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Daniella Abel

Daniella Abel is a partner in Proskauer's Tax department and a member of the Private Funds group. Dannii advises clients on a broad range of complex UK and international corporate tax matters including complex cross-border structuring, banking and leveraged finance tax matters, private equity and general corporate M&A transactions and reorganisations, management equity/incentives and corporates establishing a taxable UK presence. Dannii also has extensive experience providing tax advice in relation to, and structuring for, private funds and investments by private funds and institutional investors (across the full spectrum of private funds (including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, real estate, credit and secondary) and the management teams of private funds, including carried interest and co-investment structuring and management buy-outs/spin outs.

Kevin Abikoff

Kevin is the head of Proskauer's International Investigations and Compliance practice. He is also a member of Securities Litigation and White Collar Defense & Investigations groups. A seasoned litigator, Kevin brings more than 30 years of experience in securities and white-collar criminal litigation, investigations, enforcement, regulation and counseling matters. He regularly represents clients across myriad industries and geographical regions on the full range of investigations matters including securities fraud, anti-corruption issues, sanctions and evasion, and governance matters. Kevin frequently represents clients before US enforcement agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and state Attorneys General. Kevin has led investigations and their post-resolution activities for numerous multinational companies. He has also successfully helped them negotiate and navigate the terms of negotiated settlements with international regulators. Kevin has successfully defended numerous class and derivative actions as well as M&A-related litigation, including books and records demands. He also specializes in advising boards of directors and senior executives on comprehensive governance and liability matters. Kevin also maintains a robust monitorship practice. He was the first external anti-corruption compliance monitor jointly appointed by the DOJ, SEC and UK Serious Fraud Office (with the advice and approval of the US Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control). Kevin has also served as the monitor for multiple companies in connection with their debarment and sanction by the World Bank and African Development Bank and the United Nations. Select Publications Author, Corporate Governance: Avoiding and Responding to Misconduct (Law Journal Press) Co-Author, Anti-Corruption Law and Compliance: Guide to the FCPA and Beyond (Bloomberg BNA) Co-Author, Shareholder Derivative Litigation: Besieging the Board (Law Journal Press) Co-Author, Global Investigations Review, The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations: "Compliance: the US Perspective" Chapter

Neil Abramson

Neil Abramson is Proskauer's Co-Chair Emeritus of the Labor & Employment Law Department and head of the Public Sector Group. He handles all types of employment litigation, including discrimination claims, claims for breach of contract and claims arising from the collective bargaining relationship, as well as arbitrations, administrative proceedings and collective bargaining. Neil regularly handles complex collective bargaining disputes for private and public sector employers, including litigating matters before the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, various public interest arbitration panels, private grievance arbitrators and the National Labor Relations Board. Neil leads the legal representation of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in its collective bargaining disputes with transit and railroad workers and the City of New York in its collective bargaining disputes with teachers, police, fire, nurses and hospital staff. Neil also regularly handles collective bargaining disputes for multiemployer bargaining associations and single employers for such clients as Major League Baseball, The League of Voluntary Hospitals, The New York Times, Pratt Institute and The Broadway League. He also provides advice and guidance to clients, counseling employers on how to avoid litigation and achieve their employee relations objectives. Neil also has litigated single and multiple plaintiff matters in the state and federal courts of New York and a number of other jurisdictions and has extensive appellate advocacy experience. Among the clients Neil has represented are major corporations in such diverse fields as financial services, higher education, news media, transportation, sports, energy, entertainment and health care, as well as numerous public benefit and public service corporations.

Zeeshan Ahmedani

Zee advises investment managers and sponsors on the organization and establishment of private investment funds in both U.S. and non-U.S. jurisdictions, including real estate funds, venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, distressed funds, hybrid funds and Shari’ah-compliant funds. He represents managers, placement agents and sponsors around the world across a broad range of investment and capital raising strategies. Zee also represents fund sponsors on the establishment of management companies and compensation arrangements, as well as on U.S. regulatory issues, including investment advisory, investment company, ERISA, and distribution strategy. Zee also has broad experience representing institutional investors on their alternative asset portfolios, including negotiating investments in all classes of private investment funds, coinvestments, joint ventures, separately managed accounts and investment management agreements.

Christopher Ahn

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

Justin Alex

Justin S. Alex is a Proskauer partner and a member of Proskauer's Compensation & Benefits Group. Justin advises private and public companies on all aspects of their employee benefits and executive compensation arrangements and plans. He has particular experience in the sports industry, including employment agreements for executives and coaches at the highest levels in professional sports. He also has advised on the benefits and compensation aspects of numerous transactions, such as the purchase or sale of the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos, Miami Marlins, Real Salt Lake, Seattle Reign FC (2019 purchase and 2024 sale), Professional Hockey Federation, the Licensed Sports Group Unit of VF Corporation, Full Swing Golf, and ADPRO Sports, the merger of the USFL and XFL, an investment in Penske Entertainment/INDYCAR by Fox Sports, and investments in NASCAR racing teams. In addition to Justin's general benefits and compensation practice, he spends a significant portion of his time advising employers and financial sponsors with respect to pension liabilities. He also advises the trustees of collectively bargained single-employer and multiemployer plans with respect to their administration, governance, and legal compliance. Prior to joining Proskauer, Justin was an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel at the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), where he gained significant experience with pension termination and underfunding issues. He also represented the PBGC in corporate bankruptcies and federal court litigation. Justin is the co-editor of Proskauer’s Compensation & Benefits Blog and the Hiring Partner for Proskauer’s Washington office. He also serves on the Board of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Warren Allan

Warren Allan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Warren advises European sponsors on raising investment funds, and on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of fund interests and manager-led liquidity solutions. Warren also advises investors making direct and indirect co-investments. Recent representative matters include advising: Secondary purchases and sales of fund interests Access Capital Partners on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests Aberdeen Standard Investments on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests A family office on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests to five purchasers A French governmental institution on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests SwanCap Partners on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests GP-led liquidity solutions Palamon Capital Partners on a tender offer to investors in two early vintage funds to a consortium of five buyer groups BlueGem Capital Partners on a GP-led asset-level liquidity offering, involving the transfer of remaining assets in a fund managed by BlueGem to a newly established continuation fund A European alternative asset manager on a GP-led liquidity offering to investors in five existing fund vehicles, with a primary staple Fund Formation One Peak on the formation of its €443 million European growth equity fund, One Peak Growth II SCSp A UK fund manager on the formation of a £600 million mid-market private equity fund CGS Management on the formation of CGS IV, a CHF 240 million private equity fund VGC Partners on its first consumer and media technology growth capital fund Co-investments An infrastructure co-investment fund on a number of direct and indirect infrastructure co-investments

Michelle Annese

Michelle A. Annese is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, Proskauer's Administrative Lead of the Investigations Practice Group, and a member of Proskauer's Employment Litigation & Arbitration Group. Michelle represents employers in a variety of industries including financial services, retail, entertainment and sports. She assists them with a wide range of labor and employment matters involving employment discrimination and retaliation, sexual harassment and wrongful discharge. She has conducted numerous investigations on behalf of employers. Michelle regularly appears in state and federal courts, as well as in proceedings before the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies. In addition to litigating, Michelle counsels clients on compliance with employment-related laws, and on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures.

Peter Antoszyk

Peter J. Antoszyk is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, a member of the Private Credit Group and co-head of the Private Credit Restructuring Group. Peter represents direct lenders, private credit funds, asset managers, alternative lenders, sovereign wealth funds, BDCs, insurance companies, hedge funds, finance companies, and other direct credit funds on arranged, syndicated and “club” direct lending transactions ranging from $15 million to $1 billion. Peter has extensive experience with acquisition financing, dividend recapitalizations, growth capital loans, and cross-border finance transactions for sponsor and non-sponsor backed financings in North America and Europe across a wide array of industries including consumer, and retail; manufacturing; science and technology; health care; medical and medical device; and energy and energy related industries. Structures include uni-tranche, one-stops, first-in/last out financings, second lien loans, subordinated term loans, mezzanine, holdco structures, synthetic mezzanine, "silent firsts", preferred equity and other innovative private credit structures. Peter has been at the forefront of developing the unitranche and agreement among lender structures. Peter also has over 25 years of experience in special situations, bankruptcies and insolvencies, including in out-of-court debt-for-equity exchanges, section 363 acquisitions, Debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings, exit financings, chapter 11 plan acquisitions and restructuring (including restructuring support arguments), and other creditor rights strategies in both domestic and foreign jurisdictions. Peter combines his extensive insolvency and finance experiences to counsel clients not only on structuring financing transactions (including intercreditor issues) but also throughout any workout, exercise of remedies restructuring or insolvency proceedings. Peter lectures and writes articles for industry publications and has been quoted in Private Debt Investor, Financier Worldwide, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Deal, The Secured Lender and other publications and appeared on CNN Street Sweep.

Joshua Apfelroth

Joshua Apfelroth is a partner in Proskauer's Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Josh’s practice involves advising a diversified mix of corporations, private equity funds, hedge funds, investment bank and family office clients on complex corporate transactional issues, including public and private mergers acquisitions and dispositions, corporate governance, contests for corporate control, tender and exchange offers, spinoffs and joint ventures. Josh also advises growth companies and investors in connection with venture capital and other alternative investments. In addition, Josh advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including restructurings, financings, investments, and mergers and acquisitions. Josh represents clients across a broad range of industries, including in the infrastructure, technology, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, life sciences, real estate and financial services sectors. Clients trust Josh to serve as a day-to-day legal advisor advising them on a wide array of governance, securities and other commercial matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities, board composition, public disclosure, and legal compliance.

Monica Arora

Monica Arora is a partner and co-head of the Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Monica advises asset managers on the full spectrum of investment fund matters across a wide variety of strategies including buyouts, credit, growth equity, energy transition, real assets and infrastructure funds. Monica is a prominent and engaged participant in the private funds community, including as a member of the Private Investment Funds Forum, the New York City Bar Association’s Private Investment Funds Committee, Women in Private Equity and the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN). Monica’s influence extends beyond her role as co-head of the Department and a leader in the private funds community. She plays a key role in numerous internal and external DEI initiatives. She is an active board member of Her Justice, a leading organization that provides free legal advice to low-income women living in New York City and is actively engaged in several charitable boards outside the Firm.

Liam Arthur

Liam Arthur is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Liam’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, equity co-investments, consortium transactions and joint ventures. Liam advises private equity houses, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, corporations and management teams across a broad spectrum of UK and international transactions.

Janicelynn Asamoto Park

Janicelynn Asamoto Park is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. She counsels fund sponsors and their investors as to the tax and economic considerations relating to forming, operating, and investing in private investment funds, co-investment vehicles, and other investment partnerships across asset classes. Janicelynn also regularly advises investors and sponsors in buy-side and sell-side secondary transactions (including in connection with GP-led fund restructurings). Her practice also includes advising on domestic and cross-border financings and investments, inbound and outbound private mergers and acquisitions, and equity-compensation arrangements. Janicelynn currently serves on the board of Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, a not-for-profit organization that partners with physicians to promote early literacy in low-income communities. Before joining Proskauer, Janicelynn served as a law clerk for the Honorable Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a youth development volunteer in Honduras with the U.S. Peace Corps.

Laurent Asquin

Laurent Asquin is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Laurent has been working for more than 10 years with clients on all types of corporate transactions, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, private equity transactions, leveraged buy-outs and management packages. Laurent acts for corporations of all sizes, start-ups, private equity funds and management teams in a broad range of sectors.

Noa Baddish

Noa M. Baddish is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Sports and Private Capital Groups. A skilled litigator and trial lawyer, Noa represents employers across industries — including sports, financial services, media, and entertainment — in complex employment disputes, arbitration, and class and collective actions nationwide. She is a go-to defender for major employers facing high-risk employment litigation, with a record that spans some of the most complex wage and hour and discrimination class actions in the country, including claims involving unpaid overtime, misclassification, and off-the-clock work. Equally formidable in individual litigation, Noa represents clients in their most sensitive discrimination and harassment matters involving allegations of sex, race, age, disability, and retaliation. Clients rely on her because she brings trial-tested instincts, strategic clarity, and a command of the procedural and evidentiary issues that shape both class and individual outcomes. Her credibility with judges and her sophisticated handling of expert witnesses, especially in class certification and statistical analysis, make her one of the most effective advocates in the field. In addition to her litigation practice, Noa provides day-to-day employment counseling to help clients navigate evolving workplace challenges. She has particular expertise advising on reductions in force (RIFs) and federal and state WARN Act compliance, guiding employers through complex restructuring decisions and associated risk mitigation. Her counseling reflects the same strategic, litigation-informed perspective that defines her courtroom work, ensuring clients receive guidance that is both legally sound and operationally practical. Before joining Proskauer, Noa served as Assistant General Counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Labor Relations, where she defended the Mayor and City agencies in arbitration and before the Board of Collective Bargaining. Earlier in her career, she clerked for Judge Ellen L. Koblitz of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court.

Steven Baker

Steven is a commercial lawyer who has a broad practice in international and domestic dispute resolution. He helps clients in English higher court proceedings and overseas. Steven also has a large international arbitration practice with experience of a wide range of arbitral institutions, including HKIAC, ICC, LCIA, LMAA, UNCITRAL and SIAC. Over the past 30 years, Steven has been heavily involved in advising upon and resolving disputes in the technology, communications, defence, financial services and energy sectors. Steven is also the co-author of a leading text on technology and outsourcing disputes, with a second edition published in 2023: IT Contracts and Dispute Management: A Practitioner's Guide to the Project Lifecycle, published in March 2018 (Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN: 9781784710118).

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak’s practice focuses on the representation of debtors and creditors, including creditors’ committees, as well as investors in complex distressed situations. Ehud represents a wide range of clients in chapter 11 cases in in- and out-of-court restructurings and bankruptcy litigation, including appeals. Currently Ehud is one of the leaders in representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico in its effort to restructure Puerto Rico’s outstanding debt load of more than $70 billion. He was instrumental in the $6 billion Title VI restructuring of the Governmental Development Bank’s debt. He is also focusing on overseeing the restructuring of over $8 billion of debt of Puerto Rico’s electric utility. He serves as a co-chair of the ABA’s Business Bankruptcy Committee Mass Torts and Environmental Subcommittee. Ehud also serves as a member of the SDTX committee for drafting rules re: complex chapter 11 local rules. Prior to working in the United States, Ehud practiced law at one of Israel’s leading law firms, focusing primarily on complex commercial litigation cases.

Keith Barnett

Keith Barnett is chair of Proskauer's Real Estate Department and Head of the Firm’s Boston office. He advises international, national, and local clients in all aspects of commercial real estate, including real estate finance, development, acquisitions, sales, and leasing. With more than 30 years in the industry, Keith has represented a wide variety of clients, including private equity fund sponsors, developers, life insurance companies, commercial banks, and some of the world's largest publicly traded and private retailers through the successful completion of numerous large and complex real estate transactions. Recently, Keith has led numerous high-profile deals and developments which include, amongst others: luxury hotel and condominium projects, multibillion-dollar retail anchored mixed use developments, large distribution centers (including for some of the world’s largest online businesses) and multi-family residential projects. As a leading commercial real estate attorney, Keith counsels clients on a wide range of legal and business real estate matters across industries and sectors. He represents United States-based retailers in all their real estate needs, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, permitting and development. He also advises clients in connection with numerous major real estate developments, such as hotel projects, retail developments, office buildings, biotechnology and high technology facilities, residential developments, warehouse and industrial facilities and academic buildings. In addition, Keith has an active practice representing owners and tenants in connection with leasing transactions as well as buyers and sellers of real estate across asset classes. In the area of real estate finance, Keith has significant experience with traditional mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity investments and so-called "bond leases," "synthetic leases" and other accounting and tax sensitive transactions. He also advises clients in various positions with respect to options and opportunities, including loan workouts, foreclosure advice, and debt and equity restructurings. Keith regularly teaches and speaks on issues related to real estate law. For more than a decade, he conducted graduate-level seminars for business, architecture and real estate students at MIT, New York University and Columbia University. He has also frequently taught Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education courses on real estate law and has presented to many in-house business and legal groups.

Mark Batten

Mark W. Batten is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Class & Collective Actions Group. Mark represents employers nationwide at all stages of complex employment litigation, including class and collective actions on wage and hour matters and discrimination claims, and Commissioner’s Charges and other charges of nationwide import brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Outside of class and collective litigation, Mark assists clients with all aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, termination, leaves, accommodation of disabilities, and other matters. Mark also handles diverse civil litigation, including litigation of noncompetition agreements, discrimination and wrongful termination litigation in federal and state courts; proceedings before the EEOC and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; executive disputes; and wage and hour matters. He is also an experienced appellate attorney both in employment cases and other civil litigation, handling appeals at all levels in the state courts and in the United States Courts of Appeals. Mark also has substantial experience with traditional labor matters. He regularly represents employers in a variety of industries, including a number of newspaper and media companies, in collective bargaining, practice before the NLRB, labor arbitrations, union organizing campaigns, and day-to-day advice on administration of collective bargaining agreements. He regularly advises clients in both union and non-union settings on diligence matters in corporate acquisitions and financings. He also has experience on behalf of securities firms in arbitrations before the NASD and NYSE of customer and employee complaints. Before joining Proskauer, Mark was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where he was lead counsel in major litigation for over two dozen federal agencies, ranging from the U.S. Air Force, the CIA, and the U.S. Secret Service to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mark regularly writes and lectures on employment-related matters, including, for instance, MCLE's Representing Clients Before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In his spare time, Mark is an experienced computer programmer, conversant in C, C++, and other languages. He has ported more than 35 commercial computer games between computer operating systems.

Joseph Baumgarten

Joseph Baumgarten is a partner and former co-chair in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department. Joe represents publicly held and privately owned employers in virtually all areas of labor and employment law, including claims under the National Labor Relations Act, Title VII, the ADEA, ADA, FLSA, WARN and Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as breach of contract claims arising out of executive compensation disputes. He regularly: - defends employers in single and multiple plaintiff cases, and class actions, in federal and state trial and appellate courts, before federal, state and local administrative agencies, and in FINRA, AAA and JAMS arbitrations of employment claims; - represents unionized employers in collective bargaining negotiations, in grievance arbitrations and before the National Labor Relations Board; and - counsels employers with respect to internal investigations, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, restructurings, and labor and employment related issues related to corporate transactions. Joe practices across a range of different industries and has extensive experience representing employers in the banking, insurance, broker-dealer, television, professional sports, newspaper, health care, trucking and retail sectors.

Laura Bavoux

Laura Bavoux is a partner in Proskauer's Restructuring and Special Situations practice in Paris. Laura advises listed and unlisted companies, industrial groups, investment funds, shareholders, debt funds and investors, both French and international, in the context of financial or operational restructurings, whether amicable or judicial. She also deals with governance conflicts or disputes with company lenders, as well as LBO debt restructurings.

Howard Beber

Howard J. Beber is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on representing private funds sponsors in all aspects of their business, including fund formation and ongoing operations and internal structuring and compliance. His practice includes buyout, growth equity, venture capital, private credit, secondary and fund-of-funds, ranging from some of the largest and well-known sponsors in the industry to newly-formed managers. He advises clients on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the acquisition and sale of partnership interests, tender offers, preferred equity financings, continuation funds, fund restructurings and other GP-led transactions, and has worked with several management teams on large spin-out transactions. Howard routinely represents some of the most active institutional and fund-of-fund investors when investing in venture capital, growth equity, buyout, private credit and other private investment funds, as well as co-investment transactions. Howard has been an active member of the Private Investment Funds industry for over 25 years. He is the host of Proskauer’s podcast – Private Market Talks, a monthly podcast with industry leaders shaping the future of alternative investments. He is frequently tapped to weigh-in as an industry expert and has been invited as a guest speaker at Harvard Law School and Boston College Carroll School of Management and is on the Alumni Board of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Howard has also authored numerous articles regarding managing and investing in private investment funds and is a contributing author to “The Business of Venture Capital,” a leading book on the venture capital industry.

Nicole Bergstrom

Nicole Bergstrom is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Antitrust, Appellate and Intellectual Property Groups. Nicole focuses her practice on complex commercial disputes. She advises and advocates for clients in high-stakes matters involving breach of contract, business torts, antitrust, false advertising, copyright, right of publicity, defamation, and a range of reputational and regulatory challenges. Widely regarded for her strategic approach and litigation acumen, Nicole excels at navigating intricate legal and factual issues across diverse industries. Her client base spans corporations, media organizations, advertising agencies, manufacturers and creative professionals. Nicole brings substantial experience in managing litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, in state and federal courts.

Lawrence V. Berkovich

Lawrence Berkovich is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Structured Credit group. He brings over 25 years of legal experience to the structured finance sector, with the past two decades specializing in collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and related structured products. His practice focuses on broadly syndicated loan, private credit and middle-market CLOs, rated and unrated leveraged loan warehouse facilities, structured term financing facilities backed by portfolios of loans, risk retention financings and a variety of other asset-backed loan and securities transactions, as well as CLO refinancings, resets, reissuances, upsizings and restructurings. He is a strategic advisor to a diverse client base that spans underwriters, issuers, collateral managers, administrative agents, co-lender banks, and debt and equity investors. Lawrence has served as principal outside counsel to two major global investment banks in the development of their CLO and leveraged loan warehousing platforms and has advised numerous institutions on the creation and execution of innovative risk retention financing facilities. In addition to his transactional prowess, Lawrence has extensive experience in derivative instruments — including credit default swaps, total return swaps, interest rate swaps, and currency swaps — and routinely advises clients on regulatory and compliance matters relating to CLOs. His guidance extends to U.S. federal securities laws, the Dodd-Frank Act, the Volcker Rule, and credit risk retention rules in the U.S., EU and UK.

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is co-head of the Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Bruno is a pioneer of the secondaries industry and has more than 20 years’ experience in this space, having represented some of the largest secondary buyers on many of the landmark deals in the market, in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Bruno has extensive experience in all matters connected to secondaries, including NAV financings and primary investments.

Martin Bienenstock

Martin Bienenstock is recognized as one of the leading restructuring attorneys in the nation, and is a partner in Proskauer's Restructuring Group, after serving as its chairman and head the last twelve years until he passed those titles to a younger generation this fiscal year. Decades ago he was Martin also teaches Corporate Reorganization at Harvard Law School and University of Michigan Law School. In a highly competitive process, Martin was chosen to represent the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, which he has successfully done for seven years and continues to do. Debtors, Creditors, Investors, and Directors. Martin’s accomplishments explain his reputation. In the Texaco chapter 11 case he formulated the legal theory that convinced Pennzoil to accept $3 billion in exchange for its $11 billion judgment against Texaco, while Texaco paid all other creditors in full. General Motors and Chrysler Financial trusted Martin to represent them both and to formulate a strategy to save GM and Chrysler, which he presented to President Obama’s US Auto Task Force. The Task Force adopted Martin’s strategy and he caused it to be successfully implemented. In the Owens Corning chapter 11 case, Martin won a landmark decision in the Third Circuit to convert his hedge fund and bank clients’ return from approximately $450 million into $2.25 billion. Amidst the chaos at Enron, Martin engineered a strategy to save its many businesses and formulated a chapter 11 plan that ultimately paid most creditors in full or nearly in full. He charted the takeover of troubled Finova for a joint venture between Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National Corp., and led the successful restructurings of Capmark, Ambac, and NewPage. Martin led the Firm’s representation of the Caesars Entertainment creditors’ committee and converted a five cent offer into a sixty six cent return. In leading the representation of the Westinghouse creditors’ committee, Martin attained full payment for the committee’s constituents. Martin also developed the multi-jurisdictional Colombian-U.S.-Canadian reorganization plan for Pacific Exploration, supported by its bank creditors and bond creditors. Martin drafted Ireland’s restructuring statute when many investment banks explained Ireland needed to change its insolvency laws to attract new capital. Practice based on Scholarship and Client Service. Martin’s achievements and retentions for bet-the-company matters stem from his conducting a multidisciplinary practice drawing on his combined experience in restructuring, corporate governance, reorganization, prospect theory, game theory, litigation, appellate practice, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley. Early on Martin learned legal practice is customer service. To that end Martin is available by cell 24/7. Martin’s ultimate assignment thus far is to represent the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, to create a sustainable economy for its people and creditors. Martin counsels the Oversight Board and has successfully argued trial judgments and appeals that saved the Commonwealth many billions of dollars, while restructuring over $60 billion and pension liabilities out of a total of $75 billion of bond debt and $55 billion of unfunded pension debt. Martin is flattered the Oversight Board wants him to finish the job.

Julia Bihary

Julia is the Pro Bono Counsel for Proskauer's London and Paris offices and leads the Firm’s Pro Bono and corporate social responsibility projects in these offices. She has a background in Litigation, where she specialised in complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters and is a solicitor advocate with Higher Rights of Audience. Julia participated in Proskauer’s Women's Sponsorship Program, an initiative that champions high-performing mid-level and senior lawyers as emerging leaders. She is fluent in English, Hungarian and German.

Charles Bishop

Charles Bishop is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Proskauer's Asset Management Litigation group. His practice is centered on complex commercial litigation, advising clients in asset management, technology and funds. Charles has a particular focus on shareholder and investor disputes, private equity disputes, and fraud and asset recovery, often involving significant cross-border matters. Charles' recent and ongoing work includes a major cross-jurisdictional fraud case with ancillary injunctive relief and disclosure orders, a complex fund GP removal and its consequential cross-border litigation, and several earn-out disputes. He also advises on matters before the London Employment Tribunal. Charles maintains an active pro bono practice, providing legal services to charities and NGOs on employment matters and human rights. Charles is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales. He is also a member of the Civil Litigation Section of the Law Society of England & Wales and the Financial Services Lawyers Association.

Allan Bloom

As the leader of Proskauer’s Wage and Hour Practice Group, Allan has been a strategic partner to a number of Fortune 500 companies to help them avoid, minimize and manage exposure to wage and hour-related risk. Allan’s views on wage and hour issues have been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and Fortune, among other leading publications. His class-action defense work for clients has saved billions of dollars in potential damages. Allan is regularly called on to advise operating companies, management companies, fund sponsors, boards of directors and senior leadership on highly sensitive matters including executive and key person transitions, internal investigations and strategic workforce planning. He has particular expertise in the financial services industry, where he has litigated, arbitrated, and mediated disputes for more than 20 years. A prolific author and speaker, Allan was the Editor of the New York State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Journal from 2012 to 2017. He has served as an author, editor and contributor to a number of leading treatises in the field of employment law, including ADR in Employment Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Employment Discrimination Law (ABA/Bloomberg BNA), Cutting Edge Advances in Resolving Workplace Disputes (Cornell University/CPR), The Employment Law Review (Law Business Research, U.S. Chapter Author), and The Complete Compliance and Ethics Manual (SCCE). Allan has served as longtime pro bono counsel to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Public Theater, among other nonprofit organizations. He is a past Vice Chair of Repair the World, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes volunteers and their communities to take action to pursue a just world, and a past recipient of the Lawyers Alliance Cornerstone Award for extraordinary contributions through pro bono legal services.

Elise Bloom

Elise M. Bloom is widely hailed as one of the nation’s top employment lawyers and one of the most creative and effective discrimination, wage and hour, class/collective action trial lawyers. She is particularly well-known for handling high profile, bet-the-company matters on behalf of significant national employers. With 30+ years in practice, Elise possesses extensive pre-trial and jury trial experience as well as conducting high-profile investigations. She is a leading authority in class action litigation involving non-traditional workers—including interns, trainees, volunteers, and other contingent or entry-level personnel. She secured a landmark, precedent-setting victory for Fox Searchlight Pictures in the high-profile “Black Swan” case. Elise also handled several other precedent-setting cases, including Hoffman v. Parade Pubs, Doe v Bloomberg, L.P. Court of Appeals, Hamby v. WNBA, LLC, and Chen v. Major League Baseball.

Lauren Boglivi

Lauren Boglivi is the co-chair of Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of Proskauer’s global Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Through her extensive transactional experience, Lauren is a leading lawyer at the forefront of some of the most industry-defining M&A matters, particularly in the health care, media and entertainment, and gaming industries. Lauren advises both private and public companies, including private equity sponsors and family offices, in their most critical and complex deals. In working with influential and high-profile media giants, Lauren has worked extensively on transactions that structure and shape the way media content is viewed and accessed around the world. Lauren’s recent deal activity includes: Represented media giant Discovery in a variety of matters that have made headlines around the world, including its sale of Great American Country Network, its acquisition of Golf Digest, one of the world’s leading golf media brands, from Condé Nast, its $2 billion strategic alliance with the PGA Tour, its spinoff and equity investment in Curiousity.com, Sale of Discovery Education business for $120 million sale to Francisco Partners, a private equity firm Representing Ethos Veterinary Health, one of the industry’s most innovative veterinary organizations, in its pending acquisition by National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a leading global community of nearly 1,200 veterinary hospitals. Represented WestMed Medical Group, a multispecialty medical practice of nearly 500 physicians and advanced care providers and 1,500 clinical employees located in Westchester County, NY and Fairfield County, CT, in its combination with Summit Health, a company formed by the merger of CityMD and Summit Medical Group. Summit Health now includes more than 2,500 providers, 12,000 employees and over 340 locations in NJ, NY, CT, PA and central OR. Summit Health is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus. Represented Blade Urban Mobility, Inc. in its $825 million de-SPAC business combination with KSL Capital’s SPAC - Experience Investment Corp. Represented Hearst’s healthcare subsidiary, Homecare Homebase, in its acquisition of CellTrak Technologies, a leading provider of care documentation software solutions in the personal care market. Represented Hearst Magazines in its sale of Marie Claire U.S. to British media company Future. Represented Harren Equity Partners, LLC in connection with the sale of its portfolio company, Health Connect America, Inc., to Palladium Equity Partners V, L.P. Represented Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in the launch of a national management services organization (MSO) formed with an investment from Revelstoke Capital Partners. Represented Public Interest Registry (PIR), which was established by the Internet Society in 2002 to manage and operate the .ORG domain, in $1.135 billion sale to Ethos Capital, which was terminated by mutual agreement. Led the Proskauer team that advised Empire City Casino, one of the largest gaming facilities in the U.S. and one of only two facilities licensed to operate video lottery terminals in the New York City metropolitan area, in its $850 million sale to MGM Resorts International.

Ira Bogner

Ira G. Bogner is Managing Partner of Proskauer. He is the immediate former chair of the Firm’s Tax Department. He is a member of the Compensation & Benefits Group and a former member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Ira represents a varied list of clients, including financial service companies, entertainment industry clients, and tax-exempt organizations, and also actively represents individual executives in executive compensation matters. Ira counsels clients with respect to the tax, securities law disclosure, corporate governance, stock exchange and other requirements relevant to executive compensation arrangements. Ira also provides advice regarding equity arrangements, employment agreements, change in control agreements and all other types of executive compensation arrangements, including guidance regarding “409A,” “162m,” “457A,” and “280G.” Ira frequently is called on to structure and analyze alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations. He also works with the Firm’s corporate and real estate lawyers in structuring and maintaining investment funds that include participation by pension plans. Through his work in the investment fund area Ira has obtained substantial experience in applying the rules provided under the “plan asset” regulations, including the operation of venture capital operating companies and real estate operating companies. He has assisted in the formation of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds, including “fund of funds.” Ira also has advised clients on both avoiding ERISA “plan asset” status and operating an investment fund in accordance with ERISA. Areas of Concentration Ira has provided guidance to clients on a wide variety of matters in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation, including: investment of plan assets implementation of employee benefit plans employee benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions awarding of equity-based compensation negotiation and drafting of employment agreements and severance arrangements structuring, analyzing and maintaining investment funds that are suitable for plan investors Thought Leadership Ira has published a number of articles in publications such as The New York Law Journal, The New Jersey Law Journal, The Daily Deal, The Journal of Pension Planning and Compliance, Mergers and Acquisitions (The Monthly Tax Journal), The Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, European Private Equity & Venture Capital Associations, The LPA Anatomised and Private Equity International and has been named to the Board of Advisors of the Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions. He also has lectured on topics such as the classification of workers, drafting employment agreements, equity alternatives for senior executives, investing IRA assets, the plan asset regulations, shareholder approval of equity plans, Code Section 409A, and key provisions for ERISA investors investing in a private equity fund.

Sean Boulger

Sean Boulger is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate department. He focuses his practice on a wide range of real estate transactions and development projects. He represents numerous investors, developers and operators in joint ventures, acquisitions, developments, leases, and financing transactions across a broad spectrum of real estate asset classes. Key knowledge areas include the following: Multi-family Housing Sean represents investors, developers and operators of multi-family housing projects across the United States. His experience includes the formation of joint ventures to acquire, develop and operate multi-family projects, as well as financing with conventional lenders, life insurance companies, government-sponsored enterprises and securitized lenders. Office He also represents institutional owners and developers of office projects, including office-lab buildings, on acquisitions, developments, financings, joint ventures, sales and leasing. Representative projects include the formation of joint ventures to recapitalize major office-lab projects in Cambridge, Massachusetts and San Francisco, California for publicly-traded REIT*. Seniors Housing Sean has extensive experience in the seniors housing industry. On the operating side, his clients include Benchmark Senior Living, LLC, which owns and operates more than 50 seniors housing communities in which he has been involved in the acquisition, development and financing*. On the investment side, he represents private equity funds which joint venture with prominent operators to acquire, develop and reposition seniors housing projects. Retail Sean represents investors, developers and operators of retail projects. His clients include institutional investors, as well as Fortune 100 big-box operators, which he represents on numerous acquisition, leasing and development projects. Industrial Sean is experienced in the acquisition and development of industrial warehouse projects for various investors including REITs. Leasing Sean has extensive experience representing office landlords and tenants. Among other matters, he has negotiated major corporate headquarter leases on behalf of tenants, and has handled numerous lease workouts for landlords and tenants. Design and Construction Contracts Sean has expertise representing owners and developers on design and construction projects. He has represented clients on numerous office, hotel, multi-family and senior housing projects, and manufacturing facilities.

Philip Bowden

Philip Bowden is co-head of Proskauer's Global Finance practice, head of London’s Leveraged Finance team and a member of the Firm’s Private Capital industry group. Philip has extensive experience representing commercial and investment banks, private credit funds and corporate borrowers across a range of debt products, specialising in leveraged acquisition finance, structured finance and investment grade event driven acquisition financings. Prior to joining Proskauer, Philip served as Private Capital Sector Lead, and was the former Co-Head of the Global Banking Practice for 8 years at another prominent global law firm.

Pierre-Marie Boya

Pierre-Marie Boya is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Pierre-Marie’s practice focuses primarily on highly regulated industries, including technology and healthcare, as well as energy and infrastructure. His clients include private equity sponsors, venture capital firms, and public and private companies, which he supports throughout the full life cycle of their investments. Pierre-Marie advises clients on a wide range of complex, cross-border transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, take-private transactions, LBOs, fundraisings, and distressed situations. He is also well placed to advise on structured liquidity solutions and private equity secondary transactions, including GP-led transactions, LP stake sales, and strip sales.

Stephen Boyko

With almost 30 years of experience, Steve has been at the forefront of legal developments in the private credit industry, including the creation of new products, the migration of products to other jurisdictions, and the formation of joint ventures between banks and credit funds. As the co-founder of the Private Credit group and the immediate past co-chair of the Corporate Department, Steve often acts for clients in complex, interdisciplinary, and one-of-a-kind transactions. Steve represents one of the largest client rosters in the industry, including an array of specialty finance companies, private debt funds, business development companies (BDCs), CLOs, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity investors, in regular-way, opportunistic, and restructuring related transactions. Steve actively represents over 50 clients in transactions that have ranged from $5 million to $1 billion. Steve also has extensive capital markets experience, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in offerings of high-yield securities, debentures, medium-term notes, preferred stock, common stock and other structured securities.

Justin Breen

Justin Breen is co-head of Proskauer's Global Finance practice. His principal focus is the representation of leading private credit providers in complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Justin’s clients include leading institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, investment banks and business development companies, and he advises these clients on a broad range of financing transactions, including syndicated and non-syndicated senior and senior "stretch" loans, unitranche facilities, second lien financings, mezzanine financings, high yield bonds and structured preferred equity. Justin has also advised clients in connection with various debt and equity investments involving sports teams and leagues, including investments in U.S. soccer teams, multiple European soccer teams, Formula 1 teams and Rugby leagues. Justin has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value well in excess of $100 billion. His clients include market-leading investors, including Ares Capital, Antares Capital, Bain Capital, Churchill Asset Management, Golub Capital, Jefferies Finance, Thoma Bravo Credit and Varagon Capital.

Guy Brenner

Guy Brenner is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and leads Proskauer's Washington, D.C. Labor & Employment practice. He is head of the Government Contractor Compliance Group, co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity Group and a member of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group. He has extensive experience representing employers in both single-plaintiff and class action matters, as well as in arbitration proceedings. He also regularly assists federal government contractors with the many special employment-related compliance challenges they face. Guy represents employers in all aspects of employment and labor litigation and counseling, with an emphasis on non-compete and trade secrets issues, medical and disability leave matters, employee/independent contractor classification issues, and the investigation and litigation of whistleblower claims. He assists employers in negotiating and drafting executive agreements and employee mobility agreements, including non-competition, non-solicit and non-disclosure agreements, and also conducts and supervises internal investigations. He also regularly advises clients on pay equity matters, including privileged pay equity analyses. Guy advises federal government contractors and subcontractors all aspects of Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regulations and requirements, including preparing affirmative action plans, responding to desk audits, and managing on-site audits. Guy is a former clerk to Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court of the District of Columbia.

