Avocats – United States

Luis Torres-Cervantes

Luis represents both institutional lenders and corporate borrowers. He works with clients on secured credit facilities, acquisition financing, film financing, loan syndications, litigation funding, and other financial matters. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Luis was a staff editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Luis de Armas

Partner

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Luisa Muskus

Partner

White & Case LLP

Luke Bagley

Partner

Goodwin

Luke Barefoot

Luke Barefoot’s practice focuses on bankruptcy litigation, insolvency, corporate restructuring and related litigation matters, with a particular focus on cross-border and international bankruptcy disputes. Luke is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Luke Beasley

Bartlit Beck LLP

Luke Bergstrom

Luke Bergstrom, former Global Vice Chair of the firm's Technology Industry Group and former Global Co-Chair of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, regularly advises leading corporate and private equity clients on significant M&A transactions and related sensitive matters. Luke advises companies and private equity firms, drawing on more than two decades of experience handling a full spectrum of transactions. He combines strong negotiation skills, a deep commercial sensibility, and a proven ability to lead teams that leverage the firm’s global resources to help clients achieve their objectives in the most effective and cost-efficient manner.

Latham & Watkins

Luke Connelly

Winston Taylor

Luke Dauchot

Luke Dauchot is a trial lawyer focusing on patent litigation. Luke has tried over twenty patent infringement and commercial cases in venues throughout the country. As lead trial counsel, he has obtained multiple defense verdicts and some of the country's largest patent plaintiff's verdicts. Luke’s consecutive jury trial wins for Samsung in 2015 won him recognition in 2016 as one of The National Law Journal’s IP “Trailblazers.” In 2011 alone, Luke won two jury verdicts totaling over $170 million. His clients include Medtronic, Samsung, Alcatel Lucent, and Intel among others. He also appears regularly before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Luke is consistently recognized as one of the country’s top patent trial lawyers. Those recognitions include: Benchmark Litigation 2013 - 2016, Local Litigation Star; Managing Intellectual Property, IP Stars 2013 - 2015; IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, 2012 – 2016; The Legal 500 U.S., Recommended Lawyer, 2012 –2016; Law360’s “2011 MVP”; The Daily Journal’s “Top 75 Intellectual Property Lawyers in California,” 2009 – 2013; The Recorder's 2011 "Attorneys of the Year"; “Southern California Super Lawyers,” 2009 – 2015; The Best Lawyers in America, 2013 – 2015; and BTI Client Service All-Star, 2015. Luke has authored numerous articles on the subject of patent litigation, and he speaks regularly on the subject.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Luke Dembosky

Luke Dembosky co-chairs Debevoise & Plimpton’s global Data Strategy and Security practice. He advises companies on managing cyber risks, responding to cyber incidents and handling related internal investigations and regulatory defense.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Luke Eldridge

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Luke Foley

Attorney

The Rosen Law Firm

Luke Jennings

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Luke Lantta

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Luke Maiman

Counsel

Sidley Austin LLP

Luke McCloud

Williams & Connolly LLP

Luke Meier

Partner Luke Meier partner and Co-Chair of Blank Rome's Government Contracts Practice. He is a seasoned litigator and counselor with wide-ranging experience in government procurement law. He represents contractors in contract disputes and claims, bid protests, and False Claims Act litigation. He has extensive experience in contracts with the Department of Energy, and has managed a variety of matters for contractors across the DOE complex—including responses to audits, whistleblower complaints, and Civil Investigative Demands; cost allowability disputes; claims; bid protests; and prime/subcontractor disputes—at sites including Hanford, Oak Ridge, Savannah River, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, and several National Laboratories. Luke has deep familiarity with the legal services requirements of 10 C.F.R. 719 and issues unique to M&O contractors. Luke has managed the response to numerous DCAA and IG audits, and has successfully defended several government contractors from allegations of fraudulent mischarging. Luke’s regulatory compliance counseling includes advice regarding the Buy American and Trade Agreements Acts, GSA schedule contracting, and ethics and internal controls requirements. His litigation experience includes complex commercial disputes in federal court and scores of bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Prior to law school, Luke worked for a major defense contractor as an on-site consultant at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Domestic Preparedness.

Blank Rome LLP

Luke Roniger

Partner

King & Spalding

Luke Sobota

A founding partner of Three Crowns, Luke represents private and sovereign clients in some of their largest and most important commercial, investor-State, and inter-State arbitrations, including the successful prosecution of one of the largest ICC cases in history. He also has more than 20 years of experience litigating international issues in U.S. courts. Luke’s practice experience spans a variety of sectors, with a focus on the energy, financial, and technology industries. The Legal 500 writes that Luke “is extremely smart and a great strategic thinker” and is “an excellent draftsman”.

Three Crowns LLP

Luke Weedon

Partner Section Chair - Finance (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Luzia Vaczy

Luzia Vaczy is a corporate partner in the Boston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises private investment fund sponsors on a variety of corporate, transactional and securities law matters, including fund formations and investments, as well as regulatory, compliance and operational issues.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Lydia Davenport

Associate

Shartsis Friese LLP

Lydia Ferrarese

Principal

Offit Kurman

Lydia Gobena

Lydia Gobena’s passion for creativity permeates her broad global practice with innovative strategies for acquiring, enforcing, and assigning international intellectual property rights. From counseling clients on international trademark, industrial design, copyright, and unfair competition issues to litigating international and multi-country conflicts, Lydia gets results for her clients, including protection of nontraditional trademarks such as single colors and sound. Lydia has championed countless court and trademark office decisions for major brand owners acknowledging the fame of their trademarks in jurisdictions around the world, thereby preventing the registration and – in certain instances – use of infringing third-party trademarks. She also secured one of the first criminal convictions for trademark infringement in Chile. Recently described as a “key partner” in Chambers USA, Lydia has deep experience in obscure international jurisdictions, including conducting global trademark clearance projects with analysis and evaluation of search data and related risks. She investigates and negotiates issues relating to third-party rights, implements global filing strategies, and advises on domain name protection for ccTLDs (country code top level domains) and gTLDs. Her transactional work includes IP portfolio audits and due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures as well as drafting and negotiating agreements. Lydia’s diverse international clientele has included leading pharmaceutical and hotel companies, luxury goods companies, fashion brands, personal care companies, entertainment properties, beverage and sports brands, and a leading provider of engineering and architectural software.

Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.