Sidley is pleased to announce the names of its 52 newly-elected partners listed below by office and area of practice. These lawyers will become partners at Sidley effective today.
“This group of newly-elected partners reflects an extraordinary depth of talent and dedication,” said Yvette Ostolaza, Chair of Sidley’s Management Committee. “They have earned the confidence of both our clients and colleagues, and we are proud to recognize this significant milestone. We look forward to their continued contributions to the firm and the profession.”
“The achievements of our newest partners reflect Sidley’s dedication to the development and promotion of lawyers with exceptional business acumen who deliver outstanding service and strategic counsel to clients every day,” said Brian Fahrney, Chair of Sidley’s Executive Committee. “We are grateful for their dedication to the firm and excited to celebrate this well-deserved accomplishment.”
The new Sidley partners are as follows:
Boston
Marissa L. Henry, Investment Funds, focuses her practice on the structuring, operation, and offerings of U.S. and non-U.S. private funds, including hedge funds and funds of funds. She also focuses her practice on advising investment advisers in investment advisory arrangements and regulatory/compliance matters, including registering investment advisers with the SEC, developing compliance programs, advising investment advisers undergoing SEC examinations, reviewing investor communications and marketing materials, assisting with ongoing compliance obligations and preparing regulatory filings.
Rebecca Nauta, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, represents emerging and growth stage private companies, venture and growth equity investors, and public companies, on a variety of ongoing and transactional law matters. Her practice is focused on the life sciences, biotech, medical device, software, and e-commerce industries, where she advises on a wide range of corporate law matters, including formation, governance, equity and debt financings, securities law, and M&A transactions across all stages of a company’s life cycle.
Century City
Avni P. Mehta, Private Equity, focuses her practice on global corporate and private equity transaction matters representing privately held corporate entities and funds in domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, other business combinations, equity investments, corporate restructurings, and general corporate matters.
Chicago
Elizabeth T. Burns, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, regularly advises clients in connection with executive compensation and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and financings. Her practice also includes designing, administering, and advising on cash-based incentives, equity-based incentives, employment, severance, retention, deferred compensation, change in control, retirement, and other compensation-related arrangements.
Brian W. Cook, Investment Funds, advises and represents alternative asset managers in a variety of formation, transactional, and regulatory matters relating to the organization and operation of hedge funds, hybrid funds, private equity funds, credit funds, funds of funds, co-investment funds, single investor funds, and managed accounts. He also has experience advising clients in connection with management company agreements, seed capital investments, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions.
Nathan Enfield, Tax, advises private equity firms, corporations and sovereign wealth funds on federal income tax matters relevant to mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, initial public offerings, debt financings, restructurings, spinoffs and other divisive transactions. He has significant experience advising clients in the insurance and financial services industry in particular, and frequently advises on the tax aspects of insurance M&A and reinsurance transactions.
Jacob A. Grossman, Insurance, focuses on advising insurers, brokers, private equity firms, banks, and other industry participants in a range of transactional and regulatory matters including mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, securities offerings, company formation and licensing, and insurance holding company system matters, among others.
Thomas Guzman, M&A, focuses his practice on complex business transactions, including M&A and private equity investments, as well as general corporate governance and securities compliance matters.
He regularly represents public and private companies, including private equity funds, in connection with their transactional needs and other corporate matters. He has experience representing clients in a number of industries, including technology/software, financial services, medical services, and REITs.
Alexander M. Hirshfeld, Global Finance, focuses his practice primarily on warehouse and syndicated lending and securitization transactions across a range of asset classes including esoteric and emerging asset securitization, as well as leveraged and asset-based lending, project finance, cross-border financing transactions, private placements of debt, equity and hybrid securities, including Rule 144A, Regulation D and Regulation S offerings, 4(a)(2) private placements, acquisition finance, and corporate restructuring and workout transactions. He also has experience representing issuers, borrowers, lenders, underwriters, trustees, investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and private equity funds.
Jason L. Hufendick, Restructuring, represents debtors, creditors, and investors in large and complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, distressed financings, and distressed M&A transactions. His experience includes advising clients in both out-of-court processes and in-court restructurings across a broad range of industries, including retail, energy, manufacturing, technology, media and telecommunications, healthcare, and financial services.