Edward Brill

Edward A. Brill is the former co-head of Proskauer's Appellate Practice Group. Ed devotes a significant amount of time to representing educational institutions, including Columbia University, New York University, Yale University and Polytechnic Institute. He has served as lead counsel in numerous employee representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board, and employment litigation involving faculty, senior administrators and staff. He has represented each of these institutions in disputes involving union efforts to organize graduate student teaching and research assistants. Ed also represented Quinnipiac University in a widely publicized Title IX class action alleging that the university’s athletic program fails to comply with various requirements of Title IX. Among other issues, the case involves the issue of whether competitive cheer is properly recognized as a varsity sport for purpose of Title IX. Over the course of his career, Ed has briefed and argued dozens of appeals in both the federal and New York state appellate courts. He was a principal author of the brief in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that a collective bargaining agreement provision requiring arbitration of age discrimination claims is enforceable. Other recent cases include: Carroll University v. NLRB (D.C. Cir.), setting aside an NLRB order requiring the college to bargain with a union representing faculty members on the grounds that the NLRB did not have jurisdiction over the college as a religious institution Adams , et al v. Suozzi, et al (2d Cir.), reversing a lower court decision that Nassau County violated due process rights of county employees in implementing a wage deferral plan Lorna Perez & Elena Leffler v. Saks Fifth Ave., (11th Cir), upholding decision of a district court setting aside jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in an age and retaliation discrimination case Raghavendra v. The Trustees of Columbia University (2d Cir.) upholding and enforcing an agreement settling multiple state and federal discrimination claims. Ed has represented employers in collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative proceedings before the EEOC, state civil rights agencies, the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He also has represented employers in all types of employment litigation, both in New York and a number of other jurisdictions, including Washington, D.C., Florida, Texas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, California, Georgia, Tennessee and Puerto Rico. He also provides guidance to clients, on an ongoing basis, on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including employee discharge and discipline, equal employment opportunity obligations, development of personnel policies, and downsizing and reductions in force.

Richard Bull

Richard Bull is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Richard advises on a wide range of corporate work, including M&A, private investments, corporate venturing, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Richard has extensive experience of acting on private equity, growth and expansion capital transactions of all types and sizes for sponsors and management teams, both of a domestic and international nature, with a particular focus in the financial services and technology industries.

Jon Burke

Jon Burke is a Partner in Proskauer's Structured Credit Practice. He advises asset managers, issuers, banks, underwriters and investors on a broad range of collateralized loan obligation transactions (CLOs) and other structured credit financing arrangements secured by broadly syndicated, private credit and middle-market loans. Mr. Burke provides guidance to fund managers and borrowers on a broad range of financing strategies, with expertise spanning NAV-based facilities, collateralized fund obligations, and rated feeder structures. He possesses deep experience advising investors in ABF transactions and across a range of niche and esoteric asset classes, such as life settlements, structured settlements, brokerage commission streams, wage advance products, and medical receivables.

Colin Cabral

Colin Cabral is co-head of Proskauer's Life Sciences Litigation group. He is an experienced first-chair trial lawyer with a proven track record of success trying cases in federal district courts, state courts, Delaware Chancery Court, the International Trade Commission, and before domestic and international arbitration tribunals. Colin specializes in complex patent and commercial litigation. He represents a broad range of clients in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. Colin also serves as lead trial counsel in cases involving other technologies, including computer software and consumer products. Recently, Colin won a defense verdict for a medical device company following a jury trial in the District of Delaware. The jury rejected the plaintiff’s claim of fraud. The Court also excluded the plaintiff’s damages expert in advance of a subsequent jury trial involving claims on patent infringement. In late 2023, Colin secured a landmark victory for Sanderson Farms in a blockbuster broiler chicken antitrust conspiracy case, defeating $7 billion in damages claims. Following a six-week trial, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois returned a complete defense verdict. Colin previously served as in-house litigation counsel for a global life sciences company in San Diego, CA. He also served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Dorchester, MA. Colin volunteers as regular faculty for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He is also the Board Chairman of FreeFrom, a charitable organization that helps survivors of domestic violence achieve financial independence.

Anthony Cacace

Anthony S. Cacace is a partner in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Compensation & Benefits Group. Anthony serves as legal counsel to the boards of trustees and other fiduciaries of Taft-Hartley multiemployer pension and welfare benefit plans subject to ERISA in a variety of industries. These include construction, transportation, private sanitation, trucking, industrial, media, food service, health care and maritime. Anthony provides strategic and practical advice to his clients on all issues confronting multiemployer plans and their boards, including fiduciary compliance, governance, plan investments, cybersecurity, defined benefit pension plan funding, fund mergers, service provider arrangements, prohibited transactions and the exemptions thereto, special financial assistance, plan drafting, participant claim administration, welfare plan regulations, submission of corrective applications with the IRS and DOL, among others. Anthony is frequently called upon by those in the multiemployer plan community to advise on – and ultimately resolve – complicated and nuanced problems that often involve many stakeholders and material financial consequences. Anthony’s practice is unique because of his background in ERISA litigation. He advises trustees and fiduciaries from a litigation avoidance perspective, solving problems and rendering advice in risk exposure situations before they evolve into disputes or litigations. His litigation experience, when combined with the depth of his fiduciary counseling practice, makes him especially effective when representing trustees and fiduciaries during investigations and audits conducted by governmental agencies (including the U.S. DOL, U.S. DOJ and the IRS). Anthony also has experience counseling his multiemployer pension fund clients in all matters pertaining to withdrawal liability, including the establishment of withdrawal liability procedures and the maintenance of an effective withdrawal liability program. If adversity arises, Anthony represents his fund clients in disputes relating to the assessment and collection of withdrawal liability, from responding to withdrawn employer requests for review of withdrawal liability assessments, to the statutorily mandated arbitration of withdrawal liability claims, and then the enforcement of arbitration awards in federal district court. Anthony has quickly developed into an industry leader when it comes to the legal representation of multiemployer funds. Anthony is a member of the Professionals Committee of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and a frequent lecturer for the industry’s leading organizations, including: The National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans The National Labor Management Committee The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans The American Bar Association, Employee Benefits Committee Anthony is also an accomplished author on issues confronting trustees of multiemployer funds. He has authored several articles featured in Bloomberg Law Reports and Benefits Magazine and serves as a chapter editor of the withdrawal liability section of the American Bar Association's published Employee Benefits Law treatise.

Robert Cantone

Robert is a corporate lawyer at Proskauer, advising clients on transactional, corporate governance and disclosure matters. His practice is broad-based, with particular emphasis on the representation of public companies in the life sciences sector. His transactional practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and strategic alliances structured to advance innovative technologies. Working with management teams and boards of directors, Robert also advises on corporate governance policies, as well as matters relating to activist defense. Robert advises clients on public disclosures regarding a range of important corporate developments.

Peter Castellon

Peter represents issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in connection with capital markets transactions, including IPOs, follow-on and secondary offerings, block trades, rights offerings and offerings of convertible and exchangeable bonds. Peter also represents acquirors and targets in connection with public M&A transactions. Peter is active in bar association activities and has served as an officer of several committees, including the IBA Capital Markets Forum, the International Securities Matters Subcommittee of the ABA Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities and the ABA International Securities & Capital Markets Committee. Peter has written several articles on securities law topics, including the following: Follow-on Offerings: U.S. Publicity Considerations, PLC Magazine, April 2019 Executing Block Trades, PLC, September 2016 US Private Placements: When Rule 144A is unavailable, PLC, July 2015 SAS 72 letters: Seeking comfort, PLC, May 2013 Before joining Proskauer, Peter was Deputy General Counsel for Citi and advised the Equity Capital Markets Division and Investment Banking Division. While at Citi, Peter worked on most of Citi’s ECM transactions in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Fangli Chen

Dr. Fangli Chen is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and chair of the Life Sciences Patent Practice. She is a distinguished IP lawyer known for her strategic foresight and exceptional problem-solving skills. Fangli represents a diverse range of biotech and pharmaceutical companies, seamlessly integrating her team with client her clients' in-house operations to ensuring a deep understanding of their business and proactively anticipate their needs. Her sharp legal and business instincts and collaborative approach enable her to provide swift, effective solutions that safeguard her clients' intellectual property rights and optimize success, while saving her clients valuable time and resources. Fangli effectively identifies and transforms technological developments into valuable intellectual property assets, specializing in the strategic development of complex IP portfolios for companies that align with their business objectives. Fangli’s practice also focuses on post-grant review before the USPTO, pre-litigation and litigation strategy, due diligence investigations, freedom-to-operate, non-infringement and invalidity analysis, licensing and other IP matters in connection with commercial transactions. Fangli also has a wealth of experience in the following areas: IP Diligence: advising companies and investors in evaluating intellectual property assets, assessing FTO risks and providing thoughtful and pragmatic advice aligned with business goals. IP Landscape analysis: conducting complex IP landscape analysis and identify white space. Post-grant challenges: representing clients in inter partes review interference and various foreign opposition proceedings. Technology transactions & licensing: advising clients on matters relating to technology or material transfer, licensing and research collaborations.

Cynthia Cheng

Cynthia Cheng is a local partner in the Hong Kong office and a member of Proskauer's internationally recognized Lodging & Gaming Group and Real Assets Group. Cynthia has extensive experience in advising global and local leading real estate and hospitality & leisure companies. Her practice focuses on the diverse range of issues relating to hotel, branded residences and mixed-use development projects, and hotel operations through their life cycle from the initial design and construction stages to exit, including the drafting and negotiating of commercial contracts (such as technical services, management, marketing and license agreements), and matters relating to intellectual property protection, employment and dispute resolution. Prior to joining Proskauer, Cynthia was General Counsel of the Regent Hotel Group where she established the in-house legal team, and was responsible for overseeing the Group’s legal affairs and corporate compliance. In 2018, Cynthia was involved in the sale and joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. The transaction was recognized by the hospitality industry as one of the most significant hotel deals of that year. Cynthia has also previously worked as in-house Legal Counsel for Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts where she was involved in projects for some of the world’s most iconic hotels including Shangri-La Hotel at the Shard in London, Shangri-La Bosphorus, Istanbul, Shangri-La Paris, as well as numerous other luxury properties in Europe, Middle East, North America and Asia.

Sarah Cherry

Sarah K. Cherry is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Her practice is focused on the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. private equity funds and managers in capital formation, regulatory compliance and operational issues. Sarah also regularly represents institutional investors and funds-of-funds in their investments in U.S. and non-U.S. private equity funds both in primary and secondary transactions. In addition, Sarah advises clients in relation to internal general partner dynamics and management company issues.

Lloyd Chinn

Lloyd B. Chinn is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice Group and of the Financial Services Practice Group. He litigates employment disputes of all types before federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals (e.g., FINRA, JAMS and AAA), and before administrative agencies in New York and across the country. Lloyd is a trial lawyer, having first-chaired 35+ trials or arbitrations to conclusion. His practice ranges from litigating compensation disputes to defending whistleblower, discrimination and sexual harassment claims and litigating non-compete and trade secret matters. Although he represents employers in a wide range of industries, including law, insurance, health care, consulting, media, music, education, and technology, he focuses a substantial portion of his practice on the financial services sector. Many of Lloyd's clients are international in scope, often based outside the U.S. Due to Lloyd’s litigation experience, clients regularly turn to him for advice regarding the full range of employment matters, including terminations, whistleblower policy and procedure, restrictive covenants, reductions in force, employment agreements, and employment policies. Lloyd has also been retained to conduct internal investigations of allegations of workplace misconduct, including claims leveled against senior executives. Lloyd has represented global businesses in matters involving Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower claims. He has taken an active role in the American Bar Association on these issues, currently serving as Co-Chair of the Whistleblower subcommittee of the ABA Employee Rights and Responsibilities Committee. Lloyd has spoken on whistleblowing topics before a numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the International Bar Association, ALI-ABA, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York University School of Law. He has testified twice before Congressional subcommittees regarding whistleblower legislation and has also published blog postings, articles and client alerts on a variety of topics in this area, including the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions. Lloyd is a co-editor of Proskauer’s Whistleblower Defense Blog, and he has been widely quoted by on whistleblower topics by a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal and Law 360. Lloyd has also become active in the International Bar Association, presenting on a variety of subjects, including: the #MeToo movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and employment law, and cross-border harmonization of employment provisions in transactions. Lloyd also hosts a quarterly roundtable discussion among financial services industry in-house employment lawyers. He has also published articles and given speeches on a variety of other employment-law topics, including non-solicitation provisions, FINRA arbitration rules, cross-border discovery, e-discovery, and the use of experts.

Michael Choate

Michael focuses on securities and corporate finance matters including public and private offerings of both equity and debt securities with an emphasis on REITs and real estate funds including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and federal securities compliance matters impacting these entities. Michael’s representative experience includes advising publicly-traded and non-listed REITs and private real estate funds and investors in equity and debt offerings of more than $30 billion, structuring public and private equity and debt offerings, and representing publicly and privately held entities in merger and acquisition transactions including various REIT internalization transactions and counseling boards and managers on fiduciary duties and governance matters.

Wai Choy

Wai Choy is Co-Head of Proskauer’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Group, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group, and a leader of the Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain & Digital Assets practices. He has deep experience in technology, media, intellectual property, and corporate transactions and counseling, and is a trusted advisor to operating companies, asset managers, and other enterprises across a wide range of industries, including technology, media, entertainment, private equity, services, advertising, sports, blockchain and digital assets, health care, and life sciences. As the media industry has evolved, Wai has represented content distributors and programmers for nearly 15 years in a wide range of complex distribution and licensing deals across all technologies, platforms, and business models, as well as in agreements for the development and integration of cutting-edge technologies and features. In mergers and acquisitions, Wai: Structures and negotiates key transaction documents, including purchase, merger, transition services, and intellectual property license agreements, and leads legal due diligence; Advises on intellectual property, technology, privacy, data security, and contractual matters; and Helps portfolio companies optimize operations and execute value-creating strategies in preparation for a sale or post-closing. He also advises companies on a broad range of day-to-day legal and business matters, including commercial arrangements, intellectual property, joint ventures, new product and service development, and corporate and strategic matters. As co-head of Proskauer’s Technology Strategy Committee and a leader of the Firm’s Artificial Intelligence Practice, Wai advises both the Firm and clients on artificial intelligence policy, issues, and strategy. Prior to joining Proskauer, Wai worked in the Business & Legal Affairs department of Marvel Studios in Los Angeles and Marvel Entertainment in New York. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Acting, Wai brings a valuable creative perspective to his legal practice.

Stephen Chuk

Stephen Chuk is a Partner in Proskauer’s Antitrust and Sports Groups, representing clients in their most high-stakes antitrust and competition matters. A trusted advisor to general counsel and senior executives, he regularly defends clients facing criminal and regulatory investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general. Stephen has defended clients against allegations of price fixing, monopolization, group boycott and bid rigging, managing sophisticated antitrust disputes from inception through trial. In 2023, he was a lead member of the trial team that secured a landmark defense victory for Sanderson Farms, defeating $7 billion in damages claims after a six-week jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In addition to his antitrust work, Stephen counsels clients on consumer protection and marketing practices, including false advertising disputes. He has handled precedent-setting matters before the FTC and state attorneys general, giving him valuable insight into the intersection of competition and consumer protection enforcement and enabling him to equip clients with practical, business-focused strategies to manage overlapping risks.

Aliza Cinamon

Aliza Cinamon leads Proskauer’s Environmental Group. She is a trusted advisor to leading U.S. and international clients on a broad spectrum of environmental issues and strategies in connection with complex corporate, financing, bankruptcy and real estate transactions. Drawing on her extensive experience, Aliza offers a broad range of capabilities, guiding clients on matters involving environmental liability and risk allocation, remediation, brownfields, ESG, sustainability and climate change, public company disclosures and environmental insurance. Her practice also includes advising clients in superfund litigation matters, and environmental compliance, permitting and enforcement at both the federal and state levels. Aliza represents both public and private companies spanning a wide variety of industries including aerospace, mining, pharmaceuticals, chemical manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, real estate construction and development, sports, retail and financial services. Aliza is also devoted to pro bono matters, including heading the Firm’s efforts on behalf of Holocaust victims eligible for reparations, obtaining disability benefits for veterans, identifying and assisting potential victims of trafficking, helping persecuted Iraqis seeking refuge in the U.S. and providing corporate counseling for a number of the Firm’s other pro bono clients. Before joining Proskauer, Aliza interned for the U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District with Judge Shira Scheindlin.

Cameron Clark

Cameron Clark is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Cameron advises a wide variety of emerging and large fund managers on the formation and ongoing operation of credit, hedge and private equity funds, as well as complex hybrid and evergreen funds. Cameron regularly counsels sponsors on fund formation and marketing, upper-tier arrangements, asset manager M&A, co-investment arrangements, seed transactions, treaty structures, funds-of-one, managed accounts, restructurings and internal governances and compensation arrangements as well as various regulatory issues. Cameron also advises institutional investors regarding their investments in private funds.

Joseph Clark

Joseph E. Clark is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group where he focuses on complex employee benefits litigation. Joe represents a diverse range of clients from the time a claim is asserted through trial or arbitration, whether it is defending plan fiduciaries against class action claims of fiduciary breach or prohibited transactions or in connection with government investigations, or defending employers against multiemployer pension plan claims for withdrawal liability. These clients include financial service providers, investment managers, Fortune 500 corporations, and benefit plan committees. Outside of the context of litigation, Joe also advises fiduciary clients regarding their fiduciary responsibilities and employers regarding various withdrawal liability issues. Co-editor and a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation blog, Joe has authored pieces on employee stock ownership plans, excessive fee claims, fiduciary breach, investigation and determination of benefits claims, and best practices for plan drafting. He has also published several articles regarding these issues in BNA Insights.

Matt Clift

Matt Clift is an M&A associate and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. He is also a member of the Sports Group. Matt has a broad practice comprising transactional and general corporate advisory work. In particular, he advises private equity houses and sovereign wealth funds on the deployment of their capital, including buyouts, co- investments and secondaries. He has also advised banks with respect to raising regulatory capital. Alongside his legal expertise, Matt has a passion for financial technology and the legal developments associated with this nascent sector.

Richard Corn

Richard M. Corn is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. He focuses his practice on corporate tax structuring and planning for a wide variety of transactions, including: mergers and acquisitions cross-border transactions joint ventures structured financings debt and equity issuances restructurings bankruptcy-related transactions Richard advises both U.S. and international clients, including multinational financial institutions, private equity funds, hedge funds, asset managers and joint ventures. He has particular experience in the financial services and sports sectors. He also works with individuals and tax-exempt and not-for-profit organizations on their tax matters. Richard began his career as a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig and then went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas. Prior to joining Proskauer, he most recently practiced at Sullivan & Cromwell as well as Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz.

Adam Creed

Adam Creed is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. He is also a member of the Sports Group. Adam advises private equity firms, companies and management teams on all aspects of corporate finance, M&A and private equity deal work, including, company and business acquisitions and disposals, secondary transactions, and management buyouts.

Gary Creem

Gary Creem is a Corporate partner, co-head of Proskauer's Private Credit Group and a member of the Finance Group. Gary focuses his practice on complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Gary routinely represents an array of leading institutional investors in direct, club and syndicated financing transactions in the middle market and upper middle market, often involving cross-border components. His clients include leading investment banks, institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, business development companies, and technology focused investors. Gary advises these clients on a range of credit products across the capital spectrum, including: senior and senior stretch loans; unitranche facilities (straight and bifurcated); second lien financings; mezzanine debt; subordinated notes; and other innovative financial products. Gary also advises clients on structuring software and other technology-based financings, including recurring revenue-based transactions. A significant part of Gary’s practice is spent counseling institutional investors in complex inter lender arrangements, including agreements among lenders, intercreditor agreements and subordination agreements. Gary frequently advises clients on debt restructurings and out-of-court workouts, including forbearance matters, debt-for-equity exchanges, restructuring support agreements and Article 9 remedies. Gary has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. Outside of his law career, Gary sits on the board of Families First in Massachusetts.

Niamh Curry

Niamh Curry is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. For over 20 years, she has advised private investment funds in a broad range of matters, consisting of secondary transactions and the structuring and formation of, and investment in, private equity funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds, and fund of funds. During the last 12 years, Niamh has had extensive experience representing secondary clients in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation/structuring, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales, fund restructurings and fund financing), primary investments and co-investments. She has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, in the U.S. and internationally. Niamh also provides ongoing advice to fund managers on all aspects of their business and operations including governance issues, structuring, day-to-day operational issues, legal and regulatory compliance with US securities laws, with a particular focus on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Charles Dale

Chad Dale is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of both the Restructuring and Private Credit Restructuring Groups. Chad has 30 years of experience in corporate reorganizations and debt restructurings. As a member of the Private Credit Restructuring Group, Chad’s practice focuses on direct lenders and ad hoc groups of direct lenders, hedge funds and BDC’s. He also represents troubled companies, equity sponsors, creditors’ committees, trustees and receivers in complex out-of-court debt restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings. Chad has also served as a court-appointed chapter 11 trustee and frequently represents purchasers of financially distressed businesses. Chad offers extensive experience handling debt restructurings, reorganizations and distressed asset transactions. Chad has written articles and spoken frequently on a wide range of matters including debtor-in-possession financings, healthcare restructurings, intellectual property licensing in bankruptcy, executory contracts, director and officer liability and income and property taxation in bankruptcy.

Margaret Dale

Margaret Dale is a seasoned trial lawyer and first-chair litigator handling complex business disputes across a wide variety of industries and sectors, including consumer products, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications and technology, and higher education. Margaret was a former vice-chair of Proskauer's Litigation Department. Margaret’s practice covers the spectrum of complex commercial disputes, including matters involving contracts, bankruptcy and insolvency, securities, corporate governance, asset management, M&A, intellectual property, and privacy and data security. Margaret regularly counsels clients before litigation commences to assess risk, develop strategies to minimize or avoid disputes, and resolve matters outside of the courtroom. Margaret is a frequent writer, including authoring the chapter titled “Privileges” in the treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Haig, 5th ed.), the chapter titled “Data Breach Litigation” in PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy, and the chapter titled “Perfecting the Appeal” in PLI’s Principles of Appellate Litigation. She also serves as the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on commercial litigation, Minding Your Business Litigation. For over 10 years, Margaret co-authored a regular column on corporate and securities law in the New York Law Journal. Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice advocating on issues relating to reproductive rights, women, children, and veterans. She serves on the Board of Directors of CFR (Center for Family Representation), VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts), and the City Bar Fund.

Grant Darwin

Grant Darwin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Grant advises private capital sponsors and private and public companies in connection with a variety of domestic and cross-border buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings and other strategic transactions, including growth and emerging company equity financings as counsel to investors and companies. Asset manager clients frequently look to Grant for guidance in critical life cycle events, including GP/asset manager M&A transactions, as well as GP-stakes and GP-led secondary transactions. Beyond financial services, Grant’s experience spans an array of industries, including media, sports and entertainment, technology, retail and consumer products. Grant regularly advises on a variety of corporate governance, commercial and strategic matters. Beyond his corporate practice, Grant engages in a range of pro bono efforts and volunteer work, including voter registration and election protection initiatives and serving as a mentor for elementary school students in NYC public schools through Read Ahead.

Steven Davis

Steven Davis is head of Proskauer’s Private Equity and M&A Transactions Group - Europe, head of the London office, a current member of the Firm's Executive Committee and a member of the Private Capital industry group. Steven’s practice focuses on buyouts, buy-ins, and strategic mergers & acquisitions. He has considerable industry knowledge in the consumer, retail, financial, business services, sports and healthcare sectors, and has advised a broad range of clients, including private equity sponsors, management teams, financial institutions and public and private companies.

Rob Day

Rob Day is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. He is also a member of the Sports Group. Rob’s practice focuses on public and private M&A, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures, private equity and portfolio company transactions. His clients include global corporations, asset managers and private equity houses, advising on their strategically important transactions across financial services, consumer, sports, media and technology sectors.

Ally de Padua

Ally de Padua is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance Practice, where she serves as a trusted advisor to leading banks and private credit funds on complex corporate financing transactions. With extensive experience in private equity-backed leveraged finance, Ally specializes in representing creditor clients across a wide range of financing transactions, from initial acquisition and recapitalization to cash flow financing, out-of-court restructurings, and debtor-in-possession facilities. Ally is also a skilled advocate in negotiating intricate cross-border debt transactions. In addition to advising on cross-border transactions involving both the U.S. and Europe, Ally has a proven track record of advising clients on investment opportunities across Latin America and the Caribbean, navigating the complexities of the region’s financial markets.

Jonathan DeSantis

Jonathan (JD) DeSantis is co-head of Proskauer's Capital Markets Group. JD works with underwriters to help with their key financing transactions, including leveraged- and investment-grade committed financings, high-yield and investment-grade bonds and syndicated bank loans. He has also represented issuers on initial public offerings, high-yield notes and senior secured facilities. Having more than 20 years of experience, JD has represented most of the major financial institutions including, but not limited to, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Sylvain Dhennin

Sylvain Dhennin is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Sylvain has a broad practice across private equity, finance transactions and special situations. Sylvain is ranked as one of the leading practitioners in his field by several leading directories.

Kunal Dogra

Kunal Dogra is a Partner in Proskauer's global Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group and co-head of the Firm’s multi-disciplinary Digital Infrastructure practice. Consistently recognized by top industry publications for his pragmatic approach to dealmaking, Kunal represents premier private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and strategic acquirers in all aspects of M&A, with a particular focus on digital infrastructure and other infrastructure transactions. In the last five years alone, he has guided boards and executive teams on over 40 publicly announced transactions with a combined value exceeding $70 billion. Kunal has extensive experience advising market participants on complex data center, fiber and tower transactions, including some of the highest-profile acquisition, financing, and development transactions in this asset class. He is particularly well-known for complex, cross-border mandates, with clients praising him as “very skilled and sophisticated. He is very patient and knows how to handle situations well in tense moments.” Kunal also has key industry experience globally across adjacent infrastructure asset classes including transport, renewables, and water and storage. In addition to his transactional practice, Kunal routinely advises public companies on corporate and board governance and securities law matters.

Joseph Drayton

Joe Drayton is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, co-head of the Patent law practice and a member of the Intellectual Property and Trials groups. Joe is a first-chair trial lawyer with over two decades of experience representing some of the nation’s most prominent companies in high-stakes intellectual property (IP) and complex commercial litigation. He has successfully handled matters across a broad range of industries before state and federal courts, the International Trade Commission and arbitration tribunals including the American Arbitration Association. Joe’s practice spans all areas of IP law—patent, trade secrets, copyright, trademark, trade dress and false advertising—both domestically and internationally. He also advises clients on IP acquisition, transfer, protection and enforcement strategies. Joe has been recognized as one of the leading lawyers in his field across the United States. In addition to his IP expertise, he has a strong track record resolving complex commercial disputes, including international supplier conflicts with significant business implications. A trusted advisor to corporate executives, Joe is known for his sound judgment and leadership. Joe is a national leader in the legal community. He recently received the United States President’s Volunteer Service Award by President Joseph R. Biden for his leadership activities in the legal community. Joe also received the C. Francis Stradford Award—the National Bar Association’s highest honor—for his integrity, legal excellence and lasting contributions to the profession. He served as the 76th president of the National Bar Association, is a former vice president and Board chair of the New York City Bar Association and served on the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary as the 2nd Circuit and Federal Circuit Representative, a role that included Joe providing congressional testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the confirmation hearings for the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Jennifer Dunn

Jennifer “Jenny” Dunn is a partner in the Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group and Hedge Funds practice. Jennifer focuses her practice on advising hedge funds, closed-end funds (including debt funds), hybrid funds, co-investment platforms and investment advisers in connection with their structuring, formation and ongoing operational needs, general securities laws matters, and regulatory and compliance issues. Her practice includes structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments, advising investment managers regarding the structure and sale of their platforms and the structure of their compensation arrangements. She also represents investment managers in connection with managed accounts and single investor funds. Her practice includes structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments, advising investment managers regarding the structure and sale of their platforms and the structure of their compensation arrangements. She also represents investment managers in connection with managed accounts and single investor funds.

Nicole Eichberger

Nicole A. Eichberger is a partner in Proskauer's Labor and Employment Law Department and head of the New Orleans office. She is a member of the Class & Collective Actions and Wage and Hour Groups. Nici is an experienced trial lawyer and represents clients in all types of employment-related matters, from single-plaintiff and complex employment to large, complex class and collective actions alleging discrimination, non-compete violations, and wage and hour disputes. Nici has significant experience assisting clients in the defense of numerous class and collective actions. She frequently counsels employers, fiduciaries, and trustees on employment, wage and hour and benefit issues. In addition to her litigation practice, Nici assists in conducting workplace investigations and audits related to discrimination, managerial training, non-competes and employee classification. She is adept to counseling clients on a wide array of issues including reviewing and drafting employee handbooks, wage and hour issues, employee leave and training policies. She is a member of the Firm’s eDiscovery Group and advises clients on eDiscovery matters, including day-to-day preservation, investigations and litigation strategies. Nici recently completed a three-year term was on the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono & Public Service and serves as the Pro Bono Co-Coordinator for Proskauer’s New Orleans office. She is a prolific writer, frequently contributing to Proskauer’s Law and the Workplace Blog and a sought-after speaker on collective/class action topics.

Michael Ellis

Michael Ellis is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and co-head of Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mike advises on all aspects of public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, GP-led secondaries transactions and complex commercial arrangements. He has handled billions of dollars in buy-and sell-side representations including tender offers, stock and asset purchases and sales, mergers and joint ventures, for both strategic players and financial sponsors in a broad range of industries, including in the retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, real estate, financial services and consumer goods sectors, guiding boards and executive teams through all stages of the M&A process. Mike also represents public companies in their ongoing corporate and securities law matters, including with respect to corporate governance, board and committee representation and public disclosure.

Steven Ellis

Steven M. Ellis is the former Chair of Proskauer. He is a partner in the Firm’s market-leading Private Credit Practice, a practice that Steve proudly founded and led to its dominant position in the market today, serving as head of that practice for over 15 years. During his tenure as Chair of Proskauer, the Firm achieved record financial results and dramatically expanded its transactional platform and private capital offering. Steve serves as an active board member for Team IMPACT, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of kids battling diseases. A network of volunteers, coaches and players, Team IMPACT matches children facing serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams to form relationships that have life-changing outcomes.

Christopher Elson

Chris is a partner in the Private Funds Group and a member of the Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Chris advises fund managers on fundraising and fund structuring across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth, venture capital and credit funds. He also advises sponsors on tailored liquidity solutions, internal governance, ongoing fund maintenance and compliance matters. Chris has experience in management spin-outs as well as the structuring of carried interest and employee co-investment incentive plans. He also advises a number of institutional investors on secondary transactions and primary investments.

Grant Esposito

Grant Esposito is a first-chair trial lawyer with decades of experience in complex commercial litigation for multinational companies in their most challenging and high-profile matters. He is also a trusted advisor to clients in a variety of key areas including antitrust, environmental, mass torts, product liability, regulatory and transactional disputes. Throughout his career, Grant has secured notable victories in jury and bench trials throughout the U.S., as well as in arbitration proceedings.

John Failla

John Edward Failla is a partner in Proskauer's Insurance Recovery & Counseling Group. With more than twenty years of experience focusing on insurance recovery for business policyholders, John has the practical and legal experience to assist clients in managing business risks and solving business problems. John has helped clients recover more than 2.5 billion dollars from their insurers through litigation, alternative dispute resolution or negotiation in some of the most significant insurance matters involving a wide range of issues, including: directors' and officers’ liability, securities, and corporate governance matters, such as the AT&T coverage litigation mutual fund market timing and sales practices claims complex financial fraud recoveries losses related to the global economic crisis, such as auction rate securities and the Madoff fraud environmental, toxic tort, and products liability, such as the Exxon Valdez insurance litigation property and business interruption claims arising from the September 11 terrorist attacks secondary life insurance transactions computer and electronic crime claims privacy, cyber-risk, and data security claims Although he has handled claims under nearly every type of policy and against every major insurer, John has particular experience handling financial institution insurance matters. He regularly represents banks, securities broker-dealers, underwriters, asset management firms, mutual fund complexes, private equity firms, venture capital groups and hedge funds, as well as corporate officers and directors and securities issuers. John has pursued claims on behalf of a number of financial institutions under directors and officers’ and errors and omissions policies, as well as fidelity bonds, commercial crime policies and electronic and computer crime policies. Counseling: In addition to policyholder advocacy, John also advises and counsels clients on risk management and underwriting issues, including drafting and negotiating insurance policy language, insurance audits and historical program reconstruction, and structuring commercial and captive insurance programs. John regularly advises members of corporate boards and corporate officers on emerging liability risks and ways to improve their insurance coverage. He assists clients with insurance and indemnification issues in connection with corporate transactions by performing insurance due diligence, potential exposure and insurance recovery valuation and modeling, preparing risk transfer, insurance and indemnity provisions in stock and asset purchase and sale agreements, and advising clients regarding insurance transfer and succession issues. John has negotiated special insurance programs and drafted insurance policies intended to cover unique and emerging risks, such as specialty environmental policies and transaction-specific programs. John regularly advises insurance risk managers on all aspects of insurance risk management, including annual insurance program and policy wording reviews, program structure, captives, specialty insurance coverages, analysis of emerging risks, and indemnification provisions. In addition, John is a frequent speaker and writer on insurance coverage issues. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Insurance Law 360 and is leading a panel at the Risk Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Annual Conference called “E&O Insurance: Your Best Friend In The Economic Crisis.”

David Fenwick

David Fenwick is a partner in Proskauer's Latin America Group, where he focuses on international finance and other cross-border matters. David represents underwriters, issuers and credit enhancers on international debt, securitization, equity and equity-related offerings, arrangers and borrowers on international loan facilities and infrastructure finance projects, and debtors and creditors on balance sheet management and debt restructuring transactions. In addition, he represents international investors in their Latin American transactions and Brazilian investors in their transactions abroad.

David Fenwick

David Fenwick is a partner in Proskauer's Latin America Group, where he focuses on international finance and other cross-border matters. David represents underwriters, issuers and credit enhancers on international debt, securitization, equity and equity-related offerings, arrangers and borrowers on international loan facilities and infrastructure finance projects, and debtors and creditors on balance sheet management and debt restructuring transactions. In addition, he represents international investors in their Latin American transactions and Brazilian investors in their transactions abroad. He acted as lead advisor to BNDES, the Brazilian development bank, on its U.S.$1 billion Mandatory Exchange Offer, named "Deal of the Year" for 2008 in several categories by various international finance and legal publications.

David Fioccola

A seasoned litigator and trial lawyer, David Fioccola specializes in the defense of complex commercial disputes and consumer class actions. With more than 25 years of experience, David has tried cases in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals throughout the U.S. He regularly defends Fortune 500 companies in bet-the-company litigation as well as financial institutions against claims involving federal and state law violations, including antitrust laws, trust claims, and breach of contract. David has extensive experience handling large-scale internal investigations and represents clients before U.S. federal and state agencies, including the Department of Justice, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state agencies, such as the New York Department of Financial Services and state attorneys general. Moreover, he has significant experience counseling clients in various U.S. federal laws and statutes. Prior to joining Proskauer, David was the co-chair of the Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group as well as the Trial Practice Group at Morrison & Foerster.

Michael Firestein

Michael A. Firestein is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and formerly served as Vice Chair of the Department. Michael brings more than 30 years of experience handling a wide range of commercial litigation on behalf of financial institutions, securities brokerages, fiduciaries, investment advisors, private equity funds, real estate operating companies and entertainment corporations. He has tried cases before nearly every kind of tribunal (jury and bench), including state and federal court and before arbitration forums, including FINRA, AAA, JAMS, NYSE and others. During the past decade, Michael has emerged as a preeminent litigator and trial lawyer in some of the largest bankruptcy proceedings in the country. Most recently, Michael also served as lead litigator representing the Statutory Unsecured Creditors Committee in the successful restructuring of Zachry Industrial, Inc., which resulted in a confirmed plan paying all unsecured creditors in full. He also has a lead role in the Puerto Rico bankruptcy litigation on behalf of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. In recent years, Michael was a principal trial lawyer in the confirmation hearings for plans of adjustment for (i) the Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority, which sought to restructure nearly $ 6 billion of bond debt and other obligations of the Authority (2022), (ii) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, and the Puerto Rico Employee Retirement System, which restructured tens of billions of dollars of bond debt and unfunded pension obligations (2021), (iii) the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), which sought to restructure more than $10 billion dollars in funded debt and other obligations, and (iv) the Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (COFINA), which sought to restructure $18 billion of bond debt (2019). Several of these confirmation proceedings saved the Commonwealth and its instrumentalities hundreds of millions of dollars of bond and other debt payments annually. Michael also served as lead trial counsel in successful bankruptcy plan confirmations in two contested trials on behalf of Energy Future Holdings, where he addressed numerous intercompany/inter-debtor claims and other matters concerning this complex restructuring. Michael also advises on many probate and trust litigation matters, employment litigation disputes, including wrongful termination, as well as intellectual property and entertainment litigation. He represents publicly traded companies in internal investigations and before the SEC, FINRA, and other SROs. Additionally, Michael counsels individuals in securities aspects of high-net-worth family law disputes. Beyond the courtroom, Michael is deeply committed to community service. For almost 30 years, he has been an active member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Concern Foundation for Cancer Research, and served as its President from 1994-1996. Michael also serves on the Board of Directors of Bet Tzedek, a Los Angeles-based provider of pro bono legal services.

Rachel Fischer

Rachel S. Fischer is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a seasoned trial lawyer known for her courtroom strength and strategic judgment. She represents employers in complex, high-stakes employment disputes and is particularly distinguished by her significant trial and arbitration experience. Rachel defends employers in all types of employment matters, including claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, as well as breach of contract, restrictive covenant, and wage and hour actions. She regularly represents clients in federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals, and before administrative agencies, and has litigated both single-plaintiff cases and class actions. In a field where many cases resolve before trial, Rachel is recognized for her ability to take matters through final hearing and trial, managing every phase of litigation from initial strategy through dispositive motion practice and verdict. Her practice includes leading defense strategy in sensitive and high-profile disputes, overseeing complex discovery, briefing and arguing critical motions and appeals, preparing key witnesses, and serving in significant trial roles. She has successfully tried cases to verdict and final arbitral award, reinforcing her reputation as a formidable advocate when the stakes are highest. In addition to her active litigation practice, Rachel also advises clients on workplace investigations, discipline and termination decisions, and employment policies, helping employers manage risk while advancing business objectives. Rachel represents employers across a broad range of industries, including banking and finance, law firms, media and entertainment, sports, and higher education. Rachel’s combination of trial experience, strategic insight, and practical counsel makes her a trusted advisor to employers navigating both day-to-day workplace issues and complex, bet-the-company disputes.

Joshua Fox

Joshua S. Fox is a partner in Proskauer’s Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Sports and Labor-Management Relations Groups. Josh’s practice focuses on all aspects of traditional labor law. He serves as lead negotiator in collective bargaining negotiations, represents employers in grievance and interest arbitrations, and advises clients on the labor and employment aspects of corporate transactions. Josh regularly counsels management on union-organizing campaigns, work-stoppage preparation, contract administration, and labor-compliance matters, and represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, and in proceedings before labor arbitrators and administrative agencies. He also provides strategic guidance on labor-relations policy, collective bargaining strategy, and dispute resolution, helping clients navigate complex labor environments and maintain constructive relationships with unions and employees. As a key member of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group, Josh has extensive experience representing professional sports leagues and teams in collective bargaining and grievance-arbitration matters. Josh has played a central role on Proskauer’s team representing Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the Professional Referee Organization (PRO) in collective-bargaining negotiations with players and officials and high-profile grievance arbitrations. Josh served as the chief spokesperson and lead negotiator during the 2023-24 collective bargaining negotiations for MLS Officials, and he has worked closely with the major professional sports leagues on labor matters throughout his career. In addition, Josh has represented multiple MLB clubs in the salary-arbitration process for more than a decade, and advises teams and arenas on labor relations involving unions representing event and arena staff. Josh’s labor-relations practice expands well-beyond the sports industry, where he represents clients across a broad range of sectors, including performing arts, entertainment/media, real estate/construction, hospitality, higher education, and non-profit organizations in a wide variety of matters—from collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance arbitration, to compliance counseling,transactional labor issues, prevailing wage matters, and other complex labor and employment issues. Josh serves as an adjunct professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), where he teaches a course on salary arbitration in sports. Josh also is a board member of the ILR Alumni Association, serving as the organization’s Vice President, and he is the Co-Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Sports Law Committee. Before beginning his career at Proskauer, Josh gained valuable experience at the NHL, where he was involved in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including collective bargaining preparation, grievance arbitration, contract drafting and review, and employment counseling. During law school, Josh interned at the NHL, in the labor-relations department of MLB, and at Region 2 of the NLRB. Josh was also a member of the Brooklyn Law Review and the Appellate Moot Court Honor Society, and served as president of the Brooklyn Entertainment and Sports Law Society.

Douglas Frank

Douglas B. Frank is the administrative co-head of Proskauer's Los Angeles office and partner in the Real Estate Department. His practice focuses on real estate private equity investment, real estate related joint ventures, secured lending, mezzanine lending and structured finance activities, as well as real estate acquisition and sales transactions. Doug advises private equity investors and real estate advisors with respect to a broad scope of real estate investments – particularly in the areas of acquisition and disposition of core real estate properties, and joint ventures for the development, construction, financing and operating of office, retail, multifamily, condominium, hospitality and industrial projects. Doug also has 25 years of experience representing commercial banks, life insurance companies, fund investors and advisors, and pension funds with respect to real estate-secured lending and structured finance activities for land acquisitions and construction. He has represented lender clients in connection with their permanent, term, revolving, workout, conduit/securitization, and mezzanine financings transactions.

Ron Franklin

Ron Franklin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department. He represents clients across a broad range of finance matters, including secured and unsecured lending transactions, domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, and the full spectrum of fund finance transactions. Ron also advises on complex restructurings and general corporate matters, providing strategic counsel to financial institutions, private equity sponsors, and corporate borrowers.

Robert Freeman

Robert E. Freeman is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group and a member of the Sports Law Group. Rob began his career as an antitrust and intellectual property litigator before transitioning to a corporate transactional attorney. For almost three decades, Rob has helped to structure and negotiate the transactions that shape the way consumers access and view content. Today, Rob leads a team of attorneys focused on media, sports, entertainment and technology transactions, representing clients such as Warner Bros. Discovery, Cox Communications, FanDuel, The Big Ten Conference, The Big 12 Conference, TMRW Sports, ForgeLight, Minute Media, Ziff Davis, Seminole Hard Rock Digital, 776 Management, X Games, League One Volleyball, and NFL Media, among many others. Rob’s work for these clients includes a broad array of corporate transactions ranging from industry-specific mergers and acquisitions, minority and control investments, the negotiation of complex media and sports rights and content distribution agreements, and the creation of joint ventures, strategic alliances, and complex commercial licensing arrangements. Rob also has advised multiple clients on first-of-their-kind transactions related to sports betting. More recently, Rob has led the launch of emerging sports leagues such at TGL (initially a joint venture between TMRW Sports and PGA TOUR), the X Games League, LOVB (women’s professional volleyball league) and ATHLOS (a proposed women’s professional track league), which has included corporate structuring, team sales, media rights, arena development and leasing, and sponsorship. Other examples of Rob’s work include representing Discovery in connection with its merger with Warner Media to form Warner Bros. Discovery, The Big Ten Conference and The Big 12 Conference in the negotiation of their media rights deals, ForgeLight LLC in its acquisition of a majority stake in Univision Holdings, Inc, the leading Hispanic media company in the U.S.; Discovery in its $2 billion+ contractual joint venture with the PGA Tour to form “GOLFTV” and subsequent acquisitions of Golf Digest and Golf Channel Latin America; Cox Communications in the negotiation of all of its largest content acquisition and distribution deals, including with The Walt Disney Company, Paramount, NBCU, and FOX; and The Stars Group in its groundbreaking partnership with FOX Sports, which included the launch of sports betting platform FOX Bet and an equity investment by FOX of over $240 million in The Stars Group. Rob is a frequent lecturer on sports, media, intellectual property, licensing, emerging technology, digital rights and sponsorship issues and is the editor of Proskauer’s “Three Point Shot” sports e-newsletter. He is a longtime member of the Board of Directors of the T. Howard Foundation, whose mission is to increase diversity in the media and entertainment industries. Rob has also chaired the Golf Committee for the March of Dimes’ annual golf outing in the NYC area.

Jacob Friedman

Jacob I. Friedman is a former head of Proskauer's Not-for-Profit/Exempt Organizations Group and former chair of the Tax Department. Jay has been involved in various facets of federal and state tax and employee benefits laws. In recent years, his major areas of practice have been the structuring of alternative investments for pension trusts and other exempt organizations, and the rendering of fiduciary advice to trustees. Jay advises Proskauer’s philanthropic and other not-for-profit clients on fiduciary and tax exemption issues and their specialized tax problems, including unrelated business income tax ramifications of diverse investments, such as venture capital, hedge funds, futures, natural resources, buyout funds and corporate finance. He regularly is called upon to devise strategy in tax-exempt trust litigation and to handle complex administrative negotiations with the IRS. Jay has actively structured and negotiated numerous significant investments in the U.S. and abroad for multibillion-dollar tax-exempt entities. Jay has lectured at seminars sponsored by Proskauer, The New York Law Journal, New York University, The New York State Bar Association and the International Association of Financial Planners on areas such as real estate investment, tax credits, unrelated business taxable income, ERISA, and negotiating strategy with the IRS. He chaired Proskauer's annual "Trick or Treat Tax-Exempt Seminar," held at the end of every October. He is a co-author of the ERISA Fiduciary Answer Book published by Panel Publications and a contributing author to Complete Guide to Nonprofit Organizations.

Marc Friess

Marc B. Friess is a partner in Proskauer's Private Credit Group and a member of Proskauer's Corporate Department. He focuses his practice on commercial and corporate finance transactions and the representation of hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial finance companies, investment banks and borrowers in a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including asset based and cash-flow facilities; acquisition and leveraged finance facilities; high-yield debt offerings; working capital facilities; debtor-in-possession and exit facilities; bridge and take-out facilities; first lien, second lien and first-out/last-out unitranche financings; secured financings; unsecured financings; subordinated debt financings; mezzanine debt financings; private equity portfolio financings; restructurings and workouts. Marc is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. Marc obtained his BA, cum laude, from Franklin and Marshall College in 1998, and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2001.

Daniel Ganitsky

Daniel Ganitsky is co-head of Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Over the course of his career, Daniel has had significant roles in numerous public company transactions, acquisitions of private companies or businesses, restructurings, proxy contests and financial advisor representations. Since joining Proskauer less than a decade ago, he has worked on over 125 publicly announced transactions with an aggregate value of more than $175 billion. Since joining Proskauer in the summer of 2010, Daniel has been particularly active in the Firm's representation of clients in public company transactions, cross border matters and private equity investments. Daniel was also part of the team that represented the Pac-12 Conference in the creation of Pac-12 Networks, an innovative arrangement providing unprecedented exposure for the conference's athletic and academic programs. In addition to his transactional work, Daniel routinely advises corporations, stockholders, directors and officers in connection with SEC reporting obligations and periodic reports (including proxy statements, registration statements, Form 8-Ks, and Schedule 13Ds), formation of entities, board governance, stockholders affairs, SEC no-action letters, "poison pen" letters, shareholder rights plans and other corporate law and securities matters. Born in Colombia, Daniel is fluent in Spanish and has worked on transactions throughout Latin America with many of the leading law firms and investment banks in the region.

Mitchell Gaswirth

Mitchell M. Gaswirth is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. His practice focuses primarily on income, gift and estate tax and related business planning. Mitchell counsels individuals, entrepreneurs and business entities in connection with the myriad income and other tax issues arising in sophisticated business transactions. Mitchell’s practice also encompasses a wide array of merger and acquisition, business formation and financing, debt restructuring, and real property acquisition, disposition and exchange transactions. His knowledge encompasses the complex and often arcane application of California’s property tax regime (“Proposition 13”) in a variety of business transactions directly or indirectly involving California real property. In addition, he provides income, gift and estate tax and related business planning advice to individuals, families, and their business enterprises to help them achieve wealth preservation and tax minimization objectives. This planning includes tax minimization strategies involving grantor trusts, family limited partnerships, charitable and family “split interest” and other irrevocable trusts, and other sophisticated wealth transfer and business succession vehicles. Mitchell’s wealth transfer tax planning practice focuses particularly on counseling executives, professionals, investors, and others concerning the preservation, administration and disposition of their capital. He also counsels individuals and businesses in connection with planning to minimize California income tax burdens. Mitchell also represents corporate and individual fiduciaries, and estate and trust beneficiaries, in a wide array of sophisticated personal planning and fiduciary administration matters, including representing private, professional, and corporate fiduciaries in connection with their administrations of complex trust arrangements for high net worth families. His fiduciary practice also encompasses substantial “Family Office” representation for multi-member families seeking to achieve complex and sophisticated income and wealth transfer tax objectives. Mitchell’s tax practice also involves the administrative and judicial resolution of tax disputes with federal and state tax authorities. He represents taxpayers in income, estate and gift, sales and use, property, and employment tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, California Franchise Tax Board, and other tax authorities. Notably, Mitchell served as Lead Tax Counsel to the late Paul Newman, both at trial and in the California Court of Appeals, in the actor’s successful refund suit against the California Franchise Tax Board. The Newman case established the impropriety of the Franchise Tax Board’s formula for apportioning to California a non-resident entertainer’s income derived from both California and non-California sources. Prior to joining Proskauer, Mitchell was a partner of the Los Angeles law firm Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.

Robert Gaut

Robert Gaut is a Tax partner and head of Proskauer's UK Tax practice in London. Robert provides advice on a full range of UK and international tax issues relating to fund formation, private equity deals, finance transactions and private equity real estate matters, including experience with non-traditional equity transactions, such as debt-like preferred equity and co-investments for private credit investors. Robert is highly-regarded for his ability to provide sophisticated tax advice to many of the world’s preeminent multinational companies, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks and private equity and credit funds.

Laura Gavioli

Laura Gavioli is a partner in Proskauer's Tax and Litigation Departments, where she specializes in contesting and litigating federal and state tax disputes. She defends individuals, partnerships, other pass-through entities, and corporations in civil tax cases, IRS controversies, white collar prosecutions, and complex financial litigation. Immediately prior to joining the firm, Laura was Special Counsel in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel where she worked with IRS leadership on complex and highly sensitive matters handled by the IRS Large Business & International Division (LB&I). These included examinations, matters in IRS Appeals, and litigation related to partnerships and other pass-through entities. In 2024, Laura led a nine-person trial team which was named Outstanding Litigation Team of the Year by the U.S. Department of Treasury and IRS LB&I. Laura also worked on matters for taxpayers in the Global High Wealth (GHW), Large Corporate Compliance (LCC) and Large Partnership Compliance (LPC) programs. Laura’s experience includes many years as a tax partner at Am Law 100 firms. In that role, Laura represented clients involved in significant, groundbreaking partnership tax and criminal tax evasion cases. Her experience includes significant taxpayer victories in U.S. Tax Court and federal district court eliminating IRS penalties due to the taxpayers’ good faith and reasonable cause. She has also litigated numerous cases setting taxpayer-friendly precedent regarding taxation statutes of limitations. Recently, Laura has handled major tax disputes involving transfer pricing, estate and gift tax, tax credit refunds, the section 965 and 987 transition taxes, residency audits, withholding tax, and functional analysis of limited partners in partnerships (SECA). Laura’s experience also includes competent authority proceedings, IRS Fast Track Mediation and Post-Appeals Mediation, and Joint Committee refund cases.

Evandro Gigante

Evandro is the go-to employment litigator and counselor when clients face their most challenging, bet the reputation claims, or want to develop policies and practices that mitigate legal risk. As an award-winning partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, member of the Employment Litigation group, and co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity group, he represents clients on a variety of labor and employment matters, including allegations of sexual harassment, race, gender, national origin, disability and religious discrimination. In addition, Evandro handles restrictive covenant matters, including non-compete, non-solicitation and trade secret disputes. Evandro also counsels employers through the most sensitive employment issues, including matters involving employer diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. With a focus on discrimination and harassment claims, Evandro has extensive experience defending clients before federal and state courts. He tries cases before juries and arbitrators and routinely represents clients before administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, as well as state and local human rights commissions. Evandro often draws on his extensive litigation experience to help clients avoid the courtroom by effectuating positive change in the workplace through impactful anti-discrimination and harassment training, as well as robust employment policies. Working in a wide range of industries, Evandro has experience representing clients in professional services, including law firms, financial services, including private equity and hedge funds, higher education, sports, media, retail, and others. Evandro also advises charter schools and other not-for-profit organizations on labor and employment matters on a pro bono basis.

Jonathan Gill

Jon Gill is partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Jon’s practice focuses on advising investment funds that make debt and equity investments in public and private companies, particularly in distressed and special situations. He provides comprehensive corporate, securities, and bankruptcy law advice throughout the lifecycle of transactions, from pre-commitment and execution to exit. His work includes representing creditor groups in both in-court and out-of-court reorganizations, plan fundings, and debtor-in-possession financings. Jon also advises public and private clients on a wide range of corporate securities matters, including debt and equity tender offers, rights offerings, confidentiality issues and shareholder and inter-creditor agreements. Since 2017, Jon has served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on special situations.

Blake Gilson

Blake Gilson is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Structured Credit group. His practice focuses on structured finance transactions involving insurance capital, including rated note feeders, collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), and other vehicles tailored to support investment in private fund strategies. Blake represents fund sponsors, institutional investors, and underwriters across the structured credit landscape, offering strategic guidance throughout the lifecycle of complex transactions. He is highly skilled in navigating complex, multi-party negotiations and liaising with rating agencies to ensure alignment with both market dynamics and regulatory frameworks.

Nolan Goldberg

Nolan M. Goldberg is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, a member of the Patent Law practice, and co-head of both the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation Group and the Firm’s Technology Strategy Committee. His practice focuses on technology-centric litigation, arbitrations (including international proceedings), regulatory investigations at both federal and state levels, privileged investigations and strategic counseling. Nolan handles a broad spectrum of disputes, including cybersecurity, privacy, patent and commercial matters. His deep technological expertise allows him to develop innovative defenses and strategies while enhancing the storytelling essential to successful dispute resolution. Nolan is a registered patent attorney before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and an International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certified Information Privacy Professional, United States (US CIPP) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (US CIPT). Cybersecurity Nolan’s electrical engineering background, combined with a litigation and risk management focus, allows him to guide companies through all phases of cybersecurity incident response, strategic planning, litigation and regulatory investigations. Acting as a bridge between the technical and legal teams, he defends clients in litigations, arbitrations and regulatory investigations before agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), New York State Department of Financial Service (NYS DFS), Massachusetts Division of Banks, and before all 50 State’s Attorneys Generals’ offices, including multi-state investigations. Nolan has also led investigations into vendor data breaches, particularly those involving claims of privilege to avoid contractual obligations, and conducted cybersecurity diligence for financial transactions. Additionally, he frequently assists companies in privileged assessments, including dual-purpose evaluations used for both legal analysis and operational decision-making. Commercial Disputes Nolan advises companies on commercial disputes, particularly those involving technology-related issues, such as hosted software agreements, outsourcing and managed services agreements, software and technology development agreements and joint venture dissolutions. When these disputes cannot be amicably resolved, he has successfully litigated these cases in state and federal courts as well as in arbitrations, including international proceedings. Intellectual Property Nolan has experience in intellectual property matters, including patent and trade secret litigations and negotiations, primarily in cases involving computer and network-related technologies. His litigation work has covered a broad range of technologies, including cybersecurity, hosted software, telecommunications, computer networking, security hardware and software, microprocessors, voice-over Internet protocol ("VoIP"), automative tools, barcode scanners, financial business methods and software – such as securities settlement, fail management and trade execution and reporting software – data compression, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, cardiac electro-stimulatory devices and prosthetics. He has also assisted in evaluating patents for inclusion in patent pools involving large consumer electronics and entertainment companies concerning CD and DVD technologies. Computer Forensics and Electronic Discovery Nolan is often called upon to develop e-discovery strategies across various litigations, with a particular focus on selecting appropriate tools, developing proportionate discovery plans, navigating cross-border electronic discovery, managing the overall burden and cost of the electronic discovery process, and obtaining often overlooked electronic evidence, including computer forensics. He also assists clients to develop and implement information management programs to minimize costs, mitigate risks, meet compliance obligations and streamline e-discovery obligations. Thought Leadership Nolan has authored numerous articles and presented on emerging issues and trends in both technology and law. He has been called upon to comment on various media outlets, including Business Week, IPlaw360, IT Business Edge, CIO.com, Forbes and The National Law Journal. As co-head of the Firm’s Technology Strategy Committee, Nolan has developed expertise in Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies, particularly in leveraging AI to enhance the practice of law. Prior to practicing law, Nolan was a computer specialist at Underwriters Laboratories (UL).

John Goldfinch

John Goldfinch is a partner in Proskauer's Structured Credit practice, the Global Finance Group, and a member of the Firm's Private Capital industry group. John is a leading practitioner in structured finance, securitization, and derivatives, with a practice encompassing the full range of derivative products and securitization asset classes. His expertise includes equity, credit rates, collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), lease receivables, trade receivables, non-performing loans (NPLs), covered bond transactions, and secured structured lending. He advises banks, funds, and asset managers across Europe, the United States, and Asia. Recognized as a leading lawyer in the European market, John is ranked by prominent legal directories such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, and IFLR. He is also a regular speaker on regulatory issues, with a specific focus on risk retention, at major industry conferences covering both the European and U.S. markets.

Ira Golub

Ira M. Golub is a partner in Proskauer's Compensation & Benefits Group. He practices exclusively in the employee benefits area. The nature of Ira’s practice embraces virtually all aspects of employee benefits law, ranging from the establishment and design of pension, profit-sharing, welfare and executive compensation plans to the administration and termination of such programs. Ira works regularly with both single employer and multiemployer pension, welfare, annuity, vacation and apprenticeship funds. He serves as fund counsel to numerous multiemployer funds in a variety of industries, providing advice to trustees and administrators in connection with the operation and maintenance of the funds. His understanding of the issues emanating from the operation of multiemployer funds is enhanced by his experience in effecting the termination and mergers of funds and representing contributing employers in disputes with employee benefit plans. Ira has extensive experience representing employers in their efforts to manage withdrawal liability exposure. He has assisted numerous employers that have been assessed withdrawal liability in challenging, arbitrating and negotiating the settlement of such assessments. The fact that Ira formerly worked for an actuarial consulting firm and serves regularly as counsel to multiemployer funds that assess withdrawal liability enables him to bring a spectrum of analytical skills and a depth of experience when addressing withdrawal liability matters. He has provided advice to employers in connection with highly complex and multi-faceted withdrawal liability problems, worked intensively with all withdrawal liability methods (including the hybrid withdrawal liability allocation method recently adopted by some large multiemployer funds) and given advice in connection with multiple withdrawal liability transactions involving liabilities in excess of a billion dollars. He has represented clients before the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and has negotiated a number of agreements with the PBGC in transactional and other contexts (such as, for example, Section 4062(e) of ERISA). He has been a legal advisor in many situations involving bankruptcy and restructuring as it relates to withdrawal liability and pension underfunding. Over the years, Ira has developed a particular capability representing plan sponsors and trustees in connection with the full range of fiduciary and other plan asset and investment issues. He also has a breadth of knowledge with respect to issues relating to welfare programs, and is considered a leading authority with respect to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (COBRA) and Health Savings Account. Ira is often called upon to provide advice relating to managing and modifying significant employer retiree medical liabilities and obligations. He frequently has been involved in providing advice to large corporations in connection with reductions-in-force, and with respect to the full range of employee benefit aspects arising in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ira also works with government sponsored employee benefit plans that are not subject to ERISA. Ira has published the COBRA Handbook, a comprehensive text on COBRA that is updated annually. He is a member of the Board of Editors of HR Advisor. In addition to having worked at a national actuarial consulting firm, Ira previously was a trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board.

Keisha-Ann Gray

Keisha-Ann G. Gray is a distinguished litigator and trial lawyer who has secured significant victories in federal and state courts (jury trial and otherwise) for organizations facing “bet the company”, high-reaching, reputational risk claims. An award-winning partner in Proskauer’s renowned Labor & Employment department, co-chair of Proskauer’s Workplace Investigations practice group, and current member of the Executive Committee, she advises clients on high-stakes employment litigation and complex investigations matters. As important social change movements like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and LGBTQ Pride continue to shape society and businesses, Keisha-Ann is the go-to advisor when addressing issues related to discrimination, harassment and/or lack of diversity. With 20+ years in practice, Keisha-Ann frequently speaks and trains on employment matters such as litigation and trial practice, conducting effective investigations (the trauma-based approach), Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Anti-Discrimination/Anti-Harassment. Her “real talk” style of delivery provides clients with actionable and practical best practice solutions to today’s most challenging workplace issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, Keisha-Ann served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and federal law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. The breadth of Keisha-Ann’s experience and background in federal government, coupled with her tenure in private practice as a Big Law partner and employment litigator, gives her the unique ability to meaningfully connect with diverse groups of people. This skill enables her to advocate effectively and successfully (in and out of the courtroom) for her clients. As a result, Keisha-Ann is also frequently called upon to conduct high-profile internal investigations. Because of her unique and varied skill set, clients routinely engage Keisha-Ann to handle their most sensitive matters which, due to her involvement, often successfully result in non-public, confidential resolutions – precisely the mandate required by her clients. Keisha-Ann enjoys giving back to the community and profession by serving as a member of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. She also serves on the Board of the Attorney Grievance Committee for the NY Supreme Court Appellate Division, 1st Department, the Board of the Federal Bar Council, and the Board of the Eastern District Association. In addition, Keisha-Ann co-Chairs the Federal Bar Council’s Employment Litigation Committee, and mentors junior attorneys.

Caryn Greenspan

Caryn Greenspan is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group with over 15 years of experience in the investment funds industry. Caryn’s practice focuses on hedge funds, credit funds and growth equity funds. She advises clients in launching private investment funds, including commingled funds and funds-of-one as well as negotiating managed account agreements. She counsels sponsors on all aspects of their business, including upper tier arrangements, fund restructurings, seed capital arrangements, employment issues and regulatory issues. She also regularly represents start-up managers.

Alexander Griffith

Alex Griffith is a Private Credit partner and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and the Firm's Private Capital industry group. Alex’s practice focuses on leveraged finance and general debt finance work, advising senior, mezzanine, second lien, unitranche and other private capital providers. Alex's extensive experience covers a wide range of transactions, including corporate refinancings, management buyouts and buy-ins, recapitalizations, institutional acquisitions, restructurings, public-to-private takeovers (both domestic and international), and other innovative, first-in-kind transactions involving private sources of capital. In addition, Alex advises financial sponsors, corporates and management teams on the raising of debt finance in the European Markets.

Matthieu Grollemund

Matthieu Grollemund is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of the Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Triple-qualified in French, U.S., and U.K. law, Matthieu has over two decades of experience advising on complex cross-border transactions in highly regulated sectors, including technology and healthcare. Matthieu advises private equity sponsors, venture capital firms, public and private companies, as well as boards and special committees, on high-stakes investments, public and private M&A transactions, IPOs, and both negotiated and contested acquisitions.

Daryn Grossman

Daryn A. Grossman is a seasoned leader with more than three decades of experience guiding organizations through complex transactions, and high-stakes operational and strategic challenges. She combines deep experience as a corporate transactional lawyer with the crystallized judgment of an executive who has led, transformed and stewarded major organizations. As the immediate past global Managing Partner of Proskauer, Daryn oversaw the strategy, operations, and business performance of the firm. Her tenure was marked by decisive leadership, organizational alignment, and meaningful revenue growth -- during a period of unprecedented market conditions and significant uncertainty. Clients and colleagues describe Daryn as a skilled and tactical advisor with exceptional instincts for building alliances and orchestrating teams for maximum impact. Daryn built and led Proskauer’s transactional technology and life sciences groups. She continues her legal practice, while bringing the full breadth of her leadership, operational experience, and strategic insight to her clients. She advises players across IP-driven and innovation-focused sectors on collaborations, partnerships, licensing, M&A and strategic corporate initiatives. Her experience gives her a unique ability to bridge legal, business, and operational considerations -- understanding not only how to effectively structure, negotiate and execute meaningful transactions, but how those decisions resonate inside complex organizations. Boards, C-suites, and senior leadership teams regularly seek Daryn’s judgment at critical inflection points. She is recognized for her clarity, candor, and ability to synthesize complexity into actionable direction. Her leadership style blends experience, conviction, and operational insight -- enabling her to mobilize teams, navigate uncertainty, and create the conditions for progress. Daryn is formally trained as a professional mediator. She is energized by opportunities to support organizations to progress with purpose and alignment.

Stephen Gruberg

Steve is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Credit Group and the Leveraged Finance Group. His principal focus is the representation of leading private credit providers, direct lenders and investment banks in a wide range of leveraged loan transactions across the capital structure spectrum, with a particular focus on leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and leveraged recapitalizations. Steve has industry experience in a wide range of business sectors including healthcare, software, restaurants, industrial and manufacturing, retail and financial services. Steve’s clients include many of the market leaders in upper-middle and middle-market lending space, including Ares Capital, Antares Capital, Golub Capital, KKR Capital, NXT Capital, Varagon Capital, UBS and Morgan Stanley.

Susan Gutierrez

Susan L. Gutierrez is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s Mass Torts & Product Liability Group. As a commercial litigator and trial attorney, Susan specializes in high-stakes matters and complex disputes across industries. She has tried multiple high-profile cases to verdict in state and federal courts throughout the country. Susan also has significant experience coordinating and managing large, complex actions from the pleading stage through discovery and trial, including cross-jurisdiction matters involving multiple parties, counsel, and case issues. She represents many Fortune 500 companies in consumer products, pharmaceutical, media and entertainment and sports industries, including AbbVie, Meta, Sandoz Inc., Gilead Sciences, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's and National Football League.

Yomarie Habenicht

Yomarie “Jo” Habenicht is an associate in the Proskauer’s Tax Department, specializing in U.S. federal, corporate, partnership and international tax matters. Jo focuses her practice on tax structuring and planning for a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, financings, cross-border transactions, restructurings, bankruptcy related transactions and joint ventures. Her practice also includes providing day-to-day tax advice to domestic and foreign companies on a broad range of tax issues. Jo represents companies before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities on tax examinations. A co-chair of the Proskauer Women’s Alliance Steering Committee, Jo was selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women's Sponsorship Program, an initiative that champions high-performing mid-level and senior lawyers as emerging leaders. Prior to joining Proskauer, Jo worked in the tax services department of a Big 4 accounting firm. She is fluent in Spanish.

Martin Hamilton

Martin T. Hamilton is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. He primarily handles U.S. corporate, partnership and international tax matters. Martin's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investments and structured financing arrangements, as well as tax-efficient corporate financing techniques and the tax treatment of complex financial products. He has experience with public and private cross-border mergers, acquisitions, offerings and financings, and has advised both U.S. and international clients, including private equity funds, commercial and investment banks, insurance companies and multinational industrials, on the U.S. tax impact of these global transactions. In addition, Martin has worked on transactions in the financial services, technology, insurance, real estate, health care, energy, natural resources and industrial sectors, and these transactions have involved inbound and outbound investment throughout Europe and North America, as well as major markets in East and South Asia, South America and Australia. Martin also regularly represents clients in tax controversies and other matters before the U.S. tax authorities.

Christine Harlow

Christine is a partner in the Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group, advising clients on the tax aspects of private funds, including hedge funds, credit funds, private equity funds and joint ventures. She represents private fund managers in the formation of private funds, ongoing operations and the tax consequences of purchasing and disposing of investments. She also represents investors regarding the tax consequences of investing in private funds. She advises fund managers and investors on a variety of fund structures, including closed-end, open-end, hybrid, and evergreen. Her experience also includes structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments and advising private fund managers with respect to the sale of investment management and general partner entities. Prior to joining Proskauer, Christine served as special counsel at a prominent law firm focused on private capital, where she addressed a broad range of tax matters related to private funds.

Atoyia Harris

Atoyia Harris is Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s Labor and Employment Law Department, Co-Chair of the Black Lawyer Affinity Group, and a member of the Women’s Alliance Steering Committee. She represents employers in all aspects of employment law, including litigation, counseling, compliance, and workplace investigations. With over a decade of experience, Atoyia provides strategic guidance to help clients manage workplace crises and achieve favorable outcomes in complex, high-stakes disputes. She has successfully defended employers in cases across jurisdictions and forums at both the trial and appellate levels. Leveraging her litigation background, she also advises clients on risk mitigation, helping to prevent issues before they escalate. Atoyia regularly conducts investigations and trainings on discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other employment-related matters, and counsels employers on employment and separation agreements, reductions-in-force, WARN Act compliance, workplace policies, and DEI initiatives. An active leader in the legal community, Atoyia serves as Chair of the Employment Law Committee for the International Association of Defense Counsel, Chair of the Young Lawyers Board for the Federal Bar Association’s New Orleans Chapter, and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for the Defense Research Institute (DRI). She has also served as President of the Vernon Crawford Bay Area Bar Association and on the Executive Board of the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Society. Atoyia earned her J.D. with an International Law Certification from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, where she served on the Moot Court Board and the Loyola Law and Technology Journal. She also clerked for the Honorable Jay C. Zainey of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the Honorable Robin Giarrusso of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court. She was a member of the award-winning Robert F. Wagner Labor and Employment Moot Court Team. Before law school, Atoyia received her Bachelor of Music in Industry Studies (classical piano emphasis) from Loyola University New Orleans, where she was also a member of the women’s basketball team.

Mark Harris

Mark Harris is head of Proskauer's White Collar Defense & Investigations Group and co-head of the Appellate Group. Mark is also a former federal prosecutor and law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court. An experienced white-collar criminal defense lawyer, he represents companies and individuals in their most complex and difficult litigation matters. Mark’s appellate cases span the gamut from intellectual property and labor relations to constitutional law and administrative law. Since 2017, Mark has represented the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico—the entity created by Congress to oversee Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy, the largest in American history—in dozens of appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In May 2023, he prevailed before the Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision that recognized the Board’s immunity from suit. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a past American Lawyer Litigator of the Week. Mark also maintains an active criminal docket in cases covering every form of financial crime and civil enforcement, including internal investigations. Clients draw on his experience as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he specialized in fraud cases and tried cases before federal juries. Mark is also a recognized expert on criminal sentencing, as a member of the Board of Editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, the leading legal journal devoted to the study of sentencing law and policy, for over 25 years. Mark is the editor and lead author of Principles of Appellate Litigation: A Guide to Modern Practice (PLI Press), a comprehensive treatise on appellate practice, updated every year, which has been described as “invaluable,” “the product of deep experience and keen insights,” and “a superior appellate practice hornbook.” He has lectured on both criminal law and appellate practice before the International Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, PLI, and the ABA Sections of Litigation, Criminal Law, and Employment and Labor Law. Mark has been interviewed by Bloomberg Radio, the National Law Journal, WINS AM-1010, Law360, Legal Times, and other news organizations. Mark is a former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices John Paul Stevens and Lewis Powell, Jr., and Judge Joel Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Mathematics.

Rachel Harris

Rachel Harris is a partner in Proskauer’s Private Client Services Department. Rachel represents ultra-high-net worth individuals and families in connection with all aspects of estate planning, estate and trust administration and charitable giving. Her practice also focuses on domestic and international estate planning for individuals and families, including pre-immigration planning prior to arrival in the U.S. and planning for U.S. citizens residing outside of the U.S. She also has a wealth of experience resolving complex technical matters that involve more than one jurisdiction, including tax, succession and probate. Based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office, Rachel has extensive experience with California-specific issues such as California income tax and California estate and trust administration.

Colleen Hart

Colleen Hart is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Colleen advises companies, executives and boards on complex executive compensation matters. She offers a multidisciplinary approach to compensation and benefits issues with a focus on tax planning, securities laws and corporate governance. Matters she handles include the negotiation, structuring and implementation of employment and change-in-control agreements and deferred compensation, equity and incentive compensation plans. She advises on golden parachute and deduction limitation rules, securities reporting, registration and disclosure requirements and California employment laws. In addition, Colleen has extensive experience advising clients on compensation and benefits issues arising in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, bankruptcies and finance transactions. Colleen is a contributing author of The 409A Handbook (BNA 2016) and lectures frequently on executive compensation matters. As a U.S. Navy veteran, Colleen devotes a substantial amount of time to organizations that provide legal and support services to U.S. veterans.

Stephanie Heilborn

Stephanie Heilborn is a partner in Proskauer's Private Client Services Department, leads the International Private Client Services group and is a current member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Stephanie counsels some of the world’s wealthiest families and largest financial institutions in the implementation of complex tax-planning strategies, international estate planning and trust administration as well as fiduciary litigation. She assists in the formation and provision of corporate tax advice to private foundations and other tax-exempt organizations. She also has experience in forming and advising domestic and international family offices regarding estate and tax planning. Stephanie frequently lectures and writes on estate-planning topics and has been quoted by The New York Times and Forbes. She has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

Daniel Hendon

Daniel Hendon is a Private Credit partner and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and the Firm's Private Capital industry group. Daniel’s particular areas of expertise are leveraged finance, general debt finance and debt restructurings in the middle market and upper market. Daniel’s practice focuses on acting for UK and international lenders (with a specialist focus on alternative lenders and private credit funds), private equity sponsors and corporates on a variety of UK and cross-border acquisition finance and corporate lending transactions, including private equity backed buyouts, management buy-outs, corporate M&A, refinancings and restructurings of leveraged assets involving senior, unitranche, first out / last out structures, second lien, holdco PIK and other subordinated facilities. Daniel has extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues and he regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination agreements and other complex interlender agreements. Daniel has been a speaker at industry conferences. Daniel has been a speaker at industry conferences.

Kristian Herrmann

Kristian Herrmann is a partner in Proskauer's Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group and a member of the Sports Group. Kris advises private equity sponsors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, and other strategic transactions. Within the sports industry, Kris has extensive experience in the growing role of private equity and institutional capital in professional sports and regularly advises both sports leagues and financial investors in the sports industry in the negotiation and structuring of equity transactions, joint ventures and other significant transactions. Kris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. Kris also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies. Kris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as a member of the Firm’s Evaluation Committee. He is also a member of the Food and Beverage Committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Stephen Hibbard

Stephen Hibbard is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Securities Litigation, Asset Management Litigation, and White Collar & Investigations groups. Stephen is the chair of Proskauer's Securities Litigation Group. A highly regarded complex commercial and securities litigator with more than 30 years of experience, Steve represents financial institutions, companies, and individuals in commercial litigation, securities class actions, merger & acquisition litigation, derivative actions, and corporate governance disputes. He routinely represents clients in regulatory or internal investigations, and regularly advises public companies on fiduciary duty and disclosure issues. Steve has led the defense of dozens of headline-making and high-profile matters from cryptocurrency to cyber-security, from fintech to greentech, and from the housing mortgage crisis to the age of digital assets and AI. Buyers, sellers, and financial advisors have relied on him in merger litigation, including in dozens of technology company mergers. Steve has also handled complex litigation matters involving corporate finance, accounting, antitrust, defamation, copyright, tax, employment, RICO, and unfair business practices claims for businesses in a wide range of industries including investment banking, commercial banking, venture capital, private equity, asset management, biotech, pharmaceuticals, hardware, semiconductors, software, and sports leagues and teams.

Camille Higonnet

Camille Higonnet is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Camille concentrates in the areas of corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on representing private investment fund sponsors in structuring funds and portfolio investment activities, as well as regulatory and compliance matters. Camille’s practice includes advising on marketing and fundraising as well as key trends in fund terms, conducting negotiations with investors, and advising on ongoing operational issues. In addition, Camille represents both U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in private investment funds, as well as in connection with secondary market activities, including traditional portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries and fund restructurings. Camille is also co-chair of Proskauer’s Diversity Task Force and she is actively involved in Proskauer's Women's Sponsorship Program, as well as in Proskauer’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program (MCP). Camille spent two years on secondment at the firm’s London office.

David Hillman

David M. Hillman is the Global Co-Chair of Proskauer's Restructuring Group and co-head of the Private Credit Restructuring Group. David has 30 years of experience with an emphasis on representing private credit lenders, private funds, sovereign wealth funds and other alternative lenders and distressed investors in special situations and restructurings both in and out of court. He has substantial experience in every phase of restructuring and distressed investing, including credit bid sales under section 363, debt-for-equity swaps, chapter 11 plans, out-of-court restructurings and foreclosures, as well as navigating inter-creditor issues involving liability management transactions the relative rights of majority and minority lenders. David also litigates the issues facing private credit lenders, including issues involving plan confirmation, solvency, valuation, inter-creditor disputes, financing and cash collateral disputes, fraudulent transfers, equitable subordination, recharacterization, breach of fiduciary duty and similar disputes.

Russell Hirschhorn

Russell L. Hirschhorn is co-head of Proskauer’s premier ERISA Litigation Group, which is a significant component of the firm’s ERISA Practice Center and globally renowned Labor and Employment Law Department. Russell’s practice focuses on employee benefits issues arising under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including class action and complex litigation, U.S. Department of Labor and Internal Revenue Service investigations, and counseling clients on best practices to avoid litigation. Russell has more than two decades of experience representing plan sponsors, fiduciaries, trustees, and service providers across the country. His work on behalf of clients has included all types of plans, including 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, defined benefit plans, employee stock ownership plans, executive compensation plans, health and welfare plans, multiemployer plans, multiple employer plans, and severance plans. And, it has included the full gamut of claims arising under ERISA, including excessive investment and plan administration fees and investment underperformance claims; cash balance plan litigation; claims for benefits; company stock fund cases; claims for delinquent contributions; ERISA § 510 claims; ERISA statutory claims; ESOP litigation; executive compensation claims; independent contractor claims; independent fiduciary representations; multiemployer fund litigation; plan service provider claims; recoupment of plan overpayments; retiree benefits claims; severance plan claims; and withdrawal liability claims. His pro bono work has included serving as lead litigation counsel in several impact litigations: on behalf of social security recipients whose benefits were unlawfully suspended based on an outstanding warrant, deaf and hard of hearing prisoners in Louisiana prisons seeking disability accommodations, and Swartzentruber Amish in upstate New York to obtain religious exemptions from certain building code requirements. Russell also was a principal drafter of several amicus briefs for the Innocence Project, a legal non-profit committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people.

Jeffrey Horwitz

Jeffrey A. Horwitz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our Real Assets practice and runs our internationally recognized Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Group. He also has served as co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions and as a member of our Executive Committee. Jeff is a general corporate and securities lawyer with broad-based experience in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and long-term joint ventures. He is regularly engaged to advise boards, management teams, family offices, founders, institutions, funds and other investors on strategic matters, from litigation to personnel to transactions. Jeff counsels clients on the full range of their activities, often acting as outside general counsel. He represents major financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and ultra high net worth family offices in sophisticated financial and other transactions. He has handled deals aggregating nearly $200 billion in value, including tender offers, "going-private" transactions, IPOs, restructuring and structured finance transactions, and mergers and acquisitions in industries as diverse as biotechnology and aerospace, retail and cable television, and education and scrap metal. He regularly handles transactions outside the U.S., including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Australia, South Africa and India. Leading our Real Assets group, he works with a team of more than 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on complex transactions and disputes for businesses focused on the acquisition, financing, and operation of real estate. Jeff has handled virtually every type of matter, and has worked with virtually every major player in these industries, including transactions for more than 4,000 hotels comprising more than 400,000 rooms and involving more than $15 billion, as well as significant investments in major office buildings, mall and other retail properties, data centers and other facilities. His experience, both in and outside the U.S., extends to hotel and casino development and construction; private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants; theme parks; portfolio and single-property acquisitions; sales and restructurings; financings; management; marketing; reservations systems; litigation counseling and strategic planning; and ancillary services. This breadth of work is key to executing complex and sophisticated transactions, such as the acquisition and sale of branded hotel chains (Fairmont, Raffles, Swissotel, sbe Entertainment, Regent, Motel 6, Red Roof Inns, 21c Museum Hotels, TRIBE, LINE, Saguaro, City Express), strategic investments and other arrangements (Auberge, Huazhu, Faena, Banyan Tree, Delano), and REIT transactions (Hospitality Investors Trust, Eagle Hospitality). As a senior member of our Entertainment Group, Jeff represented The Broadway League (the national trade association for Broadway theatre) for more than 30 years, and has advised the Tony Awards®, and various other joint venture events and productions. In the media industry, Jeff has advised on the acquisition and sale of television, radio, newspaper and magazine properties, and the acquisition and sale of advertising, promotion and marketing agencies, and related joint ventures. He also advises rights holders, including our long-time clients The Leonard Bernstein Office and The George Balanchine Trusts. He leads our team representing TSG Entertainment in film-slate financing deals. Jeff also frequently represents start-up and development-stage companies, as well as established "traditional" businesses, in online, Internet-related or technology businesses. He has handled organizational and structuring matters, venture capital and other equity placements, restructurings (from "down" rounds to recapitalizations to M&A solutions). He has both company-side and investor experience. As a frequent speaker at real estate and hospitality events, Jeff has presented at The Nolan School of Hotel Administration at Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business, NYU's Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, and on M&A and investment matters at lodging investment conferences around the world, including the NYU Hospitality Industry Investment Conference in New York, Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles, the International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin and the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Jeff is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) as well as its Hospitality Investment Roundtable and previously served on IREFAC (Industry Real Estate Financing Advisory Council) and the Advisory Board of the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance. He has also served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly and a member of the Advisory Board of the Cornell Center for Hospitality Research. He is a co-founder and Chairman of The New York Hospitality Council, Inc., a not-for-profit forum for hospitality industry leaders, and is a member of the President’s Council of The Real Estate Roundtable. He also has served as a director of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. He was the Chairman of the Board of Labyrinth Theater Company and a director of The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan for more than 15 years, a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers' Division of UJA-Federation for more than five years and an officer of the Henry Kaufmann Foundation for more than a dozen years. He was a founder and chairman of The American Playwriting Foundation. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Building for the Arts (Theatre Row, The American Playwriting Foundation, The Relentless Theater Company, and Music and the Brain) and as a member of the Board of Directors of StreetSquash and of PhotoWork Foundation. He also served as a Vice Chair of the Associates' Campaign for The Legal Aid Society. Jeff has been with the firm for his entire career and lives in Manhattan and Connecticut.

Steven Hurd

Steve is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group and is a member of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group. Steve has extensive trial and appellate experience, in both federal and state courts, focusing on claims of alleged individual and class discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations, FINRA, whistleblowing and retaliation, defamation, fraud, breach of contract, wrongful discharge and other statutory and common law claims. Steve also advises clients on employment litigation avoidance, litigation strategy and alternative forms of dispute resolution. Steve also handles matters involving drafting, enforcing, and defending restrictive covenants, and protecting trade secrets. Steve helps his clients stay in compliance with the ever-changing employment regulations with respect to FLSA and state law wage and hour requirements by providing advice and conducting comprehensive audits. Steve conducts investigations pertaining to reductions-in-force and individual employee terminations, and claims of gender, race, national origin, and disability discrimination. Steve earned his J.D. degree from Albany Law School, magna cum laude, and his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, cum laude. He is admitted to and has practiced and handled cases in multiple jurisdictions around the country.

Jordan Hurwitz

Jordan Hurwitz is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Jordan advises clients on primary investments in private equity funds and a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of private fund interests, fund restructurings, and GP-led liquidity solutions.

Vincent Indelicato

Vincent Indelicato is the Global Co-Chair of Proskauer's Restructuring Group and the Chair of the Firm’s Business Development Committee. Vincent's practice focuses on corporate restructurings, with an emphasis on the representation of boards of directors of financially troubled companies, direct lenders, ad hoc groups, bondholders and creditors’ committees both out of court and in chapter 11. He is frequently consulted by leading distressed hedge funds, BDCs, private credit lenders, private equity investors and creditors on complex domestic and international insolvency and restructuring issues, including intercreditor and interlender matters, across a variety of industries. Over the last decade, Vincent has played a lead role on some of the most significant corporate reorganization cases in the United States. These include his representation of the Statutory Committee of Unsecured Claimholders in the chapter 11 cases of Caesars Entertainment Operating Company Inc., which filed for bankruptcy with more than $18 billion of funded debt; the Los Angeles Dodgers in their $2 billion acquisition by Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners; Brookfield Asset Management in the $2.5 billion debt restructuring of Kerzner International’s Atlantis Bahamas Resort; and J.P. Morgan and other substantial creditors in the chapter 11 cases of MF Global, a financial services company with $41 billion in assets. He currently serves as lead restructuring counsel to the National Basketball Association and thirteen of its member teams in the high-profile chapter 11 cases of Diamond Sports, a multi-billion dollar subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, and actively represents some of the largest asset managers in the world. Vincent has been widely recognized as a thought leader in the restructuring community. He writes extensively on restructuring topics, and his writing has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, The American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, Law360 and The Bond Buyer. He has assisted Martin Bienenstock as Adjunct Professor of Corporate Reorganization at both Harvard Law School and Michigan Law School. He serves as a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Views from the Bench Advisory Board, the Co-Chair of the Federal Bar Council Bankruptcy Litigation Committee, a John C. Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Economic Club of New York, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Leadership Council, and the Executive Committee of Young New Yorkers for the New York Philharmonic. A Harry S. Truman Scholar, Vincent graduated from University of Michigan Law School as Commencement Speaker. Prior to law school, he served as the Special Assistant to United States Senator Charles E. Schumer and worked as a personal aide to John C. Whitehead, former chairman and senior partner of Goldman Sachs. He also led a team of entrepreneurs to bring the world’s first hybrid taxicab to New York City. Vincent graduated with an English degree from Haverford College, where he served as President of the Student Body and was one of sixteen college students from the United States to be selected as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. He was a visiting student of English at Pembroke College, Oxford University. A native New Yorker, Vincent attended Regis High School, the only tuition-free, private, all-scholarship school in the United States, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.

John Ingrassia

John advises on Proskauer's full range of foreign investment and antitrust matters across industries, including chemicals, pharmaceutical, medical devices, telecommunications, financial services consumer goods and health care. Clients turn to John for matters related to competition and antitrust, CFIUS, or foreign investment issues. For more than 25 years, John has counselled businesses, private equity and venture firms facing the most challenging antitrust issues, helping them avoid regulatory issues in areas such as distribution, pricing, channel management, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and price gouging compliance. John’s practice specializes in analyzing and resolving CFIUS and antitrust issues related to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, as well as assessing pre-merger CFIUS and HSR notification requirements. He provides guidance to clients on CFIUS national security reviews and assists with CFIUS submissions when non-U.S. buyers aim to acquire U.S. businesses with national security concerns. He also regularly advises clients on international antitrust issues in proposed acquisitions and joint ventures, including reportability under the EC Merger Regulation and numerous other foreign merger control regimes. His knowledge, reputation and extensive experience with the legal, practical, and technical requirements of merger clearance make him a recognized authority on Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust merger reviews. John is regularly invited to participate in Federal Trade Commission and bar association meetings and takes on the issues of the day.

Arnold Jacobs

Arnie Jacobs has a broad background in general corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. His practice includes representing diverse private equity funds and public companies, and working on public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions. He twice was a member of Proskauer’s six-person Executive Committee, which governs the firm. As a result of his most recent election to the Executive Committee, he gave up his position as co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department. While he was Chairman of the Committee on Securities Regulation of the New York City Bar Association, he testified on securities legislation before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Arnie was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School for 12 years, was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School for 12 years, and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School for 15 years. Arnie is the author of 25 books and numerous articles on various aspects of securities and corporate law, which have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court a number of times (most recently in 2011), as well as in hundreds of other cases and authorities. As a result of one of those articles, he holds the world's record for the law review article with the most footnotes (4,824 to be exact). His books include: Disclosure and Remedies Under the Securities Laws, a seven-volume, 7,500-page treatise discussing what disclosure is required under federal and state securities laws, and the remedies for noncompliance Litigation and Practice Under Rule 10b-5, a six-volume, 5,000-page treatise dealing with securities fraud Section 16(b) of The Securities Exchange Act, a 1,400-page treatise dealing with short-swing profits Manual of Corporate Forms for Securities Practice, a four-volume, 4,000-page treatise setting forth forms to be used Opinion Letters in Securities Matters, a three-volume, 3,500-page treatise dealing in depth with opinions lawyers are to render The Impact of Rule 10b-5, a three-volume, 1,500-page treatise explaining various aspects of securities fraud The Williams Act - Tender Offer and Stock Accumulations, a 1,100-page treatise on takeovers and Schedule 13Ds

Delphine Jaugey

Delphine Jaugey is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Delphine focuses on secondary transactions and liquidity solutions. She has extensive experience advising secondaries investors on all types of LP-led and GP-led transactions, including LP portfolio sales, single-asset and multi-asset continuation funds, preferred equity transactions, GP-led LP tender offers, strip sales, stapled transactions, late-stage investments, spin-outs backed by secondaries investors and bespoke liquidity solutions.

Scott Jones

Scott S. Jones is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Scott’s practice focuses on tax planning for private equity fund managers in connection with their fund-raising and internal organizational matters, as well as investment activities. In addition, he represents U.S. and non-U.S. investors in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, buyout funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships. In this capacity, as well as in connection with advising private equity funds with respect to their investment activities, Scott regularly advises on international tax issues that arise with investments in the U.S. by non-U.S. investors (including non-U.S. investors subject to special U.S. tax treatment, such as governmental pension plans and tax-exempt organizations), as well as investments outside of the U.S. by U.S. persons. He also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations.

Joseph Kasegian

Joseph E. Kasegian is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group with a specific focus on fund formations and the structuring and execution of traditional and complex secondary transactions. Joseph represents sponsors pursuing a number of strategies including venture capital funds, growth equity and buyout funds, evergreen funds, funds of funds, secondary funds, co-investment funds, “funds of one” and managed accounts. Joseph also represents alternative asset investors, including corporate pension plans, funds of funds and secondary funds, in their venture capital and private equity investments. In addition, he has deep experience with secondary transactions (including sponsor-led restructurings, continuation funds, private tender offers, non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies) and regularly counsels clients on day-to-day operational, regulatory compliance, internal governance and other matters.

Colin Kass

Colin Kass is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of Proskauer’s Antitrust Group. As a seasoned trial lawyer, Colin has handled many of the nation’s most complex and innovative antitrust cases over the past 20 years. Colin’s practice involves a wide range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, sports, media, pharmaceuticals, and automotive markets, and spans the full-range of antitrust and unfair competition-related litigation, including class actions, competitor suits, dealer/distributor termination suits, price discrimination cases, criminal price-fixing probes, and merger injunctions. Colin also has extensive experience interfacing with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, obtaining clearance for competitively-sensitive transactions and handling anticompetitive practices investigations. As a trusted advisor, Colin also counsels clients on their sales, distribution, and marketing practices, strategic ventures, and general antitrust compliance. Selected Publications Trial Graphics and Your Antitrust Story, Trial Practice Committee of the ABA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (Spring 2017) New FTC Leadership Continues to Flex Their Muscles: New Practice of Issuing Warnings Imposes Unnecessary Uncertainty on Merging Parties, co-authored with David Munkittrick and John Ingrassia (October 2021) Can Purchasing Efficiencies Save Mega-Mergers?, co-authored with John Ingrassia and Rucha Desai (May 2017) Has the Supreme Court Thrown Health Care Regulation into Disarray? A Comment on the Court’s Reworking of the State Action Doctrine, Antitrust Source, co-authored with Scott Abeles and John Ingrassia (Fall 2015) The International Comparative Legal Guide to Competition Litigation 2015, 7th Edition, Competition Litigation: USA, co-authored with Scott Abeles (September 2014) DOJ Merger Policy Shines New Light on Conduct Remedies, Association of Corporate Counsel, Lexology, co-authored with John Ingrassia (June 2011) Demanding Antitrust Side-Letter Disclosure, LAW360, co-authored with John Ingrassia (April 2011) The Uncertain State of Class Action Waivers, LAW360, co-authored with Amy Crafts (March 2010) Predatory Pricing Redux, National Law Journal (2010) Going Horizontal: Why File and Duck Strategies No Longer Work, Association of Corporate Counsel (2010) Holding Parent Companies Liable for Their Children’s Wrongs, LAW360, co-authored with Mireille Dany and Marianne Le Moullec (August 2010) Cartel Investigations: Selective Disclosures and Privilege Preservation By the Target Company Seller, Competition Law International, Vol. 3, No. 2, co-authored with James H. Mutchnik and David Spiegel (October 2007) Consumer Pricing Will Never Be the Same, Antitrust Litigator (Summer 2007) Bundled Rebates: A Temporary Blip on the Antitrust Radar, Antitrust Litigator (Fall 2006) Competition is Good Again, Legal Times, co-authored with Tefft W. Smith and Scott M. Abeles (March 2007)

Wayne Katz

Wayne Katz is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department with over 30 years of experience handling transactions in the sports industry, on behalf leagues, teams, owners, financial institutions, universities and media companies. Wayne's league experience includes the representation of the National Basketball Association, Women’s National Basketball Association and National Hockey League in their various corporate matters, including team ownership transfers and team financings. Major transactions he has worked on for the leagues include: - NBA’s approval of the recent sales of the Boston Celtics, Minnesota Timberwolves and Dallas Mavericks - NBA’s grant of expansion franchises to Toronto, Vancouver and Charlotte - NHL’s grant of expansion franchises to Nashville, Atlanta, Columbus and Minnesota - NBA’s purchase and sale of the New Orleans Hornets - Creation and expansion of the NBA’s $7.8 billion League-wide credit facility - Formation of the WNBA and NBA G League - NBA’s resolution of the Donald Sterling and Robert Sarver affairs - Reformation by Fox Sports of the United States Football League (USFL) and merger with the XFL - WNBA’s issuance of preferred interests to a group of prominent investors Wayne’s representation of teams and owners includes acquisitions and sales, financings, governing agreements, and commercial arrangements such as naming rights and concessions agreements.Significant transactions include: - Purchases by Jeffrey Lurie of the Philadelphia Eagles, Woody Johnson of the New York Jets and Jimmy Haslam of the Cleveland Browns - Purchase by Jeffrey Loria of the Montreal Expos; the simultaneous sale of the Expos to MLB and purchase of the Florida Marlins from John Henry; and the sale of the Marlins to a group led by Derek Jeter - Purchase by the Lerner family of the Washington Nationals - Sale by Cliff Viner of the NHL Florida Panthers - Purchase by Red Bull GmbH of the MLS MetroStars (now known as the New York Red Bulls) - Sale by The Ralph Wilson Trust of the Buffalo Bills Wayne has extensive experience with stadium and arena development, financing and lease transactions, including representing: - NBA in approving all team arena leases and financings - Miami Marlins in the development of Marlins Park in downtown Miami - NBA in its temporary relocation of the New Orleans Hornets to Oklahoma City - Red Bull New York in the development of a new stadium in Harrison, New Jersey - Philadelphia Eagles in its financing of Lincoln Financial Field - New York Jets in its financing and commercial arrangements for MetLife Stadium - Minnesota Vikings in its lease and financing of U.S. Bank Stadium - Cleveland Browns in its stadium renovation financing - Philadelphia 76ers in its proposed development of a new arena in downtown Philadelphia - Washington Nationals in its lease with the District of Columbia

Jake Keaveny

Jake Keaveny is Head of European Capital Markets and a member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice. Jake advises investment banking firms, commercial banks and public and private corporations in capital markets transactions, with a focus on high yield debt offerings and syndicated loans. Jake regularly works on committed financings related to leveraged acquisitions, which have included the acquisitions of Sunrise Medical (Platinum Equity), Purmo Group (Apollo), Kem One (Apollo), William Hill's European businesses, Flora Food Group (KKR), TDC A/S (Macquarie), Miller Homes (Apollo), Keepmoat (Aermont), Center Parcs (Brookfield) and Nets A/S (Hellman & Friedman). Jake also works on out-of-court debt restructurings, including debt exchanges and tender offers. Jake has practiced in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, technology, infrastructure, gaming, retail, healthcare, industrials and leisure.

Usman Khan

Usman Khan is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance practice and a member of the Firm’s Private Capital and Real Assets industry groups. Usman is a leading private capital lawyer with a deep focus on the real assets sector, recognised for advising on complex and high‑value transactions in asset‑intensive sectors. He represents a broad spectrum of sophisticated market participants – including private equity sponsors, debt funds, sovereign wealth funds, alternative capital providers and institutional investors – and brings extensive experience across the full lifecycle of private capital deployment. His practice spans both debt and equity structures, and he has a distinguished track record in structuring, negotiating and executing bespoke financing solutions tailored to clients’ commercial needs. Usman is well known for his real estate finance expertise, where he advises on all aspects of real estate‑related debt across asset classes and through a wide range of financing structures. He advises on transactions at the intersection of real estate and infrastructure, including digital infrastructure and energy transition assets. In addition, Usman regularly advises clients on significant cross‑border matters involving the Middle East and other emerging markets, supporting clients on globally integrated investment strategies. Representative Matters: Usman’s representative matters include advising*: Tristan Capital Partners on the acquisition and same‑day enforcement of a German mixed residential and commercial NPL portfolio TPG Real Estate on:- the financing of its “Start Living” joint venture with Gatehouse Investment Management to construct up to several thousand suburban, purpose-built family rental homes throughout the UK - the refinancing of its circa €300 million Spanish Real Estate Investment Trust, Témpore Properties - the circa €300 million senior and mezzanine financing of its Physicus (German and Dutch) life sciences platform, the senior portion of which was securitised in the Vita Scientia 2022-1 DAC offering British Land and GIC on the financing of Paddington Central, UK valued circa £1 billion GIC on:- the refinancing of its PBSA portfolio across the UK - the financing of properties in the Oxford Science Park as part of a strategic development of the park alongside Magdalen College GLP Capital Partners on:- the financing for the acquisition of a circa €1 billion pan-Europe portfolio of logistics assets, including assets acquired from Blackstone and other newly developed logistics assets located in the UK, the Netherlands and France - the complex “transitional” financing for a portfolio of central London urban logistics to be repositioned and valued at circa £200 million once completed - the financing of its seed portfolio for GLP’s new EIP III Fund valued in excess of €700 million comprising a pan European portfolio of 16 Grade A logistics assets located in key sub-markets of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom Partners Group on the financing of its acquisition of a 140,000sqm portfolio of 19 Finnish logistics assets from Mandatum Asset Management Blackstone on the amendment and restatement of its facilities relating to the Haven portfolio of UK holiday parks Attestor Capital on:- the refinancing of its Dutch real estate portfolio - the acquisition and financing of German real estate assets Starwood Capital Group and its affiliates on numerous of its financings (as both lender and sponsor) including:- the refinancing of its €80 million Irish portfolio - the refinancing of its £200 million UK industrial portfolio - its senior and mezzanine facilities to acquire a Finnish rental residential portfolio of approximately 2,200 units in partnership with Avara Oy from a consortium of Finnish vendors. The portfolio consists of 73 assets located in 15 cities, with 50% of the portfolio value in the Helsinki region - its circa €200 million acquisition financing of the Las Mercedes business park in Madrid, Spain - its €320 million senior and mezzanine refinancing of its Spanish portfolio - its £250 million refinancing of its hotel portfolio - the financing aspects of a US$1 billion disposal of a portfolio of 14 UK hotels that form part of The Principal Hotel Company to Foncière des Régions - financing AJ Capital Partners’ acquisition of the Macdonald Randolph Hotel in Oxford, England and the Macdonald Hotels & Resorts portfolio in St Andrews, Scotland - its €110 million acquisition and redevelopment facilities relating to Ikos Andalusia, a 400-key, luxury seafront resort in Andalusia’s coastal area of Estepona, Spain with HFF Real Estate Limited on behalf of Ikos International as borrower, with Oaktree and Goldman Sachs as sponsors - its €68.5 million senior facility for the acquisition of various light industrial logistics parks across Europe by M7 Central European Real Estate Fund I - its £1.8 billion acquisition financing to Blackstone for the acquisition of Bourne Leisure, a premier UK holiday company Crosstree Real Estate Partners on its £100 million development finance facility for the redevelopment of Camden Town Hall On a joint venture between UK-based Benson Elliot and US-based Walton Street Capital on a pan-European €420 million hotel portfolio acquisition financing Oaktree Capital in relation to an acquisition finance transaction acquiring commercial property across the UK Investec Bank plc on: - its development facility in relation to luxury residential accommodation in Leinster Square, London - its £72 million development facility to The LabTech Group to fund the mixed-use scheme located on Camley Street, King’s Cross, London Aareal Bank AG on: - its £149 million financing of The Valesco Group and AIP Asset Management’s purchase of Cannon Bridge House, London - its £109.5 million facility for the acquisition of the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Tower Hill by Westmont - its Shariah compliant facility for the acquisition of a pan-European commercial property portfolio The BE Company on: - the acquisition and financing of CloudCoco Connect Limited - various data centres acquisitions and financings A major Chinese alternative asset management firm on a leverage finance transaction as borrower on a US$450 million senior syndicated facility and US$400 million junior syndicated facility Arrangers, sponsors and underwriters, including CDH Investments, Credit Suisse AG, Elm Park Capital Management, NatWest Markets, RBC Capital Markets, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, THL Corporate Finance, and Wells Fargo, on various leveraged, acquisition, and secured lending financing matters RBC Capital Markets on its US$525 million facility for the acquisition of the entertainment division of Iconix Brand Group, Inc. by DHX Media A US hedge fund as lender on its first loan origination in Europe Dubai Islamic Bank as lender on a AED1.5 billion Shariah-compliant facility to a Dubai government-related entity Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank as lender on a AED216 million hybrid bond/facility Islamic financing The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector as arranger on sukuk issuances for the governments of Ivory Coast (Phase II) and the Togolese Republic An Emirati bank as lender on a US$200 million murabaha sovereign financing ICD-Brookfield in relation to a AED1.5 billion mixed conventional and Shariah compliant financing relating to the construction of a Tier 1 business and leisure complex in the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre * Includes matters handled prior to joining Proskauer Publications Author of GRR article, “Did 2024 live up to predictions? Restructurings and the commercial real estate market in 2024 and a look ahead to 2025” April 2025 Interviewed by Real Estate Capital Europe, “How Will The New Basel IV Regulations Impact Real Estate Finance?” 03 Dec 2024 Author of GRR article, “Is 2024 Finally The Year? Key Drivers Of Restructuring and the UK And European Commercial Real Estate Market In 2024” 11 April 2024 Quoted in React News, “Are Private offices Always Cash-Rich and Leverage-Light?” 22 Feb 2024

Lauren Kim

Lauren S. Kim is an associate in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Lauren advises public and private companies in connection with domestic and cross border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, buyouts, joint ventures, and general corporate governance matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Lauren was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Steven Kirshenbaum

Steve Kirshenbaum is a corporate lawyer at Proskauer, counselling clients in complex strategic transactions, corporate governance matters, and other commercial issues. Steve is a former member of the firm’s seven-person Executive Committee, co- Chair of the Corporate Department and Managing Partner of the firm’s Paris office. Steve has extensive experience advising on a wide range of domestic and international/cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, reorganizations and other business combinations and related commercial transactions. Boards of directors and management teams also look to Steve for strategic and practical business oriented judgment across a full range of other public company, operational and general corporate activities. He has advised clients in many different industries including manufacturing and distribution, technology, health care, entertainment and media, hospitality, farming and food production, industrial packaging, logistics, automotive, printing, insurance and financial services, building products, defense technologies, apparel and fashion, and retail sales. Steve’s clients have included, among others, public companies such as Henry Schein, Inc., Ascena Retail Group, United Industrial Corporation, Finley Enterprises, Inc. and C&D Technologies, Inc.; European companies including The Laird Group Plc., Tyman Plc., Dealogic Plc., Allied Domecq Plc, Belron S.A., The Albert Fisher Group Plc, Bollore SE, Bull SA, Club Méditerranée S.A., Cassina S.p.A., and Mauser-Werke GmbH; as well as private equity funds and individual entrepreneurs. Steve also has experience leading transactions in a chapter 11 reorganization context, including, among others, the sale by an Australian client of the Bonwit Teller store chain; the sale of a motion picture and video distribution company; the acquisition of three Mississippi stern-wheeler luxury cruise vessels (including the historic landmark, The Mississippi Queen); the acquisition by a German client of a manufacturer and refurbisher of industrial bulk containers; and the acquisition by a UK client of an auto-glass company with multiple locations. Steve has served on the board of directors of Ascena Retail Group (the Fortune 500 parent of seven retail fashion brands including Ann Taylor, the Loft, Lane Bryant and dressbarn), and on the boards of directors of Lawyers Alliance of New York, a not-for-profit provider of pro bono legal assistance, and the Summit Music Festival. He also chaired Practising Law Institute courses on negotiating commercial transactions and has sat on bar association committees.

James Kitching

James is a leading barrister with over 20 years of experience in civil, criminal, and regulatory proceedings, as well as complex commercial disputes across multiple jurisdictions. He has defended governments, central banks, and some of the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions in cases often involving disputes exceeding US$1 billion. James is a seasoned advocate and regularly appears before the High Court (including the Commercial Court, Companies Court, King’s Bench, and Chancery Divisions), appellate courts, and arbitral tribunals. James frequently serves as counsel in international arbitration proceedings under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and the Swiss Chambers’ Court of Arbitration. James also focuses on white collar enforcement and internal investigations in connection with alleged bribery and corruption, money laundering, export control and sanctions violations. He has particular expertise in advising on cross-border matters and has conducted investigations for the World Bank. He represents clients across diverse sectors including financial services, private equity, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, telecoms and IT.

Greg Knopp

Gregory (Greg) Knopp is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department in the Los Angeles office. Greg defends companies in class and collective actions and other complex disputes. He has argued successfully before state and federal courts across the country and has obtained dismissals of class actions in dozens of high-profile, highly consequential matters. Greg’s clients range from entertainment companies to prominent retailers to professional sports leagues. He has also worked with financial services and other professional services firms, along with clients in the technology, transportation and healthcare spaces. All look to Greg for his ability to quickly spot legal issues and to determine strategies to maximize advantage. With more than 20 years of experience in employment litigation, Greg has represented clients in a wide range of employment disputes involving wage and hour issues, issues specific to California employment law, sexual harassment, and arbitration compulsion.

Vinay Kohli

Vinay Kohli is a highly regarded healthcare industry lawyer renowned for his dedication and expertise in navigating complex regulatory landscapes. He advises a wide range of healthcare providers and investors, offering strategic counsel on compliance, operations, reimbursement and regulatory matters. A seasoned trial lawyer and regulatory specialist, Vinay is adept in handling high-stakes healthcare disputes, including for jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations. His litigation expertise and deep industry knowledge enable him to aggressively challenge large national payors in managed care disputes, defend against healthcare fraud and abuse claims, and lead strategic responses to government investigations. Trusted by hospital systems, physician practices, post-acute providers, healthcare technology firms and revenue cycle management vendors, Vinay is the go-to lead trial counsel for complex commercial disputes. His proven track record in breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, unfair business practices and fiduciary duty litigation underscores his results-driven advocacy in cases with significant financial and operational impact. Prior to joining Proskauer, Vinay was a partner in the Healthcare group at King & Spalding.

Edward Kornreich

Past long-standing chair of Proskauer’s Health Care Department, Ed Kornreich is a recognized authority on the legal, regulatory and business issues related to health care services. Areas of Concentration Ed works primarily on health care transactions, regulatory compliance, health care payment and governance issues for varied providers (both for-profit and not-for-profit), vendors, GPOs, distributors and entrepreneurs. His approach combines sensitivity to meeting regulatory business goals with a comprehensive and realistic assessment of the health care environment, and he is particularly experienced in dealing with the complex issues related to integrated health care systems. Industry Experience After working for the Legal Aid Society, Ed entered private practice, where he helped represent a major public hospital corporation in a series of reimbursement disputes with the state and federal governments, and counseled New York area hospitals and nursing homes on reimbursement and operational issues. Thereafter, Ed served as General Counsel of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, one of the largest teaching hospitals in New York. After leaving St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Ed joined Proskauer as a Partner in 1990. Thought Leadership Ed frequently writes and lectures on Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, health care integration, not-for-profit law and corporate governance issues, and the application of federal and state anti-kickback and “Stark” laws to health care transactions.

Gwenaël Kropfinger

Gwenaël Kropfinger is a tax partner and a member of both Proskauer's Private Funds and Private Equity M&A Groups, as well as the firm’s Private Capital industry group. Gwenaël has extensive experience advising private equity funds and multinational groups on the tax structuring of M&A transactions, including leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and capital markets deals. In addition to his transactional work, Gwenaël is highly experienced in the formation and structuring of French and pan-European private equity funds. He is also regularly involved in general reorganisation projects for corporate groups, providing comprehensive tax advice across the full spectrum of private capital activity.

Mary Kuusisto

Mary B. Kuusisto is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group, a member of the Tax Department, former co-head of the London office and a past member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Mary has almost 30 years of experience in the private equity industry. She advises clients on structuring and operations of private investment funds globally, including secondary transactions, with particular experience in tax-related matters. She has represented numerous private investment funds in their formation and operational activities, including venture capital, buyout, distressed debt, mezzanine finance, natural resource, secondary, and funds of funds, as well as geographic and sector specific funds. Mary also advises investment fund managers and general partners with respect to their internal governance, compensation arrangements and economic structures. Another significant aspect of Mary’s practice involves advising various types of institutional investors on their investments in global private investment funds. Among others, she has advised funds of funds, pension funds, endowments and foundations – both U.S. and non-U.S. – in connection with their alternative investment strategies. Mary also has extensive experience advising both buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests in connection with tax matters. Mary was registered as a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and, prior to becoming a lawyer, worked for several years as an auditor and tax accountant with Big 4 public accounting firms.

Matthieu Lampel

Matthieu Lampel is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Matthieu advises investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions, as well as domestic and international clients in a wide variety of M&A transactions. His practice focuses on a broad range of indu Matthieu Lampel is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of the Firm's Private Capital industry group. Matthieu advises (i) investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions, (ii) general partners in secondary transactions, including asset transfers to continuation funds, (iii) domestic and international clients in a wide variety of M&A transactions, as well as (iv) managers in the negotiation of their status and their remuneration, as well as in the context of operations with investment funds. Matthieu's practice focuses on a broad range of industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, energy, technology and consumer goods & retail. Matthieu also has significant experience advising industrial and private equity clients in obtaining clearance from the relevant authorities in connection with French foreign investment regulations. Matthieu’s clients include Ardian Expansion, Bridgepoint, The Carlyle Group, Dentressangle, Experienced Capital and Eurazeo PME. stry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, energy, technology and consumer goods & retail. Matthieu also advises managers in the negotiation of their status and their remuneration, as well as in the context of operations with investment funds. Matthieu also has significant experience advising industrial and private equity clients in obtaining clearance from the relevant authorities in connection with French foreign investment regulations. Matthieu’s clients include Bridgepoint, The Carlyle Group, Experienced Capital and Eurazeo PME.

Nathan Lander

Nathan Lander is a partner in Proskauer's Insurance Recovery & Counseling Group specializing in assisting clients with the negotiation and structuring of their insurance programs as well as handling claim disputes with insurers. Throughout his career, Nate has helped clients recover more than $1 billion in insurance disputes through claim negotiations, mediations and, when necessary, in arbitrations and litigations. Nate prides himself in securing favorable resolutions with their insurers whenever possible, but when insurers refuse to pay, Nate aggressively litigates coverage disputes in courts and arbitrations across the country. While Nate has extensive experience representing a diverse array of policyholder clients, including Fortune 500 companies and professional sports teams, he is particularly recognized for his work with asset management clients in insurance disputes. Nate has represented numerous private equity firms and portfolio companies, hedge funds, registered funds, venture capital firms and other asset managers in claims against insurers, seeking coverage under D&O, E&O, crime, life, property and various other policies. In addition to his litigation practice, Nate regularly advises clients on risk management, including structuring of insurance programs and negotiating and drafting of policy language to help protect clients against potential claims or losses. Nate has deep expertise in insurance markets and products tailored for asset management clients. He has assisted numerous asset managers of all types and portfolio companies to review and negotiate potential insurance policies or programs, including D&O, E&O, EPL, fiduciary, crime, cyber, reps & warranties and other specialized products.

Megan Lawrence

Megan Lawrence is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance practice, London’s Leveraged Finance team and a member of the Firm’s Private Capital industry group. Megan specializes in domestic and cross-border leveraged acquisition financings. She advises market-leading banks and private credit funds at all levels of the capital structure, including broadly syndicated senior TLB financings, second lien financings, bank/ bond transactions, unitranche and PIK holdco financings. Megan has extensive knowledge of the syndicated and leveraged loan markets and regularly advises arrangers, lenders and agents on acquisition and other event driven finance transactions. In 2019/2020, Megan spent ten months on client secondment to the London-based financial sponsors group at J.P. Morgan.

Christine Lazatin

Christine Lazatin is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer’s Sports Group. Christine regularly represents professional sports teams, leagues, owners, financial institutions and private capital firms in a variety of transactional matters, with a particular emphasis on acquisition and stadium financings, working capital facilities, and league-wide and league-level credit facilities. Over the years, she has advised major sports leagues (including the the NBA, NHL and MLS), as well as a number of NBA, NHL, NFL and MLB teams, in significant multi-billion dollar financing transactions, and she is known as one of the nation’s leading sports finance attorneys. In addition to her finance work, Christine has advised on numerous expansion and ownership transactions for the NHL, NBA and MLS. She played a leading role in launching several emerging sports leagues, including MLS NEXT Pro, Major League Table Tennis, the Professional Women’s Hockey League and League One Volleyball, and she continues to represent such leagues on ongoing governance matters. Christine is a vice chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and a partner liason to the Proskauer Women’s Alliance.

Michael Lebowich

Michael J. Lebowich is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of the Labor-Management Relations Group. He represents and counsels employers on a wide range of labor and employment matters, with a particular interest in the field of traditional labor law. Michael acts as the primary spokesperson in collective bargaining negotiations, regularly handles grievance arbitrations, assists clients in the labor implications of corporate transactions, and counsels clients on union organizing issues, strike preparation and day-to-day contract administration issues. He also has significant experience in representation and unfair labor practice matters before the National Labor Relations Board. His broad employment law experience includes handling of race, national origin, gender and other discrimination matters in state and federal court. A significant amount of his practice is devoted to counseling clients regarding the application and practical impact of the full range of employment laws that affect our clients, including all local, state and federal employment discrimination statutes, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and state labor laws. Michael has substantial experience in a wide variety of industries, including entertainment, broadcasting, newspaper publishing and delivery, utilities and lodging. He represents such clients as The New York Times, BuzzFeed, ABC, the New York City Ballet, PPL, Pacific Gas & Electric, Host Hotels and Resorts, and The Broadway League (and many of its theater owner and producing members). Michael also has significant public sector experience representing, among others, the City of New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Michael is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, the New York University Tisch School for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management, and is an advisory board member of the Cornell Institute for Hospitality Labor and Employment Relations.

Joseph Leccese

Joseph M. Leccese is a past, and longest serving, Chairman of Proskauer. During his nine years as Chair, Proskauer reached more than $1 billion in revenues, dramatically expanded its transactional and trial practices and London office, and implemented a number of innovative talent management and diversity and inclusion programs. Throughout his term as Chair, Joe remained an active practitioner and co-chair of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Group. In those roles he has led many of the most significant deals in sports and media over the past three decades. His broad-based corporate practice emphasizes the representation of professional sports leagues, teams and owners; college conferences; media and marketing companies; and private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and financial institutions that provide capital to the broad array of transactions that occur in the sports industry. Leagues, Teams and Owners Joe's sports experience includes numerous matters for the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, PAC-12 Conference, Big East Conference, ATP World Tour, WTA Tour, USGA and NASCAR, as well as for a number of teams, owners and media entities that he advises on a continuing basis. Mergers and Acquisitions Joe regularly handles matters relating to the acquisition, financing, operation and equity funding of professional sports teams, including the sale of the Buffalo Bills and the acquisition of the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Astros, Washington Nationals, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles and Chivas USA. He also has represented bidders for many other teams across a broad variety of sports, both in privately negotiated sales and in auctions, and has advised leagues and governing bodies on scores of M&A transactions over the past 25 years, including advising the NBA on the recent $2 billion sale of the Los Angeles Clippers. Joe represented the NBA in its grant of expansion franchises to Charlotte, Toronto, Vancouver, Miami, Minnesota and Orlando; the NHL in its grant of expansion franchises to Atlanta, Columbus, Nashville and Minnesota; and MLS on many of its expansions and transfers. Stadium/Arena Construction and Financing Joe has been the lead negotiator in multiple stadium and arena deals and financings, including the facilities developed (or renovated) by the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets, New Jersey Devils, Orlando Magic, Charlotte Hornets and Carolina Panthers; advised the Minnesota Vikings and Cleveland Browns on their recent stadium projects; represented the lenders in connection with a number of facilities-related financings (including the financing for Citi Field); and has advised our league clients on numerous arena development projects and financings. Joint Ventures and Start Ups Joe has handled a variety of joint ventures and other innovative sports transactions, including the formation of NBA China, the WNBA, the NBA Development League and Legends Hospitality, and the sale to Providence Equity of an interest in Soccer United Marketing, the media and marketing affiliate of MLS. College Sports Joe is very active in college sports. Among other key engagements, he represented the "Basketball Seven" schools in the establishment of the "new" Big East Conference, the addition of three other universities to the new Conference, the negotiation of its television agreement with Fox and the assignment of the Big East Tournament agreement with MSG. Joe has advised the Pac-12 Conference in connection with a number of matters, including its television agreements with ESPN and Fox and the establishment of the Pac-12 Network. Joe also advises both the Pac-12 and the Big East on the broad range of issues and litigations currently facing college sports. In the M&A space, Joe represented Learfield, one of the leading companies in college sports marketing and sponsorship, in the sale of a strategic equity interest to a private equity fund affiliated with Shamrock Capital Advisors. Media and Sponsorship Joe has broad experience advising rights holders on regional, national and international television contracts with major telecasters; the exploitation of new media and technology rights; and a variety of matters relating to the exploitation of stadia and arenas, including naming rights, sponsorship agreements, seat licenses and related arrangements. Joe recently advised NASCAR, the USGA and MLS in their respective telecast rights agreements. Joe is a frequent speaker and lecturer on business and legal topics in sports.

Shawn Ledingham

Shawn Ledingham is a steadfast advocate for his clients and his community, demonstrating unwavering commitment to every person and organization he represents. His experience spans a diverse range of entities, including publicly traded multibillion-dollar companies, leading sports leagues, preeminent law firms, universities, and individual pro bono clients. Few companies or individuals will know what it means to have their day in court, as most cases are dismissed before a jury is ever sworn in, due to judicial rulings or economic considerations. Shawn has a strong track record of securing early victories through motion practice and successfully positioning difficult cases for resolution. But when a trial becomes inevitable, Shawn’s clients rely on his thorough understanding of trial evidence, his quick adaptability to any set of facts, and his practical appreciation of what resonates with a jury. As the nature of existentially threatening litigation has shifted over the years, Shawn has consistently defended his clients against emerging threats. For example, with the recent proliferation of public antitrust enforcement and private litigation, he has represented clients in industries ranging from sports, to agriculture, to pharmaceuticals, against claims of anticompetitive conduct. Shawn has also developed substantial experience in toxic tort, product liability and environmental litigation as these cases have increasingly evolved into bet-the-company lawsuits and trials. Amidst the changing trends, one constant is the need for attorneys to advocate for the unheard voices in our communities. Shawn embodies this principle through his service on the boards of Public Counsel and the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Counsel for Justice, addressing the unmet legal needs of Los Angeles’s most vulnerable. Within Proskauer, he is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and maintains a robust pro bono practice. In furtherance of his commitment to the rule of law by an independent judiciary, Shawn is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Judicial Appointments Committee, where he evaluates nominees to fill judicial vacancies.

Edward Lee

Edward Lee is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Edward advises fund managers and investors on the formation of a broad range of funds, including venture capital, private equity, infrastructure, real estate, debt, and secondary funds. He also advises on co-investments and buyers and sellers in secondary transactions. In addition, Edward works on various related issues, including single investor vehicles, carried interest arrangements, limited liability partnership agreements and ongoing fund administrative issues.

Henry Leibowitz

Hank Leibowitz is Chair of Proskauer's Private Client Services Department . He has a practice encompassing all aspects of estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration and fiduciary litigation. He addresses client concerns with respect to gift tax and estate tax issues. Hank primarily represents individuals in a wide variety of estate and financial planning issues including estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning. He has obtained favorable private letter rulings from the IRS in connection with the preparation of estate plans for his clients. In recent years, Hank has become very involved with planning relating to distributions from qualified plans and IRA's, including Roth rollovers, income and estate tax issues and devising methods that allow continued tax deferral within said plans. He also has extensive experience with all types of life insurance planning, including split-dollar arrangements. Hank has administered large and complex estates in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Florida. He has handled numerous IRS estate tax audits and state estate tax domicile disputes which have been favorably resolved. He has also been involved in many Surrogate’s Court proceedings. Notably, he has a great deal of experience in the administration of various artists’ estates, having handled the estate of Leonard Bernstein, the estate of Keith Haring, the George Balanchine trust, and a litigation brought by the New York State Attorney General against the estate of Joseph Cornell and the Cornell Foundation. Hank is a member of our Fiduciary Litigation Group and has been involved in will contests and other estate and trust related litigations. He also handles family matters such as the preparation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. He regularly counsels individuals concerning charitable giving and advises private foundations and public charities on tax issues. Hank began his career as a tax accountant for Arthur Young & Co. (now Ernst & Young) before returning to law school. He has authored numerous articles, including several that have been published in Estate Planning Magazine and is the editor of Personal Planning Strategies and Wealth Management Update. Hank is on the board of directors of VIP Community Services. VIP is an organization based in the Bronx that addresses the consequences of extreme poverty; addiction, housing, healthcare and employment.

Philip Lenertz

Phil Lenertz is partner in Proskauer'sTax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Phil advises U.S. and non-U.S. fund managers pursuing a wide range of strategies across a variety of industries, including venture capital, credit, real estate, buyout and fund-of-funds, on the tax aspects of forming and operating their funds. Phil’s experience covers a breadth of issues, including advising on the U.S. taxation of partnerships, REITs, and RICs and on the U.S. tax aspects of structuring investments made by private funds in their portfolio companies. Phil also advises on tax and economic issues relating to carried interest and management company vehicles of private fund sponsors and has experience navigating issues relating to monetization of these entities in GP stakes transactions. In addition, Phil represents investors making investments in funds as limited partners and has extensive experience advising on fund secondary transactions (including GP-led transactions) representing large and sophisticated buyers and sellers. Phil also regularly counsels private fund sponsors in connection with structuring, launching and executing GP-led secondary transactions, including tender offers, continuation funds and preferred financings.

Steven Lichtenfeld

Steven L. Lichtenfeld is co-head of Proskauer's Real Estate Capital Markets and Digital Infrastructure Groups. He regularly advises real estate and digital infrastructure funds, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, institutional lenders, specialty lenders, hedge funds, and pension advisors regarding public offerings and private placements of real estate and infrastructure-related debt and equity securities, real estate and infrastructure-related mergers and acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure preferred equity investments and joint ventures, real estate and infrastructure-related senior and mezzanine financings and other corporate, partnership and limited liability company matters. Steven has a unique skill set that allows him to quarterback a broad spectrum of transactions including public and private REIT and infrastructure offerings (both traded and non-traded), real estate and infrastructure mergers and acquisitions, real estate and infrastructure preferred equity investments and joint ventures and real estate and infrastructure recapitalizations and reorganizations. Steven also counsels his public REIT and infrastructure and other clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues and compliance matters as well as defensive measures and takeover tasks. Steven is a prolific author and speaker, having penned numerous articles and lectured before dozens of organizations throughout the country on various real estate capital markets, real estate private equity and real estate finance topics. Steven was previously a longtime member of the Board of Spark Youth NYC and is active on his Urban Land Institute council, UDMUC Bronze.

Rachel Lowe

Rachel E. Lowe is a special regulatory counsel in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Rachel advises on financial services regulation specializing in sustainable finance and ESG regulation. She has particular expertise in drafting and advising on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Taxonomy Regulation. Rachel has also supported with EU MiFID and AIFMD sustainability updates for clients, including from a governance and organizational perspective, as well as providing drafting and training support. She also advises on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), including analysis of its applicability for large international group structures. From a UK perspective, Rachel supports clients with the TCFD-related requirements in the Financial Conduct Authority’s ESG Sourcebook and is increasingly engaged on the UK’s Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR). More broadly, Rachel has worked with litigation colleagues to assist clients with understanding and mitigating greenwashing-related legal and regulatory risk.

Adam Lupion

Adam Lupion is the co-chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Labor Management Relations, Sports Law and Employment Litigation Groups. A trusted litigator and counselor, Adam has developed a particular expertise representing sports leagues and teams. He has been at the center of many of the most significant labor and employment matters in the sports industry. For example, Adam helped guide Major League Baseball (MLB) through its most recent work stoppage with players, represented MLB in grievance arbitrations challenging player discipline for violations of the league’s domestic violence and drug policies, successfully defended MLB against discrimination claims brought by Angel Hernandez, and defended MLB and its member Clubs in class and collective actions involving pay practices of minor league players and claims of age discrimination by scouts. In addition, Adam has handled several litigations and arbitrations for the National Hockey League and National Football League, and has advised college athletic conferences and universities across the broad spectrum of labor and employment laws. Adam also leads the Firm’s MLB Salary Arbitration practice, and is one of the most sought-after practitioners to represent Clubs during contract negotiations and at arbitration hearings against some of the game’s most prominent players. Adam’s practice extends far beyond the world of sports, as he has extensive experience representing healthcare, higher education, financial services, media and entertainment, telecommunications, energy, retail and hospitality clients in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters in state and federal court, and before administrative agencies. He has lectured on labor and employment law at Cornell University, New York University School of Law, and Cardozo Law School. He frequently represents the Firm and the Sports Law Group on panel discussions and at career seminars for current and prospective lawyers.

Jason Madden

Jason Madden is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Health Care Group. His practice focuses on representing health care clients, including hospitals, physician groups, not-for-profit corporations, private equity firms and other financial institutions. Jason provides legal advice on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse compliance; HIPAA and data privacy; mergers, acquisitions and financings; and general corporate and business planning. In addition, Jason actively participates in pro bono matters, representing not-for-profit organizations on a variety of matters, and is an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA). Jason has led the Proskauer’s Election Protection Call Center during the last two election cycles.

David Manko

David is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and Chair of the Health Care Group. With more than 30 years of experience, David has represented virtually every type of stakeholder in the health care services sector. David leverages his industry expertise to provide practical, creative and actionable advice to healthcare clients in connection with complex business transactions and regulatory matters. Across his career, clients have included investors, lenders, management companies, payers, hospital organizations and health systems, medical practices, provider networks, medical technology companies, digital health companies, nonprofit entities and public benefit corporations. David has particular expertise representing clients involving large, national provider networks and risk bearing entities, including in connection with regulatory structuring issues, fraud and abuse and value-based contracting. In the community, David is dedicated to expanding access to primary care services for underserved populations. For almost 10 years, he has been an active member of the Board of Directors of Primary Care Development Corporation (“PCDC”). PCDC is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to providing low-cost debt financing to not-for-profit organizations to expand and improve primary care in underserved communities.

Maud Manon

Maud Manon is a Private Credit partner, member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and the firm's Private Capital industry group. With 25 years' experience, Maud's practice focuses on LBOs and leveraged acquisition finance, representing financial institutions (mainly debt funds) as well as sponsors and borrowers. Maud’s experience extends to the acquisition finance of listed companies, public offerings and block acquisitions. She also advises debtors, creditors and/or sponsors in the context of complex leverage debt restructuring operations. Maud’s clients include in particular ICG, Barings, Eurazeo, Pemberton, BlackRock, BOI, Bridgepoint, Bridgepoint Credit, The Carlyle Group, Marlin Equity, Tikehau, BNP Paribas, Capza, Artemid and Montefiore.

Stephanie Martinier

Stéphanie Martinier is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Stéphanie advises French and international clients regarding cross-border transactions and commercial matters. She represents private equity funds and corporate entities in business acquisitions, sales and joint ventures, as well as in the negotiation of complex commercial contracts and in corporate restructurings. Stéphanie focuses in particular on the industrial sector, and on technology and financial services companies. Stéphanie also represents clients in litigation matters relating to M&A transactions and shareholders’ disputes, and regularly counsels clients regarding compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and French data privacy regulations. In addition, Stéphanie manages the pro bono work of the Paris office and, as part of this commitment, provides legal training on business creation to young entrepreneurs through the not-for-profit Yes Akademia. Having attended law school in both France and the United States, Stéphanie holds a master of law from University Lyon III as well as a LL.M. degree from the University of Minnesota. Stéphanie is located in the Paris office and licensed to practice law in both France and New York. She has been with Proskauer for the duration of her legal career.

Arnold May

Arnold P. May is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. His practice focuses on tax planning for private equity fund managers in connection with their fund-raising and internal organizational matters, as well as investment activities. In addition, Arnold represents U.S. and non-U.S. investors in connection with their investments in venture capital funds, buyout funds, hedge funds and other investment partnerships. In this capacity, as well as in connection with advising private equity funds with respect to their investment activities, he regularly advises on international tax issues that arise in connection with investments in the U.S. by non-U.S. investors (including non-U.S. investors subject to special U.S. tax treatment, such as governmental pension plans and tax-exempt organizations), as well as investments outside of the U.S. by U.S. persons. Arnold also has significant experience structuring tax-free and taxable mergers and acquisitions (including cross-border transactions), equity compensation arrangements and innovative financing techniques for investments in tax transparent entities such as partnerships, limited liability companies and Subchapter S corporations. Arnold is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Financial Research Associates Tax Practices for Private Equity Funds, Institute for International Research Private Equity Tax Practices, Private Equity International Strategic Financial Management for Private Equity Firms, and Private Equity CFO Association. Highly-regarded for his thought leadership, Arnold is the editor of Private Equity International's "US Tax Considerations for Investment Fund Structuring", which was published in August of 2015. He also co-authored an article on "Management Company Structuring" (with Scott Jones) for the April 2008 Private Equity International Fund Structures Supplement.

Katrina McCann

Katrina E. McCann is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Katrina advises a diverse group of clients on a broad spectrum of employee benefits matters, including: counseling clients with respect to the design, drafting, implementation and ongoing qualification of their qualified plans in both the single and multi-employer context, including profit sharing, money purchase, 401(k), ESOP, and defined benefit plans; providing counsel on the establishment, administration and continued legal compliance of health & welfare plans and programs; advising tax-exempt organizations regarding their 403(b) plans and 457 arrangements; creating and advising on non-qualified plans, including deferred compensation and supplemental employee retirement plans; providing technical and practical advice on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, COBRA, HIPAA, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as issues concerning plan administration, qualification requirements, correction of plan document failures, fiduciary issues and prohibited transaction issues; routinely working with clients and their service providers, advising on the RFP process, reviewing provider arrangements and collaborating to develop effective and compliant disclosures, government reporting forms and participant communications; analyzing the employee benefits and executive compensation issues in connection with corporate transactions, advising on withdrawal liability matters and structuring benefit plans following a transaction and providing counsel with respect to all aspects of benefit plan mergers; and advising both employers and senior executives in connection with various executive compensation matters, including the negotiation and drafting of equity plans and awards, employment agreements, severance agreements and other compensation arrangements. Katrina is a member and former co-chair of Proskauer Women's Alliance Steering Committee and serves on Proskauer’s Reproductive Rights Steering Committee. She is also a Board member of Playwrights Horizons, an off-Broadway theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights and the production of innovative new work, and a Board member of the Axe-Houghton Foundation. Prior to joining Proskauer, Katrina served as Special Assistant to the Mayor’s Office of Pension and Investments and was Special Assistant Corporation Counsel, Pensions Division, New York City Law Department. While in law school, Katrina was the Robert M. LaFollette/Keenan Peck Legal Fellow, serving in the offices of Senator Herb Kohl & the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

Stephen Mears

Stephen T. Mears is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was co-head of that practice for several years. He concentrates on private investment funds, including venture capital, growth equity and buyout funds. He represents fund sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, operation and management, including fund structuring, portfolio investments, sales and distributions, internal governance and management, regulatory compliance and ongoing maintenance and administration. Stephen also represents institutional investors in connection with their participation in private investment funds Stephen has recently represented sponsors in raising funds ranging in size from under $100 million to over $2.5 billion. Representative clients include: GenCap America General Catalyst Partners New Enterprise Associates Sterling Partners Thrive Capital Partners

Don Melamed

Don Melamed is a Partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and Co-Head of the Firm’s Real Assets Group. He has extensive experience in the real assets, buyout, growth equity and impact investing sectors, with leading clients in several industries. Don’s expertise goes beyond traditional private fund formation matters to include a broad range of complex transactions including recapitalizations and reorganizations at the platform level and through GP-led deals, direct investments, co-investment arrangements and joint ventures. Leveraging his extensive experience in the asset management space, Don also advises executive management teams, operators and money partners on a variety of fundraising and investment initiatives.

Michael Mervis

Mike Mervis is the Vice-Chair of the Proskauer's Litigation Department and the immediate past head of the Commercial Litigation Group. He is also the head of Proskauer's Bankruptcy Litigation Group and co-head of Proskauer's Private Credit Litigation Group. Mike is a veteran litigator who has tried dozens of cases in federal and state courts and before arbitral tribunals across the country. He represents clients in complex commercial matters, disputes over distressed debt and investments (particularly in contentious chapter 11 bankruptcy cases), real estate and entertainment industry disputes and intellectual property cases. In bankruptcy matters, he represents lenders, ad hoc creditor groups and statutory committees, and debtors in complex chapter 11 cases in bankruptcy courts across the country. Mike has litigated the full spectrum of contested matters and adversary proceedings that arise during the lifecycle of complex chapter 11 cases. Mike is the immediate past chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and co-chair of the Firm’s Summer Associate Program.

Michael Mezzacappa

Michael M. Mezzacappa is the co-head of Proskauer's Private Credit Group and a member of the Corporate Department. His practice focuses on representing agents, lenders and borrowers in a variety of complex financings and credit arrangements, including acquisition financings (sponsor-led and strategic acquisitions and "going private" transactions, to name a few), dividend recapitalization financings, asset based loans, cash flow loans, special situations loans, DIP loans, bridge financings and cross-border and multi-currency loans. He has extensive experience representing agents and lenders in multi-tiered financing facilities, second-lien and unitranche loan facilities (including "B" loans and other "last out" structures), mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, distressed debt facilities and intercreditor and subordination agreements. Michael helps investors craft and implement creative hybrid capital solutions that straddle traditional debt and equity, and advises on distressed investing, debt restructuring and workouts. Michael is a member of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section, the New York City Bar Association, the Commercial Finance Association and the Turnaround Management Association. Michael obtained his B.S., with honors, from City University of New York in 1993, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York Law School in 1998, where he served on the New York Law School Review

Erik Milch

Erik Milch is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, co-head of the Patent Law practice and a member of the Intellectual Property and Trials group. As a first-chair trial lawyer, Erik brings more than 25 years of experience litigating in key jurisdictions across the U.S., as well as before the International Trade Commission and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Erik litigates complex matters involving medical devices, life sciences instrumentation, pharmaceuticals, electrical and computer technology, and consumer products. He regularly counsels clients in a range of industries in connection with patent procurement, development of patent portfolios, patent licensing, valuation of patent portfolios in business transactions and transactional diligence. Erik has extensive experience in all aspects of patent litigation from pre-filing through appeal, including enforcement of patents against competitors and defense of patent infringement allegations. His technical background includes microfluidics, lab automation, optical imaging instruments, wound closure, surgical instrumentation, orthopedics, autoinjectors, tissue resection and sealing, pharmaceuticals, haptic feedback systems, computer software, consumer products, fluid mechanics applications, automotive engines and mechanical and electrical components, aerospace propulsion and control systems, weapons systems, and telecommunications. Prior to pursuing a legal career, Erik earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, where he developed a deep appreciation for cutting-edge technology and its potential to drive progress. His background in engineering equips him with a unique ability to comprehend intricate technical concepts. This enables him to effectively navigate the intricate world of patent litigation, combining his legal skills with technical know-how to provide comprehensive and strategic counsel to his clients. In addition to his academic accomplishments, Erik served as an officer in the United States Navy. His military background instilled in him a strong sense of discipline, leadership, perseverance, and attention to detail; qualities that continue to guide him in his legal practice.

Casey L. Miller

Casey Miller is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Structured Credit Group. She specializes in advising asset managers, issuers, banks, underwriters and investors on a broad range of structured finance transactions, with a focus on ABLs and collateralized loan obligations secured by broadly syndicated and middle-market loans. Previously, Ms. Miller served as a senior legislative assistant to then-U.S. Representative Marcia L. Fudge. She earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and served on the George Washington University Law School’s Law Review.

David Miller

David Miller is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. David advises clients on a broad range of domestic and international corporate tax issues. His practice covers the taxation of financial instruments and derivatives, private and public REITs, cross-border lending transactions and other financings, international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, multinational corporate groups and partnerships, private equity and hedge funds, bankruptcy and workouts, high-net-worth individuals and families, and public charities and private foundations. He advises companies in virtually all major industries, including banking, finance, private equity, health care, life sciences, real estate, technology, consumer products, entertainment and energy. David is strongly committed to pro bono service, and has represented more than 500 charities. In 2011, he was named as one of thirteen “Lawyers Who Lead by Example” by the New York Law Journal for his pro bono service. David has also been recognized for his pro bono work by The Legal Aid Society, Legal Services for New York City and New York Lawyers For The Public Interest. David has taught the taxation of financial instruments at Columbia Law School, and tax policy at New York University School of Law. He is also a frequent author and has written a number of articles and chapters in various tax publications. David is the former chair of the tax section of the New York State Bar Association. Prior to joining Proskauer, David was a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP.

Richard Miller

Richard Miller is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds, Private Equity Transactions and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. Richard provides advice on a full range of UK and international tax matters. His practice specifically focuses on all aspects of the private fund lifecycle. Richard acts for private fund asset managers in structuring and raising investments funds, structuring carried interest and coinvestment arrangements, establishment and operation of fund management businesses, M&A and investment activity and finance transactions. Richard also represents institutional investors in structuring and negotiation their private fund investment activity including primary and secondary investments and bespoke transactions.

Kelli Moll

Kelli Moll is a partner of Proskauer's Private Funds Group, co-lead of the Firm’s global Credit Fund Team, and Head of the Hedge Funds Practice. With over 30 years of experience advising clients ranging from large institutional asset managers to independent sponsors across the spectrum of asset classes, Kelli is considered a leading lawyer in the funds industry. Kelli’s practice particularly focuses on counseling investment advisors on the formation and ongoing operations of closed-end, open-end and hybrid fund structures. In addition, Kelli regularly advises fund sponsors on upper tier arrangements, seed capital arrangements, asset manager M&A, complex fund restructurings, co-investment arrangements, funds-of-one, managed accounts and various regulatory issues. Kelli is passionate for the arts and serves as a member of the American Ballet Theatre charitable board.

Frazer Money

Frazer Money is a partner in the Tax Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Frazer advises businesses on a wide range of tax and structuring matters, with particular experience in advising asset managers on tax and structuring issues relating to their funds, management businesses, remuneration packages and investment transactions as well as GP and LP-led secondaries and GP minority transactions. He also has a wide range of experience advising on the tax aspects of complex credit transactions and cross-border restructurings. Prior to joining Proskauer, Frazer was a partner in the Tax Department at another leading US law firm in London.

Sandra Lee Montgomery

Sandra Lee Montgomery is a recognized leader in banking & finance having closed more than $5.5 billion in transactions for first- and second-lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors across the country in 2023 alone. Sandra is a former member of the Proskauer's Executive Committee, the Women Partners Advisory Committee and she was the co-Chair of the New Business Committee for the last four years. She is also a mentor in the Firm’s Diverse Lawyer Mentoring Circle Program. Her areas of focus include acquisitions, recapitalization and other leveraged financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border financings, unitranche and mezzanine financings and restructurings. Sandra has industry experience in a wide range of business sectors including retail, technology, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, general industrial, import/export, agriculture and services. She has extensive knowledge of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and other laws that relate to secured transactions. Sandra has also handled numerous cross-border transactions involving Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, the Cayman Islands, England, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Scotland and Singapore.

Marcela Moraru

Marcela Moraru is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm’s Private Capital Industry group. Marcela has significant experience in all aspects of international complex fund structures and regulatory advice having focused on private investment funds in France, UK and Luxembourg over the last 15 years. Marcela acts for asset managers in relation to the structuring and establishment of mid-market and large private equity funds, infrastructure funds, debt funds, real estate funds and carried interest/co-investment arrangements.

Matthew Morris

Matthew J. Morris is a Special Litigation Counsel at Proskauer. He works on a variety of disputes concerning insurance coverage, partnership and joint venture agreements, hotel management agreements, revenue-based funding agreements, civil RICO and international arbitration. Matt's analytical acumen has enabled him to contribute significantly to the Firm's success in difficult appellate matters, including three victories in the New York Court of Appeals: one in a dispute concerning whether the aggregate coverage limit of an excess liability insurance policy covering asbestos claims made against the insured was renewed annually, rather than continued over the three-year period of the policy (16 N.Y.3d 419), and the others in decisions that established that an insured may obtain indemnification for payments made as disgorgement where such payments do not represent the insured’s own illicit gains (21 N.Y.3d 324) and that such payments are not uninsurable penalties (37 N.Y.3d 552). Other cases included: A victory in the New York Appellate Division in a dispute regarding whether an insured that sold asbestos believing its products could be used safely, despite its awareness of possible injuries, did not expect or intend such injuries for coverage purposes (101 A.D.3d 434) A successful appeal to the Second Circuit from a decision in which the district court had held that a "hell or high water” agreement barred Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. from arguing that it was constructively evicted from its premises, terminating its rent obligation (570 F.3d 513) Representation of The New York Times in a case in which the lower court granted class certification to plaintiffs challenging the right to engage in newsgathering, and the appellate court reversed the certification order (895 A.2d 1173) Recent trial victories involving substantial damages in an arbitration regarding a hotel owner’s termination of a hotel management agreement in Mexico and a commercial landlord-tenant dispute regarding a rent rebate provision Matt authored a chapter on “Appellate Practice in the New York State Courts” in Principles of Appellate Litigation: A Guide to Modern Practice (PLI Press).

Bharat Moudgil

Bharat K. Moudgil is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer's Private Credit Group. He has experience acting for lenders on a wide range of transactions, including senior secured, mezzanine and second-lien financings. Bharat focuses his practice on corporate finance transactions and represents a wide array of credit providers, including private debt funds, BDCs, banks, and other investors in connection with acquisition financings, restructurings, recapitalizations and other financings. Bharat has industry experience in a wide range of sectors including software and technology, healthcare and business services. During law school, Bharat served as managing editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and was a judicial intern for the Honorable James S. Moody of the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida.

Timothy Mungovan

Tim Mungovan is the Chair of Proskauer. He is also the immediate past chair of Proskauer's Litigation Department. His practice is focused on securities, commercial litigation, governance, and bankruptcy-related matters. He has a national reputation for advising sponsors of private investment funds (hedge, private equity, private credit and venture capital) in a wide variety of matters, including litigation, governance, securities, fiduciary obligations, and regulatory enforcement. Over the last six years, Tim has been the lead litigator representing the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in the historic restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debts. The scale and complexity of this restructuring has resulted in one of the most active litigation dockets in the U.S. Almost every aspect of the litigation involved matters of first impression in part because the restructuring is governed by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, which was enacted for Puerto Rico in 2016. The track record of success speaks for itself: in the more than 150 lawsuits filed, Tim and the Proskauer team have prevailed in almost 95% of the cases. Tim is recognized nationally for his experience in private fund litigation and disputes, having focused on the industry for more than 25 years. As part of that focus, Tim created and is the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on Private Equity litigation, The Capital Commitment.

David Munkittrick

David Munkittrick represents companies in consequential disputes where competition, innovation, and creative enterprise intersect. He is often engaged when legal doctrine is evolving, business models are under pressure, and the outcome of litigation carries industry-wide implications. Known for his calm approach to complex issues, he develops strategies that are creative but disciplined. David brings clarity and structure to intricate matters while grounding advocacy in a rigorous understanding of how his clients’ businesses function. David’s practice spans antitrust, copyright, and high-stakes commercial litigation across the modern economy, from pharmaceuticals and healthcare, to automotive, music and live entertainment, sports and trading cards, agriculture, financial services, hospitality, and technology. He is increasingly called on for matters at the intersection of antitrust, copyright, and AI, where market-power and creative-rights questions entangle. He is at the forefront of data access issues, having represented Bright Data in closely watched and precedent-setting litigations involving the right to access public web data and testing the contours of competition law in technology-driven markets. David has tried bench and jury cases involving price discrimination and group boycott claims, defended Fortune 500 companies in some of the highest-profile investigations and litigations of the past decade, and counseled clients through the full litigation life cycle. His antitrust experience also includes defending clients in federal class actions and competitor suits alleging monopolization and exclusionary conduct, as well as representing companies in investigations before the DOJ and FTC. A former practicing musician, David represents major music and entertainment companies and artists in infringement, ownership, and licensing disputes, including matters involving digital distribution and evolving media platforms. His clients include the NMPA, Sony Music Entertainment, U2, Madonna, Live Nation, UMG, and Warner. An active commentator on developments in antitrust and copyright law, David writes and speaks frequently. In addition to his monthly Law360 column, “FTC Focus,” his writing has been featured in the GCR Private Litigation Guide, Proskauer’s privacy and antitrust treatises, and the Fordham IPLJ Symposium. Outside the firm, David serves on the board of the Lorelei Ensemble and was previously on the board of the New York Choral Society. He has taught the Law and Music course at the Eastman School of Music. An accomplished classical pianist, David made his Carnegie Hall debut while at Proskauer, performing as part of a piano trio.

Dorothy Murray

Dorothy Murray has more than 20 years of experience in resolving critical business disputes for her clients. As one of the co-heads of Proskauer's Asset Management Litigation group, she has a recognized specialism in private equity and asset management disputes, retained to resolve high-stakes matters across all parts of the capital structure. She also supports clients in various other sectors, including financial services, retail, manufacturing, real estate, energy and telecoms. Dorothy has recently handled matters involving applications to the UK Listing Authority, shareholder and unfair prejudice claims, corporate governance challenges, potential GP removals, defaults under guarantees and debt instruments, defamation, team moves and contractual claims, including pre- and post- M&A disputes. Dorothy has experience handling litigation in common and civil law jurisdictions as well as in commercial and investor-state arbitration. She has extensive knowledge of all key divisions of the English High Courts and major arbitral institutional rules.

Alexis Namdar

Alexis Namdar is an associate in Proskauer's Litigation Department and member of the International Arbitration group. Alexis has cross-border litigation and extensive international arbitration experience, specializing in investment and complex commercial disputes. He has represented clients in joint ventures across diverse sectors including financial services, asset management/private equity, energy, mining, aerospace, pharmaceutical and telecoms. Alexis’ practice includes acting as an advocate in proceedings under a variety of arbitral rules including ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SCC and the LME. He also has extensive experience in offshore litigation in the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court and up to the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. Alexis is admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales and is qualified as a solicitor-advocate for the Higher Courts of England & Wales (Civil proceedings).

