Jennifer Altman is the managing partner of Pillsbury’s Miami office. Recognized as a leading commercial litigator by Chambers USA, she has first-chaired 30 trials in state and federal courts and in arbitration forums across the United States and internationally, including the American Arbitration Association, JAMS, the ICC and the American Health Lawyers Association.

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.

Shruti Bhutani Arora leads the Global Consumer Protection team at Pillsbury. She is a leading regulatory defense and compliance advisor at the intersection of consumer protection, data protection, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and national security-related data regulation.

Carrie Bonnington, leader of Pillsbury’s Wine, Beer & Spirits Law practice and co-leader of the Restaurant, Food & Beverage Industry Team, is recognized in Chambers USA for her mastery of alcohol beverage laws and regulations.

Lee Brand is a commercial litigator with experience representing technology companies and financial institutions in antitrust and securities matters.

Edward Cavazos is recognized by Chambers USA (for both Intellectual Property and Technology Law), World Trademark Review 1000 and Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC) for Technology Law and won Lexology/ILO’s 2018 Client Choice Award.

Brooke Daniels, Pillsbury’s Global Head of Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions and leader of Pillsbury’s AI Task Force, has been advising Fortune 500 clients on large-scale, strategic outsourcing transactions, software licenses and other complex technology transactions involving a broad range of legal and business issues related to business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT outsourcing (ITO) transactions for more than 25 years.

Richard Donoghue, Pillsbury’s Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense practice group co-leader, is a former Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York and senior official in the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ). He represents corporations and senior executives in government and internal investigations.

Steven Farmer leads the firm’s UK and EU Technology and Trade Regulatory teams. He is also global co-chair of the firm’s Privacy, Data Protection & Cybersecurity team. 

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.

Amanda Halter is managing partner of the firm’s Houston office, a national authority on environmental and natural resources law and policy, and co-leader of Pillsbury’s multidisciplinary Minerals, Metals and Material Supply Chains and Canada practice teams.

Patrick Hammon represents clients in complex civil litigation matters, which include intellectual property, securities litigation and high-stakes commercial disputes, as well as in criminal defense, investigation and regulatory matters.

Justin Hovey is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. in the Venture Capital and Emerging Companies category.

Aaron helps clients to engage in business, banking and trade in the world's most challenging markets and deal with the most sensitive technologies. With experience in 50 countries on 5 continents, he understands the issues of international business.

Steve Kaplan, a Chambers-ranked 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.

Riaz Karamali is a counselor and deal-maker who assists clients with negotiating and closing domestic and international venture finance, private equity, M&A and technology transactions.

Mark Krotoski is an accomplished litigator, former DOJ leader and federal prosecutor who assists clients in their highest stakes issues, as well as managing crises, with a focus on antitrust and cartels, cybersecurity and cybercrime, and economic espionage. He leads the Cyber Disputes team and Cartel Enforcement team, drawing on his DOJ leadership and private sector experience. 

Jeff Metzler is a Litigation partner and co-leader of Pillsbury’s Education group, where he advises colleges, universities and other institutional clients on high-stakes civil rights defense, compliance strategy, investigations and complex litigation. He is nationally ranked by Chambers USA for higher education law and is recognized for his strategic judgment, practical risk mitigation and client-focused advocacy.

Brian Montgomery utilizes his background in financial services regulation to strategically advise businesses on regulatory compliance.

David Oliwenstein, formerly with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, leads Pillsbury’s Securities Enforcement practice. David advises clients on complex investigations, regulatory and criminal enforcement of the securities laws and securities litigation.

Tony Phillips helps technology companies navigate the legal risks that arise where platform operations, regulatory scrutiny and high-stakes litigation collide. As a former Director and Associate General Counsel for Integrity at Meta Platforms, Tony built and led the company’s Integrity-by-Design legal team—working directly with engineers and product teams to identify legal exposure, calibrate risk, and embed trust and safety principles into platform architecture before problems escalated into crises.

Roxane Polidora is the firmwide leader of Pillsbury’s Antitrust & Competition practice and former managing partner of the San Francisco office.

Christy Richardson focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, 401(k) plans and health and welfare benefit programs.

Shani Rivaux has a diversified practice that extends to a wide range of sectors.

Craig Saperstein, Practice Section Leader for Pillsbury’s Government Law & Strategies team, assists clients in developing and implementing sophisticated government relations strategies at the federal and state levels that aim to provide a strong return on investment and vital public policy objectives.

Jenny (Jia) Sheng is the Managing Partner of Pillsbury’s Beijing office and a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice. She advises Chinese and multinational companies on cross-border transactions, international trade and regulatory compliance, helping clients navigate evolving geopolitical developments and regulatory change affecting global business and investment. Clients highly value Jenny for her ability to bridge legal, regulatory and commercial considerations, translating complex geopolitical and regulatory developments into practical strategies that help businesses continue operating and growing across borders.

Michael Sibarium focuses on litigation, government investigations, and counseling matters generally involving significant antitrust, trade regulation, and other legal issues relating to competition.

Katie helps technology companies anticipate legal risk, respond to government scrutiny and navigate rapidly evolving regulatory frameworks.

Robert Wallan co-leads Pillsbury’s Chambers USA-ranked national Insurance Recovery and Advisory practice group. He leads high-stakes lawsuits, appeals and arbitrations mainly between companies on issues including mergers and acquisitions, real estate, catastrophic losses, class actions and insurance coverage for policyholders. His insurance coverage and bad faith recoveries exceed $3.4 billion to date, and he has helped clients avoid many billions of dollars of liability claims.

A master of sophisticated technology transactions, Elizabeth (Liz) Zimmer provides strategic business counsel to global leaders and helps organizations turn complex technology ambitions into durable, global-scale results.

Christine Mastromonaco counsels clients, including consumer-facing brands, high-growth platforms and enterprise service providers, in a variety of industries, including tech, retail, healthcare and financial services on data optimization strategies, consumer and employee privacy, consumer protection, and regulatory defense matters.

Scott Morton advises clients on technology and trade regulations, with a particular focus on data protection, cybersecurity, AI, export controls and sanctions.

Nathan D. Banks counsels clients on a broad range of data privacy, cybersecurity and consumer protection matters, including AI governance, cookies and AdTech, regulatory investigations, emerging privacy claims and data protection considerations in corporate transactions.

Mark Booth advises clients on data privacy, IP/IT, advertising and marketing, product claims, contracts, regulatory issues, and international trade.

Marcus Leonard is an associate in the firm’s litigation practice.