Avocats – United States

Christine Okike

Christine A. Okike is a restructuring partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She represents public and private companies, sponsors, investors, creditors and purchasers in high-stakes, liability management transactions, recapitalizations and restructurings. She also advises boards of directors and senior management on fiduciary duties and corporate governance. Christine has a broad range of experience across a number of industries, including cryptocurrency, automotive, sports, entertainment, retail, energy, real estate, financial services, technology, transportation, travel, health care, media and telecommunications.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Christine P. Payne

Gunster

Christine Sama

Partner

Goodwin

Christine Savage

Partner

King & Spalding

Christine Savage

Christine Savage, co-chair of Choate’s Healthcare Group and a member of the Government Enforcement and Compliance Group, regularly collaborates with a diverse range of healthcare services and life sciences companies to help them satisfy compliance obligations, protect reputations, deliver value, and ultimately facilitate their ability to focus on their patients or customers. Christine’s 25 years of experience working internal investigations and managing government inquiries related to healthcare fraud help inform her approach to compliance and risk management projects. As one of the few subject matter experts in the country, Christine is routinely called on to assist academic and clinical research institutions at all stages of the research cycle, from proposal to final close out. She provides legal counsel on contracting, ethical and human subjects protection oversight, effort reporting, and foreign influence issues, and helps craft investigative or disclosure plans in the face of identified problems or concerns. She had led multiple internal reviews related to conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and grants management concerns and resolved material findings with appropriate government agencies including NIH, NSF, OIG and DOJ. Her work includes helping emerging life sciences companies develop and implement key compliance initiatives to put them on the right footing once they have a viable commercial product. She also collaborates with more established pharma and device companies to assess legal risks related to promotional activities, foundation and charity relationships, Open Payments requirements, and patient assistance programs.

Choate, Hall & Stewart

Christine Shiker

Partner

Holland & Knight

Christine Streatfeild

Christine Streatfeild is a Partner in the Washington DC Office and on the Steering Committee for the North America Trade Secrets Practice. She focuses on trade remedies and unfair competition cases, including forced labor investigations, antidumping and countervailing duty cases, safeguard measures, duties imposed for national security purposes (Section 232 duties), and Section 337 intellectual property and trade secrets disputes. She appears before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), US Department of Commerce (DOC), and in state and federal courts. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Christine served as the acting deputy director of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and in the Environment and Natural Resources division of the Office of the United States Trade Representative. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, where she taught Global Trade, Policy and Competition. She is also on the 2021 USMCA Dispute Settlement Panels Roster (on behalf of the United States), a position she has held since 2019 (under the NAFTA). Christine focuses her practice on matters related to trade regulatory and intellectual property matters, including economic injury and damages, import duty compliance, and unfair competition allegations.

Baker McKenzie

Christine Varney

Christine A. Varney is Chair of Cravath's Antitrust Practice. Ms. Varney has been widely recognized as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in the United States in both private practice and in government service, and she is the only person to have served as both the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust and as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. Ms. Varney formulates global antitrust strategy for clients in connection with joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and other business transactions, including advising on business conduct or potential investments to ensure compliance with antitrust laws, securing antitrust regulatory approvals, and handling internal or governmental investigations into anticompetitive behavior. Her clients span diverse industries, including cable, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retail, transportation, technology and telecommunications.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Christine Wong

Christine Y. Wong | Morrison Foerster Christine Wong focuses her practice on investigations, white collar criminal defense, and cross-border compliance matters. Christine draws on her unique background as an internal advisor and as a federal prosecutor in advising companies, boards and executives in a variety of matters that present significant legal and reputational risk – including white collar criminal and regulatory enforcement, internal investigations and related civil litigation. She also provides ongoing compliance advice to corporate clients. Christine has an active trial practice as first chair in both criminal and civil cases. Christine is a former co-chair of MoFo’s Global Litigation Department and the firm’s Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense practice group. She also served as an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she taught Civil Trial Practice. Christine served as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of California, where she investigated a wide range of matters including public corruption, fraud, and organized crime, and served as lead counsel in over a dozen jury trials. She briefed criminal appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining MoFo, Christine led the development and implementation of the global compliance program for a Fortune 500 multinational corporation, where she served as vice president, head of international compliance. In that capacity, she conducted risk assessments for dozens of entities, which resulted in enacting necessary amendments to business workflows and policies. She was responsible for managing investigations and related litigation, reviewing policies and procedures, developing and delivering training modules, and ultimately reporting to the board of directors. Christine speaks conversational Mandarin and Cantonese.

Morrison Foerster

Christodoulos Kaoutzanis

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Christoffer Adler

Partner

White & Case LLP

Christophe Wassaf

Partner

Mayer Brown

Christopher A. Ogiba

Chris Ogiba is a versatile litigator who focuses on high stakes matters for a variety of institutional, corporate, and individual clients. He is a go-to trial attorney for several Fortune 500 companies, home builders, financial institutions, accounting firms, household-name retailers, construction companies, industrial and manufacturing entities, and real estate developers. Chris is an experienced civil litigator and trial attorney who has successfully represented a wide variety of clients in state and federal court and in arbitrations. As the chair of the firm’s Charleston Litigation group, Chris is supported by a smart and creative team of professionals and is adept at scaling up or down as the needs of a particular engagement demand. Chris also advises his clients of the most efficient and least painful methods of resolving their disputes. Chris is a litigator who can take on any legal obstacle with success and exceptional service, bringing a deep understanding of the law and evolving regulations. He has more than 25 years of experience representing home builders, financial institutions, investment firms, technology companies, professional services networks, accounting and auditing firms, third-party human resource and administrative companies, manufacturers and distributors of industrial and consumer products, construction and bonding companies, retirement communities, real estate developers, and property owners’ associations. Chris has tried more than two dozen cases to verdict in a variety of venues in several jurisdictions along the East Coast and is known for his calm demeanor and confident approach that puts clients at ease even in the face of a potentially catastrophic dispute. His clients also appreciate that he is cognizant of opportunities to drive efficiencies in cost and time.

Moore & Van Allen, PLLC

Christopher A. Treanor

Chris is a leading lobbying and public policy lawyer with nearly 20 years of experience specializing in energy, climate change, and energy transition issues. His practice centers on advising a broad range of clients, including the largest natural gas producers and infrastructure developers, technology firms, clean energy innovators, and conventional power companies—on complex domestic and international policy matters. Chris represents clients before federal agencies and the U.S. Congress, providing strategic counsel on regulatory, legislative, and advocacy initiatives. His work spans sectors such as energy and sustainability, data centers, transportation, and international trade, and includes advising on cutting-edge issues like artificial intelligence, supply chains, and competition policy. To learn more about Mr. Treanor, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/christopher-a-treanor

Akin

Christopher Ahn

Chris Ahn is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Chris advises private equity sponsors, other investors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, growth equity investments and other strategic transactions. Chris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to numerous operating companies, including many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients, and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. He also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. From 2018 until 2021, Chris served as General Counsel of James Perse, a global apparel, furniture, furnishings and lifestyle brand based in Los Angeles. Chris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as co-chair of the Hiring Committee for the Los Angeles office.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Christopher Anthony

Christopher Anthony is Co-Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a member of the Private Equity Group. He has worked extensively on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures for both private equity and corporate clients.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Christopher Archibald

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Christopher Atkinson

Christopher Atkinson gets deals done. He negotiates deals that allow his clients to grow and succeed. They include mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, equity financings and other transactions that require complex contracts and structures. Having started his career in the tech industry, Christopher brings a client mindset to his deal work for private equity firms, venture capital firms and businesses of all sizes. As a lawyer, Christopher retains the perspective he gained when he worked for emerging tech companies and was a client himself. From that experience, he appreciates the value of a practical approach to deal-making that puts a premium on efficiency. He adeptly cuts through issues and avoids spending needless time over-lawyering highly speculative, low-risk issues. Instead, he takes his clients through transactions as quickly and painlessly as possible. As a skilled negotiator, Christopher understands his clients' leverage (or lack thereof) and works hard to get them the best deal that he can. Christopher advises private equity firms, venture capital firms as well as businesses ranging from founder- and family-owned entities to large public companies. His experience goes well beyond the tech industry to include education, health care, business services, parking, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, restaurants and veterinary care. His work with venture capital firms often facilitates crucial financing for start-ups and other early-stage companies. At times, his deals allow his clients to expand into new areas, as when he helped a leading provider of parking services close a $275 million acquisition that allowed it to branch out into baggage delivery and other airport-related services.

Katten

Christopher Auguste

Counsel, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Christopher Austin

Christopher E. Austin focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Christopher Babbitt

Partner Co-Chair, False Claims Act Practice

WilmerHale

Christopher Baratta

Counsel

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Christopher Barbaruolo

Partner and Chair, Real Estate Investments & Transactions

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Christopher Bell

Litigation associate, Government Contracts Practice. Mr. Bell’s practice focuses on the representation of government contractors, including major defense and aerospace clients, in a wide range of matters involving bid protests and regulatory compliance. Mr. Bell also represents clients in a variety of white-collar criminal investigations and internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act qui tam litigation, and other laws. Mr. Bell further represents clients in diverse commercial litigation matters.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP