Avocats – United States

Sarah Solum

Partner

Freshfields

Sarah Sparer

Sarah Sparer is a partner in the firm’s Construction practice group. She has extensive experience representing a wide array of construction industry clients, including design professionals, real estate developers, property owners, commercial lessees, design builders and contractors in transactional, corporate governance, risk management and litigation matters. Her experience includes front-end advising on the selection of appropriate project delivery methods, drafting and negotiating design and construction agreements, risk management and insurance advising, and managing and litigating complex construction claims.

Thompson Hine LLP

Sarah Stasny

Sarah Stasny is the head of Proskauer’s Private Equity Transactions Group – US. With over two decades of private equity experience, Sarah’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and portfolio companies through the full range of M&A and equity financing transactions. Whether it’s navigating competitive auctions, negotiating shareholder governance, or structuring a seamless sell-side process, Sarah provides practical, thoughtful guidance that helps clients move forward with confidence. Widely regarded as one of top private equity M&A lawyers in the US, Sarah has a track record of building industry-leading teams known for their excellence and reliability. Many of the world’s most prestigious private equity firms turn to Sarah for her deep understanding of the private equity landscape, shaped by years of experience across a broad spectrum of sponsor clients and investors. From fundraising to deployment, she delivers seamless support for clients at the highest levels and in the most demanding environments.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Sarah Stone

Partner

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Sarah Tahir

Sarah Tahir represents airport systems, cities, counties, housing and tollway authorities, investment banks and related entities on public finance matters, including as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, issuer’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel. During law school, Sarah was a legal intern at the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, in Washington, DC.

Bracewell LLP

Sarah Tauman

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Sarah Tishler

Sarah Tishler is Senior Counsel at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a nationally-recognized boutique litigation firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Sarah’s practice is concentrated on trade secret and restrictive covenant advising and litigation, employee mobility, and commercial litigation. Sarah has won successful outcomes for clients on both sides of these disputes in all stages of litigation, including the preliminary injunction stage, jury trials, and mediation. Sarah has also counseled clients on the identification and protection of trade secrets, and the enforceability of noncompetes and other restrictive covenants. Sarah was named by the Legal 500 as a Rising Star for 2023 in the area of Trade Secrets. Sarah is the author of several articles that discuss the interaction between contractual and statutory choice of law and forum selection clauses, in the context of restrictive covenant agreements and legislation. Sarah also co-published an article titled "The Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act: How UREAA Offered an Alternative to Recent State and Federal Regulation of Restrictive Covenants, and Where to Go From Here," in the Spring 2024 edition of the University of Florida's Journal of Law & Public Policy. Sarah was also awarded the Pro Bono Star Award in 2022 by Human Rights First, for her work in successfully obtaining permanent residency and temporary protected status for a Haitian asylum-seeker and her parents, respectively. Sarah graduated magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where she served as Articles Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. Sarah published an article titled A New Approach to Shareholder Standing Before the European Court of Human Rights, in the journal. Sarah also holds a law degree from Sciences Po (Paris) and graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a B.S. in Psychology, a B.A. in International Affairs, and a B.A. in French.

Beck Reed Riden LLP

Sarah Tucker

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Sarah Wellings

Sarah is co-leader of Sullivan’s REITs Practice Group. She advises public and private REITs, both domestic and foreign, in various industries, including data centers, office buildings, commercial retail space, hospitality, multi-family residential, senior living facilities, cold storage facilities, industrial properties, communications towers, distributed antenna systems, timberlands and agricultural properties. She focuses on structuring and compliance work, including cross-border transactions. In addition, Sarah advises clients in state and local tax transactional planning and litigation involving corporate, franchise, and sales/use tax matters. Sarah also has experience in advising tax-exempt organizations, including public charities, on all aspects of operations. Sarah is an adjunct professor with the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Graduate Tax Program, where for over 12 years she has taught tax courses on state and local tax planning and state and local tax controversy.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Sarah Wong

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Sarah Zhang

Associate

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Sarkis Jebejian

Sarkis Jebejian is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s New York office and focuses his practice primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and shareholder activism defense. Sarkis’s clients include Accenture, BAE Systems, Bain Capital, Eli Lilly, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Infineon Technologies, Six Flags and Vista Equity Partners.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Sasha Levites

Partner

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC

Sasha Riedisser

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Sasha Rosenthal-Larrea

Sasha Rosenthal-Larrea focuses her practice on advising clients on their most significant intellectual property issues, including with respect to complex licensing and collaborations, patent and copyright licensing strategy, software and artificial intelligence. She also handles the intellectual property, data privacy and broader technology aspects of major corporate transactions. Additionally, she regularly advises public company clients with respect to governance, public disclosure and other corporate matters.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Sathya Gosselin

Partner

Hausfeld LLP

Satish Kini

Mr. Kini advises on a wide range of regulatory and transactional issues. For example, he has: represented large financial services firms in transactional matters, including to secure regulatory approvals for transactions from U.S. federal and state bank regulatory agencies and to develop compliance frameworks for various business combinations; counseled banks, securities firms, insurers and asset managers in a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues, ranging from the Volcker Rule to affiliate transactions, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and data privacy/security; represented clients in adversarial proceedings before the federal bank regulatory agencies and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), including in investigations, enforcement proceedings and adverse examination contexts; and advised clients on regulatory and compliance issues arising out of cross-border transactions and outsourcing arrangements, including with respect to sanctions and money laundering issues. In the context of these matters, Mr. Kini has led internal fact investigations of clients (involving allegations of data breaches/fraud, money laundering and sanctions compliance issues) and advised clients on compliance governance and structuring. He also has briefed senior business decision-makers and boards of directors, based in the United States and abroad, on important regulatory, enforcement and investigations matters. Mr. Kini has represented a wide range of firms (including banks, securities broker-dealers, insurers and asset managers) and leading industry trade associations on regulatory reform issues, including those arising out of the Dodd-Frank Act, and has assisted clients to participate in the policymaking process before federal regulators. He has helped to create industry coalitions to advocate for regulatory positions and to arrive at consensus interpretations on difficult issues. He also has testified on Dodd-Frank issues before Congress and has represented clients on Dodd-Frank and other matters before the federal banking agencies, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the U.S. Treasury Department and its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Saul Breskal

Partner

Blank Rome LLP

Saul Mezei

Saul Mezei is a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm’s Global Tax Controversy and Litigation Practice Group. His practice spans the federal tax controversy area and focuses on international tax and transfer pricing. He has substantial experience advising clients at all stages of federal tax controversy, from audit and administrative appeals to trial and judicial appeals.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Saul Perloff

Norton Rose Fulbright

Saul Rudo

When middle-market businesses or PE firms structure mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs and management compensation agreements, their leaders call Saul Rudo. While Saul leads teams to efficiently and effectively get to closings, he focuses on the future as much as the present, designing deals that keep his clients in optimal after-tax positions for years to come. As the lead attorney on his matters, Saul offers his clients direct access to his structuring and "market" advice, without engaging in a game of "telephone" through layers of attorneys. Given his vast experience in the field, Saul delivers suggestions that are practical and "market" in nature, and that solve issues efficiently for all parties. As a result, his deals advance steadily toward closing. Saul represents middle-market private equity firms, family offices and closely held businesses typically of up to $1 billion in value. In addition to his extensive M&A work, Saul advises on the business structuring and tax implications of venture capital and start-up transactions, management compensation arrangements and fund formations.

Katten

Saul Shapiro

Saul Shapiro is a Partner and Chair of Patterson Belknap's Media and Entertainment Practice Team. He is the immediate past Chair of the firm's Litigation department, which he headed for two terms. His practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, as well as intellectual property disputes. He has won the dismissal of numerous cases on pre-trial motions. He has also been lead counsel in seven trials, as well as multiple arbitrations, and he has been victorious in all four of the jury trials he has taken to verdict. Mr. Shapiro is an experienced appellate lawyer, and has conducted numerous internal investigations.

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Saurish Appleby-Bhattacharjee

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Savannah Burgoyne

Savannah Burgoyne is a member of the Litigation & Trial Department. She focuses her practice on white collar criminal defense, government and internal investigations, and regulatory and compliance counseling. Savannah has experience advising clients on enforcement, compliance, and litigation matters involving potential violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Bank Secrecy Act, US securities laws and regulations, export controls and trade sanctions, anti-money laundering laws, the federal Anti-kickback Statute (AKS), and a number of other regulatory regimes. Savannah has conducted domestic and international internal investigations of companies across a range of industries, with fieldwork in numerous countries around the world, and has advised clients in the development, implementation, and enhancement of corporate compliance programs. She has also counselled large organizations, including private companies and educational institutions, in matters involving equity and DEI initiatives as well as civil rights compliance. Savannah has experience representing organizations and individuals before congressional committees and in response to congressional subpoenas, including in high-stakes and sensitive inquiries related to national security, healthcare, and civil rights and anti-discrimination laws. She maintains an active pro bono practice, primarily representing clients in Special Immigrant Juvenile and asylum matters. Prior to her experience at Latham, Savannah worked for the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the Appellate Defense Division. Before entering law school, Savannah served as a Teach for America member in Phoenix, Arizona.

Latham & Watkins