Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Gamal Abouali

Gamal Abouali is a well-respected lawyer who co-founded the firm's Abu Dhabi office. He has a strong track record in cross-border M&A transactions, most regularly acting for clients in the oil and gas sector. Gamal M. Abouali’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and projects. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, and throughout his career has had a truly global practice. Gamal joined the firm in 1997, became partner in 2006, and senior counsel in 2026. Before opening the Abu Dhabi office in 2012, he was resident in the New York and Paris offices

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, as well as public international law. Laurie represents clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investors and sovereigns in investment treaty arbitrations under various arbitral rules. Throughout her career, Laurie has been involved in over 50 arbitrations and has managed high-stake disputes in various sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, defence, financial services, and life sciences. She often provides companies with investment structuring advice, and she advises and lectures on international dispute settlement, including in relation to sustainability matters. Laurie acts as an arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator. She has recently been designated by France on the ICSID list of Arbitrators and Conciliators.

Michael Albano

Michael Albano is Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits, and ERISA Group. He has more than 20 years of experience handling the full gamut of executive compensation and employee benefits matters for corporate clients, private equity sponsors, financial institutions, and compensation committees. Michael advises clients on disclosure, governance, taxation, design and negotiation of executive compensation agreements and arrangements, as well as the executive compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions; pension investment and ERISA fiduciary matters, including in the fund formation context; private equity compensation and governance matters at both the upper tier and portfolio company levels; and employment law and related issues.

Mary Alcock

Mary E. Alcock advises on employee benefits and executive compensation matters, including design and regulatory compliance; advises on corporate governance issues and disclosure issues related to compensation matters; counsels financial institutions on the ERISA fiduciary aspects of financial products and transactions, including structured finance, derivatives and investment funds; pension and tax law issues with respect to their many and varied interactions with pension funds.

Ed Aldred

Ed Aldred’s practice focuses on complex cross-border public and private leveraged acquisition and infrastructure financings, leading combined loan and high-yield bond financings, and senior and junior capital structures. Ed is a highly regarded leveraged finance lawyer, with more than 19 years’ experience advising on complex leveraged finance deals and developing innovative solutions and strategies for clients on their most strategically significant transactions. He advises private equity and infrastructure funds, corporates, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds on acquisition, infrastructure, and other event-driven finance transactions, as well as minority stake, holdco, and other structured finance transactions. In addition to working on buy-side financings, Ed also supports his clients across all aspects of sell-side finance work (including staple finance, vendor loans, certain funds, change of control, and other sell-side analysis) and with on-going portfolio and liability management work (including taps, A&Es, repricings, refinancings, and recapitalizations). Ed has led on many “firsts” in the loan market during his career and has acted on some of the largest and most innovative transactions. His knowledge and experience covers the full spectrum of loan products, from syndicated institutional cov-lite incurrence-based TLB facilities through to unitranche and covenanted maintenance loans, including super senior, senior secured, and junior debt instruments. In addition to his familiarity with the European loan market, Ed also has extensive international experience raising U.S. dollar debt in the syndicated U.S. TLB loan market under English law and acting for many international first-time issuers in the syndicated loan market. He has worked closely with the Loan Market Association to develop and deliver their training, including their financial covenant training in particular, and spoken at several Loan Market Association hosted conferences.

Albert Alsaygh

Albert Alsaygh focuses his practice on real estate transactions and related matters, advising high-profile clients on complex acquisitions, dispositions, and financings involving office, retail, hotel, industrial, residential and mixed-use properties. He represents buyers and sellers in purchase and sale agreements, negotiates joint venture arrangements for the acquisition, financing, and development of properties across the United States, and counsels borrowers and lenders in mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions, including securitized, balance sheet, and construction loans, as well as workouts and enforcement of various financing structures.

Christopher Austin

Christopher E. Austin focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.

Laura Bagarella

Laura Bagarella’s practice focuses on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, including the design, taxation and implementation of employee equity and equity-based compensation and incentive arrangements; annual and periodic compensation disclosure obligations; the employment and executive compensation-related aspects of public and private merger and acquisition transactions; and private equity compensation and governance matters.

Luke Barefoot

Luke Barefoot’s practice focuses on bankruptcy litigation, insolvency, corporate restructuring and related litigation matters, with a particular focus on cross-border and international bankruptcy disputes. Luke is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice.

Elsbeth Bennett

Elsbeth Bennett’s practice focuses on civil litigation matters. Elsbeth has represented companies in a wide-ranging variety of disputes in state and federal courts, including securities fraud, restructuring disputes, consumer class actions, and trade secret misappropriation. In 2018, Elsbeth was seconded to the Federal Public Defenders for the Eastern District of Virginia where she represented criminal defendants.

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Robin Bergen

Robin M. Bergen is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Bergen’s practice focuses on SEC investigations and regulatory enforcement matters, structured finance and private investment funds. She also has extensive experience in the regulation of investment companies and investment advisers. Ms. Bergen has represented corporate clients and individuals in a broad range of government investigations involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and state regulators. She also advises boards of directors and audit committees on corporate governance matters and internal investigations. In the structured finance area, Ms. Bergen regularly represents underwriters and investment managers in collateralized loan obligation (CLO) and related products transactions and complex financial product offerings. Her substantial transactional and finance experience provides her with a unique perspective and ability to understand and analyze complex factual and legal issues faced by multinational companies and financial services firms in government investigations and enforcement matters. Ms. Bergen speaks regularly on issues relating to securities enforcement, government investigations, and structured finance.

Andrew Bernstein

Andrew A. Bernstein’s practice focuses on capital markets and transactions for sovereigns. Andrew’s practice has a dual focus. A significant part of his practice involves international securities offerings by French companies, including initial public offerings, other equity offerings, bank regulatory capital securities, high-yield bonds and investment-grade debt sold in the U.S. market. He also regularly represents sovereigns and state-owned companies in international transactions, particularly oil and gas projects and financings, as well as disputes.

Laura Birene

Laura Birene’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing and capital market transactions.

Kimberly Blacklow

Kimberly Brown Blacklow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Blacklow’s practice focuses on real estate and other asset-based finance transactions as well as structured finance and capital markets transactions in both the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Blacklow has represented both lenders and borrowers in commercial mortgage loan origination, asset-based warehouse lending, credit tenant lease financing and other types of financing transactions. She regularly represents both issuers and underwriters in both public and private securities offerings, including commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Ms. Blacklow also has significant real estate acquisition and joint venture experience and has also represented a number of clients in loan acquisitions and participations, including transactions involving distressed assets. Ms. Blacklow is active in providing pro bono services to community-based nonprofit economic development organizations in New York.

Jonathan Blackman

Jonathan I. Blackman is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the firm’s New York and London offices. Mr. Blackman’s practice focuses on litigation, including international litigation and arbitration, securities law, banking and insurance law. Mr. Blackman has participated in numerous international arbitrations involving both public international law and complex commercial disputes, litigation involving the immunity of foreign states and their agencies under the U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and securities and commercial litigation in a variety of U.S. federal and state courts. Mr. Blackman regularly lectures at professional conferences and is widely published on various aspects of international litigation, securities litigation and letters of credit.

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David Botter

David Botter’s practice focuses on large, complex restructuring cases, both out of court and in Chapter 11, across a variety of industries. David frequently handles multijurisdictional and cross-border matters for both distressed companies and major creditor groups and is particularly respected for his representation of bondholder ad hoc groups and creditors’ committees as part of his broad creditor-side practice. He also has experience representing institutional investors, hedge funds, debtors-in-possession, post-petition lenders, and acquirors of distressed assets in the healthcare, transportation, and energy sectors, among others.

James Brady-Banzet

James Brady-Banzet’s practice focuses on dispute resolution, investigations, and enforcement. James has substantial experience representing some of the world’s leading organisations on a wide range of commercial disputes, group and collective litigation, banking disputes, and international arbitrations. He has considerable trial experience, and his work frequently involves complex multijurisdictional matters and high-stakes disputes. James also has significant experience representing clients in investigations by regulatory and law enforcement authorities. He is cited as “clever, hard-working and very dedicated,” “sharp and thoughtful,” “personable and highly intelligent,” with the ability to “manage both the legal team and clients to achieve the best results” and “an exceptional partner on a major long-running dispute.” James also writes and speaks on topics including class actions, ESG litigation, parent company liability, M&A disputes, and crisis management.

Leah Brannon

Leah Brannon’s practice focuses on antitrust matters, including litigation, merger review, and government investigations. She has represented clients in various industries including high technology, advertising, consumer products, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals. Her work has involved cases in both federal and state courts, and she has advised clients in investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, state antitrust authorities and the European Commission. Leah has helped to secure critical wins for clients in numerous cases, including monopolization and conspiracy litigation. She has also helped clients obtain global merger clearance in complex transactions and has guided clients through government conduct investigations. She is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice.

