(Main Office)

Paul Weiss's headquarters are located in New York, where the firm was founded in 1875. Paul, Weiss lawyers concentrate in the areas of litigation and corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, securities, public and private financing, investment funds and private equity. Paul, Weiss is also recognized for its activities and experience in real estate, intellectual property, communications and technology, new media and the Internet, entertainment, employee benefits and executive compensation, personal representation, antitrust, environmental regulation, tax and bankruptcy and corporate reorganization. Every representation of the firm benefits from the fact that all practice groups are represented in the New York office, which plays an integral role in many cross-border transactions involving attorneys from a variety of practices who work closely with their colleagues from the firm's offices in Washington, D.C., Europe and Asia.

Throughout its history, Paul, Weiss has played an active and leading role in the civic and business life of New York City. Our core corporate and litigation practices have served as counsel to a number of the city's most prominent corporations and public institutions, playing a key role in developing and reviving some of the city's most recognizable landmarks. We have also been active in New York's cultural life, through representation of Broadway productions, local entertainers and artists, sports teams and museums. In addition to these high-profile matters, Paul, Weiss has maintained an unwavering commitment to pro bono work, which has manifested itself locally in a broad range of projects to help New Yorkers in need.

Statement of Practice

Antitrust, Arbitration and Mediation, Banking, Bankruptcy Litigation, Capital Markets, Communications and Technology, Copyright and Trademark Litigation, Corporate Finance, Corporate Investigations, Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy, Employee Benefits and ERISA, Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Employment Litigation, Energy, Entertainment, Environmental Law and Litigation, Estate Planning and Administration, Executive Compensation, Financing, General Commercial Litigation, Government Contract Litigation, Healthcare, Insurance Transactions, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, International Business Transactions, International Trade, Investment Funds, Leveraged Leasing, Libel Litigation, Matrimonial Law and Litigation, Media, Mergers and Acquisitions, Non-Profits, Patent Litigation, Private Equity Funds, Product Liability, Professional Liability, Project Finance, Real Estate Finance, Development and Leasing, Real Estate Investment Trusts, Registered Investment Companies, Securities (Corporate), Securities, Futures and Derivatives Litigation, Structured Finance, Tax, Tax Litigation, Technology, Telecommunications, Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition, White Collar Crime, Wills and Trusts.

Address

1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6064, (New York Co.)

Phone

Phone: 212-373-3000; TDD 212-373-2000
Fax: 212-757-3990

Website

http://www.paulweiss.com

Firm/Affiliate Offices

PARTNERS

Matthew Abbott (Partner) born Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; admitted to bar, 1999, New York. Education: Queen's University at Kingston (B.A., 1995); University of Toronto (LL.B., 1998). Practice Areas: Corporate.

Mark H. Alcott (Partner) born New York, N.Y., August 11, 1939; admitted to bar, 1965, New York; 1966, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. Court of International Trade; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1984, District of Columbia; 1985, U.S. Tax Court; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Harvard University (A.B., cum laude, 1961; LL.B., cum laude, 1964). Author: "Theft or Loss of Business Opportunities," in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, (West Publishing: 1998); "Litigation in the United States: An Overview for the Japanese Businessman," 21 Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law 1156 (1993); "An Introduction to International Litigation" in International Litigation: How to Sue, Defend and Obtain or Resist Discovery from Foreign Corporations and Individuals (New York State Bar Association: 1993); "Confessions of a New York Litigator," 1 N.Y. Litigator 1 (1995); "Commercial Litigation" in U.S. Litigation: A Guide For Asian Corporations (Asia Law and Practice, 1996); "Disclosure in Commercial Cases in the New York State Courts" in Commercial Litigation: Federal and State Update (New York State Bar Association, 1996); "Book Review: Evidence in New York State and Federal Courts," 2 NY Litigator 85 (1996). Mediator, Mandatory Mediation Program, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Mediator, New York State Supreme Court, N.Y. County, Commercial Division. Special Master, New York State Supreme Court, N.Y. County, Commercial Division. Special Master, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department. Arbitrator, New York Civil Court, Small Claims Part. Recipient, 1999 Jurisprudence Award, Conferred by American ORT, New York Lawyers' Chapter. Member, Commercial Courts Task Force of Chief Judge of State of New York. Member, ADR Advisory Committee, New York State Supreme Court, N.Y. County, Commercial Division. Listed in: "The Best Lawyers in America (Business Litigation)," Woodward/White; "Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers," Euromoney; "Guide to the World's Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration," Euromoney. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Federal Legislation Committee, 1970-1973, Special Commission on Campaign Finance Reform, 1998-2000); New York County Lawyers Association; New York State (Chairman, International Litigation Committee, 1989-1992, Chairman, Commercial Court Task Force, 1994-1995, Member, Executive Committee, Executive Vice-Chairman, 1992-1993, Chairman-Elect, 1993-1994; Chairman, 1994-1995, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. Member: Special Committee on the Judiciary, 1993-1995; Member, Committee on Judicial Administration, 1995-1998; Chairman, Subcommittee on the Appointment of Judicial Officers, 1997-1998; Member, Committee on Judicial Selection; Member, Executive Committee, International Law and Practice Section; Member, House of Delegates; Member, Executive Committee; Vice President; Chairman, Special Committee on Continuing Legal Education, 1996-1997; Chairman, Special Committee on Administrative Adjudication, 1998-2000) and American (Member, Litigation Section, International Litigation Committee) Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council; International Bar Association (Section on Business Law, Committee on International Litigation; Committee on Arbitration and ADR; Supreme Court Historical Society (Downstate New York Chairman, 1996-1998, Second Circuit Chairman). Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, Downstate New York Committee, 1991-1997, Chairman, 1994-1996; Chairman, International Committee; Member, Complex Litigation Committee, 1998-2000) American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, 1991-1997, and Chairman, 1994-1996 Downstate New York Committee; Chairman, International Committee; Member, Complex Litigation Committee, 1998-2000); Member, Juciciary Committee. Reported Cases: Hines v. Widnall, 334 F.3d 1253 (11 Cir. 2003); Pataki, as Governor v. McCall, as Comptroller, No. 4864-01 (NY Sup Ct, Nov 7, 2001); Invest Almaz v. Temple - Inland Forest Products Corporation, 243 F3d 57 (1st Cir. 2001); In re Minister Papandreou et al., 139 F.3d 247 (D.C. Cir. 1998); Travelers Ins. Co. v. Lewis, 756 F. Supp. 172 (S.D.N.Y. 1991); FDIC v. Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, 754 F. Supp. 22 (E.D.N.Y. 1990); Huang v. Sentinel Government Securities, 709 F. Supp. 1290 (S.D.N.Y. 1989); deAtucha v. Commodity Exchange, Inc., 608 F. Supp. 510 (S.D.N.Y. 1985); Zinser v. Continental Grain Co., 660 F.2d 754 (10th Cir. 1981); In re Chicken Antitrust Litigation, 560 F. Supp. 957 (N.D. Ga. 1980); FILL I Moretti Cereali v. Continental Grain Co., 563 F.2d 563 (2d Cir. 1977); Anonymous v. Anonymous, 558 F.2d 677 (2d Cir. 1977). Practice Areas: Commercial and Business Litigation; International Litigation; Arbitration; Securities and Commodities Litigation; Antitrust Litigation; Class Actions; Intellectual Property Litigation; Mediation.Email: Mark H. Alcott

