Avocats – United States

Brian Richards

Brian Richards is co-chair of the firm’s Private Equity practice and is a partner in the M&A practice at Paul Hastings. Brian has 30 years of experience leading complex domestic and international transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and growth equity investments in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, technology, distribution, and services. The volume and breadth of Brian’s experience is relatively unmatched in the middle market. In 2021 alone, he led more than 30 transactions of all sizes, including several multibillion-dollar deals.

Paul Hastings LLP

Brian Robbins

Partner, former Head of the Firm's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group and current leader of the Firm’s Title I ERISA practice. Practice includes participation in complex mergers and acquisitions, private equity fund formation and structuring, securities and commercial banking transactions involving issues arising under ERISA and related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code; the structuring and implementation of management equity arrangements, and other executive compensation, employment and severance programs; and advice with respect to tax, accounting and securities law issues related thereto.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Brian Rock

Brian Rock represents lenders and borrowers on high-complexity financing transactions, particularly relating to secured lending issues arising under the Uniform Commercial Code. Brian draws on experience advising on hundreds of global matters every year and a comprehensive understanding of financing structures to craft and negotiate debt, collateral, and intercreditor documentation, as well as advise clients on various issues of commercial law, including under: Article 9 (secured transactions) Article 8 (investment securities) Article 2 (sales of goods) Article 3 (negotiable instruments) Article 5 (letters of credit) Article 7 (documents of title) Guaranty and suretyship law He regularly presents on intercreditor agreements, including for the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s Commercial Finance Committee. Brian also leads on drafting the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) forms of intercreditor agreements. A recognized leader at the firm, Brian has served on the Diversity Leadership Committee. Brian maintains an active pro bono practice, including helping transgender people achieve legal name and gender marker changes. Publications "Expert Q&A on Current Issues with Intercreditor Agreements," Thomson Reuters Practical Law, August 2024 “Form of First Lien / Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement,” LSTA, American Bar Association, May 2024

Latham & Watkins

Brian Rosenthal

Brian Rosenthal is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Intellectual Property practice. Brian is a trial lawyer with a particular emphasis on patent litigation. His patent litigation practice has spanned a wide range of technologies, with a concentration on computer software, electronics and medical devices.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brian Ross

Partner, Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Gibbs & Bruns LLP

Brian S. Choi

Partner

Kasowitz LLP

Brian S. Hermann

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Brian Schafer

Winston Taylor

Brian Schneider

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Brian Scrivani

Brian’s practice focuses on advising private equity firms and public and private clients on a wide range of corporate transactions including leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, public company acquisitions, sales and divestitures and mergers-of-equals. He also advises board of directors and special committees on corporate and securities law, fiduciary matters and corporate governance matters including unsolicited offers, proxy contests and other activist defense matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brian Sedlak

Practice Leader Real Estate

Jones Day

Brian Sedlak

Practice Leader Real Estate

Jones Day

Brian Sher

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brian Shue

Brian A. Shue serves as a team lead of the firm's Construction and Engineering industry group. He practices in the area of construction law. Clients rely on Mr. Shue for not only his strong legal advice, but also for the practical real-world advice he provides, having worked directly in the construction industry. Mr. Shue drafts and negotiates construction agreements, architect and engineer agreements, trade contracts/subcontracts and license agreements on behalf of developers, contractors and design professionals. As a complement to his transactional practice, Mr. Shue also assists clients in disputes arising from public and private construction projects and has prepared pleadings and motions and coordinated pretrial discovery in complex litigations. He advises on the resolution of construction disputes through litigation, arbitration and mediation. Mr. Shue's experience in this regard extends to construction defect claims, delay and disruption claims, change order and extra work claims, warranty claims, property damage, insurance and surety bonding issues, mechanic's liens, default/termination and other related matters. Representative projects include: stadiums, courthouses, infrastructure/transportation facilities, hospitals, institutional buildings, schools, manufacturing facilities, hotels and high-rise commercial and residential buildings. Mr. Shue has been directly involved in some of the largest and most iconic development projects in New York metropolitan area including, for example: the Hudson Yards Redevelopment, Columbia University's Manhattanville expansion, World Trade Center Office Towers and Essex Crossing.

Duane Morris LLP

Brian Skretny

Public Policy Advisor

WilmerHale

Brian Slater

Partner and Co-Head, Intellectual Property

Sterlington PLLC

Brian Socolow

Partner and Co-Chair, Sports

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Brian Stadler

Brian specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He represents private equity firms and public and private companies in a wide variety of M&A matters, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers, minority investments, joint ventures, carve-outs and takeover defense. While he has counseled clients in a broad range of industries, Brian has extensive experience in M&A transactions involving REITs and other real estate companies. He has advised Blackstone on more than 30 take private transactions, including eight in a recent 13-month period and the landmark Equity Office Properties and Hilton acquisitions.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Brian Steinhardt

Co-Head of Simpson Thacher’s Banking and Credit Practice, Brian Steinhardt represents leading private equity and infrastructure sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with a broad range of corporate finance transactions, including bank and bridge loan financings, energy and other infrastructure financings and acquisition financings. He also advises companies on a range of corporate finance transactions, including other leveraged and investment grade syndicated bank financings. His clients have included Hellman & Friedman, KKR, Apax, EQT, Centerbridge, Brookfield, Cohesity, Electronic Arts, Sirius XM Radio and WW International (f/k/a Weight Watchers). In 2008, Brian represented the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on its approximately $30 billion financing arrangement related to JPMorgan’s acquisition of Bear Stearns, and in 2009 he represented the U.S. Treasury Department concerning certain financing arrangements for the Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Brian Stekloff

Wilkinson Stekloff

Brian Stevens

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Brian Stolzenbach

Partner

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Brian Sturm

Wiggin and Dana LLP

Brian Sung

Partner

Haynes and Boone, L.L.P.