Avocats – United States

Melissa Georges

Partner

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC

Melissa Hung

Partner

Shartsis Friese LLP

Melissa Hutson

Melissa Hutson is a finance partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Melissa’s practice focuses on syndicated debt facilities, debt commitments and bridge loan financings for leveraged acquisitions by private equity firms, their portfolio companies and public and private companies. She also advises clients on a broad range of other secured lending and financing transactions, including debt restructurings. Melissa advises private equity sponsors, borrowers and lenders in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of debt financing transactions. She has substantial experience in acquisition financings, recapitalizations and debt restructuring.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Melissa Laurenza

Melissa Laurenza heads Akin’s Political Law practice, specializing in advising clients on navigating complex legal frameworks surrounding interactions with federal and state officials encompassing pay to play laws, lobbying, campaign finance, ethics and other regulatory areas. She assists clients spanning financial services, private equity, hedge funds, corporations, media and entertainment companies, law firms, lobbying firms, trade associations and high-net-worth individuals. Melissa helps establish and maintain compliance systems, covering laws such as the Lobbying Disclosure Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act and rules like Rule 206(4)-5 for investment advisors. She provides counsel on political activities, including testifying before legislative bodies, drafting op-eds and representing clients in federal and state investigations, including before the Department of Justice, Federal Election Commission and Government Accounting Office. Melissa's practice assists politically active entities to ensure adherence to applicable regulations. Her recent work involves clients from commercial banks, energy companies, insurance firms, hedge funds, private equity firms, entertainment companies and individuals transitioning between government and private sectors. To learn more about Melissa, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/melissa-l-laurenza.html

Akin

Melissa Lesmes

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Melissa Mannino

Melissa Mannino, co-leader of the International Trade and National Security team and a Chambers ranked attorney, is an experienced export controls, foreign investment (CFIUS) and economic sanctions practitioner. Her broad based national security practice includes advising a range of companies, from start-ups to industry leading businesses, across a variety of sectors on compliance with the U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations and the CFIUS laws and regulations. She also represents clients through each stage of proceedings before the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury and State on export control, CFIUS and sanctions matters. Melissa previously served as the Chief of the Enforcement and Litigation Division, Office of Chief Counsel for Industry and Security, at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She leverages her government and private practice experience to provide strategic and practical legal advice to clients.

BakerHostetler

Melissa Maxman

Managing Partner

Cohen & Gresser LLP

Melissa Mayhew

Attorney

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Melissa Ostrower

Melissa Ostrower is a principal in the New York City, New York, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and co-leader of the firm’s Employee Benefits practice group. She counsels clients in a broad range of employee benefit matters, including general compliance and administration of qualified retirement plans and nonqualified retirement plans. Melissa assists clients with welfare plan issues involving cafeteria plans, health plans, flexible spending accounts, COBRA and the Affordable Care Act. She regularly speaks on all benefits issues including federal health care reform, fiduciary compliance and executive compensation. Melissa regularly advises on executive compensation matters, including issues related to compliance with Section 409A, 162(m) and 280G of the Internal Revenue Code. Melissa represents clients in connection with Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor audits and information requests. She also regularly assists clients in fixing plan operational and document errors. Melissa negotiates with benefits providers, volume submitter and prototype vendors, TPAs, insurers and auditors. Melissa also advises clients in connection with phantom and equity based compensation arrangements.

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Melissa Price

Partner

McDermott Will & Schulte

Melissa Reinckens

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa advises clients on the full spectrum of labor and employment law matters. This includes including single-plaintiff, class, and collective action litigation (both wage and hour and discrimination claims); wage and hour and other employment counseling; traditional labor work. In her litigation practice, she represents employers in individual, class, and collective action litigation, and in administrative agency actions concerning federal and state labor and employment statutes. Her clients hail from sectors including the retail, airline, transportation, food services and financial services industries. Melissa routinely counsels employers with operations in Puerto Rico and represents employers in federal litigation and administrative matters in Puerto Rico.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Melissa Schwab Wright

Partner

Goodwin

Melissa Stear Gorsline

Partner

Jones Day

Melissa Steinman

Venable LLP

Melissa Tapanes Llahues

Shareholder

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes

Melissa Veronda

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Melisssa Harwood

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Meme Peponis

Meme Peponis is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Peponis’ practice focuses on acquisition and distressed financing. She also has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; private equity, joint venture and other investments; and public and private securities offerings. M

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Menachem Farber

Menachem Farber represents major financial institutions, fund sponsors, investment advisers and institutional investors in connection with a broad range of commercial, legal, regulatory, and compliance matters. Menachem focuses his practice on the structuring, offering and operations of, and investments in, domestic and international hedge funds, exchange funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, funds-of-funds, hybrid funds, managed accounts and other alternative investment products.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Mendel Trapedo

Counsel, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Meng Ru

Meng Ru has represented some of the most sophisticated financial institutions and their portfolio companies in domestic and international debt financings. These transactions are principally in connection with leveraged buyouts, including first lien and second lien senior secured debt financings, bridge financings and private mezzanine debt financings. She has worked on dozens of large financing deals with top-tier financial sponsors around the world. Ms. Ru works with credit investors, financial sponsors and other borrowers to creatively structure a wide range of forward-thinking and novel credit investments. This includes direct lending to private equity sponsors in connection with an acquisition, financing solutions to stressed and distressed companies, and growth capital transactions to emerging companies. To learn more about Ms. Ru, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/meng-ru

Akin

Meredith A. Lahaie

Meredith Lahaie advises on complex restructuring cases of all sizes, both in- and out-of-court. She represents debtors, creditors, bondholders, debtor in possession lenders and acquirers of businesses and assets in large, complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Meredith advises clients from a wide variety of industries, including energy and energy services, logistics, entertainment, and retail. She is regarded as one of the industry’s leading young restructuring lawyers. Significant matters include Yellow Corporation, CommScope, NanoString Technologies, Loyalty Ventures, Dean Foods, Sungard Availability Services, Strike, GEO Group, Brooks Brothers, Payless, to name a few. To learn more about Meredith, please visit her profile here:https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/meredith-a-lahaie.html

Akin

Meredith Andersen

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner