Avocats – United States

Christopher D. Lueking

Christopher Lueking is in his 36th year of practice with Latham & Watkins. Christopher advises clients on corporate finance, securities, and public and private company representation, including initial public, secondary, high-yield bond, and private securities offerings. He also counsels public and private companies on securities, finance, and corporate governance matters. Christopher's practice includes representation of issuers and investment banks in public offerings of equity and high-yield debt as well as investors and issuers in venture capital transactions.

Latham & Watkins

Christopher D. Plumlee

RMP LLP

Christopher D. Porter

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Christopher Davies

Partner Vice Chair, Securities & Financial Services Department

WilmerHale

Christopher DeGroff

Chris DeGroff is the national Co-Chair of the firm's Complex Discrimination Litigation Practice Group, the Labor and Employment Department Chair for Chicago, and a Member of the Labor and Employment Department's Steering Committee. He represents employers throughout the country and in a wide range of employment law matters largely focused on multi-plaintiff and class/collective actions. His class action experience spans the entire scope of employment law theories, including claims of race, age and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation and wage and hour matters. He also has extensive experience litigating against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), at the early charge stage, in administrative subpoena enforcement actions, and in large-scale EEOC pattern-or-practice litigation.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Christopher Desmond

Dechert

Christopher Dorian

Finance Counsel

Latham & Watkins

Christopher Duerden

Dechert

Christopher Dueringer

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Christopher Duffy

Partner

King & Spalding

Christopher Eide

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Christopher Erickson

Associate

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Christopher Essig

Winston Taylor

Christopher Ewan

Mr. Ewan is a partner and concentrates his practice in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions representing private equity firms and public and private corporations.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Christopher Fargo

Christopher K. Fargo is a partner in Cravath’s Tax Department. He represents clients in connection with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, securities offerings and joint ventures. Mr. Fargo has advised on matters across a broad range of industries, including media and entertainment, consumer products, retail, telecommunications, transportation, energy, healthcare and fintech.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Christopher Feldman

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Christopher Fisher

Partner - Corporate Finance Transactions Office Managing Partner - Dallas

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Christopher Ford

Christopher S. Ford is a counsel in the Litigation Department who is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group and Data Strategy & Security practice. Mr. Ford has litigated trademark, trade dress, and false advertising cases in federal court and before the Trademark Trial and Appeals Board, and regularly advises clients on issues relating to their trademark and brand management. He is a member of the International Trademark Association’s Non-Traditional Marks committee and has been the chair of its U.S. Litigation task force since 2020. He has guest lectured on trademark and trade dress issues at New York University School of Law and Rutgers School of Law.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Christopher Frey

Christopher D. Frey, a former federal prosecutor, an experienced trial attorney, and a partner in the firm's San Francisco office, focuses his practice on white collar and regulatory defense, government and internal investigations, and high-stakes civil litigation. Christopher regularly advises major global companies and leading financial institutions, individual executives, and Boards of Directors in highly sensitive and confidential matters. He routinely provides counsel to clients facing investigations involving the US Department of Justice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state regulatory bodies, and has amassed significant experience in matters related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), money laundering, economic sanctions, securities fraud, and cryptocurrency. Christopher also routinely provides strategic counseling on compliance issues and crisis management. Before joining Latham, Christopher was a partner in the Tokyo office of another global law firm, where he advised clients based in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia. Christopher also served as the head of that office for approximately two and a half years. Earlier in his career, Christopher served for over six and a half years as an Assistant US Attorney in the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. As a member of the Securities & Commodities Fraud Task Force as well as the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, he investigated and prosecuted a wide array of complex white-collar matters, including FCPA violations, insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, investment fraud, money laundering, intellectual property, cybercrimes, and criminal tax offenses. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Christopher was the lead trial lawyer in numerous jury trials, and he has substantial appellate experience, having briefed and/or argued over a dozen appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2014 to 2015, Christopher served as Associate Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. In that capacity, Christopher helped develop and execute the White House’s response to various Congressional investigations and related hearings, and provided legal and strategic advice to White House staff and Executive Branch officials on compliance, oversight, and risk management issues. Christopher also maintains an active pro bono practice, which focuses on LGBTQ rights and the representation of indigent criminal defendants, among other matters. Christopher has previously served on both the New York City Bar Association’s Criminal Advocacy Committee and its Judiciary Committee, which reviews and evaluates all judicial candidates for the federal and state courts in New York City. Christopher is currently a member of BALIF (the Bay Area’s LGBTQ Bar Association) and LeGal (the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York).

Latham & Watkins

Christopher Friedman

Husch Blackwell LLP

Christopher G. Michel

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Christopher Galanek

Senior Trial Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Christopher Garcia

Christopher Garcia defends clients in their highest-stakes regulatory and criminal disputes. Leveraging his extensive experience as a federal prosecutor, Christopher helps companies, boards of directors, executives, broker-dealers, and investment advisers navigate: Internal investigations Securities class actions in state and federal courts across the US Securities and corporate governance issues Regulatory compliance Christopher was previously Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In this role, he led all aspects of securities fraud investigations and litigation, including those The New York Times highlighted as underpinning “the government’s widespread crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street.” He has supervised the investigation and prosecution of more than 300 cases relating to corporate fraud, consumer fraud, insider trading, fraudulent investment schemes, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including matters arising from the 2008 financial crisis. Christopher is a recognized as a thought leader in the academic and legal community. He served on Law360’s 2020 Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board and regularly speaks and writes on securities litigation, enforcement, and white collar topics, including cybersecurity, social media communications and related US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure issues, and anti-corruption enforcement. He has presented as a featured speaker at events coordinated by Bloomberg/Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Practicing Law Institute, the New York City Bar Association, the American Bar Association (ABA), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the SEC, and the US Department of Justice. He also has been featured in leading publications, including Bloomberg, Forbes, and Reuters. Christopher serves as Chair of the New York Regional Committee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s White Collar Crime Committee and as Co-Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Securities Fraud Sub-Committee. He has also served as a member of the Federal Bar Council’s Membership Committee and on the board of the Legal Aid Society of New York.

Latham & Watkins

Christopher Garrett

A partner in the San Diego office, Christopher W. Garrett has practiced law with the firm since 1981. His practice centers on environmental law, municipal law and land use law throughout California and the Western United States. His areas of expertise include federal, state and local regulation of air pollution, water quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, wetlands protection, endangered species preservation and other environmental and land use laws, including municipal law, public finance and government contracts requirements. His particular areas of concentration involve air pollution laws and regulations and compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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