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Astrid Ackerman
Astrid Ackerman works on litigation matters. Astrid rejoins Kramer Levin after previously working as a summer associate. During law school, she worked at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Clinic, participated in the Global Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights and volunteered at the Tenants’ Rights Workshop of the East Bay Community Law Center. Prior to law school, Astrid spent a year working for the Casa Cornelia Law Center as a legal assistant. Astrid is a member of the firm’s Attorneys of Color Affinity Group.
Samantha Alman
Astrid Ackerman works on litigation matters. Astrid rejoins Kramer Levin after previously working as a summer associate. During law school, she worked at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Clinic, participated in the Global Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights and volunteered at the Tenants’ Rights Workshop of the East Bay Community Law Center. Prior to law school, Astrid spent a year working for the Casa Cornelia Law Center as a legal assistant. Astrid is a member of the firm’s Attorneys of Color Affinity Group.
Alexander Amato-Cravero
Alexander Amato-Cravero
Alexander leads the firm’s Emerging Technology Group in the UK, US & EMEA. He specialises in helping businesses in all sectors navigate legal and regulatory challenges when developing, using and investing in advanced technologies including artificial intelligence, the metaverse, blockchain, and digital assets such as crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Alexander is an experienced technology lawyer and head of Herbert Smith Freehills' Emerging Technology Group in the UK, US & EMEA. He is an advocate of digital change and provides commercially-focused legal advice on advanced technologies across the full spectrum of web3 and artificial intelligence. He advises the full breadth of businesses, from innovative start-ups to trailblazing incumbents, in all sectors including technology, consumer, and financial services. Alexander also co-heads of the firm's Digital Law Group, where he oversees a global team of technology skilled lawyers who drive the digital transformation of law, including through the development and use of cutting edge legal technologies such as smart legal contracts and generative artificial intelligence (GAI). Alexander is an active member of the emerging technology, legal technology, and start-up communities. He sits on the Steering Committee of Global Blockchain Convergence and is a member of the W3C group on rights automation for market data licences.
Paul J. Andre
Paul J. Andre litigates intellectual property disputes involving complex technology, with a particular emphasis on the life sciences, computer science and the electrical arts. Paul both represents patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and defends companies against allegations of infringement. Admitted to federal courts in more than 30 states, he has handled more than 100 patent trials and litigations throughout the country. Paul also counsels clients from a variety of technology-related industries on intellectual property issues, trade secret protection and other commercial matters. In addition to his work on behalf of clients, Paul serves as the co-chair of the Intellectual Property practice and managing partner of the Silicon Valley office.
Michael Armandou
Michael Armandou
Michaël Armandou is a partner based in the Paris office focusing on project structuring, development and finance in the infrastructure and energy sectors, acting for industrial sponsors and infrastructure funds, lenders, institutional investors, governments and multilateral institutions. Michaël's experience in these sectors is broad and spans transportation (ports, airports, roads, rail), digital infrastructure, social infrastructure, power generation (wind, solar, green hydrogen, geothermal, gas, co-generation etc) and biofuels. He also advises on the financing and development of new giga factories (EV batteries, green steel, etc.). In addition to his work in France and Europe, Michaël also advises on projects in emerging markets, including in Latin America, the Caribbean, Central Asia and Francophone Africa.
Martin Ascher
Martin Ascher works on Litigation matters. Martin returns to Kramer Levin after working as a summer associate in 2019. While in law school, Martin interned with the Office of the New York State Attorney General, Litigation Bureau, assisting in the representation of New York State agencies and personnel in litigation, and the New York City Law Department, Division of Legal Counsel, conducting legal research for various city agencies. As a research assistant, he also assisted former White House Counsel and NYU Law Professor Robert Bauer on his book on reforms to the Presidency.
Christopher Auguste
Christopher S. Auguste counsels and represents clients in the private placement or public offering of debt and equity securities. Chris represents underwriters and issuers in initial and secondary public offerings, private investment funds in their investment in public and private companies, and investment banks in structuring PIPEs, SPACs, shelf offerings and equity line transactions. He counsels private investment funds and funds of funds in connection with their structure and formation, and provides advice and analysis regarding their portfolio investments. He also represents financial institutions and issuers in structured financings.
Mark A. Baghdassarian
Mark A. Baghdassarian is a trial lawyer who litigates complex patent, trademark and trade secret cases in courts across the country. In representing both intellectual property owners and accused infringers, his approach to communicating with judges and juries focuses on storytelling and translating complex technologies into simple and easy-to-understand concepts across a broad spectrum of technologies, including satellite radio devices and services, connected vehicle technology, in-vehicle navigation systems, cellular systems, digital imaging technology, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Sara Balice
Sara Balice
Sara Balice is an Of Counsel in the IP disputes team at the firm, with over 15 years of experience. She focuses in IP law, advising both local and international clients on contentious and non-contentious matters. Her knowledge covers patents, trademarks, design, copyright, trade secrets, and unfair competition. Sara is particularly focused on the life sciences industry, where she is involved in complex multijurisdictional patent and SPC litigations, often representing originator companies against generics. Sara also has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating IP license agreements, clinical trial agreements, and material transfer agreements, and she advises on product advertising in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. She is known for her high technical knowledge and has built strong relationships with clients due to her legal acumen and litigation skills. Recognized by international and Italian legal publications, Sara's practice spans multiple industries, including healthcare, life sciences, consumer goods, fashion, TMT, industrial, and automotive.
Mark Bardell
Mark Bardell
Mark is a corporate partner with particular experience in public takeovers and cross-border M&A. Mark has been a partner at the firm for over 13 years and has helped clients to close more than US$300 billion worth of transactions across the US, UK, Europe, CIS, Middle East, Africa, India, Asia and Australia. He focuses on advising corporate clients and works with boards on both transactional and advisory work. He is frequently involved in advising on significant challenges that face boards whether on transactions, shareholder activism, governance issues or regulatory investigations. In addition, he regularly works with and advises investment banks and corporate finance advisers in connection with their roles on major cross-border transactions. Mark is a General Editor of Butterworths Takeovers Law and Practice (second edition 2015) and a contributor to other leading practitioners' texts on topics including shareholder activism, market abuse, schemes of arrangement and takeovers. He lectures annually at Cambridge University to postgraduate MCL students as part of the Deals Course. In September 2011, he completed a two-year secondment as Secretary to the UK’s Takeover Panel. During that time he was closely involved in the day-to-day regulation of UK public takeovers and also in significant revisions to the UK's Takeover Code. He continues to be actively involved in consultations regarding amendments to the UK's Takeover Code. He also acts as Secretary to the Takeover Appeals Board in relation to various appeals.
Philip Bentley
Philip Bentley litigates complex bankruptcy and insolvency disputes on behalf of a diverse group of clients, including official creditors’ and equity committees, unofficial creditor groups, and trustees. Over the past two decades, Phil has prosecuted or defended high-profile litigation in some of the nation’s largest and most significant restructuring cases, including Westmoreland Coal, Puerto Rico, Energy Futures Holdings, Residential Capital, General Motors, Adelphia Communications, WorldCom and Dow Corning.
Nathalia Bernardo
Nathalia Bernardo represents clients in a broad range of real estate transactions, including joint ventures, ground leases, acquisitions and dispositions, and complex development and management agreements for properties in multiple asset classes. Nathalia advises private equity firms, institutional real estate investment advisers, family offices, high net worth individuals, and closely held real estate owners, developers and investors in domestic and international transactions involving residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use assets.  
John Bessonette
John Bessonette represents a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies in mergers and acquisitions, capital-raising transactions, equity and debt investments, joint ventures, and other transactions. He advises publicly traded companies on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, corporate governance, and related matters. John also has significant experience representing hedge funds, private equity firms and other institutional investors in M&A transactions, minority and control equity investments, debt investments, and direct financings, as well as in restructuring matters including private and public exchanges of securities, backstop commitments and rights offerings.
Kelesi Blundell
Kelesi Blundell
  Kelesi has over a decade of experience in the financial services sector and regularly advises some of the largest investment banks, retail banks, broker-dealers and financial market infrastructure on UK financial services regulation. Kelesi has advised across a range of regulation and regulatory change in the financial services industry including Digital Assets, Brexit, MiFID II, Recovery and Resolution, Market Infrastructure Regulation and Conduct of Business requirements. Kelesi also often provides regulatory support in corporate transactions. Kelesi regularly supports industry working groups including the AFME digital securities sandbox working group, the AFME Recovery and Resolution working group and the AFME Short Selling Regulation working group. Kelesi is also a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) Banking and Securities Scoping Forums.
Ann Boltyanskiy
Anna Boltyanskiy works on litigation matters. Anna previously served as a summer associate at Kramer Levin. While at Columbia Law School, she participated in the Challenging the Consequences of Mass Incarceration Clinic, volunteered with Sanctuary for Families’ Uncontested Divorce Project and interned with the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) Immigration Protection Unit. While pursuing her undergraduate degree, Anna interned at the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Haven, and with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.
Nina Bowyer
Nina Bowyer
Nina Bowyer is an energy and natural resources partner at the firm and Managing Partner of the firm's offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nina is based in the firm's Paris office and is dual English law and French law qualified. Nina works with a broad range of clients on single and multi-jurisdictional mergers, acquisitions and disposals, joint venture structuring, project development and related financing arrangements in the oil, gas, power and mining sectors. Although Nina has particular experience in helping clients with their transactions and projects in Africa, she also works on matters in France/Europe (mainly gas related), South America, Asia and the Middle East.
Hayley Brady
Hayley Brady
Hayley advises on media and entertainment, consumer and digital commercial, transactional and regulatory matters. Hayley heads our media and digital practice, in London, and assists clients on global strategic and innovative arrangements.  Hayley has spent time in industry on secondment at Sky, acted as quasi-in house counsel at FilmFlex Movies for a number of years and undertook mini secondments at OSN in Dubai. Her practice is split into two: (i) advising both media companies and those in other sectors on media and entertainment matters including significant content licensing, partnering, joint ventures, regulation and marketing, sponsorship and advertising; and (ii) advising growing digital companies on partnering and product/geographical expansion and traditional companies on moves to new digital platforms.
Genevieve Burger-Weiser
Genevieve Burger-Weiser works on litigation matters. Previously a summer associate, Genevieve clerked for the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. While in law school, Genevieve interned at the Federal Community Defenders Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in its Capital Habeas Unit and interned with the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Domestic Violence Clinical Center. She also worked at the North Penn Legal Services Criminal Expungement Clinic and co-chaired the Uncontested Divorce Pro Bono Project in Brooklyn, New York. Before law school, Genevieve was a lecturer in writing at Manhattanville College, where she taught classes in English literature and a course on genocide and international human rights.
Sarah Burman
Sarah Burman
Sarah is a Corporate Senior Associate in the firm’s Projects, Energy and Infrastructure practice group. Sarah is a corporate lawyer experienced in advising clients on M&A transactions across a wide range of sectors. She has a particular focus on renewable energy and works on the corporate aspects of project work (from development through to commercial operation), as well as M&A transactions in the renewable energy secondary market. Her experience includes advising multinational clients on renewable energy transactions in South Africa and Southern Africa.
Avram Cahn
Avram J. Cahn's practice focuses primarily on executive compensation and employee benefits arrangements. Avram advises clients on the full gamut of executive compensation matters, including equity, deferred compensation, golden parachute and other executive compensation arrangements. He also counsels investment advisory clients on ERISA, tax and securities law considerations associated with plan investments and furnishing of financial services to benefit plans (e.g., prohibited transactions, unrelated business income, venture capital operating companies, limited partnerships and group trust arrangements).
Yuridia Caire
Yuridia Caire is a trial lawyer who litigates intellectual property cases involving complex technology, with a particular emphasis on computer science, chemistry and the life sciences. Yuridia litigates patent infringement actions in federal district courts across the country, both representing patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and defending companies against allegations of infringement. Her recent litigation work includes patent infringement actions in the Eastern District of Texas, the Central and Northern Districts of California, and the District of Delaware. She also handles proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Iria Calviño
Iria Calviño
Iria heads the public law, regulatory and environment practices in the Madrid office and also co-heads the ESG practice in EMEA, focusing specially on energy transition. She has in-depth experience in administrative and environmental law, advising a wide array of large corporations, investment banks, sponsors and public institutions on national and cross-border transactions in the regulated sectors (including energy, water, ports, telecoms, among others). She is also an authority on public procurement, project development, public assets and properties, permitting and administrative authorizations, as well as administrative (disciplinary proceedings, administrative appeals, administrative liability) and contentious administrative proceedings.
Jonathan Canter
Jonathan H. Canter represents leading developers, lenders and investors in a range of real estate matters, with a particular focus on condominium, cooperative and shared-ownership projects. Jonathan advises on the planning, development, structuring and implementation of sophisticated ownership, operation and management regimes. He also advises on the legal, regulatory and business aspects of the registration, marketing and sale of luxury and mixed-use condominiums in public and nonpublic offerings. He brings his prior experience as a litigator to his real estate work, shaping transactions to help his clients avoid lawsuits and providing strategic counseling when disputes do occur.
Jonathan Caplan
Jonathan S. Caplan represents clients in patent litigation, counseling and prosecution, as well as in general corporate matters involving the acquisition, sale or licensing of intellectual property rights. Jonathan litigates patent infringement actions in federal district courts across the country, in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and in state courts, both representing patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and defending companies against allegations of infringement. His litigation work includes patent infringement actions in the Southern District of New York, the District of Delaware, the Northern District of California and the District of Nebraska, involving technologies from wireless communications to semiconductor wafer inspection equipment to immuno-assay kits and analyzers. He also handles inter partes review and ex parte re-exam proceedings before the Patent and Trademark Office.
Fabien Carruzo
Fabien Carruzzo, head of the firm’s Derivatives and Structured Products group, counsels asset managers, investment banks, commodity traders and other market participants in the full spectrum of transactional and regulatory derivatives matters. Fabien’s work covers a wide range of equity, credit, currency, commodity, and fixed-income derivatives and bespoke structures, as well as structured financing swaps, repos and other asset-based financing arrangements. Fabien has been recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers USA as one of the leading practitioners in derivatives and structured products.
Amy Caton
Amy Caton, named an American Lawyer Dealmaker of the Year for 2016 and 2017 for her work in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico debt restructuring, has represented clients in many of the nation’s largest, most complex and highest-profile bankruptcies for the past 20 years.  Amy’s recent high-profile restructurings include representing major lenders and investors in the restructuring of California's largest electrical utility company, PG&E, holders of over $3 billion of revenue bonds in Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's (PREPA) restructuring proceedings; OppenheimerFunds/Invesco in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s restructurings; the majority holders of secured and unsecured debt in First Energy’s restructuring (now successfully completed); subordinated bondholders in California Agriculture’s restructurings; and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in Frontier Communications.
Andrew Charles
Andrew Charles has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate law, including partnerships and joint ventures, financing for borrowers and lenders, acquisitions and sales, and development and leasing. His client base includes private equity funds, financial institutions, developers, and operators in the acquisition, financing, development, sale and leasing of all classes of commercial properties including office, hotel, multifamily, retail, public storage, mixed use and condominium properties. Andrew focuses mainly on structuring transactions for institutional investors and opportunity funds such as joint ventures, preferred equity investments, mezzanine financing and mixed debt/equity investments.
Daniel Chia
Daniel Chia
Daniel is the Managing Director of Prolegis LLC. Daniel is a first-in-class trial and appellate litigation counsel in complex corporate and commercial matters. Daniel is experienced in complex litigation and dispute problems across a wide range of sectors spanning private equity, funds, financial institutions, construction, white-collar, financial crime and securities regulation. He has developed a niche expertise enforcing and/or challenging arbitral awards. He regularly appears in the Singapore Courts – including its final appellate court and in arbitration proceedings under the SIAC and ICC rules. He has been described by clients and peers as “terrific”, a “stand-out advocate”, “hands-on”, “diligent with a great work ethic”, having a “strategic vision and on exceptional on the ground advocacy” who “leads an outstanding team which provides an impeccable service.”
Kenneth Chin
Kenneth Chin counsels and represents lenders and borrowers in connection with corporate and financing transactions. For more than 30 years, Ken has provided legal and transactional advice to a diverse group of clients, including many of the world’s leading commercial banks, investment banks, debt fund affiliates of major hedge funds and private equity firms, other alternative lenders, and borrowers, in large complex transactions such as leveraged financings, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions, refinancings, debtor-in-possession financings, workouts and foreclosures.
Sergio Cires
Sergio Cires
Sergio is a partner in our Madrid finance practice with wide experience in all kinds of structured finance transactions. He advises domestic and foreign banks, institutional and alternative lenders, private equity and debt funds, as well as borrowers, developers and sponsors on structuring and implementing all type of finance transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, project finance, real estate finance and restructuring and refinancing transactions, with particular focus in the private equity, energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Additionally, he has also significant cross-border experience in Europe, United States and Latin America.
Marcus A. Colucci
Marcus A. Colucci represents clients in complex patent and general commercial litigation in courts across the country, as well as in the licensing of intellectual property rights. Marcus represents both patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and companies defending against allegations of patent infringement. He has litigated disputes related to a diverse array of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, nutraceuticals, telecommunications systems, smartphones, network security systems, satellite radio systems and GPS.  
Monde Coto
Monde Coto
Monde is a Director based in our Johannesburg office. Monde focuses on venture capital, private M&A transactions and equity capital markets transactions. Monde has advised on numerous listings and capital raises on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, including rights offers across the London Stock Exchange and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. He also advises clients on general corporate matters, including corporate governance and the ongoing obligations of listed entities. Monde has unique and leading experience when it comes to South African venture capital transactions as prior to rejoining the firm in November 2023, Monde was the General Counsel for Naspers Foundry, the largest venture capital fund in South Africa at the time. As General Counsel, Monde was the lead and primary lawyer on Naspers Foundry investments.
David Coulling
David Coulling
David is a Partner in Technology, Sourcing and Digital practice in the UK. David is a transactions lawyer who focusses on the technology and telecommunications sectors.  David advises tech and telecoms corporates and investors on a wide range of transactions, including joint ventures and acquisitions, technology development and adoption projects, major systems and networks projects, business transformation projects, technology licensing, data licensing and complex commercial arrangements. David particularly enjoys transactions which aim to harness the transformational powers of technology in other sectors.  With this in mind, he works closely with our clients in other sectors to help structure and implement their technology-driven strategies. Recognised by the UK directories, David has a leading technology and telecoms practice. David holds a first class MSC in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford and was a Theodore Scholar at Balliol College.  He enjoys the increasing overlap between technology-enabled businesses and his passion for science fiction.
Charlotte Courtade
Charlotte Courtade assists in the representation of clients in real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, development, joint ventures, partnerships, and debt and equity financing for commercial, residential and mixed-use projects. She also assists property owners and developers with the purchase and sale of air rights and development rights, and with easement agreements, access agreements and other development agreements. Charlotte also regularly works with both landlords and tenants to negotiate, draft and amend commercial leases.
Clive Cunningham
Clive Cunningham
Clive is a leading financial services law and regulation lawyer. With extensive City experience, including time as a banking regulator with the Bank of England and in-house, Clive advises banks, asset managers, insurers and other financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory and compliance matters across the financial services, banking and funds sectors. Areas of special sector knowledge are banking, asset management (including private wealth management) and securities regulation.
Rita Celebrezze D’Souza
Rita Celebrezze D'Souza works on matters involving federal, state and local tax issues. Rita focuses on the federal income tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, financings, and bankruptcy and corporate restructurings. She assists in advising private equity and hedge funds in acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies. Rita dedicates significant time to pro bono service and has represented clients in a variety of federal and state tax matters, and in family court, immigration and asylum proceedings.  
Mathias Dantin
Mathias Dantin
Mathias Dantin is a highly experienced energy, natural resources and infrastructure regulatory and public law professional who has a particular focus on the evolving energy transition / decarbonisation sector. He also advises the firm’s clients on their litigation and pre-litigation strategy for regulatory and public procurement matters before the administrative courts in France, the European Union and Francophone Africa. Mathias' experience spans onshore/offshore wind, solar, green hydrogen, biofuels, biogas, renewable heat, EV charging stations, carbon capture, Guarantees of Origin (GOs), White Certificates and voluntary carbon credits. He also supports developers on the energy and decarbonization aspects of new gigafactories with green ambitions (EV batteries, green steel, rare earths recycling, etc.). Mathias also offers deep knowledge of the legal and regulatory framework governing sub-surface activities in the geothermal, extractive (notably lithium), gas storage and carbon storage sectors in France. Mathias is a key member of the firm’s cross-practice ESG team, with a particular focus on environmental issues. He is the founder of the Paris office Climate Change Hub and co-founder of AFEN (Association Française pour les Émissions Négatives).
Gavin Davies
Gavin Davies
Gavin is Head of the Global M&A practice and supports clients on international M&A, investment and governance matters. Gavin has significant experience in public takeovers, private capital, strategic board advice and shareholder engagement. Particular focus on TMT, financial services, and real estate sectors, and on advising our US and Japanese clients. Gavin was named in 2023 in The Financial News Fifty Most Influential Lawyers, and has twice led teams winning Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards. Gavin is a member of the governing Board of the firm, and is a member of the UK Government DIT Investment Trade Advisory Group (TAG). He led the private equity practice from 2006 to 2013. Gavin works with, and is a former Chair, of The International Lawyers Project, a leading international charitable organisation providing the skills of senior lawyers to promote human rights, sustainable economic development and the rule of law worldwide. Gavin also advises the Government of Sierra Leone on investment matters, having founded the firm’s "Fair Deal Sierra Leone" pro bono project which supports the Government of Sierra Leone on a pro bono basis.
Jeffrey W. Davis
Jeffrey W. Davis is an experienced commercial litigator who has handled matters in virtually every major area of commercial and complex civil litigation over the course of his three decades of practice, all at Kramer Levin. He has represented corporations, partnerships and individuals — as both plaintiffs and defendants — in commercial tort and contract actions, real estate cases, employment disputes, securities and shareholder suits, tax and accounting matters, trusts and estates controversies, business breakups and dissolutions, false advertising cases, and a wide variety of complex commercial disputes across a diverse range of industries and businesses.  
Javier De Carvajal
Javier De Carvajal
Javier is a partner in the litigation and arbitration practice in the Madrid office, focused on commercial dispute resolution and insolvency law. With more than 20 years of experience, he advises a wide range of clients in pre-contentious and contentious issues mainly in civil, commercial and company law matters, having acted before Spanish Tribunals of all instances and jurisdictions. He has broad experience in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, as well as with arbitration-related judicial proceedings, namely exequatur, injunctions and enforcement proceedings. He also focuses on pre/insolvency (bankruptcy) law and has acted in insolvency proceedings as counsel for the debtor and for the creditors, as well as for directors, shareholders and any other party related to the pre/insolvent company. He also participates in distressed-related transactions regarding productive units, distressed credits (NPLs portfolios and single names), special situations and real estate-backed debt investments. Additionally, he has experience in white-collar crime, compliance and re/insurance matters and his professional career is complemented by non-contentious work, including pre-litigation and pre-insolvency advice, negotiation of out-of-court settlements and rendering of opinions on a number of issues of civil, commercial, pre/insolvency, criminal and procedural law.
Beatriz del Rey
Beatriz del Rey
Beatriz is a Spanish partner in our London finance team. Beatriz focuses on Spanish portfolio acquisitions and distressed debt/assets transactions and related financings. She is an experienced advisor for leading financial institutions and international investors with extensive experience in structuring and advising on the acquisition, sale and cross-border financing of portfolios of Spanish secured and unsecured loans, real estate and other assets. Beatriz is also experienced in Spanish mortgage market negotiable instruments and securities.
Michael J. Dell
Michael J. Dell is a leading trial and appellate lawyer who has been successfully resolving business disputes and regulatory matters for his clients for more than 30 years. Michael represents corporations, accounting and financial services firms, and individuals in civil litigation in state and federal courts, in internal investigations, and in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings before government and regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). His work on behalf of his clients involves a broad range of matters, including securities, accountants’ and auditors’ liability, corporate governance, commercial, constitutional, real estate, insurance, patents and intellectual property, the False Claims Act, ERISA, fiduciary and employment, antitrust, and trusts and estates matters. Michael has a broad international practice and has represented clients from and in every continent and region.
Tomás Díaz Mielenhausen
Tomás Díaz Mielenhausen
Tomás heads the real estate practice in the Madrid office. He has extensive and wide-ranging experience advising clients on corporate real estate matters, such as acquisition, disposal and financing of real estate assets (shopping centres and large retail areas, office buildings, logistic platforms, hotels, resorts, build-to-rent, build-to-sell, healthcare, senior living, student housing, co-living, outdoor living, data centres, agribusiness, large portfolios of assets and REOs, etc.) and companies operating in the real estate sector, primarily focused on private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and the industrial and banking sectors (forward purchase and forward funding agreements, sale and leaseback deals, major leasing, hotel management and hotel lease agreements, etc.). In addition, Tomás is experienced in advising on large construction and development schemes (including contracts based on FIDIC principles) and asset and property management advise during the whole holding period of a real estate asset.
Abbe Dienstag
Abbe L. Dienstag’s practice covers general corporate and securities matters. These include mergers and acquisitions, contests for corporate control, issuer representation in public and private capital finance, representation of lenders and borrowers in credit finance transactions, governance issues, and acquisition-related antitrust counseling. He also works with members of the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring department and claims trading practice group advising clients on securities law matters in the restructuring context.
Melissa B. Drennan
Melissa B. Drennan works on a range of employment-based business immigration matters for clients across a diverse range of industries, including banking, financial services, advertising, fashion, education, technology, scientific research and management consulting. Melissa assists multinational corporations, startups, nonprofits and other organizations, as well as individuals, in seeking immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. She advises on issues in the context of mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs, ensuring these transactions comply with U.S. immigration law. She also assists in the defense of companies facing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations.
Matthew S. Dunn
Matthew S. Dunn, one of the country’s leading immigration lawyers, advises and represents a diverse group of clients, including banks, global financial services companies, technology and business consultancies, advertising agencies, health care institutions, sports and entertainment organizations, and corporations of all sizes, in the hiring, transfer and retention of foreign national executives, managers, professionals, athletes and performing artists in the United States. Matt works with these companies and organizations to develop the optimal workforce planning and mobility strategies to meet their specific national or global needs, advising them on navigating the complex and often restrictive framework of immigration laws and policies in the United States.
Cameron Dunstan-Smith
Cameron Dunstan-Smith
Cameron is a Partner at the firm and heads the Corporate Crime and Investigations practice in the Johannesburg office. Cameron has experienced investigations and compliance for the past 17 years and his extensive experience covers the full suite of investigations issues (corruption, fraud, misconduct) as well as compliance (anti-bribery and corruption due diligence and advisory) and regulatory (sanctions, anti-money laundering and related offences) matters. Cameron has been involved in a wide range of regulatory matters, FCPA and UK Bribery Act investigations and compliance advice and due diligence, anti-money laundering compliance and representing clients facing government or regulatory enforcement action. He has worked in multiple African jurisdictions, the UK, East Asia, Europe and the United States on a variety of investigations and has provided advice to regulators in South Africa, the United States and the UK. Cameron's broad depth of experience in the South African and African market, coupled with his international exposure and experience, provides a unique service offering to clients seeking a local South African or global perspective concerning investigations and compliance issues. Supported by the firm's global Corporate Crime and Investigations practice, Cameron is well placed to provide clients with local expertise with the added benefit of drawing the expertise of lawyers in the firm's global offices. Due to the international nature of investigations, this is of great value to clients seeking seamless service in multiple jurisdictions as well as clients who appreciate the benefit of a firm with investigations experience and dealings with regulators the world over. Cameron is well regarded in the investigations market in South Africa and is ranked across multiple legal rankings directories in the field of investigations in South Africa.
Henar González Durántez
Henar González Durántez
Henar heads the competition and trade practice in the Madrid office. She has almost two decades of experience advising clients on business conduct and transactions to ensure compliance with EU and Spanish competition law. She regularly represents clients before competition authorities and courts with a special focus on dawn-raids, cartels cases and investigations on unfair practices and other abusive behaviour and has experience in securing merger approvals and state aid matters. Henar has worked in Brussels and was trained at the EU Commission, which has enabled her to offer a practical knowledge of the competition, legal and policy issues that clients most commonly face. She uses her business understanding to advise leading companies predominantly in the retail and consumer products sectors as well as in energy, digital markets, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, banking and insurance.
