Ralph H. Winter as Partner in Orange County from Call & Jensen.

Winter is a corporate and securities partner who focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, equity and debt financings, joint ventures, and general corporate matters. He represents investment groups and individuals in sales and investment transactions, as well as businesses with negotiating intellectual property license agreements, distribution agreements, manufacturing agreements, buy-sell agreements, option and compensation agreements, and other business contracts. Winter represents his clients during all stages of business, beginning with formation, through growth and financing transactions, as well as facilitating acquisitions and sales. He has extensive experience working with companies across a wide range of industries including action sports, apparel, technology, media, software, finance, restaurants, consumer products, food and beverage, retail, and manufacturing.

Todd J. Canni as Partner in Los Angeles from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Canni is one of the nation's preeminent government contracts lawyers, with deep experience helping his clients resolve their most important and complex matters with the U.S. government, including counseling, litigation, investigations and debarment proceedings. He previously served as a government debarring official with the U.S. Department of the Air Force.

Lily Zhang as Partner in San Diego from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C..

Zhang is a strategic counselor in a complex arena where biotechnology and computer science overlap. She develops patent portfolios for clients conducting R&D in artificial intelligence and machine learning, structural biology, drug discovery, cybersecurity and cryptography, medical technologies, network hardware and software, and electronic payment systems.

Michelle McCarthy as Partner in Los Angeles from McDermott Will & Emery.

McCarthy's practice focuses on advising clients of all types - from tax-exempt organizations to Fortune 100 companies - regarding every facet of employee benefits law, including the design, structure, implementation, administration and termination of pension health and welfare benefit plans. Her broad experience in the employee benefits area includes the representation of clients in collective bargaining, litigation, restructuring and mergers and acquisitions, among other things.

Gayatri S. Raghunandan as Associate in Burlingame from California Attorney General's Office.

Raghunandan specializes in antitrust & global competition. At the California Attorney General's Office, she assisted with behavioral and merger antitrust investigations in the e-commerce, social media, and natural gas markets. Raghunandan worked as an antitrust attorney at one of India's leading law firms in New Delhi, India. She represented several domestic and international clients (plaintiffs and defendants) in litigation and merger control matters before the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court, and the competition regulator. She has also advised clients on internal corporate antitrust compliance.

Elise Bonine as Associate in Burlingame from Kings County District Attorney's Office in New York.

Bonine specializes in Defective Products/Mass Torts and Elder Abuse. While attending Columbia Law School, Bonine interned for the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in the Hague, Netherland where she worked with the prosecutorial team to appeal the verdict in the Stanišić & Simatović case and set new precedent in the field of International Criminal Law. Upon her return to the United States, she represented detained immigrants awaiting final decisions on their asylum claims in an externship with the Legal Aid Society. Bonine later joined the Columbia Mediation Clinic where she mediated a wide variety of issues from housing issues to alleged violations of the Equal Employment Opportunities Act, as well as prepared and conducted trainings for members of the United Nations and Judicial Ethics Committees, and supervised and trained other mediators.

David G. Hollenberg as Senior Associate in Burlingame from The Matian Firm.

Hollenberg specializes in Consumer Protection Class Actions, Defective Products/Mass Torts, Elder Abuse, Employment Law, False Claims/Whistleblower Law and Personal Injury & Wrongful Death. He was previously an assistant state's attorney in Montgomery County, Maryland, and then a criminal defense attorney.

Grace Y. Park as Counsel in Santa Monica from U.S. Attorney's Office for Central District of California .

Park specializes in False Claims Act Litigation, California Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law and False Claims/Whistleblower Law. As an assistant U.S. attorney, Park investigated and prosecuting whistleblower complaints alleging violations of the federal False Claims Act. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she clerked for U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin of the Central District of California.

Laurie Carr Mims as Managing Partner in San Francisco

Mims is a first-chair trial lawyer with extensive experience litigating complex civil matters. She has created a unique practice in the life sciences space representing clients in litigation related to post-merger disputes, trade secret theft, securities fraud, shareholder derivative actions, and other complex commercial cases. Mims has served as first chair in several trials, and respected biotech and pharmaceutical companies regularly tap her to untangle complicated mergers, collaboration, and licensing agreements and to protect their innovations. She has also handled high-stakes matters involving the False Claims Act, breach of contract, fraud, and copyright infringement, and has represented corporate victims, witnesses, and individuals in white-collar criminal matters. She also spearheads the firm's contingency practice, which has recovered hundreds of millions in awards for Keker, Van Nest & Peters clients.

