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![Courtland C. Merrill](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Merrill_Courtland_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=K-qg5OKB)
Courtland Merrill represents businesses across the country in intellectual property disputes, including enforcement of patents and IP rights in trials and appeals. His patent litigation experience includes handling claims of willful patent infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, an area of...
![Maxwell Bremer Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Bremer_Maxwell_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=N6jcO0ef)
Max Bremer advises entrepreneurs and established companies on key transactions throughout the business life cycle, from formations and financings to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Max works with clients in a variety of industries, including health care IT, medical devices, data analytics...
In response to the ongoing challenges to their profits, pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies continue to outsource many specialized services. From R&D to manufacturing – and everything in between – opportunities abound for companies that have the knowledge and expertise to effectively...
![Igor Pleskov](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Pleskov_Igor_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Y-GP4CCU)
Igor Pleskov advises clients on real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of property. He represents major institutions, owners of building portfolios, developers, REITs, lenders and end-users across the United States, including several clients in...
![Mark D. Simpson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-11/Simpson_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=NxlEdZE-)
Mark Simpson counsels technology and intellectual property innovators to assist them in developing, protecting, and monetizing the results of their creative endeavors, with a focus on IP strategy and branding. He protects their IP assets via patent preparation and prosecution, IP counseling and...
![Evan Foster Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Foster_Evan_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=Jqf-RdH5)
Evan Foster advises clients on legal issues involving technology, data privacy and cybersecurity. Customers and vendors in the health care, life sciences, financial and manufacturing industries, among others, seek his advice on technology transactions and systems acquisition including matters...
![Peter S. Murphy](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Murphy_Peter_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Dw0sCAds)
Peter Murphy advises domestic and international clients on a variety of corporate and commercial matters, including transactions and governance matters. Peter also leads the firm’s Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Team, which guides domestic and foreign entities registered in the United States to...
![Domingos Silva](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Silva_Domingos_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=-pEVCqmH)
Domingos Silva is co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice with extensive experience in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, diagnostics, biochemistry, and materials science areas. Domingos has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Princeton University and conducted his post...
![Andrew Bollinger Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Bollinger_Andrew_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=xAGXC2if)
Andrew Bollinger is a member of the Litigation Department in the firm's Chicago office. He maintains a general litigation practice with a focus on defending clients in complex commercial business disputes, white collar investigations, and higher education. While in law school at Temple University...
![David R. Berk](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Berk_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=nWI0e_Qn)
David Berk counsels families and their businesses, entrepreneurs and start-up companies in taxation, structuring transactions, contract negotiations and governance issues. David also advises clients on corporate succession planning, trust and estate planning, insurance and retirement planning and...
![Brian R. Landry](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Landry_Brian_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=iuGFD0rp)
Brian Landry draws on a broad base of intellectual property experience involving patents, designs, trademarks, and copyrights and technical expertise to help clients identify, protect, and enforce their intellectual property. Brian has significant experience in the medical devices field as well as...
![George P. Apostolides Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Apostolides_George_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=RSEGwDjH)
George Apostolides is a business and bankruptcy litigator who advises clients in the life sciences, cannabis, higher education, manufacturing, retail and technology industries. Drawing on over 25 years of experience, George handles cases in federal and state courts both in Illinois and nationwide...
![Maria Carnicella](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-04/Carnicella_Maria_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=yE7gdE9C)
Maria Carnicella advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and other major corporate transactions. In addition to M&A deals, she represents private and public entities and individual investors in stock and asset sales and acquisitions, private placements, reorganizations, IPOs, redemptions, and...
![Kevin T. O'Brien](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/O-Brien_Kevin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=00qSVOhU)
Kevin T. O'Brien, Ph.D., is a patent agent who focuses his practice on intellectual property (IP) matters including patent preparation and prosecution, patent landscape analyses, and freedom to operate analyses. Kevin practices in the physical and life sciences space, where he works on technologies...
![Jon Barooshian](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-02/Barooshian_Jon_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=Gteyj8lx)
Jon Barooshian brings almost three decades of experience as a litigator to the table, in his work for business clients facing criminal and civil proceedings involving white collar claims and tax controversies, as well as in complex commercial disputes. A seasoned trial lawyer and former state...
![Douglas A. Sampson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Sampson_Douglas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=eLL-iWw8)
Doug Sampson assists with a variety of matters involving commercial litigation, real estate and telecommunications. Doug draws on knowledge from a number of relevant work experiences, including a judicial internship for the Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
![Mark Mizrahi](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Mizrahi_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=jEA4Tjl9)
Mark Mizrahi advises clients on intellectual property law, including patent, trademark and copyright protection and enforcement. His experience includes preparing and managing trademark and copyright applications, preparing and negotiating licenses and agreements relating to intellectual property...
![Jordan D. Rosenfeld Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Rosenfeld_Jordan_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=gxy8sUZs)
Jordan Rosenfeld assists clients with complex commercial litigation, particularly in disputes involving real estate development and projects built through public-private partnerships. Jordan's other experience includes representing colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies, small businesses...
![David G. Shapiro](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Shapiro_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=RYwjh6Rm)
David Shapiro advises clients on international and domestic business tax planning, including domestic and cross border expansion, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and financing transactions. David's practice includes entity formation and structure planning, securities offerings and hybrid...
![Brian Michalek Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Bichalek_Brian_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=ucAC1oiq)
Brian Michalek helps companies protect their technological innovations, advances and brand reputation through his intellectual property law practice. As a patent litigator, he has advised clients on a variety of disputes involving software-based technologies, wireless transactions and communications...