Alston & Bird LLP

Adam Biegel

Antitrust counseling and litigation, including government and internal investigations, mergers and joint ventures, pricing and distribution practices, trade associations, compliance counseling and training, multidistrict litigation, and pre-merger reviews under the Hart–Scott–Rodino Act.

Steve Blevit

A pioneer in the single-family-rental structured finance asset class, Steve provides counsel to a wide variety of clients, assisting them with structuring, negotiating, and documenting debt and equity transactions. A leading lawyer in the single-family residential housing industry, Steve has handled more than $100 billion of transactions involving single-family homes, including term and warehouse financings, single and multiborrower securitizations, joint ventures, investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve’s clients include Wall Street banks, special opportunities hedge funds, private market lenders, private equity funds, debt funds, and public and privately held companies. Steve is known for his ability to handle a wide variety of novel transactions involving the financing of single-family homes. He developed the financing and securitization documentation that is widely used at all levels of single-family rental finance today. Steve also structured and handled the novel Zillow 2021-1 and 2021-2 securitizations.

Teresa Bonder

High-stakes litigation, complex business issues and a focus on results define Teresa's experience across multiple practice areas and various industries. Her thoughtful but aggressive approach to antitrust and financial services litigation served clients well in helping them achieve their goals.

Jennifer Bonneville

An experienced litigator and trial attorney who clients rely on for insight and advice both inside and outside the courtroom. With over 20 years of experience, Jennifer excels in leading high-profile cases and simplifying complex issues for clients and juries. Jennifer works with energy companies, manufacturers of specialty consumer and automotive products, industrial and commodity chemicals, pesticides, and medical devices to defend a diverse array of product and premise-based suits in cases involving wrongful death, property damage, personal injury, and medical monitoring claims. Combining her background in business and experience as a six-sigma agent with litigation skills and experience in federal and state courts across the country, Jennifer handles all aspects of litigation from advising clients pre-litigation to developing and executing trial strategy. Jennifer has a wealth of experience in all facets of litigation including preparing and defending corporate witnesses, negotiating favorable settlements, developing experts, focusing discovery and trying cases. In her role as national counsel, Jennifer works closely with clients to develop long term strategies and ensure litigation tactics align with their business goals. She also regularly advises clients on Medicare compliance and reporting issues.

Meaghan Boyd

For 20 years, companies have relied on Meaghan to develop their complex environmental and toxic tort litigation defense strategy, and to guide them through the hoops of compliance with federal statutes such as RCRA, CERCLA, and the Clean Water Act, and their state counterparts. Meaghan Boyd is co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group. She defends companies in complex environmental and toxic tort litigation in federal and state courts. She also routinely counsels clients on compliance and enforcement matters involving many federal environmental statutes, including CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and RCRA, and their state counterparts, as well as hazardous materials transportation regulations.

Kristine Brown

Kristy takes a strategic, results-driven approach to complex commercial litigation, with a strong track record of defeating class certification, shaping effective litigation strategies, and delivering exceptional outcomes. She is a nationally recognized litigator known for providing clear, creative counsel in high-stakes matters at both the trial and appellate levels. Kristy has deep experience in class actions and government investigations involving privacy and cybersecurity. She has defended class actions and multidistrict litigation arising from some of the largest data breaches in history. A seasoned privacy litigator, she regularly represents and advises clients across industries in high-profile, high-exposure matters under a broad range of state and federal privacy laws. She is also an accomplished first-chair trial lawyer, often called upon to handle trials and arbitrations of complex business-to-business disputes involving hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure.

Tara Castillo

Tara represents clients in warehouse finance, structured finance, specialty finance, securitizations, and other asset-backed transactions. Tara represents borrowers, issuers, lenders, placement agents, underwriters, and other industry participants across a broad spectrum of asset classes, including auto loans and leases, consumer loans, credit card receivables, elective medical health receivables, equipment loans, home improvement loans, lease-to-own receivables, merchant cash advance loans, solar loans, and timeshare receivables. Tara has extensive experience representing fintech platforms with bank partnerships and forward flow arrangements. She also advises on the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions.

