Avocats – United States

Cecilia Moss

Founding Partner

Chaffetz Lindsey LLP

Cecilia Oh

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Cecilia Peniza

Cecilia Peniza represents clients across all phases of patent and trade secret litigation and arbitration proceedings in a wide range of technologies, including medical devices, automotive parts, industrial machinery, mobile applications, and computer and other handheld electronics, and consumer goods. Cecilia brings experience in jury trials in US District Courts as well as hearings before the US International Trade Commission, examining fact and expert witnesses and arguing numerous issues in court ranging from preliminary injunction and evidentiary motions, to claim construction and post-trial issues. Cecilia's practice also includes counseling clients on IP issues in pre-product launch or business acquisitions, as well as advising clients on licensing issues. Prior to joining Latham, Cecilia served as a presenter at various legal workshops on licensing, a co-editor on a weekly publication on IP licensing issues at the Licensing Executive Society, and as an adjunct professor teaching licensing at George Washington University Law School. Cecilia leverages her engineering background to help clients navigate: Pre-trial, discovery, trial, and post-trial phases of complex patent litigation in federal court International Trade Commission (ITC) hearings Patent prosecution and US Patent and Trademark Office proceedings, including inter partes reviews Licensing and settlement agreements Cecilia maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes advising in landlord-tenant, Social Security disability, immigration, and criminal matters, often on behalf of Spanish-speaking clients.

Latham & Watkins

Celeste Koeleveld

Celeste Koeleveld has over 25 years of experience in government enforcement, regulatory and civil litigation matters that span federal, state and local government in the United States. Over the course of her career, she has held senior positions in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and the New York City Law Department. Celeste represents clients, both corporates and individuals, with regulatory compliance, internal investigations, and all phases of civil, criminal and regulatory litigation, from inception through the appellate process. Her significant government experience imparts a particularly insightful perspective to her advice and counsel in matters involving regulatory agencies. Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Celeste served on the executive committee of DFS, joining in 2016 as General Counsel, and ultimately serving as Deputy Superintendent and Special Counsel. During her time at DFS, she handled a broad spectrum of regulatory and enforcement actions, including disciplinary and enforcement proceedings, licensing matters, implementation of legislation and promulgation of regulations. In particular, as General Counsel, Celeste was instrumental in the development and implementation of DFS cybersecurity and transaction monitoring regulations. In addition to her recent role at DFS, Celeste previously served for 16 years in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, rising to serve as the Chief of the Criminal Division. In that role, she led a team of more than 160 Assistant US Attorneys and oversaw all criminal investigations and prosecutions. She also served as the Chief Appellate Attorney of the SDNY for four years, overseeing the extensive appellate practice. During her tenure with the SDNY, she also served as the Chief of the General Crimes Unit. Prior to joining DFS, Celeste served for eight years as Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department. In this role she oversaw several litigation and trial divisions and provided legal advice to City agencies responding to governmental investigation from a variety of federal, state and local prosecutors and investigative bodies.

Clifford Chance

Celeste Lawton

Norton Rose Fulbright

Celinda Metro

Counsel

Watson Farley & Williams (New York) LLP

Chad Albert

Partner

Levine Lee LLP

Chad Bowman

Partner and Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Media and Entertainment Law Group

Ballard Spahr LLP

Chad Davis

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Chad Ewing

Partner

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Chad G. Rolston

Chad Rolston delivers solution-oriented counsel to private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and strategic clients in complex transactions. Chad guides clients on their highest profile mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, joint ventures, controlling and minority investments, growth equity, and general corporate matters across a range of industries, including: Software Internet and digital media Healthcare and life sciences Semiconductors Retail and consumer products Drawing on prior software sales and engineering experience and complementary skill s representing both strategic and private equity buyers and sellers in public and private M&A, he has a keen sense of parties’ needs and interests on all sides of a deal.

Latham & Watkins

Chad Husnick

Chad Husnick represents debtors, creditors, equity holders and other stakeholders in all aspects of corporate liability management, restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. He has represented clients in a variety of industries, including energy, real estate, hospitality, gaming, retail, manufacturing, media, transportation and infrastructure. Clients include Frontier Communications, Neiman Marcus, Cirque de Soleil, Regus, Seadrill Partners, Oasis Petroleum, Barneys New York, Toys “R” Us, Energy Future Holdings, Cobalt International, C&J Energy Services, MS Resorts, GGPLP L.L.C, Nebraska Book Company, Masonite Corporation, Calpine and United Airlines.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Chad M. Jennings

Chad Jennings helps FDA-regulated companies and financial institutions navigate complex transactions, particularly relating to life sciences and biotechnology. Chad approaches each matter with a data-focused perspective and leverages a comprehensive understanding of his clients’ business objectives to assess risk associated with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation within the transactional context. He advises clients across the drug, biologics, medical device, food, and dietary supplement sectors in: Capital markets offerings Public and private financings Mergers and acquisitions Strategic transactions Loan transactions and debt facilities Public company representation matters He draws on a breadth of regulatory advisory experience to advise clients on risks associated with pre-commercial product development and clinical and pre-clinical testing, product promotion and labeling, and product manufacturing and quality matters. Chad served as a judicial intern for Judge Norman K. Moon at the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia. Before law school, Chad performed consulting work for a liberal arts college developing undergraduate business curriculum and research materials relating to finance and international investment. A recognized thought leader, he participates with the Food and Drug Law Institute, including speaking at industry events.

Latham & Watkins

Chad McCormick

Partner

White & Case LLP

Chad Pilcher

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Chad Sayala

Attorney

Offit Kurman

Chad Smith

Chad M. Smith is a corporate partner in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Chad’s practice focuses on domestic energy transactions, with an emphasis on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures in the upstream and midstream sectors. Chad represents clients in connection with a broad range of purchase and sale transactions, including both upstream and midstream oil and gas assets and companies. Chad’s transactional experience also includes advising clients in connection with the formation of joint ventures (both upstream and midstream), farmout and participation agreements to develop oil and gas properties, oil and gas transportation and gathering agreements, natural gas processing and fractionation agreements, crude storage and terminaling agreements and other commercial transactions concerning the development of oil and gas properties.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Chad V. Theriot

Partner

Jones Walker LLP

Chad Vance

Chad Vance is a partner in the Insurance M&A practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Chicago office. Chad focuses his practice on a variety of corporate, securities and regulatory matters relating to the insurance and financial services industry. His work includes the representation of both buyers and sellers in connection with mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions; the representation of underwriters and issuers in connection with public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities; and the representation of lenders and borrowers in connection with financing transactions.

Paul Hastings LLP

Chad Walters

Partner Practice Group Co-Chair - PTAB Trials (Firmwide)

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Chad Werner

Partner

King & Spalding

Chadron Edwards

Chadron Edwards represents sponsors, lenders and other entities in connection with project financing transactions, with a focus on energy and infrastructure. Chadron has strong experience in renewable energy, finance and public-private partnership (PPP) transactions. He previously served in a credit structuring role in the transportation, infrastructure and energy group at a major project finance bank in New York. To learn more about Chadron please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/chadron-l-edwards

Akin

Chadé Severin

Chadé Severin is an M&A partner in the Boston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Chadé’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions for public and private companies primarily in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and technology industries. She has advised boards of directors on many transactions involving controlling stakeholders, both on behalf of the controlled company and the controller. She was named as a winner in the New Leaders in the Law category of the 2024 New England Legal Awards, and also as a Rising Star in Life Sciences in 2021 by Law360.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Chaim Wachsberger

Projects

Norton Rose Fulbright