Kenneth H. Eckstein
Kenneth H. Eckstein, co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring department, has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex Chapter 11 reorganizations over the past 30 years. Ken represents creditors’ committees, bondholders and other stakeholders in both in- and out-of-court restructurings, as well as trustees, examiners and third parties seeking to acquire the assets or businesses of financially troubled companies. He also counsels and represents debtors in the complex legal, financial and operational issues arising in reorganizations, including obtaining debtor-in-possession financing; negotiating forbearance agreements; negotiating plans of reorganization with secured lenders, creditors’ committees and other stakeholders; and conducting sales of businesses.
Harry Edwards
Harry helps clients (primarily large investment and commercial banks) with heavyweight banking litigation matters and complex, strategically critical disputes. He is currently acting on two of the biggest financial cases progressing through the English courts. Harry acts for financial institutions in High Court litigation and arbitration proceedings as well as regulatory enforcement matters. Harry helps clients (primarily large investment and commercial banks) with heavyweight banking litigation matters and complex, strategically critical disputes. He is currently acting on two of the biggest financial cases progressing through the English courts. Harry acts for financial institutions in High Court litigation and arbitration proceedings as well as regulatory enforcement matters. He has written extensively on finance-related litigation, is co-author of the English law chapter of the Securities Law Review and is leading the firm’s efforts to talk to clients about securities class actions in England.
Daniel Eggermann
Daniel M. Eggermann represents significant parties, including distressed investors, bank debt holder and bondholder groups, creditors’ committees, independent directors of debt issuers, and other parties in interest, in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, out-of-court restructurings and other distressed situations. Daniel advises reorganized companies and their investors on a comprehensive range of corporate issues, and regularly counsels market participants in connection with credit default swaps.
Jeffrey Eng
Jeffrey Eng works on intellectual property matters, in particular patent litigation and post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Jeffrey also prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international patents across a range of technologies, including computer virtualization, cloud computing infrastructure, wireless telecommunications, cybersecurity, touchscreens, machine learning, blockchain and semiconductor manufacturing, among others. Jeffrey has advised clients on infringement risk related to design patents, trademarks and trade dress of consumer products.
Miriam Everett
Miriam Everett
Miriam is a partner and Global Head of Data and Privacy. Miriam leads the firm's data protection and privacy practice and has over 15 years' experience in data advising clients on complex issues in this highly regulated area. Miriam's experience in the data space includes advising clients on the full life-cycle of data protection issues including policy design and implementation, global compliance advice, disaster recovery, data retention and destruction, and data breaches. Miriam advises a number of clients both domestically in the UK as well as international clients who are nonetheless subject to the extra-territorial application of the GDPR. As well as providing advice to clients, Miriam is heavily involved in the firm's thought leadership, including analysis of legal and industry developments and their impact for the benefit of both clients and our practice. She has been interviewed on Talk Radio about GDPR; been quoted numerous times in Law360, Financial News, and other publications regarding GDPR and data issues, and spoken at numerous external events including the BSI Conference at the British Embassy in Seoul and the AFME European Compliance & Legal Conference. Miriam is also an active participant in a number of external data law committees, including the City of London Law Society Data Law Committee; the LexisNexis Data Protection Intelligence Group; and the Franco-British Data Society.
Paulino Fajardo
Paulino Fajardo
Paulino is the Regional Head of Dispute Resolution for Europe, Middle East and Africa and focuses on international dispute resolution and crisis management. A skilled negotiator and legal strategist with over 30 years' experience in comparative law and different legal systems, Paulino advocates before civil and criminal courts and acts as mediator, arbitrator and counsel in complex international arbitrations. He has extensive experience advising clients on their most important strategic disputes in relation to financial and cyber-related crimes, product liability, political risk, corporate and commercial disputes, and ESG-related conflicts, particularly in the areas of energy, construction, life sciences, aviation and reinsurance.
Richard E. Farley
Richard E. Farley advises and represents some of the world’s leading commercial and investment banks in sophisticated and complex domestic and international financing transactions, in particular leveraged buyout financings, recapitalizations and refinancings. Richard’s work on behalf of these clients includes syndicated financing transactions and private placements, acquisition financing, asset-based financing, first and second lien debt transactions, high-yield debt issuances, loan assignments and participations, and project finance.  
Robert E. Flahive
Robert E. Flahive advises clients on land use regulations and development policies in New York City. Robert previously served in a number of senior-level positions in New York City government, including vice chairman of the Board of Standards and Appeals and director of the Manhattan office of the Department of City Planning, and he draws on his experience and technical expertise to provide clients with insights and practical advice on seeking zoning amendments, special permits, variances and other discretionary approvals.
Sandhya Foster
Sandhya Foster
Sandhya is a director based in Johannesburg, focusing on competition law. Sandhya has experience covering a broad range of competition law related matters including prohibited practices (advisory and litigation as well as assisting with corporate leniency applications), merger control, market inquiries and dawn raids. She often provides competition law compliance advice and has regularly assisted clients with compliance audits, programmes and training. Sandhya's experience extends beyond South Africa to sub-Saharan Africa where she regularly provides multi-jurisdictional merger control advice and has assisted on multi-jurisdictional merger filings both in Africa and EMEA.
Miguel Fraga
Miguel Fraga
Miguel is a corporate partner in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He advises industrial clients and investment funds, foreign and Spanish, in multijurisdictional and complex transactions and projects related to the energy and infrastructure sectors, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, commercial agreements and project development, with a particular focus on power, renewables, oil & gas and energy transition. He is a member of the Latin America and Africa groups of the firm. In addition to his previous in-house experience in the energy sector, during 2015, Miguel was seconded to a multinational client in the oil&gas business.
David S. Frankel
David S. Frankel is an accomplished advocate with more than 30 years’ experience representing senior executives, directors and corporations in complex, high-stakes white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions, government and regulatory enforcement actions, and arbitrations, including actions brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and other government and administrative agencies. David joined Kramer Levin in 1983, served as a partner from 1991 to 2017, and became counsel on Jan. 1, 2018.  
Alberto Frasquet
Alberto Frasquet
Alberto is the Regional Head of Corporate EMEA based in Madrid. He advises investment banks, private equity houses, other financial buyers and multinational corporates on public and private mergers and acquisitions, LBOs for private equity players, corporate restructuring, equity capital markets transactions and private commercial transactions on local and multi-jurisdictional deals and leads multidisciplinary cross-border teams to ensure the best outcomes in complex transactions.
Alan R. Friedman
Alan R. Friedman has, for more than 40 years, handled a wide range of high-stakes securities and shareholder class actions, corporate control, cybersecurity, bankruptcy, intellectual property and other complex commercial matters. He has broad experience in the defense of significant criminal cases, including securities fraud, tax and corruption cases, and in defending public companies and their officers and directors in enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Board and the New York State Attorney General’s Office, as well as other administrative agencies and self-regulatory bodies.
Leah S. Friedman
Leah Friedman represents individuals and public and private corporations in both plaintiff- and defense-side litigation involving high-stakes commercial disputes, white collar investigations, bankruptcy-related litigation and class actions. Leah’s work involves all phases of litigation in both federal and state court, including drafting pleadings and briefs, assisting in the examination of witnesses, managing discovery review and production, and preparing witnesses for depositions, interviews and cross-examination. Most recently, Leah helped lead the litigation team in a multiweek bench trial in the Southern District of New York representing a financial services provider in contract disputes with former business counterparties including a national exchange. Leah was also a key member of the trial team that successfully represented the co-founder and owner of a large, privately held corporation in an expedited trial in Delaware Chancery Court seeking dissolution of the company due to corporate deadlock.  
Jenna Fuller
Jenna Fuller works on intellectual property cases involving complex technology, including medical devices, electro-mechanical devices and computer systems. Jenna assists in the representation of both patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and companies defending against allegations of patent infringement in patent litigation in federal district courts and in proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her work involves all aspects of litigation, including preparing pleadings, motions and trial briefs, conducting legal research and patent infringement analyses, and preparing witnesses.
Alejandra Galdos
Alejandra Galdos
Alejandra is a partner in the litigation and arbitration practice in the Madrid office. She works with clients in insurance cover disputes and in civil and commercial litigation matters. She works in insurance and reinsurance disputes defending clients in the energy, engineering, and construction sectors. She has broad experience as well in product liability claims and environmental liability matters. She acts as an advocate before the Spanish civil and criminal courts and as counsel to mediation and arbitration. Alejandra has assisted policyholders and insurers in international disputes resolution matters with extensive experience in a wide variety of the Latin American jurisdictions. She has assisted in adapting into the Spanish market foreign policies in different types of underlying risks, from CAR/EAR policies to professional indemnity, cyber and contingency risks, product liability and recall policies, among others.
Miguel García-Casas
Miguel García-Casas
Miguel is a dispute resolution lawyer, focused on corporate crime & investigations, civil proceedings and complex arbitrations. He represents and defends major companies in difficult scenarios and complex litigation proceedings both in criminal and civil matters, including advocacy before the Spanish Courts. Additionally, he has a background in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. He also has wide experience in the preparation of corporate defence protocols in the context of the Spanish Criminal Code, in corporate crime and investigations.
Armando García-Mendoza
Armando García-Mendoza
Armando is a partner and head of our Madrid finance practice with wide experience in all kinds of structured finance transactions. He advises banks, debt funds, institutional lenders, alternative lenders, borrowers and sponsors on all type of structured finance transactions such as acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance, project finance, restructuring and refinancing transactions, with special focus in the private equity, energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. In addition, Armando is highly experienced in working with our clients on multi-jurisdictional transactions, coordinating the advice provided by our lawyers in all involved jurisdictions and supervising the work produced by local counsels when required. During his career, he has been involved in some of the most relevant financing transactions in the Spanish market, as well as in the most significant restructuring and refinancing transactions. Moreover, he has very significant experience in advising in distress transactions, including the identification of potential issues as well as the legal structuring and the design of the work-out strategy of the transaction.
Jill B. Garfinkel
Jill B. Garfinkel regularly represents high-profile, high-net-worth individuals and entities in the acquisition, sale, and lease of exclusive multimillion-dollar residential co-op and condominium units, townhouses, and homes, often involving complex issues unique to the super-luxury market. With more than 25 years of experience in residential real estate, Jill provides clients with comprehensive services from structuring to closing, taking into account the unique privacy and other concerns of her clients. Jill’s services include pre-contract due diligence review of properties, financing, contract preparation and negotiation, and title and lien search review. She also guides clients through all aspects of the residential closing transaction process.
Jonathan Goodman
Jonathan D. Goodman guides private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as strategic businesses, in corporate and investment transactions, with an emphasis on the middle market. A tenacious deal lawyer, Jon works tirelessly to achieve his clients’ objectives, no matter the deal structure or industry. His poise and ability to bridge differences across the deal table propel his clients’ transactions over the finish line. Among his notable work, Jon has represented Stone Point Capital LLC and its Trident funds in numerous acquisitions and investments. His work on behalf of these clients and others earned him the 2020 Emerging Leaders Award from The M&A Advisor.
Scott Gorski
Scott A. Gorski works on the full range of employment-based business immigration matters. Scott advises multinational corporations, startups, nonprofits and other organizations seeking immigrant and nonimmigrant visas on behalf of their employees. He advises clients throughout their hiring, transfer and retention of foreign talent. His work includes obtaining temporary work authorization for managers, professionals, artists, individuals of extraordinary ability and other people with specialized skills, and securing employment-based permanent residence status for employees. Scott also counsels clients on the immigration implications of corporate reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions as well as on employer sanctions and other immigration compliance obstacles across the United States’ immigration system. In addition to his work with corporate clients and organizations, Scott assists high-net-worth investors seeking permanent residence based on a substantial investment under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. He also assists individuals seeking permanent residence through marriage.
Ronald S. Greenberg
Ronald S. Greenberg, Chair of the Real Estate Litigation practice group, is an accomplished lawyer with 30 years of experience litigating complex business and real estate disputes, at both the trial and appellate levels. Named New York’s “Lawyer of the Year” for 2021 in Real Estate Litigation by Best Lawyers in America, Ron has a long record of achieving favorable outcomes for clients. The cases Ron litigates run the gamut from “business divorces” and corporate control disputes to commercial foreclosures, construction litigation and a broad range of contract disputes. He represents banks and developers as well as commercial landlords and tenants in real estate matters, and counsels individual and corporate clients, including Fortune 100 companies, insurance carriers and dot-coms, in a wide variety of commercial disputes. Ron has argued dozens of appeals, and is an experienced practitioner in the Commercial Division of the New York County Supreme Court.
Álvaro Gross
Álvaro Gross
Alvaro is a real estate lawyer focusing on real estate transactions relating to a wide nature of assets as well as NPLs and real assets-backed corporate M&A transactions. He advises both national and international clients on the acquisition of real estate portfolios (shopping centres, office buildings, logistic warehouses and hotels) and non-performing loans (NPLs), as well as advising on refinancing and mortgage-backed securities transactions. He also has vast experience in commercial lease agreements, sale and leaseback transactions, joint venture agreements and other corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions and private equity asset deals. He has reputed and comprehensive skills on leading due diligence teams and has participated in drafting legal opinions and giving general legal advice on licensing and planning matters.
Caroline Hagg
Caroline Hagg
Caroline advises her clients on the full spectrum of corporate governance issues, and regularly trains both public and private company boards and client teams on new and forthcoming legal developments. Her areas of focus include: developments in public disclosures and corporate reporting, including in relation to annual reports and climate and sustainability reporting; annual general meetings and shareholder engagement strategies; directors' duties, liabilities and conflict issues and directors' indemnities; compliance with listed company continuing obligations, including the UK Market Abuse Regulation; corporate governance considerations, including approaches to and compliance with the UK Corporate Governance Code; corporate governance advice in relation to strategic transactions; subsidiary and joint venture governance matters. Caroline provides commercial and pragmatic advice on governance and company secretarial issues, having spent more than two and a half years on client secondments over the course of her career at the firm.
Natan Hamerman
Natan Hamerman is an experienced trial lawyer who litigates a diverse range of civil and complex commercial cases, with particular focus on bankruptcy and real estate-related litigation. In his bankruptcy-related work, Natan represents both debtors and creditors in complex and often high-profile Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. His clients include publicly traded companies, major financial institutions and private equity funds. In real estate-related matters, Natan represents lenders, developers, landlords and tenants in a broad range of disputes, including foreclosure and lender liability claims, down payment disputes, liquidated damages claims, commercial lease interpretation cases, Yellowstone injunction lawsuits, and construction litigation.  
James Hannah
James Hannah is an internationally recognized patent litigator who tries cases for high-tech companies seeking to obtain full value for their intellectual property or to defend against allegations of infringement. Recently, James and his team obtained the biggest patent judgment in history, resulting in a minimum payment of $2.65 billion to his client with a potential recovery of $3.25 billion based on future royalties. James has also obtained a variety of defensive wins for his clients, including walk-away dismissals, judgments of no liability and global settlements with no payment exchanged.  
Michael Hardin
Michael Hardin works on litigation matters. Prior to joining Kramer Levin, Michael clerked for the Honorable Christopher F. Droney in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, for the Honorable Claire C. Cecchi in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and for the Honorable Vincent L. Briccetti in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He also worked as an associate with a global business litigation firm in its New York office. While in law school, Michael interned for Judge Cecchi, in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office.
James L. Haugen
James L. Haugen prepares and prosecutes U.S. and international patent applications in the electrical and computer arts. James’ prosecution work involves a wide range of computer and software technologies employed by electronic systems including alerting and warning systems, enhanced and synthetic vision systems, head-up and head-down flight display systems, flight management systems, wireless and data link systems, GPS and other navigation systems, remotely operated vehicles, radar systems, integrated aircraft systems and applications, integrated flight information systems, encrypted storage systems, aircraft information security systems, and network communications technology.
Shannon H. Hedvat
Shannon H. Hedvat works on intellectual property matters, in particular patent and trademark litigation across numerous technology sectors, including internet architecture, computer security, software, satellite radio devices and service, devices used in the semiconductor industry, microcontrollers, and LEDs. Shannon has assisted in the defense and enforcement of clients’ rights at every stage of litigation, playing a key role on trial teams, taking and defending depositions, drafting trial and appellate briefs, and preparing expert witnesses for depositions as well as direct and cross examinations at trial. Shannon also has an active post-grant practice including representing and defending clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.    
Adi Herman
Adi Herman advises private equity sponsors and strategic businesses on financial and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, take-privates, dispositions, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, minority investments, restructurings and recapitalizations, as well as general corporate and governance matters. In addition, Adi frequently represents sponsors in growth capital investments and pre-IPO financings. His experience spans a variety of industries, including health care, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, financial services, logistics/transportation services and retail.
Thomas Herman
Thomas Herman
Thomas is an Of Counsel based in the Paris office. He is a French-law qualified lawyer with a public contract law academic background who advises on contractual arrangements and regulatory issues relating to the development, construction (including EPC related disputes), financing, acquisition and transfer of projects and other transactions in France and internationally, including notably North Africa (in particular Algeria) and sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets. Thomas has a particular focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors, spanning renewables, biomass, oil & gas, telecoms/digital infrastructure, data centres and transport. He also advises on giga factories and energy storage projects.
Dennis K. Heyman
Dennis K. Heyman assists developers, investors, operators, purchasers, sellers, borrowers and lenders in the acquisition and disposition, leasing, financing, management, and development of single- and mixed-use commercial and residential properties, including multifamily apartments and condominiums, hotels, office buildings, and shopping centers. Dennis’s work involves drafting, reviewing and negotiating various documents required for these complex transactions, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, and financing documents; assisting in the negotiation of these documents; and coordinating with deal team members from supporting practice areas including Tax and Land Use, among others, to ensure clients experience a fully integrated representation. He also leads due diligence efforts in connection with transactions by reviewing title reports, surveys, leases, restrictive declarations, easements and other diligence-related materials.
Inge Hindriks
Inge Hindriks advises and represents developers, property owners, lenders and investors in real estate development and construction in a comprehensive range of matters related to office buildings, industrial facilities, hotels, and retail and mixed-use projects. A LEED-accredited professional, Inge has extensive experience in the assemblage of zoning lots for development purposes and has drafted and negotiated complex restrictive declarations, easements, construction agreements, and other agreements and instruments related to property development on behalf of developers, both private and not-for-profit. Inge also represents clients in connection with the purchase and sale of air rights, including landmark and theater district air rights transfers and inclusionary air rights.
Barnaby Hinnigan
Barnaby Hinnigan
Barney focuses on non-contentious work for clients in the financial services sector. Barney works for clients in the financial services sector, providing advice in relation to general corporate and financial services regulatory matters, restructurings, business sales, capital raising and takeovers. He has extensive experience in advising on complex M&A and restructuring transactions for banks and asset managers and on a wide range of matters in the Fintech sector. Barney also has particular experience acting on transfers of insurance and banking business, cross border reinsurance arrangements and acquisitions in the insurance and insurance intermediary sector.
Catherine Hoge
Catherine L. Hoge works on litigation matters, including real estate litigation. Catherine assists in the representation of clients in both plaintiff and defense-side litigation in federal and state courts. Her work encompasses all phases of litigation, including drafting pleadings, discovery documents and motions, and preparation for depositions and trial. Catherine has worked on behalf of clients in land use matters and in business and real estate disputes, including contract disputes.  
Marissa J. Holob
Marissa J. Holob advises clients on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation. She regularly represents public and private companies, and tax-exempt entities, on the design, negotiation, and ongoing compliance of qualified retirement plans, welfare plans, equity and incentive plans, employment agreements, and deferred compensation arrangements. Marissa also counsels on employee benefits and executive compensation-related issues that arise in the context of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and other similar transactions. In addition, her work with hedge funds and private equity funds includes issues relating to the application of ERISA's plan asset regulations. Marissa serves as the chair of the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits practice.
Robert N. Holtzman
Robert N. Holtzman represents employers in employment law and executive compensation matters and is Co-chair of Kramer Levin’s Executive Compensation practice. Robert counsels employers regarding the full range of legal and business issues that touch upon or concern the employment relationship, including advisory matters involving investigations of discrimination and whistleblower complaints, the design and implementation of appropriate policies and practices and employment issues that arise in connection with corporate transactions. He also designs and conducts training of managers and other employees.
Susan Jacquemot
Susan Jacquemot is an experienced litigator with a wide-ranging commercial litigation practice. Susan represents public companies, as well as officers and directors, in connection with securities and class action lawsuits and related regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings. Her diverse litigation practice also includes complex tax-related litigation, partnership disputes, bankruptcy litigation, disputes relating to the ownership of valuable works of art, real estate and employment litigation, and a variety of complex commercial contract disputes.
Dani R. James
Dani R. James represents executives, directors and officers, and other individuals, as well as companies, in sensitive, complicated and often high-profile criminal and regulatory trials, hearings, investigations and other proceedings conducted by federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, among other agencies. A former federal prosecutor, Dani defends clients in a broad range of white collar criminal and regulatory matters, including allegations of insider trading, market manipulation, public corruption, bid-rigging, tax fraud and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Thomas T. Janover
Thomas T. Janover leads Kramer Levin’s Claims Trading and Investment Advice practice, a team of lawyers widely regarded by peers and clients as one of the finest in this area. An experienced industry leader, Tom is regarded as one of the “deans” of distressed investing. For more than 25 years, he has represented numerous hedge funds, investment banks and commercial banks in the purchase and sale of securities of and claims against companies undergoing financial restructuring, in bankruptcy or in other distressed circumstances.
Carmen Jara
Carmen Jara
Carmen is a Professional Support Consultant of the finance practice in the Madrid office with wide experience in all kind of structured finance transactions. She advises banks, financial entities, investment funds, alternative lenders, borrowers and sponsors on structuring and implementing all type of finance transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, real estate finance, project finance and restructuring and refinancing transactions, with focus in the private equity, energy, infrastructure and real estate sectors. Additionally, she has also significant experience in advising in distress transactions and restructuring processes.
Aakash Jariwala
Aakash Jariwala
Aakash works on intellectual property matters, in particular on patent litigation. Aakash works with clients across a range of technology sectors, including semiconductors, computer security software, air disc brakes and telecommunication networks. He has assisted in patent litigation at every stage, including as a trial team member, taking and defending depositions, arguing motions, and drafting motions and claim construction briefs. Aakash has also assisted in drafting inter partes review petitions and responses.
Carey-Anne Jennings
Carey-Anne Jennings
Carey-Anne is a Director in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure practice group, focusing on debt and equity aspects of project finance and public private partnerships. Carey-Anne has advised clients on several limited recourse project finance transactions (including across the energy, resources and infrastructure sectors), equity investments, partnerships and joint ventures as well as syndicated and term loans. She has also advised numerous clients in relation to accommodation, telecommunications, renewable energy, toll road and various road related infrastructure projects, as well as captive power projects and independent funding of renewable energy projects in Africa.
Matthew Job
Matthew Job
Matthew Job is a Partner in the firm's has more than 25 years of experience in project finance and other limited or non-recourse finance structures used to secure finance for energy and infrastructure projects. His practice is founded in traditional bank-led project finance, but also extends to institutional debt and project bonds, government and multilateral-backed structures, commodity hedging and structured receivables finance. Whilst Matthew's practice covers all of energy and infrastructure, he has a particular focus on power and infrastructure, advising on numerous FOAK projects across the UK and internationally. Matthew co-leads the UK power practice. Matthew's accoldaes include being: Ranked Band 2 Chambers Projects for 2025 Ranked as a Leading Individual in Infrastructure: Project Finance and Development and Projects, Energy & Natural Resources: Power by Legal 500 for 2025 Recommended individual for banking and project finance in IFLR 1000
Rachel M. Jurist
Rachel M. Jurist advises clients on intellectual property matters, including trademark clearance, prosecution, enforcement and IP-related transactions in the United States and internationally. Rachel focuses her practice on client counseling, risk assessment and brand protection, and also handles copyright matters, domain name disputes and e-commerce-related issues. A Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US), she counsels clients on privacy matters. In addition, Rachel conducts IP diligence and provides related support for M&A deals. Rachel works with established businesses and startups in a wide range of industries including fashion and apparel, software and technology, hospitality, and consumer products.  
Samantha Kagan
Samantha Kagan works on employment law matters. Samantha assists in the representation of employers in federal and state courts, and before arbitration panels, in a variety of employment law disputes, including allegations of sex, race, national origin and disability discrimination and retaliation, whistleblower claims, contract disputes and bonus claims. Her work includes responding to pleadings, managing discovery, drafting discovery and dispositive motions, drafting deposition and witness examination outlines, and assisting in the preparation of witnesses for depositions, evidentiary hearings, and trials.
Eliza A. Kaiser
Eliza A. Kaiser’s practice focuses exclusively on employment law litigation and advisory matters. Eliza represents employers in federal and state courts, administrative and agency proceedings, and arbitrations and mediations. She has experience litigating a wide range of employment claims, including allegations based on discrimination, wage and hour violations, breach of contract, and tort. Eliza also has experience counseling clients concerning all aspects of the employment relationship, such as equal employment opportunity, employment policies, hiring, termination, disciplinary action, leave and medical issues, and employment contracts.
Kristopher B. Kastens
Kristopher B. Kastens is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property group. His practice focuses on patent litigation involving the computer, electrical and mechanical arts. He represents clients in a variety of technology areas, including application software, network infrastructure, computer security, wireless networks and mobile operating systems. Notably, he has been an important team member on multiple trials in the computer security space that have resulted in favorable jury verdicts for clients.  
Arielle Warshall Katz
Arielle Warshall Katz represents corporate executives, boards of directors, and public and private companies in regulatory and criminal investigations, trials, and related proceedings involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority), and other regulatory agencies. She has advised clients in the United States and abroad in many sensitive and high-profile cases involving a wide range of legal and compliance matters, including allegations of securities and accounting fraud, insider trading, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and unfair business practices.  
Philip S. Kaufman
Philip S. Kaufman is a skilled and accomplished courtroom advocate with a long and successful record of representing clients in trials and appeals across an extensive range of legal issues, including business dissolution, bankruptcy, real estate, securities, RICO, banking, and class action litigation. With a well-earned reputation as “the lawyer’s go-to litigator,” Phil is regularly brought in by attorneys from other practice groups within the firm to handle high-profile, high-dollar lawsuits involving complex and highly contentious business and commercial disputes. Over the past five years alone, Phil has litigated through trial no fewer than five cases on behalf of firm clients where at least $1 billion was at issue.  
Karen Steinberg Kennedy
Karen Steinberg Kennedy is a trial and appellate lawyer with more than 25 years of experience. Karen represents corporations, partnerships and individuals in all aspects of civil litigation, including in lawsuits involving contracts, accountants’ and auditors’ liability, claims of breach of fiduciary duty and fraud, alleged securities violations, whistleblower claims, and trusts and estates disputes. She represents clients in state and federal courts, in arbitration and mediation, in internal investigations, and in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings before government and regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).  
Daniel Ketani
Daniel Ketani works on litigation matters, with a focus on white collar, complex commercial and securities litigation. Daniel assists in the representation of individuals and public and private entities in white collar criminal matters, regulatory inquiries and enforcement proceedings, including those by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Internal Revenue Service and the New York Department of Financial Services, and in civil litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts. His work includes drafting pleadings and motions, including dispositive motions and appellate briefs; and discovery matters, including preparing witnesses and taking depositions.  
Mariya Khvatskaya
Mariya Khvatskaya advises on a broad range of federal, state and local tax issues. Mariya assists clients with the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures and other strategic combinations; financings; and securitizations involving a variety of different asset classes. She works with private equity and hedge funds on acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies, and reviews and drafts opinions on the tax implications of real estate condominium plans for real estate clients. Mariya’s work on state and local tax matters includes both transactional deals and controversy cases involving sales tax, unincorporated business tax, corporate tax, personal income tax and transfer tax issues, among others. For foreign clients, she drafts, reviews and assists on tax disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with passive foreign investment companies.  
Daniel King
Daniel King counsels hedge funds, private equity funds and mutual funds, as well as asset managers, commodity traders, investment bankers and other market participants on derivatives, structured products, swap financings and structured finance transactions. Dan handles transactional and regulatory matters, including assessing and mitigating credit and insolvency risks associated with financial products. He also advises on reporting and disclosure obligations, as well as on implementing regulatory reforms.
Erin V. Klewin
Erin V. Klewin litigates a diverse range of civil disputes, including false advertising, complex commercial, antitrust and bankruptcy cases, as well as white collar defense actions. Erin represents both plaintiffs and defendants in civil suits in federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings, and individuals and corporate entities in white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions. Erin’s work also includes defending global brands against false advertising claims under the federal Lanham Act and state law.  
Lisa Kobialka
Lisa Kobialka has been at the forefront of some of the most challenging trials in different venues across the country and handled more than 200 litigations. She counsels and represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex intellectual property litigation, including trials and evidentiary hearings in numerous jurisdictions across the United States involving claims for patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition and trademark infringement. Lisa represents clients in a variety of technology-related industries, with a particular emphasis on the energy, computer science and pharmaceutical sectors.  
Mark D. Koestler
Mark D. Koestler, co-chair of the Immigration group, counsels and represents advertising agencies, banks and financial services institutions, hedge funds, fashion and luxury goods companies, theatrical production companies, and other entities in the hiring, transfer and retention of foreign national executives, developing optimal solutions for clients' executive, management, professional and workforce needs. Mark works with clients to develop their global workforce planning and mobility strategies, advising them on navigating complex immigration laws and policies, and provides immigration counsel in the context of mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs, to structure these transactions to ensure compliance with U.S. immigration law.
Shang Kong
Shang Kong works on corporate matters, in particular mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic combinations. Shang assists private equity fund sponsors, their portfolio companies, as well as public and private strategic buyers in connection with mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity financings and other investment transactions. Prior to joining Kramer Levin, while a corporate associate at a law firm in Detroit, Shang worked on secondment at a publicly traded global packaging company.
Michael P. Korotkin
Michael Paul Korotkin has been instrumental in the genesis and development of Kramer Levin’s Real Estate practice, serving as both chair and co-chair of the department, as well as a partner for more than 40 years. As senior counsel to the firm, Michael remains actively engaged in the department’s efforts, counseling colleagues and clients on myriad complex transactions relating to all facets of the real estate industry. He represents many of the most well-recognized real estate developers and owners in New York, as well as major lending and financial institutions, and his work includes highly complex acquisitions, sales, development projects, ventures, leases, financings, loans and other restructurings, and workouts.
Daniel Kugler
Daniel Kugler works on litigation matters. Daniel previously worked as a summer associate at Kramer Levin. During law school, he worked as a clinical extern for Washington Square Legal Services Inc. and the American Civil Liberties Union, and with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in the Trial Bureau and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division. While in college, Daniel interned in the offices of New York State Assembly Member Sean Ryan and U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer.
Darren Laverne
Darren LaVerne counsels and advocates for individuals and companies in sensitive, complicated, and high-stakes matters involving criminal and regulatory trials, hearings, investigations, and related civil proceedings.  He has defended clients charged with insider trading and other violations of the securities laws, bribery, wire fraud, money laundering, and related crimes, as well as counseled clients under investigation and seeking to fend off charges.  Darren has extensive experience representing clients before the SEC and has successfully handled complex investigations into alleged regulatory violations, responding to subpoenas, conducting internal investigations, presenting to the SEC, and zealously advocating for his clients.  He regularly represents clients under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the SEC, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, and the New York State Attorney General’s Office, among other regulatory and law-enforcement authorities.  Darren has represented clients appearing as witnesses before grand juries and at trial, ensuring that they are well prepared and their rights are protected.
Kerri Ann Law
Kerri Ann Law is an experienced trial lawyer and counselor with a diverse practice representing clients, including Fortune 500 companies, in complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitration forums. She also represents companies and individuals in connection with sensitive and high-profile criminal and regulatory matters, and related civil matters. On behalf of her clients, Kerri Ann regularly interacts with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and other governmental agencies.
Kevin B. Leblang
Kevin B. Leblang, chair of the Employment Law department, advises and represents management in employment litigation and advisory matters. Kevin counsels employers on the full spectrum of employment law matters, ranging from the adoption and application of employee relations policies to the evaluation and minimization of litigation risks of employment decisions. He also conducts training sessions designed to avoid litigation and has successfully mediated dozens of disputes before JAMS, the American Arbitration Association and private mediators.
Hannah Lee
Hannah Lee litigates high-stakes patent disputes for numerous clients in the technology and life sciences sectors, including pharma, biotech, medical device and computer technologies. Hannah has substantial trial experience, including conducting direct examination and cross-examination of fact and expert witnesses in both jury and bench trials. She practices in multiple districts throughout the United States, the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Todd E. Lenson
Todd E. Lenson has more than 20 years of experience representing public companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and family offices and other family-owned businesses in all types of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings. Todd’s clients range from S&P 500 companies to growing companies across a diverse group of industries and sectors, including real estate, energy, manufacturing, technology, media, sports and entertainment. Todd serves as the deputy chair of the Corporate Department.
Patrick Leyden
Patrick Leyden
Patrick is a corporate partner in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure practice group in Johannesburg. Patrick is a corporate and regulatory lawyer practicing across a number of industry sectors but focusing in the mining and energy sectors within Sub-Saharan Africa. His experience includes domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, private equity, and black economic empowerment and indigenisation transactions. Patrick regularly advises JSE-listed mining companies on compliance with domestic mining legislation and has acted for a number of multinational banks in relation to precious metals transactions.
Gilbert K.S. Liu
Gilbert K.S. Liu advises and represents issuers, underwriters, borrowers, lenders and service providers in connection with private and public structured finance and securitization transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes. These asset classes include solar assets, energy savings performance contract receivables, time-share loans, equipment leases, auto loans, collateralized debt obligations, commercial mortgage loans, residential mortgage loans, trademark and licensing rights, and music royalties.
Jennifer Liu
Jennifer Liu litigates complex patent matters involving a variety of technologies, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices. Jennifer’s work involves various aspects of litigation, including pre-litigation investigation and analysis, drafting pleadings and motions, drafting infringement and validity contentions, managing discovery, taking depositions, working with experts, and preparing for trial. She has experience litigating under the Hatch-Waxman Act and the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA), including one of the first BPCIA cases.  
Ross Lomax
Ross Lomax
His practice focuses on M&A (largely private sector) and general corporate work. He is a leading corporate lawyer in South Africa with 20 years of experience acting for well-known local and international mining, commercial and industrial companies with a particular focus on the energy sector. Ross represents a wide range of clients including listed and unlisted South African corporates and multinational corporations. He has acted for clients in all sectors with a recent focus on Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) transactions and transactions in the renewable energy, mining and telecommunications sectors. Ross also focuses on the corporate components of project work. He has advised on approximately 40 renewable energy projects under the auspices of the South African Renewable Energy Independent Power Programme (REIPP). Ross also assists clients with investigations, complaints and charges initiated by regulatory bodies such as the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Competition Commission and the Financial Services Conduct Authority (FSCA). He has dealt with offences such as insider trading, market manipulation, trading in closed periods and price fixing. Ross provides corporate support on commercial litigation matters relating to, amongst others, disputes arising from allegations of breach of contract and breaches of the Companies Act.
Esther Lumbreras
Esther Lumbreras
Esther is an Of Counsel in the public law and environment practices in the Madrid office. She advises major corporations, global investment banks, equity sponsors, public entities and the public administration in relation to general public law (environment, public procurement, sanctions, public subsidies, expropriations, constitutional law, etc.), as well as litigation and arbitration matters related to the above within the regulated sectors, especially in energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, pharma and mining.
Geoffrey Maddock
Geoffrey Maddock
Geoffrey is a consultant in the London office focusing on non-contentious work for clients in the insurance sector. Geoffrey has experience of acquisitions, disposals, demutualisations, high value/longevity reinsurance, regulatory capital, securitisation and other transactions in the insurance sector, together with extensive experience of prudential and other regulatory advice to insurers and reinsurers. He has provided legal and regulatory advice on a broad range of issues arising from clients' with-profits business. He also has particular experience of transfers of insurance business, having led the firm's team advising on more than twenty five such transfers. He is the author of the chapter on Insurance Business Transfers in A Practitioner's Guide to the FSA Regulation of Insurance (5th edition, City & Financial Publishing, 2014) and joint Consulting Editor of "A Practitioner's Guide to Solvency II" (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016).
Martina Maffei
Martina Maffei
Martina Maffei is a Senior Associate in the Italian IP Disputes team at the firm, with extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional cases, particularly in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, and food sectors. She represents many of the largest pharma and biotech companies on a range of regulatory issues, including marketing authorizations for medicinal products and medical devices, data exclusivity, pricing and reimbursement, compliance with standards for interactions with healthcare professionals and organizations, and transparency obligations. Martina also advises on legal and regulatory aspects of digital health solutions, as well as borderline qualification cases between food, medical devices, cosmetics, and medicinal products. Martina assists Italian and international clients with sophisticated IP and regulatory issues, including patents, trademarks, e-commerce, and the legal aspects of digital projects such as advertising strategy and social media use.
Juliana Oliveira Maggio
Juliana Oliveira Maggio is a litigator who maintains a diverse practice with a focus on commercial, securities and bankruptcy-related matters. Juliana represents clients in civil litigation in state and federal courts, in commercial arbitrations, in internal investigations, and in connection with investigations and enforcement proceedings before government and regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).
Rebecca Major
Rebecca Major
Rebecca Major is a corporate partner at the firm and head of the Paris office Energy, Mining and Infrastructure practice. She also co-led the firm’s energy and natural resources team in Tokyo for 5 years. Rebecca focuses on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and projects in the energy (oil & gas, renewables, power and energy transition projects, such as batteries, green steel and green hydrogen) and mining sectors. She has many years of experience doing cross-border work, particularly in Europe and Africa, but also has substantial experience in Asia, South America and the Middle East. Rebecca is a British and French national who is qualified to advise on English and French law.
Enrico Maria Mancuso
Enrico Maria Mancuso
Enrico heads the Italian Corporate Crime & Investigations practice at the firm. As a litigator and trial lawyer with 20 years of experience, Enrico assists clients on all their white-collar crime matters, on both contentious and non-contentious issues. He has significant experience working with clients on criminal litigation, investigations, compliance, risk and crisis management. Enrico acts for domestic and international companies and their directors in connection with corporate and financial crimes including money laundering, corruption, fraud, market abuse and tax offences.
Austin Manes
Austin Manes is a litigator who works primarily on intellectual property matters, in particular patent litigation. Austin assists in the representation of clients at every stage of civil litigation, in both plaintiff- and defense-side matters. He has a strong background in complex civil litigation, as well as experience before federal administrative agencies. He has served as a member of trial teams for federal and state court trials, presented oral arguments, taken depositions, and drafted successful summary judgment motions and appellate briefs. He also has significant appellate experience in both federal and state courts of appeals.
Alison Matthews
Alison Matthews
Alison is a consultant in the London office focusing on non-contentious work for clients in the insurance sector. Alison has significant experience in insurance law and regulation for over 30 years, advising on all aspects of prudential and conduct of business regulation. Most recently, she has been working with clients on the introduction of the Consumer Duty and on the post-Brexit conduct of cross-border business. She frequently advises on the implications of group supervision for domestic and international groups, including in the context of M&A transactions. Other experience includes advice on the FSMA regulatory perimeter, FCA conduct of business rules, Solvency II, and the SMCR.  Alison has worked with a number of mutual insurers on issues relating to the conduct of with-profits business. Alison is the joint consulting editor of “A Practitioner’s Guide to Solvency II” (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016).
Thomas Mayer
Thomas Moers Mayer, co-chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring department, has played a prominent role in many of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases in history. Tom’s work involves both in- and out-of-court restructurings of distressed businesses on behalf of creditor committees, major secured and unsecured creditors, and bondholders. He has represented the official committees of unsecured creditors in some of the most well-known Chapter 11 cases, including those of General Motors, Chrysler, Capmark, Smurfit-Stone, Dana Corp., Seadrill Ltd., Arch Coal and Patriot Coal.
J. Michael Mayerfeld
J. Michael Mayerfeld counsels clients in securities, business combination, corporate finance and technology-sharing transactions, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, private equity offerings, joint ventures, licensing, and outsourcing transactions. Michael provides a comprehensive range of corporate and business advice to clients in a broad array of industries, including professional services, financial services, pharmaceutical, telematics and insurance. Clients he represents regularly include Deloitte, Sirius XM, Siga Technologies, Euclid and American International Group.
Michael McKay
Michael McKay advises clients on a wide range of complex debt financings and related private equity and corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, project financings, and other strategic and investment transactions. Michael provides legal and transactional advice to a wide range of clients, including banks, institutional and alternative lenders, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and project developers and their project companies. His work on behalf of these clients includes secured and unsecured domestic and international leveraged financings, acquisition financings, project financings, master limited-partnership financings, syndicated and single-bank credit financings, subordinated loans, unitranche loans, bond financings, asset-based lending, and interest rate derivatives.
Chase Henry Mechanick
Chase Henry Mechanick works on litigation matters. Prior to joining Kramer Levin, Chase served as a law clerk for the Honorable I. Leo Glasser of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and for the Honorable Paul G. Feinman of the New York Court of Appeals. Chase has also worked as an associate at another major law firm in New York City. During law school, he interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, in the Civil Frauds Unit. Committed to pro bono work, Chase volunteered for the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund in New York City after graduating from law school.
Tatiana Mejia-Uribe
atiana Mejia Uribe assists developers, investors, operators, purchasers, sellers, borrowers and lenders in real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings, development, leasing, and joint ventures and partnerships involving residential, commercial, retail, hospitality and mixed-use properties. Tatiana’s work involves drafting, negotiating, and reviewing purchase and sale agreements, financing documents, leases, and joint venture documents; conducting due diligence; and coordinating with deal team members from supporting practice areas, including tax and land use, to ensure that clients experience fully integrated representation.