Greg Christianson

Greg has a proven track record representing clients in environmental litigation, with a particular focus on Superfund cost recovery, natural resource damage claims, toxic tort actions, and federal and state enforcement actions. Greg also achieves results for his clients using alternative dispute resolution methods, pursuing cost-effective, cooperative solutions with regulators, property owners, and potentially responsible parties to avoid litigation. Greg represents private and public entities at sites throughout the country, including various federal and state Superfund sites. Greg advises both individual clients and joint-defense groups at a wide range of facilities, including sediment sites, mixed-use landfills, former mines, and other industrial operations. He has also pursued CERCLA, RCRA, and common-law claims through litigation and mediations, obtaining substantial funds for clients’ environmental cleanup work. In many cases, Greg has negotiated creative settlements, including multiparty federal and state consent decrees, and has defended settlements against third-party challenges at trial and appellate courts. Greg has significant experience working with experts in the technical aspects of litigation, including contaminant fate and transport, identification of potentially responsible parties, and the range of factors affecting multiparty cost allocation. Greg’s work also includes defending clients in multiparty toxic tort actions for personal injury, medical monitoring, and property damage claims based on alleged groundwater contamination, surface-water releases, and air emissions.

Alex Clamon

Alex guides clients through all phases of complex corporate debt financings, leveraging his experience in various lending structures, as well as international insolvency matters. Alex is a partner with the Corporate Debt Finance Team. He represents corporate borrowers, sponsors, banks, and private credit institutions in complex lending transactions, including leveraged buyouts and acquisition financing, investment grade corporate debt, and distressed debt/workout transactions. His experience includes secured and unsecured lending structures across a wide variety of industries.

Cynthia Cole

Cynthia J. Cole is Chair of Baker McKenzie’s Global Commercial, Tech and Transactions Business Unit, a member of the Firm’s global Commercial, Data, IP and Trade (CDIT) practice group steering Committee and Co-chair of Baker Women California. A former CEO and General Counsel, just before joining the Firm, Cynthia was Deputy Department Chair of the Corporate Section in the California offices of Baker Botts where she built the technology transactions and data privacy practice. An intellectual property transactions attorney, Cynthia also has expertise in AI, digital transformation, data privacy, and cybersecurity strategy. She advises clients across a wide range of industries including Technology, Media & Telecoms, Energy, Mining & Infrastructure, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Industrials, Manufacturing & Transportation. Cynthia has deep experience in complex cross-border, IP, data-driven and digital transactions, creating bespoke agreements in novel technology fields. She acts as outside general counsel to a number of executive teams and boards of directors.

Shanell Cramer

Shanell guides investment banks and other financial institutions through a variety of commercial and residential mortgage loan, single-family rental, and other asset-backed transactions. She represents investment banks, private credit funds, and other financial institutions in a variety of mortgage banking and financing transactions. She focuses on the purchase and sale of residential, commercial, and multifamily mortgage loans and single-family rental properties, as well as structuring and negotiating warehouse lines, various government insured and guaranteed loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, real-estate-owned properties, and residential securities. Shanell has particular expertise in assisting clients in launching and acquiring warehouse lending platforms and counsels clients on a variety of syndicated financing transactions. She also has significant experience with bankruptcy safe harbors.

Aimee Cummo

The most active issuers, originators, investors, and financial institutions seek Aimee’s counsel and guidance on capital markets and the regulatory environment. She helps large financial institutions and nonbank lenders in all asset classes navigate the structured finance market. She advises commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, REITs, and other capital market participants on all aspects of the finance, acquisition, management, and disposition of financial assets. She has extensive experience with repurchase and warehouse facilities, syndicated lines of credit and other secured lending programs, securitizations and other structured finance arrangements, acquisition finance transactions, and structured asset sales. Aimee’s practice involves such diverse assets as performing and distressed residential, investor, and commercial mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, single-family rental properties, servicing rights, consumer and small-business loans, and equipment and auto leases. In addition, she has experience with workouts and restructuring distressed facilities.

Lindsey Deere

Lindsey understands the value of business relationships. She brings this perspective to her work advising major financial institutions in their role as trustee. She advises major financial institutions on a wide variety of capital markets transactions, with a focus on structured finance and other debt offerings. Lindsey represents major financial institutions in their trust and agency services in public and private securities offerings and has a varied transactional practice with a primary focus on securities backed by residential mortgage and personal loans and sponsor or majority-owned affiliate retained interests. Before joining Alston & Bird, Lindsey served as in-house counsel for a mortgage servicing company. Lindsey served as an assistant special counsel to the North Carolina attorney general, advising on and implementing policy, legislative, and law enforcement objectives of the attorney general.

Maki DePalo

With over 25 years of experience in technology, marketing, and legal practices, Maki is a trusted advisor for global companies across industries, effectively navigating complex matters in the areas of privacy, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and AI and information governance. Maki’s background enables her to focus on clients’ business objectives and practical advice with actionable plans. Maki is a client advocate and problem solver who counsels clients on privacy and cybersecurity compliance, AI and data strategies and governance, and complex outsourcing and technology transaction matters. She advises companies on designing and operationalizing data protection programs for compliance with state-level comprehensive privacy laws, utilizing a keen understanding of the intersections of laws and regulations impacting consumer privacy, children’s privacy, health privacy, financial privacy, and employee privacy. As the AI legal landscape continues to develop, Maki collaborates with clients’ cross-functional teams to develop and implement enterprise-level governance models customized to meet their compliance needs, as well as the goals of their business. Maki also advises on general corporate matters, enabling clients of various sizes and industries to successfully navigate business challenges as they arise.

Jeffrey Dintzer

A leading attorney both in California and nationwide, Jeffrey Dintzer represents energy, manufacturing, and defense industry clients in complex environmental, toxic tort, land use, and class action litigation. Over the course of his 37-year career, Jeffrey has played a prominent role in precedent-setting cases affecting the way industries do business in California. His deep expertise in hydrogeology, toxicology, epidemiology, and other life sciences helps his clients navigate ecological personal injury and property damage claims, particularly those involving emerging chemicals such as PFAS and perchlorate. As one of the deans of the environmental bar in California, Jeffrey represents California’s major oil and gas interests on upstream matters, helping them navigate the growing complexity of the state regulatory landscape and the challenges of increasingly litigious nongovernmental organizations.

Michael Elkin

Anna French

Anna represents clients in securitizations, warehouse finance, participations, forward flow arrangements, and other types of structured and secured lending transactions. Her clients include public and private borrowers, originators, issuers, lenders, underwriters, placement agents, and investors. Anna has experience with a broad spectrum of asset classes, including timeshare loans, consumer loans, equipment leases, merchant cash advances, agency and private-label residential mortgage loans and mortgage servicing rights, and servicing advance receivables. She also advises on customer acquisition cost financings and the receivables financing aspects of large industry mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcies. In addition, Anna has experience with cross-border transactions and intercreditor issues.

Jennifer Golinveaux

Maya Grasse

Clients count on Maya to chart a strategic course through complex environmental land use, regulatory and permitting matters, particularly where they involve air quality and GHG laws. She has experience with the environmental challenges facing oil & gas, mining, manufacturing, and other industrial clients in project development, permitting, environmental compliance, and administrative enforcement. Maya counsels clients on compliance with a range of environmental regulations, particularly regional, state, and federal air quality regimes and land use controls, with a focus on the issues faced by oil and gas, mining, industrial, manufacturing, and recycling clients. Maya advises clients in formal and informal proceedings before state and local agencies in land use and environmental permitting matters, enforcement actions, and agency rulemaking efforts, representing industrial, commercial and energy clients as they work with oversight agencies including local air quality management districts, particularly the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the California Air Resources Board. Her practice includes securing and negotiating development entitlements for industrial, commercial, residential, and energy projects and preparing and reviewing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents. She advises clients on compliance with environmental regulations, including CEQA, the California and federal Clean Air Acts and Endangered Species Acts, and California’s Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA), as well as local planning, zoning, and environmental regulations.

Andrew Hatchett

Andrew counsels and defends clients in a wide range of high-stakes antitrust and complex commercial litigation matters. Clients count on Andrew to bring top-flight advocacy and strategy to all phases of trial and appellate litigation. He brings a seasoned perspective to his representation of pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies in cases at the intersection of U.S. patent and antitrust law. Andrew represents clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on antitrust cases in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Andrew has represented clients in cases alleging horizontal and vertical conspiracies, unilateral monopolistic conduct, and a variety of other traditional and novel antitrust theories. Andrew also has an active appellate practice, having represented clients in appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court, the First, Second, Third, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and various state Supreme courts.

Paul Hespel

Paul has a deep understanding of corporate finance and restructuring engagements, with core competencies in transactional finance and private credit matters. Clients value his hands-on, commercial approach. Paul focuses on transactional finance matters, including leveraged acquisition financings and transactional finance matters in distressed settings, representing corporate borrowers, financial sponsors, portfolio companies, financial institutions, and alternative capital sources. He handles both domestic and cross-border engagements. He has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating secured and investment grade credit facilities; first-lien, second-lien, mezzanine, and multitranche financings; liquidity lines; and high-yield debt offerings. He also counsels clients on forbearance arrangements, out-of-court restructurings; debtor-in-possession and exit financings; and special situations requiring complex restructuring solutions. Paul routinely represents private equity funds and alternative capital sources, including business development companies (BDCs), small business investment companies (SBICs), mezzanine funds, and private debt funds in the structuring and documentation of private credit transactions. During his more than 25 years of practice, he has developed sector experience in education, financial services (including asset management), REITs, health care, life sciences, manufacturing, and TMT (technology, media, and telecommunications).

Donald Houser

Donald has more than a decade of experience defending clients against privacy and data breach class action lawsuits. He has represented clients—including clients in the consumer, financial services, and health care industries— in high-stakes, high-profile cases in courts across the country. As the prevalence of privacy and cybersecurity class actions continues to grow, Donald is at the forefront, routinely defending clients in some of the biggest and most complex privacy and data breach cases in the country. His experience spans all aspects of privacy and data breach litigation, including developing global defense strategies, defending motions for class certification, and negotiating extremely favorable resolutions. In addition, Donald has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes litigation, both consumer and business-to-business. He represents some of the world’s largest companies including health care organizations, financial service institutions, and consumer products companies.

Deanna Kashdan

Deanna represents lenders, arrangers, borrowers/issuers, sponsors, and underwriters in various corporate debt finance transactions, including syndicated credit facilities, private placements, and public debt offerings. Deanna has acted as counsel to several of the largest U.S. commercial banks and other lending institutions on a broad range of finance transactions. Her practice also includes representing borrowers, issuers, and sponsors in complex public and private debt transactions. Deanna’s effective representation of both lenders and issuers gives her the unique ability to be efficient in negotiating the best outcome for her clients.

David Keating

Clients trust David Keating to provide practical counsel for even the most complex technology and data issues. As the leader of the Technology & Privacy Group and co-leader of the Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team, David has more than 20 years of experience representing clients that stretch from emerging technology companies to Big Data and internationally to the EU. He assists clients with compliance strategies, policy development and implementation, data monetization and data use analyses, new product development, privacy and security issues in transactions, and privacy enforcement matters. Particular areas of focus include emerging technologies, generative AI, California Consumer Privacy Act compliance, European Union data protection, and children’s privacy. David’s technology practice is focused on high-technology companies and strategic technology and outsourcing initiatives at public and private corporations across industries. His technology experience includes strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives, including information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex software, cloud computing, systems integration, and other technology transactions.

Matthew Kent

Fortune 100 companies trust Matthew to prosecute and defend global price-fixing cartels and other complex disputes. The counsel he provides allows his clients to minimize risk while achieving their business objectives. Matthew is former co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Antitrust Team, focusing on bet-the-company antitrust litigation and counseling. Matthew and his team have recovered nearly $1 billion in settlements for clients. Matthew prosecutes and defends global price-fixing cartels for Fortune 100 companies and has extensive experience with the competition issues at the forefront of the pharmaceutical industry. He advises clients on antitrust issues related to joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, including filings under the HSR Act and international premerger notification regimes. Matthew assists clients with substantive merger reviews by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and foreign competition authorities in a host of industries. He also provides ongoing antitrust counseling to clients that enables clients to minimize antitrust risk while achieving their business objectives.

James Kousoulas

Jim guides his real estate clients through complex commercial loan transactions and litigation management strategies. Jim provides trusted counsel to banks, private equity firms, private lenders, debt funds, life insurance companies, and other corporate clients related to their commercial lending and transactional real estate matters. He has over 25 years of experience helping clients through a variety of complicated commercial loan transactions, including commercial mortgage-backed securities, mezzanine financings, secured and unsecured real estate and asset-based borrowing facilities, letter of credit facilities, secured and unsecured revolving lines of credit, and construction and bridge loans. Jim works with clients throughout the United States, often on multistate transactions, across a diverse array of asset types such as multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use.

