Avocats – United States

Sam Knowles

Partner; Global Co-Chair of DLA Piper's Government Contracting Sector

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sam Lehman

Sam Lehman is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm's Entertainment, Sports & Media Practice. Sam represents studios, media companies, and other entertainment, media, and technology clients in a variety of transactions that involve the acquisition, financing, exploitation, and licensing of intellectual property and media-related assets. Sam's experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, as well as negotiating personal services agreements, sponsorship agreements, and intellectual property licensing agreements in the entertainment, sports, media, and advertising industries. Sam also has an active pro bono practice, focusing in particular on finalizing adoptions for Los Angeles area foster families and mergers and acquisitions for pro bono organizations. Sam received his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA, where he participated in the El Centro Legal Clinic in Homelessness Prevention, was a mentor for the UCLA Law Fellows, and graduated Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, Sam graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and served as a Teach For America corps member in St. Louis, Missouri.

Latham & Watkins

Sam Lipp

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Sam Murphy

Sam Murphy guides clients through complex real estate and finance challenges, including special situations. With a broad, nationwide perspective, he helps clients anticipate market shifts and regulatory hurdles to position them for long-term success. Sam has extensive experience in distressed debt, commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). He is a go-to advisor for lenders, banks, debt funds and investors seeking strategic solutions in loan originations, workouts and financing for construction, bridge and permanent projects.

Bracewell LLP

Sam Outten

Partner

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Sam Prevatt

Counsel

Freshfields

Sam Ramer

Norton Rose Fulbright

Sam Roh

Sam brings a forward-thinking approach to advising investment advisers on the structuring, formation, and marketing of private investment funds. He navigates the regulatory and compliance landscape throughout the fund’s life cycle. Sam’s strategic expertise spans a wide array of private funds, including private equity funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds, and funds of funds. He represents a diverse clientele employing a range of alternative investment strategies. Sam also offers comprehensive counsel on managed accounts, revenue-sharing agreements, upper-tier and management company arrangements, and regulatory and compliance matters for fund sponsors. Clients benefit from Sam’s ability to negotiate economic terms with both investors and investment professionals. Sam’s prior career as an art director in the advertising industry has helped him bring a unique blend of strategic and creative insight to his work.

Alston & Bird LLP

Sam Schwartz-Fenwick

Mr. Schwartz-Fenwick is a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He is particularly well-versed in benefits-related litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Mr. Schwartz-Fenwick defends complex class actions and single-plaintiff lawsuits under ERISA. In the class action realm, he has defended various types of claims, including claims for benefits and claims for breach of fiduciary duty, including 401(k) fee litigation. In addition to his ERISA litigation practice, Sam has significant experience in general employment matters. He regularly assists in the defense of complex litigation matters brought under the National Labor Relations Act, and represents clients in collective bargaining, in hearings before the National Labor Relations Board and in grievance arbitrations. Sam represents clients in litigation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Illinois Human Rights Act. He also provides day-to-day counseling and advice to clients about the various laws affecting the employment relationship, especially as it relates to diversity, equity and inclusion. Sam speaks nationwide and publishes regularly on a variety of employment law and litigation topics, and issues regarding diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. He has serves as a Senior Editor to Employee Benefits Law (ABA) and is a member of the ABA’s Labor & Employment Law Nominating Committee. Sam leads the firm’s LGBT Affinity Group and is the executive vice president of his synagogue.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Sam Snider

Sam Snider focuses his practice on M&A transactions, joint ventures and private placements. He represents leading global companies on a wide variety of cross border transactions. Before returning to private practice in 2017, Sam was chief legal and compliance officer, at a leading health information technology company. Sam also led the global M&A legal function for a FTSE 100 information and analytics company.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Sam W. Cruse, III

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Samaa Haridi

Partner

King & Spalding

Samantha Hale Crispin

Partner Department Chair - Corporate (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Samantha Klein

Partner

Withers

Samantha Lerner

Winston Taylor

Samantha Rothaus

Partner

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Samantha Skains-Menchaca

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Samantha Thompson

Founding partner

Hogan Thompson Schuelke LLP

Sami H. Rashid

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Samir Bhavsar

Partner Practice Group Co-Chair - Patent Prosecution (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Samir Deger-Sen

Samir Deger-Sen, an experienced appellate lawyer, represents clients in their most complex litigation matters. Samir focuses his practice on Supreme Court and appellate litigation and is widely recognized as one of the leading appellate lawyers of his generation. He has argued over 30 times in appellate courts across the US, including multiple arguments in the Supreme Court, and successfully represented clients in the technology, media, and financial sectors in their highest-stakes appeals. His track record of success includes winning precedent-setting cases in virtually every federal court of appeals. In the past four years, he has been named in The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week six times, including for successful arguments on behalf of Meta Platforms, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and Brigade Capital Management. Samir has extensive experience in the New York appellate courts. He has argued eight times in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, where he has never lost a case, and led over a dozen appeals in the New York state courts. He is one of a handful of attorneys who has argued multiple times in both the US Supreme Court and the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. He also has significant experience in class actions and is proficient in substantive Rule 23 law. Samir has been the primary author of briefs involving some of the largest putative classes in the country, including defending clients against multi-billion dollar class actions in the Second and Ninth Circuits. He has, on multiple occasions, successfully secured interlocutory appellate review of class certification decisions, which is granted in only a small fraction of cases. He also regularly advises on complex class action issues in district court litigation. In addition, Samir has successfully obtained complete dismissal of claims in over a dozen securities class actions on appeal, including multiple times in the Second and Ninth Circuits. Resident in the firm’s New York and London offices, Samir frequently helps UK-based clients navigate novel, complex, and challenging questions of US law. Before entering private practice, he clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy of the US Supreme Court, on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and on the District Court for the District of Hawaii. Before law school, Samir was a lecturer in International Politics at Oxford University, where he taught several undergraduate level courses. At Oxford, he won the World University Debating Championship, along with numerous national competitions.

Latham & Watkins

Sammy Tang

Associate

Goodwin

Samuel B. Isaacson

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Samuel Brown

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP