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![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...
![Francis X. Riley III](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Riley_Francis_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=m2ShBzIJ)
Francis "Trip" Riley represents clients who are facing complex civil litigation filed by a single plaintiff, as well as class actions, arising from commercial and consumer financing, consumer-facing services and product sales, and business-to-business transactions and competition. He prides himself...
![Thomas Laser](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Laser_Thomas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=740146fe&itok=TIFeU1uj)
Tom Laser is a member of the Litigation Department in the Firm's Chicago office. He maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes, including servicing claims for consumer financial services companies. Before joining Saul Ewing, Tom was...
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) imposes significant new reporting requirements on many small businesses, as of January 1, 2024. The law requires all “reporting companies” to identify their “beneficial owners” and “company applicants” in a report to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department’s...
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Pia Aklian is a corporate and transactional attorney who advises clients ranging from emerging businesses to multinational, public companies across various industries including technology, software, manufacturing, life sciences and health care. Pia advises clients on a broad range of matters that...
![Elizabeth Witmer](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-02/Witmer_Elizabeth_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=UW9HZLMW)
Elizabeth Witmer advises natural gas companies, public and private utilities and commercial developers about interstate pipeline development, eminent domain/condemnations, land use matters and appellate litigation. Through her more than 25 years of service to these clients, Elizabeth has become well...
![Joanne Frasca LinkedIn-Tailored Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Frasca_Joanne_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=8Vk_202i)
Joanne Frasca has decades of experience handling complex business litigation, real estate and title, and employment disputes in state and federal court. She represents individuals, partnerships, and small to Fortune 500 companies. Clients include closely held businesses, real estate developers and...
![Teresa Tracy](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Tracy_Teresa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=YGnCJvO3)
Teresa "Terri" R. Tracy represents management in labor and employment litigation and related legal matters. Her experience includes issues involving wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, class action, union organizing campaigns, grievances and arbitrations, and collective bargaining...
![Patrick Rodriguez LinkedIn Centered Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Rodriguez_Patrick_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0afe7b08&itok=uqANcV0-)
Patrick Rodriguez's practice focuses on business and tax planning law. A certified public accountant, Patrick is experienced in representing clients in mergers and acquisition. He represents both buyers and sellers in a broad range of transactions, which encompasses stock purchases and asset sales...
![Raffi Mansourian](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Mansourian_Raffi_LinkedIn.jpg?h=c541e756&itok=BtKxPiYE)
Raffi K. Mansourian represents both sellers and buyers of commercial real estate, giving him the perspective of the important issues on both sides of the transaction. When it comes to leasing of commercial property, he represents both landlords and tenants, giving him an in-depth understanding of...
![Steven Ziven](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Ziven_Steven_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=hGune3mq)
Steven Ziven, who is the firm's Los Angeles Office Managing Partner and an Executive Committee member, advises clients primarily on corporate law and legal issues associated with business transactions, real estate transactions and financings. He has extensive experience in buying and selling...
![Geraldine Wyle](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Wyle_Geraldine_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f8ed7cbc&itok=AekTBYAB)
Geraldine Wyle is the co-chair of the firm's Trusts & Estates Group. She focuses her practice on complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution related to trusts and estates, conservatorships and guardianships, business succession, and partnership disputes (often involving fiduciary and high...
![Dawn Eyerly LinkedIn Centered Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Eyerly_Dawn_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=aJJNS1V6)
Dawn Eyerly is a trial attorney with substantial litigation experience, including jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, and mediations. She also has extensive appellate experience in both state and federal courts. Dawn represents individuals as well as entities, ranging from small, family-owned...
![Thomas Aikin LinkedIn Centered Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Aikin_Thomas_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=5RpZmi-H)
Thomas Aikin represents both fiduciaries and beneficiaries of trusts, estates and charitable trusts in contested matters, as well as administration. He places a particular emphasis on representing charities, universities, and other non-profit organizations. He has successfully represented clients...
![Sunu M. Pillai](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Pillai_Sunu_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=TC5UeOPj)
Sunu Pillai counsels construction and energy industry clients on issues throughout the project life-cycle, from contract formation through dispute resolution. Having worked in the construction industry as an engineer, project manager and claims consultant prior to his legal career, Sunu has a deep...
![Nikhil A. Mehta](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Mehta_Nikhil_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e90e346b&itok=nnWVCCsY)
Nikhil Mehta 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 agreements, services agreements, manufacturing agreements, licenses and leases. Nikhil also represents...
![Delene Lantz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Lantz_Delene_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=BMhXQ2ug)
Delene Lantz is an experienced attorney who advises clients on and litigates decisions by regulatory agencies throughout the bureaucratic process and on appeal before trial and appellate courts. Prior to joining Saul Ewing, Delene spent more than a decade working in legal roles for the Commonwealth...
![Hilda Piloto](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Piloto_Hilda_LinkedIn.jpg?h=5f4e38f5&itok=T6x1jWlM)
Hilda Piloto is a skilled trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising clients, trying cases and negotiating complex civil disputes. She has handled significant international and local complex civil litigation matters involving the prosecution and defense of commercial partnership, fraud...
![Matthew R. Gerber](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gerber_Matthew_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=pS4x8LAl)
Matthew Gerber assists commercial clients with real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, and purchase and sales agreements. He also handles leases, mortgages and financings. Matthew draws on his experience with corporate transactions to advise clients involved in mergers and...
![Shane P. Simon](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Simon_Shane_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=FQCH-lfU)
Shane Simon is a litigator who represents clients from a variety of industries, including higher education, energy, public utilities, insurance, health care and corporations. His experience includes work on cases in both state and federal courts. In addition to assisting with the challenges posed by...