Avocats – United States

Margarita Oliva Sainz de Aja

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Margery Neale

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/n/neale-margery-k

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Margo Tank

Partner; Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Financial Services Sector; US Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Blockchain and Digital Assets; Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Financial Regulation and Technology

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Margot Wainger

Partner - Real Estate Finance

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Margret Caruso

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Marguerite Bateman

Shareholder

Vedder

Marguerite Sullivan

Maggy Sullivan, a nationally recognized trial lawyer, represents multinational clients in complex antitrust litigation and investigations before federal regulators. She ranks among an elite few antitrust trial lawyers who have secured multiple merger litigation victories against the government. Maggy brings strategic foresight and more than two decades of experience to her work managing litigation in all its forms, including: Investigations Complex civil actions Multi-district actions Class actions She regularly develops compelling theories and strategies and excels at persuading parties across the litigation spectrum to adopt her perspective. Maggy has won two of the most complex, high-profile matters in the history of the US Department of Justice (DOJ): the Illumina/GRAIL merger and the Booz Allen Hamilton/EverWatch merger. Her established track record demonstrates excellence in handling sprawling, long-running antitrust matters that run the gamut from investigation, to criminal prosecution, to multi-district litigation, or commercial class actions.

Latham & Watkins

Mari Bonthuis

Partner, Litigation

Sterlington PLLC

Mari Overbeck

Mari Overbeck, a former federal prosecutor with the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, advises clients on complex commercial litigation and employment law. A seasoned trial lawyer, Mari has substantial experience litigating — and winning — on both the plaintiff and defense side. Mari handles litigation and counseling matters across a wide variety of industries, including technology, retail, and financial services. Mari’s trial, arbitration, and appellate practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including class and collective actions, unfair competition, worker misclassification, fraud, breach of contract, and trade secret misappropriation. Mari also has significant experience overseeing a range of sensitive internal investigations. Complementing her commercial work, Mari serves on the board of the San Francisco Bar Association and for more than 12 years was an adjunct professor at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where she taught advanced legal writing and oral advocacy. Mari has also taught as a visiting professor at Middlebury College. Following law school, Mari clerked for Judges Bernard Zimmerman and William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Latham & Watkins

Mari-Claudia Jiménez

Partner | Co-head of art law | Withers Art and Advisory

Withers

Maria (Masha) Smith

Masha Smith advises companies and financial institutions on complex transactions and general corporate matters, particularly within the fintech industry. A versatile corporate practitioner, Masha counsels US and international clients on diverse types of transactions ranging from joint ventures and M&A deals to consortiums, strategic alliances, and private equity investments, to capital markets and financing matters. She also regularly drafts and negotiates complex commercial contracts, including master services agreements, customer and vendor contracts, user agreements, and intellectual property licenses. A native Russian speaker, Masha offers particular experience in cross-border matters — including transactions involving entities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Masha has advised on a number of notable matters within the fintech and financial services spaces. Her broad industry experience also includes the information technology, energy, mining, oil and gas, logistics, and retail and consumer products sectors.

Latham & Watkins

Maria Alevras-Chen

Maria Alevras-Chen is a corporate finance associate in the Banking & Finance, Projects, and Latin America & Caribbean groups. She focuses on complex international and domestic financings, including bond and equity issuances, leveraged finance, project finance and structured finance. Maria also has experience with real estate fund formation and restructurings. Maria represents lenders (whether they be financial institutions, private equity funds, multilateral agencies or export credit agencies) in various deal roles, such as arranger, administrative agent, underwriter and/or placement agent as well as borrowers. Maria's practice focuses on Latin America, including transactions in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama and Uruguay. Maria has also structured and executed transactions in several other emerging markets jurisdictions including Russia, Turkey, Indonesia and Zimbabwe during her time at Mayer Brown.

Mayer Brown

Maria Beguiristain

Partner

White & Case LLP

Maria Currier

Partner

Holland & Knight

Maria De Bedout

Associate

Holland & Knight

Maria Durant

Office Managing Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Maria Eberle

Maria P. Eberle is a member of the Firm’s Tax Group in New York, she serves as chair of the SALT sub practice group and also as a member of the North America Tax Practice Group Management Committee. She advises multinational companies on a full range of state and local tax matters, including tax controversy and litigation. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Ms. Eberle was a partner at an international law firm, where she concentrated on state and local tax matters. In addition, she was previously a manager of multistate tax services at a Big Four accounting firm where she advised individual and corporate clients on a variety of state and local tax issues. Ms. Eberle has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where she taught a course on state and local tax. In 2019 Maria was recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star in the field of Tax. Chambers USA has also named Maria as a Leading Lawyer (State and Local Tax: New York, 2019) and International Tax Review recognizes Maria in their annual Women in Tax Leaders Guide (2016-2019).

Baker McKenzie

Maria Elena Lapetina

Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Maria Fernanda Gandarez

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Maria Galeno

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Maria Ginzburg

Partner

Selendy Gay PLLC

Maria H. Ruiz

Commercial Litigation; Employment Practices and Litigation; Mass Tort, Toxic Tort and Product Liability Litigation

Kasowitz LLP

Maria Hoye

Maria Pilar Hoye advises clients on land use, environmental, and regulatory issues associated with entitling, developing, remediating, and managing complex developments in California. Maria focuses her practice on obtaining land use entitlements and environmental approvals for major real estate and development projects in California. She advises clients involving planning and zoning regulations as well as related environmental issues, including state and federal land use and environmental laws. Maria also advises on the evaluation of potential environmental liabilities, environmental regulatory compliance, and negotiation of environmental agreements for real estate and other business transactions. Maria is on the Board of Valley Industry Commerce Association and on the Board of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and she previously served on the Board of PUENTE Learning Center. Maria formerly served as Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Department in Latham’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She is a former adjunct professor of Environmental Law at the University of Southern California Law School. She has previously served on a number of firm committees including Latham’s Training and Career Enhancement and Finance Committees.

Latham & Watkins

Maria Kenny

Winston Taylor