Avocats – United States

Rafael Kariyev

Rafael Kariyev is a tax partner and a member of the firm’s Tax Department who focuses his practice on tax planning in connection with private equity fund formation and M&A transactions. He regularly advises private equity funds on tax issues at all levels of the fund structure, including for Ara Partners Group, Elliott, Morgan Stanley, Prosperity Life Insurance Company, Providence Equity Partners, PSG, KKR, Odyssey, Rithm Capital, TPG, Tikehau Capital and Wafra. In addition, Mr. Kariyev regularly advises clients on tax structuring the acquisition, holding and disposition of portfolio companies, both pass-throughs and corporations, as well as transactions involving the restructuring and sale of existing funds and sales of asset managers. Mr. Kariyev also leads the tax aspects in the firm’s Private Fund Transactions Group, where he regularly provides tax advice to general partners, secondaries fund sponsors, sovereign wealth funds and other investors on secondary transactions, GP-led restructurings and tender offers, co-investments and GP staking transactions. Mr. Kariyev joined Debevoise and was admitted to the bar in New York in 2000. He received his B.A. from Queens College magna cum laude in 1995 in Accounting and his J.D. from Columbia University in 1999, where he was a Kent Scholar and a member of the Journal of Environmental Law. Mr. Kariyev received his LLM in Taxation from New York University in 2002.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Rafael Paz

Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP

Rafael Roberti

Partner

White & Case LLP

Rafal Gawlowski

Corporate Partner

Latham & Watkins

Raffaele Montenero Turco

Partner

White & Case LLP

Ragan Naresh

Ragan Naresh is a Chambers USA-rated lawyer who litigates complex civil disputes nationwide, with a focus on Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) and class action practice. Ragan has represented clients in a wide variety of such cases, with substantial experience in the energy, agriculture, and telecommunications sectors. Ragan represents clients from pre-litigation counseling, through the briefing and discovery process, and through trial and appeal, as necessary.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Ragesh Tangri

Ragesh K. Tangri | Morrison Foerster Ragesh Tangri brings diverse experience representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies in high-stakes intellectual property and trade secret disputes, in addition to commercial litigation and legal malpractice, in jurisdictions across the country. Ragesh regularly represents major technology companies, law firms, and individuals in their most significant disputes. Ragesh has litigated matters involving high-stakes breach of contract and tort claims, as well as legal malpractice and professional negligence claims arising from work done in a variety of underlying areas, including intellectual property litigation, patent prosecution, general corporate matters, and tax. He has, during several pleadings motions, obtained complete dismissal of all claims asserted against law firm clients.

Morrison Foerster

Raghav Bajaj

Raghav Bajaj leads clients at all stages of contested proceedings before the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Raghav leverages his sophisticated understanding of the technology underlying his clients’ businesses to represent both petitioners and patent owners in: Inter partes reviews (IPRs) Post-grant reviews Appeals, including to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit A recognized leader in the patent bar, Raghav is a member of the Austin Yeakel Intellectual Property Inn of Court. He is also a board member and former chair of the South Asian Bar Association of Austin. Before joining Latham, he was a partner at another global law firm.

Latham & Watkins

Rahim Moloo

Rahim Moloo is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Group, which won “International Arbitration Group of the Year” from Law360 twice in the last four years, and is ranked by Chambers as Band 1 in the USA among the International Arbitration: Highly Regarded Firms. Rahim’s practice focuses on assisting clients to resolve their most complex disputes, and he regularly appears as lead counsel before tribunals and courts around the world.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Rahul Agarwal

Rahul Agarwal is an accomplished trial lawyer and a seasoned litigator. He has a multi-faceted practice focused on representing corporate and individual clients in a variety of white collar defense and investigations matters as well as in connection with complex commercial litigation and crisis management. Rahul practiced at Friedman Kaplan earlier in his career before leaving the firm to become a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey where he served for nearly a decade, including as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, and as Acting Principal Assistant United States Attorney (where he was second in command in the Office). During his tenure, Rahul handled and supervised a broad range of investigations and prosecutions, including those involving public corruption, civil rights, healthcare fraud, mortgage and bank fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, identity theft, national security, and cybercrime, as well as firearms, violent crime, and narcotics matters. Notably, Rahul led the successful prosecutions of a $30 million mortgage fraud scheme and a $7 million ATM-skimming bank fraud conspiracy. He also prosecuted a former Hoboken mayoral candidate for vote-buying and a former Manalapan mayor for fraud and identify theft. Rahul received the DOJ’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance for his investigation and prosecution of several Paterson police officers for civil rights violations. Immediately prior to rejoining Friedman Kaplan, Rahul served as Deputy Chief Counsel in the office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, where he advised the Mayor and City Hall on a wide range of legal, ethical, and strategic matters involving criminal justice, health, education, economic development, human rights, and housing. He worked closely with the federal and New York State governments on behalf of the City and provided operational, budgetary, and policy oversight to ten City agencies, including the Office of Labor Relations, the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Rahul Patel

