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![Megan Moyer](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Moyer_Megan_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=KZv8wMzN)
Megan Moyer is a real estate attorney who assists clients with matters involving property sales and acquisitions, development projects and financings. She also has vast experience advising on leases, having negotiated for millions of square feet of office, medical office, institutional, retail...
![Richard H. Topaz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Topaz_Richard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=a7b36234&itok=mi3QSB9D)
Richard “Rich” Topaz represents developers, owners, operators, landlords, tenants and other businesses in real estate matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing and leasing. When clients are purchasing and selling commercial properties, Rich supports them by drafting and negotiating...
![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...
![James S. Gkonos](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gkonos_James_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=H3YfMdY8)
Jim Gkonos focuses his practice of almost 40 years on insurance and reinsurance regulatory matters, contract and treaty interpretation and reinsurance disputes. As a former division general counsel of a large domestic property and casualty carrier, Jim has significant experience with the regulatory...
![Thomas Goodwyn](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Goodwyn_George_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=F6ecWrRC)
Tom Goodwyn advises clients on purchasing, selling, financing and leasing commercial real estate. He represents lenders, developers and investors of industrial, office, multi-family housing and hospitality properties across the country. He also counsels clients on land use and zoning matters, either...
![Barry Katz](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Katz_Barry_LinkedIn.jpg?h=e90e346b&itok=slZX-ldv)
Barry R. Katz represents entrepreneurs, individuals, limited liability companies and corporations with the sale, acquisition, leasing and financing of properties both in Chicago and across the country. With nearly 40 years of experience closing complex real estate deals, Barry is able to identify...
![Erin Westbrook](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-09/Westbrook_Erin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=f8ed7cbc&itok=YD4sOXRO)
Erin Westbrook assists clients in the food, beverage, agribusiness and cannabis industries with matters involving their intellectual property and business disputes. Her experience includes counseling and litigation involving trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets and contracts, and she...
![Julian Montero](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Montero_Julian_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=P9J5GwoU)
With more than 20 years of experience, Julian Montero represents clients in their general business and transactional matters, including corporate structuring, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and finance matters and he regularly advises foreign investors on...
![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...
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Joel M. Hurwitz counsels corporations, partnerships, financial institutions, families and individuals in finance, estate and real estate transactions. Prior to becoming a mostly transactional attorney, Joel was a commercial litigator winning cases in the Illinois Supreme Court and appellate courts...
![Michael S. Burg](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Burg_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=Lut-zsc0)
Michael Burg represents developers, landlords and tenants in real estate matters, including the development approval process, financing, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, construction and tax planning. His practice has included the purchase of a 350-acre research and office campus and land...
![James D. Taylor, Jr.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Taylor_Jim_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=DaSWf-tO)
Jim Taylor is a trial lawyer with first-chair experience handling complex litigation in federal and state courts. A significant portion of his practice uses that litigation experience and perspective to counsel clients in managing high-profile crises, minimizing financial and reputational risks...
![Amy S. Kline](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kline_Amy_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=Sadi42NW)
Amy Kline is a commercial litigator whose practice is focused on the representation of insurers and reinsurers in complex civil litigation. She is co-chair of the firm's Insurance Group and a member of the Executive Committee. Amy has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state...
![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...
![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...
![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...
![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...
![Michael J. Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Joyce_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1TqFPexD)
Michael Joyce assists clients with litigation, including a wide variety of commercial disputes and insurance matters. His commercial litigation experience includes high-stakes contractual disputes, intellectual property and software cases, trade secret misappropriation and other injunction matters...
![Allison Burdette](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Burdette_Allison_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=1r1uQNob)
Allison Burdette advises clients on matters involving investigations by state and federal government agencies, including litigation and regulatory enforcement. Her experience includes negotiating settlements and defending clients in cases involving the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money-laundering...
![David J. Falcone](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Falcone_David_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=tSnpwezp)
Dave Falcone concentrates his practice in leasing, commercial real estate transactions, acquisition and disposition matters, land use and zoning approvals and condominium formation and governance. Dave has advised a wide range of clients from local land owners and developers to publicly traded REITS...