Avocats – United States

Philip R. Matthews

Philip R. Matthews practices in the area of general civil litigation and insurance counseling and litigation with an emphasis on complex cases. He has been involved in some of the largest trials and appeals in California, including the trial and appeal of Shell Oil Co. vs. Accident and Casualty Co. of Winterthur (Rocky Mountain Arsenal case) and In Re Coordinated Asbestos Litigation (Manville, Fibreboard, Armstrong and GAF Coverage cases.) He also has been liaison and trial counsel in numerous complex cases such as Flintkote v. American Mutual, Four Star Oil & Gas Co. vs. Allianz (Texaco Environmental Coverage Litigation), Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc. vs. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. (Texaco Toxic Tort), Exxon vs. Insurance Company of North America (Exxon Environmental Coverage Litigation), and Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London. He also has experience in bankruptcy law, asbestos and mass tort bankruptcies, state receiverships involving asbestos claims and corporate transactions. In addition to extensive litigation experience, Mr. Matthews has been involved in resolving complex insurance coverage disputes through alternative dispute resolution procedures including mediation and acting as specialist settlement counsel. Mr. Matthews has a successful record in achieving resolution of matters without protracted litigation. One example is working out a procedure to resolve, for a major group of insurers, one Fortune 50 corporations more than 1,000 coverage claims for pollution sites and thousands of toxic tort claimants before the filing of litigation. A decade later, other insurers were still litigating with the Fortune 50 Company over these claims.

Duane Morris LLP

Philip R. Sellinger

Co-Managing Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Philip Recht

Partner

Mayer Brown

Philip Richter

Corporate partner; co-head of M&A practice. Represents clients in M&A transactions involving public and private companies; spin-offs, split-off and other business separation transactions; unsolicited proposals and proxy fights; strategic partnerships and joint ventures and minority investments. Advises on corporate governance issues, defensive strategy, and securities law compliance. Frequently represents investment banks serving in a financial advisory role.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Philip Rogers

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Philip Rosen

Co-Head of Weil's Real Estate practice

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Philip Rossetti

Corporate Partner, Office Managing Partner

Latham & Watkins

Philip Silverberg

Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP

Philip Tingle

Philip (Phil) Tingle represents energy companies such as utilities, independent power producers and financial institutions on a wide range of energy tax-related matters. He is the global co-head of the Energy & Project Finance Practice. Phil provides advice regarding all aspects of renewable-energy projects, including tax equity structures, refinancings, acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings and workouts. He has extensive experience with the production tax credit and with the application of renewable credits to new technologies. Moreover, he works with the investment tax credit for numerous kinds of solar projects. Phil has filed and received a number of private letter rulings on behalf of clients regarding the production tax credit. Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/tingle-philip/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Philip Vogler

Principal, Practice Group Leader - Mass Toxic Torts

Offit Kurman

Philip W. Woo

Philip W. Woo is the Managing Partner of the Silicon Valley office. He focuses his practice on patent law, with deep experience in litigation, prosecution and contested proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). With a degree in electrical engineering and substantial real-world experience in the high-tech industry, he has served as lead counsel for numerous matters, coordinating teams across separate, but relating proceedings. Companies have entrusted Mr. Woo to handle the deep technical issues in intellectual property matters of commercial significance. Among other accomplishments, he was counsel in the first inter partes review (IPR) proceeding resulting in a successful final determination invalidating claims of the patent at issue. Mr. Woo’s technical areas include all forms of electrical and electronic arts, including computer architecture, storage systems and networks, server networks and architecture, microprocessors, memories, software and internet applications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, security, cryptography, telecommunications, wireless, interactive television and electronic program guides, satellites, business methods, semiconductor design and processing, semiconductor packaging, circuit design, electric and hybrid vehicles, autonomous vehicles and medical devices.

Duane Morris LLP

Philip Wagman

Philip Wagman advises clients on a range of domestic and international tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts, as well as structured finance and securitisation transactions, equipment leasing, securities offerings and other financing transactions.

Clifford Chance

Philip Wolf

Philip Wolf advises clients on a full range of complex private equity and M&A transactions. Philip leverages his extensive in-house experience and sophisticated understanding of the market to guide private equity sponsors and investment management firms on: Leveraged buyouts Joint ventures Mergers and acquisitions Minority investments Restructurings Strategic investments and dispositions He also helps clients manage complex fund and organizational structures. Before joining the firm, Philip served as the Global Co-Head of Transaction Legal at Partners Group, where he oversaw US legal matters related to the firm’s various asset classes, including its private equity, infrastructure, private credit, and real estate groups.

Latham & Watkins

Philip Wolman

Philip J. Wolman has handled tax matters in a wide variety of subjects including corporate and partnership tax planning, domestic and international business transactions, executive compensation and employee benefit plan matters, estate planning, business acquisitions and dispositions, equipment leasing, and tax controversies. Mr. Wolman, who is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale Hubbell, is a member of the American (Taxation Section, Committee on Personal Service Organizations), Los Angeles County (Taxation Section) and Beverly Hills (Committee of Taxation) Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Central District of California and the United States Tax Court.