John Brinitzer

John Brinitzer’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Craig Brod

Craig B. Brod focuses on a wide variety of complex securities, corporate governance and corporate matters. Advises senior management and boards of U.S. and non-U.S. entities on these subjects, including in connection with SEC filings, public–private offerings of debt and equity securities (including IPOs and cross-border financings) and corporate transactions, including spin-offs.

David Brodsky

David E. Brodsky is a partner based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Brodsky specializes in white-collar criminal defense, securities and commodities enforcement, internal investigations. He represents corporations and individuals in investigations involving alleged insider trading, accounting and securities fraud, foreign corrupt payments, money laundering, bid rigging and obstruction of justice.

Joshua Brody

Josh Brody’s practice focuses on representing clients in complex Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and other distressed situations, including out-of-court restructurings, liability management transactions, debtor-in-possession financing and distressed asset sales. He represents a diverse range of creditors at all levels of complex structures, including secured and unsecured, bondholders and term loan holders, indenture trustees, creditors’ committees, and trade creditors. Josh also advises hedge funds and other financial institutions on the rights and remedies of debtholders and in understanding elaborate corporate and capital structures.

Prudence Buckland

Prudence Buckland is a senior lawyer based in Cleary Gottlieb’s London office with a focus on commercial transactions involving technology, data and intellectual property. Prudence regularly advises on major projects such as outsourcings, collaborations, IP licensing and complex procurements. She also provides extensive advice on emerging technologies and related regulation, including with respect to artificial intelligence, data sharing, and digital services.

Derek Bush

Derek M. Bush advises U.S. and international financial institutions and foreign sovereigns on full range of U.S. bank regulatory matters and legislation, including: Dodd-Frank Act requirements, restructurings, corporate governance and investments; corporate transactions, including M&A, asset sales, privatizations, capital markets transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances; and internal investigations and in enforcement proceedings involving federal banking agencies.

Brian Byrne

Mr. Byrne’s practice focuses on the antitrust review of mergers and acquisitions by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the European Commission; criminal investigations, EU cartel proceedings, and other antitrust enforcement matters; and civil antitrust litigation. He has represented clients in a number of industries, including chemicals and plastics, metals and mining, oil and gas, consumer products, telecommunications and technology, defense, health care, finance and banking, pharmaceuticals, insurance, agricultural chemicals and biotechnology, grocery and other retail, building materials, airlines, and automotive and other manufacturing.

Jeremy Calsyn

Jeremy Calsyn’s practice focuses on the full range of antitrust matters, including merger review, criminal and civil government investigations globally, and U.S. litigation, including complex class actions. Jeremy has represented clients in their most high-profile and sophisticated matters, including mergers and acquisitions requiring regulatory approval in dozens of jurisdictions, numerous global and U.S.-focused cartel investigations, and in litigation in federal and state courts. Recently, he has navigated several automotive parts suppliers through U.S. Department of Justice and worldwide investigations into industry-wide price fixing—described by the DOJ as the largest criminal investigation it has ever undertaken, and played a major role in arguing the defendants’ successful opposition to class certification in the bearings direct purchaser class action.

Katherine Mooney Carroll

Katherine Mooney Carroll focuses on advising financial institutions and investors on U.S. regulatory matters, including U.S. banking regulations, cybersecurity and privacy matters, regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and compliance with U.S. sanctions and anti-money laundering laws.

George Cary

George Cary is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office of Cleary Gottlieb. He has decades of experience in sophisticated antitrust matters, representing companies on industry-transforming transactions and complex monopolization litigation. His recent merger highlights include Walt Disney/21st Century Fox, T-Mobile/Sprint, and Dow/DuPont. His recent litigation highlights include defending Sanofi US and Keurig Green Mountain in closely watched monopolization cases. Prior to joining Cleary in 1998, Mr. Cary served as Deputy Director of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he oversaw a record number of merger transactions.

Francisco Cestero

Financial and corporate transactions, particularly cross-border restructurings, special situations and capital solution transactions, financings and acquisitions. In addition, he advises on cross-border enforcement matters and internal investigations. Recent clients include major Brazilian and multinational corporations and financial investors. He has advised in numerous investments and restructurings throughout Brazil and the Americas.

Pierre-Yves Chabert

Pierre-Yves Chabert’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities regulation.

Amélie Champsaur

Amélie Champsaur’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters.

Jay Hoon Choi

Representation of issuers and underwriters in equity, debt, equity-linked and hybrid securities offerings of foreign private issuers, primarily those based in Korea. In particular, Jay focuses on initial public offerings, and representative transactions in recent years include IPOs of SK ie technology, K Car, ING Life Insurance, Netmarble, Samsung BioLogics, LINE, Innocean and Cheil Industries as well as GDR offerings of Kakao and Doosan Infracore. Recent representative debt offerings include global bond offerings of SK hynix, POSCO Holdings and KT Corporation. Jay also assists KT Corporation and POSCO Holdings on their on-going SEC reporting obligations.

David Christmas

David Christmas advises fund managers, sponsors, financial institutions, family offices, and investors on the structuring and establishment of alternative investment funds. David’s practice encompasses a broad range of asset classes including private equity, credit, infrastructure, venture and growth, and real estate funds, with a particular emphasis on structuring complex and multi-jurisdictional funds.

Richard Cooper

https://www.clearygottlieb.com/professionals/richard-j-cooper Richard J. Cooper is one of the preeminent cross-border bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers in the United States and is the recognized leader in cross-border and sovereign restructurings involving companies and countries in Latin America and other emerging markets. His practice focuses on domestic and international corporate, municipal, and sovereign restructurings, as well as liability management and capital solutions transactions. Rich is known for his innovative work on behalf of institutional investors, creditors, corporate clients, government, state-owned entities, ad hoc creditor committees, and other parties in connection with in and out-of-court insolvency proceedings and complex financings, including rescue and DIP financings. He has advised clients involved in some of the most prominent and noteworthy restructurings and liability management exercises in and outside of the United States over the last two decades.

Roger Cooper

Roger leads Cleary’s securities and M&A litigation practice, and is the co-coordinator of Cleary’s U.S civil litigation group. Roger joined the firm in 2003 and became a partner in 2011.

Anne-Sophie Coustel

Anne-Sophie Coustel’s practice focuses on French and international tax law as well as complex reorganizations and M&A transactions. She also has extensive experience with employee stock offerings, employee benefit plans and management incentive packages.

Daniel Culley

Daniel Culley’s practice as a Partner at the firm focuses on antitrust counseling and antitrust litigation. His work includes counseling, merger control, antitrust litigation, and civil and criminal government investigations, particularly for high-tech industries and two-sided markets. Daniel has represented clients in federal and state courts and advised clients in both criminal and civil investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FTC, state agencies, and the European Commission.

Lev Dassin

Lev L. Dassin's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including white-collar criminal defense, crisis management, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations.

Michael Dayan

Michael D. Dayan’s practice focuses on structuring, documenting and regulatory analysis of complex over-the-counter and capital markets derivative products. He also works in the clearing of derivatives products. His clients include ISDA and major corporations, funds and financial institutions.

Sophie de Beer

Sophie de Beer’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions as well as on general corporate, financial, and banking regulatory matters. Her experience includes private and public cross-border merger and acquisitions, partnerships, and transactions involving financial institutions such as banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. She is advising clients on corporate and regulatory aspects of their transactions.

Frédéric de Bure

Frédéric de Bure’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases and related litigation matters.

Aurèle Delors

Aurèle Delors’ practice focuses on French and EU public law including public contracts and environmental law, foreign investment control regulation and various regulation issues, as well as litigation before the French and EU courts. She also has a significant experience in EU and French banking and financial regulation, in particular in the context of litigation before the EU courts/supervisory authorities.

Wolfgang Deselaers

EU, German and international competition law, including cartels, monopolies, cartel damage and other competition litigation (EU and Germany), merger control and State aid.

Maurits Dolmans

Maurits Dolmans focuses on EU, UK and international competition law, as well as EU regulatory and IP law, arbitration, and sustainability. He has extensive experience in information technology, internet, telecom, media and entertainment, as well as in energy and financial services. Maurits lectures and is widely published on various aspects of sustainability, competition, and innovation.

James Duncan

Mr. Duncan's practice focuses on tax aspects of acquisitions, restructurings and joint ventures; structural planning for global financial services companies, private equity funds and other multinational businesses, advice concerning the implications of domestic and multilateral regulatory and tax developments, including BEPS; derivatives and financial products; complex tax controversies.

Mitchell Dupler

Mr. Dupler's practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and government regulation, ranging from structured financings to securities and banking regulatory matters.

Aude Dupuis

Aude Dupuis’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, including general commercial matters, bankruptcy law, cartel follow-on damages actions, and M&A transactions.

Rodolphe Elineau

Rodolphe Elineau’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including M&A and corporate governance. Rodolphe advises both French and foreign companies on strategic and complex transactions. He also frequently advises listed companies on corporate governance matters and in connection with their general shareholders’ meetings, as well as on shareholder activism matters.

