Avocats – United States

Lisa Spiegel

Lisa Spiegel practices in the areas of immigration and nationality law, concentrating on issues related to the employment of foreign nationals. She has been designated as a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California and is a past chair of the Northern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Ms. Spiegel has served on numerous committees for AILA, including the Association's National Committee on Business and the AILA-USCIS Administrative Appeals Office Liaison Committee, as liaison to the New York and San Francisco District Offices of the Immigration & Naturalization Service and as national liaison with the California Service Center for many years. In addition, Ms. Spiegel is president of the Board of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. She is admitted to practice in New York and California.

Duane Morris LLP

Lisa Van Fleet

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Lisa Vicens

Lisa Vicens’ practice focuses on governmental and internal investigations, white collar defense, and SEC enforcement matters, with a concentration on FCPA and cross-border enforcement issues. Ms. Vicens has extensive experience representing companies and individuals around the globe, and in particular in Latin America, on anti-corruption matters and on conducting investigations on behalf of public companies and their boards and audit committees. In addition to her investigatory and enforcement matters, she regularly advises on the development and implementation of effective compliance and integrity programs and provides guidance on managing and monitoring risk. She also maintains an active litigation practice, representing clients on complex litigation matters arising from allegations of fraud and corruption.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Lisa Watts

Lisa Watts, Vice Chair of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, focuses on the development of the firm’s strategic direction and manages its global presence. In addition, she advises clients on corporate and partnership taxation. Lisa brings more than two decades of experience with complex transactional tax issues to her work advising clients. Lisa regularly serves private equity firms, US-based and foreign public and private companies, REITs and UPREITs, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as investment banks. Specifically, Lisa helps clients navigate the tax aspects of significant US and cross-border transactions, including: Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures Joint ventures Recapitalizations Public financings, including initial public offerings Corporate restructurings Lisa handles a broad range of transactional tax matters, with experience advising clients on all matter of M&A transactions, through the dual-track process, offering enhanced flexibility when planning an exit transaction, as well as clients contemplating an up-C structure. Lisa also has considerable experience advising on sophisticated transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPAC). Select private equity clients include: ArcLight Capital Consonance Capital Partners One Equity Partners Onex Partners Platinum Equity Riverstone Holdings Shamrock Capital Advisors Silver Lake Partners The Blackstone Group Select public companies and privately owned corporation clients include: CoreSite Realty Corporation Cotiviti Holdings, Inc. Endeavor Landmark Health Moran Foods, LLC Siemens AG Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. Toys “R” Us, Inc. Accolades Named a Dealmaker of the Year by New York Law Journal 2021 Named to the Notable Women in Law list by Crain’s New York Business 2020 and 2022 Recommended for US Taxes: Non-contentious by The Legal 500 US 2020 Recommended for M&A/Corporate and Commercial – PE Buyouts by The Legal 500 US 2020 Ranked for New York: Tax by Chambers USA 2018-2022 Named a Law360 2019 Tax MVP “One of the most intelligent attorneys with an encyclopedic knowledge of tax law and a unique ability to express complex issues and structure in digestible terms. She is an invaluable resource in working through and suggesting solutions for often complicated, problematic tax and structural issues.” The Legal 500 US 2020 “She advocates well for her clients, she’s commercial in addressing issues and she’s a pleasure to work with.” Chambers USA 2020

Latham & Watkins

Lisa Wiznitzer

Associate

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Lisa Zivkovic

Associate

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Lisandra Ortiz

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Lisbeth Savill

Latham & Watkins

Lisl Dunlop

Partner

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Livia Kiser

Partner

King & Spalding

Liz Allen

Partner

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Liz Blackwell

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Liz Deckman

Partner

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Liz Snodgrass

Liz, a partner in the Washington, DC office, has more than twenty-five years of experience as an advocate and adviser in international arbitration matters. Her practice is a mix of commercial and investment treaty arbitration, across a range of industry sectors and for clients based in the US and around the world. Liz has particular expertise handling disputes involving States and State entities, including investment treaty cases, fiscal disputes under long-term contracts, and disputes that implicate both contract and treaty protections. Liz is recognized in leading directories. Chambers & Partners notes that Liz is particularly well regarded for her expertise in the energy sector, and handles both commercial and investment treaty disputes. Clients note: “She is very impressive; a great lawyer with strong analytical skills,” adding that she “knows the client’s needs and works to understand their business”, and Who’s Who Legal notes that she has “a brilliant legal mind” and offers “wise counsel” in arbitrations.