Allan J. Arffa (Partner) born New Haven, Connecticut, August 26, 1955; admitted to bar, 1982, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1989, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1977; J.D., 1980). Member and Articles Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1978-1980. Law Clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1980-1981. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Professional Responsibility, 1987-1990; Committee on Municipal Affairs, 1991-1994; Committee on Federal Courts, 1998—). Treasurer: Harvard Law School Association of New York City, 2000—. Practice Areas: Insurance; Intellectual Property; Cable TV; Computer Law; Antitrust; Securities; General Commercial.Email: Allan J. Arffa

Robert A. Atkins (Partner) born Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 2, 1960; admitted to bar, 1988, New York; 1993, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third and Eleventh Circuits. Education: Columbia University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1982); New York University (J.D., 1987). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Political Director, Office of Congressman Robert G. Torricelli, 1983-1984. Co-Author: "The Booze Merchants," (CSPI Books 1983). Practice Areas: Copyright; Trademark; False Advertising; Products Liability; Complex Commercial Litigation; Class Actions; Antitrust.Email: Robert A. Atkins

John F. Baughman (Partner) born Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 20, 1963; admitted to bar, 1994, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1986); Stanford University (Ph.D.); University of Michigan (J.D., cum laude, 1993). Note Editor, Michigan Law Review, 1992-1993. Law Clerk, Honorable Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1993-1994. Practice Areas: Litigation.

Lynn B. Bayard (Partner) born September 30, 1968; admitted to bar, 1996, New York. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1990); Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1995). Member, Boston University Law Review. Member, Task Force on Lawyers' Quality of Life, 1998-2000. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Copyright & Literary Property Committee, 2001—); New York State Bar Association (Member, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Committee on Intellectual Property, 1997-1999). Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property.Email: Lynn B. Bayard

Daniel J. Beller (Partner) born New York, N.Y., August 4, 1946; admitted to bar, 1973, New York; 1978, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1984, District of Columbia; 1987, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Harvard University (B.A., 1968); Yale University (J.D., 1972). Recipient: Human Relations Award, Anti-Defamation League, 1997; Torch of Learning Award, American Friends of the Hebrew University, 2002. Law Clerk to Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1972-1973. Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1974-1978 and Chief, Major Crimes Unit, 1977-1978, Southern District of New York. National Commissioner and former Chair, Lawyers Division, Anti-Defamation League. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; The District of Columbia Bar; Federal Bar Council; New York Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Fellow: The American College of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Antitrust; Business Crimes/White Collar Defense; Real Estate Litigation; General Commercial Litigation.Email: Daniel J. Beller

Mitchell L. Berg (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, May 11, 1954; admitted to bar, 1982, New York. Education: Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1976); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Real Estate.Email: Mitchell L. Berg

Mark S. Bergman (Partner) born Washington, D.C., June 27, 1956; admitted to bar, 1983, New York; 1991, District of Columbia. Education: Bowdoin College (B.A., 1978); University of Virginia (M.A., 1979); Washington College of Law, American University (J.D., 1982). Outstanding Graduate, Washington College of Law, The American University. Editor-in-Chief, American University Law Review, 1981-1982. Current contributor to professional journals and other publications. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: International Law and Practice; Business Law). (Resident, London, England Office). Languages: French, German. Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Securities; Securities Offerings; Securities Registration.Email: Mark S. Bergman

Bruce Birenboim (Partner) born Kansas City, Missouri, February 14, 1955; admitted to bar, 1983, New York; 1984, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Tenth Circuits; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; 2000, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1977; J.D., magna cum laude, 1982). Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1981-1982. Law Clerk to Judge Leonard B. Sand, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Chief Counsel, New York City Mayor's Commission on School Safety, 1995-1996. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1984—. Practice Areas: Antitrust Class Action; Civil Appeals; Business Fraud; Business Litigation; Complex Business Litigation; Federal Civil Practice; Class Action Defense; Commercial Crimes; Commercial Liability; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Mediation; Commercial Torts; Commodities Futures; Commodities Regulation; Breach of Contract; Commercial Contracts; Contract Fraud; Contract Litigation; Corporate Investigations; Corporate Litigation; Hostile Takeovers; Tender Offers; Criminal Antitrust; Environmental Litigation; Civil Fraud; Fraud; Federal Practice; False Claims Act; Qui Tam Litigation; Insurance Litigation; General Liability Defense; Insurance Bad Faith Defense; Insurance Coverage Defense; Defamation; Libel and Slander; Civil Litigation; Complex Litigation; Defense Litigation; Federal Civil Litigation; Long-Arm Litigation; Trial Practice; Civil RICO; Securities Class Actions; Securities Disclosure; Securities Fraud; Securities Fraud Arbitration; Securities Fraud Class Actions; Securities Litigation; White Collar Criminal Defense; White Collar Fraud; Securities; Internal Corporate Investigations; White Collar Litigation; General Commercial Litigation.Email: Bruce Birenboim

H. Christopher Boehning (Partner) born 1965; admitted to bar, 1995, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Tax Court; 1998, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. Education: University of Rochester (B.A., in Political Science,1987; M.S., in Public Policy Analysis, 1988); Washington University (J.D., 1994). Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: H. Christopher Boehning

Angelo Bonvino (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, January 23, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Baruch College of the City University of New York (B.B.A., magna cum laude, 1993); Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1996). Member, Brooklyn Law Review. Member, Moot Court Honor Society. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award: Legal Writing I & II and Civil Procedure II; Samuel Hoffman Graduation Award for Corporate Law; Cornelius T. Wickersham Graduation Award for Constitutional Law. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures.

Richard S. Borisoff (Partner) born Rochester, New York, May 4, 1945; admitted to bar, 1971, New York; 1975, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1982, District of Columbia. Education: University of Pennsylvania (A.B., 1967); Columbia University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1970). James Kent Scholar. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Securities; Corporate Finance.Email: Richard S. Borisoff

Henk Brands (Partner) admitted to bar, 1991, New York; 1996, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1990). (Resident at Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Communications; Litigation.Email: Henk Brands

John F. Breglio (Partner) born New York, N.Y., June 5, 1946; admitted to bar, 1972, New York; 1974, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1982, District of Columbia. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1968); Harvard University (J.D., 1971). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State and American Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar; New York County Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Entertainment; Theatre; Motion Pictures; Television; Music Publishing; Book Publishing; Performing Artists; Not-For-Profit Cultural Organizations; Copyright; Intellectual Property; Trademarks; Unfair Competition and Related Matters.Email: John F. Breglio

James L. Brochin (Partner) born Newark, New Jersey, July 25, 1961; admitted to bar, 1991, New Jersey; 1992, New York; 1997, District of Columbia. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1984; J.D., 1990). Law Clerk to the Hon. Kimba M. Wood, 1990-1991. Associate Independent Counsel (In re Secretary of Agriculture), 1995-1996. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Criminal Law). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Criminal Litigation.Email: James L. Brochin

Richard J. Bronstein (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, May 11, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Illinois; 1977, New York and U.S. Tax Court; 1984, District of Columbia. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., cum laude, 1970); University of Chicago (J.D., cum laude, 1974). Order of the Coif. Article and Book Review Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1973-1974. Law Clerk to: Judge Spottswood W. Robinson, III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974-1975; Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, 1975-1976. Member: New York State Bar Association (Tax Section). Practice Areas: Income Tax; Estate and Gift Taxation; Individual Taxation; Local Taxation; Tax Appeals; Tax Audits; Tax Controversies; Tax Planning; Federal Taxation; State and Local Taxation.Email: Richard J. Bronstein

Susanna Michele Buergel (Partner) admitted to bar, 2002, New York. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1996; J.D., 1999).Email: Susanna Michele Buergel

Patrick S. Campbell (Partner) born Kingston, Jamaica, August 12, 1971; admitted to bar, 1995, Maryland; 1998, District of Columbia; 2002, U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Georgetown University (B.A., cum laude, 1992); Stanford Law School (J.D., with distinction, 1995). Law Clerk, Honorable Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1995-1996. Editor, Stanford Law Review, 1993-1995. Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1994. Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Street Law, Inc., 1998—. Co-Author: "Traffic Jam: The Busy Intersection of US Communications and Bankruptcy Law," Telecom Finance, November 19, 2003; "FCC Regulation of the Internet: Fact of Fiction?," New York Law Journal, June 1, 1999; republished in Telecommunications & Space Journal, Annual Edition, Vol. 6, 1999; "The Internet and Intellectual Property: Toward a New Model for the Economics of Content," 4 Telecommunications & Space Journal 155, 1997; "Communications Satellite Regulation," Ch. 6 of Communications Law and Practice, 1995. Author: "The Child Online Protection Act: Like CDA (Clearly Dead on Arrival)?," Multimedia and Web Strategist, Nov. 1998. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.; American Bar Association; Federal Communications Bar Association. (Resident at Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Communications and Media; Internet Law; Computers and Software.Email: Patrick S. Campbell

Jeanette K. Chan (Partner) born Hong Kong, August 4, 1958; admitted to bar, 1985, British Columbia; 1988, New York; 1993, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Education: University of Toronto (B.A., with distinction, 1980); University of British Columbia (LL.B., 1983); Harvard University (LL.M., 1986). Associate, Paul, Weiss, Hong Kong (1986-1987; 1994-1996), Shanghai (1987-1989), New York (1989-1992). Partner, Paul, Weiss, Hong Kong (1997—). Senior International Legal Advisory for the Asia Pacific Region, Cable and Wireless, plc (1992-1994). Member: New York State Bar Association; British Columbia Law Society; Law Society of the United Kingdom; Law Society of Hong Kong. (Also at, Hong Kong and Beijing, China Offices). Languages: Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, Shanghainese, English. Practice Areas: International Joint Ventures and Project Finance; Corporate Commercial; Mergers and Acquisitions; Communications; Media; Technology; Internet; Corporate Finance; Asia Trade; China Trade; Insurance; Financial Services; Foreign Direct Investments.Email: Jeanette K. Chan

Yvonne Y.F. Chan (Partner) born Wellington, New Zealand, July 10, 1960; admitted to bar, 1982, New Zealand; 1990, New York. Education: Victoria University of Wellington (LL.B., with honors, 1982); Harvard University (LL.M., 1989). Member: American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Investment Funds; Private Equity.Email: Yvonne Y.F. Chan

Lewis R. Clayton (Partner) born New York, N.Y., November 28, 1953; admitted to bar, 1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. Court of International Trade; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1984, U.S. Tax Court; 1986, U.S. Claims Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1989, District of Columbia Court of Appeals; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Harvard University (A.B. magna cum laude, 1975; J.D., cum laude, 1978). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Antitrust Law; Communications Law; Corporation Banking and Business Law; Litigation); New York State Bar Association (Chairman, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section Committee on Intellectual Property). Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Advertising and Communications Law; Securities; Antitrust.Email: Lewis R. Clayton

Jay Cohen (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, August 2, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, New York; 1982, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1990, District of Columbia; 1991, U.S. Supreme Court; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Cornell University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1977); University of Chicago (J.D., cum laude, 1980). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Law Clerk to Hon. James Hunter, III, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1980-1981. Practice Areas: Entertainment Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Antitrust; Securities Litigation; Products Liability.Email: Jay Cohen

Kelley A. Cornish (Partner) born 1958; admitted to bar, 1984, New York; 1985, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1986, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.A. in English, summa cum laude, 1980); Northwestern University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1983). Order of the Coif. Practice Areas: Corporate Reorganization; Bankruptcy; Litigation.Email: Kelley A. Cornish

Charles E. Davidow (Partner) admitted to bar, 1980, District of Columbia; 2000, New York. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1976); Harvard University (J.D., 1979). Treasurer, Harvard Law Review. Clerk to Judge Walter R. Mansfield, 2d Circuit. Adjunct Professor (Corporations), Georgetown University, 1991. (Resident at Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Securities; Civil Practice.

Douglas R. Davis (Partner) born Columbus, Ohio, 1954; admitted to bar, 1980, New York; 1997, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1976; J.D., magna cum laude, 1979). Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization; Corporate Finance; Secured Transactions.Email: Douglas R. Davis

Ariel J. Deckelbaum (Partner) born Montreal, Quebec, Canada; admitted to bar, 1999, New York. Education: McGill University (B.A., with honors, 1993; LL.B., 1998). Member: McGill Law Journal; Legal Methodology Teaching Group; McGill Journal of Middle East Studies; Middle East Studies Students Association. Instructor, Quicklaw (Westlaw) Systems Ltd., Montreal. Vice President, (Eastern) Canadian Jewish Law Students Association in Montreal. Chair, Fundraising Committee for the 1996 Conference, 1995-1996. Languages: Hebrew, French and Mandarin. Practice Areas: Corporate Law.Email: Ariel J. Deckelbaum

Thomas V. de la Bastide III (Partner) born Valley Stream, New York, October 19, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern District of New York. Education: New York University (B.A., 1992); Hofstra University (J.D., with distinction, 1996). Omicron Delta Epsilon. Trustees Scholar. Member, Hofstra Law Review, 1995-1996. Student Editor, Hofstra Law & Policy Symposium, 1994-1995. Member: New York County Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Corporate.Email: Thomas V. de la Bastide III

James M. Dubin (Partner) born New York, N.Y., August 20, 1946; admitted to bar, 1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1984, District of Columbia. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1968); Columbia University (J.D., 1974). Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1973-1974. Director, Carnival Corporation, 1995—. Director, Conair Corporation, 1995—. Director, 1983-1986, Chairman, Budget Committee, 1984-1985, YM-YWHA of Mid-Westchester. Chairman, Town of Harrison Cable Oversight Committee, 1984-1985. Director, FOJP Service Corporation, 1988-2001. Director, The Jewish Guild for the Blind, 1989—, Chairman, 1995-1999, Chairman, Executive Committee, 1999—. Director, The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, 1991—, Vice Chairman, 1997—. Trustee, The Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, 1991—, Vice Chairman, 1997—. Trustee, Jewish Community Center of Harrison, 1991-1997. Member, Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University, 2002—. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Tel Aviv University School of Law, 2002—. American Arbitration Association, Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, 1991—. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Merchant Banking; Business Law; International Business Law; Corporate Commercial Law; Corporate Control Contests; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Hostile Takeovers; International Corporate Finance; International Corporate Law; Proxy Contests; Takeovers; Tender Offers; Finance; Capital Markets; Foreign Investments in the United States; International Investment; Venture Capital; Business Acquisitions; Business Divestitures; International Mergers and Acquisitions; Leveraged Acquisitions; Leveraged Buyouts; Merger Reorganization; Mergers and Acquisitions; Initial Public Offerings; Private Placement.Email: James M. Dubin

Leslie Gordon Fagen (Partner) born New York, N.Y., April 12, 1950; admitted to bar, 1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; 1978, U.S. Supreme Court; 1985, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1971); Columbia University (J.D., 1974). Fellow, The American College of Trial Lawyers; Trustee, The Maimonides Medical Center, 2000—; President, The Educational Alliance, Inc., 1993-1994; Vice Chairman, The Educational Alliance, Inc., 1994-2000. Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1996—. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Law Clerk to Judge Jack B. Weinstein, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1974. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Product Liability Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Antitrust Litigation; Insurance Litigation; Securities Litigation; Trusts and Estates Litigation.Email: Leslie Gordon Fagen

Marc Falcone (Partner) born New York, New York, September 20, 1958; admitted to bar, 1996, New York. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1980); University of Chicago (J.D., with honors, 1993). Executive Editor, The University of Chicago Law Review, 1992-1993. Law Clerk to: the Honorable James B. Zagel, United States Disrict Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), 1993-1995; the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1995-1996. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Practice Areas: Litigation.

Peter L. Felcher (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, September 1, 1939; admitted to bar, 1964, New York. Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1960); Yale University (LL.B., 1963). Co-Author: "Privacy, Publicity and the Portrayal of Real People by the Media," 88 Yale Law Journal 1577, 1979; "The Descendibility of the Right of Publicity: Is There Commercial Life after Death?" 89 Yale Law Journal 1125, 1980. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Copyright and Literary Property, 1980-1983; Member, Committee on Entertainment Law, 1993-1995); New York State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate; Entertainment; Intellectual Property.Email: Peter L. Felcher

Roberto Finzi (Partner) born Washington, D.C., July 25, 1968; admitted to bar, 1995, New York; 1997, District of Columbia. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., 1990); Cornell University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1994). Practice Areas: Litigation.

Peter E. Fisch (Partner) born New York, N.Y., November 23, 1964; admitted to bar, 1990, New York. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., summa cum laude, with distinction in Political Science, 1986); Yale University (J.D., 1989). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: New York State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Real Estate.Email: Peter E. Fisch

Robert C. Fleder (Partner) born New London, Connecticut, August 31, 1948; admitted to bar, 1974, New Jersey; 1977, New York; 1991, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1969; M.A., 1971; J.D., 1973). Author: "Golden Parachutes," 46 New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, Conference on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, 1988; "Two Insured Compensation Arrangements: Some Practical Observations," 40 New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, ERISA Supplement, 1982; "Selected Developments Affecting Qualified Plans," 38 New York University Institute on Federal Taxation, 1980; "How Estate Tax Can Be Avoided on Employer-Paid Death Benefits," 22 Taxation for Accountants 276, 1979, 8 Taxation for Lawyers 150, 1979; Co-author with Michael J. Nassau: "Estate Planning For Retirement Benefits," Estate and Gift Tax After ERTA, PLI, 1982; "Stock Options Under the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981," Corporation Report, Prentice-Hall, 1981. Law Secretary to Chief Justice Pierre P. Garven and Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1973-1974. Member: New York State (Member, Tax Section; Committee on Employee Benefits, 1979—) and American (Member, Section on Taxation) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: ERISA; Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits.Email: Robert C. Fleder

Martin Flumenbaum (Partner) born Bronx, New York, July 22, 1950; admitted to bar, 1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1985, District of Columbia; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Columbia University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1971); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1974). Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1979-1982. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Antitrust Law Section); The District of Columbia Bar; The Federal Bar Council. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; White Collar Criminal Litigation; Antitrust Litigation; General Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation.Email: Martin Flumenbaum

Andrew J. Foley (Partner) born Montreal, Quebec, June 17, 1963; admitted to bar, 1994, New York. Education: University of Toronto (B.A., Hons., 1985; M.A., 1987; LL.B., 1991). Recipient: Lord Reading Law Society Prize; Simon Levy Prize in Jurisprudence; Blaney, McMurtry Stapells Prize in Environmental Law; Canada Law Book Award in Civil Procedure. Clerk to Madame Justice Beverly McLachlan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1992-1993. (Member, Firm's Canadian Practice Group). Languages: French. Practice Areas: Securities; Corporate Finance.Email: Andrew J. Foley

Harris B. Freidus (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, September 16, 1962; admitted to bar, 1990, New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1983; J.D., 1987). Practice Areas: Real Estate.Email: Harris B. Freidus

Kenneth A. Gallo (Partner) born Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 16, 1956; admitted to bar, 1983, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., magna cum laude, 1978); University of Georgia School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Order of Barristers. Notes Editor, Georgia Law Review, 1981-1982. Law Clerk, Honorable George L. Hart, Jr., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 1982-1983. (Resident at Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Antitrust; Intellectual Property; Litigation.Email: Kenneth A. Gallo

Michael E. Gertzman (Partner) born Bridgewater, New Jersey, November 5, 1963; admitted to bar, 1989, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., B.S., summa cum laude, 1985); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1988). Assistant, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1992-1996. Member: American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Business Crimes Defense; White Collar Defense; Commercial Litigation.Email: Michael E. Gertzman

Paul D. Ginsberg (Partner) born New York, N.Y., May 5, 1962; admitted to bar, 1988, New York. Education: Union College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984); University of Chicago (J.D., 1987). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Corporation Law, 1997-2001); American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Corporate Governance; International Joint Ventures; Technology; Corporate Finance and Securities.Email: Paul D. Ginsberg

Robert D. Goldbaum (Partner) born New York, N.Y., April 11, 1968; admitted to bar, 1992, California; 1995, New York. Education: Cornell University (B.A., with distinction, 1989); University of Chicago (J.D., with honors, 1992). Practice Areas: Corporate Law.

Eric S. Goldstein (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1960; admitted to bar, 1984, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Columbia University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1980); Cornell University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1983). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; White Collar Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation.Email: Eric S. Goldstein

Eric Goodison (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1960; admitted to bar, 1988, New York. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.S., cum laude, 1982; J.D., 1987). Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Structural Finance; Acquisition Finance.Email: Eric Goodison

Charles H. Googe, Jr. (Partner) born Atlanta, Georgia, April 30, 1962; admitted to bar, 1988, New York. Education: Duke University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1984); Columbia University (J.D., 1987). Senior Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1986-1987. Practice Areas: Entertainment; Copyright; Intellectual Property.Email: Charles H. Googe, Jr.

Andrew G. Gordon (Partner) born New York, N.Y., November 30, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey; 1995, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: Tufts University (B.A., 1991); Fordham University (J.D., 1994). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Antitrust Litigation.Email: Andrew G. Gordon

Bruce A. Gutenplan (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, September 21, 1960; admitted to bar, 1985, New York. Education: Duke University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1982); Columbia University (J.D., 1985). Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Editor, Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, 1985. Member: New York State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Private Equity.Email: Bruce A. Gutenplan

Gaines Gwathmey, III (Partner) born Glen Cove, New York, December 26, 1946; admitted to bar, 1974, New York; 1975, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1986, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1969); Georgetown University (LL.B., 1973). Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, 1972-1973. Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York and Chief, Environmental Protection Unit, 1979-1982. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New Jersey State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Environmental Law; Insurance Litigation; Administrative Law.Email: Gaines Gwathmey, III

Alan S. Halperin (Partner) born Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 16, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, New York. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E., 1982); Columbia University (J.D., 1985); New York University (LL.M., Taxation, 1991). Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School, LL.M. Program (Advanced Estate and Gift Taxation; Income Taxation of Trust and Estates). Co-author: Manning on Estate Planning, (5th ed., 1995; updated annually, 1996-2001). Author of articles published in Tax Management, Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal; Tax Management Memorandum; Trusts and Estates; New York Law Journal. Selected presentations on trusts and estates issues: AICPA conference on Tax Strategies for the High-Income Individuals; Connecticut Estate and Tax Planning Council, Inc.; Estate Planning Council of New York City; International Association of Financial Planners; New York County Bar Association; Practising Law Institute, Basic Estate Planning Conference (Chair); UJA-Federation, New York Estate, Tax and Financial Planning Conference; Wall Street Association, Inc.; Wharton School Alumni Association. Member: Advisory Board, Tax Management, Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal; Tax Panel for United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation, 1996-1999; Chair, Sub-committee on Family Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies; Member, Committee on Trusts and Estates and Surrogates Court, 1991-1994, 1999—); American College of Trusts & Estates Council. Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Wills, Estate Planning; Tax Law.

Claudia Hammerman (Partner) born San Francisco, California, May 6, 1966; admitted to bar, 1993, New York; 1994, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Education: Haverford College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1987); Harvard University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1991). Phi Beta Kappa. Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1990. Law Clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1991-1992. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation; General Commercial Litigation; Arbitration; Intellectual Property.Email: Claudia Hammerman

Gerard E. Harper (Partner) born New York, N.Y. February 2, 1953; admitted to bar, 1980, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Rutgers College (A.B., 1975); New York University (J.D., 1978). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, New York University Law Review, 1977-1978. Law Clerk to U.S. Circuit Judge, George E. MacKinnon, D.C. Circuit, 1978-1979. General Counsel, New York State Democratic Party, 1987—. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1981-1982, 2000-2004; Committee on Professional Discipline, 1994-1997); New York State (Member, Committee on Professional Ethics, 1998-2001) and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; New York County Lawyers Association (Chair, Committee on Professional Ethics, 1996-2001). Practice Areas: General Commercial Litigation; Media and Entertainment; Professional Liability.Email: Gerard E. Harper

Brian S. Hermann (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, August 8, 1970; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Pace University (B.B.A., summa cum laude); University of California at Los Angeles (J.D.). Practice Areas: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Corporate Reorganization.Email: Brian S. Hermann

Robert M. Hirsh (Partner) born New York, N.Y., February 2, 1944; admitted to bar, 1978, New York. Education: Cornell University (B.A., cum laude, 1965); Columbia Teachers College (M.A.T., 1969); New York University (J.D., 1977). Order of the Coif. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Prize, 1975; Pomeroy Prize, 1975-1976; The University Graduation Prize (J.D. Division), 1977 (for graduating first in class). Member, New York University Law Review, 1975-1976. Co-Chairman, Investment Fund Group. Practice Areas: Private Equity Funds; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: Robert M. Hirsh

Michele Hirshman (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; admitted to bar, 1984, New York; 1985, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Education: Rutgers College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1980); Yale University (J.D., 1983). Phi Beta Kappa. Articles Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1982-1983. Law Clerk to Hon. Pierre N. Leval, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1983-1985. Practice Areas: Litigation.

Joyce S. Huang (Partner) born Houston, Texas, September 27, 1969; admitted to bar, 1995, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1991); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1994). Phi Beta Kappa.Email: Joyce S. Huang

Meredith J. Kane (Partner) born Greenwich, Connecticut, January 5, 1955; admitted to bar, 1983, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, distinction in Philosophy Major, 1976); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1982). Author: "Equity Investment in Real Estate Development Projects: A Negotiating Guide for Investors and Developers," Real Estate Finance Journal, Spring, 2001; "Financing the Sports Stadium: New Eras, New Sources," Real Estate Finance Journal, Summer 1999; "Stadium Financing Increasingly Using Private Fund Sources," New York Law Journal, January 19, 1999. Commissioner, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (1996—). Member: Real Estate Board of New York (Economic Development Committee); ULI-Urban Land Institute (1994—); Association of Real Estate Women (1994—); Chairman, Board of Directors, Avenue of the Americas Association, 1994—; Member, Executive Committee, 1998—; YWCA Academy of Women Achievers Award (1996). Board of Directors, National Economic Development and Law Center (1994—). Special Counsel, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 1988-1989. Director of Homeownership Programs, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, 1986-1987. Assistant Director, Mayor's Commission on Property Tax Incentives for Industrial and Commercial Development, 1983. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee, 1994-1996, Chairman, Subcommittee on Economic Development; Committee on Housing and Urban Development, 1989-1992). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Finance; Real Estate Development; Real Estate Investment; Land Use.Email: Meredith J. Kane

Roberta A. Kaplan (Partner) born Cleveland, Ohio, September 29, 1966; admitted to bar, 1991, Massachusetts; 1992, New York; 1993, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1988); Columbia University (J.D., 1991). Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Honorable Judge Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1991-1992. Deputy Counsel, The Jury Project, 1993-1994. Senior Law Clerk to Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye, New York Court of Appeals, 1995-1996. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Women in the Law, 1994-1996; Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, 1997—); State of New York Continuing Legal Education Board. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation.Email: Roberta A. Kaplan

Brad S. Karp (Partner) born Merrick, New York, July 25, 1959; admitted to bar, 1986, New York; 1987, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals; 1988, U.S. Claims Court; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Union College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Phi Beta Kappa. Author: "Second Circuit Review," law column published monthly in the New York Law Journal (Nov. 1985—); published numerous articles and book/treatise chapters. Law Clerk to the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1984-1985. Member, Institute for Judicial Administration, 1985—. Member, Board of Directors, Practicing Attorneys For Law Students Program, Inc., 1993—. Member, Board of Directors, Legal Action Center, 1998—. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1991-1994; Committee to Encourage Judicial Service, 1993—; Committee on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, 1994-1997); American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Antitrust Law, Litigation). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation; Business Crimes; White Collar Criminal Defense; Antitrust and Trade Litigation; Intellectual Property and Entertainment Litigation; General Litigation.Email: Brad S. Karp

John C. Kennedy (Partner) born New Haven, Connecticut, May 23, 1963; admitted to bar, 1989, New York. Education: Cornell University (A.B., cum laude, 1985); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1988). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Securities; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: John C. Kennedy

Alan W. Kornberg (Partner) born New York, N.Y., December 11, 1952; admitted to bar, 1978, New York; 1993, District of Columbia. Education: Brandeis University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1974); New York University (J.D., 1977). Editor, 1975-1976, Senior Editor, 1976-1977, New York University Moot Court Board. Adjunct Instructor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1984-1985. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 1988-1991; Member, Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization, 1991-1994); New York State and American Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council. Fellow: American College of Bankruptcy (elected 1995). Practice Areas: Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization.Email: Alan W. Kornberg

Daniel Kramer (Partner) born Cincinnati, Ohio, December 20, 1957; admitted to bar, 1985, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1980); New York University (J.D., 1984). Law Clerk to Hon. Wilfred Feinberg, Chief Judge, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-1987. Co-Author, with David M. Brodsky: Federal Securities Litigation: A Deskbook for the Practitioner (Data Trace, 1997, 1999 & 2001 Supplements); "Regulation of Market Manipulation," Chapter 6 of Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. 2002); "A Litigator's Perspective on Sarbanes-Oxley: An Assessment of Some Key Issues," Securities Regulation & Law Report, Vol. 35 No. 4 (January 27, 2003); "Litigation Implications of the CEO and CFO Certification Requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," Insights, Vol. 17, No. 1 (January 2003); "The Extraterritorial Application of United States Securities Laws to Punish Insider Trading," Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 35 No. 7 (April 10, 2002); "SEC Guidelines Credit 'Cooperation,' Steps Can Be Taken to Avoid or Mitigate Penalties for Accounting Irregularities," New York Law Journal, Corporate Counsel, February 4, 2002, p. S1; "Hedge Fund Disasters: Avoiding the Next Catastrophe," Alternative Investment Quarterly, Issue 1 (October 2001), reprinted in Hedge Funds Review, Issue 14 (November 2002); "Suitability in Cyberspace," Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 34, No. 11 (June 2001); "The Suitability Obligations of Online Brokerage Firms," 2000 Practicing Law Institute's The Internet Age: What Securities Lawyers Need to Know to Survive 221 (November 2000); "Regulation Fair Disclosure: Has The SEC Leveled The Playing Field By Narrowing Its Boundaries?" 2000 Journal of International Banking Law 261 (November 2000); "Speaking to the Market Under the SEC's Proposed Rules," New York Law Journal, Vol. 223, No. 92, p. 1 (May 12, 2000), reprinted in Banking & Financial Services Policy Report, Vol. No. 11, p. 1 (June 2000). Member, Second Circuit Pro Se Discretionary Panel. Listed in: Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in America; Lateral Partner of the Year, American Lawyer, 2003. Director: New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, 2000-2003; Big Apple Greeters, 2002-2003; Director, Leukemia Society, NYC Chapter, 1997-1999. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Securities Regulation, 2001-2002; Committee on Federal Courts, 1997-2000; Committee on Professional Responsibility, 2003—, 1993-1996; Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1990-1993); New York State (Member: Committee on Securities Litigation, 2001—; Second Circuit Court of Appeals Pro Se Discretionary Panel, 1988—;) and American Bar Associations; Securities Industry Association (Member, Legal and Compliance Divisions). Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Regulatory; White Collar Litigation; Securities Litigation; Professional Liability.Email: Daniel Kramer

David K. Lakhdhir (Partner) born New York, N.Y., January 12, 1958; admitted to bar, 1984, New York; qualified in Japan as a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi, 1993; 1994, District of Columbia. Education: Harvard University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1980; J.D., cum laude, 1983). Visiting Scholar, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, India, 1983-1984. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law, 1989-1993; Chair, Committee on International Law, 1999—). (Resident, London, England Office). Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities; Finance; International Business Transactions.Email: David K. Lakhdhir

John E. Lange (Partner) born Ridgewood, New Jersey, June 28, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, District of Columbia; 1990, New York; 1997, Hong Kong as Solicitor. Education: Princeton University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1977); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Deputy General Counsel, Multinational Force and Observers, Rome, Italy and Sinai, Egypt, 1984-1986. Attorney Advisor, Office of the Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State, 1981-1983. Member: American Bar Association; The District of Columbia Bar; Law Society of Hong Kong. (Resident at Hong Kong, China Office). Languages: English, Italian and Mandarin Chinese. Practice Areas: International Joint Ventures; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Project Finance; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities; International Licensing; China Direct Investment; Fund Raising; Structured Investments.Email: John E. Lange

Daniel J. Leffell (Partner) born Montreal, Canada, November 8, 1954; admitted to bar, 1983, New York; 1984, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1985, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 1977); Columbia University (J.D., 1981). Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Law Review. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Law Clerk, Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1981-1982. Practice Areas: General Litigation; Securities Litigation; Intellectual Property Litigation; Antitrust Litigation.Email: Daniel J. Leffell

Jeffrey D. Marell (Partner) born Livingston, New Jersey, November 19, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey, New York and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: Colgate University (B.A., cum laude, 1990); George Washington University (J.D., with high honors, 1993). Member, George Washington Law Review. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Julia Tarver Mason (Partner) born Huntsville, Alabama, March 4, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Rhodes College (B.A.); Columbia University (J.D.). Phi Beta Kappa. Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Regulatory Law; International Arbitration.Email: Julia Tarver Mason

Marco V. Masotti (Partner) born Durban, South Africa, March 10, 1968; admitted to bar, 1993, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: University of Natal (B.A., 1988; LL.B., cum laude, 1991); University of Virginia (LL.M., 1992). Law Clerk to the Honorable Albert L. Sachs, Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa, 1997. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Chair, Committee on Private Investment Funds); American and International Bar Associations. Languages: Afrikaans. Practice Areas: Private Investment Funds; Corporate.Email: Marco V. Masotti

Edwin S. Maynard (Partner) born New York, N.Y., May 16, 1956; admitted to bar, 1985, New York. Education: Princeton University (A.B., cum laude, 1979); New York University (J.D., 1984). Member, Securities Advisory Committee, Ontario Securities Commission. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Languages: French and Spanish. Practice Areas: Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; International Practice.Email: Edwin S. Maynard

David W. Mayo (Partner) born 1962; admitted to bar, 1988, New York. Education: University of Wisconsin (B.B.A., 1984); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1987). Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Law Clerk to Honorable Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., U.S. Tax Court, 1987-1988. President, New York City Tax Club. Member: New York State Bar Association (Member, Executive Committee; Co-chair, Tax Policy Committee). Practice Areas: Taxation; International Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions Taxation.Email: David W. Mayo

Toby S. Myerson (Partner) born Chicago, Illinois, July 20, 1949; admitted to bar, 1977, New York and California. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1971); Harvard University (J.D., 1975). Lecturer: Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, 1979-1981; Harvard Law School, 1982-1983; Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1983-1984. Managing Director, Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc., 1989-1990. Secretary, Japan Society, Inc., 1985-1989. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, 1985-1989 and Chairman, 1988-1989, Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law); New York State, American (Member, Committee on International Banking, Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law, 1986) and International Bar Associations; State Bar of California; Council on Foreign Relations; Foreign Policy Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Takeovers; Tender Offers; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance.Email: Toby S. Myerson

John E. Nathan (Partner) born New York, New York, 1942; admitted to bar, 1967, New York and U.S. Supreme Court; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Yale University (B.E., with high honors, 1964; LL.B., 1967). Order of the Coif; Tau Beta Pi. Member, Yale Law Journal, 1965-1967. Author: "Novelty and Reduction to Practice: Patent Confusion," 75 Yale Law Journal 1194 (1966) (awarded Best Law Review Article by N.Y. Patent Law Association, 1966). Visiting lecturer on Patent Law: Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration; Columbia Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1996—. Listed in The Best Lawyers In America, Euromoney Guide To The World's Leading Patent Law Experts and Euromoney Guide To The World's Leading Trademark Law Practitioners. Member, Board of Advisors, The National Gallery for America's Young Inventors. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State and American Bar Associations; New York Intellectual Property Law Association; American Intellectual Property Law Association; Federal Bar Council; Federal Circuit Bar Association. Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property.Email: John E. Nathan

Catherine Nyarady (Partner) born Carmel, New York, September 4, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, New York; 1998, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2003, U.S. Supreme Court; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1993); Cornell University (J.D., 1996). T.J. Watson Scholar. Editor, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1995-1996. Member: New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Litigation; Intellectual Property.Email: Catherine Nyarady

John J. O'Neil (Partner) born Detroit, Michigan, July 20, 1943; admitted to bar, 1969, New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1979, Florida; 1982, District of Columbia. Education: Trinity College (B.A., cum laude, 1965); University of Virginia (LL.B., 1968). Pi Gamma Mu. Member, Board of Editors, Virginia Journal of International Law, 1966-1968. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogates' Courts, 1983-1985); New York State (Vice Chair, Committee on Taxation, Trusts and Estates Law Section, 1989-1994) and American (Member: Committee on International Property, Estate and Trust Law, 1983-1985; Committee on Special Problems of the Aged, 1983-1985; Committee on Special Problems of Executives, 1983-1985) Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar; The Florida Bar. Fellow: American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Practice Areas: Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law; Matrimonial and Divorce.Email: John J. O'Neil

Kelley D. Parker (Partner) born Norman, Oklahoma, April 30, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, New York. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.B.A., with honors, 1990); Georgetown University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1993). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Joint Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Robert P. Parker (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1960; admitted to bar, 1984, Pennsylvania; 1985, District of Columbia; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., with honors, 1981); Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980-1981); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Law Clerk, Hon. Oscar H. Davis, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1984-1985). Counsel to the Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission, 1988-1991. Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Law School (1996-1997), Officer (1995-1998) and President (1999), International Trade Commission Trial Lawyers Association. (Resident, Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Litigation; International Trade; Federal Administrative Law.Email: Robert P. Parker

Marc E. Perlmutter (Partner) born Newark, New Jersey, June 5, 1952; admitted to bar, 1978, New York; 1987, Japan as Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi. Education: Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1974); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1977). Resident at Tokyo, Japan Office, 1987-1993. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; General Corporate; International Joint Ventures; Business Transactions.Email: Marc E. Perlmutter