Seth Merl
Seth R. Merl advises and represents public and privately held companies (both domestic and foreign); private equity and hedge funds; and other financial, asset management and real estate investment institutions in mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings, portfolio/asset investments and divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and securities laws matters across multiple industry sectors, including financial, consulting and asset management services; mortgage origination and servicing; transportation; technology; pharmaceuticals/healthcare; and consumer products.
Jason Moff
Jason M. Moff is a litigator who maintains a diverse commercial practice, with an emphasis on complex civil litigation and regulatory defense work. Jason represents private and public companies in federal and state courts, and in sensitive proceedings before regulatory and administrative agencies. He has served as co-lead counsel in significant securities and shareholder matters, represented major corporations in regulatory and criminal investigations, served on a number of trial teams, and advised clients on a range of regulatory and litigation issues.  
Thomas E. Molner
Thomas E. Molner counsels clients in securities, corporate finance and business combination transactions. These include public offerings, strategic and distressed mergers and acquisitions, and formation of joint ventures. He also regularly advises boards of directors and independent board committees of public companies on corporate governance, investigations and executive compensation matters. Tom provides clients a comprehensive range of corporate and business advice. His clients include a major U.S. audit and consulting firm and several U.S.-based shipping companies.
Bertrand Montembault
Bertrand Montembault
Bertrand Montembault is a partner at the firm, based in ourParis office. Bertrand is a French law qualified corporate and projects lawyer who has over 30 years of experience advising the firm’s clients on their activities in the natural resources and energy sectors throughout Francophone Africa. Bertrand has an excellent knowledge of Francophone Africa's local and regional legal and regulatory frameworks, including OHADA and CEMAC/UEMOA, and a strong network of local contacts. He was ranked in the 6th position of Jeune Afrique's Top 100 Legal Powerlist of the most influential lawyers in French-speaking Africa in 2023. Although Bertrand has spent most of his professional life in Paris, he was also based in Africa for a number of years, including in South Africa where he headed up the Francophone Africa team in the firm’s Johannesburg office (from October 2016 to December 2018), but also Gabon where he was based for over two years in the early part of his career.
Lesetja Morapi
Lesetja Morapi
Lesetja is a Director based in the Johannesburg office. Lesetja's practice focuses on all aspects of competition and antitrust regulation, including merger control, cartels and other prohibited behavioural conduct. Lesetja's also advises clients in other regulatory fields including consumer protection, gaming, postal and logistics regulation, advertising and marketing, as well as civil litigation. Lesetja also has knowledge and experience providing advice to clients on merger control in various other southern African jurisdictions.
James J. Moriarty
James J. Moriarty, co-chair of the Corporate department, represents a number of middle-market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as strategic buyers, in a wide variety of transactions, including acquisition and sale transactions, leveraged buyouts, growth equity financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and management equity arrangements, across a wide variety of industries. In particular, Jim has been active in education technology and financial services deals in the past few years.
Francesca Morra
Francesca Morra
Francesca leads the Italian energy and infrastructure practice at the firm. Her extensive knowledge of the energy and infrastructure sector is based on nearly 20 years of experience advising Italian and multinational energy companies, international sponsors, project developers, private equity funds and leading investment banks on some of the most innovative and complex transactions in the renewables space, conventional power, oil and gas (including LNG), energy efficiency, electric mobility and various types of infrastructure projects. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, the development of projects and infrastructures, industry contracts and regulatory matters, including ESG, MiFID, EMIR, MAR, REMIT, TPA exemptions. She also advises on competition, foreign direct investment and consumer protection issues. Recognised as one of Italy's energy & infra professionals by the main legal directories, Francesca is a frequent speaker on various energy-related topics and a contributor to legal publications. She also lectures on energy and competition law.
José Ramón Mourenza
José Ramón Mourenza
José Ramón heads the energy regulatory advice in the Madrid office. He is a State Attorney and has extensive experience and an in-depth knowledge of Spanish public law, especially in the energy sector as he was former State Attorney General at the Secretariat of State for Energy (2010-2018) and, subsequently, at the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda. He coordinated for over 8 years all energy-related litigation against the Spanish government, acting in several ad hoc investment arbitrations related to the regulatory framework for renewable electricity producers on behalf of the Kingdom of Spain.
Ernst Muller
Ernst Muller
Ernst is a Director based in Johannesburg, South Africa reporting directly to the Global Head of ESG. He has been mandated within his role to be one of the main point persons responsible for ESG across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), supporting the strategic focus of both the Global and UK, and EMEA ESG leads. Ernst is a "Natural Scientist turned Regulatory Lawyer". The combination of his skills as an Environmental Scientist and Lawyer makes him the ideal ESG lawyer – bridging the gap between the ever-expanding universe of ESG rights and specific obligations, technical expertise, and in-depth industry knowledge. Owing to his background in Environmental Sciences (B.Sc. and B.Sc. HONS) and because he is based in Africa, Ernst’s practice focusses on clients within the extractives and natural resources sector. Liaising and advising clients on particularly pertinent issues within these sectors as they grapple with the evolving regulatory space and in many instances shifting business models. In addition to advising clients across hard and soft law issues, he is well-versed in negotiations, transactional work, judicial review proceedings, international arbitrations, and high-court litigation.  Ernst’s clients include governments across Africa and the Middle East, indigenous and local communities, non-government organisations and multinational enterprises.  His impact on, influence and level of access to clients across the spectrum is unique for a non-partner due to his position in the market as one of few solely focused ESG lawyers in the region. Since qualifying in 2016, Ernst has established himself as a leading ESG lawyer on the continent. His commitment to ESG and success in this field is illustrated by the fact that Ernst currently represents Africa on the International Bar Association's (IBA) Sustainable Development Goals and ESG working group, the Net Zero Lawyers Alliance's steering committee, and the Green Hydrogen Organisation's (GH2) standard committee. In addition, he is regularly invited to participate at conferences across Africa and the Middle East addressing senior stakeholders on ESG topics. Ernst regularly addresses postgraduate students and academic departments at universities as a guest lecturer on matters related to ESG, green hydrogen, mining, and sustainable development. He is also an ambassador for Cambridge University's Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice programme. Ernst frequently publishes on ESG-related topics ranging from policies and global legal developments to local community engagement processes, mineral and sustainability law reform processes, and climate change policies (most of the articles are available here).
Grant Murtagh
Grant Murtagh
Grant is a corporate lawyer who focuses on the insurance sector. Grant works on M&A and other corporate transactions (including Part VII transfers), and has extensive experience of large and complex (re)insurance transactions. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the regulatory regime that applies to (re)insurers and (re)insurance brokers. In addition, he is a member of the firm’s fintech group, and has worked with companies looking to develop businesses in that sector. He is qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor (non-practising) with the Irish Tax Institute, and is an affiliate member of the Society of Actuaries in Ireland. Prior to joining the firm, Grant worked with a leading Irish law firm. Prior to that, he was an in-house lawyer working in the European headquarters of a leading American financial institution.
Gary P. Naftalis
Gary P. Naftalis is one of the nation’s leading trial lawyers and pre-eminent litigators. Gary represents corporations, as well as officers, directors and significant individuals, in all phases of complex high-stakes civil, criminal and regulatory matters. His work on behalf of these clients spans more than four decades and includes many sensitive and high-profile matters, including governmental and regulatory inquiries and related civil litigation involving allegations of insider trading, market manipulation, accounting irregularities, stock options backdating and other financial fraud. Throughout his career he has been one of the first calls for corporate leaders encountering legal problems.
Jay A. Neveloff
Jay A. Neveloff advises a broad range of clients involved with the development, ownership and financing of real estate projects, including high-profile mixed-use, commercial, retail, and residential projects in New York City and throughout the country. A nationally recognized transactional lawyer, Jay represents institutional and private equity funds, as well as other investors, in joint ventures, in the acquisition and sale of property, including portfolios of properties, and in connection with a broad variety of developments. He also represents major international funds and financial institutions in commercial lending transactions, loan restructurings and workouts.
Seth R. Niedermayer
Seth R. Niedermayer counsels and represents investors, developers, operators and financial institutions in the full range of real estate transactions — acquisitions and sales, developments, partnerships and joint ventures, and lending, borrowing and financing transactions. Seth’s projects involve commercial, residential, multifamily, mixed-use, luxury, and resort and hospitality properties, and include everything from traditional commercial transactions and financings to foreign investments in U.S. developments and some of the highest-profile developments in New York City and nationwide.
Hiroaki Nishikawara
Hiroaki (Hiro) Nishikawara advises clients on a full range of employment-based and general business immigration law matters, in particular the hiring, transfer and retention of foreign talent. Hiro’s work includes obtaining non-immigrant work visas, temporary work authorizations and employment-based permanent residence status for employees. He also advises on family-sponsored visas and naturalizations, as well nonroutine matters, such as the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, responding to Requests for Evidence, Notices of Intent to Deny or Revoke, Department of Labor audits, and appeals before the Administrative Appeals Office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Fiorella Noriega Del Valle
Fiorella Noriega Del Valle
Fiorella Noriega Del Valle is a Director in the Johannesburg Dispute Resolution practice. Fiorella's practice focuses on commercial dispute resolution and corporate crime and investigations. She has worked on a wide range of complex investigations and commercial disputes for both local and international clients. Her experience includes dispute resolution through litigation in the South African courts, domestic arbitrations, and international arbitrations under the auspices of the ICC, LCIA, AFSA, HKIAC and ad hoc arbitrations. Fiorella holds an Advanced Certificate in International Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and is one of the inaugural co-chairs of the Young Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (Young AFSA).
Ziyanda Ntshona
Ziyanda Ntshona
Ziyanda is a M&A/private equity lawyer with 20 years of experience practicing in all aspects of M&A including reorganisations, private equity, commercial work, corporate governance and general corporate transactions in South Africa and the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. Her experience includes mining, health, financial services, pharma, telecommunications, real estate, and private equity. This includes cross-border transactions and transactions that involve leveraged buyouts and where issues of Black Economic Empowerment are pertinent.
Laura Orlando
Laura Orlando
Laura is the Managing Partner of the firm’s Milan office and leads the firm’s EMEA Life Sciences practice. A recognised thought leader in intellectual property law, Laura is appreciated by clients and peers for her innovative and strategic approach, particularly in the life sciences sector. She excels in handling high-profile, multi-jurisdictional patent cases, including those under the SPC Regulation and before the Unified Patent Court (UPC). Her advice is crucial to major pharmaceutical companies in managing patent expirations and securing market leadership through effective patent lifecycle management, obtaining marketing authorisations and navigating data exclusivity provisions. Laura's ability to deliver proactive, innovative legal solutions extends across a wide range of industries, including food, chemicals, consumer goods, telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), electronics, fashion and industrial design. Throughout her career, Laura has received numerous accolades and is consistently ranked in the top tier of prestigious legal directories, is regularly listed among the top 50 lawyers in Italy and as one of the 50 most inspiring female legal professionals in Italy.
James Palmer
James Palmer
James is a senior corporate and governance lawyer who was the Chair and Senior Partner of our firm. He is one of the UK's leading M&A, capital markets and corporate lawyers, with deep experience of corporate governance and regulation, including financial regulation. He is frequently involved in helping clients in situations where they face significant and unusual challenges. These include hostile takeovers, board and governance disputes, regulatory and other investigations, business crises, interactions with governments or government bodies, significant liability or solvency exposures, as well as significant transactions. He is also recognised as a leading authority in relation to both Brexit and foreign direct investment regulation. James is a General Editor of and contributor to Butterworth's Takeovers: Law and Practice, and has also contributed to other leading reference works on takeovers and corporate law, including Buckley on the Companies Acts and Hannigan and Prentice's Guide to the Companies Act 2006. He was Chair and Senior Partner of the firm from 2015 to 2021. James joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 1986, becoming a partner in 1994. He was a member of the firm's governing Partnership Council from 2002-2006. He led the firm's global equity capital markets practice from 2005-2010 and was the firm's Global Head of Corporate from 2010-2012.
Nick Pantlin
Nick Pantlin
Nick heads our TMT, Digital & Sourcing practice in the UK and is Global Co-Head of our Technology Sector Group Nick specialises in advising private and public sector clients on UK and multi-jurisdictional technology procurement, digital and business transformation, outsourcing, IT service provision, major systems implementation, communications, software development, licensing, cloud, e-commerce, cyber security,  data protection, data commercialisation and complex commercial projects. Nick advises extensively on the use and adoption of technologies such as blockchain/DLT, AI, machine learning and automation. His expertise extends across multiple industry sectors.
Michelle Park
Michelle Park is a member of the Technology and IP Transactions group. She also works on corporate matters, in particular private equity and mergers and acquisitions. She assists in the representation of private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, strategic buyers, and public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, growth equity financings, and other investment transactions. Michelle also works on venture capital transactions.
Eileen M. Patt
Eileen M. Patt maintains a diverse complex civil litigation practice with a focus on advertising and employment matters. Eileen represents global brands in false advertising disputes under the federal Lanham Act and in challenges before the National Advertising Division (NAD) and the National Advertising Review Board (NARB), as well as in consumer class action litigation throughout the country. Eileen regularly advises clients on a variety of advertising-related issues, including prospective claims, advertising clearance and claim support. She also is a managing editor of Kramer Levin’s Advertising Litigation Report, which provides weekly updates on developments in the space
Stewart Payne
Stewart Payne
Stewart is a senior associate in the competition practice, based in Johannesburg. Stewart has assisted clients on various aspects of competition law, including in relation to merger control, market inquiries, exemptions, cartel and other prohibited practices and involving both litigious and advisory work. Stewart been involved in a number of complex and high-profile matters across these areas. He provides ongoing advice and support to certain key clients of the firm, including in the telecoms, digital markets, FMCG and agro-processing sectors. He has also assisted in competition compliance audits and training. In addition, Stewart has assisted clients on various regulatory matters including in the broadcasting, sugar and transport sectors. Although primarily focussed on South Africa, Stewart has worked on a range of matters involving merger control and anti-competitive practices across other sub-Saharan African jurisdictions as well, notably in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and in relation to the COMESA competition law regime.