Kathleen Emberger

Kathleen M. Emberger is counsel based in the New York office. Ms. Emberger’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters, including employee equity and equity-based compensation and incentive arrangements and the implementation of these arrangements on a global scale. She regularly advises on annual and periodic disclosure obligations related to executive compensation and compensation arrangements, including in connection with the preparation of compensation-related annual proxy disclosure, as well as on employment and executive compensation-related aspects of public and private merger and acquisition transactions and investments and acquisitions by private equity firms. Ms. Emberger has authored and co-authored various articles on topics related to executive compensation and disclosure issues.

Elaine Ewing

Elaine Ewing’s practice as a partner at the firm focuses on all areas of antitrust law, including merger reviews by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, and foreign authorities; civil antitrust litigation; criminal and civil antitrust investigations; and antitrust counseling. She frequently lectures and writes about antitrust issues.

Jason Factor

Jason R. Factor’s practice focuses on tax matters. He has significant experience with private equity and hedge funds, partnership and compensation issues, joint venture arrangements, domestic and international acquisitions and divestitures, private clients’ tax work, real estate, capital markets, and financing transactions. Jason’s representative clients include American Express, Ares, Coller Capital, Goldman Sachs, Henry Schein, Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, KKR, Sixth Street, Viking, and Warburg Pincus.

Barthélemy Faye

Barthélemy Faye’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and Africa-related transactions, including energy and natural resources projects, financings, acquisitions and JVs, private equity, and sovereign debt.

Meyer Fedida

Meyer Fedida is Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s U.S. tax group. His practice focuses on U.S. federal tax matters, with a particular emphasis on complex M&A transactions (including spin-offs and joint ventures), private equity fund formation, and cross-border tax planning.

Adam Fleisher

Adam E. Fleisher is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Fleisher is a corporate and securities lawyer whose practice focuses on a variety of corporate finance transactions. He has extensive experience across a number of areas, including: International and U.S. capital markets offerings, including IPOs, convertible bond offerings, rights offerings, block trades and high yield bond offerings Liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and open market repurchases Private equity firm structuring and private equity M&A Syndicated lending Securities and loan trading.

Sandra Flow

Sandra L. Flow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Flow's practice focuses on capital markets and corporate governance. She has represented both U.S. and international issuers, as well as underwriters, in a variety of SEC-registered and private securities offerings, as well as domestic and cross-border listings. She has also participated in the development of new financial instruments and related offerings. Ms. Flow's corporate governance practice includes advising companies on their disclosure obligations and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and listing standards of the NYSE and Nasdaq. She has also advised a number of companies on issues relating to financial statement restatements. Ms. Flow frequently speaks on corporate governance and capital markets matters.

Lawrence Friedman

Lawrence B. Friedman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Friedman’s practice focuses on international and domestic commercial litigation and arbitration, including in such fields as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, international banking, and marketing and licensing agreements, and in disputes concerning intellectual property infringement and misappropriation. Mr. Friedman has particularly extensive experience in counseling clients in multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration.

Jean-Yves Garaud

Jean-Yves Garaud’s practice focuses on international arbitration and white-collar criminal matters.

David Gelfand

David Gelfand is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on a broad range of antitrust matters, including U.S. litigation, notifying mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. and other jurisdictions, and providing antitrust advice to clients regarding potential transactions and various business practices. His clients have included companies in various industries, including computer software, computer hardware, information services, electronic platforms, chemicals, metals, pharmaceuticals, product manufacturing, retailing, and oil and gas. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and academic seminars.

Michael Gerstenzang

Michael A. Gerstenzang is the firm's managing partner based in the New York office. Mr. Gerstenzang's practice focuses on private investment funds, including forming and advising private equity, credit, growth, special situations, infrastructure, venture capital and hedge funds, and other types of alternative investment vehicles. Practice also includes secondary transactions and co-investment arrangements, as well as representing LPs in connection with private investment funds. Has experience representing fund sponsors and investment teams in connection with negotiating “seed” investments, spin-outs, joint ventures, and other general partner/management company arrangements.

Paul Gilbert

Paul Gilbert’s practice focuses on EU and UK competition law, including merger control, anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and sectoral regulation. He has represented clients before the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (and its predecessors, the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission), as well as in litigation before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal.

Juan Giráldez

Juan is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, where he holds various leadership roles. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English, his practice focuses on international business and financing transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border financings and capital markets. Juan is widely regarded in Brazil and throughout Latin America as a top lawyer and has been frequently lauded by leading industry publications. His advises some of the largest companies in Latin America which rely on him for their most important and complex transactions. With deep experience across various industries, his clients include corporates, banks and investment funds with operations in the region, as well as sovereign governments and their instrumentalities in connection with complex financing transactions, among others.

Elise Goebel

Elise Goebel’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration, as well as white-collar defense and investigations.

Alastair Goldrein

Alastair’s practice focuses on advising creditors, sponsors, insolvent companies, and insolvency practitioners on all aspects of cross-border and domestic restructurings, insolvency, and corporate rescues. He advises: - creditors concerning their distressed debt and special situations investments; - multinational debtor groups in complex international restructurings; - private equity investors on distressed M&A transactions or the protection of existing investments; and - insolvency practitioners, with a particular focus on emerging markets as well as restructurings in the energy sector.

Chris Gollop

Chris Gollop’s practice focuses on a broad range of transactional mandates for sophisticated international private equity and corporate clients.

Katie Gonzalez

Katie Gonzalez’s practice focuses on international litigation and arbitration, with an emphasis on Latin America. Katie has experience representing international and domestic clients (both sovereign and private entities) in international arbitration matters, as well as in state and federal courts. Katie is also an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches a course on international investment arbitration.

Corey Goodman

Corey Goodman’s practice focuses on taxation. He advises clients on federal income tax matters including the structuring, documentation, and negotiation of a variety of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spinoffs, bankruptcy reorganizations, refinancings, securitization transactions, and cross-border and internal restructurings. Corey frequently speaks on tax topics involving corporate strategic mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, and other international tax issues.

David Gottlieb

David I. Gottlieb’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border M&A transactions, including IPOs, investment-grade, sovereign and high-yield debt offerings, privatizations, SPAC transactions, and liability management. David is one of a small handful of U.S. securities law experts based in Europe for more than a decade, and regularly advises U.S. and foreign private issuer clients and global investment banks on disclosure, corporate governance, regulatory, and ESG matters. He is a current leader of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group and has extensive expertise in the European banking, oil and gas, metals and mining, and tech sectors. He has worked on transactions in numerous jurisdictions across Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, MENA, and Israel.

Nicolas Grabar

Nicolas Grabar’s practice focuses on international capital markets and securities regulation and on the representation of large reporting companies. Nick has extensive experience in international financing in public and private markets, US securities law applicable to foreign issuers, and regulation of financial reporting. Advises on securities considerations in M&A transactions. He plays a primary role in the firm’s work for public company clients, including leading Mexican and Brazilian businesses, sovereigns, and global investment banks, on their biggest and most complex capital markets and financing matters.

Jinduk Han

Jinduk Han's practice focuses on international securities and corporate matters, including private placements and public offerings of the debt and equity securities of a large number of Asian issuers, primarily those based in Korea, including The Republic of Korea, Korea Development Bank, The Export-Import Bank of Korea, Industrial Bank of Korea, Kakao Pay, Korea Gas Corporation, Korea National Oil Corporation, Korean Air, KT Corporation, LG Display, LINE Corporation, NAVER, POSCO, Samsung Biologics, Samsung Electronics, SK Innovation, SK Telecom, and other companies in the LG Group, Samsung Group and SK Group. Represented Goldman Sachs investment affiliate's acquisition of an interest in Kookmin Bank. Advised on four of the five largest IPOs by Korean companies: Samsung Life Insurance, KRAFTON, LOTTE Shopping and Netmarble Games.

Kyle Harris

Kyle A. Harris’ practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. His experience spans the range of M&A activity, including representing public and private companies and private equity firms in both U.S. domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, divestitures, joint ventures, and other complex corporate transactions. He also regularly advises companies and their boards on shareholder activism, corporate governance, and general corporate and securities law matters. He is an adjunct professor of law at NYU School of Law, where he teaches a course on mergers and acquisitions. His clients have included América Móvil, Google, Heidelberg Materials, Henry Schein, International Flavors & Fragrances, Kindred Healthcare, RTX, T-Mobile, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Warburg Pincus and WPP.

Raif Hassan

Raif Hassan’s practice focuses on cross-border competition and antitrust litigation and commercial disputes. He has extensive experience of competition follow-on, standalone, and class actions before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), the English High Court, and Court of Appeal. Raif has experience of international commercial disputes resolved by ICC and LCIA arbitral proceedings, High Court litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, including mediation and expert determination. He also has substantial appellate court experience in both the English Court of Appeal and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Raif has worked with clients from a variety of sectors including oil and gas, pharmaceutical, financial services, defense, infrastructure, and automotive. As well as representing clients in dispute resolution proceedings, he regularly provides advice on a range of contractual, jurisdictional and conflict of law issues, and on issues relating to the enforcement and recognition of judgments and litigation funding.

Jim Ho

Sui-Jim Ho’s practice focuses on finance, capital markets, and restructuring. He advises on a broad range of financial products including loans (ranging from investment grade to acquisition and leveraged finance), bonds, and derivatives. His clients include companies, financial institutions, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and sovereigns.

Jackie Holland

Jackie Holland’s practice focuses on EU and UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, State aid/subsidies, competition litigation, market investigations, and sectoral regulation. She represents clients before the Competition and Markets Authority, the European Commission, and sectoral regulators, as well as in litigation in the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Court of Justice.

Victor Hou

Victor L. Hou is a trial lawyer who represents companies and individuals in high stakes litigation, including cross-border investigations and parallel civil litigation, white-collar criminal defense, securities and derivative litigation, corporate governance, and general commercial litigation. Victor represents numerous global investment banks, financial institutions and multinational corporations, and senior executives in securities, antitrust and other complex litigation, as well as in criminal and regulatory matters involving the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and state attorney general’s offices. He also regularly advises Boards of Directors on matters relating to corporate governance. He has been teaching securities litigation at Columbia Law School since 2021.

Daniel Ilan

Daniel Ilan leads the firm’s privacy & data security practice and also focuses his practice on artificial intelligence (and AI Governance), intellectual property law and technology. He has significant experience in representing leading multinational corporations and private equity firms in privacy, data security, technology and IP issues arising in transactional contexts, particularly transactions involving acquisition, licensing or transfer of or investment in data assets, IP and technology. Daniel is also one of the leaders of the firm’s AI Practice.

Michael James

Michael has a broad corporate practice focusing on a range of international corporate and private equity transactions, including private fund formation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, co-investments, and consortium transactions.

Jorge Juantorena

Jorge U. Juantorena has a broad corporate practice, focusing primarily on capital markets and securities regulation in Latin America. He regularly advises public companies, sovereign governments, state-owned companies, and investment banks. He concentrates on cross-border transactions, principally in Latin America. Jorge has extensive experience in international ﬁnancings in public and private markets, in U.S. securities law and regulations applicable to foreign issuers and sovereign governments, and in the regulation of ﬁnancial reporting. He also advises on acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, and debt restructurings, particularly in the aeronautical, ﬁnancial services, mining, and energy and natural resources sectors.

Jeffrey Karpf

Jeffrey D. Karpf is Cleary Gottlieb’s Managing Partner. As Managing Partner, Jeff prioritizes growth in the U.S. and in our core practices globally, sustained financial success, investment in talent, and maintaining the firm’s leadership in innovation. In addition to leading the firm, Jeff continues to advise on corporate and financial transactions and matters. He represents issuers, sponsors, and investment banks across a variety of capital markets transactions, including IPOs, public and private equity offerings, debt issuances, convertibles, and liability management transactions. Jeff also advises on securities regulatory and corporate governance matters, including board structure and practices. He has extensive experience in the development of new financial instruments.

Jonathan Kelly

Jonathan Kelly is consistently recognized as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of disputes and enforcement, and as a “litigation veteran” with 30 years in practice. He is cited by UK and European legal directories and the media as one of “the UK’s leading banking litigators,” an “outstanding lawyer,” “esteemed litigator,” and “a formidable opponent.” He is described as a “class act…a real market leader” who is “top rated…keen and insightful, clear, concise” and “great to work with because you know he’s seen it all before.” He has advised on a wide range of significant disputes, involving antitrust and competition, banking and financial services, corporate and private equity, regulatory enforcement and investigations, and sovereign immunity. His cases invariably involve complex multijurisdictional elements.

Joon Kim

Joon Kim's practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense and investigations, commercial litigation, corporate governance and crisis management.

Ethan Klingsberg

Ethan Klingsberg’s practice comprises M&A, public company board and independent committee, activism-response, governance, corporate, and SEC matters. His M&A practice covers mergers of mature companies, acquisitions of start-ups, divestitures, and spin-offs. He regularly helps companies prevail against, manage, and work with “activist stockholders,” including in scenarios where these stockholders have board seats, are seeking board seats, and do not have board seats. In addition, he advises boards and controlling shareholder groups on creative capital structures and governance and liquidity arrangements, including in connection with IPOs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and the creation of autonomous subsidiaries. Ethan is recognized among M&A “MVPs” and “Dealmakers of the Year” by Law360 and The American Lawyer, and among the country’s leading corporate lawyers in every major guide.

Arthur Kohn

Arthur H. Kohn is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Mr. Kohn's practice focuses on compensation and benefit matters, including tax, securities law, corporate governance and other disciplines related to executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, pension compliance and investment, employment law and related matters. He advises public and private companies in financial services, retail, industrial, technology and other industries. He teaches the Taxation of Executive Compensation at NYU Law School, and has written and spoken extensively on compensation and governance matters. He also is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Weinberg Center.

Chantal Kordula

Chantal is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb whose practice focuses on international business and financing transactions, with a strong emphasis on Latin America. With close to 30 years of experience, Chantal advises Latin American blue-chip companies, state-owned enterprises, and investment funds on cross-border M&A, complex financings, and major infrastructure development projects throughout Latin America and globally. She also regularly counsels multinational corporations on their strategic investments and operations in Latin America. Chantal has served across several firm operational committees throughout her career, including the firm’s Executive Committee. Fluent in Spanish, French, and English, and known for her ability to integrate M&A and finance in creative, practical ways, Chantal is frequently recognized by leading industry publications for her innovative and impactful work on some of the region's largest and most complex deals, positioning Cleary Gottlieb at the forefront of the market. Her experience spans a wide range of sectors, and her clients include Coca-Cola FEMSA, Codelco, FEMSA, Grupo Bimbo, LATAM Airlines, Mitsui, Pemex, Posadas, and Vitro, among many others. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Amherst College, where she serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Meredith Kotler

Michael Krimminger

Michael H. Krimminger is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Krimminger’s practice focuses on domestic and international financial regulatory matters, including virtual currency, blockchain, and other FinTech developments. After playing a leading role in international efforts to enhance global resiliency, he advises on capital, derivatives, corporate governance, and resolution and recovery requirements.

Gareth Kristensen

Gareth Kristensen is a Partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s London office with a focus on UK, European and cross-border technology, AI, data and intellectual property matters. Gareth advises leading global corporations, high-growth companies and private equity/venture capital firms on the development, use and regulation of AI technologies, including copyright, data rights and training issues, AI and data regulatory compliance (such as EU AI Act, Data Act and GDPR matters), licensing, partnerships, collaborations and outsourcing deals, and AI business strategy, AI legislative reform and internal AI governance matters. He has extensive experience advising on technology transactions, global M&A and investments, and commercial contracts with a substantial IP, technology and data component. His practice covers the full range of IP rights including patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights, database rights, and trade secrets. Gareth is a member of the UK Financial Markets Law Committee’s Artificial Intelligence Working Group, and holds the CIPP/E accreditation (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

John Kupiec

Ignacio Lagos

Ignacio’s practice focuses on cross-border corporate and financial matters, including debt and equity offerings, liability management transactions, structured financing, derivatives, and restructurings, with a special focus on Latin American sovereigns and state-owned enterprises. He has participated in debt offerings and liability management transactions by the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay, as well as several Argentine provinces and state-owned enterprises. He also regularly advises governments, central banks and private clients in structured financing, derivative transactions, and restructurings.

Joseph Lanzkron

Joe Lanzkron’s practice focuses on real estate transactions. Joe has a broad range of experience representing lenders and borrowers in various real estate financings across multiple property types, including CMBS, balance sheet loans and loan on loan facilities. Joe also regularly advises high-profile clients, including investment banks, private equity funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds, on complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures. His experience also includes significant restructurings and workouts, including through bankruptcy.

David Last

David Last’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense and government investigations, including defending companies and individuals in a wide range of high-stakes domestic and international enforcement actions and trials with a particular focus on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters.

Mark Leddy

Mark Leddy's practice focuses on U.S. and European antitrust law, the analysis of competitive issues in mergers and acquisitions, and appearances before antitrust regulatory agencies and the courts in civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Leddy lectures and is widely published on criminal and civil antitrust enforcement and litigation issues. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School.

Kimberly Lee

Kimberly Lee’s practice focuses on structuring and formation of private investment funds and advising institutional investors investing in private investment funds. She also advises on secondary transactions, including continuation fund transactions, and co-investments.

David Leinwand

David Leinwand’s practice focuses on merger and acquisition transactions and private equity investments. He has represented a broad array of buyers and sellers in a wide variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions. In particular, David has significant experience advising private equity firms in their acquisitions and dispositions. He has worked on a number of high-profile deals involving companies in a range of industries, including consumer products and retail, energy, financial services, information technology, and pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

Valérie Lemaitre

Valérie Lemaitre’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including acquisition transactions involving public companies, structured financings, leveraged transactions and securities offerings.

Elizabeth Lenas

Elizabeth (Liza) Lenas is the Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Global Private Funds Group, where she advises many of the world’s most sophisticated alternative asset managers on complex fund formation and investment strategies. Her practice spans the full lifecycle of private funds, with deep experience in fund formation, co-investments, consortium transactions, large-scale acquisitions, spin-offs, joint ventures, shareholding arrangements, managed accounts, and other strategic transactions. Liza represents sponsors across asset classes—including private equity, credit, venture, impact, and growth—and has been at the forefront of developing some of the industry’s most innovative investment vehicles, including one of the largest evergreen funds ever raised. She also counsels limited partners on their fund commitments and investments and has significant experience navigating clients through high-stakes disputes and sensitive investment-related controversies. Liza’s clients include leading firms such as Sixth Street, KKR, Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse, TPG, and Cascade Asset Management Company. A recognized leader in the private funds space, Liza serves on the Organizing Committee of the IBA’s Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds and is a frequent speaker at major industry events, including those hosted by the Practising Law Institute, the Bar Association of the City of New York, the Maples Investment Funds Forum, and the Institutional Investor Legal Forum. In addition to her client work, Liza is deeply committed to public service and serves as New York Co-Chair of Cleary Gottlieb’s U.S. Pro Bono Committee.

Nicholas Levy

EU and U.K. competition law, notifying mergers to the European Commission, U.K. Competition & Markets Authority, and other competition authorities around the world, advising on cartels and abuse of dominance cases before competition authorities and courts.

Jeffrey Lewis

Jeff Lewis’ practice focuses on domestic and international business and financing transactions. He has advised private and public sector clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity investments. Jeff has substantial experience in the natural resources and energy sectors.

Sarah Lewis

Sarah’s practice focuses primarily on international capital markets transactions, with an emphasis on U.S. securities laws and their application to offerings by non-U.S. companies in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and particularly in the Nordics. Her work includes equity offerings and debt offerings. Her transactional experience covers a wide range of offerings, including IPOs, rights offerings, accelerated bookbuild offerings, block trades and direct share placements, in the case of ECM transactions, and investment-grade debt offerings, as well as convertible and exchangeable bonds, in the case of DCM transactions.

Victor Lewkow

Victor I. Lewkow is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Lewkow's practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also advises corporations and their boards regarding governance issues and the fiduciary duties of directors.

Lewis Liman

Lewis J. Liman is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Liman is an experienced commercial litigator and appellate lawyer. Mr. Liman's practice focuses on securities and commercial litigation; white collar criminal defense and governmental investigations. He has represented numerous companies, individuals, and financial institutions in complex commercial litigation and governmental and internal investigations. He has also successfully argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Ninth and Federal Circuits, and in the courts of New York State.

Richard Lincer

Richard S. Lincer is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Lincer’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including international project financings and debt restructurings, corporate and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and high yield and leveraged finance transactions, as well as public and private offerings of corporate securities and investment funds.

Colin Lloyd

David Lopez

David Lopez represents a broad range of corporate clients including in the retail, industrial, financial, healthcare, insurance and technology sectors. His broad corporate advisory practice including governance, SEC disclosure and compliance, corporate finance transactions and structuring, securities law, buybacks and insider trading advice. David represents issuers and investment banks in capital markets transactions involving initial public offerings, public and private debt, convertible, investment grade and high yield debt, equity financings, structured securities and equity derivatives. He has the leading practice in liability management, including issuer tender offers, public and private exchanges offers related to corporate restructurings, acquisitions, and consent solicitations. He also has a substantial practice in digital assets, representing digital assets custodians, payment companies, exchanges, and corporates both in the creation of digital assets and with related compliance issues.

Mitchell Lowenthal

Mitchell A. Lowenthal is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Lowenthal specializes in the prosecution and defense of complex civil litigations, with an emphasis on disputes arising out of securities and M&A transactions.

Polina Lyadnova

Polina Lyadnova’s practice focuses on a broad range of cross-border debt transactions at various levels of capital structure. Her experience ranges from complex and transformational assignments to innovative middle-market transactions and covers debt restructuring, finance, special situations, sanctions laws and regulations, with a particular focus on the emerging markets. Polina provides a broad range of business advisory, strategic planning, and crisis management skills to achieve bespoke solutions for clients facing unique circumstances. She is a co-editor and contributor to Cleary’s Global Restructuring Insights, the monthly publication featuring select topics that highlight notable themes, trends and developments in bankruptcy and restructuring matters, and a co-author of Cleary’s Trade Watch blog providing regular updates on sanctions developments.

Chris Macbeth

Chris is a partner and co-head of our global sovereign wealth fund client group. He is a skilled M&A and private equity/funds lawyer who has established an exceptionally strong reputation among sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, and corporate clients, which have consistently turned to him for their most complex, highest profile matters in the Middle East and beyond. Chris has advised on investments in a variety of sectors, cross-border M&A and JVs and private equity and funds matters, including LP fund investments, co-investments, and direct investments (including VC deals and infrastructure investments), across a wide range of geographies (particularly the US, LatAm, Europe as well as almost all MENA countries). Chris joined the firm in 2006 and has been focused on deals for MENA clients and in the MENA region throughout the past two decades, initially from London and then from the UAE, having relocated to help found Cleary’s Abu Dhabi office (the hub of our MENA practice) in 2012.

Ari MacKinnon

Ari D. MacKinnon’s practice focuses on international arbitration in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on matters relating to the oil & gas, mining and infrastructure sectors, as well as ESG- and corruption-related issues. Ari has successfully represented a number of major Latin American oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, and pulp and paper companies, as well as other clients in disputes in the region. He speaks regularly in Latin America on topics related to arbitration and crisis management. Ari has experience conducting arbitrations in both English and Spanish.

Abena Mainoo

Abena Mainoo’s practice focuses on enforcement and complex civil litigation. Abena has represented companies in cross-border investigations and civil litigation involving allegations of fraud, sanctions violations and foreign corrupt payments. Abena also conducts internal investigations and advises on corporate compliance programs as well as corporate governance.

Pamela Marcogliese

Pamela L. Marcogliese is a partner in Cleary Gottlieb’s Capital Markets and Corporate Governance practices. She has extensive experience in corporate governance matters advising U.S. and non-U.S. issuers on disclosure and corporate governance issues, including SEC, stock exchange, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank compliance. She also regularly advises boards of directors and management on a variety of topics, including board composition and director independence; shareholder engagement and activism; shareholder proposals and proxy season trends; management and director succession planning; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. Pamela is a frequent contributor to the Cleary’s M&A and Corporate Governance Watch blog.

Frédéric G. Martin

Frederic G. Martin’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. Frederic’s practice involves initial public offerings and other equity offerings, de-SPAC transactions, investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, bank regulatory capital securities offerings, and liability management transactions. He also regularly advises on disclosure and corporate governance matters.

Michael Mazzuchi

Michael A. Mazzuchi is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Mazzuchi’s practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, particularly domestic and international structured finance and derivatives matters. He has extensive experience for banking, insurance and private equity clients in asset-based lending, asset securitisations, CLO transactions, collateralised fund obligations, repurchase agreement and total return swap financings, structured debt securities, epackagings and credit derivative transactions. He also advises on Dodd-Frank related provisions such as the Volcker Rule, swap and security-based swap regulation, ABS risk retention and related rules.

Duane McLaughlin

Duane McLaughlin is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. McLaughlin’s practice focuses on financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, focusing on bank financings, high-yield debt issuances and initial public offerings. He advises a number of NYSE and Nasdaq-listed U.S. and non-U.S. companies on corporate governance and disclosure matters. He has been involved in a number of transactions in Latin America.

Calum McQuater

Calum McQuater’s practice focuses on advising fund managers and sponsors in the establishment and management of alternative investment funds and institutional investors investing in such funds, in both domestic and offshore contexts.

William McRae

William McRae’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including structuring investments into the United States for non-US sovereign investors; the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions; the tax aspects of forming and investing in private equity funds, real estate funds and other investment vehicles; international tax planning for multinational corporate groups (FTC planning and repatriation strategies), tax aspects of restructurings (preservation and utilization of NOLs and other tax attributes, management of COD income); and the taxation of equity derivatives and other financial products. William’s representative clients include Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and many of the world’s largest leading sovereign wealth funds.

Delphine Michot

Delphine Michot’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution as well as white-collar criminal matters.

Thomas Moloney

Thomas J. Moloney is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, based in the New York office. His practice focuses on big cases and complex dispute resolution including derivatives, bankruptcy, ERISA, securities, M&A, antitrust, and commercial litigation. He has lectured and written extensively on litigation and bankruptcy topics, including on the subjects of electronic discovery and derivatives litigation, including as co-author of the new chapter on Derivatives Litigation in the forthcoming Third Edition of the treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.

Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation. He is the co-head of the firm’s global international arbitration group. Chris is ranked as one of the top arbitration practitioners in the field and has extensive experience handling disputes in a wide array of sectors, including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects and financial services, as well as disputes arising out of shareholder, JV and post-M&A related matters. Chris has represented multinational corporations in complex international commercial arbitrations across a range of industries seated in the world’s most frequently selected arbitral seats and before tribunals formed under the rules of the leading institutional and ad hoc arbitration regimes, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), and UNCITRAL. He is a member of the ICC-UK Committee on Arbitration and Dispute Resolution and ICC Institute, and has acted as a faculty member of the CIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration program.

Ilir Mujalovic

Ilir Mujalovic is the Head of Cleary’s Equity Capital Markets practice. He is a leading capital markets lawyer whose practice focuses on complex equity capital markets and corporate finance transactions. He represents issuers and investment banks on a wide variety of matters, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, PIPEs, ATMs, SPACs, de-SPACs, convertible bonds, investment grade notes, high-yield debt offerings, and other public and private transactions. Ilir works with clients across many industries, including healthcare, consumer/retail, media and telecommunications, industrials, technology, energy, power and utilities, renewables, and financial institutions, among others. He has developed a stellar reputation representing clients on numerous biotech, med-tech, diagnostics, and healthcare services transactions. He also represents corporate clients such as Valvoline Inc. in connection with corporate governance and SEC compliance matters and works with leading investment banks including BofA Securities, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, TD Cowen, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Jefferies, Piper Sandler, Santander, Leerink, and UBS.

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Clement Naples

Clement Naples is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and serves as lead counsel in patent infringement, trade secret and other IP-related litigation. Clem has extensive experience litigating in the International Trade Commission and in District Courts across the country. In addition to his litigation experience, Clem has negotiated complex patent license agreements, including agreements covering worldwide patent portfolios in excess of US$100 million. Clem also regularly consults regarding the sale or acquisition of companies with significant patent assets. Prior to law school, Clem was a Lead Engineer at Silicon Valley Group Lithography Systems, now ASML, where he focused on the design and development of the optical train of the Micrascan line of deep-UV step-and-scan lithography tools. He also wrote custom software for modeling the optical performance of the machines. Clem's cases have covered a wide range of technologies, including: Telecommunications Biometric devices Optics Semiconductors Heavy oil processing Video and audio streaming Wireless technologies MPEG compression Clem also has extensive experience litigating cases involving large volumes of source code. He also prosecuted patents in various fields, such as computer software, satellite thrusters and mass spectrometry.

Timofey Neklyudov

Timofey’s practice focuses on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity. In particular, he has extensive experience advising sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporates and other private clients on direct investments, co-investments and fund commitments across diverse sectors and jurisdictions. Timofey joined the firm in 2020. Prior to joining Cleary, he worked in the Moscow office of another international law firm from 2013 to 2019. Timofey is ranked as a Rising Star for Corporate and M&A in IFLR1000 (UAE) 2025 and was named Senior Associate of the Year at the LexisNexis Middle East Legal Awards 2025.

Stephen Nicolas

Stephen Nicolas is a partner in the corporate Real Estate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's London office. His practice focuses on corporate real estate, including acquisitions, disposals (direct and indirect), joint ventures, and management agreements (both hotel and general asset). Mr. Nicolas has experience advising both UK-based and international clients operating across a wide variety of jurisdictions (including USA).

Erika Nijenhuis

Erika Nijenhuis is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Nijenhuis advises sovereigns and multinationals on capital markets transactions. She is a leading expert on the taxation of derivatives and bank regulatory securities and a highly regarded commentator on tax policy issues, resulting in rare debt/equity guidance, and tax regulations addressing subchapter C, withholding and information reporting. She is also a prolific author and speaker.

Solomon Noh

Solomon’s practice focuses on financial restructuring matters, particularly the representation of credit funds and bondholder groups in distressed debt situations around the world. He also has a wealth of experience representing banks and investment managers in a broad range of commercial transactions, including financings and mergers and acquisitions.

James Norris-Jones

James has more than 20 years’ experience of English and international commercial dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration, investigations, and enforcement. He regularly advises clients involved in class actions, including collective proceedings in the Competition Tribunal. He has particular experiences in the financial services and tech sectors, and in cases involving fraud and insolvency. Many of his cases have involved cross-border issues and/or proceedings in foreign jurisdictions.

Anton Nothias

Anton Nothias’ practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

Kelsey Nussenfeld

Kelsey Nussenfeld’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, particularly public and private mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

Heather Nyong’o

Heather Nyong’o focuses her practice on antitrust enforcement, including governmental and criminal investigations, international cartel disputes and other complex civil and criminal litigation. She is a seasoned litigator and skilled first-chair trial lawyer. She regularly represents major multinational corporations and executives across industries in complex investigations and litigation in the United States and abroad. Heather fully serves her clients across every phase of investigations and litigation, including through trial. She has led multiple notable cases for individuals and corporations in non-public grand jury investigations. Heather spent nearly a decade in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. While at DOJ, she received commendations for her work in handling some of the Division’s most significant investigations and criminal prosecutions.

Francesca Odell

Francesca L. Odell is a member of Cleary Gottlieb’s Executive Committee, Leader of the Americas Corporate Practice, and Co-Leader of the Public Company Group. Her practice focuses on corporate advisory and governance matters, particularly as they relate to public companies and their management and boards of directors. She also has deep transactional experience, specifically in capital markets, as well as mergers and acquisitions and financing. Francesca leads Cleary’s corporate advisory group and frequently speaks and publishes on corporate governance topics. She regularly advises boards of directors and management on a variety of topics, including: disclosure and compliance; stock exchange listing requirements; board composition and director independence; shareholder engagement and activism; shareholder proposals and proxy season trends; management and director succession planning; cybersecurity; crisis management; artificial intelligence (AI) governance and risk management; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

Benet O’Reilly

Benet J. O’Reilly is a leading M&A lawyer who advises clients on complex, high-stakes transactions, with a focus on public and private M&A, cross-border deals, carve-outs, divestitures and restructuring-related matters. With more than two decades of experience, he is known for bringing strategic judgment, practical advice and steady execution to transactions involving significant business, regulatory and timing pressures. Benet’s practice is particularly focused on technology, life sciences, healthcare and other innovation-driven sectors, where clients rely on him to navigate transformative transactions and complex deal dynamics. His recent matters include representing Shionogi in its $2.5 billion acquisition of global rights to RADICAVA ORS and IV RADICAVA and its acquisition of Qpex Biopharma; GSK in its acquisitions of Aiolos Bio and Boston Pharmaceuticals’ lead asset efimosfermin; Synopsys in its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys; Atlassian in its $975 million acquisition of Loom; American Tower in its $10.1 billion acquisition of CoreSite and $3.5 billion acquisition of InSite; and IFF in its $45.4 billion Reverse Morris Trust merger with DuPont’s Nutrition & Biosciences business. As a founding partner of Cleary’s San Francisco office, Benet helps lead the firm’s West Coast M&A work for technology, life sciences and other innovation-driven companies. Other clients have included Alphabet/Google, Asahi Kasei, FullBeauty Brands, Goodyear, Hewlett-Packard, Juul Labs, Levi Strauss & Co., Post Holdings, Schibsted and Surescripts.

Insoo Park

Insoo Park's practice focuses on a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including debt offerings, IPOs, and SEC reporting advice to clients in Korea. Issuers’ counsel clients include Doosan Robotics, GS Caltex, KB Capital, LG Display, NAVER Corporation, Nonghyup Bank, SK Broadband and SK Telecom. Underwriters’ counsel clients include BNP Paribas, BofA Securities, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Société Générale and UBS.

Jennifer Park Kennedy

Jennifer Kennedy Park is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Kennedy Park’s practice focuses on litigation, particularly litigation related to capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions, and white-collar defense and corporate investigations.

Puja Patel

S.Giri Pathmanaban

Giri Pathmanaban is a seasoned intellectual property trial lawyer with a proven track record in high-stakes patent, copyright, trade secret, and IP contractual disputes. Giri's technical background in computer science and engineering provides him with a deep understanding of complex technologies, enabling him to develop and execute winning legal strategies across a range of industries, including: AI and machine learning Semiconductors NAND DRAM Flash memory Computer networking and electronic devices Wireless technology Cybersecurity Internet technologies Cloud storage Medical devices and healthcare Nutritional sciences He has successfully represented clients in federal district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and arbitration proceedings. Giri adeptly simplifies complex issues, communicate effectively with clients and juries, and achieve favorable outcomes.

Stéphanie Patureau

Stéphanie Patureau’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Stéphanie has extensive experience advising clients on merger control regulations including complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as in international cartels and anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and regulated sectors. Her wide-ranging practice also includes work on foreign investment control issues.

James Peaslee

James M. Peaslee is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Peaslee's practice focuses on tax matters. He is the co-author of Federal Income Taxation of Securitization Transactions (4th Edition, www.securitizationtax.com), as well as a number of articles on tax subjects.

