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![Joel Plainfield Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Plainfield_Joel_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=77fm0Xng)
Joel's practice often places him in the role of "outside general counsel" to clients, working closely with and advising company executives, boards, and members to successfully close transactional matters and manage corporate governance matters. Joel's experience includes negotiating, drafting and...
![Emily K. Kelsay Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kelsay_Emily_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=_w4S4bfu)
Emily Kelsay Strine is a member of the Transactional Department in the firm's Baltimore office. She maintains a general corporate practice and assists with a variety of deals. She has experience with matters involving commercial contracts, director and officer fiduciary duties and shareholder...
![John J. Heurich Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Heurich_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=rxnDknxu)
John Heurich advises companies on a wide range of deals and corporate matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, business formation and restructuring, and corporate governance. He also has experience with private equity and securities offerings, IP licensing, commercial...
![Jennifer M. Oprosko](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Oprosko_Jennifer_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=q0BLshEF)
Jenni Oprosko assists companies with contractual matters, particularly those involving intellectual property and technology. Her experience includes reviewing and drafting intellectual property licensing agreements, master services agreements, nondisclosure agreements, and software-as-a-service...
![Vanessa Schoenthaler](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Schoenthaler_Vanessa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=3UL4ioah)
Vanessa Schoenthaler's practice focuses on corporate, securities and regulatory matters, with a particular emphasis on securities transactions, disclosure obligations, corporate governance, investment management and regulatory compliance. Vanessa's corporate finance experience ranges from advising...
![David Y. Sartorio Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Sartorio_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=Dc9xlVxx)
David Sartorio focuses his practice on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, control and non-control investments, joint ventures and strategic partnerships. David has experience advising companies ranging from private start-up and growth companies to large public companies...
![George A. Naya](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Naya_George_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=ttV7CEkj)
George Naya is a seasoned corporate lawyer with a broad practice centered on U.S. securities laws and corporate governance. He advises companies in a diverse array of industries and has extensive experience in both domestic and international capital markets transactions. In addition to his time in...
![Richard B. Carroll Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Carroll_Richard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=LCeVLurH)
Rick Carroll advises domestic companies and international clients with business interests in the United States on a variety of transactions and corporate governance matters, including mergers, and acquisitions, stock purchases, asset sales, conversions and domestications, and dissolutions. In...
![Javier J. Rodriguez](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Rodriguez_Javier_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=pVW2rUZT)
Javier Rodriguez is a trial lawyer who handles commercial disputes and cases involving creditor's rights, real estate, employment issues and professional liability. He also handles admiralty and tort cases and has experience with cases involving cloud-based technologies. Over the course of his 30...
![Dan R. Skowronski](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Skowronski_Dan_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1DLtXc36)
Dan Skowronski joined Saul Ewing in 2008 after having provided legal services to a national energy company and its affiliates in various in-house capacities between 1986 and 2008, as well as holding various executive leadership positions with that family of companies. Dan has broad experience in...
Saul Ewing attorneys provide legal opinions in connection with complex business, financing and real estate transactions involving corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs), limited partnerships (LPs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), statutory and business trusts, and nonprofits. We...
![Mark F. Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Miller_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=eiMiCuH7)
Mark Miller has been in private practice for more than 40 years and concentrates his practice on corporate and transactional matters, serving primarily privately held businesses. Mark has substantial experience in areas such as: The formation, acquisition, sale and other disposition of business...
![Dennis Brennan Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Brennan_Dennis_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=xuun7iCw)
Dennis Brennan helps companies navigate the legal risks they face when they enter into mergers and acquisitions, purchase agreements and other major transactions. Dennis represents clients in the insurance industry, such as carriers, brokers, TPAs and agencies, as well as clients in other industries...
![Richard D. Leigh](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Leigh_Richard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=GZYC2XYC)
Richard Leigh is a business lawyer who concentrates his practice on complex commercial transactions. Richard works closely with clients and their management teams to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including contracts for purchase and sale of goods, distribution and supply...
Saul Ewing’s Shareholder Litigation Practice is national, but we have substantial strength in Maryland. It is the second most popular state of incorporation for companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the state in which more than 80 percent of all publicly registered REITs are formed...
![Mark I. Gruhin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gruhin_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=g3bjzJcQ)
Mark Gruhin is a business lawyer who has been practicing law for more than 40 years. In addition to his legal practice, he has co-founded and been involved in several start-up businesses, including Careerbuilder.com. Mark has an extensive amount of general corporate experience in venture capital...
![Nancy Burke Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Burke_Nancy_LinkedIn.jpg?h=9214a5eb&itok=NycCcx5X)
Nancy Burke handles emerging, cutting-edge environmental issues for clients, using her experience to help them tackle these new challenges. She knows how to navigate the quagmire of environmental and safety regulations for client development projects, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate...
Supporting Ideas Through a Company’s Life Cycle Transforming an idea into a business is a journey filled with excitement and challenges. Building a company requires an effective team who can make difficult decisions with imperfect information. From choosing partners to securing reliable funding...
![Jay Reilly Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Reilly_Jay_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=ONANoM5H)
Jay Reilly represents biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies, as well as universities and nonprofits, in strategic transactions in the life sciences industry, particularly complex collaborative arrangements and technology acquisitions and dispositions. Jay has extensive experience...
![Candice L. Kline](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kline_Candice_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1qeFdrkL)
Candice Kline advises clients on bankruptcy and corporate restructuring matters and related litigation. She represents debtors, trustees, official committees, investors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court workouts. Her experience includes managing cases from $10 million to $13...