Hon. Rolando Acosta brings over 25 years of experience as a sitting New York judge to guide clients through all phases of litigation.

Shinya Akiyama, a Pillsbury Corporate partner, has counseled Japanese companies starting, acquiring and managing U.S. business, and preventing and defending lawsuits, for 28 years.

Stephen Amdur, leader of Pillsbury's Private Equity team, has extensive experience in high-profile, multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. He is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a "Next-Generation Lawyer” and by Law360 as a "Rising Star" in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions.

Shellka Arora-Cox focuses her practice on project finance, corporate finance, Islamic finance, sustainable finance, acquisitions, tax equity, construction and restructuring.

Stephen Ashley advises clients on a wide range of securities law matters and regularly represents both issuers and underwriters in both domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions.

Zack represents clients on state and local tax and federal excise tax controversy and planning, compliance, and transactional matters.

Pillsbury Corporate partner David S. Baxter is leader of the firm’s Financial Industry Group and co-leader of the firm’s Capital Markets Group and has advised on hundreds of securities issuances and other debt financings involving more than $100 billion.

Joshua Becker is a Tax attorney with over 10 years of international law firm and accounting firm experience.

Ari Berman is the co-chair of Pillsbury’s Securities Litigation & Enforcement practice and ESG team, and head of the Israel team. He focuses his practice on commercial litigation, with an emphasis on defending clients in shareholder disputes and investigations involving federal securities laws.

Bianca Bowen focuses on mergers and acquisitions and related corporate law matters.

Daniel Budofsky is the leader of the Derivatives & Structured Products group. With over 30 years of experience he advises financial institutions, corporations, investment funds and asset managers on financial products and regulation in domestic and international transactions.

Nora Burke focuses her practice on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, lending transactions and securities offerings for both domestic and international clients, as well as general tax issues faced by both businesses and individuals.

Lexi Calcado has a broad practice that encompasses a wide range of transactions, focusing primarily on counselling companies, underwriters and investors as they access the capital markets.

James M. Catterson’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation.

James Chudy leads Pillsbury’s global Tax practice and is recognized as a tax law authority by The Legal 500 U.S.

Rahman Connelly’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy, restructuring, and bankruptcy litigation.

Jeff Delaney, Pillsbury’s firmwide Corporate and Securities practice section leader, is an authority on specialized finance for energy, pharmaceutical and life insurance companies.

Joseph Fastiggi represents lender and borrower side clients in a variety of public and private financing transactions, with a focus on leveraged financings for acquisitions and recapitalizations.

Described by clients as among “the best litigators” and as providing “superb” client service, Eric Fishman maintains a diverse commercial litigation and arbitration practice with a focus on project disputes arising out of long-term agreements.

Patrick Fitzmaurice is a trusted advisor who counsels creditors concerning complex bankruptcy and litigation matters.

Ed Flanders, managing partner of the New York Office and former head of Pillsbury’s Litigation practice in New York, represents companies in large, complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters.

Ron Fleming Jr. represents entrepreneurs and financiers of leading startups in a diverse group of industries including software, ecommerce, cloud computing, video games, cleantech and sports.

Carolina A. Fornos, the head of Pillsbury’s New York Litigation group and the leader of its Latin America practice, is a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on international commercial disputes, civil and criminal enforcement matters, and cross-border internal investigations and compliance.

Amanda Freyre assists clients with all aspects of commercial litigation.

Elizabeth Fry advises on all manner of estate planning and probate issue, and leads Pillsbury’s New York Trusts & Estates practice. 

With more than 25 years’ experience, Pillsbury Litigation partner and trial lawyer Maria Galeno handles white collar criminal and regulatory enforcement matters and conducts internal investigations.

Pillsbury partner Thomas Gump advises on corporate and finance matters, including debt and equity financings, M&A, and other strategic transactions, with special focus on energy, financial services and technology sectors.

From planning through appellate litigation, Evan Hamme advises clients on all areas of state and local taxation, including income, franchise, excise, sales and use tax.

Caroline Harcourt represents owners, investors, lenders, developers and tenants in all aspects of commercial real estate. Caroline is the co-head of the firm’s Real Estate Finance Group and also leads the New York Real Estate Group. 

Alexander Hardiman, a Pillsbury partner, has successfully litigated, arbitrated and settled hundreds of complex insurance coverage claims.

Mark Hellerer, former co-leader of Pillsbury’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense team, has more than 30 years of experience litigating international commercial disputes, white collar criminal matters and regulatory enforcement actions.

Peter Hunt, a New York-based Pillsbury partner, is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a leader in employee benefits and executive compensation law.

Law360’s Insurance MVP Joseph Jean provides real-world advice and has recovered billions in damages for clients who have suffered catastrophic property losses.

Melissa Jones-Prus is a partner in the firm’s Finance practice, primarily representing clients who are active in the aviation sector.

David’s practice has focused on major, complex litigation, including cases involving allegations of fraud, antitrust violations, ethics issues and trusts and estates matters. David Keyko is a co-leader of the Litigation – Trusts, Estates and High Net Worth team.

Don Kilpatrick is a highly regarded corporate lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising on mergers, acquisitions and other complex transactional matters.

Lillian Kim represents companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other significant corporate matters.  Lillian also serves as a trusted advisor to boards of directors, special committees and executive management teams of public companies in connection with strategic matters, corporate governance and securities law compliance.

Mike Kosnitzky, co-leader of the firm’s Private Client & Family Office practice, advises some of the world's most well-respected individuals, families and privately held businesses, using a holistic risk-assessment approach to the law.

Stephanie’s practice focuses on general corporate and securities law matters, including public and private issuances of equity and debt securities, SEC disclosure, reporting and compliance, and M&A.

Carol Lee represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters.

Anne Lefever represents clients in large, complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts, with a focus on aviation but with experience across many other industries, including financial services, manufacturing and health care.

Mark Lessard, Pillsbury’s global Finance practice leader, advises dozens of clients worldwide on high-stakes debt and equity transactions, many of which have won “Deal of the Year” awards.

Pillsbury Intellectual Property partner Mark Litvack has achieved an impressive record of securing favorable outcomes for clients in trial and appellate courts and ADR proceedings.

Jessica Lutrin is the leader of Pillsbury's Executive Compensation & Benefits practice. She has broad executive compensation and benefits experience spanning transactional, counseling and advisory matters.

Jennifer Jordan McCall, co-leader of both the Private Client & Family Office and the Litigation – Trusts, Estates and High Net Worth teams, is a leading authority on U.S. and international gift and estate planning. 

Hugh McDonald’s practice focuses on all aspects of bankruptcy, restructuring, workouts and litigation, including navigating through some of the largest and most complex bankruptcy cases.

Alicia McKnight advises clients in a wide range of industry sectors, but has generally focused on both domestic and international energy and infrastructure projects. Alicia is also the Co-Chair of Pillsbury’s Women's Impact Network (WIN).

Jeff Metzler has extensive experience handling complex civil litigation, investigations, and appeals in a wide range of areas including education, government and insurance recovery.

Brent A. Morowitz advises investment funds in formation and operational matters.