Jason Levin

A trial attorney for over 25 years, Jason simplifies complex issues for judges and juries alike. Clients in various industries rely on him for their litigation needs, including products liability, toxic torts, and environmental. Jason focuses his practice on products liability and toxic torts, California’s Unfair Competition Law and anti-SLAPP statutes, class actions, Lanham Act and false advertising, environmental litigation, Proposition 65, Consumers Legal Remedies Act, and other California consumer protection statutes.

James Litwinovich

James has extensive experience representing institutional lenders with respect to commercial real estate financing and a wide range of other financial services matters across the real estate and banking industries. He represents institutional lenders in sophisticated commercial real estate secured financing across a diverse array of asset types, such as multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and mixed-use. He works alongside clients across the United States with their complex real estate financing transactions, including acquisition and development loans, construction and bridge loans, permanent financing, and mezzanine and other subordinate financing.

Katrina Llanes

Chair of the firm’s Structured & Warehouse Finance Team, Katrina represents lenders, underwriters, investors, borrowers, sponsors, and issuers in a variety of corporate finance transactions, including structuring and negotiating warehouse lines, securitization transactions, asset-based finance, structured and secured lending, acquisition finance, and conduit financing arrangements across a broad range of assets. Clients look to Katrina for counsel on financing agency and private-label mortgage servicing rights (MSRs), excess servicing spread, servicing advance receivables, residential and commercial mortgage loans, home equity investments (HEIs), and participation interests. Katrina has an active pro bono practice, representing women and children seeking immigration relief under the Violence Against Women Act and U-visa petitions.

Clay Massey

Clay is a trial lawyer specializing in environmental and toxic tort litigation. He has tried cases across the country, including in some of the most hostile venues for defendants. His clients include some of the world’s largest chemical companies, manufacturers, mining companies, and industrial processing facilities. Clay is known for his creative and forward-thinking litigation strategies, courtroom advocacy, and ability to explain complex scientific evidence simply and understandably. He also has decades of experience coordinating and managing mass tort litigation at a national level and developing and executing successful strategies to defend his clients facing mass tort claims.

Parker Miller

Parker supports his clients’ business objectives by leading their antitrust litigation and protecting their IP. He works with his clients to develop strategy while also protecting their budget. He assists industry-leading companies with antitrust and competition law issues in mergers and complex civil litigation matters, particularly those with antitrust enforcement and antitrust civil litigation. Parker advocates for clients accused of anticompetitive conduct in the U.S. and globally, leading teams that respond to government and private plaintiff scrutiny of strategic mergers and acquisitions. He counsels clients on antitrust compliance and potential litigation issues by using a reasonable approach to antitrust risk. Parker also assists clients who are victims of anticompetitive conduct by marketplace participants.

Adam Monich

Adam structures and negotiates secured financings in commercial lending transactions. His experience ranges from representing lenders in single-bank deals to broadly syndicated investment-grade credit facilities, but his focus is representing banks and financial companies in middle market cash flow acquisition financings. Adam’s practice involves financings in a wide array of industries with a particular focus on the music and entertainment, insurance, financial services, health care, and technology sectors. Adam serves as the relationship partner for Alston & Bird with multiple top-ten U.S. banking institutions and also represents Fortune 500 companies as primary outside finance counsel in their debt financing transactions.

Kate Moseley

Kate handles finance transactions and debt restructurings for banks, debt and hedge funds, corporate borrowers, and private equity sponsors. This work includes representing lead agents, lead underwriters, and borrowers in syndicated transactions, debt offerings, and club deals. Kate concentrates her practice on asset-based and cash-flow-based financings, fund finance, lender finance, leveraged buyouts, second-lien financings, unitranche financings, and debt offerings. She has extensive experience negotiating intercreditor arrangements and workouts. Her sector experience includes real estate, health care, media, technology, transportation, financial services, insurance, and retail.