Jeremy Naylor

Jeremy Naylor is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Jeremy works with fund sponsors across asset classes, and their investors, in all tax aspects of private investment fund matters. In addition, Jeremy works with his fund sponsor clients in designing and implementing carried interest plans and other compensation arrangements for the general partners of private funds. Jeremy also advises U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors, governmental investors, pension trusts and other tax-exempt organizations in their investments in private funds and joint ventures. He also frequently represents secondary fund managers in connection with the tax aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including restructurings and private tender offers), primary investments and co-investments. Jeremy also advises on M&A transactions involving his investment management clients, including minority sale transactions, preferred financing and control transactions. Jeremy has significant experience structuring inbound investment in U.S. real estate by non-U.S. investors. In addition, Jeremy has significant experience in structuring domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, advising on capital markets transactions and equity compensation arrangements. Jeremy is a frequent speaker at industry conferences related to private investment funds, including the Merrill Lynch Private Equity and Venture Capital CFO Conference and the Practising Law Institute's series on international tax. In addition, Jeremy frequently participates in webinars and provides other thought leadership in print media related to changes in the tax laws and their impact on private fund managers.

Jeffrey Neuburger

Jeffrey Neuburger is co-head of Proskauer’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group, head of the Firm’s Blockchain Group and a member of the Firm’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Group. Jeff’s practice focuses on technology, media and intellectual property-related transactions, counseling and dispute resolution. That expertise, combined with his professional experience at General Electric and academic experience in computer science, makes him a leader in the field. As one of the architects of the technology law discipline, Jeff continues to lead on a range of business-critical transactions involving the use of emerging technology and distribution methods. For example, Jeff has become one of the foremost private practice lawyers in the country for the implementation of blockchain-based technology solutions, helping clients in a wide variety of industries capture the business opportunities presented by the rapid evolution of blockchain. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Emerging Digital Finance and Currency. Jeff counsels on a variety of e-commerce, social media and advertising matters; represents many organizations in large infrastructure-related projects, such as outsourcing, technology acquisitions, cloud computing initiatives and related services agreements; advises on the implementation of biometric technology; and represents clients on a wide range of data aggregation, privacy and data security matters. In addition, Jeff assists clients on a wide range of issues related to intellectual property and publishing matters in the context of both technology-based applications and traditional media.

Barry Newman

Barry Newman is a Finance partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Barry is a debt finance specialist and focuses on domestic and cross-border acquisition finance and infrastructure investments. He has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and infrastructure investors on leveraged acquisitions, infrastructure investments and general corporate facilities.

Joshua Newville

Joshua M. Newville co-heads Proskauer’s Securities Enforcement group and is a member of the Securities Litigation and Asset Management Litigation practices. He represents private fund sponsors, investment advisers and financial institutions in SEC enforcement matters, complex regulatory investigations and high-stakes securities litigation. Josh represents asset managers, financial institutions and senior executives in SEC, DOJ and other regulatory investigations involving fund valuation, fees and expenses, MNPI/insider trading, and related fiduciary and disclosure issues. He has secured favorable resolutions — including declinations and settlements without disgorgement — in SEC investigations involving multi-billion-dollar funds, novel enforcement theories and emerging priorities. In addition to his enforcement practice, Josh advises private equity, hedge fund and registered fund sponsors and other financial services firms on regulatory risk, SEC examinations and compliance matters. He regularly leads sensitive internal investigations for fund managers, boards and audit committees involving accounting, disclosure and fiduciary duty issues. Before joining Proskauer, Josh served as Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, including in the Asset Management Unit, where he investigated and litigated violations of the federal securities laws involving investment advisers, broker-dealers and public companies. His SEC experience informs his approach to enforcement strategy and risk mitigation. Josh co-authors a regular column on corporate and securities law for the New York Law Journal. He has been named an “Enforcement Elite” lawyer by Securities Docket for the past two years, is ranked by Chambers USA for Securities: Regulation (Enforcement) and has been recognized by The Legal 500 for Securities Litigation and White Collar Defense.

Malcolm Nicholls III

Malcolm B. Nicholls III is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and Proskauer’s Private Investment Funds Group. Malcolm brings more than 30 years of experience representing private fund sponsors and investment advisors globally on a wide range of issues, including fund formations, secondary transactions, internal governance, and divestments and distributions. Malcolm’s practice focuses primarily on representing fund sponsors. He devotes a significant portion of his time to the structuring, formation, organization, and operation of venture capital and other private equity funds, as well as their general partner and management company entities, representing both top-tier industry leaders and first-time managers. In this capacity, Malcolm advises clients on the preparation of offering materials, investor negotiations related to fund formation, the drafting of partnership, LLC, and other governance agreements, and all aspects of day-to-day fund operations. Malcolm also advises fund sponsors on a broad range of secondary transactions, including tender offers, preferred equity financings, continuation funds, fund restructurings, and other GP-led transactions, and has worked with several management teams on large spin-out transactions. In addition, Malcolm has represented domestic and foreign institutional investors in connection with investments in hundreds of private funds across the private equity asset class, including in secondary transactions involving the acquisition and sale of fund interests. The depth and breadth of Malcolm’s experience and market knowledge enable him to provide practical business and strategic advice while balancing the competing interests of fund sponsors and their investors. Malcolm has authored numerous articles and has spoken at many industry conferences both domestically and abroad. Malcom previously served as the co-head of the private investment funds group at Proskauer. More recently, Malcom was a partner at Gunderson Dettmer prior to rejoining Proskauer. He also served as a Sergeant/Russian Linguist in the U.S. Army from 1984 – 1988.

Nicholas Noon

Nicholas (“Carter”) Noon is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and co-leads Proskauer's global credit funds initiative. Carter advises a broad range of asset managers in the establishment of all types of private funds and in their business and operations, with a focus on fund formation and structuring, and in particular the formation and structuring of private credit funds. Carter also counsels clients on funds of one, co-investments, managed accounts, fund restructurings, joint-ventures, and day-to-day operational and regulatory matters. He has significant experience with the establishment and maintenance of general partner and management company entities, including with respect to economic, internal governance, regulatory and day-to-day operational issues. In addition, he routinely represents institutional investors when investing into private investment funds. In addition to work with a wide array of established fund sponsors, Carter counsels emerging managers, including in connection with seeding arrangements, initial fund formation and related matters.

Xavier Norlain

Xavier Norlain is a Private Equity and M&A partner, Head of the Paris office, and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Xavier brings longstanding experience advising leading investment funds and family offices on leveraged buyouts and growth capital transactions. He also regularly represents industrial and services groups on a broad range of corporate matters, including restructurings and M&A transactions. In addition, he has significant experience advising founders and managers on the negotiation of their status and remuneration, particularly in connection with transactions involving investment funds. Xavier’s practice spans a wide range of industries, including technology, telecom, aerospace and defense, cybersecurity, healthcare, and childcare and homecare.

Amanda Nussbaum

Amanda H. Nussbaum is the chair of Proskauer's Tax Department as well as a member of the Private Funds Group. Her practice concentrates on planning for and the structuring of domestic and international private investment funds, including venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge funds, as well as advising those funds on investment activities and operational issues. She also represents many types of investors, including tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors, with their investments in private investment funds. Amanda has significant experience structuring taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and stock and debt offerings. She also counsels both sports teams and sports leagues with a broad range of tax issues. In addition, Amanda advises not-for-profit clients on matters such as applying for and maintaining exemption from federal income tax, minimizing unrelated business taxable income, structuring joint ventures and partnerships with taxable entities and using exempt and for-profit subsidiaries. Amanda has co-authored with Howard Lefkowitz and Steven Devaney the New York Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual,which is published by Data Trace Publishing Co.

Peter Olds

Peter Olds is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. He specializes in advising on the establishment of private funds in the UK, Europe and globally for private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate fund sponsors, cornerstone investments in private funds, and private fund carried interest and other executive incentive schemes. Peter also advises on co-investments alongside private funds (on both sponsor and investor sides), and associated UK and European regulatory matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Peter has been a member of funds groups at other international law firms, and was also a director at Actis, a leading emerging markets private fund manager.

Frank Oliver

Frank Oliver is a partner in Proskauer's Global Finance Practice. He represents creditors in syndicated loans and private credit loans in matters involving leveraged acquisitions, restructurings and asset-based finance. He has experience across a broad range of industries and sectors. Frank has previously represented financial institutions and direct lenders in structuring and executing acquisition financings, leveraged lending transactions and other complex financing structures. Frank also has deep knowledge in the restructuring of existing debt in special situations, both in and out of court.

Anthony Oncidi

Anthony J. Oncidi is the Co-Chair Emeritus of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters. Tony is the author of the treatise titled Employment Discrimination Depositions (Juris Pub’g 2020; www.jurispub.com), co-author of Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2023), and, since 1990, has been a regular columnist for the official publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Tony has been a featured guest on Fox 11 News and CBS News in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading national media outlets such as The National Law Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and Newsweek and Time magazines. Tony is a frequent speaker on employment law topics for large and small groups of employers and their counsel, including the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM"), PIHRA, the National CLE Conference, National Business Institute, the Employment Round Table of Southern California (Board Member), the Council on Education in Management, the Institute for Corporate Counsel, the State Bar of California, the California Continuing Education of the Bar Program and the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. He has testified as an expert witness regarding wage and hour issues as well as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and has served as a faculty member of the National Employment Law Institute. He has served as an arbitrator in an employment discrimination matter. Tony is an appointed Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission Board of Rights and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law and a guest lecturer at USC Law School and a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School.

Christopher Ondeck

Chris Ondeck is head of Proskauer's Washington, DC office and co-head of the Firm’s Antitrust Group. Chris is one of the most highly rated antitrust trial lawyers in the United States. In 2023, Chris won the largest antitrust jury trial of the year, and one of the largest in history, by defending Sanderson Farms as the sole non-settling defendant where the direct purchaser plaintiffs alleged $7 billion in damages. The significance of the trial victory was widely reported by Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Law360 and other publications, calling it a “blockbuster case.” Law360 noted that Chris “blasted” the plaintiffs’ assertions at trial and called it one of the biggest trial decisions of the year. Chris and his team were named Litigators of the Week by the American Lawyer. Chris is a go-to litigator for clients in high-profile antitrust matters, including litigations, government investigations, and merger reviews. Chris has extensive experience advising on the antitrust issues for the creation of multi-party collaborations in the financial sector including electronic trading platforms, exchanges and clearinghouses, as well as syndicated lending and club deals. He also has 30-years’ expertise with the Capper-Volstead Act’s application and interpretation for agricultural cooperatives and serves as outside counsel to a large number of industry groups, including trade associations and cooperatives.

Ben Orlanski

Ben Orlanski is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and the Capital Markets Group. Ben focuses on major corporate transactions and strategically solving critical business challenges. He has significant experience in securities and public company representation; mergers and acquisitions; capital markets transactions; special committee, board of directors and general corporate representation; and corporate governance. His experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including software-as-a-service, REITs, digital media, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Capital Formation and Securities Ben has significant experience in managing, structuring and executing sophisticated securities and capital raising transactions. His approach reflects understanding of market operation, well-designed capital structure and the practical realities of the capital raising process. He represents public companies and investors in public offerings, registered direct transactions, self-tenders, warrant exchanges/flush transactions, recapitalizations, defensive strategies and secondary offerings. He also advises clients on corporate finance transactions for private businesses, ranging from venture capital and private placements to public offerings and debt restructurings. Mergers and Acquisitions Ben has completed scores of transactions representing buyers, sellers, investment bankers and financiers through all phases of the M&A process. He is actively involved in planning, structuring, negotiating and documenting strategic merger and acquisition transactions as well as dispositions of sophisticated enterprises. General Counsel, Public Reporting and Strategic Advice Ben acts as outside general counsel for numerous public and private companies, applying a business-like approach to produce practical legal solutions to both day-to-day and exceptional legal challenges. In representing his public clients, Ben has successfully guided the public reporting process for clients facing accounting and SEC challenges, proxy contests, cash flow issues, litigation, shareholder activism and strategic alternatives. He frequently advises on issues related to compliance with insider trading laws and major compliance challenges. He also represents boards of directors and special committees of public companies in special situations, including “interested” transactions, investigations, executive succession planning and sensitive corporate governance issues.

James Oussedik

James Oussedik is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. James co-leads the Firm’s global credit funds and sovereign wealth funds initiatives. James advises a broad range of sponsors and investors, covering the establishment of all types of private funds, and advice to sovereign wealth funds, seed investors, pension funds, family offices, and financial institutions, across a range of private and public market strategies. James’s sponsor practice is particularly strong in credit-related strategies of all types across the liquidity spectrum, including credit opportunities, corporate funding solutions, litigation funding, special opportunities, and special situations/distressed. James also has particular experience of advising spin-out managers on the structuring of management arrangements and fund formation, as well as joint venture arrangements and co-investments for both sponsors and investors. James has considerable experience in relation to the establishment and maintenance of investment funds, funds of one and managed accounts, co-investments, investor negotiations, and related legal and regulatory issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, James was a co-head of the Investment Funds practice at a global law firm in London.

Katelyn O’Brien

Katelyn O’Brien is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate Department, and part of Proskauer’s Real Assets practice group. Katelyn’s practice focuses primarily on investments in commercial real estate and is informed by her broad-based experience in the development, acquisition, financing and disposition of commercial real estate. Katelyn represents investors, developers and operators in joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, developments, leases and financing transactions relating to commercial real estate. Her experience spans a variety of asset classes, including life sciences, office, hotels, resorts, senior housing, industrial and retail. Katelyn serves on the Board of Directors for The Home for Little Wanderers, the oldest child welfare agency in the nation, which provides children with safe surroundings, permanent loving relationships and a secure path toward a better, brighter future. Katelyn is also actively involved in CREW Boston, New England’s leading network of professional women working in commercial real estate, serving on the Membership Committee and mentoring other members.

Saulo de Padua

Saulo de Padua is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets, Finance and Latin America practice groups. Saulo advises clients on complex advisory, transactional and cross-border finance matters, bringing more than ten years of experience navigating multi-jurisdictional transactions and regulatory frameworks. He has extensive experience in capital markets, debt and equity financings and restructurings, regularly representing clients in high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, registered equity offerings and liability management transactions, as well as in a broad range of debt financing transactions, spanning acquisition finance, asset-based lending, pre-export facilities, structured and commodity financings, and a wide variety of secured and unsecured lending arrangements. Saulo also regularly advises foreign private issuers in connection with corporate governance, US securities laws and general corporate matters. Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, Saulo combines trilingual communication skills with deep familiarity with cross-border transactions, especially in Latin America and Europe, where his strong understanding of regional legal, business and cultural environments sets him apart. His clients include issuers, borrowers, lenders, sponsors, agents, and a wide variety of public and private companies and financial institutions, all of whom rely on his ability to deliver practical, commercially focused guidance on sophisticated cross-border matters.

Robin Painter

Robin A. Painter is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was global co-head of that practice for several years. She also previously served as co-head of the Firm's corporate department. She has a global network of clients and contacts developed over her more than 30 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital industry. She advises fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on a broad range of issues, including structuring private investment funds, portfolio investments, spin-outs, secondary transactions, internal governance and divestments and distributions. The majority of Robin’s practice involves representing sponsors in structuring private investment funds and funds of funds and representing U.S. and global institutional investors and investment advisors in the private equity field. She routinely supervises teams of lawyers that represent sponsors in structuring their funds and institutional investors, or their advisors, in their investments across the alternative asset class. Robin also represents large institutional investors, or their advisors, in connection with the acquisition and sale of secondary partnership interests, and she has been involved in several of the largest bulk purchases of partnership interests in the industry. Over the last few years, Robin has managed teams of lawyers in fund structuring projects with capital commitments of well over $10 billion, and also has advised clients on significant secondary transactions, spin-outs and restructurings. Robin has served as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at several law and business schools, including Harvard School of Law, the Copenhagen Business School, Oxford University, MIT Sloan School, Yale School of Management and Boston College Law School. A frequent lecturer, author and industry board member, Robin takes an active role in the global private equity community. Some of her more recent lecture topics have included: Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund Private Equity Secondaries as an Asset Class Connecting with Your Firm's Fundraising Efforts Terms & Conditions: Ensuring a Successful Platform for All Parties The LPs Perspective on Alternative Assets

Chip Parsons

Chip Parsons is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Funds Group and was co-head of that practice for several years. He also served as co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department from 2018 to 2024 and is currently a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. He regularly advises clients on the organization, raising and ongoing operation of credit funds (including distressed credit funds), private equity funds, real estate funds and a variety of types of funds of funds. Chip represents a wide range of private fund clients, from large financial institutions to newly formed asset managers. His clients include Almanac Realty Investors, AllianceBernstein, Ares Management, DFW Capital, Global Infrastructure Partners, JP Morgan, Radian Capital and Thoma Bravo.

Steven Pearlman

Steven J. Pearlman is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, where he is Head of the Restrictive Covenants, Trade Secrets & Unfair Competition Group and Co-Head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Group. Employment, Whistleblower, Restrictive Covenant and Trade Secret Practice. Steven’s national practice focuses on defending companies in federal and state courts and arbitration against claims of: discrimination, retaliation and harassment, including claims brought by high-level executives; whistleblower retaliation under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and similar state laws; restrictive covenant violations; employee raiding; theft of trade secrets; and wage-and-hour violations (including class, collective and PAGA actions). Illustrating his versatility, Steven has successfully handled bench and jury trials in multiple jurisdictions (e.g., Illinois, California, Florida and Texas); sought and defended against applications for temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions in restrictive covenant and trade secret cases and obtained permanent injunctions; defended one of the largest Illinois-only class actions in the history of the federal courts in Chicago; and prevailed following his oral arguments before the Seventh Circuit and state appellate courts. Steven brings his litigation experience to bear in counseling clients to minimize risk and avoid or prepare for success in litigation. Investigations. Reporting to boards of directors, their audit committees, CEOs and in-house counsel, Steven conducts sensitive investigations and has the unusual experience of testifying in federal court in connection with investigations. His investigations have involved complaints of sexual harassment involving C-suite officers; systemic violations of employment laws and company policies; and fraud, compliance failures and unethical conduct. Steven was appointed to Law360’s Employment Editorial Advisory Board and selected as a Contributor to Forbes.com. He has appeared on Bloomberg News (television and radio) and Yahoo! Finance, and is often quoted in leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has engaged Steven to serve as lead counsel on amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts of appeal. He was appointed to serve as a Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Illinois in employment litigation matters. He has presented with the Solicitor of the DOL, the Acting Chair of the EEOC, an EEOC Commissioner, Legal Counsel to the EEOC, and heads of the SEC, CFTC and OSHA whistleblower programs. He is also a member of the Sedona Conference, focusing on trade secret matters.

Steven Peck

Steve Peck is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group and its Structured Private Capital Group. He represents sophisticated private investment funds, multi-national corporations and other market participants in their most challenging transactional matters. Steve's broad practice focuses on private equity buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, growth equity, minority investments and distressed transactions. His buyout and M&A experience includes transactions ranging from middle market to multi-billion dollar transactions in a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, software and SaaS based companies, financial services (including fund manager M&A), other human capital management companies, manufacturing and consumer/retail. As a member of the Structured Private Capital Group, Steve has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps, lender remedies and related transactions involving troubled companies.

Kevin Perra

Kevin J. Perra is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of Proskauer's Sports Litigation team. He is an experienced counselor, litigator and trial lawyer who represents a wide variety of clients in pre-litigation counseling, state and federal court litigation, arbitration and mediation. Kevin focuses on large, complex commercial cases, with an emphasis on litigation in the areas of (i) intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports; (ii) trademark and false advertising; (iii) hedge funds, private equity funds and private investment funds; and (iv) fiduciary duties, appropriation of trade secrets and employee-related restrictive covenants. As a result, he has substantial experience in obtaining and opposing applications for emergency relief for clients, including preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders. In intellectual property, entertainment, media and sports matters, Kevin has represented record labels, music publishers, sports leagues and teams, computer software makers, and film and other media companies. Examples include Sony-BMG, EMI, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, the New Jersey Devils, the Philadelphia Eagles and Take-Two Interactive. He also has handled intellectual property matters for individual artists, songwriters, managers, fashion designers and athletes (and their estates), including Madonna and the Estate of Leonard Bernstein. In trademark, false advertising and related disputes, Kevin has represented large consumer product, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage companies, including Accenture, S.C. Johnson & Son, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Diageo, Bausch & Lomb, Williams-Sonoma, Church & Dwight and Kraft Foods. In fund, investment banking and financial-related matters, Kevin has represented a large number of the world’s leading hedge funds, business development companies, private equity funds, venture capital funds and family offices. In other general commercial disputes, he has represented a host of public and private companies such as Dell, T-Mobile, Bank of America, Henry Schein, Barneys New York, Host Hotels, US Airways and MBIA.

Marc Persily

Marc Persily is a partner in both Proskauer's Private Funds and Private Equity Groups. His practice focuses on advising private equity funds, investment banks and issuers in a variety of corporate transactions, including private equity fund formations, acquisitions, dispositions, equity financings, growth investments and venture capital transactions. Marc also has broad experience handling general corporate matters, including commercial arrangements, regulatory compliance, structuring and compensation advice. Clients of Marc's range from major financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Credit Suisse to privately held private equity sponsors, as well as company clients. He regularly advises these clients on sophisticated fund formation matters, including fund-of-funds, secondary funds and private equity funds, focused on buyouts, growth, venture capital and real estate. Marc also routinely assists clients in private equity transactions, including acquisitions, investments in major public and private leveraged buyout, growth and venture capital transactions, portfolio company sales and other exits. Marc actively represents pro bono clients with a particular emphasis on exigent humanitarian issues.

Stephen Pevsner

Stephen Pevsner is a tax partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Funds and Private Equity M&A Groups. Stephen's practice covers the broad range of corporate and individual tax advice, with particular emphasis on private fund formation across a wide range of buyout, debt and infrastructure asset classes, as well as UK and international M&A transactions (often private equity backed). He has wide experience in corporate reorganisations, structured finance, investment funds and new business set-ups, and also advises regularly on a wide range of employee and fund manager incentive arrangements arising from these transactions.

Rachel Philion

Rachel S. Philion is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Wage and Hour, Employment Litigation & Arbitration, and Class and Collective Actions Groups. Rachel represents management across all industries in a broad array of employment matters, including wage-and-hour, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, as well as whistleblowing, wrongful discharge and breach of contract disputes. A skilled litigator, she has extensive experience defending nationwide class and collective actions. In addition to Rachel’s active employment litigation practice, she regularly advises clients on litigation avoidance strategies and compliance issues, conducts wage and hour audits and leads workplace investigations. Rachel also serves as Vice-Chair of the Firm’s Hiring Committee and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Summer Associate Program.

Jaclyn Phillips

Jaclyn is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Antitrust practice. She has significant experience representing clients across industries through all stages of large-scale antitrust litigations and regulatory investigations brought by U.S. and international authorities. Jaclyn brings a nuanced understanding of complex antitrust matters, along with the regulatory frameworks and business dynamics that influence competition disputes. She advises clients across diverse sectors, including pharmaceuticals, technology, food and beverage, technology and aviation, offering strategic guidance on a wide spectrum of competition-related matters. Jaclyn has successfully defended leading corporations in multidistrict and class action litigation, particularly in cases alleging anticompetitive conduct involving patent settlements and other market exclusion strategies. Her appellate advocacy has led to significant victories that have helped frame antitrust and constitutional law, including on class certification standards. Jaclyn is a recognized thought leader on timely and developing antitrust issues. She is a frequent host of the ABA Antitrust Law Section's podcast “Our Curious Amalgam”, where she leads discussions with renowned guests on cutting edge issues. Jaclyn is deeply committed to pro bono work, with a particular emphasis on immigration advocacy. She has successfully represented individuals seeking asylum in the United States, reflecting her dedication to justice and community service.

Antonio Piccirillo

Antonio N. Piccirillo is the head of Proskauer's São Paulo office and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Antonio’s practice focuses principally on transactional and finance matters in Latin America. He has extensive experience in bank finance, securities law and corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), capital markets, project finance, debt restructurings (including tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers), securitizations and mergers & acquisitions. While serving on the Fordham International Law Journal, Antonio authored “The Metamorphosis: Expected Changes in The Brazilian Debt-for-Nature Swap Process and Policy Implications,” and co-authored “A Citation Manual for European Community Materials.” In 2008, he authored a chapter titled, “Bridging the Gap – Recent SEC Initiatives to Ease Burdens on Foreign Private Issuers,” in International Business Transactions with Brazil.

Antonio Piccirillo

Antonio N. Piccirillo is the head of Proskauer's São Paulo office and a member of the Latin America Practice Group. Antonio’s practice focuses principally on transactional and finance matters in Latin America. He has extensive experience in bank finance, securities law and corporate governance (including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance), capital markets, project finance, debt restructurings (including tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers), securitizations and mergers & acquisitions. While serving on the Fordham International Law Journal, Antonio authored “The Metamorphosis: Expected Changes in The Brazilian Debt-for-Nature Swap Process and Policy Implications,” and co-authored “A Citation Manual for European Community Materials.” In 2008, he authored a chapter titled, “Bridging the Gap – Recent SEC Initiatives to Ease Burdens on Foreign Private Issuers,” in International Business Transactions with Brazil.

Jamiel Poindexter

Jamiel E. Poindexter is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. He focuses on tax and economic issues associated with the formation of and investments in U.S. and non-U.S. venture capital funds, buyout funds, funds-of-funds, secondary funds, and other investment partnerships. Jamiel advises U.S. and non-U.S. sponsors and institutional investors on all types of fund-related transactions and operations, including: structuring and raising private investment funds; investments by institutional investors in private investment funds; buy-side secondary transactions and sell-side secondary transactions; restructuring of existing funds; spin outs; succession planning; and portfolio company investments.

Paul Polking

Paul Polking is a partner in Proskauer's Real Estate Department. His practice includes the structuring, negotiating and documenting of commercial real estate transactions, including, acquisitions and dispositions, mortgage and mezzanine financings (including construction loans), joint ventures and leases. His clients include corporations (including REITS), private equity sponsors and investors, banks, and pension funds, among others. His clients sit in all levels of the capital stack, including all levels of equity and debt, and invest in all asset classes, including industrial, life sciences, senior housing, office, retail and multi-family.

Robert Pommer

Robert W. Pommer III is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of Proskauer's Securities Enforcement, White Collar Defense & Investigations and Asset Management Litigation groups. Bob’s practice focuses on a broad range of securities-related enforcement and compliance issues. He represents private fund managers, financial institutions, public companies and their senior executives in enforcement investigations and litigation conducted by the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other governmental entities and financial services regulators. He also conducts internal investigations and counsels investment advisers and public companies on regulatory compliance, corporate governance and other SEC-related issues. Prior to his career in private practice, Bob served as Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement for nine years. While there, he investigated and litigated several high-profile cases involving complex financial fraud and audit failures. Bob also worked on enforcement actions involving insider trading, investment adviser and broker-dealer issues, market manipulation and other violations of the federal securities laws.

Lee Popkin

Lee Popkin is a trial lawyer in the Litigation Department, co-head of the Mass Torts & Product Liability group, and a member of the Trial Strategies practice. Recognized as “an emerging go-to talent,” by Chambers USA, Lee has significant experience trying high-stakes cases in state and federal courts throughout the country. Her diverse practice spans complex commercial, product liability, and antitrust litigation and includes clients in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, consumer product, sports, and financial services industries. Lee’s clients rely on her to handle all phases of litigation—from pre-litigation risk assessments through trial and resolution. They value her talent for simplifying complex issues, building credibility with judges and juries, and delivering thoughtful, strategic solutions. Lee also devotes significant time to pro bono matters, and was recognized by KIND for her work representing two sisters from El Salvador fleeing gang violence. Before joining Proskauer, Lee served as law clerk to the Honorable Sarah S. Vance of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Robert Projansky

Robert Projansky is a partner in Proskauer's Compensation & Benefits Group and is currently a member of the Firm's Executive Committee. Rob has a broad practice advising both multiemployer and single employer clients on all issues related to the legal compliance and tax-qualification of ERISA-covered pension and welfare plans. Rob’s clients include the largest and highest-profile U.S. media and entertainment industry clients, as well as a broad range of Fortune 500 companies. In the multiemployer context, he serves as counsel to the boards of trustees of a number of large and small funds and frequently assists clients in addressing issues related to the funding of defined benefit pension plans, including zone status, benefit suspensions, special financial assistance and withdrawal liability. He also advises these clients on healthcare compliance, cybersecurity and government investigations. In addition, his practice includes advising corporate clients on their responsibilities related to multiemployer plans, with particular expertise on the impact of multiemployer and collectively bargained plans in corporate transactions. Rob has extensive experience advising corporate clients regarding general compliance issues and fiduciary compliance matters, including plan asset and prohibited transaction issues. He also has addressed a myriad of issues related to complex plan investments, including negotiation of separately managed and collective investment vehicles for both traditional and alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds and fund-of-funds vehicles.

Mathilde Pépin

Mathilde Pépin is an associate in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Department in Proskauer's Paris office. She previously worked as a judicial assistant at the labor chamber of the Rouen Court of Appeal, as an in-house counsel trainee at Sephora and Barclays and as a trainee lawyer at several law firms. She advises national and international companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment issues. She also assists clients in their contentious matters. She has developed her experience on data privacy law in particular by working on the practical implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Seetha Ramachandran

Seetha Ramachandran is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, and a member of the White Collar and Asset Management Litigation practices. Seetha is a seasoned trial and appellate lawyer with extensive experience in civil and criminal forfeiture matters. Her practice includes white collar and regulatory enforcement defense, internal investigations and compliance counseling. A leading expert in anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act, economic sanctions and asset forfeiture matters, Seetha has deep experience representing institutions and individuals in financial penalty phase of criminal and regulatory matters. She is often retained to litigate forfeiture and restitution claims on behalf of victims and third parties in criminal cases as well as handling these issues for individual defendants. Her practice also includes general commercial litigation and trials involving antitrust, civil frauds and First Amendment/defamation claims. Seetha served as a federal prosecutor for nearly 10 years, first as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and later as the first chief of the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering & Bank Integrity Unit, where she led DOJ’s first wave of anti-money laundering cases against global financial institutions and oversaw all of the Criminal Division’s AML cases. During her tenure, she worked with executive leadership across agencies, including the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, state and federal banking regulators, including FinCEN, the OCC and the New York State Department of Financial Services. Her strategic approach to developing and prosecuting criminal cases under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) established the framework for AML enforcement that regulators and prosecutors follow today. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Seetha served in the Complex Frauds, Major Crimes and Asset Forfeiture units where she investigated and prosecuted white-collar cases involving a wide range of financial crimes, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, stolen art and cultural property as well as both civil and criminal forfeiture matters. She is a frequent speaker and author on topics including enforcement trends in the financial services industry, crypto, OFAC sanctions, effective AML programs and asset forfeiture. She has served on the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Forum on Risk Regulation and Enforcement in FinTech for three years.

Faisal Ramzan

Faisal Ramzan is a Private Credit partner and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and the Firm's Private Capital industry group. Faisal's practice focuses on complex cross-border and domestic finance transactions and credit arrangements, particularly those financings that involve private sources of capital. He structures and negotiates a wide range of financing facilities such as: senior secured financings mezzanine debt second-lien loans bifurcated and stretched senior unitranche facilities holdco loans other innovative, first-in-kind structures Faisal represents a broad array of lenders and investors, including private debt funds, alternative lenders, mezzanine funds, second lien lenders, hedge funds and specialty finance companies, often in the context of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings and restructurings. Faisal has extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and debt restructurings and he regularly negotiates intercreditor and subordination agreements, agreements among lenders and other complex interlender agreements.

Gregory Rasin

Gregory I. Rasin is a former chair of Proskauer's Labor & Employment Department. He has significant experience in employment litigation, including the defense of major class actions and his accomplishments have been widely recognized by several respected independent authorities. In addition to the class actions, Greg has served as lead counsel in the defense of numerous individual lawsuits. These include alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Federal Equal Pay Act, the New York Human Rights Law, the New York Civil Rights Law, and the New York City Administrative Code. He has litigated wrongful discharge and other state law issues in federal and state courts throughout the United States. He also has argued several appeals before the Second and Fifth Circuits and various state appellate courts. Greg is a noted author and speaker on employment-related topics. Some of his recent, notable publications include “Social Networking and Blogging: Managing the Conversation,” which appeared in the New York Law Journal in July 2009, and “Disclosures Amid Group Terminations,” which appeared in the same publication in May 2007.

Andrea Rattner

Andrea S. Rattner is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and member of the Compensation & Benefits Group. For more than 30 years, her practice has focused on a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters, advising clients on an ongoing basis as well as in the context of corporate transactions and other transformative and unique situations. Her clients include public and private companies, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives in a broad range of industries. Andrea has been involved in Firm management for many years, having served as a member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of the Tax Department. Andrea counsels clients with respect to the tax, securities, corporate governance, stock exchange, ERISA and other implications affecting executive compensation arrangements. Andrea regularly provides advice regarding equity arrangements (such as stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, LLC/partnership interests and phantom equity), employment agreements, change-in-control agreements and all other types of compensation arrangements (including incentive awards, SERPs, deferred compensation and "409A" covered and exempt arrangements). She counsels clients on benefits and compensation matters arising in all types of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings, joint ventures, debt and equity offerings and bankruptcies. In numerous transactions, she has addressed the treatment of stock options and other equity awards, change-in-control and "golden parachute" tax issues, severance obligations and separation agreements, the negotiation of new employment agreements and other executive arrangements, retention and other bonus plans, benefit plan liabilities, COBRA, PBGC-related issues and post-closing benefit plan and compensation structures and integration. Andrea also advises clients on compliance with ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and other laws affecting employee benefit plans, as well as plan design, administration, termination, fiduciary duty issues, prohibited transactions, qualification requirements and other matters concerning pension, profit-sharing, employee stock ownership, 401(k), and other types of plans. She has extensive experience with respect to the legal consequences relating to the use of employer stock in tax-qualified plans such as ESOPs, profit-sharing, stock bonus and pension plans. She writes and lectures frequently on employee benefits and executive compensation matters and is a co-editor and chapter author of Executive Compensation (Law Journal Press). Since 1993, she has served as an adjunct professor on the faculty of Cornell University (New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations-Management Programs). Andrea is also active in Proskauer’s relationship with the Women Corporate Directors (WCD), the only global membership organization of its kind focused on helping women obtain and succeed in board positions.

Jennifer Rigterink

Jennifer Rigterink is senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. Her wide-ranging practice encompasses qualified retirement plans and non-qualified arrangements, health and welfare benefits, and fringe benefit programs. She counsels single-employer and multiemployer clients on matters pertaining to plan administration, design and qualification, as well as regulatory, legislative and legal compliance. In recent years, Jennifer has advised employers and plan sponsors with fiduciary and governance matters applicable to defined benefit plans and pension de-risking activities, including lump sum window programs, annuity purchases, and pension plan terminations. Jennifer frequently counsels clients on health and welfare arrangements, with a particular focus on all matters relating to family building and reproductive health care benefits. Her experience also includes working with employers and plan sponsors on mental health parity compliance issues. Prior to joining Proskauer, Jennifer clerked for Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Judge Yvette Kane in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Howard Robbins

Howard Z. Robbins is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department, and a co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group. In the traditional labor law arena, Howard represents clients in a broad range of industries, including sports and entertainment, retail and fashion, newspapers, pharmaceutical companies, hotels, educational and not-for-profit institutions (such as the Metropolitan Opera, Museum of Modern Art and other major museums and cultural institutions). As a member of the firm's Sports Law Group, Howard has been counsel to the National Hockey League, National Basketball Association, National Football League and Major League Soccer, and has represented numerous individual NHL clubs. He regularly negotiates collective bargaining agreements and has represented employers in various industries in representation hearings and unfair labor practice trials before the National Labor Relations Board, and in scores of discharge and contract arbitrations. Howard also provides daily advice and counsel to clients in applying collective bargaining agreements and in complying with applicable labor laws. As co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group, Howard is often called upon to provide labor and employment advice in corporate transactions. He works with clients and investment bankers and negotiates with union representatives to facilitate these deals. Howard's practice also includes a significant employment law component. In his practice, Howard represents clients in state and federal district and appellate courts and administrative agencies with respect to discrimination and employment disputes. Aside from litigation, Howard has an active counseling practice, providing practical advice to clients on issues like hiring, terminations, restructuring, wage-and-hour laws, WARN compliance, leave issues and other EEO compliance matters. As a member of the International Labor & Employment Group, Howard often assists clients with cross-border labor and employment issues and coordinates with local counsel around the world.

John Roberts

John E. Roberts is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-chair of Proskauer's Appellate Practice Group. He litigates cutting-edge matters in federal and state appellate courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court. For the past several years, John has represented the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico—the entity established by Congress to oversee the restructuring of Puerto Rico’s massive public debt—in dozens of appeals, winning more than 90% of them. Recent victories include a Supreme Court decision upholding the Board’s sovereign immunity and a First Circuit decision affirming confirmation of Puerto Rico’s $33 billion plan of adjustment. John has an active patent appellate practice at the Federal Circuit. Among other notable victories, he prevailed in the landmark case of Nautilus Inc. v. Biosig Instruments, Inc., where the Supreme Court defined the standard for patent indefiniteness. John has also won some of the most important ERISA appeals in recent years. He has successfully litigated appeals in nearly every federal circuit and in state appellate courts in New York, California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Florida. John maintains a robust pro bono practice and is a member of Proskauer's Pro Bono Initiative Committee. His recent pro bono victories include a successful representation of a criminal defendant in a death penalty case and two wins at the Second Circuit on behalf of incarcerated individuals. John has also provided pro bono representation to various advocacy organizations in high-impact litigations, including the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, the Bronx Defenders, and the National Immigration Litigation Alliance. John graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, where he was an articles editor for the New York University Law Review. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude. He served as a clerk to the Honorable Bruce M. Selya, the most prolific opinion-writer in the history of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Roger Williams School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he teaches appellate advocacy, and he is a co-author of the treatise Principles of Appellate Litigation: A Guide to Modern Practice. Before John attended law school, he worked as a journalist for National Public Radio for many years, where he was a co-creator of the national news program, On Point, and won several awards for his reporting. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his husband, Michael.

Aymeric Robine

Aymeric Robine is a Private Equity M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group.

Christopher Robinson

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in the Private Funds Group. He primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, continuation vehicles, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions. In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situations and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts. Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Acorn Growth Companies, Angeleno Group, Antares Capital, Aquarian Private Credit, Astara Capital Partners, Atlas Merchant Capital, Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Carrick Capital Partners, Catalyst Investors, CleanArc Data Centers, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, Factorial Funds, Freeport Financial, Greycroft Partners, Hark Capital, Havencrest Capital Management, Hudson Structured Capital Management, Inovia Capital, Kayne Anderson, Lateral Investment Management, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital, Monogram Capital Partners, MPE Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), New Mountain Capital, Nuveen, Palladium Equity Partners, Reynolda Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Stellus Capital Management, Treville Capital Group, WestCap, Vesey Street Capital Partners and ZCG, among others. In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market. Select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, A&M Capital Secondaries, Apollo S3, Arena Investors, Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Blackstone (Strategic Partners), Blue Owl Capital, BNY Advisors, Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), Cross Ocean Partners, CVC Secondary Partners, Dawson Partners, FlowStone Partners, GCM Grosvenor, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, H.I.G. Capital, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Leonard Green Partners, Lexington Partners, New Vintage Partners, Neuberger Berman, Northleaf Capital Partners, Pacific General, Painswick Capital Management, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors, Quilvest Capital Partners, RCP Advisors, Revelation Partners, StepStone, and W Capital, among others.

Lucie Rose

Lucie Rose is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Lucie has extensive and up-to-date experience in advising both fund sponsors and asset managers on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing fund maintenance. This work spans a range of asset classes and fund generations, and encompasses both first-time funds and subsequent generations of funds. Lucie advises institutional investors on primary investments including those directed into co-investment and continuation vehicles, as well as supporting fund sponsors in relation to various liquidity solutions (including situations where a fund’s investment period has expired and it has little dry powder available to be called or recycled to support existing investments or investments limitations have been reached), or situations where the manager itself requires liquidity (including complex and innovative preferred equity structures which secure underlying fund management fee and carried interest income streams). Lucie has also worked on a range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of large portfolios of fund interests. Lucie is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and brings a global perspective to her work. Her early career experience as in-house lawyer for a prominent sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East provided her with a deep understanding of what clients need – and deserve – from their trusted advisers.

Nick Rose

Nick Rose is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Nick advises private capital sponsors and investors on a range of matters including the establishment and structuring of private funds, continuation funds, lead investor mandates, internal arrangements, governance and fund maintenance, and traditional and non-traditional secondary transactions. Nick has a particular focus on the European upper mid-market, notably leading the continued growth of the firm’s Nordic practice having advised a range of Nordic sponsors on multiple innovative and successful fundraises in recent years. Nick’s representative clients include CVC Secondary Partners, Fidelio, Lexington Partners, Priveq, Quilvest Capital Partners and Rivean Capital.

Mark Rosman

Mark is a first-chair trial lawyer at Proskauer, with more than 30 years of experience litigating in both the public and private sectors. Mark is a seasoned litigator, representing companies and individuals in connection with national and international antitrust and criminal matters, including cartel defense, criminal enforcement investigations, and merger and civil non-merger cases. He also has extensive experience handling Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, fraud investigations, bribery, obstruction of justice and kickbacks. Mark has served as lead lawyer in many prominent government enforcement actions as well. Mark previously served as Assistant Chief of the Washington Criminal Section in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, where he oversaw teams of trial attorneys and law enforcement agents who prosecuted numerous cartel cases and related violations. He also served as Special Assistant to the Directors of Enforcement in the Antitrust Division’s Office of Operations, where he assisted Directors and Deputy Assistant Attorneys General in criminal matters and merger and civil non-merger cases. Mark also worked on many cases involving amnesty, recommended indictments, plea agreements, immunity, investigations, and case development. Mark is a prolific speaker and author on antitrust law topics, including cartel investigations and enforcement, as well as criminal and civil litigation and investigations.

Stuart Rosow

Stuart Rosow is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a leader of the transactional tax team. He concentrates on the taxation of complex business and investment transactions. His practice includes representation of publicly traded and privately held corporations, financial institutions, operating international and domestic joint ventures, and investment partnerships, health care providers, charities and other tax-exempt entities and individuals. For corporations, Stuart has been involved in both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions. His contributions to the projects include not only structuring the overall transaction to ensure the parties' desired tax results, but also planning for the operation of the business before and after the transaction to maximize the tax savings available. For financial institutions, Stuart has participated in structuring and negotiating loans and equity investments in a wide variety of domestic and international businesses. Often organized as joint ventures, these transactions offer tax opportunities and present pitfalls involving issues related to the nature of the financing, the use of derivations and cross-border complications. In addition, he has advised clients on real estate financing vehicles, including REITs and REMICs, and other structured finance products, including conduits and securitizations. Stuart's work on joint ventures and partnerships has involved the structuring and negotiating of a wide range of transactions, including deals in the health care field involving both taxable and tax-exempt entities and business combinations between U.S. and foreign companies. He has also advised financial institutions and buyout funds on a variety of investments in partnerships, including operating businesses, as well as office buildings and other real estate. In addition, Stuart has represented large partnerships, including publicly traded entities, on a variety of income tax matters, including insuring retention of tax status as a partnership; structuring public offerings; and the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions among partnership entities. Also actively involved in the health care field, Stuart has structured mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures for business corporations, including publicly traded hospital corporations, as well as tax-exempt entities. This work has led to further involvement with tax-exempt entities, both publicly supported entities and private foundations. A significant portion of the representation of these entities has involved representation before the Internal Revenue Service on tax audits and requests for private letter rulings and technical advice. Stuart also provides regular advice to corporations, a number of families and individuals. This advice consists of helping to structure private tax-advantaged investments; tax planning; and representation before the Internal Revenue Service and local tax authorities on tax examinations. A frequent lecturer at CLE programs, Stuart is also an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia Law School where he currently teaches Partnership Taxation.

Agnès Rossi

Agnès Rossi is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm’s Private Capital Industry group. With nearly 20 years of experience, she is a leading expert in international fund structures and regulatory matters, including AIFM and ELTIF approvals. Throughout her career, Agnès has worked extensively on private investment funds across France, London, and Luxembourg. She advises both European and global asset managers on the structuring, establishment, and operation of private investment funds, spanning a wide range of strategies such as infrastructure, energy, buyouts, venture capital, debt, and real estate. Agnès also specializes in GP-led fund restructurings and liquidity solutions transactions. Additionally, she has in-depth expertise in pan-European carried interest and co-investment schemes, with a particular focus on the specificities of French regulations. Agnès is a regular speaker at leading industry seminars and conferences, a member of the legal committee of France Invest, and participates in INSEAD’s courses on the Future of Private Equity twice a year.

Stephen Rubin

Stephen Rubin is the former co-head of Proskauer's Private Equity Group and concentrates on representing sponsors of private equity funds. Steve has represented Charterhouse Group Inc., one of the leading private equity firms, in connection with the formation of each of its equity funds, as well as with respect to the related fundraising and negotiations with investors. He also has represented Charterhouse in the acquisition and disposition of most of its portfolio companies, including Charter Communications, CelluTissue Corporation, Oakleaf Waste Management, American Disposal Services, Cross Country Healthcare and Del Monte Foods. In addition, Steve represented Celebrity Cruise Lines in connection with its sale to Royal Caribbean International. Steve has been involved in all types of acquisition transactions, including auctions and privately negotiated transactions, acquisitions from public and private companies, and acquisitions out of bankruptcy. He has had extensive experience representing issuers in public and private equity and debt offerings, as well as representing borrowers and lenders in senior and subordinated loan transactions. Steve also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to many companies and is actively involved in all aspects of general corporate representation. Steve is the former President of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF). He currently serves as the General Counsel of FIDF and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of FIDF. Steve is also a volunteer firefighter.

Myron Rumeld

Myron Rumeld is presently co-chair of Proskauer’s ERISA Litigation Group. He previously served as co-chair of Proskauer’s nationally renowned Compensation & Benefits Group. He also served as the past co-chairman of the Board of Editors for the American Bar Association publication, Employee Benefits Law (BBNA). Myron has over thirty-five years of experience handling all aspects of ERISA litigation at both the trial and appellate level. His broad experience includes numerous representations of 401(k) plan fiduciaries defending class action employer stock and excessive fee claims, and representations of large multiemployer pension and health fund trustees in the defense of a large assortment of fiduciary breach lawsuits. He has defended class action suits against Charles Schwab, Barnabas Health, Inc., Neuberger Berman, and the American Federation of Musicians Pension Fund, among many other clients; and he has tried cases for The Renco Group and Foot Locker, Inc., among others.

Bradley Ruskin

A preeminent litigator and trial lawyer, Brad Ruskin is a senior partner at Proskauer and co-chairs its Sports Law Group. He has served as co-chair of the Litigation Department and has been the Firm’s longest serving member on its worldwide Executive Committee. Brad has tried a significant number of high stakes, headline-making cases to verdict or appellate victory on issues ranging from “bet-the company” antitrust challenges and novel Delaware Corporate law, to complex commercial disputes. Sports Law: As co-chair of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group, a significant portion of Brad's practice is dedicated to litigating issues and counseling clients active in the sports business. He Brad has represented virtually every sports and conference league, including Major League Soccer, the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, ATP Tour, WTA, WSL, and various college conferences. In addition, Brad has represented ownership groups and clubs across major U.S. sports, including the Washington Nationals, the Miami Marlins, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New Jersey Devils as well as media companies in sports-related disputes. Technology, Media and Telecommunications: Brad represents numerous technology, media and telecommunications companies in a wide variety of litigated disputes, including partnership issues, communications and copyright law issues, bankruptcy disputes, data breaches, contract rights and complex class actions. He has represented a diverse set of clients including T-Mobile USA, Tech Mahindra, ML Media Partners, Madonna, the RP Media Companies and the Rascoff/Zysblat Organization. Antitrust and General Commercial Disputes: Brad regularly defends clients in major antitrust and complex commercial cases. In the antitrust arena, he has litigated cases across myriad industries. In addition to literally a score of sports matters, he has represented companies such as Weyerhaeuser, Sanofi, Henry Schein and Lupin. In one precedent setting case, Most recently, Brad led the team representing Major League Soccer in a high-profile jury trial in the Eastern District of New York. After seven years of litigation, the jury returned a complete defense verdict in under one hundred minutes. Other notable sports antitrust cases include representation of the ATP Tour in multiple actions and proceedings in the US and abroad, and representation of the NFL in a variety of antitrust challenges to various parts of its business, including online sales and trading cards. Brad also regularly handles a wide range of litigation matters, including contract, fraud, licensing, trademark, franchising, partnership, intra-corporate, real estate, bankruptcy, unfair competition and other commercial disputes. He has litigated matters throughout the country before both state and federal courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitral forums. Brad has also handled proceedings (along with foreign co-counsel) before the European Commission and the Office of Fair Trading. Throughout his decades long career, Brad has been a leader in a wide array of public service activities. He currently serves as a Member of the Executive Committee and Vice Chair of the Legal Aid Society, the Chairperson of the Board of the Student Leadership Network (and recipient of its “The Man We Love Award”), a Member of the ADL Sports Leadership Council, and a Member of the Jewish Theological Society’s Advisory Board (and recipient of its Simon Rifkind Award). In addition, Brad frequently publishes articles, has taught a graduate school class at NYU's Tisch School, and has testified before legislative and other bodies concerning administration of justice and court operations in New York State.

Mark Rutter

Mark Rutter is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of the Real Assets and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Groups. Mark’s practice spans a broad range of real estate-related matters, with a focus on representing real estate development companies, financial institutions and investors in all aspects of acquiring, developing and financing hotels, resorts and office, multi-family, industrial and mixed-use projects. His experience includes the negotiation of purchase and sale, joint venture, management, franchise, licensing and branding agreements, leases and construction-related agreements. Mark also represents borrowers in negotiating real estate-related senior, mezzanine and preferred equity financing.

Seth Safra

Seth J. Safra leads Proskauer’s Compensation & Benefits Group. Described by clients as “extremely knowledgeable, practical, and strategic,” Seth advises clients on compensation and benefit programs. Seth’s experience covers a broad range of retirement plan designs, from traditional defined benefit to cash balance and floor-offset arrangements, ESOPs and 401(k) plans—often coordinating qualified and non-qualified arrangements. He also advises tax-exempt and governmental employers on 403(b) and 457 arrangements, as well as innovative new plan designs; and he advises on ERISA compliance for investments. Seth also advises for-profit and non-profit employers, compensation committees, and boards on executive employment, deferred compensation, change in control, and equity and other incentive arrangements. In addition, he negotiates employment, separation, and other compensation agreements, and he advises on compensation and benefits in corporate transactions. On the health and welfare side, Seth helps employers provide benefits that are cost-effective and competitive. He advises on plan design, including consumer-driven health plans with HSAs, retiree medical, fringe benefits, and severance programs, ERISA preemption, and tax and other compliance issues, such as nondiscrimination and cafeteria plan rules. Seth represents clients before the Department of Labor, IRS and other government agencies.

Paul Salvatore

Paul Salvatore is a partner at Proskauer who provides strategic labor and employment law advice to companies, boards of directors/trustees, senior executives and general counsel in such areas as labor-management relations, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, international labor and employment issues, and corporate transactions. He negotiates major collective bargaining agreements in several industries, including real estate and construction. Paul represents the NYC real estate industry’s multi-employer organization, the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations (RAB), and its principal trade organization, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY). In 2026, he helped the RAB reach a new collective bargaining agreement with SEIU Local 32BJ, covering 34,000 residential building employees, a “win-win” deal providing gains for workers and savings for employers in today’s turbulent NYC residential real estate market. Paul has long represented construction employers and developers. He negotiates Project Labor Agreements (PLA’s), such as for Related (enabling the construction of Hudson Yards), and presently for Gateway Development Corporation (GDC) in building the New York-New Jersey train tunnels, the largest infrastructure project in America. Paul also tries arbitrations and litigations, and argues appeals, arising from labor-management relationships. He argued and won before the U.S. Supreme Court 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett. In a 5-4 decision of importance to employers, the Court held that a collective bargaining agreement explicitly requiring unionized employees to arbitrate employment discrimination claims is enforceable, modifying 35 years of labor law. Unions and employers now negotiate “Pyett clauses” in collective bargaining. He has argued and won federal circuit court cases reversing the National Labor Relations Board’s findings against employers, including in the D.C. and Fifth Circuits. Paul represents universities and colleges in their labor and employment relations, especially in the currently active areas of unionization and collective bargaining with graduate students, post-docs, undergraduates, athletes and adjunct faculty. Among other schools he has worked with are Yale, Duke, Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis and Caltech. Paul pioneered innovative non-NLRB graduate student union election agreements at Cornell, Brown and Syracuse Universities. An honors graduate of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and the Cornell Law School, Paul served eight years on Cornell’s Board of Trustees, including on its Executive Committee. He was elected Trustee Emeritus and Presidential Councilor, and presently serves as a Trustee Member of the Board of Fellows of Weill Cornell Medicine, as well as on the Law School and ILR Deans’ Advisory Councils. In 2002, ILR awarded him the Judge William B. Groat prize, the school’s highest honor. An active speaker and writer on labor and employment law issues, Paul’s publications include “One Dozen Years of Pyett: A Win for Unionized Workplace Dispute Resolution” in the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Journal (“ABA Journal”), Volume 36, Number 2 at 257, and “The PLA Alternative in an Increasingly Open Shop New York City Construction Market: The REBNY-BCTC Statement of Principles,” Volume 37 ABA Journal, Number 3 at 415. He is an Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School, teaching a course in collective bargaining.

Peter Samuels

Peter G. Samuels has served as co-head of Proskauer's Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group, and handles mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, change of control transactions, minority investments and other complex transactions. He regularly advises Boards of Directors, management and shareholders on difficult and demanding issues and transactions. He is a frequent lecturer on a wide variety of legal topics, and has acted as chair and member of panels for the Practising Law Institute, University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Wharton School, the European American Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and other sponsors. Peter plays a leading role with respect to Proskauer’s pro bono initiatives relating to various criminal justice programs, including reform of New York’s pretrial release and bail systems and other efforts to reduce incarceration. He serves on the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform, which has played a leading role in the city’s ongoing efforts to close its Rikers Island jails. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The Fedcap Group, a large multi-faceted not-for-profit, with programs relating to workforce development, education and economic development, where he is involved in many programs, including Fedcap's initiative to reduce the number of women detained in Rikers Island through a holistic combination of social service programs. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Argus Community Inc., a not-for-profit housing a number of high quality and innovative drug treatment and similar programs.

Jeremy Scemama

Jeremy Scemama is a Private Equity M&A partner, with particular expertise in leveraged buyouts (LBOs), and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. For more than 25 years, Jeremy has advised some of the most prominent French and international investment funds and their management teams on high-profile private equity transactions, including MBOs, LBOs, exits and secondary deals, investments, public-to-private transactions, build-ups and growth capital. He also regularly counsels leading listed and unlisted industrial and service groups on their most complex domestic and cross-border transactions, spanning acquisitions, disposals, mergers, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, financings, restructurings and external growth operations. Jeremy’s practice covers a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, hospitality and leisure, technology, media and entertainment, sports, and healthcare/life sciences. Over the course of his career, Jeremy has developed top-tier expertise in securities-related transactions, such as takeover bids, PIPE deals, squeeze-outs, delistings and privatizations. Jeremy's clients include market-leading investment funds and corporates such as Montefiore Investment, PAI Partners, The Carlyle Group, MML Capital, Alpha Private Equity, Latour Capital, Meanings Capital Partners, European Camping Group, Worldline, Groupe Premium and Qualcomm.

Jurate Schwartz

Jurate Schwartz is a senior counsel in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. She devotes her practice to counseling clients in employment matters, as well as representing employers in federal and state litigations, arbitrations and administrative proceedings. Jurate’s practice includes providing advice on compliance with various laws affecting the workplace, including the FMLA, ADEA, Title VII, ADA, FLSA and similar state and local laws. She counsels clients on developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures and reviewing and revising multi-state employee handbooks under federal, state and local laws. Jurate also advises clients on policy and training issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, employee classification, accommodation of religious beliefs, pregnancy and disability, and leaves of absence, including vacation and paid time off policies, multi-state paid sick and safe leave laws and paid family and medical leave laws. Jurate is experienced in conducting wage-and-hour audits under federal and state wage-hour laws and advising clients on classification issues. She also assists clients in drafting employment, independent contractor, consulting and separation agreements as well as various restrictive covenants. In addition to counseling, Jurate litigates employment disputes of all types, including claims of employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblowing, breach of contract, employment-related torts and claims under federal and state wage-and-hour laws. Jurate also assists clients in matters involving trade secrets and non-competes, as well as nonsolicitation, nondisclosure agreements and other restrictive covenants. Jurate’s pro bono work includes service on the HR committee of a not-for-profit organization, the YMCA of South Palm Beach County, Florida, and assisting other not-for-profit organizations with employment matters, as well as her successful representation of an unaccompanied immigrant child in an asylum proceeding referred by the National Center for Refugee & Immigrant Children.

Catherine Sear

Catherine Sear is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. She specializes in the tax aspects of structuring and investing in private investment funds including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure, debt and real estate funds, funds of funds, secondary funds and other investment partnerships. She advises sponsors and investors on a wide variety of UK and international tax issues related to private investment funds and their operations, including tax aspects of: structuring and raising private investment funds structuring carried interest and executive coinvestment arrangements restructuring existing private investment funds establishment and operation of fund management businesses investments by institutional investors in private funds separate accounts for institutional investors, acting for both fund managers and investors secondary transactions, both buy-side and sell-side coinvestment structures Catherine advises on a broad range of UK tax issues including VAT, employment tax, capital gains tax in relation to partnerships, withholding taxes and tax rules relating to carried interest. She also has considerable knowledge of international tax issues arising for investment structures with a cross-border dimension and experience with multijurisdictional fund management teams.

Kathleen Semanski

Kathleen Semanski is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. She counsels corporate, private equity, investment fund and REIT clients in connection with domestic and cross-border financings, debt restructurings, taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions (inbound and outbound), securities offerings, fund formations, joint ventures and other transactions. Katie also advises on structuring for inbound and outbound investments, tax treaties, anti-deferral regimes, and issues related to tax withholding and information reporting. Katie is a regular contributor to the Proskauer Tax Talks blog where she has written about developments in the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions, among other topics. Katie earned her L.L.M. in taxation from NYU School of Law and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she completed a specialization in business law & taxation and was a recipient of the Bruce I. Hochman Award for Excellence in the Study of Tax Law. Katie currently serves on the Pro Bono Initiatives Committee at Proskauer and has worked on a number of immigration, voting rights, and criminal justice-related projects.

Stephen Severo

Stephen Severo is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department. Stephen represents corporate, private equity and investment fund clients in connection with all tax-related aspects of their businesses, including fund formation, secondary transactions, taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, tax-free spin-offs, taxable divestitures, domestic and cross-border bank financing arrangements, investments, partnerships and joint ventures, debt restructurings, securities issuances and REIT and other specialized real estate transactions. He provides tax advice and planning for U.S. inbound and outbound investments, including treatment of U.S. shareholders under the PFIC and CFC regimes, foreign tax credit issues, treaty issues and reporting obligations. Additionally, he provides ongoing federal income tax counsel to clients in connection with tax structuring and strategy to minimize tax liability and effective tax rate, improve tax efficiencies, and ensure proper tax treatment and reporting. Prior to joining Proskauer, Stephen was an associate in the tax department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.

Neil Shah

Neil V. Shah is a member of Proskauer's Compensation & Benefits Group, where he focuses on ERISA litigation. He is the lead attorney representing the firm’s Taft-Hartley plan clients in withdrawal liability and delinquent contributions matters. As part of his practice, Neil pursues employers, their owners and officers, and affiliated companies to collect the amounts owed to these plans using a variety of complex legal theories, and has secured several precedential opinions and multi-million-dollar judgments in their favor. Neil also defends these plans in arbitrations challenging the methods and assumptions used to calculate withdrawal liability, which has yielded a number of notable arbitration decisions and court opinions. Owing to his experience in this area, Neil is a co-editor of the withdrawal liability chapter of the premier employee benefits treatise, Employee Benefits Law, published by Bloomberg, and regularly presents on the topic before practitioners and consultants that work in the area, such as at meetings of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and the Employee Benefits Section of ABA’s Section of Labor & Employment Law. In addition to his Taft-Hartley plan experience, Neil has represented several plan sponsors and fiduciaries in ERISA class actions alleging that the plan’s investments or other practices are imprudent, such as excessive fee and stock drop cases. Prior to joining Proskauer, Neil was an associate at a large regional firm, where he litigated individual and class actions involving challenges to insurer claims adjudication procedures under ERISA, fraud recoveries against healthcare providers, and claims for benefits. Neil has authored several articles, including those published in the New Jersey Law Journal and Bloomberg National Affairs. He is also a frequent contributor to Proskauer’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Blog.

Peter J.W. Sherwin

Peter Sherwin is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, head of the International Arbitration Group, and head of the Commercial Real Estate Litigation Group. Peter counsels clients in complex cross-border disputes, often involving a joint venture, a licensing or distribution relationship, or an acquisition, most of which are resolved in international arbitration and the rest in federal and state courts in the United States. He has significant experience in the real estate, lodging, pharmaceutical and sports industries and, when necessary, regularly takes cases through evidentiary hearings. Peter also regularly serves as an arbitrator in proceedings before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). He is the U.S. member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the Chair of the ICC U.S.A. Arbitration Committee.

Robert Shmalo

Robert Shmalo is a partner in Proskauer’s Real Estate Department and a member of the Real Assets and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Groups. He brings more than 20 years of experience advising real estate investors, private equity firms and asset managers on complex, high-value transactions. Rob works closely with real estate companies on the acquisition, development, financing, and management of assets across a broad range of sectors, including office, industrial, multifamily, hospitality, gaming, life sciences, retail and single-family rental. He is a go-to advisor on real estate liquidity solutions, with a particular focus on real estate secondaries, recapitalizations, NAV financings and preferred equity investments. In that regard, Rob counsels leading global institutions in structuring innovative capital solutions across both debt and equity, helping clients unlock value, enhance liquidity and reposition portfolios in evolving market conditions. Rob is also recognized for his work on sophisticated joint venture arrangements, including the formation, structuring and recapitalization of development projects, trophy assets, multi-asset portfolios and programmatic investment platforms. In addition, he advises on distressed real estate matters, including restructurings, workouts and complex capital reorganizations. Over the course of his career, Rob has represented a distinguished roster of clients, including The Amherst Group, Ares, Atalaya Capital Management, Atlas Holdings, Blackstone, CapRock Partners, Danaher, Eagle Point Hotels, Fortress, HPS, MGM Resorts International, Mori Building, Nuveen, Renewable Resources Group, Sixth Street, Tishman Speyer and Whitehorse Capital. Rob serves on the Advisory Board of NYU Stern’s Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance, the Board of Directors of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, the Board of Governors of the National Arts Club, and the Board of the Real Estate Pride Council. Before his legal career, Rob was a national medalist and international competitor in ice dancing and was named an alternate to the U.S. Olympic team for the 2002 Winter Olympics. He previously served as a Trustee of the U.S. Figure Skating Foundation and serves as pro bono counsel to Figure Skating in Harlem.

Bryan Sillaman

A partner in the Proskauer's International Investigations and Compliance practice, Bryan has over 20 years of experience advising clients on a variety of governance and compliance matters. His practice focuses on advising multinational organizations on a host of compliance and regulatory issues, with particular focus on complying with international anti-corruption laws. His expertise includes assisting clients in developing and enhancing fit-for-purpose policies and procedures, conducting extensive due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions and involving various third parties and joint venture partners, leading complex internal investigations, and performing proactive internal reviews and audits of global operations. Bryan also assists clients with the intricacies of cross-border governmental investigations, prosecutions and monitorships. Bryan's work has spanned numerous global jurisdictions, including Angola, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mozambique, the Middle East, Nigeria, Russia, Uganda, and Venezuela. In addition to his anti-corruption experience, Bryan advises clients and publishes and speaks regularly on broader ESG-related topics affecting multinational enterprises. Prior to entering private practice, Bryan was an attorney in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, where he earned a Division Director Award.

William Silverman

William C. Silverman is a partner responsible for leading Proskauer’s global pro bono efforts, which provide assistance to individual clients and nonprofit organizations in litigation as well as transactional matters. He focuses on identifying and securing pro bono opportunities and partnerships for Proskauer lawyers and ensuring widespread participation in these projects. Bill has robust private and public sector experience and a strong criminal and civil background. He has worked extensively on government investigations and white collar criminal matters, as well as complex civil litigation in federal and state courts. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he led criminal investigations, conducted trials and handled Second Circuit appeals. Throughout his career, Bill has dedicated himself to the promotion of equal access to justice through pro bono service, particularly in the area of family court, anti-trafficking, and immigration. Bill spearheaded a partnership among several law firms, corporations and the New York City Family Court to provide free legal advice to pro se litigants. The New York City Family Court Volunteer Attorney Program now has more than 400 volunteer attorneys from 40 major firms and corporations. Bill also co-authored a groundbreaking report for the New York City Bar Association and the Fund For Modern Courts on how COVID-19 impacted the New York City Family Court. Bill is currently serving as co-chair of the Court Modernization Action Committee (CMAC), a working group of judicial, bar, and community leaders formed to support and advise the New York State Court System in implementing technology to increase efficiency and enhance equal access to justice. He also serves on New York's Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts. Bill serves as counsel to the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition. In that capacity he has been a strong advocate for changes in the law and public policy to protect victims of human trafficking and bring perpetrators to justice. He also represents individual clients in this area, including a successful federal lawsuit brought on behalf of a trafficking victim against her traffickers. Outside of his work at the Firm, Bill serves on various not-for-profit boards. Bill is chair of RISE Partnership, an organization dedicated to ensuring the successful reentry of men and women on federal supervised release into society, and formerly served as chair of the Fund for Modern Courts, a nonpartisan citizen organization devoted to improving the New York State courts.

Charles Sims

Chuck Sims joined Proskauer after nine years of service as national staff counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union. At the ACLU, Chuck litigated First Amendment and national security cases, oversaw the ACLU’s Supreme Court docket, and argued two cases in the Supreme Court as well as appeals in the Second and District of Columbia Circuits. Since joining Proskauer, Chuck has concentrated on copyright, First Amendment, defamation law, and complex federal appellate and trial matters.He obtained a unanimous victory representing the petitioners in Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, a class action copyright case argued in the Supreme Court in the fall of 2009. After serving as trial counsel, he argued the Second Circuit appeal for the motion picture studios in their groundbreaking and successful litigation, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, against hackers who were publicly providing illegal software for decrypting DVDs. He represented Lexis-Nexis in its victory against an Internet start-up which had attempted to steal the entire Lexis database for uploading onto the Web. Chuck has worked on numerous other copyright matters for clients such as the Association of American Publishers (representing eight leading publishers of trade, professional, and educational books in a groundbreaking and successful suit against a national copyshop chain, gaining one of the largest statutory damage awards at that time and an injunction against further unconsented anthologizing of the publishers’ copyrighted works); Houghton Mifflin; and England’s Royal Court Theatre. In the First Amendment field, Chuck has represented The New York Times and The Discovery Channel in class action litigation testing the right to engage in newsgathering, and obtained an order quashing an unprecedented subpoena seeking copies of “any and all” copies of a classified document that had been leaked to the ACLU. He has litigated challenges to content-based federal restrictions of cable television programming, which the Supreme Court largely invalidated in Denver Area Educational Television Consortium v. FCC; and he has handled (with Ron Rauchberg) a facial First Amendment challenge to New York’s Son of Sam law for Simon & Schuster, which the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated. In addition to counseling leading cultural institutions in New York City on First Amendment issues, he has handled major libel actions (for clients including Prudential Equities Group, the Philadelphia Eagles, Multimedia Entertainment, Phil Donahue, NBC, and a major shipping company), with none decided adversely. For many years Chuck organized Proskauer’s pro bono activities.

Johnny Skumpija

Corporations, PE sponsors and financial institutions rely on Johnny’s expertise on a broad range of capital markets matters. He is a trusted advisor with extensive experience in high-yield and investment-grade debt financings, and in equity financings, including initial public offerings and direct listings, mergers and acquisitions, SPAC transactions, private equity matters, and liability management transactions. Corporations turn to Johnny for guidance on governance, disclosure, and other general corporate matters. Johnny provides sound, commercial, and practical advice and applies creative and strategic thinking to deal execution. He has experience in the automotive, consumer, energy, healthcare, industrials, logistics and transportation, technology, telecommunications, and other industries.

David Slotkin

David Slotkin is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Asset Groups. David’s practice specializes in public and private transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, sales, divestitures, tender offers, joint ventures, spinoffs, debt and equity securities offerings, restructurings and corporate governance. He has extensive experience advising clients on complex transactions across all real assets classes, including digital infrastructure and hospitality. He works with both U.S. and international clients, ranging from newly formed public companies to established global brands, both benefiting from his deep expertise in complex transactions, strategic decision making, governance and compliance. In addition to his transactional practice, David provides strategic counsel to management teams, boards of directors, audit committees and special committees on corporate governance matters. He advises public companies on all aspects of regulatory compliance, including federal securities laws and securities exchange listing requirements.

Dietrich Snell

Dietrich L. Snell is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Group. Dieter has extensive experience in law enforcement-related matters spanning a wide range of disciplines. He has both federal and state level prosecutorial and investigative experience, having served for nearly two decades as an Assistant U.S. Attorney; as New York Deputy Attorney General; and as Senior Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission). Clients and Areas of Concentration Dieter’s clients include corporations and senior executives involved in civil and criminal investigations and prosecutions performed by federal and state law enforcement and regulatory authorities, in such diverse areas as money laundering foreign assets control antitrust false claims Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) securities fraud (including New York's Martin Act) civil rights environmental law online gambling He frequently handles sensitive internal investigations for corporate clients and other entities. Dieter’s practice also includes commercial litigation in both federal and state court. Prosecutorial Experience As the New York Deputy Attorney General, Dieter was responsible for the investigation, litigation and regulatory activities performed by the Division of Public Advocacy under former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. He supervised approximately 300 professional staff and oversaw complex cases and investigations involving: Unlawful discrimination in lending, housing, and employment; Bid rigging and other deceptive business practices by major participants in the insurance industry; Securities law violations stemming from market timing activities within the mutual fund industry; Conflicts of interest between research and investment banking functions of major Wall Street firms and the negotiation of a settlement between those firms and federal, state, and industry regulators; Violations of the Clean Air Act by power plants and challenges to related Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking; Federal court litigation over preemption claims by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regarding enforcement of the federal Fair Housing Act; Before joining the New York Attorney General’s office, Dieter served for 11 years as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, notably handling the successful prosecution of 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef for Yousef’s role in the 1994-95 plot to destroy 12 passenger jets in midair, as well as cases involving securities and commodities, bank and computer fraud, narcotics, money laundering, and racketeering offenses. As Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney, he supervised the preparation and submission of briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The 9/11 Commission In his role as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, Dieter led the team assigned to investigate the plot that culminated in the September 11 attacks. He negotiated with the law enforcement, intelligence and diplomatic communities regarding access to documents, evidence, and witnesses; reviewed voluminous classified and unclassified materials; conducted witness interviews; advised commission members and assisted them at public hearings; and drafted and edited substantial portions of The 9/11 Commission Report.

Sarah Stasny

Sarah Stasny is the head of Proskauer’s Private Equity Transactions Group – US. With over two decades of private equity experience, Sarah’s practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and portfolio companies through the full range of M&A and equity financing transactions. Whether it’s navigating competitive auctions, negotiating shareholder governance, or structuring a seamless sell-side process, Sarah provides practical, thoughtful guidance that helps clients move forward with confidence. Widely regarded as one of top private equity M&A lawyers in the US, Sarah has a track record of building industry-leading teams known for their excellence and reliability. Many of the world’s most prestigious private equity firms turn to Sarah for her deep understanding of the private equity landscape, shaped by years of experience across a broad spectrum of sponsor clients and investors. From fundraising to deployment, she delivers seamless support for clients at the highest levels and in the most demanding environments.

Michael Suppappola

Mike Suppappola is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Named as a 2025 Private Equity MVP in Law360, Mike is widely recognized in the private funds industry for his extensive experience in representing secondary fund managers in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales and preferred equity transactions), primary investments and co-investments. He also advises a broad spectrum of fund sponsors who pursue a variety of strategies and sectors, including private credit, distressed and special situations, buyout, structured capital, growth equity, venture capital, real estate and funds-of-funds. After the fundraising period, Mike continues to serve as a trusted adviser throughout the lifespan of a fund, with a focus on general partner and management company internal governance and day-to-day operational issues. An active member of the private funds community, Mike is frequently invited to lecture at industry events on business and regulatory topics.

Mike Suppappola

Mike Suppappola is co-head of Proskauer's Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Mike specializes in representing asset managers across the globe in all aspects of their business and operations, with a particular focus on fund formation and the structuring and execution of secondary transactions. Mike also counsels clients on co-investments, portfolio investments and day-to-day operational and regulatory matters. He advises a broad spectrum of fund sponsors who pursue a variety of strategies and sectors, including secondaries, private credit, distressed and special situations, buyout, structured capital, growth equity, venture capital, real estate and funds-of-funds. After the fundraising period, Mike continues to serve as a trusted adviser throughout the lifespan of a fund, with a focus on general partner and management company internal governance and day-to-day operational issues. Mike is widely recognized in the private funds industry for his extensive experience in representing secondary fund managers in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales and preferred equity transactions), primary investments and co-investments. He also provides ongoing advice to private fund managers and other investment advisers on legal and regulatory compliance with federal and state securities laws, with particular expertise on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. An active member of the private funds community, Mike is frequently invited to lecture at industry events on business and regulatory topics. Mike has been published or quoted in numerous industry publications and treatises, including Private Equity International Modern Fundraiser, U.S. Private Equity Fund Compliance Companion, Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Private Funds Management, PE Manager, Compliance Intelligence and Regulatory Register.

