Cherie S. Raidy as Shareholder in Orange County from Foley & Lardner LLP.

Raidy represents large corporations, financial institutions, and real estate companies and focuses her traditional practice on finance, commercial lending, and real estate and business transactions. She regularly advises on the acquisition and disposition of hotels, office buildings, tenant headquarter leases, and other real property projects, in addition to commercial loan documentation, multifamily lending, synthetic leases, corporate trust, project finance , real estate finance, foreclosure, and workouts and lender side consumer finance litigation.

Raidy's experience includes corporate negotiations and drafting of management buyout agreements, as well as asset and stock purchase agreements. She also represents private equity funds engaged in the acquisition of distressed companies.

David Owen as Partner in San Francisco from K & L Gates.

Owen focuses his practice on advising investment funds and investment advisers in connection with fund structuring and formation, product structuring, transactions and ongoing operational needs, as well as regulatory, compliance and other securities law matters.

Ziyong "Sean" Li as Partner in San Francisco from Quinn Emanuel.

Li focuses his practice on technology and intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution before both federal and state courts, arbitration tribunals, and government agencies, such as the United States International Trade Commission and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Frances O'Meara as Partner in Los Angeles from Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP.

O'Meara concentrates her practice on errors and omissions defense for attorneys, accountants, architects, insurance agents, real estate brokers, appraisers, doctors, and nurses. She is certified by the California State Bar as a Certified Legal Malpractice Specialist. She advises professionals and law firms on legal professional and ethical issues, issues relating to risk management and loss control, and cyber security and data privacy risks.

Karen Firstenberg as Partner in Los Angeles from Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.

Firstenberg provides strategic counsel to life sciences companies on product liability, toxic torts, and compliance matters. She represents pharmaceutical, biotech, materials science, and medical device manufacturers, designers, and distributors, including Fortune 500 and 300 companies. She has led nationwide mass tort drug and device litigation in both state and federal courts, winning favorable jury verdicts in multi-million-dollar claims.

Adam B. Levine as Partner in San Diego

Levine is a key member of the firm's serious personal injury team. He focuses his practice on product defect, premises, auto and aviation cases.

Carol Ann Seita as Partner

Seita is experienced in matters involving personal injury, premises liability, employment law, subrogation defense, products liability, property damage, and construction defect. Her prior experience also includes working for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Fresno in various capacities, including in the Administrative Division, the Victim Witness Unit and the Criminal Unit.

Brett Runyon as Partner

Runyon has successfully defended his clients in a variety of cases, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in mass tort actions, complex industrial fire cases, environmental and industrial contamination cases, inverse condemnation claims and catastrophic loss, and construction defect.

David Frankenberger as Managing Partner

Frankenberger's practice includes complex state court and federal court litigation involving motor vehicle accident defense; trucking defense; complex personal injury; premises liability; product liability, agricultural litigation, and construction defect liability for both subcontractors and developers.

Michael Lehman as Partner

Lehman has practiced civil litigation for more than 30 years and is a member of ABOTA. His trial experience includes representing private and public entities and individuals in cases involving torts, employment law, products liability, professional negligence, and civil rights, in both state and federal courts.

Judge David De Alba as Neutral in Sacramento from Sacramento County Superior Court.

De Alba served on the Sacramento County Superior Court for 21 years, presiding over personal injury and wrongful death, employment, professional negligence, products liability and civil rights matters. He has served assignments on the juvenile delinquency, probate, felony and civil courts and the complex and settlement conference departments. Prior to his bench appointment, De Alba spent the first 22 years of his career with the California Office of the Attorney General, handling both civil and criminal trials and appeals.

Ryan Sandrock as Partner in San Francisco from Department of Justice.

Sandrock is co-chair of the firm's Antitrust Practice. He will focus on litigation, transactions, investigations, and counseling at the nexus of competition or consumer protection.

Rachel A. Garcia as Associate in San Jose from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankell LLP.

Garcia focuses on litigation in all areas of employment law, including wage and hour, terminations, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and trade secrets. Her practice also focuses on employment counseling.

Britt Strottman as Partner in Sacramento from San Francisco City Attorney's Office.

Strottman will help lead the firm's public entity environmental practice group which specializes in litigation against corporations for wrongdoing. She has spent more than 20 years representing state and local governments, as in-house and outside counsel.

After working on the tobacco litigation and sub-prime mortgage issues as a senior assistant attorney general in Ohio, Strottman represented more than 40 California cities and counties in opioid and fire litigation, culminating in a $1 billion settlement with PG&E for the North Bay and Camp Fires.

James Lu as Partner in Century City from Cooley LLP.

James Lu joins Sidley as a partner in the firm's life sciences, corporate and ECVC practices. Lu focuses on representing leading companies and their venture capital and private equity investors, especially in the life sciences and technology sectors. He also has extensive experience advising clients on private and public securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, especially cross-border transactions involving multiple jurisdictions.

Thomas C. Schroeder as Partner in Seattle from University of California.

Schroeder has more than 15 years' experience representing high-profile national institutions, both in-house and in private practice. He worked for the Office of the General Counsel at the University of California for almost a decade, advising on nonprofit organization and charitable giving matters. Previously he worked in-house at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a $13+ billion private foundation.

Schroeder began his legal career as an associate in Davis Wright's Tax-Exempt Organizations practice group, to which he now returns as a partner. His practice includes advising on: entity choice; formation and dissolution; organizational structures and re-organizations (including subsidiary formation and operation, affiliated organizations, and mergers and acquisitions); tax qualification and compliance; corporate governance (fiduciary duties, conflicts of interest, board policies and practice); executive compensation; and advocacy activities, including campaign intervention and lobbying. Schroeder has a special interest in innovation activities of charities and educational institutions, including operation of incubators, accelerators and venture fund creation and affiliation(s). Schroeder also draws upon his significant in-house experience to advise clients on complex charitable giving matters, including private foundation grantmaking and significant gifts to operating charities. Finally, Schroeder works with clients to navigate charitable trust law and endowment matters, including representing clients before state attorneys general.

Daniel Elefant as Partner in San Francisco from SoftBank Investment Advisers.

Elefant has experience in representing technology and life sciences companies, from formation through IPOs or M&A exits, and as a corporate/securities counsel following IPO.

Kristin Rizzo as Neutral in San Diego

Based in San Diego, Rizzo is available as a mediator for matters statewide. With nearly two decades of legal experience, Rizzo has represented clients in litigation and mediation across a wide range of civil matters, with an emphasis on employment law matters. Beyond employment law, Rizzo has handled business and contractual, housing discrimination, disability access, internal workplace, personal injury and medical malpractice disputes.

Jerry A. Katz as Senior Counsel in Los Angeles from Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP.

Katz has more than three decades of experience handling virtually every aspect of real estate-related transactions, including real estate acquisitions and dispositions, development, real estate secured and asset-based financing, loan workouts, tax-deferred exchanges, complex title insurance matters, ground leases, and commercial leasing.

Jesse Adriance in San Diego from Adriance Law.

Adriance's practice areas include general civil litigation and the defense of general and professional liability and medical malpractice matters. He is admitted to practice in California and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Kaylee Yang as Partner in San Francisco from Baker Botts LLP.

Yang represents public and private companies in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, investments and joint ventures as well as operational and corporate governance strategy. She counsels clients in various industries, including life sciences, TMT, clean energy and entertainment. Her practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments as well as antitrust matters.

Elizabeth K. McCloskey as Partner in San Francisco from Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP .

McCloskey's practice focuses on high-stakes, complex litigation across a broad range of subject matters, including founder disputes, trade secret challenges, copyright, antitrust and breach of contract actions, white-collar criminal defense cases and investigations.

Sangeetha M. Raghunathan as Partner in Silicon Valley (Redwood City) from Earnin.

Raghunathan will focus on regulatory and compliance support for companies in the fintech, web3 and modern finance sector. Prior to joining Gunderson Dettmer, Raghunathan was general counsel and chief eompliance officer at fintech company Earnin.

Kevin T. Collins as Shareholder in Sacramento

Collins represents clients in a wide variety of areas including, misappropriation of trade secrets, false advertising, unfair competition, trade dress infringement, securities, class actions, multi‐district litigation, and antitrust.

Pooya E. Sohi in Los Angeles

Sohi represents public and private companies in a variety of state and federal court cases involving contract disputes, commercial litigation, and business torts, including tortious interference, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Valerie Bantner Peo as Shareholder in San Francisco

Bantner Peo focuses her practice on creditors’ rights, real estate, finance, and commercial litigation with significant experience at the trial and appellate levels in bankruptcy, federal, and state court.

Philip Nulud as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Nulud assists clients in developing, protecting, and licensing their valuable ideas by providing critical freedom to use clearance and infringement opinions for patents and trademarks, while also preparing, prosecuting, and enforcing their patents, trademarks, and copyrights.

Stephanie S. Downer as Shareholder in San Diego

Downer focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, wealth transfer planning, transfer tax minimization, trust administration, and probate law.

Brian Adkins as Shareholder in San Diego

Adkins specializes in housing discrimination investigations conducted by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He also regularly provides employment advice and counsel, as well as prepares employment agreements for his clients. He has also represented clients in California Labor Commission and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission matters.

Zachary Elsea as Partner in Los Angeles from Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP.

Elsea has extensive experience representing companies and individuals in the entertainment, technology, financial services, and real estate industries. He also has particular expertise in intellectual property litigation and counseling, including copyright, trademark, right of publicity, and related issues along with significant experience representing both employers and employees in high-stakes trade secret, non-compete, employment, and partnership disputes.

SeoJung Park as Partner in Silicon Valley from DLA Piper.

Park represents private equity funds in all phases of their operations, including formation, acquisition, financing, restructuring and existing portfolio investments. She also counsels private and public companies, banks and financial institutions on the U.S. tax aspects of various financings, capital markets, cross-border mergers and other transactions.

Alya Sulaiman as Partner in Los Angeles from Epic.

Sulaiman works with clients to navigate complex healthcare regulatory, privacy and transactional matters, with a focus on digital health and data use strategy. She also advises on the legal and business frameworks for innovative technologies, including predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, electronic health records, interoperability tools, health data platforms and digital therapeutics.

V. Sathienmars as Counsel in San Francisco from Kronenberg Law - A professional corporation. .

Sathienmars defends high-profile and high-net-worth clients in "bet the company" lawsuits and routinely oversees civil litigation matters from pre-suit through trial. His experience includes coordinating with defense liaison counsel on case management strategy, court filings, and discovery efforts in federal multidistrict litigation, as well as Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings in California state courts. He has also represented clients in appeals in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and California appellate courts.