Jordan Myers

Advising clients in all stages of lending relationships, Jordan represents lenders and borrowers in a variety of secured financing transactions, focusing on structuring and restructuring complex finance transactions. He represents private credit funds, commercial banks, private equity funds, and corporate borrowers in a broad range of secured financing transactions, including cash-flow loans and asset-based loans related to acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations, corporate refinancings, and debtor-in-possession financings. He also advises clients on intercreditor and subordination issues, debt restructurings, out-of-court workouts, credit bidding matters, bankruptcy 363 sales, and Article 9 foreclosures. His industry experience includes retail and consumer products, restaurants and other franchised business models, industrials, business services, gaming, and wealth management and investment advisory services.

Mike Parisi

Mike leads private credit lenders, bank lenders, corporate borrowers, and private equity sponsors through a variety of cash flow and asset-based lending transactions, including leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings. Clients value Mike’s ability to navigate intricate finance transactions and his recognition of commercial dynamics. Mike has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, unitranche financings, intercreditor and interlender issues, debt restructurings, and secured creditor and bankruptcy rights. His experience extends across a wide range of industries, including software, technology, health care, restaurants and other franchised business models, marine services, retail and consumer products, metals and mining, and manufacturing.

Kimberly Peretti

A former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former director of PwC’s cyber forensics group, Kim delivers top-of-the-line cyber-risk management and cybersecurity counsel to her clients. She led benchmark cybercrime cases as a former senior litigator for the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Kim’s background as a 25+ year information-security professional enhances her practice in managing technical cyber investigations, assisting clients with data-security-related regulatory inquiries, and advising boards and senior executives in cybersecurity and risk matters. She services clients in matters of privacy, national security process and requests, and payment systems compliance and risk mitigation.

Jon Ruiss

Institutions look to Jon for counsel in navigating the highly technical and complex world of structured mortgage products. Jon counsels investment banks and other financial institutions on the purchase, sale, and financing of mortgage loans (residential, commercial, and multifamily), mezzanine loans, single family rental properties, and other mortgage assets. Jon’s clients lean on him to provide exceptional service in negotiating a diverse array of financing arrangements including master repurchase agreements, term loan facilities, and syndicated financing. Jon is also a certified public accountant and was previously an auditor at a global public accounting firm. As an auditor, his clients ranged from financial institutions to not-for-profit entities.

John Snyder

With more than a decade of experience as a federal antitrust enforcer, John provides valuable insights and practical advice to his clients facing government antitrust investigations, including clients seeking regulatory clearance for strategic mergers and acquisitions. John provides comprehensive antitrust services, including merger clearance, litigation, and counseling. He regularly represents industry-leading clients before the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, including clients in the financial services, health care, and technology sectors.

Troy Stram

Troy counsels and defends clients in a wide range of high-stakes antitrust and complex commercial litigation matters. Clients across diverse industries trust Troy to handle their most complex and enterprise-threatening matters. And Troy’s food and beverage clients depend on his counsel when their brand or product’s reputation is on the line. Troy is a seasoned litigator who represents clients in a wide range of antitrust and complex commercial litigation. He has represented clients across the country in complex litigation and arbitration involving commercial disputes, antitrust, RICO, and consumer-protection claims, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. Troy has represented and advised clients through government investigations and on antitrust issues related to joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions.

Chris Underwood

Chris represents private credit funds, commercial banks, and specialty lenders in middle market cash-flow and asset-based credit facilities. He focuses his practice on sponsor-backed leveraged acquisitions, traditional ABL facilities, lender finance facilities, and receivables financings across a variety of industries, including technology, health care, franchise, retail, and manufacturing.

Olivia Weber

Olivia brings a practical, solutions-oriented approach to advising clients across the financial services sector. She focuses her practice on a range of corporate and regulatory matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and federal securities law compliance. Olivia brings experience working with both public and private companies across the financial services sector.

Valarie Williams

Fortune 100 companies rely on Valarie to resolve critical multinational antitrust issues in the boardroom and courtroom. Known for her strategic expertise, Valarie has defended clients of all sizes in high-stakes litigation. Her innovative strategies for determining the optimal timing and jurisdiction to bring antitrust claims have resulted in substantial recoveries for her clients. She focuses on cartel litigation with a multinational dimension. Clients also depend on Valarie to help navigate complex regulatory landscapes, including government and civil challenges to mergers and acquisitions.