The companions of world legislation agency Ok&L Gates LLP have voted to elect the next people from throughout the agency’s international platform as new companions, efficient January 1. The group contains 40 people representing 22 workplaces, together with Berlin, Boston, Brisbane, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Doha, Dubai, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Nashville, New York, Newark, Orange County, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Analysis Triangle Park, Seattle, Seoul, Sydney, and Washington, D.C.
Ok&L Gates World Managing Companion Jim Segerdahl remarked: “We’re thrilled to welcome such an impressive and achieved group of legal professionals to their new positions at our agency. Their election displays the agency’s dedication to advancing prime quality professionals world wide to be able to proceed to serve our purchasers throughout a variety of areas, practices, and industries.”
The legal professionals becoming a member of the agency’s partnership are:
Katherine Allor (Chicago) is an mental property litigator with expertise in lots of phases of patent litigation, together with each supporting and defending prices of patent infringement. She is registered to observe earlier than the U.S. Patent and Trademark Workplace and has expertise in quite a few post-grant proceedings earlier than the Patent Trial and Appeals Board.
Farah Al-Nabulsi (Dubai) frequently advises on M&A transactions, funding and three way partnership preparations, market entry, restructurings and disposal transactions, company governance, and different company business and advisory issues.
Corey Bieber (Chicago) advises purchasers on authorized issues involving know-how licensing, info safety, privateness, and compliance. This consists of engagements regarding information privateness and safety, biometrics, HIPAA, software program copyrights, and software program and knowledge know-how companies licensing. He additionally leverages his skilled know-how background to develop personalized litigation analytics software program for purchasers in school motion litigation issues.
Jan Boeing (Luxembourg) has expertise in quite a lot of worldwide, multi-jurisdictional banking and finance transactions, together with debt restructuring, capital market issues, and regulatory issues referring to the monetary companies business.
Kevin Cao (Palo Alto) focuses his observe on enterprise capital financings, reorganizations, M&A transactions, and company governance issues. He has represented varied home and worldwide purchasers throughout industries together with know-how, merchandise, banking, power, aviation, and actual property.
Chris Carson (New York) focuses his observe on advising company purchasers on the tax elements of cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and related transactions, in addition to advising asset administration purchasers on tax issues in reference to non-public fairness fund buildings.
Damiano Castelli (Brisbane) is an actual property lawyer who works throughout the renewable power, sources and infrastructure initiatives sector, along with having expertise managing the acquisition, growth, leasing, and disposal of economic, industrial, retail, and residential property.
Simon Chan (Doha) has expertise advising monetary establishments, company sponsors, and debtors on common financing, together with venture, leveraged, asset, and Islamic financings, in addition to restructurings. He additionally advises venture corporations, sponsors, and lenders on the event and financing of huge infrastructure initiatives.
Penny Chen Fox (Los Angeles) represents employers in quite a few sectors and industries in high-stakes wage and hour class motion and California Personal Attorneys Basic Act issues. She has efficiently defended a broad vary of corporations towards particular person, class, and consultant wage and hour actions in state and federal courts.
Andrew Chung (Seoul) focuses his observe primarily within the areas of cross-border business transactions involving each private and non-private corporations and personal fairness investments, together with multi-jurisdictional company transactions on behalf of each Korean and international purchasers.
Christopher Fernandez (Charlotte) represents lenders, servicers, and particular servicers in quite a lot of transactions, together with exercises, restructurings, foreclosures, and bankruptcies. He has expertise in practically all elements of mortgage servicing, common business litigation, discovery, e-discovery, and chapter litigation.
Andrew Feucht (Seattle) represents quite a lot of public establishments, non-public funding applications, and different restricted companions of their various investments. These funding partnerships embrace enterprise capital funds, leveraged buyout funds, and distressed debt funds, amongst others.
Alanna Fitzpatrick (Brisbane) is a office well being and security lawyer who assists purchasers in responding to and interesting with regulators investigating security incidents to be able to assist reduce the danger of reputational harm and private/company prosecution.
Meghan Flinn (Washington, D.C.) focuses her observe on authorities investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, inner investigations, and complicated civil litigation issues on the trial and appellate degree. She represents people, funding advisers, broker-dealers, public corporations, banks, and different monetary establishments earlier than varied state and federal regulators and enforcement authorities.
Pamela Grossetti (Boston) practices within the space of funding administration and securities legislation, and focuses on advising funding advisers, registered and unregistered funding corporations, and different monetary service suppliers on the varied authorized and regulatory elements of their operations.
Kodey Haddox (New York) represents purchasers in a broad vary of advanced business circumstances in federal and state court docket, arbitration, and mediation. He has expertise with the numerous elements of discovery, movement observe, and trials in state and federal courts in addition to mediation of advanced disputes.
Adam Heyd (Seattle) focuses his observe on company and transactional legislation, together with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, securities legislation compliance, company governance, and enterprise capital financings.
Stacey Hyman (Newark) focuses her observe on advanced business disputes, together with poisonous torts and merchandise legal responsibility, contract disputes, communications legislation, and insurance coverage protection, particularly well being care and ERISA disputes.
Cheryl Isaac (Washington, D.C.) advises purchasers on compliance with derivatives legal guidelines and rules, together with these promulgated beneath the Dodd-Frank Wall Avenue Reform and Shopper Safety Act by the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee, Securities and Trade Fee, Federal Reserve, and different federal regulators.
Gina Johnson (Chicago) focuses her observe on patent litigation issues together with circumstances in district courts throughout the nation and earlier than the Worldwide Commerce Fee, each supporting and in protection of prices of patent infringement. She additionally advises purchasers on patent litigation dangers and alternatives, commerce secret insurance policies and protocols, and threat mitigation by IP licensing.
Derek Kelley (Washington, D.C.) assists purchasers with boycott claims, restructurings, advanced product legal responsibility litigations, monopolization, and antitrust dangers related to mergers and potential litigation.
Mary Scott Kennedy (Charlotte) focuses her observe on mergers and acquisitions, non-public fairness, mezzanine finance transactions, and company legislation issues in quite a lot of industries and sectors.
William LeDoux (Dallas) has a broad state and native tax focus with expertise in multi-state tax planning and controversy issues involving gross sales, franchise, property, and revenue taxes and unclaimed property. He has assisted within the illustration of taxpayers in administrative and judicial proceedings in varied jurisdictions, lots of which concerned advanced and novel points.
Eric Lee (Boston) concentrates his observe on trademark, copyright, patent, and different advanced mental property litigation. He additionally counsels purchasers relating to their mental property portfolio growth by the creation, growth, and leveraging of logos and copyright.
Simon Leslie (Sydney) works with rising and development corporations and their buyers, together with enterprise capital, company enterprise, and personal fairness funds, in addition to home and worldwide corporates. He advises on the complete cycle of funding work, from preliminary funding to exit, by bolt-on acquisitions, restructurings, company governance, and worker incentive plans.
K.E. Love (Seattle) focuses her observe on know-how transactions, information safety, and agribusiness. She has expertise in know-how companies, software program licensing, gross sales and distribution, product growth, provide and distribution, information middle and infrastructure, and agribusiness.
Kevin McCormick (Nashville) primarily focuses his observe on patent portfolio administration and associated counseling, opinion work, and due diligence. He has home and overseas patent prosecution expertise involving quite a lot of know-how sectors.
Mitchell Moximchalk (Pittsburgh) primarily focuses his observe on property planning and property and belief administration, together with the decision of advanced tax points reminiscent of particular person, fiduciary, property, inheritance, present, and generation-skipping switch taxation.
Marian Ngo (Melbourne) focuses her observe on advanced business contract preparation and negotiation, acquisitions and disposals, and company advisory and different transactional recommendation throughout a broad number of business sectors, together with transport and logistics, sports activities and leisure, client merchandise, and companies and manufacturing.
Thomas Nietsch (Berlin) is an information privateness and tech transaction lawyer who advises purchasers in know-how M&A transactions, negotiation of advanced IT and software program licensing and cooperation agreements, information safety compliance issues, and information use and sharing buildings together with their contractual implementation.
Victoria Oguntoye (Dallas) helps purchasers with the preliminary evaluation, negotiation, and, the place needed, subsequent litigation of all kinds of advanced business issues in state and federal trial and appellate courts in numerous jurisdictions.
Jennifer Paterson (Dubai) advises each UAE-based and worldwide purchasers in a variety of economic disputes. She additionally has expertise representing purchasers in native and worldwide arbitration proceedings administered by lots of the main arbitration facilities.
Gregory Pieris (Melbourne) has explicit expertise in litigious and non-litigious issues involving logos, designs, copyright, and commerce practices legislation. He works for a various vary of Australian and worldwide purchasers, together with sporting our bodies, automotive and aerospace producers, web service suppliers, and producers of fast-moving client items.
Samuel Richey (Chicago) represents purchasers ranging in measurement from venture-backed startups to multinational corporations in creating, managing, and defending all elements of their mental property. He additionally supplies technical evaluation in litigation proceedings and assists in crafting shopper methods to resolve requests from non-practicing entities.
Ramona Ruf (Berlin) is a notary and company lawyer who advises nationwide and worldwide purchasers on company legislation, together with mergers and acquisitions and inventory company and restricted legal responsibility firm legislation.
Alan Schacter (New York) represents purchasers in the actual property business, together with institutional buyers, sponsors, debtors and lenders, consumers, members, sellers, landlords, and tenants, on issues reminiscent of joint ventures, structured secured mortgage transactions, resort and business acquisitions, inclinations, financings, and administration agreements.
Gabriel Scott (Analysis Triangle Park) applies his prior expertise in authorities, non-public observe, and healthcare supply to help purchasers in figuring out sensible authorized options to advanced regulatory issues. His observe focuses on resolving compliance and reimbursement points for hospitals and different healthcare suppliers.
Endre Szalay (Seattle) focuses his observe on compliance counseling beneath the complete suite of environmental statutes. He assists a broad vary of purchasers, together with public entities, utilities, small companies, and enormous companies.
Hayley Trahan-Liptak (Boston) represents public corporations, people, funding advisors, and monetary establishments earlier than varied state and federal regulators and enforcement authorities. She often conducts inner investigations and compliance program opinions, together with opinions associated to accounting practices, anti-money laundering, and anti-corruption compliance.
Amy Wong (Orange County) advises purchasers on the varied sides of their litigation wants and threat administration, together with contract, enterprise torts, product legal responsibility, product promoting and advertising, class motion protection, People with Disabilities Act, and civil rights disputes, amongst others.
