Avocats – United States

Blake Sharpton

Butler Snow LLP

Blakely Fernandez

Blakely Latham Fernandez focuses her practice in the space where business and government intersect, recognizing that complex business issues and solutions often exist in a political environment, just as complex public issues and solutions often benefit from private partnerships. She represents both governmental entities and private sector clients in structuring projects that include public benefit and, often, incentives. As a former elected official, she recognizes the stewardship and political considerations that are an important part of project development.

Bracewell LLP

Blayne A Grady

Blayne Grady regularly represents private equity fund sponsors in connection with both U.S. and international funds throughout the life cycle of a private equity fund. He also represents registered investment advisers with respect to regulatory compliance, and has significant experience counseling new and emerging managers through the numerous issues that impact a first-time fund sponsor. In addition, he counsels institutional investors in connection with investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and direct co-investments. Blayne brings a breadth of market knowledge to bear in helping clients handle complex fund structuring and negotiation. He handles transactional matters involving private equity fund formation, fund investment, fund manager transactions and seed investments, mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, stock and asset purchases, equity and debt financings, strategic growth opportunities, and exit strategies. To learn more about Blayne, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/blayne-a-grady.html

Akin

Blythe Lovinger

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Boaz Cohen

Partner, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Bob Allen

Bob Allen is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Litigation and Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations practice groups. His practice focuses on representing corporations and executives in regulatory and criminal investigations, internal investigations, corporate governance matters and complex litigation. He has represented some of the largest companies and many senior executives in their most significant matters, achieving successful resolutions and victories. Clients have called him “absolutely fantastic,” “thoughtful” and “incredibly intelligent” per Chambers & Partners (2025). Before joining Kirkland, Bob served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Taskforce, Bob investigated and prosecuted securities fraud, accounting fraud, insider trading and other white-collar cases along with partners at the SEC, CFTC and elsewhere. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Bob tried seven cases to a verdict, winning convictions in every instance, and successfully argued many appeals before the Second Circuit. Bob has been recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S., Benchmark Litigation and earlier in his career by Law360 as a “Rising Star.” Bob graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and a recipient of the Sears Prize for having the highest first-year grades. Bob clerked for the Honorable Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Bob has served as a guest lecturer on white collar matters at several law schools writes and regularly speaks and writes on similar matters.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Bob Cohen

Robert (Bob) H. Cohen focuses his practice on transactional and securities work for a broad range of clients. He counsels clients on initial and follow-on public offerings, special-purpose acquisition (SPAC), at-the-market (ATM) and off the shelf offerings, registered direct and private investment in public equity (PIPE) financings, private placements, bridge financings and equity lines, and related transactions. Bob also has extensive experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, 1933 and 1934 representation, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/cohen-robert-h/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Bob Holden

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Bob Lian

Drawing on more than 25 years of litigation experience representing employers and executives in a diverse array of industries, Bob Lian represents clients in their most challenging workplace legal issues. These include class and collective action claims, internal and regulatory investigations, disputes with executives, and restrictive covenant and competitive hiring claims. He also provides strategic advice to companies on a range of workplace legal issues. Mr. Lian also works with clients on a full range of occupational health and safety matters. For over a decade, he has led the firm’s labor and employment practice. To learn more about Bob, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/robert-g-lian.html.

Akin

Bob Rivollier

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Bob Steinberg

Litigation & Trial Partner

Latham & Watkins

Bob Stupar

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Bobby Malhotra

Winston Taylor

Bojan Guzina

Partner

White & Case LLP

Bonnie A. Neuman

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Bonnie Baker

Bonnie Baker is an experienced litigator and white collar criminal defense attorney who represents individuals and companies in actions arising under the securities laws, in complex financial and tort litigations, and in regulatory and criminal investigations involving allegations of money laundering, insider trading, mail and wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, sexual abuse and misconduct, defamation, and other white collar matters. She also counsels clients on pre-litigation, litigation avoidance, and compliance matters. Bonnie was a member of the Friedman Kaplan defense team that represented the former Chief Financial Officer of Archegos Capital Management in a prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, including through a 2024 nine-week criminal trial involving charges of RICO conspiracy, securities fraud, and mail and wire fraud relating to the 2021 collapse of the family office. Her recent notable work also includes the representation of a UK national for whom Friedman Kaplan secured a complete acquittal after a lengthy trial spanning almost three years in an international white collar case involving charges of fraud, bribery, money laundering, and tax evasion.

Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Bonnie Eskenazi

Bonnie Eskenazi is consistently recognized as one of the most prominent entertainment attorneys in Hollywood. She regularly handles some of Hollywood’s most high profile and landmark entertainment disputes for some of the industry’s leading performers, directors, writers, producers, rights holders, and talent agents. Bonnie’s practice is international in scope and she has extensive experience in all aspects of the entertainment industry, media and intellectual property matters, including royalties and profit participations, idea theft, contracts, defamation and reputation protection, invasion of privacy, trademarks, copyright, merchandise and licensing, music distribution, music publishing, motion picture production and distribution and new technology. Bonnie’s clients have included Marvel Entertainment, Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Estate of JRR Tolkien, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, MGM, STX Entertainment, EndemolShine North America, Bron Studios, Marlon Brando, Hans Zimmer, HarperCollins Publishing, Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, DIC Entertainment, Lagardere Entertainment, Elle Macpherson, Geffen Records, Horror Inc. (owners of the rights to Friday the 13th), Bagdasarian Productions (owners of the Chipmunks), Stephen Slesinger Inc. (owners of rights in Winnie the Pooh). Bonnie is also outside general counsel for the Bob Marley Estate. Her passion for advancing the careers of women led her to join the board of Women In Film and to create and launch its sexual harassment Help Line which includes a pro bono legal aid panel in addition to therapeutic assistance for survivors of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry. Bonnie has been profiled in numerous magazines and newspapers over her 30 years in practice such as the Los Angeles Times, Southern California Super Lawyers, Los Angeles Business Journal, National Law Journal and has been honored by nearly every legal and entertainment publication covering litigation or entertainment/media practices. Bonnie has served on Greenberg Glusker's management committee for the past 15 years. She teaches a course in Entertainment Law at Stanford Law School and is an annual guest lecturer at Harvard Law School.

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Bonnie Lau

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Morrison Foerster

Bonny E. Sweeney

Partner and Co-Chair of US Antitrust Practice Group

Hausfeld LLP

Bora Bozkurt

Bora Bozkurt is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Bora focuses on US federal income taxation with a particular emphasis on international and corporate tax. His practice encompasses a wide range of cross-border and US domestic transactions, including financing transactions, derivatives, private and registered securities offerings, mergers, acquisitions, and cross-border tax planning and restructuring. Bora is a member of the Executive Committee of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), Vice Chair of the Financial Institutions and Products Committee of the American Bar Association, and a member of the Tax Forum.

Latham & Watkins

Boris Bershteyn

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Boris Feldman

Partner and Head of U.S. Technology

Freshfields

Boris Segalis

Boris Segalis | Morrison Foerster Boris Segalis is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Privacy + Data Security Group. For over a dozen years, he has counseled clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues in the context of strategic product advice, corporate transactions, and regulatory investigations. Boris regularly advises clients on the development and implementation of data-driven products and services, on global privacy and cybersecurity compliance, and on handling cyber incidents affecting companies and users globally. Boris also regularly defends companies in U.S. federal, state, and global privacy and cybersecurity investigations, including representing clients in front of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the New York and California attorneys general, and foreign regulators. Boris’s practice focuses on advising clients on the requirements of a variety of U.S. privacy and cybersecurity laws, including the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA) and other U.S. state privacy laws; state cybersecurity requirements such as the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)’s Cybersecurity Regulation; the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA); the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA); CAN-SPAM; NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework (CFS); the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA); and the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA). Boris regularly advises financial institutions and Fintech companies on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Boris also has experience advising companies on privacy concerns stemming from the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) and other biometric data requirements. Boris has a strong command of global privacy and cybersecurity laws and advises companies on regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the EU’s ePrivacy Directive.

Morrison Foerster

Boris Shkuta

Boris Shkuta focuses on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulation and compliance for electric power companies and natural gas pipelines. He represents energy clients in a diverse array of FERC and federal court proceedings including, for example, representation of pipelines in rate case litigation before administrative law judges; natural gas pipelines in complex bankruptcy proceedings; and electric transmission developers in high stakes FERC and federal appeals court proceedings. Boris also frequently advises generation developers navigating complex generation interconnection processes. In addition, he has significant experience working on Administrative Procedure Act issues, especially in connection with rule-making proceedings such as FERC’s recent changes to its natural gas certificate policy statement.

Bracewell LLP