Ellen Murphy, Investment Funds, advises alternative investment managers on a broad array of transactions and investment structures, including hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity pools, funds of funds, single investor funds, separately managed accounts, and other privately-offered vehicles. She counsels clients on a wide range of issues relating to their asset management businesses, including governance, organizational structure, internal operations, fundraising, regulatory and compliance (including SEC and CFTC registration and ongoing compliance), and related matters. Her clients include a diverse range of alternative asset managers, from well-known, institutional sponsors to emerging managers, pursuing a variety of investment strategies.
Andrew F. Rodheim, Commercial Litigation and Disputes, maintains a diverse complex litigation practice. He represents and advises large and small companies in a variety of litigation and arbitration matters, including high-stakes contract disputes, consumer class actions, bankruptcy litigation, securities matters, antitrust matters, and appeals. He has experience in all aspects of discovery, including developing and executing overall case strategy, negotiating and litigating disputes, taking and defending depositions, and day-to-day case management.
Leigh Rorick, M&A, focuses her practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities and corporate governance. She has represented public and private companies in a variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and minority and majority investments. She also advises her public company clients regarding corporate governance, SEC disclosure, fiduciary duties, and other corporate matters.
Emily Woodring, White Collar Defense and Investigations, focuses on a wide range of complex commercial litigation and disputes, government and internal investigations, antitrust litigation, and accountants and professional liability actions. She has represented individual and corporate clients in both federal and state courts and has experience in all phases of litigation, including drafting pleadings, dispositive motions and other briefs, handling all aspects of discovery, and trial.
Jeff Wysong, M&A, advises clients on a wide variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, equity investments, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance matters. He works across a variety of industry sectors, including technology, telecom, healthcare, aviation, industrial technology, distribution, automotive, packaging, mining, industrial, and services businesses. His clients include public companies, private equity and investment funds, private equity platform companies, investors, boards of directors, and investment sponsors.
Dallas
Amanda L. Crawford-Steger, Product Liability and Mass Torts, focuses her practice on product liability, toxic tort, and mass tort litigation. She has experience managing the coordination of national litigation and trial strategies across complex litigation pending in state and federal courts nationwide, including leadership roles in multidistrict litigation. Having appeared as trial counsel in numerous federal and state courts across the country, she approaches each matter with a trial-focused mindset from day one, helping clients develop cohesive strategies that position cases for successful outcomes — whether through dispositive motion practice, agreement, or verdict.
Nick DeAngelis, M&A, represents buyers and sellers in M&A transactions, as well as public and private companies and investors in fundraising transactions in a variety of industries including the life sciences, technology, fintech, and medical device industries. He has represented public companies, including a number of life sciences and biotechnology companies, in public and private offerings including IPOs, underwritten offerings, registered direct offerings, PIPE offerings, and ATM offerings. Nick has also represented both companies and investors in a variety of venture capital investments.
Adam M. Nelson, Global Finance, represents private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and financial institutions in a wide variety of finance transactions, including acquisition financing, asset-based financing, cash-flow based financing, investment-grade lending, mezzanine financing, subscription and NAV financings, and subordinated debt financing. His engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including energy, financial services and payment systems, healthcare, life sciences, heavy industrials, infrastructure, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, retail, shipping, technology and technology services, and telecommunications.
Karim S. Pirani, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, counsels clients on executive compensation and employee benefits matters, particularly in the context of complex corporate transactions. He advises both public and private companies on the design, negotiation, and implementation of equity incentive plans as well as employment, severance, retention, change in control, and other compensation-related arrangements, helping management teams, boards, and other stakeholders navigate intricate structuring, governance, and regulatory considerations.
Jack Zeringue, M&A, advises public and private companies on complex corporate and transactional matters, focusing on mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions. He also advises clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters. His experience includes representation of clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, marinas, energy, technology, manufacturing, insurance, entertainment, and healthcare.
Houston
Jeff Kinney, Energy and Infrastructure, focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, with an emphasis both on the renewable and conventional energy industries. His experience spans the various sectors of the energy and infrastructure industries and includes representation of sellers and buyers in all aspects of a transaction. He also advises both management teams and private equity funds in connection with the formation of new portfolio companies. He has developed particular experience with the acquisition and divestiture of energy and infrastructure projects at all stages of development, as well as the formation of joint ventures.
Eduardo Marquez Certucha, Energy and Infrastructure, advises private equity firms and institutional and financial investors in a wide range of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and project development, with an emphasis on the conventional and renewable energy, mining, and transportation sectors. He is licensed to practice law in Mexico and Texas and has particular experience advising clients in complex cross-border transactions in Latin America.
Maegan Quejada, Restructuring, guides clients through distressed situations in and out of court. She leverages her clients’ positions to negotiate favorable resolutions. She has experience representing companies and creditors, including secured lenders, unsecured lenders, and creditors’ committees, in a wide variety of industries, such as energy (traditional and renewables), retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, automotive, and technology.
Mario R. Samos, Energy and Infrastructure, advises clients on a wide range of energy and infrastructure transactions, including project development, mergers and acquisitions, structured financings, and utility securitizations. His experience includes working with project developers and private equity firms in connection with wind, solar, and gas-fired power projects, battery energy storage systems, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure, including acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, and debt financings. He also works with Independent power producers, offtakers, and commodity traders in connection with offtake arrangements for power generation facilities, including power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, and commodity hedges.
Matthew B. Walker, Energy and Infrastructure, focuses his practice on debt financing transactions in the power, energy and infrastructure sectors, including representation of financial institutions, direct lenders, sponsors and developers in corporate, mezzanine, portfolio and asset-level financings for development, construction and operating assets and portfolios. He advises clients on project finance, energy transition and structured finance transactions, along with related tax equity structures. He also has experience with commodity and hedging transactions, acquisition financings, syndicated/leverage financings and inventory monetization facilities.
London
Lewis Atherton, Global Finance, advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and corporate borrowers and issuers in leveraged finance transactions and corporate financing matters, with a particular focus on cross-border acquisition financing. He draws on extensive transactional experience to help clients navigate leveraged and investment-grade financings, with a focus on private equity transactions, including private and public acquisition financings; syndicated term loan and private credit financings; bridge-to-bond and super senior revolving credit facility financings in high yield bond transactions; holdco financings; bridge financings; and post-IPO and public company financings.
Carry Chen, Global Finance, represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and corporate borrowers and issuers on leveraged finance transactions and a wide range of financing matters at every level of the capital structure, with a particular focus on complex cross-border acquisition financing. He has extensive transactional experience in private equity transactions, including private and public acquisition financings, syndicated loan financings, private credit financings, refinancings and post-IPO and public company financings.
David Horan, M&A, has a broad range of experience advising clients acquiring, disposing, developing, financing and managing a wide variety of real estate assets including offices, residential (in particular, student accommodation, later-living, and co-living), industrial, life sciences, and other mixed-use schemes. He is a strong advocate of using the latest AI real estate resources wherever this can improve efficiency and add value for clients.
Ed Perry, M&A, advises on a range of corporate matters, with a particular focus on private and public M&A transactions, and consortium and joint venture arrangements. This breadth of experience has enabled him to deliver strategically significant deals for clients across various different investment structures. He works with a wide variety of clients, but has particular experience advising on transactions in highly regulated industries, such as the insurance and life sciences/healthcare sectors.
Omar Shafi, Capital Markets, works on a broad range of debt capital markets transactions, including standalone bonds, Euro Medium-Term Note programs, liability management, hybrid and regulatory capital instruments, convertible bonds, commercial paper, and debt advisory work. He acts for both lead managers and issuers in relation to bonds issued by financial institutions, corporates, and sovereigns. Building on his traditional capital markets background, he has also worked on the development and implementation of innovative disruptive technology internationally, including blockchain-based structures, advanced delivery solutions, automation, and smart contracts.
Los Angeles
Victoria A. Anglin, Investment Funds, is focused on the complexities of Advisers Act compliance. With a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape, she provides strategic guidance to investment advisers, hedge funds, private equity firms, and other financial institutions on navigating the intricacies of SEC regulations. She helps clients effectively manage compliance challenges, mitigate risks, and achieve operational efficiency within the bounds of federal securities laws.
