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![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...
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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...
![Lisa LaFourcade](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/LaFourcade_Lisa_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=JcfJhfYb)
Lisa LaFourcade is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law by the California State Board of Legal Specialization. Her practice focuses on advising high-net-worth individuals, privately held businesses, and charitable organizations. Her areas of practice include: Estate, gift...
![Jerad Beltz LinkedIn Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Beltz_Jerad_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=4pXL5Fp1)
Jerad Beltz focuses his practice for individual clients on estate planning, wealth preservation, business succession planning and trust administration. He also counsels nonprofit organizations and privately held businesses in formation, governance, compliance, contract negotiation and charitable...
![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...
Saul Ewing attorneys have significant experience advising a wide variety of clients in the entertainment, music, visual and performing arts industries. Our clients include artists, writers, musicians, models, film, and multi-media production companies, record labels, producers, merchandisers...
The pharmaceutical industry faces a challenging business environment as competition drives down prices, R&D expenses rise, and government scrutiny deepens. However, companies have many options for navigating these challenges, generally by making deals with others in the field, including mergers and...
![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...
![Jay P. Tarshis](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Tarshis_Jay_LinkedIn.jpg?h=5f4e38f5&itok=kCH-l1Pp)
Jay Tarshis's practice focuses on estate planning and administration, taxation, and general corporate law. His estate planning practice is concentrated on inter-generational wealth planning for family business owners and high net worth individuals. Jay frequently addresses business succession issues...
![Andrew Schwerin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Schwerin_Andrew_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f57dba4b&itok=sGkX989T)
Andrew Schwerin represents clients in patent and trade secret litigation on both the plaintiff and defense sides of these disputes. Outside of his litigation work, Andrew counsels clients on their IP strategy. Andrew has represented clients in connection with a range of technologies including...
![Michelle C. Streifthau-Livizos](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Streifthau-Livizos_Michelle_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=zKkPFFZM)
Michelle Streifthau-Livizos represents clients in litigation matters, including disputes involving the Hatch-Waxman Act, patents, copyrights and trademarks. She handles cases involving various types of technology, including representations of pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies...
![Patrick G. Oakes](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Oakes_Patrick_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=IP5EpJ14)
Patrick Oakes is a partner in Saul Ewing's Insurance Practice and Health Care Practice. He represents a wide array of business and individual clients with varied economic interests involved in national and international pursuits, including real estate, health care, banking and insurance matters. His...
![John F. Meigs](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Meigs_John_LinkedIn_0.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=4NU7EfLU)
John Meigs concentrates his practice in planning and problem solving for wealthy individuals, their families and property interests, both in the United States and abroad. This includes a substantial amount of work on estate planning and estate and trust administration and on tax aspects of planning...
![Nancy A. Slowe](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Slowe_Nancy_LinkedIn_0.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=wf625bRx)
Nancy Slowe concentrates her practice in estate planning and estate administration. She has significant experience in the design and implementation of estate planning instruments, family wealth transfer arrangements and in sophisticated estate and trust administration matters. Her practice also...
![John J. Ghingher III](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Ghingher_John_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=FFA_s_Xp)
Jay Ghingher practices general business law, with an emphasis on the representation of private companies, nonprofit organizations and real estate investment trusts. He handles the formation of various types of business organizations, as well as the planning, governance and transactional needs for...
![Sean P. Ritchie](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Ritchie_Sean_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=buZa_ZmW)
Sean Ritchie advises clients on how to protect their intellectual property and assists them in doing so by drafting, filing, prosecuting and enforcing patents and trademarks. He also counsels on the patentability of their IP and on patent infringement issues, and litigates these issues when needed...
![Howard B. Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Miller_Howard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=eIrkKlDL)
Howard Miller is a seasoned business, estates and trusts lawyer who represents clients ranging from single-owner businesses to large family-owned and public companies. His experience spans from representing clients in deals to buy and sell businesses valued up to $150 million and serving as executor...
![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...
![Robert A. Mascioli Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Mascioli_Robert_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=7E8aOtrZ)
Robert Mascioli counsels entrepreneurs, family businesses and middle-market companies on a wide variety of business matters. Acting as their outside general counsel, Bob strives to learn the background, operations and strategies of clients and seeks to align his legal advice with their goals to...
![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...