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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...

John L. Ropiequet has practiced for more than 30 years, focusing on consumer finance class action defense and other commercial litigation. He has a nationwide civil litigation practice at both the trial and the appellate levels, including a substantial amount of experience handling alternate dispute...

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...

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...

As institutions of higher learning face increasingly public regulation from the Department of Education as well as state and other federal agencies, plaintiffs’ lawyers have taken note and begun to file class actions with increasing frequency. These claims tend to follow current events. Whether they...

Jessica Lenoir, Ph.D., helps clients protect their intellectual property by drafting patent applications and preparing office action responses to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and foreign offices. In handling this work, Jessica draws on her knowledge from earning a doctorate in...

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...

Casey Grabenstein handles complex commercial litigation for clients nationwide across an array of industries. His litigation experience includes class actions involving securities, consumer fraud, and ERISA, including defeating class certification in multiple cases for a leading insurance company...

Tom Murray is a patent agent who helps clients protect their intellectual property through patent preparation and prosecution, as well as analyses involving freedom to operate, non-infringement and invalidity. Tom also has experience with matters involving post-grant prosecutions. His IP work for...

Counsel From the Earliest Stage of Development Through Disposition of Projects Throughout the continuum of financing, acquiring, developing, leasing and selling real estate are a multitude of complexities to address and challenges to overcome—from regulatory hurdles and shifting capital stacks to...

Rohit Kapuria focuses his practice in general corporate and securities law, representing both public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities and SEC disclosure, and corporate governance. His corporate/securities practice also...

Stanley Kull concentrates his practice in federal, state, and local tax planning for corporations, partnerships, and individuals. This includes partnership taxation, tax issues affecting real estate developers and investors, business and succession planning, corporate reorganizations, S corporations...

Matthew Young represents clients who are involved in commercial lending and real estate disputes, as well as intellectual property litigation. Businesses and government entities, among others, rely on him to handle matters ranging from allegations of fraud and negligence to unfair competition and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ronald "Ronnie" Fieldstone draws on more than 45 years of legal experience to advise clients on sophisticated commercial and real estate transactions. His focus includes matters involving corporate, real estate, securities and tax law. His advice is also shaped by insights arising from his...

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...

Lukas Pfannenstiel draws on his scientific background to assist clients in protecting their intellectual property. Lukas has a Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a bachelor's degree in cell biology from University of Kansas, and practical...