Jennifer Altman is the managing partner of Pillsbury’s Miami office. 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. Jennifer has proven success in complex bet the company cases as lead trial lawyer, but she is equally adept at providing strategic advice designed to assist clients in evaluating operational risks to avoid the pitfalls of litigation where possible.

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 takes a holistic approach in advising clients on data collection, use and monetization, as she does not hold to the traditional barriers and siloed approach.

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 20 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, 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 is a seasoned litigator, trial lawyer and compliance advisor with over two decades of experience navigating high-stakes business disputes, regulatory challenges and internal investigations. As a partner in the Complex Litigation group, Tony focuses on governmental, in-house, and private practice to deliver exceptional results for clients across industries.

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.

Based in Beijing and Shanghai, Pillsbury Corporate partner Jenny Sheng advises on China inbound investments, Chinese companies’ outbound investments and complex, cross-border transactions.

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

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.

Reza Zarghamee advises U.S. and international clients on a vast array of environmental and sustainable finance matters, including the strategies for performing compliance audits, devising remediation strategies, responding to governmental investigations, defending against enforcement actions, chemical regulation, toxic torts litigation defense, transactional due diligence, devising remediation strategies and SEC disclosures.

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 in a variety of industries, including tech, retail, healthcare and financial services on data optimization strategies, consumer privacy, and regulatory defense matters. She is a trusted advisor on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other U.S. state and federal privacy laws. Christine has previously represented financial services and fintech clients in state and federal courts in a wide array of commercial and class action matters.

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

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.

Leighton Watson represents clients in high-stakes litigation, corporate investigations, complex security incident investigations, and government enforcement and white collar matters.