Paul S. Pearlman
Paul S. Pearlman is the managing partner emeritus of Kramer Levin and served as managing partner from August 2000 to December 2019. In addition to his responsibilities as managing partner, Paul advised and represented clients in private equity transactions, as well as in the corporate aspects of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy. Paul’s private equity experience over the past 35 years has included representing leveraged buyout sponsors, management and providers of debt financing in complex and often high-profile leveraged buyout transactions. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions involving public and privately held entities and in the financing of acquisition transactions.
Laurence Pettit
Laurence Pettit regularly advises issuers and financial advisers on structured finance transactions involving a wide range of asset classes. As issuer’s counsel, Laurence helped develop the first securitizations of residential property assessed clean energy (PACE) assessments in 2014 and has facilitated more than 30 PACE securitizations since that time. He is actively involved in the expanding market for both residential and commercial PACE financings, advising on both the establishment of new PACE programs and on specific transactions to fund the origination of PACE assets. Since January 2011, he has also advised on term and warehouse securitizations involving home improvement loans, consumer litigation funding, retail installment sales contracts, contractor loans, insurance commissions, trade receivables, collateralized fund obligations, commercial/industrial solar power purchase contracts, rooftop solar loans and tobacco settlement legal fee awards. Laurence also counsels investment funds on their secondary market activity in asset-backed security (ABS) and mortgage-backed security products, including distressed investing and workouts.
Pietro Pouché
Pietro Pouché
Pietro Pouché is a partner in the Italian IP Disputes team, with extensive experience in intellectual property disputes, including trademark, design, and patent litigation. He assists clients in exploiting and protecting valuable IP assets across various industries such as TMT, energy, consumer products, and fashion. Pietro has significant knowledge in data protection, TMT regulatory issues, and transactional matters involving IP assets. He is known for his work in complex cross-border IP litigations, commercial transactions, and regulatory matters, representing clients before judicial courts and in international arbitrations in jurisdictions like China, India, and the US. His work also covers general commercial dispute resolution, making him a well-regarded commercial litigator in the market. Pietro is a lecturer at the Master in Fashion Law at the University of Milan and other courses on International Private Law. He regularly speaks at seminars on IP issues organized by associations such as Indicam, AICIPI, and the International Trademark Association, as well as on ESG matters and cultural appropriation issues.
James P. Power
James P. Power advises and represents private developers and cultural, educational and health care institutions on real estate development and land use issues in New York City, including zoning and municipal law, and the land use and environmental review processes and practices before various city agencies. Jim assists clients with the analysis and assemblage of development sites, including drafting and negotiating zoning lot and development rights agreements. He also advises on inclusionary housing and Affordable New York/421-a benefits issues.
Jeremy Purton
Jeremy Purton
Jeremy is a senior commercial lawyer who specialises in tech transactions and complex sourcing projects. Ranked in Legal 500 each year since 2021 as a Rising Star for both IT & Telecoms and TMT Industry Focus, Jeremy works closely with clients on long-term technology-enabled transformation programmes.  He is experienced in dealing with complex legacy systems transitions, finding practical ways through distressed sourcing projects, and helping organisations to implement digital solutions that enable them to benefit from advances in technology.
Julia Quigley
Julia A. Quigley works on environmental matters, advising investors, real estate developers and financial institutions on the environmental aspects of corporate, real estate and bankruptcy transactions, including compliance with state and federal environmental statutes and the management of legacy environmental liabilities. Julia also aids in the litigation of matters arising under state and city environmental and land use laws. Prior to joining Kramer Levin, Julia was a legal intern for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for Region II and worked for Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust developing a Geographic Information System database for use in market research.
Justin R. Quinn
Justin R. Quinn represents commercial real estate lenders, investors and other providers of capital at all levels of the capital stack, from origination through maturity, including restructurings and workouts. Justin has represented both originators and purchasers in various types of secondary market transactions, including the negotiation of participation agreements, co-lending agreements and intercreditor agreements, as well as the origination and restructuring of repurchase and warehouse lending facilities, programmatic investment vehicles and “co-GP” operating agreements. He also has broad experience representing owners and developers in commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, financing and disposition of office, retail, multifamily and hospitality properties.
Daniel A. Rabinowitz
Daniel A. Rabinowitz advises clients in the insurance and reinsurance industry on a comprehensive range of transactional and regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, reinsurance, structured insurance products, restructurings, securitization and structured finance, reserve financing, pension de-risking, reorganizations, insurance-linked securities, capital standards, group solvency, insurance company investments, and corporate governance. From 2011 to 2014, he served as chair of the Insurance Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He is currently serving as a subcommittee chair within that body. He is also currently chair of the Insurance Regulation Subcommittee of the International Bar Association’s Insurance Law Committee.
Caroline Rae
Caroline Rae
Caroline is a partner in our corporate team focused on cross border public and private M&A. Caroline advises leading corporates and financial institutions on private acquisitions and disposals, recommended and hostile public company takeovers, joint ventures and equity capital raisings. Caroline works with clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on the financial services. She has worked on a range of matters in the Fintech sector. Caroline also works with a number of our listed company clients on corporate governance and  board advisory matters, listed company regulation and compliance. Caroline topped the UK M&A lawyer rankings by deal value in 2021, Mergerlinks. Caroline has been recognised in The Lawyer's 2019 Hot 100 for "her legal prowess in major public takeovers".
Marina Reason
Marina Reason
Marina focuses on advising banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of financial regulation. Marina has been active in the regulatory industry for a decade and a half and has established relationships with most of the large banking institutions and asset managers. Marina regularly works with the industry through trade associations including AFME, the AGC, UK Finance, FMLC, PIMFA, Digital Pound Foundation and others on hot topics of the day, including most recently on Consumer Duty and the UK the FMI Digital Sandbox for blockchain tokenisation.
Marta Rey
Marta Rey
Marta is a senior associate in the litigation and arbitration practice in the Madrid office, focused on restructuring and insolvency. She has extensive experience in civil and trade proceedings, focusing on litigation, pre-insolvency and insolvency law, including advocacy before the Spanish Courts. Her practice includes advising both international and local companies and creditors (both financial and commercial) in insolvency proceedings, as well as filing mandatory insolvency petitions in the name of the creditors. Additionally, she advises in restructuring, refinancing transactions, and loan portfolio acquisitions.
Jonathan Ripley-Evans
Jonathan Ripley-Evans
Jonathan Ripley-Evans is a Partner based in the Johannesburg office and heads up the South African Disputes practice. Jonathan has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution and general commercial litigation. He has also acted as mediator and as advisor/representative in both mediations and arbitrations, domestic and international. Jonathan is an AFSA accredited mediator and arbitrator and currently holds the position of Vice President of the AFSA Court. He also sits as a member of the court of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and International Arbitration Centre (LACIAC). He was member of the core drafting committee responsible for the revision of the AFSA International Commercial Arbitration Rules which were launched in 2021. He is an accredited Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). His practice is geared towards alternative dispute resolution, in particular arbitration and mediation but is equally placed to administer complex commercial court litigation. He focuses on the resolution of commercial disputes in a wide range of sectors including energy, mining, tourism, hospitality, property, insurance and construction and engineering.
Nolan J. Robinson
Nolan J. Robinson is an experienced trial lawyer with a diverse practice representing individuals and companies in often sensitive and high-profile regulatory and criminal investigations, trials and related proceedings involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and other regulatory agencies. Nolan also represents clients in a wide range of high-stakes securities and shareholder class actions and other complex commercial matters.    
Adam C. Rogoff
Adam C. Rogoff provides senior corporate governance advice to boards and C-level executive management in all aspects of restructuring, whether in court or out of court, and also represents significant creditor and other interests in complex restructuring matters. In particular, Adam counsels and represents a diverse range of corporate debtors; official and ad hoc creditors’ committees; secured creditors, including debtor-in-possession financing lenders; distressed asset purchasers; and other significant parties in complex transactional, litigation, corporate governance and advisory matters relating to restructuring, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, “prepackaged” Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts.
Tzvi Rokeach
Tzvi Rokeach represents leading developers, institutional investors, major lenders, Fortune 1000 corporations and prominent individual investors, bringing a multidisciplinary perspective to a wide range of sophisticated real estate transactions. Tzvi works on large-scale development and construction projects, joint ventures, acquisitions, and sales and dispositions across a broad range of asset types, including commercial, industrial, retail, residential, gaming, hospitality and entertainment properties. He also represents lenders and borrowers in complex real estate financings, workouts, and complicated restructurings and recapitalizations, as well as multiple-tier intercreditor relationships and mortgage and mezzanine loan foreclosures and enforcement activities.
Jordan Rosenbaum
Jordan M. Rosenbaum regularly counsels public companies on initial public offerings (IPOs), capital markets offerings, mergers, acquisitions, going-private transactions, spinoffs and general corporate and securities law matters.  He also advises companies and boards of directors on corporate governance and regulatory matters.  Jordan has advised companies with complex IPOs, including those using the UP-C and other partnership structures, Rule 144A offerings, and follow-on and at-the-market equity offerings.
Scott S. Rosenblum
Scott S. Rosenblum counsels clients on corporate and securities law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. Scott advises public and private entities in a wide variety of transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and debt and equity offerings, including initial public offerings and alternative public offerings, partnership arrangements, and venture transactions. His clients include both domestic and international entities (including those based in China, Israel and the United Kingdom), from startups and emerging companies to Fortune 500 companies, engaged in technology, investment banking, manufacturing and services, real estate, insurance, financial services, energy, and e-commerce
Seth F. Schinfeld
Seth F. Schinfeld is a litigator who maintains a diverse commercial litigation practice with a particular focus on advertising litigation, including representing global brands in false advertising cases under the federal Lanham Act and in challenges before the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Seth also has broad experience litigating employment issues, licensing and contract disputes, securities actions, criminal and regulatory claims, and general commercial and business matters. He has taken and defended depositions and has represented clients in numerous arbitrations and in cases in federal and state court.  
Paul H. Schoeman
Paul H. Schoeman is co-managing partner of Kramer Levin, and co-chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice. He defends clients in complex and often high-profile criminal, civil and regulatory matters involving every aspect of white collar crime, including securities fraud, money laundering, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, health care fraud, insider trading, accounting fraud and tax evasion. A skilled advocate in and out of the courtroom, Paul represents corporations and individuals in investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Congress, the New York State Attorney General’s Office and other authorities. His work on behalf of his clients also includes conducting internal corporate investigations.
Nathan Schwartzberg
Nathan Schwartzberg assists in the representation of individual and institutional clients in white collar criminal matters, regulatory inquiries and enforcement proceedings brought by the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, the Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also assists with defending corporations in complex commercial disputes in the federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. Nathan’s work includes drafting pleadings and motions, managing discovery, preparing witnesses, and strategizing for and attending depositions and hearings.  
Steven Segal
Steven Segal counsels clients on general corporate matters, with a particular focus on securities law and transactional matters in the municipal and corporate restructuring context. Steven advises both issuers and creditors on a variety of transactions, including public offerings, financings, private exchanges, restructuring support agreements, and an assortment of restructuring transactions and other special situations both in and out of court. His work also includes the analysis of indentures and other complex credit documents governing instruments across the capital structure for mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. 
Paul D. Selver
Paul D. Selver, co-chair of the Land Use department, counsels and represents both private- and public-sector clients in all aspects of land use and development law, with a special emphasis on environmental, zoning and historic preservation. Paul represents clients in matters involving the public and environmental review of complex and large-scale projects, zoning interpretation critical to project approval, and transfers of development rights. He also oversees land use and environmental due diligence in connection with real estate purchases and financings, and has served as special counsel in litigation defending challenges to land use-related permits and approvals.
Stephen R. Senie
Stephen R. Senie represents clients in all aspects of real estate transactions, including the development and construction of complex mixed-use projects for both commercial and institutional clients, and the formation of condominium projects, as well as acquisitions and sales, leases, ground leases, and financings. Steve also represents property owners and developers in connection with the purchase and sale of air rights and development rights, including landmark, theater and inclusionary rights, and in connection with easement agreements, access agreements and other development agreements.
Meigan P. Serle
Meigan P. Serle counsels and represents leading developers and investors in luxury and mixed-used commercial, retail and residential projects, specializing in condominium, cooperative and shared ownership developments. Meigan helps clients plan, develop, structure and implement sophisticated and often bespoke ownership, operation and management regimes designed to meet the specific and unique needs of these large-scale development projects. She also advises on the legal, regulatory and business aspects of the creation, registration, marketing and sale of both condominium and cooperative public and nonpublic offerings.
Terrence Shen
Terrence L. Shen represents public and private companies, financial institutions, investment funds, and government entities in connection with corporate finance and securities transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In his corporate finance and securities practice, Terry advises on debt and equity public offerings and private placements, leveraged finance transactions, financial restructurings, recapitalizations, and securities regulation. In his mergers and acquisitions practice, he counsels clients in structuring, negotiating and realizing public and private acquisitions and divestitures, private equity investments, and joint ventures. Terry also advises public companies on regulatory compliance, reporting and disclosure requirements, investor communications, corporate governance, and investigations. He has practiced both in the U.S. and internationally.
Joseph A. Shifer
Joseph Shifer’s practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy and restructuring matters. Joe’s restructuring experience includes advising debtors, official creditors’ committees, ad hoc creditor groups, noteholders, plan proponents, distressed investors, and other estate constituencies and fiduciaries in complex Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings. Joe also advises financial institutions and various other investors regarding investments in distressed companies. Joe has been involved in matters relating to a diverse range of industries including energy, financial, shipping, retail, automotive, manufacturing, mining, health care and gaming.
Busisiwe Sibeko
Busisiwe Sibeko
Busisiwe is a Senior Associate in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure department in the Johannesburg office. Busisiwe has assisted in advising both domestic and international clients in respect of the development and financing aspects projects across Africa. She also has worked with clients on transactions across the infrastructure and energy sectors and has vast experience in drafting finance documents and project documents. She has a keen interest in PPPs and renewable projects.
Cynthia Lovinger Siderman
Cynthia Lovinger Siderman advises and represents clients in connection with land use matters, particularly in the area of eminent domain. A practitioner in the area of eminent domain for more than a decade, including representing condemnors, Cynthia is an effective advocate representing the interests of landowners and tenants in eminent domain proceedings, both in valuation trials to obtain just compensation and in appellate courts to protect and further the awards of compensation.
