Avocats – United States

Phyllis Korff

Partner

Mayer Brown

Phyllis Marcus

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Phyllis Schwartz

Phyllis A. Schwartz focuses her practice on the structuring, formation and operation of private equity funds, including buyout funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, distressed funds, litigation financing funds and real estate funds. She represents both fund sponsors and investors in her practice. In addition to assisting fund sponsors with their internal management arrangements, succession planning, capital call borrowing facilities and formation of co-investment vehicles, she has extensive experience with institutional investors and regularly advises clients on market terms of investment funds. Phyllis also advises private equity funds in connection with their capital call credit lines and investments in, and dispositions of, portfolio companies. Phyllis is listed in The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers (Investment Funds, Private Equity) and the Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law (Investment Funds). A member of New York’s Private Investment Fund Forum, Phyllis frequently shares her insights on effective fund formation strategies at industry conferences and seminars. She recently discussed compliance concerns for co-investments and issues related to fund restructuring and secondary transactions. Interviewed by Private Funds Management in the article “Ringing the Changes,” Phyllis is also the co-author of Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (Practising Law Institute), which is considered the leading treatise on the subject. In addition, she contributed to the Fund Formation and Incentives Report (Private Equity International in association with SRZ), as well as a chapter on “Advisers to Private Equity Funds — Practical Compliance Considerations” in Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation, Volume 2 (Practising Law Institute). Phyllis received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her A.B. from Smith College.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Phyllis Sumner

Partner

King & Spalding

Pia Naib

Pia Naib advises US and non-US financial institutions on the full spectrum of US bank regulation. Pia leverages extensive bank regulatory experience across a breadth of financial services industry transactions to distill complex regulations into practical advice for banks, broker dealers, and investment funds and asset management firms in matters related to: US Bank Holding Company Act Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, including the Volcker Rule Bank Secrecy Act and related anti-money laundering issues US financial regulatory reform US state commercial lending licensing and regulation New York banking law She understands her clients’ commercial objectives and collaborates across the firm’s robust global platform to help her clients mitigate risk and achieve those goals. A recognized leader at the firm, Pia has previously served on the Recruiting Committee, Associates Committee, and the Training & Career Enhancement Committee. Pia regularly writes and speaks on topics related to financial regulation and fintech, including before the Institute of International Bankers.

Latham & Watkins

Pierre Bonnefil

Pierre Georges Bonnefil has extensive experience representing companies in a wide range of immigration matters. He represents private and publicly held organizations in a variety of areas, with significant involvement in the online commerce, manufacturing, technology, finance, retail and fashion industries. Mr. Bonnefil represents clients before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, various offices of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice and before local departments of labor. He currently acts as Immigration Counsel for the French Consulate General in New York and has served as an Attorney General Honors Attorney with the USCIS.

Duane Morris LLP

Pierre De Oliveira

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Pieter Weyts

Partner Pieter A. Weyts advises investment funds, family offices and entrepreneurs on a wide variety of private equity and financing transactions. Pieter has more than 20 years of experience in structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings, and fund offerings. In the last few years, he has negotiated over $1 billion in secondary transactions of late-stage technology companies. He has also advised family offices and fund clients on numerous private equity financings of multi-family, hotel and senior living real estate assets across the United States. Pieter takes a pragmatic approach to structuring complex business transactions and brings a unique international business savvy to his practice. Pieter is also a member of the board of LatinFinance, an international financial media business based in Miami.

Next Legal PLLC.