Brooke Böll, IP Litigation, has significant patent and trade secret litigation experience spanning all phases, including pre-litigation strategy, developing substantive contentions and arguments, managing and conducting fact and expert discovery, and trial. She has experience litigating in many forums, including federal courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Brooke has represented clients in matters involving a variety of technologies, including biologics, biotechnology, consumer electronics, and computer networking and telecommunications. She frequently works with scientists, engineers, and experts to break down complex technological disputes in ways that are accessible to judges and juries.
Emily M. Wajert, Labor, Employment and Immigration, represents employers in a variety of corporate employment matters, providing strategic support to clients in a broad range of industries, including entertainment, life sciences, healthcare, technology, professional services, finance, insurance, retail, beauty, and private equity and venture capital sponsors. She routinely advises clients on a wide array of employment issues in transactional matters, mergers and acquisitions, financings, spinoffs and divestitures, and equity structuring. Her practice also includes drafting all forms of employment-related policies and agreements that span the life cycle of a worker’s engagement, as well as training businesses and managers on topics such as workplace culture, anti-harassment, and anti-discrimination.
Miami
Axel Miranda, M&A, represents clients in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, private offerings, and private equity and venture capital fund formation and investments, with a focus on the sports, entertainment, and media industries. He advises on complex cross-border transactions spanning North and South America, Europe, and Asia, drawing on extensive experience in corporate law and governance. He regularly represents domestic and multinational clients in investments and acquisitions of major professional sports teams in the United States and abroad.
New York
Tyler J. Domino, Commercial Litigation and Disputes, focuses his practice on trial and appellate litigation. He represents individuals and corporations in all stages of complex and high-stakes civil litigation, including trial, critical motions practice, and appeal. His practice spans a wide range of substantive areas and legal issues, including federal preemption, administrative law, patent and intellectual property, antitrust, the Federal Arbitration Act, and other contract and commercial disputes. His clients have prevailed in cases he argued on appeal and on key trial-level motions in both federal and state courts.
Nicole C. Garrett, Capital Markets, represents issuers and underwriters in corporate and securities law matters, including a variety of securities offerings and corporate governance matters and public company reporting obligations. In her practice, which encompasses transactions such as initial public offerings, follow-on common and preferred equity offerings, ATM programs, and debt offerings, she represents clients across a diverse set of sectors.
Mo Green, Private Equity, focuses his practice on advising private investors, including private equity firms and their portfolio companies on various domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts and other business transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, equity financings, growth capital investments, and joint ventures.
Eric M. Grosshandler, Tax, focuses on advising clients on tax structuring and other U.S. tax considerations in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. His practice includes both public and private mergers and acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, stock and asset sales, internal corporate restructurings, and international tax planning. He also represents U.S. and non-U.S. clients in capital markets transactions, including major IPOs, and other debt and equity securities offerings. He has advised clients on tax structuring, including public and private multijurisdictional acquisition and restructuring transactions, as well as capital markets transactions.
Daniel N. Hill, Real Estate, focuses his practice on the representation of financial institutions in real estate finance and development, with particular emphasis on construction lending and credit enhancement of tax-exempt bonds for the financing of affordable multifamily housing. He also has experience representing private equity investors in the formation of joint ventures. His representative clients include major global investment banks and financial institutions.
Eric G. Hoffman, Labor, Employment and Immigration, focuses his practice on employment and labor law issues. He has represented and counseled clients in a diverse range of industries with respect to a wide variety of labor and employment matters, including federal and state anti-discrimination statutes, wage payment and overtime laws, whistleblower statutes, the Family and Medical Leave Act, collective bargaining and other labor relations issues. He has also defended collective action and class action cases, as well as single-plaintiff cases, both in court and in arbitration proceedings.
Rohan Mehta, Global Finance, focuses his practice on the representation of banks, private equity companies, alternative asset funds, insurance companies, and other financial intermediaries in asset-backed finance (ABF), structured finance, asset securitization, forward-flow purchase, portfolio acquisition, and special situation transactions. Financings and acquisitions of loans, receivables, and stream-of-payment assets, and the structuring of traditional and bespoke solutions to warehouse and/or securitize those assets, comprise a significant portion of his practice.
