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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Offices

1200 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
United States
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Brian Finch

Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
(Firms to watch)The cybersecurity, data protection and privacy team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is co-headed by Deborah Thoren-Peden in Los Angeles and Brian Finch in Washinton DC. It provides strategic advice to mitigate cyber risk and ensure compliance with regulations.
United States > Government > Government relations
Following a rebranding and expansion in 2023, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP‘s government law and strategies group in Washington DC continues to solidify its client base in telecoms, financial services, energy, environment, and cybersecurity. Nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, including prominent HBCU Harris-Stowe State University, also benefit from the lawyer-lobbyist team’s specialized experience. Practice head Elizabeth Vella Moeller advises on a diverse portfolio of matters, spanning federal funding, government incentives, and infrastructure legislation tax opportunities. Privacy law expert Brian Finch offers a wealth of knowledge of cybersecurity and the SAFETY Act, while Craig Saperstein has been prominently engaged in drafting and advocating for Kayden’s Law, which was included in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Splitting his time between Washington DC and London, international government law and strategies practice head Matthew Oresman advises governments, political leaders, businesses and NGOs on domestic and international policy and strategy. Aimee Ghosh, who has spent significant time spearheading the firm’s federal funding task force, was promoted to partner in January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Government relations United States > Government
- Firms to watch United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Government > Government contracts
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions