Avocats – United States

Michele Maryott

Michele Maryott focuses on business litigation, with particular emphasis on employment litigation, class actions and complex commercial disputes. She has litigated a wide range of labor and employment matters, including defending employers against wage and hour and discrimination class actions, and retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and whistleblower claims in federal and state courts, as well as in administrative proceedings and arbitrations. Her recent successes include defeating certification of a putative class of more than 70,000 employees in a wage and hour class action brought against a major healthcare company, which was unanimously affirmed by the California Court of Appeal in a published opinion.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Michelle Annese

Michelle A. Annese is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, Proskauer's Administrative Lead of the Investigations Practice Group, and a member of Proskauer's Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group. Michelle represents employers in a variety of industries including financial services, retail, entertainment and sports. She assists them with a wide range of labor and employment matters involving employment discrimination and retaliation, sexual harassment and wrongful discharge. She has conducted numerous investigations on behalf of employers. Michelle regularly appears in state and federal courts, as well as in proceedings before the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies. In addition to litigating, Michelle counsels clients on compliance with employment-related laws, and on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Michelle Boudreaux

Michelle Boudreaux is a recognized and seasoned energy lawyer, with over 20 years of experience providing regulatory and transactional advice to the owners and operators of petroleum liquids and natural gas pipelines. She has extensive experience advising clients on federal and state regulatory issues involving interstate and intrastate pipelines, including regulatory compliance and pipeline litigation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and various state agencies, such as the Railroad Commission of Texas and the California Public Utilities Commission. Michelle’s transactional practice includes drafting and negotiating transportation service agreements, storage agreements, pipeline lease agreements and other midstream agreements. She also has significant experience in greenfield and brownfield energy project development.

Bracewell LLP

Michelle Carpenter

Michelle Carpenter is a partner in the Tax Department of Latham & Watkins’ Los Angeles and Orange County offices and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Michelle advises clients on a broad range of compensation arrangements and benefit plans in a variety of industries, with extensive experience working with public and private companies. Michelle focuses her practice on: Counseling on employee benefits and compensation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, spin-offs, financings, and other corporate transactions Structuring executive compensation arrangements, including employment agreements, separation / severance agreements, equity compensation arrangements, and deferred compensation programs Preparing executive compensation disclosures for proxy statements and other securities filings Counseling on tax, securities, ERISA, and corporate law issues as they relate to executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements Prior to joining the firm, Michelle served as an extern for Judge Gary Allen Feess in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Michelle is fluent in Swedish.

Latham & Watkins

Michelle Chan

Michelle Chan focuses on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and divestitures for private equity clients and private companies across various industries. She also represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in related matters, including day-to-day corporate issues and corporate governance matters. To learn more about Michelle, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/michelle-s-chan.html.

Akin

Michelle Gold

Tax partner. Ms. Gold concentrates her practice in the area of federal income taxation and in particular, partnership transactions. Ms. Gold specializes in the representation of fund sponsors in private equity and hedge fund formations, including funds and fund-of-funds focusing on equity, infrastructure assets, energy assets, distressed debt, and real estate. Ms. Gold also frequently represents clients investing in, and co-investing with, private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Michelle Grando

Counsel

White & Case LLP

Michelle Gross

Michelle Ontiveros Gross advises clients on a range of intellectual property and privacy and cybersecurity matters, including in connection with strategic alliances, joint ventures, M&A and financing transactions, intellectual property strategy and commercialization, development agreements and other commercial arrangements, product development, and privacy and data initiatives. Michelle helps companies successfully develop and protect their technology assets, drawing on her breadth of experience in the industry. Her practice spans a variety of issues including artificial intelligence and machine learning, intellectual property, and privacy and data security, with a particular focus on complex technology transactions, licensing arrangements, and collaboration agreements, as well as large-scale mergers and acquisitions and capital markets offerings. Her transactional work includes advising on the technology and data privacy aspects of: Mergers and acquisitions Joint ventures Capital markets transactions and financings Integration of business units and product lines in connection with mergers and acquisitions Michelle has deep experience advising on intellectual property strategy and commercialization, including: Copyright, patent, and trademark matters Development and distribution agreements Software licensing and services agreements Open-source counseling Patent licensing Joint development of technology She also regularly advises clients on data privacy and security matters, including: Privacy and data security policies and data processing agreements Cybersecurity and privacy terms in commercial transactions SEC cybersecurity disclosure Privacy and cybersecurity compliance Privacy and data security issues in connection with product development, including the integration of blockchain and AI technologies into new products Data ownership and data rights Privacy and data security regulations, including: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other State Privacy Laws NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)