Partner

King & Spalding

Rahul Vashi

Rahul D. Vashi is a partner in the Houston office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Oil and Gas practice group and a member of the firm’s Energy and Infrastructure and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. Rahul’s practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic joint ventures involving a broad range of energy assets, with an emphasis on the upstream and midstream sectors. Rahul’s practice includes advising clients with the formation of drilling partnerships, joint development arrangements, farmout and participation agreements and other joint venture arrangements, the acquisition and divestiture of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets and companies, and oil and gas special situations and alternative financing transactions.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Raj Gandesha

Partner

White & Case LLP

Raj Madan

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Raja Chatterjee

Raja Chatterjee focuses his practice on technology transactions and outsourcing matters. Raja has experience in a wide range of transactional matters including complex domestic and cross-border commercial transactions, intellectual property licensing, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border joint venture transactions, multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations and franchising and distribution matters. While in law school, Raja was a technology editor for the SMU Law Review Association. Prior to his career in law, Raja spent several years in the medical device industry and was involved in the design and manufacture of implantable cardiac, spinal and orthopedic medical devices.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Rajab Abbassi

Rajab Abbassi is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a member of the Financial Institutions and Insurance Transactions & Regulatory Practice Groups. Rajab’s practice focuses on corporate transactions in the insurance industry, and he has advised on many of the most significant transactions in the industry over the last 20 years. He regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, joint venture transactions and strategic investments, as well as securities offerings and other corporate transactions. Rajab also frequently counsels boards of directors and senior management on strategic and governance matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Rajani Gupta

Partner

White & Case LLP

Rajarshi Banerjee

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Rajesh De

Partner

Mayer Brown

Rajib Chanda

Hailed as a “Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer for his legal contributions to the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments, Rajib is Simpson Thacher's Global Head of Asset Management and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Rajib helps asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, and regularly represents the leading asset management firms in the world. Recent representations include Apollo, Artisan Partners, BC Partners, Benefit Street, Blackstone, Blue Owl, Carlyle, Cohen & Steers, Coller Capital, Diameter Capital, First Eagle, Golub, HarbourVest, Irradiant Partners, JPMorgan Asset Management, KKR, Lexington Partners, Morgan Stanley, New Mountain, Onex Credit, Sixth Street Partners, SkyBridge Capital, Starwood Capital Group and TPG Angelo Gordon, among many others.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Rajnish Puri

Rajnish Puri is a Shareholder in Buchalter’s Corporate Practice Group in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Puri represents companies and individuals in various transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, joint ventures, private placements of equity and debt securities, and other business transactions, with an emphasis in private, middle market, and emerging growth companies. Mr. Puri also advises companies on due diligence activities, evaluation of target entities, corporate governance, preparation and maintenance of corporate records, executive employment arrangements, shareholder issues and routine business activities. His clients include corporations, partnerships, entrepreneurs, and family-owned businesses in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, bio-agriculture, digital media, entertainment, healthcare, information technology, manufacturing, and wealth management industries. Prior to joining Buchalter, Mr. Puri has practiced corporate finance at an international law firm and boutique firms, advising publicly owned and privately held businesses in M&A, financings and general corporate matters.

Buchalter Law Firm

Rakesh Kilaru

Wilkinson Stekloff

Rakesh Mehta

Partner, BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler

Rakesh Patel

Rakesh Patel brings more than 25 years of public service experience to HWG LLP, advising clients on a range of telecommunications matters, with a particular focus on privacy, cybersecurity, program fraud, Know Your Customer, robocalls and texts, and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining HWG, Rakesh held several senior roles within the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Enforcement Bureau, including Deputy Bureau Chief, Chief of the Fraud Division, and Deputy Director of the Universal Service Fund (USF) Strike Force. He played a key role in launching and leading the USF Strike Force and its successor, the Bureau’s Fraud Division, which were created to investigate and address fraud, waste, and abuse involving the multibillion-dollar Universal Service Fund. Under his leadership, the group became a central force in ensuring integrity across telecom funding programs. Through his enforcement work at the FCC, Rakesh participated in a broad range of investigative matters across multiple portfolios, involving some of the most sensitive, lengthy, and complex enforcement investigations at the FCC. Earlier in his career, Rakesh served as Chief of the Maryland Attorney General’s Criminal Division and held prosecutorial roles with the Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, where he managed and tried a wide range of criminal matters.

HWG