Kimberly A. Klinsport as Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Klinsport represents clients within the insurance industry on complex insurance brokerage and agency litigation. In addition to her experience leading bad faith litigation matters, she has particular expertise in coverage issues involving cybersecurity and data privacy, director and officer liability, construction projects, additional insureds, and policies with multiple insurers on the risk.

Hershini Gopal as Associate in San Francisco from Deloitte.

Gopal is an associate on the tax and litigation teams in Murphy Pearson's San Francisco office. Prior to joining the firm, she worked at a Big 4 accounting firm on corporate tax matters, including state refund claims and California tax controversies. Her legal experience also includes defending the U.S. government in commercial litigation disputes at the U.S. Department of Justice and representing private clients in commercial litigation matters. She also worked for Colorado Supreme Court Justice William W. Hood III on matters before the Colorado Supreme Court regarding land and water rights, family law, and contract disputes. She also served as a clerk for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Legal Development clinic, where she drafted tribal code, served as a clerk to tribal courts, and conducted research on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Tyler Z. Bernstein as Partner in Orange County

Bernstein's practice extends to the business law context, as he has extensive experience successfully defending against "bet the company" commercial litigations and arbitrations. He regularly defends employers in wage and hour class actions and representative litigations and has extensive experience defending against claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breaches of contract, and other related matters.

Jack Burns as Partner in Los Angeles

Burns focuses his practice on complex healthcare litigation. He has extensive experience involving a wide range of healthcare issues, including regulatory, reimbursement, privacy, fraud and abuse, overpayment, and class action matters. He also maintains an active pro bono practice, including providing pro bono services to indigent criminal defendants facing felony-level charges.

Hilary A. Habib as Partner in Los Angeles

Habib represents employers in employment-related litigation matters, including matters involving allegations of harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and defamation. A significant portion of her practice is devoted to defending complex wage and hour class actions and representative actions, including claims relating to overtime, meal and rest periods, time rounding, misclassification and inaccurate wage statements. She also represents clients before state and federal administrative agencies, such as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Sami Hasan as Partner in San Francisco

Hasan has extensive experience litigating a wide range of employment claims before administrative agencies as well as state and federal courts. He specializes in wage and hour class and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions, as well as discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA).

Chi L. Huynh as Partner in Century City

Huynh represents physician groups, independent physician associations, hospitals and hospital-affiliated foundations, non-profit health foundations, pharmacies and other healthcare entities in mergers and acquisitions, operational and contracting matters, and general corporate counsel matters. She is also experienced in identifying and addressing complex healthcare-related regulatory issues, including information privacy, corporate practice of medicine, anti-kickback and federal Stark issues.

Andrew S. Kreider as Partner in Los Angeles

Kreider's representation of clients spans a number of industries, including technology, internet, financial services, digital media, consumer products, apparel, food and beverage, biotech, e-commerce and cross-border transactions. He advises high-growth companies and their investors on organizational and founder matters, initial- through late-stage angel, venture capital and other debt and equity financings, complex commercial transactions including joint ventures and strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and recapitalizations, and corporate governance and counseling.

Gazal Pour-Moezzi as Partner in Orange County

Pour-Moezzi works with clients to develop, protect and enforce brands. She advises some of the world’s leading brands on trademark acquisition, protection and enforcement in the U.S. and abroad. She manages worldwide trademark portfolios and strategizes with clients regarding how best to establish and grow their portfolios. She also has a robust litigation practice, litigating trademark infringement, false advertising, and unfair competition claims under the Lanham Act and state laws.

Corey F. Steady as Partner in Orange County

Steady practices in family wealth planning, including all aspects of estate planning and probate and trust administration. He advises U.S. citizens, residents and nonresident noncitizens regarding U.S. gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning. Additionally, he helps clients plan and implement strategies to transfer family wealth and accomplish personal goals in a tax efficient manner.

Edward Xia as Partner in Los Angeles

Xia represents public and private companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, entrepreneurs and founders in corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, minority and growth equity investments, equity and debt financings, venture capital investments, joint ventures and strategic alliances, recapitalizations and corporate governance matters. He works with clients in a range of industries, including software and technology, blockchain and digital assets, fintech, retail, consumer products, healthcare, financial services, food and beverage, aerospace and defense, transportation and entertainment and digital media.

Cole F. Morgan as Partner in Newport Beach

Morgan practices real estate and corporate transactional law, including negotiating and drafting agreements, conducting due diligence, and advising on legal and compliance issues. He represents a wide range of companies in many industries, from start-up businesses, to mature companies with complex corporate structures.

Wendy J. Ray as Partner in Oakland from Morrison Foerster.

Ray is an experienced trial lawyer with a long track record of successfully litigating the most complicated and challenging cases for some of the world's top technology, consumer products, and media companies. Often hired to parachute in close to trial, her experience includes representing plaintiffs and defendants in an array of high-stakes business disputes spanning trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright, banking, and employment matters.

Joshua W. Marnitz as Partner in Los Angeles and Houston

Marnitz advises clients on the environmental and energy regulatory aspects of complex corporate and finance transactions in the energy, infrastructure, and industrial sectors.

Nima H. Mohebbi as Partner in Los Angeles

Mohebbi is a go-to advisor for some of the world’s most influential technology companies, studios, and artists, frequently counseling on complex and unsettled issues associated with digital assets, artificial intelligence, intellectual property in film and music, as well as the growing intersection between entertainment content development and technology.

Aron Potash as Partner in Los Angeles

Potash represents domestic and international businesses, including many in the petrochemical, energy, cleantech, manufacturing, REIT, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Betty C. Pang as Partner in San Francisco

Dr. Pang represents private equity firms and investment banks, healthcare providers and health systems, and life science companies, including pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies, and medical suppliers on regulatory issues pertaining to fraud and abuse, self-referral and government program reimbursement compliance, and facility and provider licensing issues, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, financings, Joint ventures, government investigations, and day-to-day regulatory counseling.

Christopher K.L. Young as Partner in San Francisco

Young is a second-generation American, the first person in his immediate family to earn an advanced degree, and the only lawyer among his extended family. His practice focuses on antitrust and class action litigation. Since joining the Joseph Saveri Law Firm in 2019, he has been instrumental to its success, working successfully on many of its most significant cases. Particularly, in In re: Capacitors Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal.), he was part of the team coordinating this massive price-fixing case, which first went to trial in March 2020 but was halted by the pandemic. The case was retried in November-December 2021, when the firm reached settlements totaling $165 million, bringing total case settlements to $604.55 million--an antitrust law rarity. In addition, he has been an effective leader in obtaining the final approval of two rounds of Capacitors settlements from the Court.

Young's expertise and accomplishments have earned praise and accolades from his colleagues, the courts, the American Antitrust Institute, and the media. He is also active in several bar associations. He is vice chair for the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's Trial Practice Division and is an important contributor to the Education Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area. He has also propelled the firm's successful pro bono relationship with the Federal Pro Bono project.

Michael A. Tomasulo as Partner in Los Angeles from Winston & Strawn LLP.

Tomasulo's work concentrates on high-stakes intellectual property litigation and counseling for a wide array of technology, entertainment, and blockchain clients. He is a renowned trial lawyer, a trusted counselor, and a problem-solver for his clients.

Andrew Ditlevsen as Shareholder in San Jose

Ditlevsen has nearly a decade of success counseling clients in what he describes as the "three core pillars" of his practice: real estate litigation, creditor's rights, and manufactured housing law. As a leader of the firm's Manufactured Housing Communities Team, he advises owners and managers of mobile home parks, manufactured housing communities, and special occupancy parks in all facets of daily operation and management. He also represents park owners and real estate developers seeking to convert the use of existing parks located throughout California, in connection with those clients' redevelopment efforts, most often creating high-density residential and mixed-use products.

John Adams Jr. as Shareholder in Sacramento

Adams represents clients in a broad range of employment law and labor matters. John has experience in both single-plaintiff and class action litigation, including cases involving claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour violations and violations under the Private Attorneys General Act.

Justin Brown as Shareholder in San Jose

Brown advises and represents employers in a range of employment and labor law matters arising under federal, Idaho, and California state laws, including wage and hour, exemption classification, discrimination, harassment and retaliation, administrative charges, and cryptocurrency. He regularly conducts compliance audits relating to the Fair Labor Standards Act and state wage and hour law, pay practices, and employment and human resources procedures.

Renee Feldman as Shareholder in Walnut Creek

Feldman focuses her practice on the defense of employers in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including single and multi-plaintiff cases alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination, as well as associated tort, contract and wage claims. Her experience spans the full litigation lifecycle, from pre-litigation through summary judgment, trial and beyond.

Alice H. Wang as Shareholder in San Francisco

Wang advises and represents employers in a wide range of labor and employment law matters arising under state and federal law, including wage and hour, pay practice and worker classification issues, discrimination, harassment and retaliation, and wrongful termination. She regularly handles matters in all of these areas in federal and state courts, and before federal, state, and local agencies, including Berman hearings and responding to administrative complaints

Eve A Brackmann as Partner in Los Angeles from Stuart Kane.

Brackmann serves as lead counsel in jury and bench trials in both state and federal courts and she is well known for her effective private arbitration work. Her real estate practice covers high stakes litigation for shopping center and other commercial real estate owners and tenants, big-box retailers, investors, developers, casinos, mortgage companies, logistics companies, manufacturers, cannabis-sector businesses, and more. Her business litigation practice covers disputes in venture partnerships, manufacturer and distributor disputes, contract-related lawsuits, fiduciary duty, unfair competition, defamation, trade secret, and anti-SLAPP lawsuits. She also has significant experience with high-stakes Homeowners' Association disputes, as well as cannabis-related matters.

Meegan Brooks as Partner in San Francisco from Steptoe & Johnson.

Brooks is a member of the firm's Retail & E-Commerce Group. She focuses on consumer class actions alleging unfair or deceptive business practices, often involving false advertising, privacy and automatic renewal issues for retailers, hospitality companies and consumer product manufacturers.

Stephanie A. Sheridan as Partner-in-Charge in San Francisco from Steptoe & Johnson.

Bringing nearly 35 years of experience, Sheridan will serve as vice chair of the firmwide Litigation Group and as a member of Benesch's Executive Committee. A trusted advisor to the nation's largest retailers, Sheridan advises on and defends against matters involving claims of alleged deceptive pricing; wiretapping litigation; false advertising cases; violations of federal and state privacy matters; automatic renewal claims; call recording suits; "Made in the USA" and other 'country of origin' claims; and environmental issues impacting the industry, such as advising retailers on emerging PFAS regulatory requirements while also defending against the country's first class action against retailers on those claims and litigating California's Proposition 65 matters.

Matthew C. Douglas as Shareholder in San Diego

Douglas' practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, compliance with securities laws, and general business matters. He represents private and public companies in a wide range of industries, including real estate, technology, finance, apparel, health care, food services and more. He has extensive experience in advising companies at all stages - from startups seeking initial venture capital financing to established companies obtaining additional capital to pursue strategic opportunities or fund ongoing operations.

Amanda Farfel as Counsel in Los Angeles from King & Spalding LLP.

Farfel focuses her practice on complex, high-stakes disputes involving intellectual property rights, constitutional and statutory interpretation, administrative law, unfair competition laws, class action defense, trade secrets, and employment disputes. She has represented clients before the United States Supreme Court, United States Courts of Appeals, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, federal and state trial courts across the nation, international arbitration tribunals, and mediators. Farfel also advises clients regarding the development of best practices.

Kelley T. Tran as Associate in Los Angeles from King & Spalding.

Kelley represents individuals and entities in a wide range of complex disputes, including business litigation, employment claims, fraud actions, and healthcare regulatory matters.

John Dominic Drdek as Associate in San Diego from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.

Drdek has handled a broad range of high-stakes cases, including multi-million dollar contract disputes, labor and employment issues, and class action lawsuits. He plays an integral role in all stages of the litigation process, from fighting complaints and managing discovery issues to arguing substantive motions and advocating at trial. Along with the state of California, Drdek is admitted to practice in the Southern, Central, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California. Drdek also serves as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He deployed with Special Operations Joint Task Force to Afghanistan in 2012.