Avocats – United States

Pamela Church

Pamela leads our New York IP & Technology Practice. She is consistently ranked by Chambers USA and World Trademark Review, and was recognized as one of the "Top 250 Women in IP" by Managing IP in 2023. Clients describe Pamela as "a legal whizz. What sets her apart is her business expertise and ability to craft viable, actionable solutions. She responds quickly and is a pleasure to work with" (Chambers USA Client Interview - 2023). Pamela has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and implementing transactions involving the acquisition, development, exploitation and sale of IP rights, including mergers and acquisitions, licenses, joint ventures, strategic alliances, research and development collaborations, digital publishing, e-commerce, outsourcing and corporate finance transactions.

Baker McKenzie

Pamela Devata

Pamela Devata is a Labor and Employment Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Chicago. She’s a national authority and firm go-to for all issues related to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), background screening compliance, use of criminal and credit history, and Electronic Signature issues as well online and manual employment applications. A nationally recognized employment counselor, Pam has participated in numerous interviews, speeches, webinars, and trainings to employers on the subject criminal history and credit checks as well as everything related to the background checks. She has leveraged her niche area of expertise into a thriving litigation class action practice. She counsels both employers, resellers, and consumer reporting agencies of background information on compliance requirements under FCRA and related state laws, develops procedures for appropriately handling high-volume national hiring needs, and she regularly litigates these issues on a single-plaintiff and class-wide basis throughout the country.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Pamela Glazier

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Pamela Lawrence Endreny

Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Pamela represents public companies and private equity clients on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings and restructurings. She has obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service on tax-free spin-offs and other corporate transactions and has advised clients on matters relating to audits and tax controversies. Pamela also has experience advising investment funds, alternative asset managers and family offices, and working on all types of capital markets transactions and complex derivatives.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Pamela Marcogliese

Pamela L. Marcogliese is a partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s Capital Markets and Corporate Governance practices. She has extensive experience in corporate governance matters advising U.S. and non-U.S. issuers on disclosure and corporate governance issues, including SEC, stock exchange, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank compliance. She also regularly advises boards of directors and management on a variety of topics, including board composition and director independence; shareholder engagement and activism; shareholder proposals and proxy season trends; management and director succession planning; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Pamela is a frequent contributor to the Cleary’s M&A and Corporate Governance Watch blog.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Pamela Marcogliese

Partner

Freshfields

Pamela Smith

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Pamela Westhoff

Pamela Westhoff is an experienced transactional real estate lawyer valued by her clients for her creative business acumen and ability to get deals done regardless of the challenge. Pam handles a wide variety of transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leases, financing and complex development. She has developed special expertise in corporate real estate, ground leasing and real estate deals involving telecommunications and broadcasting. Clients look to Pam as a steady and strategic advocate who builds relationships and brings a business mindset and a creative, flexible negotiating style to every deal. She is a trusted counselor to a broad variety of successful real estate industry leaders, including institutional and portfolio investors, family offices, REITs, lenders and developers. In her free time, Pam enjoys spending time outdoors. She has summited Mount Kilimanjaro and has run a marathon on every continent.

Sheppard

Pandora Strasler

Pandora Strasler is counsel in the New York office of Latham & Watkins.Ms. Strasler is a member of the Finance Department and Banking Practice. Her practice focuses primarily on the representation of commercial and investment banks and borrowers in the structuring of complex secured financing transactions including senior secured lending and restructuring transactions, acquisition and project financings and structured finance with a special emphasis on issues arising under Article 9 (secured transactions) and Article 8 (investment securities) of the Uniform Commercial Code. She is a member of the New York and Ontario bars and a solicitor on the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales.

