Reece A. Román as Partner in San Diego from Tyson & Mendes LLP.

Román has litigated hundreds of personal injury, property damage, employment, product liability, class action, and business disputes. He has prevailed on numerous demurrers and motions for summary judgement winning pre-trial dismissals in actions for wrongful death, personal injury, sexual abuse, nuisance, trespass, and inverse condemnation.

Leila Sayegh as Partner in Los Angeles

Sayegh represents corporations and private equity funds as borrowers, and banks and other financial institutions as lenders, in a broad range of domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge loans, first and second lien financings, debtor-in-possession financings and asset-based loans. Her work with corporate and private equity clients has included PayPal, Inc., Intel Corporation, Quiksilver, Inc., EMC Corporation, Permira Advisers, Veritas Capital, Oaktree Capital Management, Calera Capital and The Gores Group. Financial institutions she has advised include Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Bank of America.

She also serves as a pro bono coordinator in Skadden's Los Angeles office and regularly advises nonprofit clients.

Michael R Guerrero as Partner in Los Angeles from Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.

Guerrero counsels companies in a wide range of industries on matters of consumer protection and financial services, including point-of-sale financing, personal property financing, rent-to-own products, and installment financing.

Clare Ellis as Counsel in San Francisco

Ellis's practice focuses on environmental issues impacting the transportation and energy sectors, with emphasis on air quality and climate change. She is also well-versed in both federal and California air quality and greenhouse gas emission regulations impacting vehicle, equipment, and parts manufacturers, as well as all energy producers, distributors, and transportation companies.

Peter Stockburger as Office Managing Partner in San Diego

Stockburger partners with clients around the globe to strategize about how they can leverage data and talent to grow, operate and protect their business. With a focus on data privacy and security, Peter works with clients of all sizes and maturity to build and shore up global privacy and security programs, enhance compliance and stakeholder confidence, navigate workplace disputes, take new products to market, and harness emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Christopher J. Bors as Partner in Palo Alto

Bors represents public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs and joint ventures, as well as a broad variety of other commercial and contractual matters. He has represented clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, health care, private equity, food and retail companies.

Anne E. Villanueva as Partner in Palo Alto

Villanueva counsel's clients on a broad range of employment matters, including employment-related issues arising out of U.S. and multinational corporate transactions, executive employment agreements and separation agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions-in-force, discrimination charges and lawsuits, collective bargaining agreements and internal investigations.

Glen Mastroberte as Partner in Los Angeles

Mastroberte represents investors, investment funds, independent production companies, distribution companies, financial institutions and producers in all legal and business aspects of the media and entertainment industries. He also handles general corporate matters related to the financing, production, licensing, distribution and use of motion pictures, television programs and other intellectual property assets. He also represents buyers and sellers of music companies, labels, catalogs and other music assets.

Devin A Donohue as Partner in Los Angeles from Cozen O'Connor.

Donohue concentrates his practice in the areas of business, trade secrets and securities litigation in federal and state courts, as well as before various arbitration tribunals. Over the course of his career, he has been lead trial counsel in over 100 cases in which he has represented several financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial advisers, resulting in favorable dispositions, including several defense awards and rulings against multimillion-dollar claims.

Thomas E Lombardi as Partner in Los Angeles from Cozen O'Connor.

Lombardi has extensive experience. Among the issues he has litigated are purchase and sale agreements, leases, loans, options, first rights of refusal, commissions, partnerships, failure to disclose, construction, ADA, nuisance, quiet title, easements and boundary disputes.

Nury Yoo as partner from Keller and Heckman LLP.

Yoo helps clients in the food and consumer product industries navigate regulations, anticipate and manage risk, and defend against challenges. Her areas of focus include labeling, claims and substantiation, marketing and advertising, food safety, due diligence reviews for private investment, and California's Proposition 65.

Pascal Benyamini as partner is taking on new leadership role in Los Angeles

Benyamini is co-leader of the firm’s consumer products and retail industry team. Benyamini will serve as co-leader with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.

Chad R. Ensz as Partner in San Diego from Dentons.

Ensz's practice focuses on general corporate transactional matters and regulatory compliance, including the representation of financial institutions and public and private companies in capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint venture and commercial transactions, and ongoing public company representation.

Victor M. Marquez as Partner--Real Estate Group in San Francisco from Squire Patton Boggs.

Marquez's practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, land use and zoning laws, real estate, business and general commercial litigation, state and local government relations and community outreach specialization in the context of land development and redevelopment for both private companies and nonprofit organizations.

Jaimie Bombard as Partner in San Francisco from Cooper, White & Cooper LLP.

Bombard has maintained her practice in the San Francisco Bay area for nearly a decade, and specializes in commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes. She also counsels clients and develops case strategy for all aspects of unlawful detainer litigation, and regularly represents clients in matters arising before the San Francisco Rent Board. She handles property management, tenant buyouts, Ellis Act withdrawals, family evictions, and other just-cause based actions for removal in eviction-controlled California jurisdictions, and has also tried several cases in San Francisco Superior Court.

Kenneth Yood as Partner in Los Angeles from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.

Yood represents a wide range of healthcare providers and healthcare companies, including specialty and general acute hospitals (including local district, nonprofit and for-profit facilities), home health agencies, specialty pharmacy and infusion centers, pharmaceutical vendors, nursing facilities and health information and management providers.

Victoria Tsylina as Shareholder in Century City

Tsylina focuses her practice on litigation in business, real estate, trust and probate matters. Her main objective is to promote clients' interests, aggressively working up their cases and developing thorough legal strategies on their behalf.

Ransom D. Boynton as Associate in Los Angeles from Poole Shaffery & Koegle LLP.

Boynton focuses his practice on representing employers in all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour disputes, employment discrimination, employment contract, discrimination claims, and compliance issues. He also advises a wide variety of companies and organizations in a multitude of industries on compliance with federal, state, and local labor and employment laws.

Michael R. Fostakowsky as Partner in Los Angeles from Poole Shaffery & Koegle LLP.

Fostakowsky concentrates his practice on employment and labor litigation before state and federal courts. He regularly represents employers and employees in a broad range of matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour issues, as well as Labor Code violations.

Brian Edward Koegle as Partner in Los Angeles from Poole Shaffery & Koegle, LLP.

Koegle provides advice and counsel, including best hiring practices, employment contracts, wage and hour issues, compensation, discipline, and termination matters, to employers across various industries.

Joseph Petersen as Managing Partner in Silicon Valley

Petersen has more than two decades of experience representing a broad array of clients in litigation, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving copyright and trademark law.

Benjamin H. Segal as Associate in Los Angeles from Covington & Burling.

Segal is a commercial and environmental litigator who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a range of complex disputes.

Joe Newman as Attorney in San Francisco from Fenwick & West.

Newman's practice focuses on technology transactions, privacy, and other regulatory matters, with a special focus on issues faced by companies in the video game and technology sectors.

Pascal Benyamini as Partner in Los Angeles

Benyamini will be a co-leader of the firm's consumer products and retail industry team with Chicago partner Kathleen Murphy.

Benyamini represents employers against employment law claims -- including wage and hour, discrimination and wrongful termination claims -- and advises them on compliance, claim prevention, investigations and employment best practices. He also represents furniture manufacturing clients in regulatory matters.

Richard Gottlieb as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Manatt.

Gottlieb has a financial services practice.

Yonaton Rosenzweig as Partner in Los Angeles from Katten Muchin Rosenman.

Rosenzweig's practice focuses on antitrust and unfair competition and extends to entertainment and general commercial litigation as well. He has secured favorable outcomes as lead counsel in matters with nine- and 10-figure dollar amounts at stake. His clients are drawn from industries ranging from retail to real estate to private equity, technology, software, and entertainment.

Lauren J. Fried as Partner in Los Angeles from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.

Fried concentrates her practice on complex commercial disputes across a variety of industries, with an emphasis on entertainment and media.

John-Paul Motley as Partner in Los Angeles from O'Melveny & Myers LLP.

Motley advises on corporate board governance, securities law compliance, and sophisticated equity and debt transactions.