With deep experience across both Saudi Arabia and the United States, Khalid AlArfaj advises leading national and international clients on complex corporate and commercial legal matters.
Semma Arzapalo, global leader of Pillsbury’s Funds practice, represents large institutional investors in numerous private equity transactions ranging from initial due diligence to investing in complex limited partnerships.
Joshua Becker, co-leader of the firm’s Private Client & Family Office practice and leader of the Qualified Opportunity Zones team, is both a Corporate and Tax partner, and trusted advisor to founders, emerging companies, investment funds, and family offices.
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.
Tim Brugh, co-leader of the firm’s Private Client & Family Office practice, counsels individuals and families with substantial wealth regarding trusts, estate and tax planning, and philanthropy.
Nellie Camerik is a partner in Pillsbury’s Real Estate practice. She serves as co-head of the East Coast Real Estate practice. With over 35 years of experience, she counsels nearly every type of institutional market participant in the real estate sector, including owners, developers, sponsors, lenders and investors, and represents financial institutions, corporations, family offices, private equity funds, insurance companies and other institutional clients in a full range of high-value real estate transactions, across all real estate asset classes.
James Campbell leads the Corporate practice of the London office and acts for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 50 companies and governments on a broad range of issues.
Paul Casas, recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S. and Best Lawyers, is the co-leader of Pillsbury’s Corporate Venture Capital practice and is a partner in Pillsbury’s Corporate practice.
Tammy Chang represents large institutional investors in all aspects of their investment programs, including structuring and negotiating investments in private equity and hedge funds, separate accounts and commingled vehicles.
Craig Chason, leader of Pillsbury’s Northern Virginia Office Corporate practice, advises principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, governance, and corporate finance for clients in the government IT, defense and aerospace sectors.
Eunice Choi, recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, is the leader of Pillsbury’s Private Capital Sponsor practice and a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. Eunice represents sponsors in the formation of a wide variety of private capital funds, ranging in size from multibillion-dollar partnerships to early-stage micro venture capital firms.
R.J. Davis, Pillsbury’s Northern Virginia office leader, represents local, regional, and national developers, lenders, equity funds, private and institutional investors, and joint venture partners in commercial real estate transactions.
Patrick Devine, a corporate partner in Pillsbury's San Francisco office, advises clients in a variety of industries on corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions matters.
Julie Divola is the co-leader of Pillsbury’s Corporate Reorganizations practice. She is an award-winning attorney experienced in federal income tax planning for business and financial transactions. Her practice focuses on the tax aspects of corporate and partnership transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, joint ventures, and spin-offs.
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.
Recognized as “vastly experienced” and “a top-notch attorney” (The Legal 500) who is praised for his “extremely deep and practical knowledge of communications law” and his “practical and constructive approach to deals” (Chambers USA), Scott Flick has successfully litigated precedent-setting cases, spearheaded many of the largest media-sector M&As, and handled media-related transactions valued at over $70 billion.
Recognized by Chambers USA and New York Metro Super Lawyers, Mike Flynn represents venture funds, strategic investors, asset managers and other sources of private capital investors in their venture and growth investment transactions.
Anna Graves is co-leader of Pillsbury’s Restaurant, Food & Beverage Industry Group. She handles complex M&A transactions, private offerings, joint ventures, start-up structuring and financing, and general corporate matters.
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.
Greg Hammond represents parties in corporate finance and projects transactions—both in the UK and internationally—including M&A, private equity, equity capital markets and JVs.
Pillsbury partner Robert Herr, a nationally recognized real estate authority, was named San Francisco’s 2013 “Lawyer of the Year” in his field by Best Lawyers.
A leader in his field, Pillsbury Corporate partner Mike Hird has received Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” honors in three different categories.
David Holland serves as a strategic legal and business advisor to his venture capital, growth equity and private equity clients—from the early stages of building investment firms and spearheading fundraisings to the later stages of growth into long-standing, successful fund managers.
Gawain Hughes advises global institutional fund managers and investors on the structuring of and investment into unregulated investment funds and has developed a market-leading transactional practice in secondary and co-investment deals.
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.
John Jensen is noted by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 U.S. as a federal government contracts authority.
Steve Kaplan, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital and M&A partner, guides entrepreneurs from a wide industry spectrum through every phase of building, growing, operating and eventually selling successful businesses.
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.
Mark Leeds focuses his practice on the tax consequences of a variety of financial products and strategies, including digital assets, private funds, exchange-traded funds, litigation finance, life settlement, banking and insurance.
Allison Leopold Tilley is named one of the top “Women Leaders in Tech Law” by The Recorder for six consecutive years and hailed as the Technology “Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal. Based in Silicon Valley, Allison advises technology companies, including on their formation, venture capital financings, multibillion-dollar M&As, public offerings, securities transactions, SPAC transactions and board governance.
Stan Lewandowski, Pillsbury’s Corporate & Securities Group Leader in Silicon Valley, counsels domestic and international companies on optimal structuring, financing, operations, development and other strategic transactional issues, primarily in the artificial intelligence, fintech, aerospace, defense, education, life sciences, health care, digital health, travel, cybersecurity, gaming, climatetech and renewable energy sectors.
Jenny Liu is a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice and co-leader of the firm's China practice. She splits her time between the San Francisco, Shanghai and Beijing offices.
As a partner in Pillsbury’s Tax team for Business & Financial Transactions, Don Lonczak has over 30 years of transactional tax experience involving planning for commercial transactions, ranging from mergers and other acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-offs, debt restructurings, public and private financings, and derivatives.
Jennifer Jordan McCall, co-leader of the Litigation – High Net Worth team, is a leading authority on U.S. and international gift and estate planning.
Lewis McCorkle provides sophisticated advice to clients in M&A, private equity, growth equity, venture capital and other strategic transactions. He also advises founders, investors and startups on the complex legal issues that arise through all stages of their life cycle, including at formation.
Steve Meltzer is a partner in the law firm’s Corporate practice, where he focuses his activities on information technology, life sciences, health care, defense and intelligence-related projects.
Samuel Ng focuses his practice on a diverse range of corporate finance and securities matters.
Veronica Nunn is one of Pillsbury’s leading M&A and Private Equity partners, routinely called upon to steer companies and private equity sponsors through their most complex, high-stakes transactions. She leads transformative mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and divestitures, joint ventures, reorganizations, equity financings and liquidity events, and serves as a trusted adviser on corporate matters.
JiJi Park, co-leader of Pillsbury’s Fintech, Payments & Blockchain practice, focuses on corporate transactions and regulatory matters for clients in the financial services and retail sectors.
Chris Patay, co-leader of the firm’s Japan Practice Team and former leader of Pillsbury’s Corporate Group in Los Angeles, advises companies on mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and other significant corporate matters.
Adam Rachlis, co-leader of Pillsbury’s Data Centers & Digital Infrastructure practice, advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and investment banks on mergers & acquisitions and other strategic transactions, including leveraged buyouts, majority and minority investments, divestitures, carve-outs, joint ventures and equity financings.
Pej Razavilar is a partner in Pillsbury’s Real Estate practice and serves as co-head of the East Coast Real Estate practice. Based in New York and Miami, he advises institutional investors, sponsors, developers, lenders and investment managers in complex real estate and private-equity transactions across all major asset classes, including hospitality, mixed-use, multifamily, industrial and retail.
Pillsbury partner Harsha Reddy concentrates on international tax matters and advises a global clientele on a variety of tax issues.
James Rishwain, Pillsbury’s Global Head of Real Estate and Real Estate and Construction Industry Leader, has served as a preeminent legal adviser to global market leaders, Fortune 100 companies, real estate companies, professional service firms, family offices and corporate boards.
Todd Rumberger, recognized by Chambers USA for Startups & Emerging Companies Nationwide and for Venture Capital in California, represents emerging growth companies throughout their life cycle.
Jon Russo, former co-leader of Pillsbury’s M&A practice, has over 35 years of experience in M&A transactions, private equity investments, venture capital financings and securities offerings. He is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. as a “Leading Lawyer.”
Drew Simon-Rooke, Pillsbury’s Corporate Group Leader in Los Angeles, is named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list. He focuses on startups, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, public company reporting and corporate governance matters. Drew represents emerging companies, startups and venture funds in connection with their day-to-day corporate work and financings; private and public companies in buy-side and sell-side M&A; and issuers and investment banks with equity and debt offerings.
Robby Stein represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies in connection with a wide range of debt financing matters, focusing primarily on acquisition and other leveraged financings.
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