Latham & Watkins

Michelle Jewett

Partner

Mayer Brown

Michelle Kelban

Michelle Kelban is a real estate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on a range of complex and prominent real estate transactions, including private capital raising and financing, acquisitions, joint venture recapitalizations, and workouts and restructurings. Nationally recognized as a leading real estate lawyer, Michelle serves a variety of key market players, including private equity firms, U.S. and foreign investors, institutional lenders and family offices. She leverages her broad-based experience in highly structured and multifaceted deals involving bespoke structures. A collaborative and creative problem solver, Michelle works closely with clients to understand their key business needs. She delivers pragmatic, commercially driven advice, with a focus on building consensus among key stakeholders and achieving a client’s strategic objectives.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Michelle Kilkenney

Michelle Kilkenney is a corporate partner in Kirkland's Chicago office and an active committee member and Chicago office Pro Bono Coordinator, of the Firm’s award-winning pro bono program. Michelle focuses her practice on debt financing transactions and represents private equity groups, commercial lending institutions and other private and public companies in connection with the negotiation, structuring and documentation of secured and unsecured financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Michelle La Mar

Partner and Chair, Employment & Labor

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Michelle Lara

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Michelle Levin

Partner

Steptoe LLP

Michelle Lewis

Counsel

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Michelle Lipkowitz

Michelle is a seasoned litigator who represents companies and individuals in high-stakes litigation, class actions, incident response investigations, white collar defense, and government investigations. She is a trusted adviser for health plans, payors, managed care organizations, and life sciences companies for their most complex disputes and government investigations. Her practice includes representing corporations and individuals being investigated by or targeted for indictment by the US Department of Justice or for prosecution by various federal and state agencies. Read full biography.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Michelle Lowery

Michelle Lowery has close to two decades of experience in achieving exceptional results for clients in antitrust and unfair competition litigation and investigations, including class actions. She routinely achieves victories for her clients in high-stakes cases on the papers and in the court house. She has specific experience in the healthcare, high-tech and manufacturing sectors, and specializes in litigation between competitors in these sectors. Michelle focuses her practice on helping her clients compete intensely, guiding and defending competitive strategies through and around litigation and investigations. Michelle has been recognized by Legal 500 US, Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation as excelling in antitrust and unfair competition litigation, and is a member of the Firm’s antitrust and competition practice, which is designated “Global Elite” as one of the top 25 competition practices in the world by Global Competition Review.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Michelle M. McGreal

Clifford Chance

Michelle Mancino Marsh

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Michelle Migdon

With more than two decades of experience representing policyholders in high-stakes insurance litigation, Michelle Migdon has distinguished herself as one of the nation’s foremost advocates in recovery and coverage matters. Her practice focuses on complex disputes where clients have suffered substantial losses, and she brings unmatched tenacity and strategic insight to every case. Michelle’s deep command of D&O, E&O, and professional liability policies, as well as first-party property, business interruption, and a wide array of liability coverage types, makes her an indispensable ally to companies facing resistance from their insurers. Her ability to navigate the nuances of policy language, combined with her courtroom acumen, has led to precedent-setting victories in both trial and appellate courts across the country. In one such matter, Michelle secured a Delaware Supreme Court ruling in favor of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., finding that AMC’s payment of shares to settle a high-profile class action lawsuit brought by AMC’s shareholders satisfied its D&O insurance policy’s definition of “Loss.” This important ruling reaffirms that the policy language matters and establishes a clear precedent that non-traditional forms of settlement payments may qualify as covered Loss under insurance policies, unless the policy specifically states otherwise. Michelle also represented Genworth Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries in a professional liability coverage dispute involving more than $100 million in defense and settlement costs incurred in three class action lawsuits related to alleged misrepresentations in the sale of long-term care insurance. She helped secure two favorable summary judgment rulings, pre-discovery in 2023 and post-discovery in 2025, defeating key insurer defenses relating to three different policy exclusions and preserving Genworth’s ability to recover fully. In 2026, the Delaware Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a judgment exceeding $50 million in favor of Genworth, reinforcing important limits on insurers’ attempts to rely on broad exclusions to avoid coverage obligations. Earlier in her career, Michelle represented TIAA-CREF in an insurance coverage lawsuit seeking reimbursement from the client’s professional liability insurers of more than $60 million. Michelle obtained summary judgment on a groundbreaking issue by securing coverage for a settlement of a civil disgorgement claim and then secured a favorable jury verdict on various remaining issues. The Delaware Supreme Court ultimately affirmed that TIAA-CREF was entitled to coverage for its settlement payments and entitled to recover 100% of its defense costs as reasonable and necessary. Michelle is equally formidable in the boardroom as she is in the courtroom. She regularly advises clients during the pre-litigation phase, persuading insurance companies to settle through deft negotiation, mediation, and persuasive writing. Her sophisticated grasp of technical coverage issues—including unique and varied coverage provisions and exclusions, consent and cooperation defenses, exhaustion issues, and notice provisions—enables her to secure favorable outcomes in some of the most challenging insurance disputes.

Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna

Michelle N. Molner

Associate

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Michelle P. Scheffler

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Michelle Park

Associate, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Michelle Ramirez

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP