Avocats – United States

Laurie Selkowitz

Laurie's practice focuses on the intersection of technology, privacy, and the law, helping clients navigate complex issues, compliance, and the evolving legal landscape of intellectual property law. She provides transactional support to national and international B2B and B2C entities ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies across various industries, including technology, media, telecommunications, consumer products, transportation, manufacturing, and retail. Laurie also has significant experience counseling clients on the development, implementation, and use of emerging technologies and platforms, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), ad-tech, and other innovative marketing technologies. Laurie is a frequent speaker at industry events and panels, sharing her expertise on advancements in technology, data privacy and security, and women’s initiatives.

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Laurinda Martins

Ms. Martins has extensive experience with sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including large-scale acquisitions, joint ventures, and development. She concentrates her practice on commercial mortgage, mezzanine, and construction financing on behalf of lenders and borrowers; joint ventures; acquisitions and dispositions; and loan restructures, workouts, and UCC foreclosures.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Lauryn Smith

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Laverne Woods

LaVerne Woods has devoted her career to helping nonprofits and philanthropists navigate the legal maze so they can focus on their missions. Nationally-known for her expertise in tax-exempt organizations and philanthropy, LaVerne excels at translating the most complex tax and regulatory concepts into clear and concise language to facilitate planning and decision-making. She brings over three decades of experience in the nonprofit sector to bear in achieving her client's goals, along with a rare understanding of both big picture policy issues and technical minutiae. LaVerne has represented some of the largest foundations and operating nonprofits regionally and nationally, as well as both Fortune 500 companies and start-ups engaged in philanthropy and cause marketing. Her deep expertise extends to a full range of legal issues unique to the nonprofit sector, including federal tax exemption, nonprofit governance, endowment management, mission-related and program-related investing, charitable trust law and the intricacies of donor-advised funds and supporting organizations. She has a particular interest in nonprofit healthcare, social entrepreneurism, and international philanthropy. LaVerne has handled complex restructurings of tax-exempt systems, investigations by the IRS and State authorities, nonprofit mergers and acquisitions, and everything in between. She has structured powerful giving programs that leverage technology and served as consigliere to family foundations. She is always looking for a new and exciting challenge.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Lawrence Barshay

Mr. Barshay is a corporate partner and the founder and head of Fried Frank's Asset Management Practice. He specializes in the structuring and representation of investment funds and other alternative investments. He also has extensive experience in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. His clients include major financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, funds-of-funds and investment management companies. These clients include, among others, Bank of New York, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Citadel LLC, D. E. Shaw Group, EJF Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Lawrence Block

Winston Taylor

Lawrence Bracken II

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Lawrence Buterman

Lawrence Buterman, a nationally recognized first-chair antitrust lawyer formerly with the Department of Justice, is a go-to litigator for clients facing high-stakes government and private antitrust litigations, as well as federal and state government investigations. Lawrence has been lead trial counsel in some of the most significant antitrust cases over the past 20 years, and is one of the few attorneys in the country to have successfully first chaired antitrust trials both on behalf of the government and against the government. He regularly represents clients across all industries facing all types of civil and criminal antitrust claims, including price-fixing, monopolization, class actions, and merger challenges. He leverages his former government experience and numerous trial victories to fight for his clients and provide them with pragmatic strategies and novel approaches, all to help ensure their business interests are protected, and that they prevail in their matters as early as possible. Lawrence's notable trial wins at the DOJ include a landmark challenge to a price-fixing conspiracy involving e-books, as well as a high-profile challenge to a major acquisition in the digital tax preparation software space. His most recent trial victories in private practice include leading US Sugar’s defense against the DOJ’s attempt to enjoin the acquisition of Imperial Sugar, and defending a major US Sports federation in arbitration before the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. In addition to his federal and state court trial work, Lawrence regularly represents companies in connection with investigations by the Antitrust Division at the DOJ, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general. He has successfully helped numerous companies obtain antitrust clearance for their most complex transactions, and avoid civil and criminal lawsuits for alleged antitrust violations. With keen insight into the litigation risks of business decisions, Lawrence also provides strategic antitrust advice to multinational companies and business consortia on a wide range of topics, including fintech and ESG, among others. Before joining Latham, Lawrence served several years in the DOJ as a trial attorney in the Networks and Technology Enforcement Section of the Antitrust Division. In that capacity, he analyzed dozens of merger and conduct matters in the high technology and financial services industries and developed a deep understanding of the government’s priorities and practices related to antitrust enforcement. While at the Antitrust Division, Lawrence twice received the Antitrust Division’s Award of Distinction for successfully litigating merger and conduct matters on behalf of the United States. He currently serves as the chair of the Monopolization and Big Tech Committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association. Lawrence clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum, then chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Latham & Watkins

Lawrence Chu

Partner

Goodwin

Lawrence E. Wilson

BoyarMiller

Lawrence Eiben

Co-Deputy Chair, Real Estate Practice Group

Akerman LLP

Lawrence Friedman

Lawrence B. Friedman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Friedman’s practice focuses on international and domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, including in such fields as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, international banking, and marketing and licensing agreements, and in disputes concerning intellectual property infringement and misappropriation. Mr. Friedman has particularly extensive experience in counseling clients in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Lawrence Gresser

Global Managing Partner

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Lawrence Hill

Partner

Steptoe LLP

Lawrence Holmes

Principal, Practice Group Leader

Offit Kurman

Lawrence I. Witdorchic

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Lawrence Iason

One of the country’s leading securities regulation and enforcement and white collar defense attorneys, Lawrence Iason represents financial institutions, major corporations and their senior corporate officers, and prominent individuals in a wide variety of high-profile and complex white collar cases. He has successfully represented clients in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Larry is an experienced trial attorney who has successfully represented clients at all stages of criminal and civil trials, in arbitrations, and on appeal. He has also counseled corporate boards in connection with numerous issues, including corporate governance and accounting issues.

Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C.

Lawrence J. Gotts

Litigation Partner

Latham & Watkins

Lawrence Lorber

As Senior Counsel at Seyfarth Shaw, Mr. Lorber’s practice focuses on employment counseling and regulatory enforcement representation. He regularly advises and represents employers in regulatory and government enforcement, executive contracts, terminations and benefit issues. He is often called upon to testify at Congressional and regulatory hearings.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Lawrence Pockers

Partner

Duane Morris LLP

Lawrence Rochefort

Chair, Litigation Practice Group

Akerman LLP

Lawrence Safran

Lawrence Safran is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Safran is a member of the firm's Finance Department and the Aircraft Finance, Banking, Project Finance and Structured Finance & Securitization practices. This area includes a wide variety of commercial law issues. Special emphasis is placed on those issues arising under Article 9 (secured transactions) and Article 8 (investment securities) of the Uniform Commercial Code although the practice also includes Article 2 (sales of goods), Article 3 (negotiable instruments), Article 5 (letters of credit), Article 6 (bulk sales) and Article 7 (documents of title).

Latham & Watkins

Lawrence Sher

Winston Taylor

Lawrence Spector

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP