Christopher R. Moore as Partner in Palo Alto and San Francisco from Hogan Lovells.

Moore's practice focuses on public and private company merger and acquisition transactions and activist defense. He has significant experience in both cross-border and domestic transactions, as well as carve-outs and LBOs. He also advises companies and their boards of directors on takeover defense and governance matters. He has advised a broad range of public and private clients across many industries, with a focus on the technology and life sciences sectors.

Robert J. Moss in Santa Ana from Orange County Superior Court.

Based in the Orange County office, Moss is available as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge for matters throughout the state. With nearly 50 years of legal experience, Moss recently retired after two decades on the Orange County Superior Court, serving as supervising judge of the civil panel and on the complex litigation panel, overseeing complex and general civil matters. He has presided over a wide variety of civil cases, including class actions, personal injury, business litigation, employment law, medical malpractice, and governmental entity cases.

Jennifer Trowbridge as Senior Counsel in San Diego from Sichenzia Ross Ference, LLP.

Trowbridge has a broad corporate practice, including securities law, finance, mergers & acquisitions and Exchange Act reporting and compliance. She represents public and private companies, investment funds and underwriters in regards to federal and state securities laws and investment and capital-raising transactions such as PIPEs, private equity, debt and venture capital transactions & SPACs. Her services include public and private offerings (Regulation D, etc.), registration of securities (Forms S-1, S-8, etc.), and filing compliance with mergers, acquisitions, stock and asset purchases (Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, etc.). She also assists clients such as investment advisers, broker-dealers and investment firms with registration and on-going SEC and state compliance.

Lynn K. Cadwalader as Partner in San Francisco from DLA Piper.

Cadwalader focuses her practice on providing creative and business-focused counsel to her clients. She has been a key player in many high-profile hospitality transactions, where her ability to creatively structure solutions that work for all participants has been invaluable.

Daniel G. Brown as Of Counsel in San Mateo from Carr McClellan P.C.

Brown represents individuals and businesses in estate planning, tax planning, and end of life planning decisions.

Jesse Debban as Partner in San Francisco from Farella Braun + Martel LLP.

Debban's practice focuses on a range of transactional matters such as M&A, joint ventures, securities offerings, and private equity and venture capital investments.

Thomas F. Mazzucco as Director in San Francisco

Mazzucco concentrates his practice in the areas of white-collar defense and government investigations, intellectual property litigation, and business litigation.

Christopher R. Ulrich as Director in San Francisco

Ulrich provides his clients with invaluable insights on issues ranging from collection and use of data, breach and remediation, governmental investigations, and subpoenas, as well as the application of federal and state workplace and personal privacy laws.

Joseph S. Leveroni as Director in San Francisco

Leveroni's practice focuses on providing aggressive representation of individuals facing criminal prosecution, as well as individuals who have yet to be charged but who are under investigation.

Heidi Mayon as Partner in Palo Alto from Goodwin Procter LLP.

Mayon focuses her practice on corporate finance transactions, advising issuers and underwriters on a wide range of securities matters, including public company readiness, initial public offerings and complex follow-on equity and debt capital markets offerings. She has extensive experience across numerous industries, including technology, healthcare and life sciences, fintech and payments, marketplaces and retail, energy and clean technology.

John M. Polson as Chairman and Managing Partner in Los Angeles and Irvine

Polson leads the firm's Management Committee and is co-chair of the firm's PEO and Staffing Industry Team and co-leads the firm's Gig Economy Industry Team. His practice includes compliance, litigation, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, and startup representation. He is a trusted advisor to professional employer organizations and clients in the staffing and human resources outsourcing industries.

James Di Cesare as Neutral in Santa Ana from Orange County Superior Court.

Di Cesare is based in Orange County but available for mediations and arbitrations statewide. Appointed to the bench by Gov. Gray Davis in 2001, Di Cesare has nearly five decades of experience in law.

Cassandra Robinson as Attorney in San Diego

Robinson's practice focuses on family law, personal injury, bankruptcy, probate, and real estate law. She clerked at the State Bar of California, where she gained incomparable experience evaluating complaints of attorney misconduct.

Benjamin B. Buckwalter as Partner in Silicon Valley (Redwood City) from Andreessen Horowit.

Buckwalter's practice will focus on regulatory and compliance support for companies and funds focused on the financial technology industry.

WIlliam O. Stein as Partner in Los Angeles from Epstein Becker & Green LLP.

Stein defends businesses in high-stakes employment lawsuits including those involving wrongful termination, harassment, disability, and trade secret claims.

Ron B. Birnkrant as Shareholder in Los Angeles from K&L Gates.

Birnkrant has a broad mergers and acquisitions practice, representing private and public companies on both buy- and sell-side transactions. He is experienced advising clients on a wide range of legal and business issues relating to acquisitions and divestitures, including advising on corporate restructurings and recommending and implementing remedial measures in advance of going to market, with the goal of reducing his clients' backend exposure. Ron's practice also extends to distressed mergers and acquisitions, where he works closely with the firm's restructuring and bankruptcy attorneys.

In addition, Birnkrant serves as outside general counsel to a number of clients, advising on corporate governance matters, day-to-day corporate matters, and commercial contracts. He has considerable experience with limited liability companies and regularly advises these clients on financing transactions and the issuance of equity incentives.

Birnkrant's experience extends across a broad array of industries, but, in particular, he has considerable experience advising on M&A transactions in the life sciences, technology, consumer products, apparel, defense, and logistics sectors.

Benjamin J. Mandel as Associate in Los Angeles from Collins + Collins.

Mandel is a civil litigator who represents clients in diverse matters including real estate, general liability, fraud, employment, sports and entertainment, and contract disputes.

John V. Berlinski as Principal in Los Angeles from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP.

Berlinski is regarded as one of Hollywood's most respected lawyers, with a practice focused on representing top actors, producers, directors, talent agencies, guilds, independent studios, casinos, resorts, and recording artists in their most significant disputes. He has been at the forefront of some of the most hot-button legal issues facing the entertainment industry today, representing clients in high-stakes and high-profile licensing, distribution, intellectual property, residuals, and "backend" profit participation disputes. In a case that drew national attention, John represented the actor-producer Scarlett Johansson in her groundbreaking lawsuit alleging that The Walt Disney Co. improperly failed to release her film Black Widow as promised, opting instead for a "day-and-date" release on streaming service Disney+ that deprived Ms. Johansson of tens of millions of dollars in box office bonuses. Berlinski is also well renowned for his role in obtaining the largest award in the history of profit participation arbitration, on behalf of David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, and Kathy Reichs, the actors and author-producer behind the hit Fox television series Bones.

Amelia Sanchez as Partner in San Diego

Sanchez represents companies in all asset categories - supporting and advising clients on leasing transactions that include retail, office, financial, life science, mixed use, industrial, telecommunications and solar leases and on purchase and sale transactions. In addition to her breadth of commercial real estate experience, Sanchez has handled a variety of business and transactional matters, including licensing, consultant, easement, access, vendor, co-marketing, service and management agreements.

Maureen Linch as Partner in Bay Area from Morrison & Foerster.

Linch's practice includes the tax aspects of M&A and other transactional matters, as well as structuring and planning, for companies ranging from start-ups to large multinationals at all stages of their life cycle. She also has expertise in the tax aspects of renewable energy investments and bankruptcies and restructurings.

Marcela Robledo as Partner in Bay Area from Baker McKenzie.

Robledo's practice focuses on technology transactions and advising public and private clients across industries on the IP, privacy and cybersecurity aspects of corporate matters. Robledo's experience includes advising leading technology companies and video game developers on licensing agreements, strategic partnerships and mergers and acquisitions.

Collin Chandler as Associate in Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney (Sacramento) from Donahue Davies LLP.

Chandler advises clients on an array of substantive legal issues including professional liability defense, products defect, general civil litigation, construction, real estate, as well as providing counsel to privately held businesses.

Ariel E. Vento as Associate in Los Angeles from Potter Handy LLP.

Vento's litigation experience affords her a variety of perspectives on insurance and healthcare-fraud matters. She has handled a high-volume disability rights cases and has handled multiple jury trials and managed more than 100 pretrial cases simultaneously.

Timothy (Tim) Reed as Shareholder in the San Francisco office of Ogletree Deakins from FordHarrison.

Reed represents employers both in the courtroom and before administrative agencies with respect to a wide range of employment law claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, trade secrets, breach of contract, economic tort, and wage-and-hour matters. He also regularly conducts workplace investigations and provides employers with preventive counsel regarding personnel management and policy issues.

Erica Michelle Chavez as Partner in Los Angeles from BD&J.

Chavez handles personal injury matters

Marc L. Benezra as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Baker & Hostetler LLP.

Benezra is a highly-recognized real estate lawyer. His services include extensive experience representing solvent guarantors, disgruntled partners, defrauded investors, joint venturers, buyers, sellers, borrowers, landlords and tenants.

James T. Grant as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from The Offices of James T. Grant.

Grant has over 30 years of litigation experience resolving a broad spectrum of civil matters through mediation, trial, arbitration, and appeal in state and federal courts in California and across the country.