Pilar French

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ping Wang

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Polina Liberman

Polina is a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She advises clients on a broad range of complex corporate and commercial tax matters with a particular focus on private equity and insurance industry transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, separations, joint ventures, recapitalizations and debt and equity restructurings. Polina has worked on numerous private equity, LBO and merger and acquisition transactions ranging from several million dollars to several billion dollars for clients including: Audax Group, Bain Capital, CIVC, GTCR, Flexpoint Ford, Levine Leichtman, Waud Capital and others. She has also represented distressed public and private companies in connection with bankruptcy and restructuring transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Polina Tulupova

Polina Tulupova advises on a full range of equity derivatives and equity-linked transactions in the US market. Polina combines extensive experience navigating both US domestic equities and the equities of US-listed foreign private issuers, including dual-listed issuers, to advise investment banks and users of such financial products — such as issuers, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, and high-net-worth individuals — on: Convertible bonds, including related call spreads (capped calls) and stock borrow facilities, as well as exchanges, repurchases, and unwinds Financing strategies related to concentrated equity positions via over-the-counter derivatives (hedging and/or monetization) Fixed and variable share forward sales and related equity offerings, including registered at-the-market offerings (in particular, for REITs) Accelerated share repurchases Fund-linked securities, such as collateralized fund obligations Margin loans In her prior work at another leading international law firm and while on secondment to Credit Suisse’s Equity Corporate Finance Desk, she was involved in some of the EMEA region’s most significant equity capital markets transactions from 2010 to 2016. A recognized leader at the firm, Polina recently served as co-leader of the Women Lawyers Group in the New York office.

Latham & Watkins

Prakash Mehta

Prakash Mehta advises some of the world’s most prominent fund sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and other institutional investors. He provides strategic advice on private equity-style investments, exit transactions, joint ventures, and stock and asset sales. He also counsels on investor portfolio company matters and serves as corporate counsel to public and private portfolio companies. Representative work includes advising on economically transformative private equity, venture capital and infrastructure fund manager-level transactions, including seed arrangements, joint ventures and minority stake sales; counseling funds on restructuring shale-play investments impacted by volatility in the energy sector; providing advice on debt and equity investments in shipping and entertainment assets around the world; assisting Asian clients on U.S. inbound investments in a variety of sectors; and representing limited partner advisory boards regarding zombie fund manager disputes, with extensive work on funds divorce matters involving fund principals and investors. He is co-leader of the firm’s investment management practice, leader of the India practice and member of the management committee. To learn more about Prakash, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/prakash-h-mehta.html

Akin

Prakash Paran

Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/p/paran%20prakash

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Pratik Shah

Head of Akin’s Supreme Court & appellate practice. Pratik has argued 15 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (winning all but three), and over 50 cases in the federal courts of appeals (including in every circuit). Under Pratik’s leadership, Akin has been a mainstay on NLJ’s Appellate Hot List, named one of the top three appellate practices in the Best of Corporate Counsel rankings, and recognized as Law360’s Practice Group of the Year. Previously, Pratik served for more than five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General at the DOJ. He received a number of awards for his advocacy before the Supreme Court during that time, including the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for his role as lead drafter of the successful challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor. To learn more about Pratik, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/pratik-a-shah.html

Akin

Pratin Vallabhaneni

Partner

White & Case LLP

Pravin Patel

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Preeta Paragash

Preeta Paragash is counsel in the Finance Department and Banking & Private Credit Practice in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Preeta’s practice focuses primarily on the representation of investment and commercial banks, private debt funds, borrowers, and private equity firms in a broad range of leveraged finance transactions and debt restructurings, with a particular focus on acquisition financings and cross-border transactions. Prior to joining Latham, Preeta was an associate at another major international law firm.

Latham & Watkins

Preeti Bhagnani

Partner

White & Case LLP

Prentiss Feagles

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Preston Bernhisel

Partner Department Chair - Corporate (Dallas)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Preston Miller

Preston Miller is a nationally recognized Antitrust and Competition Law partner at Simpson Thacher. Preston has extensive experience obtaining regulatory clearances from domestic and international competition authorities for high-profile, often cross-border, transactions across a wide variety of industries. He has also been involved in some of the most significant US merger litigations of the last decade, including UHG/Change Healthcare and Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm, as well as UHG/Amedisys which was successfully resolved mid-litigation via settlement.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Primo Fontana

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Prince-Alex Iwu

Senior Counsel

Diaz Reus International Law Firm