Latham & Watkins

Pankaj K. Sinha

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Pantelis Michalopoulos

Partner

Steptoe LLP

Paola Lozano

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Paolo Di Rosa

Arnold & Porter

Parag Patel

Parag Patel advises financial services companies, financial institutions, and fintechs on transactional and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on emerging payments, innovative technology, consumer and small-business lending, and banking. Parag guides banks, non-bank lenders, payments and technology companies, and their vendors on regulatory compliance, supervision, money transmission, lending, anti-fraud and anti-money laundering, and transactional matters. He leverages deep knowledge to help major financial institutions and fintech startups navigate global payment and financial services regulations. Parag has broad experience with all major federal and state laws that regulate payments and consumer and small-business lending in the US, including: Bank Secrecy Act Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Equal Credit Opportunity Act Electronic Fund Transfer Act Fair Credit Reporting Act Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Truth in Lending Act State money transmission, broker, and lending laws, as well as federal pre-emption of state financial laws Payment network rules, such as NACHA, Visa, and Mastercard rules Parag strategizes innovative and practical solutions to clients’ complex regulatory and transactional issues that arise when revolutionary technologies integrate with heavily regulated financial activities. He regularly advises clients on blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies, smart contracts, using “big data” in decisioning systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and integrating mobile and wearable devices into financial services. He has an extensive background in the regulation of money transmitters and other types of money service businesses (MSBs) and has helped dozens of fintech startups navigate these rules at various stages of their business evolution.

Latham & Watkins

Pardis Zomorodi

Pardis Zomorodi advises US and international public and private companies, including REITs, private equity firms, and investment banks, on tax aspects of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and joint ventures. Pardis regularly counsels clients on structuring taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and spinoffs. She draws on considerable experience advising private equity firms, entertainment companies, and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private transactions. Pardis often advises REITs on the tax aspects of formation transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and ongoing operational matters. She has also helped clients obtain private letter rulings from the IRS on a number of tax matters. Pardis formerly served as Deputy Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Latham & Watkins

Parimah Hassouri

Parimah Hassouri is a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP whose practice focuses on insurance regulatory matters. Parimah advises US and international insurers on a wide range of insurance regulatory and corporate matters. She has represented clients operating in the life, health, property and casualty, financial guaranty, mortgage guaranty and title insurance industries. Parimah also represents private equity funds and other sponsors acquiring and divesting insurers and/or insurance-related entities. In addition, Parimah assists clients with regulatory filings associated with mergers, acquisitions and other changes in corporate structure, including mutual holding company conversions and redomestications. She also assists with the formation and licensing of insurance companies, insurance intermediaries and captive insurers, and routinely assists clients with corporate governance and compliance issues. Parimah also advises early-stage and developed InsurTech entities on regulatory and corporate issues. Parimah actively monitors state insurance legislative and regulatory developments in a variety of areas, including insurance holding company act compliance, rebating and inducement issues, and non-admitted insurance and reinsurance transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Parker A. Lee

Parker Lee advises strategic companies and private equity and infrastructure funds on M&A, project development and joint venture transactions in the energy and infrastructure industries. He represents petrochemical companies, refiners, storage and logistics companies, midstream developers and operators, exploration and production companies, project developers and financial investors on complex projects and transactions in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, as well as on tollways, bridges and other traditional infrastructure projects. Parker also has significant experience on energy transition projects, including carbon capture utilization and sequestration, renewable fuels, renewable natural gas, ammonia, hydrogen, helium and carbon offtake transactions.

Bracewell LLP

Parker Berry

Butler Snow LLP

Parker Miller

Parker supports his clients’ business objectives by leading their antitrust litigation and protecting their IP. He works with his clients to develop strategy while also protecting their budget. He assists industry-leading companies with antitrust and competition law issues in mergers and complex civil litigation matters, particularly those with antitrust enforcement and antitrust civil litigation. Parker advocates for clients accused of anticompetitive conduct in the U.S. and globally, leading teams that respond to government and private plaintiff scrutiny of strategic mergers and acquisitions. He counsels clients on antitrust compliance and potential litigation issues by using a reasonable approach to antitrust risk. Parker also assists clients who are victims of anticompetitive conduct by marketplace participants.

Alston & Bird LLP

Parker Rider-Longmaid

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Parker Young

Partner

Holland & Knight

Parsa Ansari

Parsa has extensive experience advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies, along with other public and private companies, on a broad range of complex transactions, including platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, strategic mergers, structured growth investments, dispositions, special situations transactions and joint ventures. He also counsels clients on various general corporate and governance matters.

Massumi + Consoli LLP

Parvin Moyne

Parvin Moyne represents individuals and corporations in government investigations, white collar criminal defense matters, internal investigations and complex commercial litigation. She handles matters involving alleged violations of market manipulation, insider trading, accounting fraud, securities fraud, sanctions law, investment advisor fraud, money laundering, public corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. She has extensive experience conducting investigations and advising on government enforcement matters involving international jurisdictions. To learn more about Parvin, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/parvin-daphne-moyne.html

Akin

Pat Cerundolo

Partner

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP