Amir Freund as Counsel in Palo Alto from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP welcomes Amir Freund as counsel in the global Intellectual Property Litigation practice in the firm's Palo Alto office. Amir's practice focuses on patent infringement and trade secret litigation involving high-tech hardware and software technology, such as computer networking, telecommunications devices, semiconductors, integrated circuit design, memory circuits, fabrication processes, e-commerce, and digital radio devices.

Donna Sally Salcedo as Counsel in Century City

Salcedo represents public and private companies and financial institutions in connection with a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, corporate formation and governance, and other general corporate matters.

James Francis Hennessy as Counsel in San Francisco

Hennessy's healthcare clients include physician practices, hospitals, pharmacies, clinical laboratories, medical foundations, DMEPOS suppliers, academic medical centers, independent diagnostic testing facilities (IDTFs), federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs). He also represents a variety of life sciences companies and health industry-focused private equity companies.

Kevin M. Hara as Counsel in San Francisco

Hara's practice focuses on life sciences product liability litigation and multidistrict and mass tort litigation. His experience includes representation of many major manufacturers of medical products including numerous cardiac and orthopedic medical devices, and commonly used prescription medications.

Carla M. Wirtschafter as Counsel in Century City

Wirtschafter is experienced in a wide variety of complex business litigation and disputes, including representing and defending clients in lawsuits involving securities laws and business crimes, acquisition and earnout disputes, and intellectual property, including advertising, trademark, copyright, trade secret.

Cristina L. Talley as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Talley & Talley Law APC.

Talley's practice is focused on municipal law and complex civil litigation, in which she advised public agencies throughout California on matters related to employment, law enforcement, due process and a wide range of other matters.

Michael W. Ward as Partner in Palo Alto from Vinson & Elkins LLP.

Ward focuses on government investigations and white collar criminal defense. He has been appointed as an Independent Compliance Monitor and regularly advises clients on best practices in corporate compliance programs.

Adam Le Berthon as Partner in Los Angeles

Berthon handles complex and multiparty business litigation. He has extensive experience defending professional liability claims, product liability and mass tort actions filed against pharmaceutical and consumer product companies and has represented numerous companies and individuals involved in environmental litigation.

Nicholas R. Lane as Partner in San Francisco

Lane represents individuals and organizations in a variety of national and international disputes before federal and state courts and in alternative dispute resolutions.

Jianlin Song as Partner in San Francisco

Song represents manufacturers across the spectrum of life science products. She also has represented clinical and diagnostic laboratories and dental, medical and nursing practitioners in professional malpractice cases, and in response to investigations by their respective professional boards.

Joshua M. Rosenberg as Partner in Los Angeles from Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP.

Rosenberg handles a wide range of complex litigation matters, including breach of contract, copyright and trademark infringement, employment disputes, defamation, invasion of privacy, and general business matters.

Daniel P. Fallon as Partner in San Diego

Fallon leads a group of litigators specializing in professional liability, personal injury, general commercial liability, and business litigation.

Kelly Siobhan Laffey as Partner in Sherman Oaks

Laffey focuses on advising emerging growth and middle market companies in the technology, digital, internet, interactive media and entertainment industries.

Neil N. Elan as Senior Counsel in Sherman Oaks

Elan's civil litigation practice focuses on all areas of business and commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on business dissolution, buy-sell agreements, prosecution, and defense of breach of contract and promissory note actions, business torts, unfair business practices, fraud, and anti-SLAPP.

John R. De La Merced as Senior Counsel in Sherman Oaks

Merced focuses on clients in commercial, intellectual property, and real estate disputes in federal court, state court, and arbitration.

Victoria Q. Smith as Partner in Palo Alto from Perkins Coie LLP.

Smith represents clients in intellectual property matters spanning a variety of industries, including telecommunications, electronics, and software (including technology related to cellular devices, data encryption and compression, email, mapping and enterprise software, and graphics software and chips), and biotech and pharmaceuticals.

Edwin Astudillo as Partner in San Diego from Breakwater Law Group LLP.

Astudillo has experience in public company reporting, securities offerings, corporate governance, and public and private mergers and acquisitions.

Kamran Mirrafati as Partner in Los Angeles from Foley & Lardner.

Mirrafati defends employers in a wide range of employment litigation and arbitration matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, leaves of absence, breaches of contract, and wage and hour class actions.

J. Matthew Carter as Partner in Los Angeles

Carter focuses on litigating bid protests, conducting internal investigations, representing companies and individuals in suspension and debarment proceedings, and providing regulatory and compliance advice.

Robert P. Merten III as Partner in Sacramento

Merten represents and advises clients nationwide on state and local tax issues, primarily income and franchise tax, sales and use tax, property and transfer tax, and local tax matters.

Julie Park as Partner in Silicon Valley

Park advises public and private companies on corporate and transactional matters, with a focus on capital markets and securities law matters, including initial public offerings and SPAC transactions.

Justin Boose as Partner in Los Angeles and Portland

Boose represents sponsors, developers, investors, private equity and infrastructure funds, and regulated and nonregulated utilities on all types of transactions for renewable and traditional energy projects. His experience is heavily concentrated in solar, wind and energy storage projects, but also includes fuel cell, anaerobic digester, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, cogeneration, ethanol, biogas, biomass, waste-to-energy, water, carbon capture and mitigation, green hydrogen, electric vehicle charging, e-mobility and energy efficiency projects.

Matthew M. Brady as Partner in Los Angeles

Brady handles all aspects of a variety of complex civil litigation matters, including insurance recovery, complex contract disputes, property damage disputes and large-scale construction disputes. His practice also includes white collar defense and investigations.

Elizabeth Dorsi as Partner in San Francisco

Dorsi represents clients in disputes ranging from high-stakes civil litigation to pre-litigation conflict resolution.

Shanti Eagle as Partner in San Francisco

Eagle represents large corporate clients, small businesses, and individuals pursuing coverage under a variety of insurance policies, including general liability, errors & omissions liability, directors & officers liability, employment practices liability and commercial and first-party property insurance.

Aviva J. Gilbert as Partner in San Francisco

Gilbert represents individuals and companies in federal and state government enforcement, investigation, and criminal justice matters. She co-chairs the firm’s white-collar defense and corporate investigations practice and is a leader of its healthcare practice.

Drew N. Goodwin as Partner in San Francisco

Goodwin advises clients of various sizes from early-stage companies to publicly traded corporations across a wide range of industries, with a focus on renewable energy, cannabis, and sports.

Jeffrey M. Hamilton as Partner in San Francisco

Hamilton’s practices a full range of corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, including Hart-Scott-Rodino filings, equity and debt offerings, venture capital financings, and fund formation.

Agustin D. Orozco as Partner in Los Angeles from U.S. attorney's office.

Orozco's practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and corporate investigations, as well as government contracts matters. His background as a federal prosecutor and government contracts attorney positions him to be an effective strategist for clients on matters at the intersection of government contracts and white collar defense.

Chaka M. Patterson as Partner in Los Angeles from Adtalem Global Education.

Patterson has more than 25 years of experience as in-house counsel, government prosecutor and in private practice.

Michael L. Kibbe as Shareholder in Irvine

Kibbe advises a wide range of clients on employment related matters involving compliance with federal and state laws and best employment practices.

Derek S. Hecht as Shareholder in Irvine

Hecht’s practice includes leading computer forensic
investigations, developing internal policies, procedures
and litigation.

Ian G. Robertson as Shareholder in Irvine

Robertson focuses primarily on defense of wage and hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act cases.

Michelle M. Holmes as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Holmes advises employers on all types of labor and employment matters, including defending clients in lawsuits and administrative proceedings that involve wrongful termination, employment discrimination, wage and hour and harassment.

Jyoti Mittal as Shareholder in Los Angeles (Century City)

Mittal represents employers in a broad range of employment litigation matters, including at the administrative level, defending against discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, unfair competition, theft of trade secrets and wage and hour claims.

Noah J. Woods as Shareholder in San Diego

Woods represents employers in single plaintiff actions alleging claims of wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, discrimination, breach of contract and violations of wage and hour laws at the state and federal level, and in arbitration and administrative hearings .

Philip B. Baldwin as Shareholder in San Francisco

Baldwin advises employers in a broad range of traditional labor and employment law matters arising under federal and state laws.

Richard L. Gillespie as Shareholder in Walnut Creek

Gillespie represents employers of all sizes and industries in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Melissa K. Peters as Shareholder in Walnut Creek

Peters specializes in California Occupational Safety and Health Administration matters.

Adam M. Romney as Senior Counsel in Irvine from Bauman Loewe Witt & Maxwell PLLC and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Romney specializes in wildfire litigation. He successfully argued wildfire subrogation claims in litigation against PG&E over the North Bay Fire and Camp Fire, against Southern California Edison over the Thomas Fire and Woolsey Fire, and against the State of Nevado over the Little Valley Fire.