Crowell & Moring LLP
Jennie Wang VonCannon
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Ellis George Cipollone O'Brien Annaguey LLP.
VonCannon is a partner in the Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and has previously served for over 11 years as an assistant U.S. attorney and was appointed the deputy chief of the Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section of the National Security Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Stoel Rives LLP
John Pavolotsky
as Of Counsel
in San Francisco
from Roku, Inc..
Pavolotsky's practice will focus on advising clients regarding privacy and data security matters and on structuring and negotiating complex technology transactions, including inbound and outbound hardware and software licensing and strategic collaboration and development agreements.
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP
Priya Huggett
as Partner
in San Diego
from Brixton Capital.
Huggett's practice emphasizes a variety of corporate/commercial and real estate transactions, particularly private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and commercial contracts including vendor and licensing contracts. With respect to real property, her focus is on purchase and sale, commercial leasing, subdivision, easements and licenses, financing and related business matters. While serving as general counsel for Brixton Capital, Huggett oversaw all legal aspects of Brixton and its affiliates - providing oversight and a legal perspective for the acquisition, leasing and disposition of properties.
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth
Jaye Heybl
as Shareholder
in Westlake Village
from Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP.
Heybl is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and focuses on patent and trademark prosecution and litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before the USPTO. He has prosecuted patents in a variety of technologies including semiconductors, electronics, communications and computer related technologies, as well as mechanical matters.
Jill Heybl
as Of Counsel
in Westlake Village
from Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP.
Heybl practices extensively in trademark and trade dress prosecution. She has expertise in trademark watching, trademark clearance and infringement investigations and opinions, trademark disputes, and U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board proceedings such as appeals, oppositions, and cancellations. She represents clientele from various technologies focusing on consumer products and services. Jill practices regularly before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prosecuting trademark applications and advises clients worldwide on securing their intellectual property rights.
Address
3075 Townsgate Road , Westlake Village 91361
T:
(805) 730-6830
Kaufman Dolowich Voluck, LLP
Sanjay Bansal
as co-managing Partner
in Los Angeles
from Bansal Law, PC.
Bansal concentrates his practice in the areas of labor and employment law. He represents and counsels' clients regarding class action wage and hour cases, whistleblower, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) matters. He advises and defends clients who are the target of wrongful termination actions as well as harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims. He handles contract negotiations and disputes, grievance hearings and writ of mandamus actions.
Knox Ricksen LLP
Benjamin Fuchs
as Associate
in Walnut Creek
from Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, APC.
Fuchs has more than four years of litigation experience, having tried numerous labor and employment matters, including wage and hour violations, workplace safety issues and worker misclassifications, and representing labor unions and members before various state and federal agencies.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP
Jason D. Goldwater
as Partner
in San Diego
from Goldwater Law Group.
Goldwater has represented numerous Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies in diverse commercial and employment litigation matters. He practices in all California state courts, Federal District Courts throughout California, and has handled multiple matters before federal and state appellate courts.
Roger B. Frederickson
as Partner
in San Diego
from Frederickson Hamilton LLP .
Frederickson provides clients with deep practical courtroom experience and insightful guidance in navigating highly contentious disputes. His experience representing clients across California and the West includes a wide range of disputes involving commercial contracts, finance, real property, construction, insurance, bankruptcy and probate matters.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Manita Rawat
as Partner
in Silicon Valley
from Duane Morris LLP.
Rawat maintains a thriving intellectual property practice that includes serving as lead outside patent counsel to Fortune 100 companies in Silicon Valley. She primarily supports large technology companies with managing their domestic and foreign patent portfolios, which includes determining patentability and drafting and prosecuting patent applications.
Farella Braun + Martel
William P. Keane
as American College of Trial Lawyers Board of Regents
Keane will serve on as an ACTL Regent for Region 2, which encompasses Northern California and Nevada, for a four-year term. Keane has over 30 years of experience in every aspect of jury trials, administrative hearings, parallel criminal-civil proceedings, and pre-charge investigations by numerous enforcement and regulatory agencies. He became an ACTL Fellow in 2010.
Goodwin Procter LLP
Meg Thering
as Partner
in San Francisco, CA
from Motive .
Thering provides practical advice to clients in order to enable them to recruit, hire, and retain the best employees possible. She also represents clients in employment litigation and M&A matters.
Jia Jia Huang
as Partner
in Los Angeles, CA
from Latham & Watkins .
Huang provides strategic advice and counseling to technology companies on intellectual property and technology-related transactions. She counsels clients on the development, licensing, and commercialization of intellectual property assets across industries. Huang also routinely leads the intellectual property and technology aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, buyout and other private equity transactions, corporate financing and capital raising, and capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Eric Y. Cohen
as Partner
in Century City
Cohen's practice focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity Transactional law
Caroline B. Epstein
as Partner
in Century City
Epstein advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other private and public companies in connection with all types of complex financing transactions, including asset-based, unitranche, first-lien, second lien and high-yield transactions.
Garry J. Padrta
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Padrta routinely represents strategic and financial parties in a variety of corporate transactions, including leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, spin-offs, reorganizations, restructurings, and recapitalizations. He also represents his clients in connection with corporate governance matters.
Ingrid Petersen
in Los Angeles
Petersen's practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on high-stakes patent infringement suits involving complex technology.
Amelia Gordon
as Partner
in Century City
Gordon practices debt finance and transactional law
Katya Boyko
as Partner
in Palo Alto
Boyko's practice focuses on regulatory advice: antitrust matters (including obtaining Russian and foreign merger clearances, competition analysis of certain provisions of the agreements, advise in the course of investigation proceedings conducted by antimonopoly service with respect to collusion/concerted actions and cartels), regulatory matters relating to banking and financial sectors
Kyle Calhoun
as Partner
in San Francisco
Calhoun’s practice focuses on high-tech patent and trade secret litigation in U.S. Federal Courts and at the International Trade Commission. He has played an integral role on four winning trial teams, drafted several successful dispositive and Daubert motions, prepared for and assisted in the taking and defending of dozens of trial examinations, and has taken and defended several fact and expert depositions.
Andrew A. Chan
as Partner
in San Francisco
Chan focuses his practice on the tax aspects of complex business transactions and fund formation and structuring.
Courtney Chen
as Partner
in San Francisco
Chen's practice focuses on private funds.
Ezekiel Couch
as Partner
in San Francisco
Couch's practice focuses on structuring and forming investment funds.
Michael E. Hanna
as Partner
in San Francisco
Hanna's practice is focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of aspects, including, but not limited to, leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, corporate governance and other corporate matters.
Jared Maher
as Partner
in San Francisco
Maher's practice focuses on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures ranging in size from several millions of dollars to several billions of dollars.
Ankur Sharma
as Partner
in San Francisco
Sharma's practice focuses on transactional, M&A, and Private Equity law.
Jessica Tjang
as Partner
in San Francisco
Tjang's practice focuses on debt finance and transactional law
Yvonne Beeler
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Beeler's practice focuses on patents, trade secrets, and copyright litigation. Yvonne is a trial lawyer with experience in all phases of U.S. District Court litigation, from pre-suit analysis through trial and appeal. She also has experience in International Trade Commission (ITC) Section 337 proceedings and Hatch-Waxman (ANDA) litigation. Several of Yvonne’s cases involve overseas corporations based in Asia and Europe.
Matthew Benedetto
as Partner
in Century City
Benedetto's practice focuses on Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity Transactional law
Samuel Blake
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Blakes practice focuses on patent and trade secret litigation.
Yungmoon Chang
as Partner
in Century City
Chang's practice includes patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright matters. Her experience includes witness examination at trial, oral argument at hearings, taking depositions, defending depositions, expert witness preparation (including for trial testimony, expert reports, and depositions), and motion drafting.
Andrew Hurley
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Hurley practices debt finance and transactional law
Christopher Raidy
in Century City
Raidy's practice focuses on the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in complex debt financing transactions including secured and unsecured financings, restructurings, and DIP and exit financing, and domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
Michael E. Rosenberg
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Rosenberg's focus is in complex civil litigation and government investigations brought in both state and federal court. He has worked on cases in the pharmaceutical, insurance, communications, technology, electric vehicle, finance and financial services, and energy industries in various stages of the litigation life-cycle.
Matthew Summers
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Summers' practice focuses on complex litigation in both state and federal courts. His litigation experience includes contract disputes, government investigations, product liability defense, mass tort and class action defense, and white-collar criminal defense. Summers also has an active pro bono practice.
Shandy Pinkowski
as Partner
in Century City
Pinkowski's practice includes advising both first-time and established fund sponsors on the formation, structuring and operation on a broad range of investment funds, including real estate, venture capital, evergreen and co-invest funds. Pinkowski also counsels fund sponsors on various internal economic and governance matters, including employee departures and strategic transactions.
Miller Barondess LLP
Jonathan D. Kintzele
as Associate
in Los Angeles
from DLA Piper.
Kintzele's practice primarily focuses on resolving complex commercial civil actions, including in the areas of trade secrets, trademark and copyright litigation, class action defense, real estate development and construction, entertainment and media, and complex business contract disputes.
Address
1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067 US
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Covington & Burling LLP
Christen Nalley Sewell
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Sewell counsels private and public companies and executives on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation, with a particular focus on benefits issues for start-ups and emerging growth companies.
Covington & Burling LLP
Brandon Michael Palmen
as Partner
in Palo Alto
Palmen advises clients on their commercial and intellectual property transactions, drafting and negotiating agreements with key customers, suppliers, and technology development partners, complex data and intellectual property license agreements, and agreements associated with technology-focused mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and spinoffs.
Covington & Burling LLP
Zak Megeed
as Partner
in San Francisco
Megeed advises life sciences companies in complex collaborations and other strategic transactional matters spanning the full range of discovery, development and commercialization activities.
Covington & Burling LLP
Lindsey Catherine Barnhart
as Partner
in Palo Alto
Barnhart focuses on complex class actions and commercial litigation. She has handled matters involving a range of issues, such as consumer protection, breach of contract, warranty, fraud, and intellectual property claims, and works with clients in the technology, sports, consumer brands, and financial services industries.
Littler Mendelson PC
Walter "Walt" C. Pfeffer
as Shareholder
in San Francisco
from Singer Cashman LLP.
Pfeffer has extensive experience litigating and advising on matters involving trade secrets, trademarks, and business disputes. His work involves managing all aspects of litigation, including pleadings, motions, discovery disputes, fact and expert depositions, and hearings. In addition to handling active litigation, he provides pre-litigation counseling, handles alternative dispute resolutions, negotiates settlement agreements, and assists in strategy development and implementation.
Berding & Weil LLP
Anne L. Rauch
as Partner
in San Diego
from Epsten Grinnell & Howell A.P.C..
Rauch has extensive experience in the areas of appellate and civil litigation with special focus on common interest development law, construction defect disputes, homeowner association disputes, real estate law, insurance, and contract disputes.
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Merrili Escue
as Shareholder
in San Diego
from Ricketts Case LLP.
Escue represents companies in an array of employment law matters, including wage and hour cases; claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation; wrongful terminations; and reductions in force. She also provides counsel on all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including those related to hiring and other pre-employment issues, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, employment agreements, and discipline and performance management.
Nancy Kawano
as Senior Counsel
in San Diego
from Ricketts Case LLP.
Kawano counsels companies on employment issues in mergers and acquisitions; hiring practices, performance management and terminations; leaves of absence and disability accommodations; and employment practices audits. She also assists in the development of employee handbooks, workplace policies, and other employment documents; conducts workplace investigations; and provides training on various employment issues.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jon A MacDonald
as Of Counsel
in Orange County
from Fairfield Residential .
MacDonald's practice covers a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including advising developers and investors in connection with a broad array of development projects, portfolio and single asset acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing, and restructuring across asset classes, including retail, office, hotels/resorts, multifamily, and mixed-use projects throughout the United States.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Adam S. Goldberg
as Partner
in San Francisco
from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
Goldberg advises clients in a wide variety of disputes and investigations, including international and government investigations, international arbitrations, securities litigation and counseling on the regulatory aspects of business transactions. He also represents clients in complex business and intellectual property disputes and has litigated at both the trial court and appellate court levels.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Oswald Cousins
as Partner
in San Francisco
from Morrison & Foerster LLP.
Cousins provides high-level advice and counseling on a wide range of employment and labor law matters, including trade secrets and restrictive covenants, wage-and-hour compliance, discrimination and harassment allegations, whistleblower and retaliation claims, individual employee separations, reductions in force, and employment aspects of transactions. He has tried cases to verdict in federal and state court, as well as in arbitrations and administrative proceedings.
Near Inc.
Jay Angelo
as General Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Apple Inc .
Angelo has over 15 years of legal, compliance and operational experience advising private and public companies. Built and managed legal, compliance, and risk teams from the ground up for both start-ups and established public companies.
McGuireWoods LLP
Robert C. Fox
as Managing Director of Private Equity
in Century City
from O'Melveny & Myers LLP .
Fox guides external business development strategy, lead generation and client growth. He takes an innovative approach to helping private equity sponsor clients grow their firms by leveraging more than a decade of experience working with private equity, law firms and broader network in the M&A community.
Polsinelli LLP
Jordan C. Lee
as Shareholder
in Los Angeles
from Armstrong Teasdale LLP.
Lee focuses her practice primarily on employment litigation and counseling, and civil litigation. Her extensive employment law experience includes sex, age, disability, race discrimination, wage and hour law, non-compete and trade secrets, and arbitration agreements and proceedings.
Brown Rudnick LLP
Hailey Lennon
as Partner
in Orange County
from Anderson Kill.
Lennon provides clients with front-end advice on regulatory requirements related to fintech and crypto companies, including the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Cooley LLP
John-Paul Motley
as Partner In Charge
Cooley's second Los Angeles office opened in August. Their new location is in downtown at the Wells Fargo Center at 355 S. Grand Ave.
Perkins Coie LLP
Noah Bialos
as Senior Counsel
in San Francisco
from Twitter Inc..
Bialos develops compliance strategies that are informed by business priorities, human rights, and operational constraints. He works with a range of technology companies--including social media, messaging, search, gaming, file sharing, e-commerce, and cloud hosting providers--to develop pragmatic and principled risk mitigation measures across a range of policies and products.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Lauren N. Moore
as Partner
in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
from Office of White House Counsel.
Moore's practice will focus on matters at the intersection of law, business and public policy. She has significant experience with crisis management, strategic counseling, and government and internal investigations.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Matthew L. Friedrich
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Winston & Strawn LLP.
Friedrich represents private equity investors, operators, and developers on a range of complex commercial real estate transactions and financings. He also advises on ground-up construction, programmatic and single-asset joint ventures, and acquisitions, sales, and financings across asset classes and geographies.