Three Crowns LLP

Liz Williamson

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Liza Craig

Partner

Goodwin

Liza M. Velazquez

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Lizzy Packer

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Lloyd Chinn

Lloyd B. Chinn is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice Group and of the Financial Services Practice Group. He litigates employment disputes of all types before federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals (e.g., FINRA, JAMS and AAA), and before administrative agencies in New York and across the country. Lloyd is a trial lawyer, having first-chaired 35+ trials or arbitrations to conclusion. His practice ranges from litigating compensation disputes to defending whistleblower, discrimination and sexual harassment claims and litigating non-compete and trade secret matters. Although he represents employers in a wide range of industries, including law, insurance, health care, consulting, media, music, education, and technology, he focuses a substantial portion of his practice on the financial services sector. Many of Lloyd's clients are international in scope, often based outside the U.S. Due to Lloyd’s litigation experience, clients regularly turn to him for advice regarding the full range of employment matters, including terminations, whistleblower policy and procedure, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, employment agreements, and employment policies. Lloyd has also been retained to conduct internal investigations of allegations of workplace misconduct, including claims leveled against senior executives. Lloyd has represented global businesses in matters involving Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims. He has taken an active role in the American Bar Association on these issues, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower subcommittee of the ABA Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Lloyd has spoken on whistleblowing topics before a numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the International Bar Association, ALI-ABA, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York University School of Law. He has testified twice before Congressional subcommittees regarding whistleblower legislation and has also published blog postings, articles and client alerts on a variety of topics in this area, including the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions. Lloyd is a co-editor of Proskauer’s Whistleblower Defense Blog, and he has been widely quoted by on whistleblower topics by a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal and Law 360. Lloyd has also become active in the International Bar Association, presenting on a variety of subjects, including: the #MeToo movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and employment law, and cross-border harmonization of employment provisions in transactions. Lloyd also hosts a quarterly roundtable discussion among financial services industry in-house employment lawyers. He has also published articles and given speeches on a variety of other employment-law topics, including non-solicitation provisions, FINRA arbitration rules, cross-border discovery, e-discovery, and the use of experts.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Lloyd Gura

Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP

Lloyd Rothenberg

Partner and Co-Chair, Capital Markets & Corporate

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Lloyd Winawer

Partner

Bergeson LLP

Locke Bell

Locke Bell | Morrison Foerster Locke is a partner in MoFo’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. He has been recognized by Chambers USA for his “proficiency across the government contracts space,” with sources commending his deep experience in Intellectual Property and Data Rights. Locke counsels clients across industries through the full lifecycle of delivering technology and licensing software to U.S. federal, state, and local governments, and performing government-funded R&D through contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and other vehicles such as other transactions (OTs/OTAs), cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. He provides strategic advice for asserting, protecting, and enforcing patents, data rights, and other intellectual property under the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and the Bayh-Dole Act, before statutory agencies such as NASA and the Department of Energy, and in engagements with OT consortia, federal laboratories, and federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). He is a skilled negotiator of commercial and noncommercial licensing agreements, contracts and subcontracts, joint venture agreements, and teaming agreements. As a litigator, Locke represents clients in bid protests, complex contract claims, data rights challenges, patent and copyright infringement suits under 28 U.S. Code §1498, trade secrets misappropriation and reverse-FOIA disputes, and civil fraud and qui tam actions under the False Claims Act. Locke also regularly advises large and small businesses, private equity firms, and entrepreneurs on the complex government contracting and IP-related issues they face in M&A and other transactional matters. Show More

Morrison Foerster

Logan Kemp

Logan Kemp advises and represents government contractors in bid protests, Contract Disputes Act claims, and complex procurement disputes in matters before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, GAO, the boards of contract appeals, and federal district courts. Logan has successfully argued multiple cases before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in high-stakes procurement disputes. In one matter, he secured victory after oral argument in a bid protest challenging a federal procurement valued at more than $1 billion. In a separate case, he successfully presented oral argument in a jurisdictional challenge addressing issues at the forefront of federal procurement law. He has experience handling False Claims Act matters and related internal investigations. In addition to litigation, Logan advises contractors in significant contract disputes and negotiations with federal agencies. He has served as a lead negotiator in multi-million-dollar contract disputes, helping clients preserve claims, structure requests for equitable adjustment, and position matters for favorable resolution or litigation. He also counsels contractors navigating evolving regulatory and policy developments affecting federal procurement and grant programs. His experience includes counseling on compliance with federal small business regulations and advising contractors and grantees following the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Nichols Law