George M. Silfen
George M. Silfen concentrates his practice in the representation of investment companies and their boards of directors, investment advisers and broker-dealers in connection with the organization and operation of investment products and services, including mutual funds, closed-end investment companies, business development companies, registered hedge funds, wrap accounts, and 401(k) and IRA products. George advises clients on regulatory and compliance matters associated with investment companies, and on investment advisory, brokerage, securities custody and transfer agent services.
Norman C. Simon
Norman C. Simon is a seasoned trial lawyer who maintains a diverse litigation practice with a focus on advertising law. As chair of the Advertising Litigation practice, Norm represents global brands in false advertising disputes under the federal Lanham Act and in class action litigation brought pursuant to consumer fraud statutes, as well as in challenges before the National Advertising Division (NAD) and National Advertising Review Board (NARB). He has many years of courtroom experience, litigating both bench and jury trials. Norm draws on that experience to help clients avoid costly litigation, counseling them on a variety of advertising-related issues, including prospective claims, advertising clearance and claim support. He also is a managing editor of Kramer Levin’s Advertising Litigation Report, which provides weekly updates on developments in the space.
Peter Smith
Peter G. Smith provides counsel on the full gamut of corporate and securities law matters, including regularly advising on U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity financings and restructurings, joint ventures, and initial public offerings. Over the years his experience has ranged from structuring multibillion-dollar public tender offers and mergers to assisting investors, corporations and others in planning, financing and implementing leveraged buyouts and other acquisition programs, with a special focus on innovative strategies and structures.
Steven S. Sparling
Steven S. Sparling litigates white collar regulatory and criminal defense, civil antitrust, complex commercial, and sports matters. Steve counsels and represents executives, directors and other individuals as well as Fortune 100 companies in sensitive, complicated and often high-profile matters involving criminal and regulatory trials, hearings, investigations, and related proceedings. Steve’s work on behalf of his clients involves a comprehensive range of substantive issues in white collar criminal defense and regulatory work, including defending against allegations of securities and accounting fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, insider trading, running a Ponzi scheme, money laundering, stock options backdating, obstruction of justice and tax offenses. He has also conducted numerous internal investigations for U.S. and foreign companies, represented both officers and directors in connection with such investigations, and worked with auditors and disclosure counsel as well as regulators and government agencies in connection with such investigations.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan represents both private developers and not-for-profit institutions in zoning and municipal law matters, including seeking discretionary land use approvals, negotiating transfers of development rights, and conducting zoning due diligence for property acquisition and financing. His clients include museums, universities, charter schools, an interstate energy company, a live theater developer and operator, a bistate governmental agency, and both local and national real estate developers.
Gareth Sykes
Gareth Sykes
Gareth is a Partner and UK Head of Corporate Governance Advisory Practice, helping listed and private companies navigate the increasingly challenging corporate law and governance framework. He leads the firm’s Corporate Governance Advisory Team, advising clients on a range of governance and compliance issues. His experience includes advising on corporate reporting requirements, the UK Corporate Governance Code, continuing obligations under the Listing Rules and Market Abuse Regulation, shareholder meetings and directors' duties. Gareth is a member of the FRC's inaugural Stakeholder Insights Group, the only lawyer to be appointed to this group which reflects his experience and status in this area. Gareth speaks and writes widely on corporate governance matters and is regularly approached by leading governance bodies to speak or write on governance issues. He organises, and speaks at, the firm’s Annual Update for Listed Companies seminar, the market-leading corporate governance event for FTSE general counsel and companies secretaries.
Eitan Tabak
Eitan Tabak counsels and represents private equity sponsors, funds and their portfolio companies in corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financings. Eitan’s work includes representing middle-market private equity funds in connection with their acquisitions and sales of various portfolio companies throughout the United States and across a wide range of industries, including retail wireless communications, technology, food and beverage services, fitness centers, transportation services and apparel.
Gary R. Tarnoff
Gary R. Tarnoff, co-chair of the Land Use department,  focuses his practice on zoning, land use, landmarks and New York City administrative law. Gary has more than 20 years of experience as a land use lawyer representing developers, corporations, REITs, banks, medical institutions, universities, nursing homes, schools, museums, religious organizations and individuals in New York City land use matters. Gary has served as land use counsel on a wide variety of development projects, ranging from large-scale development projects and campus expansion and redevelopment to alterations and enlargements to individual town houses in historic districts.
Adam B. Taubman
Adam B. Taubman represents private developers, banks, and not-for-profit educational, cultural and health care institutions in the planning, development, and financing and acquisition of major properties in New York City. Adam advises clients on the development potential of sites, negotiates complex transactions for the transfer of development rights, conducts land use due diligence for property acquisition and financing, and applies for and obtains discretionary land use approvals, including rezonings, special permits and variances.
Leonie Timmers
Leonie Timmers
Leonie is a senior associate focusing on ESG (environmental, social and governance) and sustainable financing in the Madrid office. She advises companies and funds on matters relating to sustainability reporting and due diligence, particularly pursuant to the SFDR, EU Taxonomy, CSRD, ISSB and CSDDD. She also advises on the review of external communications to analyse clients’ greenwashing and social-washing risk profiles and the development, implementation and maintenance of resilient ESG frameworks. Her other focus lies on sustainable and impact investing in illiquid asset classes and the implementation of the EU Sustainable Finance framework for funds and asset managers across Europe. Before moving to focus on ESG, Leonie was a finance lawyer advising lenders, borrowers, sponsors, ECAs and governments on structured finance transactions including project finance, acquisition finance and real estate finance in a variety of sectors, both in the Iberian market and in emerging markets. In the past decade, she has worked as external counsel in Latin America, the United Kingdom and continental Europe, giving her an insight into the cultural and business considerations faced by clients operating in these markets.
Carlos J. Tirado
Carlos J. Tirado works on Intellectual Property matters. During law school, Carlos was selected for the Federal Judicial Clerkship Honors Program and interned for the Hon. Lynne Sitarski, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He also served as patent assessment intern with the Jefferson Innovation Technology Transfer Office in Philadelphia. Between college and law school, Carlos worked as a distribution standards engineer for an electric utility in Pennsylvania, assisting with the implementation of new technology, developing improvement recommendations for network infrastructure and operations, and creating an emergency response plan for urban distribution networks.
Jeffrey S. Trachtman
Jeffrey S. Trachtman litigates complex bankruptcy, mass tort and securities fraud matters, including some of the nation’s most significant and high-profile cases in recent years. Skilled and accomplished both as writer and courtroom advocate, Jeff has built a long and successful record representing clients in both trial and appellate courts. Jeff is also a nationally recognized pro bono leader. In addition to helping to build Kramer Levin’s award-winning program as chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee for more than 17 years, Jeff has represented poverty law and civil rights clients throughout his career, most notably in landmark marriage equality cases in New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court.  
Eugene C. Travers
Eugene C. Travers represents developers, lenders, corporations, real estate investment trusts, not-for-profit institutions and other entities in land use, zoning and historic preservation law matters. Eugene negotiates complex zoning lot mergers and transfers of development rights, conducts zoning due diligence and analyzes development potential for property acquisition and financing, and seeks discretionary land use approvals, including rezonings, zoning text amendments, special permits, variances and authorizations.
Julia L. Wachter
Julia L. Wachter represents major developers and other property owners, borrowers and real estate investors in the acquisition, ownership, development, sale and financing of complex commercial, mixed-use and luxury residential projects, with a particular emphasis on condominiums and cooperatives. Julia advises clients on the planning, structuring and implementation of sophisticated co-ownership regimes, as well as on applicable legal and regulatory requirements, in order to facilitate public offerings and commercial sales, leases, acquisitions, financings and tax exemptions. She has worked on a number of complex projects, both within and outside New York.
Elise Wagner
Elise Wagner is a partner in the Land Use department at Kramer Levin, where she concentrates her practice in land use, zoning, environmental and historic preservation law. She has substantial experience counseling for-profit and nonprofit property owners on the planning and development of new buildings and the reuse of existing buildings. She has coordinated the public approval processes for major public-private development projects involving cooperation between private developers and New York City and State agencies. She has negotiated numerous multiparty transactions for the transfer of development rights and has performed due diligence on the purchase and financing of major properties.
Andrew I. Ward
Andrew I. Ward has a diverse transactional-based practice that focuses on assisting hedge funds, investment banks and other financial institutions with the purchase and sale of bankruptcy trade claims, LSTA and LMA bank debt, notes, bonds, and various types of equity interests, both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions. Prior to focusing on the distressed asset space, Andrew's practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities offerings, and securities compliance. This experience allows Andrew to provide guidance to his clients on a broad array of general corporate and securities matters.
Reyhan Watson
Reyhan Watson works on a wide variety of complex civil cases, including domestic and international arbitrations, as well as white collar criminal and regulatory investigations and prosecutions. Reyhan’s work involves all phases of the trial and appellate process, including coordinating complex discovery, preparing witnesses, motion practice and writing appeals briefs, as well as mediations, negotiations and settlements. His arbitration work involves experience under federal and state arbitration laws and under major institutional rules such as the AAA-ICDR and ICC rules.  
Aaron L. Webman
Aaron L. Webman represents corporations and their executives, as well as other individuals, in complex and headline-making government investigations, trials and high-stakes civil litigation. As a key member of the defense team, Aaron’s work involves conducting factual investigations; managing document production and review and other discovery; investigating government witnesses; preparing fact and expert witnesses for deposition and trial testimony; drafting pleadings, dispositive motions and other court filings; and handling trial preparation and day-to-day trial triage.  
Harold P. Weinberger
Harold P. Weinberger is a nationally recognized trial lawyer. Harold represents both plaintiffs and defendants in false advertising disputes under the federal Lanham Act, defends clients against class action litigation brought pursuant to consumer fraud statutes, and represents clients in other complex intellectual property and commercial litigations and arbitrations. He also represents advertisers and challengers in proceedings before the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and in appeals before the National Advertising Review Board (NARB).
Benu Mehra Wells
Benu Mehra Wells represents clients in complex patent and general commercial litigation in federal courts across the country. In patent litigation, Benu represents both patent owners seeking to enforce their rights and companies defending against allegations of patent infringement across various technology sectors, including the electrical, software, computer security, satellite radio, consumer product and pharmaceutical industries. She also has represented both patentees and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers in litigations under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Tim West
Tim West
Tim focuses on investment funds work and has been involved in numerous fund launches, secondary capital raisings and fund reconstructions, primarily in relation to closed ended investment vehicles (across multiple asset classes and including structured and alternative investment products) where he has led in relation to some of the largest and most complex and innovative structures both in the UK and globally. His practice also includes regulatory and similar own account work for asset managers and their funds.
Christine Willgoos
Christine Willgoos litigates patent actions on behalf of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, leading trial and appellate teams in Hatch-Waxman and biologic drug litigation, often involving blockbuster drugs. She represents biotechnology companies, including advising on biosimilar litigation. Christine is an accomplished courtroom advocate with significant experience, including trials and appeals, preliminary injunctions, and Markman hearings. She has handled cases in genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry and drug development, including those concerning biologic drugs, recombinant DNA vectors, cancer drugs, antidepressant drugs and dermatologic drugs. Her work extends across other industries as well, including medical devices, semiconductors, telecommunications and electronics.  
Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams litigates patent matters in both the life science and technology industries. In the life sciences, Daniel works on disputes involving small molecule and biologic drugs, drug delivery technology, and recombinant DNA technology. As a member of the trial team, Daniel recently represented a major pharmaceutical company in Hatch-Waxman litigation involving a blockbuster cancer therapy. Daniel has also worked on numerous patent cases involving computer security software.
Josh S. Winefsky
Josh Winefsky advises clients in sophisticated real estate transactions both in New York City and nationwide. Equally adept working on traditional commercial real estate transactions and on condominium developments and offering plans, Josh brings a unique, multidisciplinary perspective to his work. He provides counsel that is both innovative and business focused, and his calm, even-keeled temperament and efficient style facilitate issue solving throughout even the most complex deals.
Christian Witzke
Christian E. Witzke works on corporate matters, representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity financings and other investment transactions. Christian’s work includes drafting and negotiating transactional and corporate governance documents, including share and asset purchase agreements, merger agreements, limited liability company agreements, limited partnership agreements, subscription agreements and shareholder agreements.
Erica D. Wolf
Erica D. Wolf advises hedge funds, investment banks and other financial institutions in the purchase and sale of distressed securities and claims of companies undergoing restructuring or in bankruptcy. She has knowledge of and experience negotiating forms published by the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) for the U.S. market and by the Loan Market Association (LMA) for the European/Asian/Middle East markets. Erica has written about legal issues pertaining to the trading of claims and distressed securities and the settlement of transactions using LSTA and LMA documents. She also advises clients on various trading issues. In addition to her work in the firm’s Claims Trading and Investment Advice practice, Erica works on bankruptcy and restructuring matters.
Ethan A. Wright
Ethan A. Wright works on a wide variety of litigation matters, including commercial and civil actions in federal and state courts, as well as domestic and international arbitration. Ethan assists in the representation of individuals, public and private companies, and other businesses and entities, on both the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ side of these disputes. His work involves all phases of litigation, including drafting motions and briefs, organizing responses to discovery, and witness and trial preparation.
Dean M. Yu
Dean M. Yu works on intellectual property matters. During law school, Dean was a member of a winning team in the first joint law school competition to deploy artificial intelligence tools in legal discovery. As a member of the attorney general staff for the University of North Carolina’s Honor Court, he both counseled students and represented the university at multiple full panel hearings. He also interned for the Honorable Cheri Beasley of the Supreme Court of North Carolina and the Honorable Wanda Bryant of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Committed to pro bono and community service, Dean dedicated more than 200 hours over his three years at Carolina  Law to pro bono work, including indigent defense and veteran legal assistance
Eleni Zanias
Eleni Zanias counsels and represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, public and private companies, and strategic investors in corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other strategic combinations. Eleni also advises public and private companies on corporate governance matters, including compliance, enforcement and disclosure matters; board and committee duties; and compliance with securities laws and regulations. Eleni commits significant time to pro bono matters, including advising small for-profit and not-for-profit businesses.