQ+ Affinity Group and is an active member of the MoFo Proud Network and the firm’s Women’s Strategy Committee. Katie earned her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where she was a managing editor of the UCLA Women’s Law Journal. While in law school, Katie worked as a law clerk for the Los Angeles County Public Defender and was a member of UCLA’s Criminal Defense Clinic.

Morrison Foerster