Buchalter Law Firm

Philippa Bond

Pippa Bond is a capital markets partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and restructurings. Pippa acts as counsel to issuers, sponsors and underwriters in registered public offerings, block trades and private placements of debt and equity securities, as well as tender offers and consent solicitations. Pippa also counsels institutional and corporate clients with respect to general compliance and governance. Her work spans a broad range of industries, with a focus on retail and consumer companies, industrials, transportation, real estate and financial services. In 2020, the Daily Journal recognized Pippa in its annual list of the “Top Women Lawyers” in California and the Los Angeles Business Journal awarded her “Corporate Attorney of the Year” as part of their annual “Leaders in Law” series.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Philippe Adler

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Philippe Benedict

Philippe Benedict focuses his practice on the tax aspects of investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, international transactions, real estate transactions and financial instruments. He has advised on many major transactions involving sales or spinoffs of investment fund managers, including Senator Investment Group LP’s sale of a minority stake to The Blackstone Group LP, Caxton Associates LP’s sale of a minority interest to the Petershill II Fund affiliated with the Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Credit Suisse’s sale of Strategic Partners to The Blackstone Group LP. Philippe advises on the tax aspects of securitizations, including his recent representation of affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC and affiliates of AGL in the securitization of their leveraged facilities. He has also advised multiple alternative asset managers on the formation and structuring of funds, including Engineers Gate with the launch of a quant fund, Clearfield Capital with the launch of a hedge fund, Warlander Asset Management LP, AGL, Piney Lake and MGG with the launch of credit funds, and D1 Capital Partners in the formation of a new fund; Junto Capital Management LP on the launch of Junto Capital Partners LP and Junto Offshore Fund Ltd.; Trian Fund Management LP on all aspects of launching new co-investment hedge funds; Sachem Head Capital Management LP with the launch of hedge funds and the establishment of long/short equity funds; and Capstone Investment Advisors LLC, JANA Partners, MKP Capital Management LLC and Scopia Fund Management LLC in their respective sales of a passive minority interest to Neuberger Berman Group-managed private equity fund Dyal Capital Partners. Philippe also advised Bardin Hill Investment Partners in its succession plan. Philippe’s real estate transactions include advising the Related/Oxford joint venture developing Hudson Yards on closing nearly $1.4 billion in equity investments and debt financing for the center’s first tower, and advising Oxford in over $5 billion in financing of three office towers, a retail center and a residential building for the project; and advising Arel Capital in a number of equity investments, including operating multi-family properties with significant retail components and ground-up development projects for modern condominium buildings. Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, New York Super Lawyers and the Tax Directors Handbook have recognized Philippe as a leading lawyer.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Philippe Selendy

Founding Partner

Selendy Gay PLLC

Phillip Azzollini

Phillip J. Azzollini focuses his practice on private offerings of collateralized loan obligation securities and on warehouse financing transactions, including the representation of issuers, placement agents and portfolio managers. Phil also represents buyers and sellers of financial assets. He has represented public companies, investment advisers and private equity funds in transactions involving many different categories of assets, including mortgage-backed securities. Phil is listed as a “leading individual” by Chambers Global and Chambers USA in Capital Markets: Structured Products, and was recognized by interviewees as “an excellent lawyer, smart and bright” and commended for his client service skills, keen attention to detail and understanding of accounting in addition to the law. The Legal 500 US notes that Phil is recognized as being “very knowledgeable about the CLO space, in terms of both legal and market knowledge.” He is also listed in the Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers. Phil's recent publications include co-authoring “CLOs and LIBOR Transition” for The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Securitisation 2020. Prior to joining SRZ, Phil was a certified public accountant with the audit group at Coopers & Lybrand LLP. He received his undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Pace University in 1988, and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Fordham Law Review, in 1995.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Phillip Durham

Partner

Holland & Knight

Phillip E. Cushing

Bartlit Beck LLP

Phillip Kim

Partner

The Rosen Law Firm

Phillip S. Sykes

Attorney

Butler Snow LLP

Phillip Sampson

Phillip Sampson has spent decades aggressively pursuing and advocating for his clients’ interests in complex business disputes. Phillip’s consistent approach to fully understanding and then preparing a matter for trial or arbitration emphasizes thoroughness, responsiveness, creativity, and practicality. Phillip is co-chair of the firm's construction litigation practice group, and he represents clients in a diverse range of complex business litigation and arbitration matters involving the energy, construction, manufacturing, steel, oil field services, chemical, petrochemical, software, financial services, consumer products, and real estate sectors. Phillip has experience and a particular focus on matters involving contract and payment issues, fraud and other business torts, construction defects, products liability, consumer protection claims, personal injury, real estate and landlord/tenant issues, and trade secret and intellectual property rights for both plaintiffs and defendants. Phillip has also successfully handled a number of appeals at the state and federal level.

Bracewell LLP