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![Athira Sivan](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Sivan_Athira_LinkedIn.jpg?h=5f4e38f5&itok=5aapWaJ2)
Athira Sivan is a member of the Transactional Department in the Firm's Philadelphia office. She maintains a general corporate practice and assists with a variety of deals. While earning her J.D. at University of Pennsylvania Law School, Athira was an intern in the Philadelphia Law Department, where...
![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...
![Anthony P. Forte](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Forte_Anthony_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=DzADA25L)
Tony Forte concentrates his practice in the area of commercial real estate development and transactions, with an emphasis on site acquisition, land use approvals and permitting, construction, historic preservation, and leasing matters. Most recently, Tony has provided real estate legal counsel to...
![Erik VanderWeyden](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Vanderweyden_Erik_LinkedIn.jpg?h=72da4a73&itok=6XkTGFue)
Erik VanderWeyden has a multi-faceted legal practice in which he assists clients with issues involving condominium and common interest associations, tax controversies, and cybersecurity and data privacy. In his work with condominium and common interest associations, Erik advises leadership on...
Industry-Specific, Business-Focused Legal Advice Increased pricing pressure combined with a rise in generic competition and continued regulatory uncertainty have squeezed the margins of life sciences companies. Helping navigate this ever-shifting terrain, Saul Ewing’s Life Sciences Practice consists...
![Mark I. Gruhin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gruhin_Mark_LinkedIn.jpg?h=915cd633&itok=g3bjzJcQ)
Mark Gruhin is a business lawyer who has been practicing law for more than 40 years. In addition to his legal practice, he has co-founded and been involved in several start-up businesses, including Careerbuilder.com. Mark has an extensive amount of general corporate experience in venture capital...
![Robert Duston Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Duston_Robert_LinkedIn.jpg?h=9214a5eb&itok=S94Kigqr)
Rob Duston is a business lawyer and litigator with more than 30 years of experience helping businesses, schools and other entities, primarily in three areas of the law: compliance with the public access requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Housing Act (FHA), Section 504 of...
![Jeffrey H. Gelman Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gelman_Jeffrey_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=E02PZb-4)
Jeff Gelman brings nearly four decades of experience in the real estate industry crafting, structuring and closing deals for developers, investors, lenders and asset managers. Whether he is advising clients on an acquisition, financing, or development project, Jeff starts by understanding their...
![Cynthia A. Giordano](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Giordano_Cynthia_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=NoAJArAe)
Cynthia Giordano is special counsel in the Real Estate, Land Use and Eminent Domain practices, resident in the Washington, DC office. She brings to Saul Ewing more than 30 years of experience in land use, zoning and historic preservation in Washington, DC. Cynthia has secured approvals for numerous...
![Jay Reilly Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Reilly_Jay_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=ONANoM5H)
Jay Reilly represents biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies, as well as universities and nonprofits, in strategic transactions in the life sciences industry, particularly complex collaborative arrangements and technology acquisitions and dispositions. Jay has extensive experience...
![Michael A. Gold](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Gold_Michael_LinkedIn.jpg?h=818fce8b&itok=zHUuQROw)
For more than 25 years, Michael Gold has assisted clients in a wide variety of industries in corporate and transactional matters. He is a trusted advisor to general counsel, senior management and boards of directors across the country. Michael is a "closer" with a record of negotiating complex...
![Alireza Behrooz Headshot](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Behrooz_Alireza_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=fQ8oi1-a)
A patent attorney with a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Alireza Behrooz assists companies and universities in protecting intellectual property connected to inventions in the life sciences. Drawing on years of private practice experience, Alireza prepares, files and secures patents as...