Avocats – United States

Sara Burgin

Sara Burgin uses her scientific background and more than 30 years of legal experience to assist clients with issues relating to water use, management and disposal. She advises on permitting, compliance and enforcement matters in association with onshore and offshore wastewater and storm water discharges; issues relating to surface water and ground water rights; water contracts; Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) plan requirements and applicability issues; Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction; issues associated with public water systems at industrial facilities; and dredge and fill permit requirements.

Bracewell LLP

Sara C. Clark

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Sara Crovitz

Partner, Co-Chair, Investment Management

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Sara Edelman

Partner

Davis+Gilbert LLP

Sara Fuks

Partner

The Rosen Law Firm

Sara Gelsinger

Sara advises limited partnerships, limited liability companies and statutory trusts on matters of Delaware law. She works with private equity and venture capital funds and other private and public LLCs, limited partnerships and statutory trusts on strategic transactions, including acquisitions, sales, reorganizations and internal restructurings. Her clients include global investment firms, multi-national companies, growth-stage companies and start-ups. Sara also advises alternative entities on equity and debt financings and, in that capacity, she has advised many clients on complex subscription secured facilities. Sara frequently works with other domestic firms to provide advice on matters of Delaware law. She also advises Delaware entities involved in cross-border deals.

Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

Sara Ghalandari

Sara Ghalandari is Of Counsel in the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the firm’s Land Use and Development Practice Group. Sara’s practice encompasses a wide-array of land use/development matters and real estate transactions, including zoning, planning, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), public private partnerships, and matters regarding construction access, underpinning and shoring. The primary focus of her practice is the processing of entitlements for major real estate development projects in the Bay Area and throughout California, supervising the preparation and approval of environmental documentation, and negotiating transactional documents associated with land use, project development, and construction, including agreements between private and public entities. Sara also advises institutional investors and lenders on land-use related matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Sara Harlow

Associate

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Sara K. Thompson

Shareholder

Greenberg Traurig

Sara Kuebel

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Sara Lenet

Counsel

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Sara Margolis

Sara Margolis represents clients in complex commercial litigation, particularly in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences sectors. Sara draws on substantial trial and case management experience to represent companies and investors in high-stakes disputes in federal and state courts. She regularly represents clients on a range of matters involving: Antitrust litigation Bankruptcy-related disputes Breach of contract claims Fraud and securities litigation, including class actions Intellectual property disputes She handles contested proceedings through verdict and appeal, bringing a pragmatic, trial-ready approach to litigation across the financial services, biotech, and healthcare industries. Sara also regularly helps companies and their boards navigate concurrent class actions and government inquiries. She leverages a commercial perspective to manage complex, multi-forum disputes — including coordinating discovery, motion practice, and trial teams — to position cases for favorable outcomes in and out of the courtroom. Before joining Latham, Sara was a partner at a litigation firm in New York. She previously clerked for Judge Vincent L. Briccetti of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Latham & Watkins

Sara May

Associate

Withers

Sara Michaelchuck Webber

Sara Webber is a partner in Kirkland’s global Environmental Practice Group, where she has spent more than 20 years advising clients on complex and cutting edge environmental issues, primarily in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and real estate investments in the U.S. and around the world. Sara has managed the environmental aspects of more than one thousand transactions involving all types of businesses, industries and real estate assets. Sara is the go-to environmental transactions counsel for many private equity firms, real estate investment firms and public companies who rely on her to identify and evaluate environmental liabilities and develop creative, practical and commercial solutions to allocate, mitigate and manage the risks associated with those liabilities. Sara’s business-minded support focuses on understanding and achieving the client’s goals and spans the entire course of the transaction from pre-deal counseling to pursuing post-closing resolution of identified environmental compliance and contamination issues. Sara has extensive experience in managing the environmental due diligence process, negotiating environmental indemnities and securing environmental insurance coverage for environmentally sensitive businesses and contaminated real estate portfolios. Sara has been recognized by attorney ranking directories, such as Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Lawdragon. Lawdragon recognized Sara as a “Leading Environmental Lawyer.” In The Legal 500, Sara is recommended for her experience working on environmental matters in M&A and real estate investments. Chambers USA recognized Sara as “an exceptional attorney with an ability to understand and explain complex environmental risks to non-experts” with clients further noting that she is “incredibly knowledgeable,” “very proactive and solutions-based,” and “fantastic to work with.”

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sara Pike

Senior Associate

Withers

Sara Razi

Sara Razi is Global Co-Chair of the Firm’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice. She is a leading antitrust attorney, focusing on merger reviews, government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and counseling on a variety of competition issues. Sara regularly represents clients in antitrust investigations by the DOJ, FTC and States, and has secured successful outcomes in numerous complex and closely-watched mergers and high-profile antitrust litigations. Her extensive private-sector and government antitrust experience spans a multitude of industries including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, media, telecommunications, supermarkets and other retail, oil and gas, consumer products, and financial services. Representative clients have included: Ahold N.V., Apax Funds, Best Buy, BMC Stock Holdings, BorgWarner Inc., Change Healthcare, Circana, CSL Ltd., Cypress Semiconductor, Dell Technologies, DIRECTV, Discover Financial Services, Dollar General, EQT A.B. and its portfolio companies, HCA Healthcare, Hellman & Friedman and its portfolio companies, K2M, KKR and its portfolio companies, Lorillard, Mattress Firm, Mars, McKesson, Paramount Global, PPD and Siltronic. Sara is an authority on antitrust issues and speaks frequently at conferences sponsored by the ABA, law schools, and private organizations.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Sara Schlau

Sara Schlau focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Sara regularly advises public and private companies, as well as private equity funds, on the employee benefits and compensation aspects of corporate transactions, and has experience in: Executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, financings, initial public offerings, and other corporate transactions Representation of employers and executives in the negotiation, design and administration of employment agreements, separation agreements, severance and change in control arrangements, deferred compensation programs, and equity and other incentive compensation plans and arrangements Public company representation, including preparing proxy materials and securities filings related to executive compensation matters

Latham & Watkins

Sara Silva

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Sara Stinnett

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sara Tomezsko

Sara Tomezsko is a partner in the Employment Law practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's New York office. Ms. Tomezsko's practice covers all aspects of employment law, with a focus on litigating both single-plaintiff and class and collective actions through trial and appeals. She also provides litigation avoidance and compliance advice to employers in a variety of industries, including technology, telecommunications, financial services, investment banking, private funds, and entertainment. Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Litigation: Ms. Tomezsko represents employers defending against claims involving federal, state, and local anti-discrimination, harassment, and whistleblower retaliation laws, in both court and private arbitration. She has successfully-obtained defense verdicts in cases involving claims asserted under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII, Section 1981, and New York City and State Human Rights Laws. Wage and Hour Class, Collective, and Representative Actions: Recognized by The Legal 500 for her accomplishments in this area, Ms. Tomezsko regularly litigates class, collective, and representative-action lawsuits on behalf of employers. Her successes in this area include dismissal of wage-and-hour claims on Rule 12 motions, limiting certification of a putative nationwide collective to a fraction of the potential scope, and securing employer-favorable resolutions of complex wage-and-hour matters. She also counsels employers and revises employers' policies and to ensure compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law. Pay Equity: Ms. Tomezsko has experience litigating pay-equity claims, both on a single-plaintiff and class-wide basis. She also counsels employers through internal pay-equity audits and analyses, and assists multi-state employers in navigating the complex patchwork of state and local pay-equity and pay transparency and disclosure laws. Arbitration Programs: Ms. Tomezsko routinely-advises employers on maintaining successful and defensible workforce-arbitration programs in light of recent legislative updates to the Federal Arbitration Act. She has secured several dozen orders enforcing employers' arbitration agreements, both at the trial court level and on appeal, including cases involving issues of first impression. Ms. Tomezsko received her B.A. from Loyola University in Maryland in 2006, and her M.A. in English Literature and Theory from New York University in 2009. Before attending Cornell Law School, Ms. Tomezsko spent several years working in the financial services sector. She received her J.D. from Cornell in 2013.

Paul Hastings LLP

Sara Tonnies Horton

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Sara Zablotney

Sara Zablotney is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice is broad-based and encompasses all manner of complex transactions, focusing on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and spin-offs, both domestic and cross-border. She also advises clients on the tax aspects of securities issuances, bankruptcy and restructuring. Chambers USA has praised her as “extraordinary with clients,” “practical, quick on her feet and proactive” and “extremely knowledgeable with good judgment.” Sara has been recognized by Chambers USA for Tax [NY] from 2017–2025, as a “Rising Star” and “MVP” by Law360 for Tax Law in 2014 and 2017, respectively, is recommended by The Legal 500 U.S., and has been listed as a “Bankruptcy Tax Specialist in the Nation’s Major Law Firms” as a senior practitioner by Turnarounds & Workouts. Sara serves as Chair of Kirkland’s Audit Committee and Co-Chair of Kirkland’s Firmwide Finance Committee; she is a member of Kirkland’s Income Partner Review Committee and Operations Committee.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sarah A. Greenfield

Partner

Latham & Watkins

Sarah A. Tomkowiak

Sarah Tomkowiak, an accomplished trial attorney, litigates high-stakes civil business disputes and investigations in federal, state, and arbitral venues across the United States. Sarah leverages her pragmatic approach to negotiations and extensive trial experience — including a major victory in one of the only securities class actions to go to a jury trial in a decade — to help clients navigate: Securities law disputes and corporate governance matters Complex commercial litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, particularly relating to copyright disputes Enforcement actions She represents issuers and executives facing US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) subpoenas and investigations, as well as board committees in connection with internal investigations into financial reporting, accounting, disclosures, and internal controls issues. Leadership A recognized leader within and outside the firm, Sarah is a founding member of Washington Area Women Trial Attorneys (WAWTA). She is also active in the D.C. Women’s Bar Association and is vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Class and Derivative Actions Subcommittee. She has co-authored the ABA’s annual publication Recent Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation – Class Actions. She has served on Latham’s Recruiting, Associates, and Pro Bono Committees. Sarah maintains an active pro bono practice, including in partnership with the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the National Veterans Legal Services Program.

Latham & Watkins