Anne G. Wallice, Restructuring, focuses her practice on advising large private and public companies, creditors, and investors in highly complex restructuring transactions. She has experience coordinating Chapter 11 restructurings for aviation, healthcare, energy, and retail companies and advising clients on various out-of-court transactions, acquisitions, and distressed investments.
Kayla M. West, Capital Markets, focuses her practice on corporate and securities law matters and represents issuers and underwriters in a variety of SEC-registered and exempt transactions, including acquisition financings, initial public offerings, common and preferred equity offerings, and debt offerings. She also advises clients on corporate governance matters, ongoing disclosure obligations and private equity and M&A transactions.
Adrian Zhang, Private Equity, advises private equity sponsors and investment firms, as well as private companies, on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, dispositions, carve-outs, preferred equity investments, joint ventures and other corporate transactions across a wide range of industries.
San Francisco
Zhize Wang, Investment Funds, advises private investment fund managers and sponsors on the structuring, formation, documentation, investment, and operation of a broad range of private funds, including hedge funds, hybrid funds, private equity funds, credit funds, venture capital funds, funds of funds, real estate funds, separately managed accounts, and co-investment arrangements. He also counsels clients on upper-tier formation and structuring matters, as well as on LP investments negotiations.
Washington, D.C.
Peter A. Bruland, Supreme Court, Appellate, and Litigation Strategies, handles high-stakes appeals in federal and state court. He has argued before the Supreme Court, written or coauthored dozens of Supreme Court briefs, and led briefing and strategy in appellate courts around the country. His experience spans a range of subject areas, including administrative law, healthcare, energy, foreign sovereign immunity, environmental law, arbitration, intellectual property, securities, tax, and criminal law and procedure. He also represents clients at the trial level and before federal agencies, briefing critical motions in cases involving complex statutory and regulatory questions.
Lauren Kitces, Privacy and Cybersecurity, provides business-oriented privacy and cybersecurity advice to a wide range of clients. She has strong international experience, which she uses to help translate preexisting international efforts into U.S. regulatory compliance. She utilizes her analytical thought process and multifaceted legal and industry experience to provide clients with sound analyses of complex privacy matters. She has skillful knowledge of subject matter across many areas of privacy, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, and cross-border data transfers.
Michael F. Proctor, Securities Enforcement and Regulatory, advises on broker-dealer and market regulation matters, with particular emphasis on the securities laws and rules governing short sales (Regulation SHO), short interest reporting, Regulation M, and partial tender offers (Rule 14e-4 of the Exchange Act). Michael regularly counsels clients on the design and operation of trading, supervisory, and compliance frameworks, and represents firms in examinations, investigations, and enforcement matters brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and state securities regulators.
Tyler J. Replogle, Tax, advises businesses on federal income tax matters across a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, reinsurance transactions, restructurings of financially troubled companies, and securities offerings, with a focus on clients in the insurance and financial services industries.
Jason C. Semmes, Antitrust and Competition, focuses his practice on representing a variety of companies in merger clearance proceedings and other investigations conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission. He frequently counsels clients on critical antitrust risks related to business initiatives such as joint ventures, pricing and distribution strategies, information and data exchange, and trade association collaboration efforts.
Manuel Valle, Regulatory Litigation, represents clients in a broad range of appeals, regulatory disputes, complex commercial litigation, and government enforcement actions. His practice combines high-level crisis counseling and litigation in consequential disputes. He is frequently asked by clients to develop case strategy and lead complex briefing in cases presenting novel statutory and constitutional questions. He has argued cases in trial and appellate courts, and has briefed numerous cases in the Supreme Court, courts of appeals, and state and federal trial courts around the country.
Michael Varrone, Food, Drug and Medical Device, advises clients through critical issues of FDA compliance, enforcement, and regulation. His ability to adeptly navigate regulatory complexities, as well as his distinctive perspective into the intricate relationships between key federal authorities, allows him to provide crucial insight into the issues that arise across the full spectrum of policies and products regulated by the FDA. He has distinguished himself as a respected legal advocate and advisor in food and drug law. His hallmark contributions to the field of food and drug law have earned him various honors.
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