Meme Peponis

Meme Peponis is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Peponis’ practice focuses on acquisition and distressed financing. She also has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions; private equity, joint venture and other investments; and public and private securities offerings. M

Julia Petty

Julia Petty’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters. She advises clients in domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and divestitures, public offerings, as well as restructurings and other reorganizations. Julia routinely counsels clients on disclosure, governance, and shareholder outreach related to compensation and benefits programs, with a particular focus on periods of corporate change, including transaction preparation, senior leadership turnover, shifts in corporate strategy and direction, and shareholder activism. She handles a wide range of other compensation and associated securities, tax, and corporate governance matters, including the design, disclosure, and implementation of equity and cash incentive programs, executive employment and severance arrangements, change in control protections, deferred compensation plans, and retention programs.

Michael Preston

Michael J. Preston advises a broad range of financial sponsors and strategic investors on buy-outs, minority investments, joint ventures, restructurings and other transactions. He has experience across a range of business sectors, with particular experience in healthcare, technology, infrastructure, real estate and energy.

Giovanni Prezioso

Mr. Prezioso’s practice is focused on securities and corporate law matters. He represents major financial institutions and corporations in securities enforcement and litigation matters arising out of the financial crisis, as well as in addressing post-crisis regulatory changes. He also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate governance and regulatory matters.

Nallini Puri

Nallini Puri’s practice focuses on cross border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and franchising transactions. She has advised multinational corporates, private equity funds and sovereign wealth funds on their investments in UK, Europe and India. Nallini’s recent work includes advising Veolia on its €2.4 billion divestment of the Suez UK waste business, Alstom in its €5.8 to €6.2 billion acquisition of Bombardier Transportation, Schibsted, the majority shareholder of Adevinta, in Adevinta’s $9.2 billion acquisition of eBay Classifieds and McDonald’s Corporation in the $2.08 billion formation of a joint venture with CITIC Limited and Carlyle to act as the franchisee for McDonald’s in China and Hong Kong.

Chrishan Raja

Chrishan Raja’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, both equity and debt, with a UK or U.S. nexus. His recent equity experience includes several transactions which were the first of their kind, such as ACG Acquisition Company (London listing and 2024 de-SPAC, the first SPAC to complete an acquisition under the FCA’s new regime), Burning Rock Biotech (the first direct listing of its kind on the London Stock Exchange), and Hepsiburada (the first listing of a Turkish company on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange). His recent experience on the debt side includes English law governed debt issuances, Reg S/Rule 144A offerings of New York law governed notes, and many U.S.-registered offerings of debt securities by financial institutions.as well as public and private mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in the firm’s capital markets and M&A practices in Russia.

Robert Raymond

Robert J. Raymond is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Raymond’s practice focuses on organizing and advising private investment funds, including fund formation for buyout, real estate, special situations, growth and credit funds and other “alternative investment” funds. He advises private investment funds in their formation and capital-raising activities and internal governance, including GP Stakes, manager spin-offs, shareholder arrangements with co-investors and among consortium members, all forms of “upper tier” arrangements, including co-investment arrangements and carried interest programs and “founders” arrangements.

Yaron Reich

Yaron Z. Reich is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Reich’s practice focuses on taxation and related matters, including the tax aspects of corporate acquisitions, restructurings, insolvencies and financing techniques. He has extensive experience in international transactions, taxation of banks and other financial institutions, foreign investment in the United States, leveraged leasing and project finance, joint ventures, partnerships, real estate transactions, transfer pricing and tax litigation. Mr. Reich has published several significant articles on international tax issues and tax policy. Mr. Reich is widely published on the various aspects of taxation.

Kenneth Reinker

Kenneth S. Reinker’s practice as a Partner at the firm focuses on all aspects of antitrust law, including litigation, government investigations, and merger review. Ken’s practice spans all industries, including extensive experience in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health care; high-technology industries; media; and financial institutions. Ken has particular experience in the application of economics to legal matters and in working with economic experts. In addition to appearing before U.S. courts and regulators, he has had in-depth involvement with China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and other global regulators.

Bert C. Reiser

Bert Reiser is a partner in Latham & Watkins' Washington, D.C. office, where he is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice and International Trade Commission (ITC) Patent Litigation Practice. Bert is also a former member of the firm's Training and Career Enhancement Committee. Prior to joining Latham, he was head of a multinational law firm’s Section 337 practice where he was primarily involved in international intellectual property disputes before the United States International Trade Commission under Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930. In Section 337 investigations, Bert has represented both American and foreign companies as complainants and respondents in more than 50 ITC investigations, including nearly 30 ITC trials. He has also successfully represented clients in ITC enforcement actions and proceedings before US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to clear redesigns for importation. Previously, Bert was the attorney advisor to Judge Paul J. Luckern of the ITC, where he assisted in the adjudication of more than 20 disputes under Section 337.

Dan Reynolds

Dan Reynolds’ practice focuses on domestic and international real estate transactions, representing lenders, borrowers and investors in commercial real estate transactions across all asset classes. His clients include domestic and international private equity funds, banks, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. He advises both borrowers and lenders in mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions, including securitized loans, balance sheet loans, bridge loans, construction loans, and loan on loan transactions, and he regularly counsels investors in joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions. He also represents lenders and borrowers in the workout and enforcement of various financing structures, including mezzanine loan foreclosures.

Natalia Rezai

Natalia Rezai is an associate based in Cleary Gottlieb’s San Francisco office. Her practice focuses on domestic and international corporate and financial transactions, particularly capital markets transactions. She regularly advises companies on corporate governance issues, disclosure matters, board composition and director independence, stock exchange listing compliance matters, shareholder proposals and proxy matters and shareholder engagement.

Marcela Robledo

Marcela Robledo’s practice focuses on the intellectual property, data, and technology aspects involved in a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing, collaboration agreements, and joint ventures. Marcela has practiced law in the United States and Colombia. She is a member of the American and California Bar Associations, as well as the International Trademark Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association.

Edward Rosen

Edward J. Rosen is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosen’s practice includes domestic and international matters, specializing in the structuring of complex securities and derivatives transactions, U.S. securities and commodities law regulation and financial product development and documentation. Mr. Rosen advises a broad range of market participants, including trade associations, exchanges, clearinghouses, investment banks, commercial banks, brokers, electronic trading platforms, money managers, traders, professional intermediaries and end users, in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Rosen has served as counsel to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Futures Industry Association, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association and the Institute of International Bankers. Mr. Rosen is a co-author of the two volume treatise U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets (Tenth Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2011).

Jeffrey Rosenthal

Jeffrey A. Rosenthal is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Rosenthal’s practice focuses on general commercial and international arbitration and litigation, as well as sports law. Mr. Rosenthal has represented numerous foreign and domestic entities before a wide variety of judicial and arbitral bodies, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL, the Society of Maritime Arbitrators, and a number of federal and state courts. He has tried or arbitrated cases through merits hearings concerning international joint venture disputes, intellectual property, sports contract disputes, maritime issues, bankruptcy, breaches of contract, insurance law, bilateral investment treaty disputes and tort law, among others. Mr. Rosenthal also routinely advises several leading financial institutions with regard to actual or potential litigation issues concerning complex financial products including derivative transactions under ISDA master agreements, repurchase agreements and subprime-related matters.

Nick Rumsby

Nick Rumsby’s practice focuses on public and private mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures, demergers, and equity financings. He is uniquely placed to advise on UK takeovers having completed a two-year secondment to the UK Takeover Panel as a senior case officer (2008-2010) where he was involved in all major decisions and policies made during that time. Following his secondment, Nick has spent over a decade advising targets and UK and overseas bidders on some of the largest and most high-profile takeovers in the UK market.

Matthew Salerno

Matt Salerno is Co-Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Americas Private Equity Transactions Group. He represents clients in complex domestic and cross border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investments, joint ventures, carveouts, and other corporate transactions. He represents clients across a broad range of industries, with particular expertise in the healthcare, consumer, and business services sectors.

Tihir Sarkar

Mergers and acquisitions, private equity and restructuring transactions; extensive experience in cross-border international transactions; involved in a number of transactions in the Middle East, India and in emerging markets.

Séverine Schrameck

Séverine Schrameck’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases, and State aid. She has extensive experience in assisting clients on merger control regulations, notably on numerous multijurisdictional transactions. She has handled complex merger control cases before both the European Commission and the French Competition Authority. Séverine also has experience advising clients in antitrust and other government investigations, with notable representations that include a major automotive parts supplier in worldwide cartel investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and other antitrust authorities, and follow-on damages claims. Her wide-ranging practice includes work on foreign investment control issues and in French public law.

Sarah Schröder

Sarah Schröder’s practice focuses on international arbitration, litigation, and public international law. Sarah represents clients in commercial arbitrations, as well as investors and sovereigns in investment arbitrations, before various arbitration institutions and under various arbitration rules, including the ICC and ICSID. She also represents clients in proceedings before French courts relating to arbitration. Sarah has been involved in many arbitrations and high-stake disputes in various sectors, including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, financial services and post-M&A. She is a regular speaker and lecturer on international arbitration matters.

Lisa Schweitzer

Lisa M. Schweitzer advises clients in some of the most high-profile bankruptcy matters. Lisa has extensive experience advising corporate debtors, individual creditors, committees, and strategic investors in both U.S. Chapter 11 proceedings and restructurings in other jurisdictions in the Americas, as well as Europe and Asia. She also leads companies in multimillion and billion dollar buy and sell side distressed M&A transactions, and litigates multibillion dollar case-dispositive disputes in high-stakes bankruptcy proceedings. Additionally, Lisa is well-regarded in the restructuring community, serving on the Board of Directors for the International Insolvency Institute as well as the American College of Bankruptcy.

Ian Shawyer

Ian’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions. With over two decades of experience in private equity, Ian is a longstanding and trusted advisor to pan-European and international corporations, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, and investee companies for both transactional and advisory matters. Ian has in-depth experience advising on a full range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalizations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganizations, and restructurings. Ian also advises global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements), and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).

Paul Shim

Paul J. Shim is Co-Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Americas M&A Group. Paul’s practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions for corporate, private equity, sovereign wealth fund and principal investor clients. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards, including advice related to shareholder activism preparation and response. Paul has been recognized multiple times as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, and is ranked among leading M&A lawyers in all major directories.

Denise Shiu

Denise Shiu’s practice focuses on international mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and foreign direct investment transactions in China and the rest of Asia.

Manuel Silva

Manuel's practice focuses on cross-border transactions, principally in Latin America. He regularly represents Latin American corporations, state-owned entities and investment and commercial banks in connection with debt and equity capital markets, acquisition, project and structured financings and liability management transactions. He also represents corporations in mergers and acquisitions and corporate and sovereign clients in debt restructurings across the region.

Matthew Slater

Matthew D. Slater is a partner based in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Slater’s practice focuses on international investment-treaty and commercial arbitration. He also regularly represents clients in related international litigation and in a diverse range of matters in U.S. courts, including government regulatory and enforcement actions; constitutional law; commercial and securities law; and product liability litigation. Mr. Slater is also active in the firm’s pro bono practice, including pending litigation on behalf of a class of homeless people who have been denied the minimum wage for their work for evictions companies. In his international arbitration and litigation practice, Mr. Slater often represents foreign sovereign governments. Mr. Slater frequently writes and speaks on international litigation and arbitration issues. Recent publications include regular articles for The International Lawyer's annual year in review issue and authoring a chapter on the Energy Charter Treaty in Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Energy Sector, published by the Association for International Arbitration. In addition, Mr. Slater has addressed topics involving arbitration of complex energy disputes, enforcement of international arbitral awards, the Energy Charter Treaty, and investment treaty arbitration.

Ferdisha Snagg

Ferdisha’s practice focuses on financial services law and regulation. Ferdisha has a wide range of non-contentious experience advising banks, investment banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures. She regularly advises on a variety of financial services and regulatory issues including financial markets regulation, financial collateral and financial market infrastructure regulation, and banking regulation.

Matthew Solomon

Matt represents financial institutions, public and private companies, asset managers, and individual executives and employees on issues ranging from regulatory compliance and remediation advice to advocacy and litigation against the government and private parties.

Sebastian Sperber

Sebastian Sperber specialises in US securities law and has extensive experience in international capital markets and M&A transactions. Mr Sperber has devoted a substantial amount of time to working on global equity offerings, including privatisation transactions. His practice also includes derivative products, and he has assisted a number of clients in structuring OTC and listed instruments.

Kimberly Spoerri

Kimberly R. Spoerri is Co-Leader of Cleary Gottlieb’s Americas Public Company Group. Her practice focuses on advising corporate clients in connection with all aspects of their domestic and cross-border M&A activities and corporate governance and activism matters. Kim has significant experience with acquisitions and divestitures of public and private entities, joint ventures, carve-out transactions, spin-offs and RMTs, and other complex corporate transactions.

Paul Stuart

Paul Stuart’s practice focuses on competition law and litigation. Consistently recognized as a specialist in competition litigation, Paul’s practice covers collective proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, standalone and follow-on litigation in the English courts, and appearing as an advocate before the EU General Court and Court of Justice. Paul also advises on all aspects of UK and EU competition law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance, and digital markets regulation. He is also an active member of Cleary Gottlieb’s pro bono practice.

Richard Sultman

Richard Sultman specialises in corporate taxation, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, capital markets and financial products.

Mohamed Taha

Mohamed Taha is a UK and U.S. qualified, and Egyptian law trained, capital markets lawyer and a native Arabic speaker - experience which is almost second to none in the region. He covers both U.S., European and UAE securities laws and is experienced in complex debt and equity offerings. He is able to provide regional cultural nuance to multifaceted capital markets transactions, providing international clients with strong reassurance on MENA deals that not only is the legal advice technically correct, but it can also be applied to, and is compliant with, the local regulatory frameworks. Mohamed is a Partner in our Abu Dhabi office but often works as a lead or co-lead partner on complex cross-border transactions due to his education and training, qualifications and experience across the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. He has strong working relationships with the SCA and its counterparts in the U.S., the SEC, and UK, the FCA, which helps us when a transaction raises challenging or novel issues, requiring lengthy discussions with the regulators as to the interpretation of their rulesMohamed is also an experienced M&A lawyer and therefore can provide clients with end-to-end advice on complex corporate finance transactions with combined underlying M&A and ECM or DCM elements. Mohamed is also a co-founder of 10BE5. After seeing a gap in the market to address the way that capital markets lawyers handled the financial aspects of their disclosure work, the 10BE5 team looked at ways of automating the drafting of financial results analysis, a key component of capital markets disclosure documents, which is currently done manually by capital markets lawyers and/or in-house disclosure teams. The N2N product’s goals are to reduce mistakes, standardize work products, free up capacity, and achieve time and cost savings. The technology is used by several Magic Circle and top 10 Am Law firms.

Naomi Tarawali

Naomi Tarawali’s practice focuses on international dispute resolution. She has represented corporates and high net worth individuals in commercial arbitration, investor-state arbitration and international litigation proceedings, as well as in mediation and ADR processes.

Micheal Taylor

Mike Taylor’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public takeovers, and equity capital markets transactions. He has advised on some of the highest profile and innovative M&A and ECM transactions in the Middle East, in particular in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. He has notable experience in the healthcare, infrastructure, real estate, and telecoms sectors.

Marie-Laurence Tibi

Marie-Laurence Tibi’s practice focuses on equity capital markets and public M&A transactions, as well as corporate governance for listed companies. She also advises clients on securities laws, corporate matters, and mergers and acquisitions.

Lisa Vicens

Lisa Vicens’ practice focuses on governmental and internal investigations, white collar defense, and SEC enforcement matters, with a concentration on FCPA and cross-border enforcement issues. Ms. Vicens has extensive experience representing companies and individuals around the globe, and in particular in Latin America, on anti-corruption matters and on conducting investigations on behalf of public companies and their boards and audit committees. In addition to her investigatory and enforcement matters, she regularly advises on the development and implementation of effective compliance and integrity programs and provides guidance on managing and monitoring risk. She also maintains an active litigation practice, representing clients on complex litigation matters arising from allegations of fraud and corruption.

Carina Wallance

With experience in special situations and restructuring, Carina’s practice focuses on capital solutions for corporate and financial institution clients. She has expertise in corporate, leveraged, distressed and project financings as well as extensive experience working in Latin America, as well as in other emerging markets and the U.S. Carina focuses on international and U.S.-based corporate and financial transactions, with particular expertise in handling work with a Latin American nexus. She has experience on various major and industry-changing restructurings globally – including major cases, involving Aeromexico, Azul, Garuda International, LATAM Airlines, Odebrecht and more.

Steven Wilner

Steven L. Wilner is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Wilner’s practice focuses on financial and corporate matters, ranging from global real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and finance to international mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, including private equity investments and joint ventures. He regularly represents major financial institutions, corporations and sovereigns in their largest and most complex real estate transactions, and frequently speaks on all aspects of real estate transactions and law.

Antoine Winckler

Antoine Winckler’s practice focuses on European and French competition law, including cartel investigations, merger control, and market dominance. He has advised clients in numerous cartel cases, including those relating to cement, copper tubes, seamless steel tubes, paper, elevators, cables and freight forwarding. Antoine has extensive experience representing corporate clients and financial institutions, as well as governments and public entities, regarding EU state aid rules; and he has represented clients in disputes before the European Commission, the European Courts in Luxembourg, the French Competition Authority and the Court of Appeals in Paris.

Rishi Zutshi

Rishi Zutshi’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts, including class actions and securities litigation, with extensive experience in disputes relating to complex financial instruments and derivatives. Rishi also has experience in internal investigations and enforcement matters, including representing clients in matters involving federal, state and and overseas government regulators and agencies.