Avocats – United States

Michael Taylor

Partner

King & Spalding

Michael Thomason

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Michael Torosian

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Michael Traube

Partner in the New York Office

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Michael Tremonte

Michael is a partner and co-founder of Sher Tremonte. He is an experienced counselor, trial lawyer, and appellate advocate. He has obtained favorable outcomes as counsel to individuals and companies in a wide range of forums, including state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States. Chambers USA has described Michael as “a fantastic trial lawyer” who “provides white-collar criminal defense to both individual and corporate clients as part of his wider litigation practice.” Michael’s practice includes complex commercial disputes, securities and other class action litigation, banking litigation, antitrust, accountants’ liability, and employment law. His white collar practice focuses on the defense of companies and individuals in federal and state criminal and regulatory investigations involving allegations of securities, insurance and accounting fraud, antitrust violations, improper trading practices, market manipulation, tax fraud, and money laundering. Michael has successfully represented corporate and individual clients in a wide range of public and private corruption investigations, including allegations of bribery and kickbacks impacting federal procurement programs and mismanagement of healthcare funding programs and public and private employment benefit and retirement plans. Michael also defends individuals in investigations involving alleged violations of federal campaign finance and political interference laws — including one of the most high-profile subjects of the Special Counsel investigation into alleged interference with the U.S. 2016 Presidential election – in each instance successfully resolving them without charges. He also has extensive experience handling civil and criminal RICO cases. Prior to co-founding Sher Tremonte, Michael was a partner at Cohen & Gresser LLP and served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Previously, he worked as an associate at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

Sher Tremonte

Michael Treska

Michael Treska is the Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins' Orange County office. He advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and general corporate counseling. Michael serves as primary outside counsel to several public and private companies in various industries, including healthcare, gaming, technology, and real estate. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and capital markets, and he has led the firm’s representation on numerous high profile and complex transactions. Supplementing his client work, Michael has served on the firm's Associates, Finance, and Recruiting Committees. Prior to joining Latham, Michael practiced in the tax department of Deloitte & Touche LLP and is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Latham & Watkins

Michael Troisi

Michael A. Troisi represents insurance companies across the country in coverage lawsuits, frequently involving allegations of bad faith seeking extra-contractual damages. A partner in Rivkin Radler’s Insurance Coverage and Compliance, Investigations & White Collar Practice Groups, Michael handles a wide range of first-party and property insurance issues, particularly in cases involving arson and fraud. His experience includes the investigation and defense of all types of fraudulent property claims, and he has tried these cases to verdict. Michael regularly counsels insurers during the investigative stage of claims and has conducted hundreds of examinations under oath. In addition, Michael counsels and represents insurers in a number of emerging areas that impact the property insurance industry. He has been at the forefront of the coverage issues relating to investor frauds and Ponzi schemes. Michael has been called on by national insurers to assist them in analyzing coverage issues unique to these types of claims. Also, as a result of the recent mortgage fraud crisis, Michael is routinely asked to provide coverage analyses on complex matters involving claims of mortgagees and other lien holders, and the impact of foreclosure on a mortgagee’s right to recover under the policy. In this area, he has assisted insurers by drafting guidelines and procedures for the proper handling of mortgagee claims. Michael also is actively involved in assisting insurers with the handling of claims and suits for first-party property coverage related to Superstorm Sandy. Michael often presents seminars to clients and the insurance industry at large on matters relating to the proper handling and investigation of first-party property claims, as well as issues relating to coverage and policy interpretation.

Rivkin Radler

Michael Urschel

Michael Urschel, a partner in the Complex Securitizations Practice Group in Kirkland’s New York office, is tasked with building and growing the Firm’s global structured finance practice. He advises sponsors, borrowers, funds, investment banks and other financial institutions on non-traditional asset financings, acquisition financings and regulatory matters across the capital structure, with a focus on securitization, structured private credit and private placements, including stand-alone and market-leading hybrid finance transactions. Over the past 15 years, Michael has designed many of the market’s prevailing structures for acquiring and financing esoteric assets, including pioneering their use in “certain funds” acquisition transactions. He has structured and led dozens of financings involving franchised concepts, digital infrastructure, real estate and leasing platforms, energy and transportation assets, media royalties, outdoor advertising receivables and other specialty lending sectors. Michael is ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA and Chambers Global and has led teams winning Law360’s Practice Group of the Year multiple times.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Michael V. Mitrione

Gunster

Michael Valaik

Bartlit Beck LLP

Michael Vardanian

Michael Vardanian is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department. Michael has broad mergers and acquisitions experience, encompassing both public and private acquisitions, dispositions, co-investments, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. Michael’s practice primarily focuses on representing private equity firms. His representative clients include Odyssey Investment Partners, Leonard Green & Partners, and Energy Capital Partners. Michael has also represented US and non-US clients across a wide range of industries, including energy, retail, media, telecommunications, manufacturing, and technology.

Latham & Watkins

Michael Vernace

Michael R. Vernace | Morrison Foerster Michael Vernace is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s San Francisco office and member of the firm’s Finance and Private Equity Investments + Buyouts Groups. Mike’s practice focuses on supporting sponsor-borrowers along with additional lender-side representations and borrower-side bankruptcy remote financings. He regularly advises clients through syndicated finance and other commercial lending transactions, including acquisition, leveraged, investment-grade, asset-based, corporate, receivables, net asset value, and hybrid financings. He has extensive experience representing prominent private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex domestic and cross-border financings, including acquisition financings and refinancings. He has led transactions covering a range of industries, including healthcare and life sciences, tech, telecommunications, and media and entertainment, among others.

Morrison Foerster

Michael Vines

Mr. Vines focuses his practice on commercial real estate finance, including the origination of commercial loans for capital market, syndicate, and balance sheet lenders with a specialty in development, construction, and transitional loans. Mr. Vines has significant experience representing clients in the purchase and sale of mortgage and subordinated debt, including the negotiation of intercreditor, participation, and co-lender agreements. Mr. Vines has represented a wide range of clients in connection with loan restructurings, discounted pay-offs, deed-in-lieu transactions, and foreclosures. His client list includes lenders, investment funds, institutional investors, owners, and developers in complex real estate financing matters.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Michael Vogel

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Michael W O’Donnell

Norton Rose Fulbright

Michael W. Larkin

Shareholder

Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes

Michael Wagner

Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Michael Waldman

Michael Waldman represents financial institutions in leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, debt restructurings, cross-border transactions, asset-based financings, recurring revenue-based financings, and margin loan financings. Michael has significant experience in syndicated finance and direct lending transactions in a broad array of industries, such as technology, healthcare, retail, communications, pharmaceuticals, and industrials.

Latham & Watkins

Michael Ward

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Michael Ward

Michael Ward Ph.D. | Morrison Foerster Michael (Mike) Ward is co-chair of the firm's Life Sciences + Healthcare Group, Patent Group, Intellectual Property Group, and Food + Agriculture Group. As co-chair of the Patent Group, Mike manages a team that includes 80+ Ph.D.s and 100+ attorneys and others with advanced scientific degrees in life sciences and related engineering disciplines. From small molecules and antibodies to gene editing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, MoFo has deep experience protecting some of the most important innovations in the life sciences and food and agriculture sectors.

Morrison Foerster

Michael Weinberger

Michael Weinberger is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Michael is a member of the Real Estate practice group. His practice focuses on real estate law, with a particular focus on real estate finance, including CMBS, mortgage, mezzanine, and construction loan originations, restructurings, syndications, and secondary market transactions. He regularly represents major institutional lenders and borrowers in complex transactions involving hotels, shopping centers, office buildings, multifamily properties, industrial properties, life science centers, data centers, storage facilities, casinos, condominiums, and other property types.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Michael Weinsier

Partner

Pryor Cashman LLP

Michael Weinstein

Member

Cole Schotz P.C.

Michael Weiss

Office Managing Partner Co-Deputy Chair, Litigation Practice Group

Akerman LLP