Robert Sutton

Robert Sutton is a partner of Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the Corporate Department. He is a seasoned practitioner with over 20 years of experience counseling managers and advisers of private funds on regulatory matters, as well as regulatory issues related to the formation and operation of private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge and other private funds. Rob has a deep knowledge of the market practice of asset managers and in particular, as it relates to Advisers Act-related issues. From some of the largest and most sophisticated firms in the global asset management industry to start-ups and mid-sized firms, Rob’s experience includes a wide spectrum of funds and asset classes across their life cycles. Rob regularly advises on matters in connection with: U.S. investment adviser registration and regulation; Advisers Act and other U.S. securities law issues relating to the formation, marketing and offering of private funds; Identifying and managing conflicts of interest, and addressing related Advisers Act risks, SEC examinations, and exam readiness preparation; Design and implementation of investment adviser compliance policies and procedures; U.S. regulatory issues relating to purchases and sales of investment advisory businesses (minority stake and control stake transactions, buy-side and sell-side representations); Advisers Act and other U.S. regulatory issues relating to private fund restructurings and recapitalizations, strip sales, continuation fund formations and similar transactions; Advisers Act issues relating to the formation of SPACs by investment advisers; and, Investment Company Act status analyses of private fund structures, investment transaction structures and other non-registered investment company structures.

Yuval Tal

Yuval Tal is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department where he co-heads our internationally recognized Real Assets and Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure groups. Yuval also heads our Asia practice. Yuval is a general corporate and securities lawyer with diverse experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions (public and private, debt and equity), long-term joint ventures, real assets and corporate and real estate finance. He advises clients on the full range of their activities including any form of financing, operational matters and commercial transactions. He advises sponsors and funds on the structuring, execution, entering into, restructuring and exiting of investments. Yuval has decades of experience representing clients on complex, first in kind transactions. His strength is providing original, workable and practical solutions that get the deal done. Qualified in New York, Hong Kong and Israel, Yuval has negotiated transactions in six continents and has experience representing clients on cross border transactions, including inbound to or outbound from Asia. Yuval regularly works with clients in various industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, sports, financial services, technology and life sciences. As an international M&A lawyer, Yuval has many years of experience dealing with complicated, non-customary transactions involving parties from different countries, cultures and legal systems. He has represented private equity and private credit funds, family offices, corporations and individuals in structuring, restructuring, managing and disposing of investments in Asia, Europe and the United States. He is typically called upon to strategize and structure complex transactions that do not follow a prescribed form or pattern. Yuval’s experience enables him to foresee future issues and clients have commented on his “ability to think seven moves ahead of the competition”. Yuval is also well known for his ability to broker deals between opposing parties in order to get the deal done, irrespective of the legal, business or practical obstacles. His efforts have earned him recognition by Legal 500, Chambers Asia Pacific and IFLR1000, where clients have referred to his “ability to play the honest broker to all parties involved, and to bridge the different cultures, legal systems and language barriers and to continually solve the unsolvable, is what allowed us to get this difficult deal done” and another stated “he was completely invested in the deal in a way lawyers seldom are, and his creativity and efforts allowed us to bridge considerable gaps between the parties and find common ground”. Yuval has worked in industries ranging from banking, real estate and industrials to fintech, biotech and hi-tech. As co-head of our Real Assets group, Yuval works with a team of over 75 lawyers from across the firm advising on real estate and in particular operating real estate related transactions. Yuval has worked on virtually any kind of transaction in the hospitality space, including mixed-use development and construction, acquisition and sale, restructuring and public offerings of real estate, hotel and casino companies. His experience covers traditional and more bespoke hospitality products such as hotels, casinos, branded residences, private clubs, nightclubs, restaurants and theme parks, as well as coin operated slot machines businesses. He has completed numerous high profile transactions involving the buying, selling and combining hotel operating companies and brands, including AccorHotels’ [EPA:AC] US$2.9 billion acquisition of Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel brands, its acquisition of Tribe, Australia’s first integrated modular hotel brand, Accor’s long-term alliance with Huazhu Hotels Group (also known as China Lodging Group [Nasdaq: HTHT]) and its strategic partnership with Singapore-based Banyan Tree Holdings [SGX:B58]. He also advised Formosa International Hotels’ sale and resulting joint venture with Intercontinental Hotels Group with respect to the Regent brand. Recent transactions include the acquisition of sbe and subsequent formation of Ennismore, a worldwide hospitality lifestyle platform which currently owns 14 brands and operates over 100 properties, and the subsequent sale of a 10.8% interest to a Qatari based consortium; a strategic agreement for the development of the Faena brand, the sale of the Mexico-based Hoteles City Express brand to Marriott for $100 million, the sale of interest and creation of a joint venture for the Delano and Auberge brands, the reorganization of the Sydell brand and Accor’s sale and long term license concerning the Accor Vacation Club. Yuval’s broader Real Assets experience includes working on specialty real estate such as the acquisition by Mori Building, a leading Japanese real estate company, of 11% of iconic One Vanderbilt office building; The Recording Academy’s (The Grammys) deal to develop Grammy Museums in China, a public/private deal to finance an office building in Delhi, India; acquisitions of hotels in Bangkok by a large Japanese institutional investor and a joint venture between a Hong Kong developer and an Asian based private equity fund for the acquisition and redevelopment of a property in Kowloon into a mixed use property including co-living and co-working properties. Yuval is a member of the Hospitality Development Council of ULI in both the United States and Asia and was a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian council; he was also a member of the Law 360 2020 Hospitality Editorial Board. He is a regular speaker at real estate and hospitality related conferences such as the Hotel Investment Conference Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Prior to rejoining Proskauer in 1999, Yuval practiced law in Israel, representing Israeli clients in transactions in Europe and the United States and European and U.S.-based clients in transactions in Israel. He handled transactions and other matters for major publicly traded Israeli companies such as Clal (Israel) Ltd., LifeWatch, Kitan Consolidated Ltd., Orckit Communications Ltd., ECI Telecom Ltd., Scitex Corporation Ltd., El-Al, Zim and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. Since joining Proskauer, Yuval has continued to represent Israeli clients on a wide range of Real Assets, corporate and securities matters.

Paul Tannenbaum

Paul Tannenbaum is a Finance partner at Proskauer (working closely with the Private Funds Group) and member of the firm’s Private Capital industry group. Paul has extensive experience acting for lenders, borrowers and financial institutions on both fund financings and acquisition and leveraged finance transactions. Paul's fund finance experience includes advising GPs and lenders in connection with traditional subscription lines, hybrid and NAV facilities, co-investment facilities, GP support facilities, management fee facilities, asset leverage facilities for credit funds, loans to separate managed accounts and fund of fund financings.

Pierre Tardivo

Pierre Tardivo is a Private Credit counsel and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and Private Capital Team. Pierre acts as an adviser in acquisition finance (leverage and corporate), representing financial institutions - senior banks, debt funds and mezzanine lenders, as well as sponsors and borrowers, as well as an adviser in restructurings of LBO (leverage buy out) debt.

David Tegeler

David Tegeler is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and the Private Funds Group, and also head of the Boston office. He previously served as global co-head of the Private Funds Group for many years. David concentrates his practice on representing asset managers in a broad range of matters, including private investment fund formation; governance, succession planning and other “upper tier” concerns; regulatory advice; and asset manager M&A. In addition, David has significant experience in buy and sell side secondary transactions, fund restructurings, direct secondary transactions and private investment fund finance. He also represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their investments in all types of private investment funds. David has over 30 years of experience in the private equity industry. He has represented numerous domestic and international private investment firms in their fund formation and operations, including buyout, growth equity, credit, venture capital, natural resource, special situation, secondary, and funds of funds, as well as geographic and sector specific funds.

David Teigman

David Teigman is a partner in Proskauer's Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. David focuses his practice on executive compensation and benefit matters, principally in connection with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and senior executive employment relationships. David regularly counsels public and private companies on compensatory and benefit arrangements, such as equity-based incentives, cash-based incentives and employment, change-in-control, retention, separation and consulting agreements. He also advises on corporate governance, tax law and securities law related to employment matters. A frequent author, David has published the following articles: “Share Reserve and Other Limits in Public Company Equity Plans” (Practical Law) “Roadmap to Providing Appropriate Incentives to Employees When Your Company is Going to be Sold” (The M&A Lawyer) “Taxation of an Option Exercise When the Shares are Subject to a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture” (Practical Law) David received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Buffalo, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Buffalo Law Review and the Executive Editor of the Public Interest Law Journal, and his B.S. from Cornell University.

Nigel Telman

Nigel F. Telman is the Managing Partner of Proskauer's Chicago office, leads the Employment practice in the Chicago office, and is co-head of the Labor Department’s national Employment Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group. Nigel serves as a high-level strategic advisor to his clients on “bet the company” employment-related claims that often involve significant reputational risk. The nation’s leading organizations turn to Nigel to handle their most sensitive and challenging matters which, due to his involvement, often successfully result in non-public and confidential resolutions. When matters are unable to be settled, Nigel works with clients to strategically design a litigation strategy that advantageously positions them for successful dispositive motions, trial and the possibility of post-trial appeals. A strategic advisor to boards and C-suite executives on the full spectrum of the employer/employee relationship, Nigel's nationwide practice is concentrated in litigating single and class action disputes arising out of claims of workplace harassment and employment discrimination, and in handling confidential workplace investigations. In addition, Nigel has significant experience defending and enforcing Restrictive Covenant Agreements, as well as protecting employers' trade secrets and other confidential information from misappropriation by former employees through the institution of emergency litigation seeking temporary and permanent injunctive relief. Nigel utilizes his experience litigating employment-related disputes to counsel clients on effective ways to avoid litigation. His counseling practice focuses on training and advising clients on ways to improve all aspects of the employment relationship, including techniques on how to make effective hiring decisions; reviewing and revising employment policies, practices and procedures; and advising on employee disciplinary matters, reductions in force and termination decisions. Providing the highest level of strategic advice and execution across all phases of the employee lifecycle from hire to exit, Nigel represents clients in a range of industries before state and federal courts throughout the country as well as before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state and local administrative agencies, and the American Arbitration Association.

Mark Theodore

Mark Theodore is a partner in Proskauer's Labor & Employment Law Department. He has devoted his practice almost exclusively to representing management in all aspects of traditional labor law matters throughout the U.S. He is Co-Chair of Proskauer’s Labor-Management and Collective Bargaining Practice Group. Some recent highlights of his career include: Successfully defended client against allegations that it had terminated a union supporter and isolated another. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 365 NLRB No. 15 (2017). Successfully appealed NLRB findings that certain of client’s written policies violated the National Labor Relations Actions Act. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 363 NLRB No. 171 (2016), enf’d in part, rev’d in part 865 F.3d 265 (5th Cir. 2017). Represented major utility in NLRB proceedings related to organizing of planners. Secured utility-wide bargaining unit. Bargained on behalf of grocery chain. After negotiations reached an impasse, guided the company through lawful implementation of five year collective bargaining agreement. Coordinated employer response in numerous strike situations including a work stoppage across 14 western states of the client’s operations. Mark has extensive experience representing employers in all matters before the NLRB, including representation petitions, jurisdictional disputes and the handling of unfair labor practice charges from the date they are filed through trial and appeal. Mark has acted as lead negotiator for dozens of major companies in a variety of industries, including national, multi-unit, multi-location, multi-employer and multi-union bargaining. Mark has handled lockout and strike situations, coordinating the clients efforts. In addition, Mark has handled hundreds of arbitrations involving virtually every area of dispute, including contract interest arbitration, contract interpretation, just cause termination/discipline, benefits, pay rates, and hours of work

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Robb Tretter

Robb Tretter is a partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Robb advises private investment firms, corporations and financial institutions on a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, financing arrangements, securities law compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters. He has extensive experience assisting clients through private and public takeovers, restructurings, reorganizations, and special situations, both in the U.S. and internationally. Robb regularly advises clients on private capital deployment, especially in preferred equity investments (including into fund structures), as well as asset and stock purchases and sales, often in the context of leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and restructurings. His clients span diverse industries, including airlines, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, leisure, chemicals and financial services. Since 2017, Robb has served as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, where he teaches a course on special situations.

Amar Unadkat

Amar Unadkat is a special regulatory counsel in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Investment Funds Group. Amar advises on a variety of UK and European financial services regulatory and compliance matters, both in the investment funds space and also on regulatory M&A transactions. Amar regularly advises his clients on issues relating to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (“AIFMD”), the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”), as well as the latest ESG developments. Amar also focusses on UK regulatory compliance matters, including the FCA’s change of control regime, the appointed representative regime and the Senior Managers & Certification Regime. Amar’s clients include private equity firms, investment managers and advisers, firms in the FinTech space, wealth management businesses, banks and sovereign wealth funds.

Bruno Valenti

Bruno Valenti is a Private Credit counsel and member of Proskauer's global Finance practice and Private Capital Team. Bruno acts as an adviser in acquisition finance (leverage and corporate), representing lenders (mainly debt funds), French and foreign private equity funds and borrowers, from the set-up of the financing and throughout its lifecycle.

Nigel van Zyl

Nigel van Zyl is a partner and co-head of the Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Nigel specializes in advising asset managers, institutional investors and investment advisors across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Praised for his keen business sense and practical approach, Nigel advises leading international fund managers on all aspects of their fund business, including the formation, raising, maintenance and ongoing operation and compliance of their investment funds. He also advises on internal governance, compliance and organization, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, re-organizations and restructurings. Nigel represents institutional investors, including fund of funds, sovereign wealth funds, and global asset managers, with respect to their investments into private equity and other alternative asset funds. Nigel also advises buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests and the structures used for these transactions, including synthetic secondary and co-investment structures.

Ana Vermal

Ana Vermal is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the firm’s International Arbitration Group. Ana Vermal is a seasoned quadrilingual lawyer with extensive experience in both common law and civil law. With over 20 years of experience, she represents corporations from around the world on complex arbitrations arising from cross-border business transactions including acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution and licensing agreements. Ana handles arbitral proceedings under the rules of all major arbitral institutions, and is frequently appointed to serve as an arbitrator. In addition, she represents clients before courts in France and the United States in legal proceedings related to the enforcement or annulment of arbitral awards. From 2018 to 2024, Ana served on the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). In that capacity, Ana participated in the Court’s judicial supervision of ICC arbitrations, including the appointment of arbitrators, decisions on challenges against arbitrators and the scrutiny and approval of ICC arbitral awards. Ana is currently a member of the Arbitration Council of the DIS (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit), in which she participates in the Council’s supervision of DIS Arbitrations. Ana is an immediate past Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association, co-heads the IBA’s Task Force on AI in International Arbitration and serves as the Argentine representative to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. Additionally, she is a frequent speaker on international arbitration topics. Ana's wealth of legal and cultural experience is highly sought after by our clients. An Argentine and Spanish national, she has lived in Germany, Spain, the United States and France, and is fluent in English, French, Spanish and German. Ana is qualified to practice law in both New York and Paris.

John Verwey

John Verwey is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. John advises on a wide number of regulatory issues at a national UK and European level, including firm authorisations, appointed representative arrangements, change in control, market abuse. He represents a variety of clients that range from small start-up fund managers to established global fund advisers and managers. A particular area of focus for John is Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II). This includes advising on pre-marketing and marketing strategies for fund managers, advising on the Level One and Lever Two requirements under AIFMD and implementing UK rules and legislation, and advising on the organizational and conduct of business requirements under MiFID II.

Rebecca Villarreal

Rebecca Villarreal is an M&A partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Rebecca advises private investment funds, their portfolio companies and management teams on transactions across all sectors throughout Europe and MENA. Rebecca has structured and negotiated the full spectrum of private equity deal types including leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, public-to-privates, growth capital, minority investments, consortium deals and co-investments, as well as the equity aspects of distressed situations.

Baldassare Vinti

Baldassare (“Baldo”) Vinti is the head of Proskauer’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Baldo is a first-chair trial lawyer known for navigating complex, bet-the-company intellectual property disputes across industry verticals and next-generation technologies. With over 25 years of experience, Baldo represents leading global companies and universities in patent, trade secret, false advertising, consumer class actions and technology-related breach of contract litigation in federal and state courts as well as before the International Trade Commission. Baldo is particularly sought after for his courtroom skill and strategic depth, having led trials, arbitrations and appeals in high-stakes disputes involving technologies ranging from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to encryption, digital media, diagnostics, mobile platforms and software. Baldo has represented global corporations, including Arkema S.A., British Telecommunications PLC, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., Maidenform Brands Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Ossur North America Inc., Panasonic Corp., Sony Corp., Welch Foods, Inc. and Zenith Electronics LLC. With a background in pharmacy, Baldo brings deep domain expertise to pharmaceutical litigation. He has a proven record of driving successful outcomes in complex pharmaceutical milestone payment, royalty and licensing disputes—often stemming from collaboration agreements, co-development deals, and M&A transactions—where the financial and strategic stakes run high. In addition to representing corporate clients, Baldo works closely with university innovation and technology transfer offices to maximize the financial return of research investments. He develops tailored IP asset optimization strategies and aggressively enforces intellectual property rights to protect and monetize core innovations—whether through high-value licensing agreements, shaping and advancing spin-out company development, or successful litigation. Baldo also provides strategic counsel on IP due diligence, complex licensing, IP structuring, patentability and freedom-to-operate analyses, and infringement and validity opinions. He advises boards and executive teams on aligning IP strategy with business objectives, mitigating risk and maximizing the value of innovation assets. A frequent author and commentator on intellectual property topics, Baldo has been quoted in the National Law Journal, Bloomberg BNA, Law360, Westlaw Journal and Inside Counsel magazine. He is also a regular contributor to articles published in Medical Product Outsourcing magazine that deal with the medical device industry. Baldo served as a judicial intern for Hon. John E. Sprizzo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for Hon. Charles A. LaTorella of the New York Supreme Court.

Jeffery Warshafsky

Jeff Warshafsky is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the False Advertising & Trademark practice. A versatile commercial litigator and strategic advisor, Jeff specializes in consumer class actions, sports litigation, false advertising, trademark, and other intellectual property disputes. Jeff defends companies in connection with consumer class actions involving advertising and privacy issues. He has handled dozens of class actions around the country for multinational companies across diverse sectors including consumer product companies, retailers, and sports leagues. Jeff also counsels clients to avoid being targeted in such actions, helps them respond to demand letters from plaintiffs’ counsel, and negotiates resolutions. Additionally, Jeff represents clients in competitor versus competitor advertising disputes, including in Lanham Act cases and advertising self-regulation disputes before the National Advertising Division and the National Advertising Review Board. He also counsels companies on advertising substantiation issues, with an emphasis on complex scientific testing, such as clinical trials and sensory testing. Jeff regularly advises major sports leagues on complex business disputes. Jeff maintains a robust pro bono immigration practice, assisting clients with asylum and U-Visa applications and in connection with removal proceedings. In addition to his active practice, Jeff is an editor of and contributor to the Firm’s false advertising blog, Watch This Space: Proskauer on Advertising Law.

Jeffrey Warshafsky

Jeff Warshafsky is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and co-head of the False Advertising & Trademark practice. A versatile commercial litigator and strategic advisor, Jeff specializes in consumer class actions, sports litigation, false advertising, trademark, and other intellectual property disputes. Jeff defends companies in connection with consumer class actions involving advertising and privacy issues. He has handled dozens of class actions around the country for multinational companies across diverse sectors including consumer product companies, retailers, and sports leagues. Jeff also counsels clients to avoid being targeted in such actions, helps them respond to demand letters from plaintiffs’ counsel, and negotiates resolutions. Additionally, Jeff represents clients in competitor versus competitor advertising disputes, including in Lanham Act cases and advertising self-regulation disputes before the National Advertising Division and the National Advertising Review Board. He also counsels companies on advertising substantiation issues, with an emphasis on complex scientific testing, such as clinical trials and sensory testing. Jeff regularly advises major sports leagues on complex business disputes. Jeff maintains a robust pro bono immigration practice, assisting clients with asylum and U-Visa applications and in connection with removal proceedings. In addition to his active practice, Jeff is an editor of and contributor to the Firm’s false advertising blog, Watch This Space: Proskauer on Advertising Law.

Jay Waxenberg

Jay Waxenberg is a partner in Proskauer's Private Client Services Department and a former Chair. He advises on all aspects of multi-generational wealth planning and has particular expertise in complex estate planning, related tax work and the administration of estates and trusts. As a member of our Fiduciary Litigation Group, Jay is regularly involved in will contests and other estate- and trust-related litigations. He was previously a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Jay has extensive experience working with high-net worth individuals and their estates and has assisted clients, often for many years, in the structuring of their estate plans so as to minimize gift, estate and generation-skipping taxes in the transmission of their wealth through several generations. He is involved in the full range of his clients’ economic and personal concerns, including closely held businesses, commercial and residential real estate holdings, artistic collections and philanthropy. Jay has helped his clients structure new business ventures, restructure existing ventures with an emphasis on shifting appreciation potential to younger generations, and has guided the sale and liquidation of businesses. He regularly handles family matters, such as the preparation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, counsels on charitable giving and structures plans to enable client’s businesses to remain intact at their death, and to ensure the desired continuity of ownership and control. Jay lectures regularly on estate planning topics and has written numerous articles that have appeared in various legal publications. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Jay is a former Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He serves on the professional advisory committees of a number of museums and hospitals in New York.

Hadassa Waxman

Hadassa Waxman is a partner in Proskauer's White Collar Defense & Investigations and Securities Litigation Groups. Her practice focuses on representing corporations and senior executives in criminal investigations, enforcement and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Proskauer, Hadassa was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she served in the Public Corruption Unit, the Securities and Commodities Task Force and the Violent Crimes Unit. She also served as Co-Chief of the General Crimes Unit, where she trained and supervised new prosecutors, oversaw scores of jury trials and hearings and managed hundreds of investigations and prosecutions. A first-chair trial lawyer, Hadassa served as lead counsel in numerous federal jury trials involving securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, cybercrime and corporate criminal liability, homicide, arson and other crimes of violence. Hadassa has also second-chaired and supervised scores of additional trials.

David Weinberger

David J. Weinberger is co-head of Proskauer's Real Estate Finance Group, the immediate past co-chair of the Real Estate Department, and a founding member of the Real Assets Group. David regularly represents real estate funds, banks, family offices, REITs, sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, and institutional and specialty lenders in connection with financings, acquisitions, sales and public offerings of equity and debt. He has developed extensive experience in the origination and securitization of complex mortgage and mezzanine loans. David is nationally recognized for his representation of both borrowers and lenders with respect to the origination of both balance sheet and securitized mortgage and mezzanine loans involving properties across the U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America. David also has extensive experience in the structuring of “A/B” loans, participations and preferred equity transactions. He has been involved in the origination of numerous large loans which were securitized in single-borrower transactions, as well as thousands of conduit and balance sheet loans. He often represents clients in connection with the origination of revolving and term credit facilities and repurchase facilities. David also has extensive experience representing hospitality companies, both owners and managers, and REITs in all aspects of their businesses. He also has been involved in numerous workouts of problem mortgages and mezzanine loans and is the chief author of “Proskauer Workout Primer: Issues to Address When Dealing with Mortgage Loans in Distress.”

Steven Weinstein

Steven D. Weinstein is a partner in Proskauer's Compensation & Benefits Group and co-head of the Strategic Corporate Planning Group. He has been practicing in the employee benefits field since 1984, representing clients sponsoring single employer and Taft-Hartley pension and welfare plans. Steven advises clients in all aspects of pension plan tax qualification and plan administration, including drafting of plan documents and employee communications; providing advice relating to corporate acquisitions and mergers; and negotiating investment management agreements, trust agreements, recordkeeping and custodial contracts, and other plan-related contracts. In the tax-qualified plan area, Steven assists clients concerning the rules relating to discrimination testing, participation, vesting, cash or deferred arrangements, plan limitations and plan distributions. He also counsels clients regarding voluntary correction programs offered by the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor. In addition, he counsels a wide array of clients on issues relating to fiduciary responsibility in connection with the administration and operation of employee benefit programs, particularly with respect to advice relating to the investment of plan assets. The latter advice includes the rules governing investment diversification, determination of plan assets, foreign indicia of ownership, prohibited transactions, and exclusive benefit and prudence. He also advises employers in connection with the implementation of all phases of reduction-in-force programs, including the drafting of severance plans and related documents, as well as employee communications required to effect these programs. Steven has wide-ranging experience with health and welfare plans, particularly regarding the new rules issued under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As a member of Proskauer’s interdisciplinary Health Care Reform Task Force, he assists clients and other Firm lawyers in preparing for the numerous changes resulting from ACA. His experience is extensive in advising Fortune 500 companies with respect to the structure of their benefit plans and how such plans may be affected by corporate transactions. He also regularly counsels plan fiduciary committees as to best procedural practices to reduce potential exposure to fiduciary breach claims. His clients are most frequently in the manufacturing, financial services and entertainment sectors. Steven has significant experience in assisting clients with the implementation and ongoing operation of non-qualified retirement plans and other types of executive compensation, including issues relating to ERISA coverage, and Section 409A and Section 457A compliance. He also advises clients in connection with executive employment agreements and change-in-control or severance arrangements.

Jonathan Weiss

Jonathan Weiss is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department, co-head of the Asset Management Litigation Group, and a member of the Firm’s seven-person Executive Committee. Jonathan represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of high-stakes litigation, including antitrust, class action, financial services, securities and other complex commercial litigation. Jonathan has won multiple noteworthy jury verdicts, including the fourth-largest jury award in the history of the State of Arizona (over $110 million), and has significant appellate experience briefing and arguing appeals in both state and federal courts across the nation. Jonathan has spent considerable time on pro bono matters, for which he has been honored by Public Counsel, among other organizations. In addition to his busy practice, Jonathan has taught courses on Ninth Circuit appellate advocacy throughout Southern California and has lectured at several universities nationally, including Harvard Law School, UCLA Law School, the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh. Jonathan is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Christopher Wells

Chris Wells has been a leading lawyer in the hedge fund industry for more than 30 years. During that time, he has assisted on hundreds of hedge fund launches, counselling and assisting hedge fund managers as they grew from often very modest beginnings to become some of the world’s largest and best known hedge funds. He advises fund managers and investors on all aspects of the hedge fund business, including fund structuring and formation, seed investments, asset manager M&A transactions, agreements among principals, employment and compensation issues, and regulatory and enforcement matters. Chris’s long and deep experience in the hedge fund industry gives him a unique ability to counsel clients dealing with some of the most challenging situations that fund managers can encounter, including complex fund restructurings, evolving hedge fund investment terms, hybrid and alternative fund structures, liquidity challenges and constraints, internal disputes, and complex enforcement matters.

Harriet West

Harriet West is a Private Credit partner and member of Proskauer's Global Finance practice and the Firm's Private Capital industry group. Harriet’s practice concentrates on leveraged and acquisition finance with a primary focus on private credit. She represents a variety of clients with a particular focus, throughout her career, on acting for alternative lenders and private credit funds in the direct lending market. She also works with private equity sponsors and corporates. Harriet advises clients on a range of financing transactions including unitranche financings, second-lien financings, mezzanine financings, first out/last out structures, holdco PIK, co-investments, note-purchases, other subordinated facilities and restructurings. Her extensive experience covers a wide range of UK, European and cross-border transactions, from the lower-middle market right through to the large-cap market. Harriet established the Proskauer Women in Private Credit initiative, which operates as a knowledge sharing and relationship peer network for females active in the private credit market.

Richard Westling

Richard is a partner in Proskauer's Litigation Department and a member of the Health Care and White Collar Defense & Investigations practices. A seasoned litigator and accomplished trial lawyer, Rich represents executives and corporations in high-stakes government enforcement actions and complex litigation. He brings deep experience defending clients in healthcare fraud allegations, including in criminal investigations and False Claims Act matters, including qui tam litigation, arising from claims of Stark Law and Anti-Kickback violations, billing and coding irregularities, and questions of medical necessity. His practice also spans a wide variety of white collar matters, including tax violations, environmental crimes, bank fraud, public corruption, money laundering and asset forfeiture. Rich’s most impactful successes often occur behind the scenes, where he skillfully persuades government agencies not to pursue charges. When litigation is unavoidable, clients benefit from his formidable courtroom experience, having tried more than 25 federal cases to verdict before juries across the country and argued over a dozen federal appeals. With over three decades of experience, Rich’s advocacy is shaped by a multifaceted career that includes roles as a corporate general counsel, white collar defense attorney and federal prosecutor. He spent more than eight years at the U.S. Department of Justice, serving as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, where he held leadership roles such as Health Care Fraud Coordinator and Asset Forfeiture Chief. Rich also served in Washington, D.C. as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division and as a Trial Attorney in the Division’s Criminal Section.

Craig Whitney

Craig Whitney is a seasoned litigator with a focus on all facets of intellectual property, antitrust and unfair competition. He is co-head of Proskauer's Trademark & False Advertising practice group. With over two decades of experience, Craig is a leading false advertising litigator and specializes in IP, antitrust, and complex commercial disputes and counseling, including copyright, trademark and trade secrets. He is also a certified arbitrator and has deep experience in class action defense, strategic IP portfolio management, investigations and enforcement. A first-chair trial lawyer, Craig represents prominent clients across a diverse array of industries including technology, media and entertainment, industrials, pharmaceuticals, consumer products and finance. He has a proven track record of success working with multinational companies to protect their most valuable assets before both federal and state courts, as well as the American Arbitration Association and other tribunals. Craig is an active contributor to U.S. and international IP policy discourse. He served as Chair of the Copyright Law Committee and on the Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA). Craig routinely advises on IP-related legislation and co-authors amicus briefs on topical matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Craig clerked for the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Bart Williams

Bart Williams is one of the nation’s most sought after trial lawyers and commercial litigators. He has served as lead counsel for numerous companies in their most challenging and high-profile matters. Bart has served as a counselor and trial lawyer for Fortune 500 corporations in a variety of industries, including: sports, media and entertainment, financial services, consumer products, technology and telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and private equity. He has represented multiple major law firms in their most serious professional negligence cases. He has also represented celebrities, government officials and corporate executives individually in high-stakes matters. Bart’s background as a former Assistant United States Attorney has also helped establish him as a “go to” lawyer for internal corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense matters. In a case Bart handled for the Motion Picture Association of America, CNET News reported, “Real [Networks] has hired some very able attorneys . . . . to represent it. But should it go to trial, Real would do well to hire a lawyer with the same kind of charisma and courtroom presence as Bart Williams. He's the lawyer . . . who is representing the MPAA. I'm no legal expert, but I've got eyes and the judge appeared to be more engaged when Williams addressed her. . . . Cases are supposed to be judged on facts but I'm guessing every advantage helps.” A leader within Proskauer, Bart is an immediate past member of Proskauer's Executive Committee and also serves as worldwide chair of the Litigation Department and head of Proskauer’s Los Angeles office. Bart served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of California where he concentrated on complex criminal prosecutions involving allegations of fraud or other business crimes. He obtained convictions in 11 out of 11 jury trials. He received several special commendations during his tenure, including one from the Honorable Louis J. Freeh, then-director of the FBI. Bart is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. He was a starting guard for four years on the Yale Varsity Basketball Team, and received the George McReynolds Award as the team’s Most Valuable Defensive Player his senior year.

Andrew Wingfield

Andrew Wingfield is an M&A partner and a member of the Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Andrew undertakes a broad range of domestic and cross-border corporate and commercial work for both corporate and private equity clients, advising on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, mergers and public takeovers, flotations and equity capital markets and private equity investment. Andrew is called upon by financial institutions, private equity houses, management and corporates to lead on complex and high-value transactions.

Mei Mei Wong

Mei Mei Wong is a Fund Finance partner and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group. Mei Mei advises on complex, cross-border and high value finance transactions with extensive experience on fund financing, back-leverage transactions, acquisition financing and corporate lending. Mei Mei’s fund finance experience includes advising fund sponsors, alternative credit providers and financial institutions on the full spectrum of fund financing transactions, including NAV facilities, subscription line facilities, hybrid facilities, GP facilities, co-invest facilities, rated note feeder structures and preferred equity structures, across all asset classes. She has been a speaker at the Fund Finance Association University: EMEA and is an active member of the Loan Market Association Fund Finance Working Parties Groups for Documentation and Guidance and also Education and Communication. Publications LMA Fund Finance Insights – Evolving perspectives on the use of fund finance May 2025

Duncan Woollard

Duncan Woollard is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Duncan advises on a wide range of fund related work including in private equity, private debt, real estate, venture capital, credit, infrastructure, impact investing, renewables, distressed debt and special situations, as well as advising on the structuring of carried interest, co-investment and other incentive schemes, secondary transactions, fund restructurings, continuation funds, stake sales, tender offers, spin-outs, and the establishment of new investment management businesses. Duncan’s clients include Investindustrial, NorthEdge Capital, Pamplona Capital, LaSalle Investment Management, Melford Capital Partners, Cogito Capital Partners, MML Capital Partners, ACP Group, Endless and MVM.

Fábio Yamada

Fábio Yamada is a partner in Proskauer's Latin America Practice Group. His practice focuses mainly on advisory, transactional and finance matters in Latin America. Fábio advises private equity and other alternative asset fund managers on a broad range of issues, including fund formations, co-investments and ongoing fund administrative matters. Fábio also advises institutional investors in investments in private investment funds and buy-side secondary transactions. Fábio has extensive experience in capital markets, banking, securitization and debt restructuring transactions. He also has represented acquirers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions. Fábio is actively involved in the private equity community in Brazil and frequently collaborates on projects with the Brazilian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (ABVCAP) and its members. Prior to joining Proskauer, Fábio worked as an international lawyer at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. While in Brazil, he worked at the law firm of Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados and at the legal departments of BankBoston (currently Itaú Unibanco), WestLB and NorChem (currently J.P. Morgan). In addition, Fábio was an invited member of the Legal Committee of the Brazilian Association of International Banks.

Jennifer Yang

Jennifer Yang is a partner in the Litigation Department. She is a skilled commercial litigator specializing in false advertising and other intellectual property disputes, including Lanham Act and consumer class action false advertising litigation, advertising challenges before the National Advertising Division (NAD) and National Advertising Review Board (NARB) as well as trademark, trade secret and copyright litigation. Jen represents clients in a variety of industries, including medical device companies, consumer products companies, cosmetics companies, food and beverage companies, fashion retailers, sports, entertainment and art foundations. Jen regularly defends clients in threatened and filed consumer class actions. She has successfully helped clients defend cases around the country involving core product performance claims, ingredient claims, slack fill allegations, environmental and other ESG-related claims, pricing disputes, health claims, and allegations of undisclosed PFAS and other contaminants. Jen has extensive experience litigating matters involving foods, drugs, medical devices, dietary supplements and cosmetics, and is proficient on the impact of the regulatory frameworks governing these products on consumer class action defense. Jen also frequently represents both plaintiffs/challengers and defendants/advertisers in competitor Lanham Act cases and challenges before NAD and NARB. She brings her deep experience in litigation strategy and subject matter expertise to each case to achieve the best possible outcome for her clients. A core part of Jen’s practice includes counseling clients on advertising and claim substantiation. She leverages her expertise in NAD, regulatory guidance (including the FTC Endorsement Guides, Green Guides and Negative Option Rule), state consumer protection statutes and consumer class action trends to work closely with clients and their marketers to help develop compelling marketing campaigns and messaging while minimizing legal risk. Jen also partners with clients’ R&D teams to help develop robust claim substantiation in accordance with best legal practices, including clinical studies, in vitro testing, sensory studies, home use tests, and consumer and expert surveys. Jen is a regular speaker at ANA’s Masters of Advertising Law Conference, and is an author and editor of Proskauer’s advertising law blog, Proskauer on Advertising.

Alexandria Zeizel

Alex Zeizel is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of the Private Funds Group. Alex counsels private equity fund sponsors across all facets of their business with a particular focus on the formation of private investment funds, co-investment funds and managed accounts, fund ownership and operational matters, as well as a broad spectrum of complex secondary transactions. Her fundraising experience spans the private equity asset class for sponsors, including strategies such as buyout, venture and growth capital, real estate, private credit, fund-of-funds and special situations. Alex also regularly advises secondary clients and private fund sponsors on a diverse range of secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, fund restructurings, co-investments, stapled secondaries and GP-led liquidity transactions. In addition, Alex regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their primary investments. Alex has significant experience with a wide range of private investment firms and select clients include Atlas Holdings, Atomico, Lexington Partners and Värde Partners. te fund sponsors on a diverse range of secondary transactions, including traditional portfolio sales, fund restructurings, co-investments, stapled secondaries and GP-led liquidity transactions. In addition, Alex regularly represents U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors in their primary investments. Alex has significant experience with a wide range of private investment firms and select clients include Atlas Holdings, Atomico, Lexington Partners and Värde Partners.