Fabio E. Marino as Partner in Palo Alto from Polsinelli LLP.

Marino focuses his practice on high-stakes patent, trade secrets, and copyright cases across the United States, with an emphasis on computer-related technologies and arguing appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Amy L. Hespenheide as Partner in San Francisco

Hespenheide focuses on estate planning for high-net-worth clients, clients with complex family structures and/or complex assets, international and cross-jurisdictional planning and irrevocable trust and tax planning

Max N. Wellman as Counsel in Los Angeles from Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin LLP.

Wellman focuses on complex commercial disputes involving intellectual property, trade secrets, commercial debts, corporate dissolutions, and general contract and business tort claims.

Rebecca (Becca) M. Chappel as Partner in San Francisco

Chappell advises clients on U.S. inbound and outbound transactional tax, cross-border tax planning, and tax risk assessment, with a focus on complex acquisitions, business combinations, IPOs, refinancing’s, and divestments.

Jennifer L. Cappelletty as Partner in Los Angeles

Cappelletty focuses on working with middle-market and emerging growth companies in distressed and non-distressed situations, with a particular emphasis on private equity firms.

Witt W. Chang as Partner in Los Angeles

Chang focuses on efficiently resolving the gamut of legal challenges faced by businesses competing in the modern marketplace.

Nicholas A. Jacobus as Partner in Los Angeles

Jacobus focuses on corporate, partnership, and individual taxation as well as drafting business transaction documents, including operating agreements, asset and stock purchase agreements, and employment agreements.

Ken D. Kronstadt as Partner in Los Angeles

Kronstadt focuses on complex commercial litigation, insurance recovery, media and entertainment, intellectual property, and class action disputes.

Emily A. Foehr as Partner in San Francisco

Foehr advises high-net-worth individuals and families on all aspects of wealth planning and assists with wealth preservation through strategies that mitigate income, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, limiting risk to family assets.

William A. Hector as Partner in San Francisco

Hector focuses on complex patent litigation, patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing, and trademark prosecution. Bill’s patent litigation experience includes pre-trial diligence, motion practice, discovery, claim construction, and trial.

Maryam Naghavi as Partner in San Francisco

Naghavi encompasses a wide range of corporate law matters, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions (negotiated and contested). Maryam regularly advises private equity firms and public companies on both public and private transactions, including stock purchases or sales, asset purchases or sales, mergers, leveraged buyout (LBO) acquisitions, carve-out acquisitions, restructurings, and minority investments.

Steven E. Steven E. Swaney as Partner in San Francisco

Swaney focuses on defense against consumer class actions involving allegations of false advertising, product defect, fraud, breach of warranty, and other claims across many industries, including food and beverage, dietary supplements, automotive, consumer finance, electronics, and children’s products.

Marc R. Greenburg as Partner in Los Angeles and San Francisco

Greenburg, a former federal prosecutor, focuses on white collar criminal defense, cybercrime, environmental and workplace safety emergency response, maritime and energy issues, and business litigation.

Monee Takla Hanna as Partner in Los Angeles

Hanna defends pharmaceutical and medical device clients in complex litigation. She has defended companies in state and federal courts involving a wide variety of medical products, including silicone gel and saline breast implants, pelvic mesh, surgical staplers, transdermal drug-delivery systems, and numerous prescription medications.

Steven E. Lauridsen as Partner in Los Angeles

Lauridsen represents companies in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and domain name litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, in Section 337 investigations before the U.S. International Trade Commission, and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Ronie M. M. Schmelz as Partner in Los Angeles

Schmelz is an advertising and regulatory counselor and class action defense lawyer with an emphasis on defending clients in the consumer products industry, including those that manufacture cosmetic, skin and hair care, dietary supplement, and household goods. Schmelz advises clients on litigation-avoidance strategies, the implementation of recall procedures, and responding to FDA Warning Letters, Notices of Action, and MedWatch Adverse Event Reports.

Matthew H. Ladner as Partner in Los Angeles

Ladner focuses his practice on complex litigation and trial work in state and federal courts throughout the country, in addition to arbitration matters

Tina M. Bhanshali as Counsel in Los Angeles and Orange County

Bhanshali has substantial experience in low-income multifamily housing and has represented Fannie Mae in housing bond credit enhancement financings. She represents lenders in the origination and sale of loans under Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac multifamily affordable and conventional programs. Bhanshali also represents loan servicers in the servicing of securitized loans.

Marisa D. Brutoco as Partner in Orange County and Century City from Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Brutoco is in the Entertainment, Technology and Advertising Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin's Orange County and Century City offices and is a leader of the firm's Technology Transactions Team.

George C. Fatheree III as Partner in Los Angeles from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.

Fatheree focuses on large and complex real estate transactions. He also advises professional sports teams, artists, museums, and other arts and culture institutions across a range of issues and transactions.

Michael S. Nunez as Senior Counsel in San Francisco

Nunez practices complex litigation and prelitigation matters, including class actions, with a particular focus on ensuring that people with disabilities obtain equal access to government services, technology, transportation, and public accommodations.

Emily M. Karlberg as Counselor in San Francisco from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP.

Karlberg focuses her practice on complex intellectual property, technology and privacy issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions, including business divisions, spinoffs, carve-out transactions, and joint ventures.

Joshua T. Love as Partner in Los Angeles (Century City)

Love i represents emerging and superstar-level talent, music companies, entrepreneurs, investment vehicles, brands and advertising agencies on a wide array of music business-related agreements, including recording, publishing, live touring, sponsorship and endorsement, management, master use and synchronization, and other music rights clearance agreements.

Marc D. Marc D. Hauser as Partner in San Francisco

Hauser focuses his practice primarily on the cannabis industry, he was recently recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 as one of the leading cannabis attorneys in the United States.

Christopher D. Ahn as Partner in Los Angeles from General counsel of James Perse Ent., Inc..

Ahn has a general corporate practice with a particular emphasis on representing buyers and sellers in connection with mergers and acquisition transactions, debt and equity securities transactions, corporate restructurings, the formation of joint ventures and strategic partnerships, and corporate and board governance.

Eric A. Plourde as Parnter in San Diego

Plourde focuses on business and commercial disputes, including those involving securities, contracts, partnerships and other fiduciary relationships, limited liability companies (LLCs), employment, trade secrets, unfair competition, class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, bankruptcy, and appeals.

Sara G. Neva as Partner in San Diego

Neva counsels clients on real estate, finance and general business transactions. Her practice involves real estate property purchase and sale, commercial leases and easements, joint venture formation and other equity investments, financing, land use and entitlements.

Steve V. Serna as Partner in San Diego

Serna represents real estate development companies, financial institutions, investors, and commercial lessors and tenants in all aspects of the acquisition, development and finance of real estate assets.

Juan Pablo G. Zaragoza as Partner in San Diego

Zaragoza counsels clients on a variety of matters pertaining to international law, private client, tax, and trusts and estates and focuses on advising domestic and foreign high-net worth individuals, families and family offices on various estate planning issues including sales to defective grantor trusts, family limited partnerships and grantor retained annuity trusts.

James A. Dooley as Partner in San Diego

Dooley focuses on moderating contentious opponents in high asset divorce cases, which he does by balancing his skills acquired from years of high intensity family law civil litigation against his disposition toward no-nonsense resolution.

James A. James R. Kramer as Partner in San Diego

Kramer counsels clients in a variety of industries regarding business and corporate matters, including mergers, acquisitions, financings, corporate governance matters, and licensing.

Tara C. Dudum as Partner in Walnut Creek

Dudum's practice focuses primarily on business and employment law and her clients span across industries, including retail, e-commerce, real estate, manufacturing, hospitality, and beyond.

Kyle W. Kellar as Partner in Los Angeles

Kellar is a member of Lewis Roca's Intellectual Property Practice Group, and his practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property prosecution and enforcement.

Steven Andrew "Drew" Wilson as Partner in Los Angeles

Wilson represents clients in nearly every major category of intellectual property prosecution litigation and enforcement, including patent infringement, trademark infringement, prosecution and oppositions, copyright prosecution, infringement, and policing actions.

Travis S. Silva as Partner in San Francisco

Silva focuses his practice on high-stakes commercial litigation, including intellectual property, contract, and class action matters. He works with technology, media, pharmaceutical, and public entity clients, and he has represented law firms both big and small in professional liability matters.

Anjali Srinivasan as Partner in San Francisco

Srinivasan represents clients in all facets of commercial litigation, including in intellectual property matters and class actions. She also maintains an active pro bono practice that includes civil rights cases, wrongful conviction matters, and immigration cases.

David J. Rosen as Partner in San Francisco

Rosen represents clients in a range of complex civil litigation matters, including intellectual property, antitrust, and breach of contract cases.

Kevin M. Erwin as Principal in Riverside from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.

Erwin represents employers, management and supervisors in all areas of labor and employment law. He has significant experience in all types of employment litigation, including class, collective and PAGA actions.

Keith M. Cochran as Partner in San Diego

Cochran focuses on complex business disputes and intellectual property litigation in state and federal court. He has prosecuted and defended cases involving claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, unfair competition, securities and common law fraud, and other business-related torts.

Lisa M. Reimbold as Member in Los Angeles

Reimbold's specializes in general liability matters and employment litigation involving harassment, discrimination and retaliation, Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuits, whistleblower claims, and wage and hour litigation.

Thomas S. Harding as Shareholder in Santa Barbara from Seed Mackall LLP.

Harding specializes in mergers and acquisitions and sales of business and private offerings of securities for corporations and other business entities.

Elan A. Shpigel as Associate in Santa Barbara from Seed Mackall LLP.

Shpigel advises companies and investors on general corporate matters, commercial contracts and mergers and acquisitions. He works with companies at all stages, from start-ups to established businesses.

David S. Hong as Partner in Los Angeles from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.

Hong specializes in the formation and operation of private funds across the spectrum of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital, growth equity, hedge and hybrid funds.

Nathan M. Davis as Partner in Los Angeles

Davis has extensive experience in complex, high-profile litigation, successfully representing clients from notable personalities in the entertainment industry to Fortune 500 companies.

Jacquelyn M. Mohr as Partner in Manhattan Beach

Mohr represents commercial and individual clients in a wide range of complex coverage disputes, including coverage advice, pre-litigation disputes, international arbitrations, and coverage litigation.

Christopher T. Pasich as Partner in Los Angeles

Pasich has litigated matters in state and federal courts nationwide, in addition to engaging in arbitrations in the United Kingdom and United States representing insureds.

Nicholas R. Fung as Partner in Los Angeles

Fung, a member of the Litigation Department and part of the Intellectual Property Group, advises clients on a broad range of intellectual property issues, with a focus on high-stakes patent litigation and trade secrets disputes.

Shai Kalansky as Partner in San Diego

Kalansky, a member of the Corporate Department, focuses on corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions (representing both buyers and sellers), venture capital financings, and a broad range of securities offerings.

Ryan M. Keats as Partner in San Francisco

Keats represents companies and their officers and directors in securities class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits and other high-stakes litigation.

Victor S. Liang as Partner in San Francisco

Liang, a member of the Finance Department and part of the Finance & Projects Group, represents borrowers, lenders, and other financial institutions in connection with domestic and cross-border financial transactions, including secured and unsecured financings, syndicated lending, asset and cash-flow based lending, warehouse facilities, acquisition finance, structured finance, leveraged finance, equipment finance and real estate backed loans.

Lee B. Shepard as Partner in Palo Alto

Shepard, a member of the Corporate Department, specializes in fund formation and transactions, as well as corporate and securities law matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private financings, public offerings, and general corporate matters.

Lisa N. Silverman as Partner in Palo Alto

Silverman specializes in patent portfolio management and strategic patent counseling in the areas of chemistry and life sciences.

Roman A. Swoopes as Partner in Palo Alto

Swoopes specializes in patent and copyright litigation and counseling with a focus on computer software, hardware, and peripherals, data storage, digital imaging, consumer electronics, music, and graphic design.

David P. Zins as Partner in Los Angeles

Zins advises and defends employers in wage-and-hour matters arising under state and federal law, with an emphasis on defeating class actions, Private Attorney General Act representative actions, and Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions filed against California employers.

Christopher A. Elliot as Partner in Los Angeles

Elliot specializes in commercial and entertainment litigation.

Louise Truong as Partner in Los Angeles

Truong represents employers ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups in a variety of employment disputes and litigation involving wrongful termination, harassment, whistleblower, discrimination, trade secrets misappropriation, unfair competition, employee solicitation, and wage and hour class claims.

Stephen A. Blaker as Partner

Blaker’s practice is dedicated to handling employment and family-based nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions for a multitude of industries.

Christopher Chatham as Partner in Los Angeles from Chatham Law Group.

Chatham advises clients on a variety of corporate and litigation matters, including production issues, management strength, deal structuring, new media business, employment matters and other strategic planning and is general counsel to some of entertainment's most innovative stakeholders -- from well-known stars, directors and producers to independent production companies and large corporations.

Alexandra N. Krasovec as Partner

Krasovec advises clients on compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and defending class actions.

Christopher M. Dayans as Partner in San Francisco

Dayans represents private companies and entrepreneurs in venture finance, mergers and acquisitions, and other general corporate matters. He regularly guides venture-backed companies through all stages of the complex corporate life cycle, from formation to funding to exit.

W. Joseph Anderson as Partner in Los Angeles

Anderson focuses on corporate transactional matters affecting the music and entertainment industries, as well as potential issues arising from intellectual property and corporate law.

Walter J. Stapleton as Partner in Los Angeles

Stapleton is an entertainment attorney focusing on the music, film, television and digital industries representing a wide range of clients, including artists, directors, producers,
composers, executives, audio studios, production companies, cable networks and media companies.

Colin M. McGrath in Los Angeles

McGrath’s practice encompasses all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, with a primary emphasis on health care litigation.

Jessamyn E. Vedro as Partner in Los Angeles

Vedro handles complex, high-stakes business litigation for a variety of clients, with an emphasis on the health insurance and managed health care industries.

Jennifer J. Lynch as Partner in Costa Mesa

Lynch counsels and defends public agencies and private developers regarding complex state and federal environmental and land use laws, with an emphasis on the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Coastal Act and the National Environmental Policy Act

Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey in Los Angeles

Weinberg-Fahey focuses on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, joint ventures, construction, secured loans, and workouts. She also advises and represents property owners, developers, tenants, lenders and investors in retail, office, hospitality, aviation, and multifamily projects.

Kishan H. Barot as Partner in Los Angeles

Barot is a member of the litigation practice. He has prosecuted and defended a variety of business litigation cases, including employment, shareholder, real estate, and consumer protection actions.