Tracy B. Rane as Counsel in Los Angeles from Ballard Spahr LLP.

Rane is an intellectual property and entertainment litigator with two decades of experience counseling clients in complex entertainment, intellectual property, and business disputes. Her practice focuses on matters involving copyright infringement, trademark infringement, defamation, right of publicity, right of privacy, breach of contract, insurance coverage, and general business and commercial litigation. Rane has successfully represented clients from the pre-litigation stage through trial and arbitration in various forums in California and other states. She also has substantial appellate experience and has appeared on behalf of her clients before the California Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Gina Stassi as Counsel in Walnut Creek from Kaufhold Gaskin Gallagher LLP .

Stassi represents clients in qui tam actions for insurance fraud and unfair business practices against healthcare providers, clinics, management services organizations, and their conspirators. She has a proven track record representing clients in complex disputes, including in litigation. During her 15-year career, she has represented clients in sophisticated legal matters ranging from venture capital fund investments, management, and trademark disputes to litigation involving commercial, contractual, and employment matters.

Matthew G. Bouslog as Partner in Irvine from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Bouslog represents debtors, creditors, and investors in complex restructuring matters, including in- and out-of-court restructurings, distressed acquisitions, and bankruptcy-related litigation. He also has significant experience with cross-border bankruptcy matters. He regularly advises clients on corporate governance and fiduciary duty issues and bankruptcy-related issues in real estate, finance, corporate, and litigation matters. In addition to his restructuring expertise, he represents clients in UCC Article 9 matters and enforcement of rights and remedies generally.

James W. Carson as Partner in San Francisco

Carson advises corporations, non-profit organizations, trade associations, political committees, and individuals about campaign finance, lobbying disclosure and ethics laws at every level of government. He works closely with a diversity of clients across the regulated community to develop sophisticated nationwide compliance programs and has successfully guided clients through difficult ethics investigations and audits. He serves as legal counsel, treasurer and strategic advisor to political, tax exempt and ballot measures organizations. He also has experience representing transportation industry clients in proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and other agencies.

Victoria Rodriguez as Associate in Sacramento

Rodriguez is an associate in the firm’s government law section.

Elizabeth N. Thompson as Partner in San Diego from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.

Thompson advises a broad range of clients on the negotiation and structuring of complex joint ventures in connection with the acquisition, disposition, and development of all asset types. Her representation of publicly and privately held clients on an array of corporate matters, including capital raising, debt issuance, corporate governance, equity compensation, investor relations, commercial contracts, and business combination transactions, furthers a holistic approach to accomplishing client objectives in a strategic and efficient manner. Her perspective, having previously practiced in-house for companies ranging from a start-up to a global NYSE-listed life science REIT, provides her with unique insight into client needs with respect to complex deal structuring and execution.

Betsy Olson as Counsel in Los Angeles from Jenner & Block LLP.

Olson advises plan sponsors on the design and operation of their qualified retirement plans, health and welfare plans, and other benefit plans, programs, and agreements. She provides practical advice to plan sponsors to assist in strategic benefits planning and ongoing compliance with the complex statutory rules and regulations that apply to these benefits, including ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code.

Khoa D. Do as Partner in Silicon Valley from Winston & Strawn LLP.

Do focuses on strategic and private equity mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, ranging from midmarket to large-scale acquisitions involving publicly traded and privately held corporations. Do advises technology companies and private equity firms on a range of transactions, including strategic mergers and business combinations, asset and stock acquisitions, and complex cross-border acquisitions. He also represents clients on tender offers, divestitures, and spinoffs.

Tanya L. Greene as Office Managing Partner in Downtown Los Angeles

Greene handles high-profile litigation for some of the world's most prominent corporations. A partner in the firm's Complex Commercial Litigation Department, she serves on McGuireWoods' national recruiting committee and is the former pro bono leader for the firm's downtown Los Angeles and Century City offices.

Christine S. Hwang as Partner in San Francisco from Leonard Carder LLP.

Hwang represents employee health and welfare plans and defined benefit pension plans, advising them on a wide range of ERISA compliance issues--including ACA, ERISA, COBRA, and HIPAA--and various participant issues. She also has significant experience representing welfare and pension plans in benefit claims litigation, and the prosecution of all stages of collection arbitration and litigation.

Rachael Lamkin as Partner in San Francisco from Lamkin IP Defense.

Lamkin litigates across all IP categories, and from both sides of the V but has a focus on patent litigation defense. Passionate about strategy and leverage in litigation, she shifts the asymmetries that traditionally hamper the defense side, e.g., asymmetries in information, cost, financing, and damages. In so doing, Lamkin has been able to obtain multiple attorney's fees awards and game-changing settlements.

Nick Gerlach as Partner in San Francisco from DLA Piper.

Gerlach's practice focuses on advising clients on the tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, including structuring tax-efficient mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, and other restructurings for corporations, partnerships, and other pass-through entities. He also focuses on drafting and negotiating agreements related to all phases of a company's operations, including formation, acquisition, financing, and restructuring.

A. Jeanne Grove as Partner in San Francisco from Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP.

Grove is a real estate attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in both litigation and transactions. Jeanne represents homeowner associations (HOAs), real estate brokers/agents, developers, private lenders, property owners, and business owners.

Ashley E. Klein as Partner in San Francisco from Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP.

Klein is a commercial and residential real estate litigator with extensive trial, arbitration, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) experience. She represents real estate developers, real estate investment trusts (REITs), property management companies, landlords, and homeowners.

Yue Joy Wang as Associate in Silicon Valley from Shearman & Sterling.

Wang has nearly a decade of experience in intellectual property litigation. Focusing on patent matters in district courts and before the ITC, her technical background and former career as an engineer enable her to advise clients across various products and technologies

Patrick Colsher as Partner in Silicon Valley from Shearman & Sterling.

Colsher focuses on intellectual property and other complex commercial litigation and counseling. A registered patent attorney with a technical background in electrical and biomedical engineering, he is frequently called upon to guide clients through their toughest IP issues. Patrick has significant trial experience, having litigated numerous patent, trade secret, and other IP cases in federal courts throughout the country and Section 337 investigations before the International Trade Commission. He has also developed a track record for success in post-grant inter partes review and covered business method review trials before the US Patent & Trademark Office, acting as lead counsel for both petitioners and patent owners in dozens of trials.

Matthew Berkowitz as Partner in Silicon Valley from Shearman & Sterling.

Berkowitz has nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes patent infringement disputes in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as in post-grant proceedings in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Berkowitz has argued and won numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. He previously launched and spearheaded Shearman & Sterling's intellectual property litigation practice.

Amy Simpson as Partner in Los Angeles from Perkins Coie.

Simpson is a patent litigator and inter partes review (IPR) lawyer with more than two decades of experience strategically guiding technology companies in their offensive and defensive patent disputes. She has litigated high-profile cases across the United States in federal district courts and before the ITC involving a wide range of technologies, including LEDs, printers, wireless and cellular communications, software, semiconductor manufacturing, and packaging technologies. Simpson has represented clients in IPRs before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and is lead counsel on more than 50 IPRs.

Hamid Namazie as Partner in Los Angeles from McGuireWoods LLP.

Namazie focuses his practice on providing counsel to lenders on syndicated and bilateral senior secured asset-based loans and cash flow loans, as well as second lien and subordinated loans, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations, refinancings, and cross-border and multicurrency lending.

Mark Spitzer as Partner in Los Angeles from McGuireWoods LLP.

Spitzer has over 30 years of wide-ranging experience in the commercial finance arena. His core client base consists of money center banks, regional commercial banks, local agencies of foreign banks, finance companies, and alternative lenders, including structured debt funds. He structures, negotiates, and documents a broad variety of finance transactions, including complex secured and unsecured syndicated credit facilities, cash flow and asset-based loans, acquisition financings, credit product portfolio sales, mezzanine investments, and multistate real estate-secured transactions. He has extensive experience in loan workout matters, including debt and equity restructurings.

Yoojin Lee as Partner in Los Angeles from McGuireWoods LLP.

Lee’s practice focuses on representing financial institutions across a wide array of industries in domestic and international secured lending transactions with an emphasis on asset-based lending. Her practice also includes syndicated credit facilities and acquisition financing, and she has experience in debtor-in-possession financings.

Eli W. Mansour as Partner in San Diego from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP.

Mansour counsels clients on a variety of technology transaction matters including the discovery, development, protection, licensing, and commercialization of pharmaceuticals, novel life sciences solutions and medical devices, and related intellectual property. He regularly drafts and negotiates clinical trial agreements, development, manufacturing, distribution, and complex licensing agreements and has extensive experience in device discovery agreements, joint venture agreements and technology assignments, and transfer transactions.

Jennifer J. Lee as Partner in San Francisco from Securities and Exchange Commission.

A former Assistant Director in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Enforcement, Lee represents public and pre-IPO companies, corporate officers, financial institutions, and asset management firms in high-stakes regulatory investigations, internal investigations, and litigation. Lee brings nearly 20 years of experience as a litigator in the government and the private sector to help clients navigate government scrutiny.

Jeffery McFarland as Partner in Los Angeles from McKool Smith.

McFarland is a veteran litigator who represents entertainment clients in their high-profile, high-stakes business disputes. For nearly three decades, he has served as a dedicated advocate for clients on the talent side, including actors, producers, directors, and screenwriters, as well as studios, production companies, television networks, and video game publishers.

Michael J. Fisher as Associate in Los Angeles from Paul Hastings.

Fisher is a litigator with experience in state and federal court and domestic and international arbitration. He has represented clients in the entertainment, finance, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as in government enforcement proceedings.

Caitlin M. Jolley as Associate in Los Angeles from Husch Blackwell.

Jolley is an experienced attorney with litigation and appellate experience at the state and federal level. She has represented clients in a myriad of industries, including automotive, finance, solar, and healthcare.

Jason Altieri as Partner in San Francisco from Prominent Fintech.

Altieri has served as general counsel and chief compliance officer in the highly regulated and complex industries of lending, mortgage, real estate investing, and insurance, including eight years as a public company general counsel and chief compliance officer at LendingClub. As a GC, he has led and overseen billions of dollars in private debt and equity fundings, fund capitalizations, consumer and business lending, public equity capital, and strategic acquisitions.

Jane Davidson as Associate in Los Angeles from Larson LLP .

Davidson will support MWM's award-winning litigation section and the firm's growing entertainment practice. She previously worked as an associate at Larson LLP in Los Angeles.

Davidson represents a wide variety of clients in intellectual property disputes, product liability, employment law, entertainment, and real estate matters. She has an impressive record of handling litigation for trademark and copyright infringement suits for large portfolios held by music festivals, sports teams, and jewelry designers. Davidson is also known for her sound counsel on compliance with emerging privacy legislation and advises businesses on California's CCPA, and she is also a certified CIPP-US Data Privacy Professional.

A music aficionado herself, Davidson has counseled musicians and influencers on entertainment agreements, and she enjoys speaking and writing about legal issues in entertainment, social media, and privacy as well as the ethics and inclusion issues woven into those industries. Among her notable cases, Davidson was a member of a team that successfully terminated the conservatorship for a high-profile musician, and she successfully recovered dozens of domain names infringing on a famous music festival's trademarks.

Davidson is an adjunct professor at her alma mater, University of Southern California, where she teaches an undergraduate course in USC's Music Industry program focused on copyright law, record deals, music licensing, and marketing regulations.

Alfred W. "Chip" Sloan as Shareholder in Los Angeles from Enestein Pham & Glass .

Sloan represents entrepreneurs and corporations in forming new entities, financings, and general corporate services. He extends his services to entertainment and production companies, as well as individuals in the entertainment, sports, and brand industries, throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He also advises professional athletes and teams from leagues across the globe in team contract negotiations, endorsement deal procurement, arbitration, licensing and naming rights. Since 2001 he has serviced contracts, prepared arbitration cases, and negotiated performance terms and endorsement deals for some of the sports world's biggest stars.

Sloan is the founder of TRUE Equity, a minority owned private equity group that invests in sports assets globally. TRUE Equity is positioned as the world's leading sports private equity group, with its principals having successfully executed over 50 transactions with a primary focus around assets in prominent leagues such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, as well as global motorsports properties, global football, rugby, and emerging media. He is a member of the Sports Lawyers Association and Beverly Hills Bar Associations and is admitted to practice in California state and federal courts.

Edward Farrell as Partner in Stuart Kane LLP from Cummins & White.

Farrell's practice focuses on civil disputes in the areas of real estate, construction, and employment. He is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney focused on representing professional individuals as well as regional, national and international entities in both California state courts and U.S. District Courts.