Avocats – United States

Bruce Olcott

Partner

Jones Day

Bruce Parker

Venable LLP

Bruce Richardson

Partner Bruce L. Richardson focuses his practice on electric energy law. He advises independent power producers (IPPs), merchant transmission developers, electric power marketers, energy asset managers and private equity firms in the energy sector. While Bruce routinely appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on regulatory matters and in administrative litigation, he represents energy sector clients on a wide range of regulatory, electric reliability, transactional and project issues. On regulatory matters, Bruce provides guidance on issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Energy Policy Acts of 1992 and 2005, and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. The guidance includes independent power production, interconnection matters, affiliate utility issues, transmission access and pricing, ancillary services, cost-based rates, regional transmission organizations, organized power markets, market-based rates, reliability must-run service, power supply purchases and sales, retail wheeling and wholesale electric customer disputes. Bruce also counsels clients on regulatory compliance matters, including the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) electric reliability standards and requirements. For transactions, he assists clients regarding electric power contracts, utility restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Please visit our website for more details: https://www.mwe.com/people/richardson-bruce-l/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Bruce T. Frankiewich

With over 25 years of experience in the deployment and operation of wireline and wireless networks, Bruce assists telecommunications providers, information service providers, infrastructure providers and broadband service providers connect with their customers. Bruce has real world experience having served as in-house counsel with a fiber optic-based telecom operating company and a global wireless carrier, and is highly skilled at securing state operating authority, negotiating franchise and Right of Way access agreements, pole attachment agreements, network construction and maintenance agreements and in creating templates for the leasing and operation of data centers. In connection with wireless infrastructure, Bruce has a depth of experience in the deployment, operation and maintenance of macro cell sites, small cells, indoor and outdoor Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and the deployment of wireless infrastructure jointly with all leading wireless carriers at major high profile venues such as airports, transit systems, federal government buildings and major sporting arenas and stadiums.

Phillips Lytle LLP

Bruce Tribush

Partner

Goodwin

Bruce Vanyo

There is a reason Bruce Vanyo's peers call him the "dean of securities litigation." He has spent more than 40 years handling securities fraud and corporate governance lawsuits for clients such as Amarin Corporation, Amdocs, Inc., Angie's List, Boeing Company, Cree, Inc. and GW Pharmaceuticals — and succeeding on their behalf. Leading the firm's securities litigation and enforcement practice, Bruce represents clients across a number of industries, particularly technology and life sciences. Bruce has "defended more major securities cases than any other lawyer in America," as the National Association of Corporate Directors has said. He represents clients who are in the midst of high-profile, sensitive cases that demand a deft approach and swift resolution. He makes it a priority to stop these lawsuits at the earliest opportunity, and regularly achieves this outcome. Of the more than 60 securities class actions Bruce has resolved over the past two decades, he has obtained complete dismissal at or before the pleading stage in more than three-quarters of them. By resolving cases efficiently, Bruce minimizes distractions for his clients and allows them to focus on running their businesses. His approach also controls the potentially burdensome costs of litigation. A number of Bruce's victories have favorably influenced securities law for defendants. He recently earned the dismissal of an $800 million securities class action, for instance, that clarified and limited a company's disclosure requirements with regard to the FDA's drug approval process. When the technology industry was besieged by class actions, he was tapped to lead its securities litigation reform efforts, creating the pleading and safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Katten

Bruce W. Gilchrist

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Bruce Wexler

Bruce Wexler is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice at Paul Hastings. Mr. Wexler is a trial lawyer with extensive experience litigating high-stakes patent cases in a range of technologies. He has represented clients as lead counsel in enforcement and defense matters involving multi-million and multi-billion-dollar drug products. He forms close partnerships with his clients to support successful outcomes, including in their bet-the-company cases. In Hatch-Waxman Act matters, he has opposed challenges by most generic drug companies. He has helped his clients with important drug products such as Aricept®, Pradaxa®, Mirapex®, Cyltezo®, Basaglar®, Entereg®, Emend® oral and Emend® for Injection, Aciphex®, Banzel®, Gocovri®, Comirnaty®, and Opsumit®. He is a former judicial law clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he served under Chief Judge Glenn L. Archer, Jr. He clerked for Chief Judge Archer during the Chief Judge’s preparation of influential Federal Circuit decisions including Markman v. Westview. Mr. Wexler is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches an advanced course in “Life Sciences and Patent Law.”

Paul Hastings LLP

Bruce Wexler

Partner

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Bruce Yannett

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Bruce Yannett

He focuses on white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations. He represents a broad range of companies, financial institutions and their executives in matters involving securities fraud, accounting fraud, foreign bribery, cybersecurity, insider trading, and money laundering.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Bruce Yen

Partner

White & Case LLP

Bruce Zisser

Bruce Zisser has more than two decades of experience litigating patent disputes for major multinational corporations and leading-edge emerging companies. Combining his extensive litigation background with more than ten years of experience as an electrical engineer—including more than five years working on a broad range of high-tech telecommunications systems in the U.S. Air Force—Bruce is able to bring a profound depth of specialized knowledge to guide clients through even the most complex legal and technical issues. With a laser focus on patent litigation, Bruce has successfully represented clients in federal court throughout California, Texas and Delaware, as well as before the International Trade Commission. He also is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Clients turn to him to protect their innovations, enforce patents and defend their trade secrets from misappropriation domestically and internationally. Bruce helps clients both enforce their own patents and defend against patent infringement charges across a diverse array of product and service areas, including mobile technology, electronic health records, medical devices, data security, fiber optic communications, smart battery management technology and radio frequency identification technology (RFID). Before joining Manatt, Bruce was of counsel at a leading global law firm focused on business litigation and arbitration.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Bruno Ciuffetelli

Partner

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Bruno Soares

Partner; Office Managing Partner, DLA Piper's São Paulo Office; US-LatAm Practice Group Regional Co-Leader, DLA Piper's US-Brazilian Initiative

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Bryan Chegwidden

Partner, Global Head of Asset Management

Ropes & Gray LLP

Bryan Collins

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Bryan Connolly

Partner; Managing Partner, DLA Piper's Boston Office

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Bryan Dumesnil

Bryan Dumesnil provides Bracewell’s clients with the intense dedication needed when facing complex litigation challenges. Although most cases are resolved outside the courtroom, a trial lawyer must be willing and able to try a case in order to achieve the best results for the client. Bryan knows this, and that is why he approaches every case as if it will be tried. By doing so, Bryan is prepared to zealously protect his clients and their interests if a negotiated resolution is not possible.

Bracewell LLP

Bryan Gadol

Partner

Holland & Knight

Bryan Gant

Partner

White & Case LLP

Bryan Hales

Bryan Hales is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer with a focus on patent and trade secret litigation. He has won jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations first chair. Recent highlights include the successful defense as lead trial counsel for ZimmerBiomet in a multi-hundred-million dollar arbitration after a 10-day trial, winning a multi-patent case as lead trial counsel for Sandoz’ over its proposed generic version of ophthalmologic drugs, the successful defense as co-trial counsel for a major pharmaceutical company in two separate billion-dollar-plus arbitrations, and the successful defense as lead trial counsel for a major medical device manufacturer in two confidential arbitrations, and winning as lead trial counsel a five-day trial for Zimmer in Delaware federal court, defeating the claims of two prominent orthopedic surgeons—one was the head physician for the 1992 U.S. Olympic Basketball “Dream Team” and the head physician for the New York Knicks for more than 25 years—that they should be named as inventors on three Zimmer patents related to some of its most successful artificial knee implants.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Bryan Hunkele

Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Bryan Ketroser

Partner

Alto Litigation