Mark F. Pomerantz (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, May 3, 1951; admitted to bar, 1977, New York; 1982, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Fourth Circuits; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Harvard University (B.A., 1972); University of Michigan (J.D., magna cum laude, 1975). Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Michigan Law Review, 1974-1975. Associate Professor of Law, 1983-1984 and Lecturer, 1984-1986, Columbia University Law School. Lecturer, Harvard Law School, 1992. Law Clerk to: Hon. Edward Weinfeld, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York, 1975-1976; Hon. Potter Stewart, Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court, 1976-1977. Associate Attorney, Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1977-1978. Chief, Criminal Division, 1997-1999, Chief Appellate Attorney, 1981-1982, Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1978-1982, Southern District of New York. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Criminal Courts Committee, 1982-1983; Federal Courts Committee, 1983-1986; Criminal Advocacy Committee, 1986-1989; Criminal Law Committee, 1999-2001); American Bar Association; New York Council of Defense Lawyers (Member, Board of Directors, 1995-1997; Chair, Commission to Combat Police Corruption, 2003—). Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. Member, Central Screening Committee, Appellate Division, First Department, 1984-1990.Email: Mark F. Pomerantz

Valerie E. Radwaner (Partner) born New York, N.Y., May 4, 1962; admitted to bar, 1989, New York. Education: Brandeis University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984); New York University (J.D., 1987). Member: New York State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Banking; Restructurings; General Corporate.Email: Valerie E. Radwaner

Carey R. Ramos (Partner) born New York, N.Y., June 28, 1955; admitted to bar, 1980, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 1982, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1983, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1976); Stanford University (J.D., 1979). Note Editor, Stanford Law Review, 1978-1979. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Antitrust Law; Intellectual Property Law). Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Computer Law; Litigation.Email: Carey R. Ramos

Carl L. Reisner (Partner) born Bronx, New York, October 12, 1954; admitted to bar, 1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.A., 1975); Yale University (J.D., 1978). Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1977-1978. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Closely Held Corporations; Corporate Commercial Law; Corporate Contracts; Corporate Control Contests; Corporate Fiduciary Law; Corporate Finance; Corporate Formation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Organization; Corporate Partnerships; Corporate Planning; Corporate Workouts; Hostile Takeovers; Incorporation; Proxy Contests; Takeovers; Tender Offers; Asset Based Finance; Private Finance; Structure Finance; Health Care Corporate Law; Health Care Finance; Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions; Long Term Care; Business Acquisitions; Business Divestitures; Leverage Acquisitions; Leveraged Buyouts; Merger Reorganization; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mergers and Acquisitions Finance; Initial Public Offerings; Private Placement; Public Offerings; Securities Disclosure; Securities Offerings; Securities Registration; Securities Regulation; Shareholder Agreements; Shareholder Rights.Email: Carl L. Reisner

Walter Rieman (Partner) born San Francisco, California, September 25, 1955; admitted to bar, 1987, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1989, California. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1981); New York University (J.D., 1984). Order of the Coif. Articles Editor, New York University Law Review. Co-Author, with Thomas B. Stoddard, of "AIDS and the Rights of the Individual," in A Disease of Society: Cultural and Institutional Responses to AIDS (Cambridge University Press, 1991); Co-Author, The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: A User's Guide, 24 Securities Regulation Law Journal 143 (1996). Law Clerk to Hon. Patricia M. Wald, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1984-1985. Practice Areas: Litigation.Email: Walter Rieman

Richard A. Rosen (Partner) born New York, N.Y., August 26, 1953; admitted to bar, 1980, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, District of Columbia; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1975); Harvard University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1978). Phi Beta Kappa. Note Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1977-1978. Law Clerk to Hon. Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1978-1979. Publications: "The Statutory Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements: A Scorecard in the Courts From January 2002 Through April 2003," 35 Securities Regulation & Law Report 24 (June 16, 2003); "A Litigator's Perspective on Sarbanes-Oxley: An Assessment of Some Key Issues," 35 Securities Regulation & Law Report 4 (January 27, 2003); "Litigation Implications of the CEO and CFO Certification Requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act," 17 Insights 1 (January 2003); "The Kwiatkowski Decision: Implications for the Nature and Scope of Duties of Brokers and FCM's to their Customers," 22 Futures & Derivatives Law Report 10 (December 2002); "Liability for Optimistic Research Reports Prepared by Securities Analysts," 16 Insights 9 (April 2002); "Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements in the Courts: A Year 2001 Scorecard," 34 BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report 3 (January 2002), Reprinted in 70 United States Law Week 2443 (January 29, 2002); "The Scope and Nature of Common Law Duties of Financial Institutions to Customers and Counterparties: A Brief Survey of the Leading Cases," 21 Futures and Derivatives Law Report 8 (November 2001); Chaired subcommittee that prepared "Secondary and Supervisory Liability Under the Commodity Exchange Act: An Update," 56 Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 239 (Spring 2001); "The Statutory Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements in the Courts: A Year 2000 Scorecard," published in course materials for 32nd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, sponsored by Practicing Law Institute (November 2000); General Editor, "Settling Commercial Litigation: Negotiating, Drafting and Enforcing Agreements to Resolve Business Disputes," (Aspen Law and Business 2000); "The Statutory Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements in the Courts: A Scorecard," Securities Regulation Law Journal, (Winter 2000); "U.S. Securities Litigation in a Time of Legislative Change," 18 International Financial Law Review 19 (October 1999), republished in Spanish language edition in El Mercado de Valores (January 2000); "The Changing Responsibilities of Corporate Officers and Directors in the United States," 5 World Securities Law Report 33 (September 1999); "Does New York's Consumer Fraud Act Apply to the Sale of Securities?" New York Law Journal (June 17, 1999); "Clinton Signs Bill Pre-Empting Securities Suits," National Law Journal (November 16, 1998); "Confidentiality Agreements Become Increasingly Elusive," National Law Journal (July 20, 1998); Principal Author of report by Securities Regulation Committee of Association of the Bar of the City of New York, "Forward-Looking Statements and Cautionary Language After the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act: A Study of Current Practices," 53 The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York 723 (1998); "The Statutory Safe Harbor For Forward Looking Statements: Has It Changed the Law? Has It Achieved What Congress Intended?," 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 645 (1998); "New Developments in Protective Orders: State Legislation and Procedural Rules", "Drafting and Responding to Written Discovery Under the New Federal Policies", "New Developments and Trends in Summary Judgment Practice", "Drafting Settlement Agreements", "Special Problems in Drafting Class Action Settlement Agreements", "Corporate Governance in the 1990's. Part One: New Standards, New Risks," 21 Director's Monthly 5 (May 1997); "Corporate Governance in the 1990's. Part Two: Institutionalizing Policies and Procedures to Minimize Risk," 21 Director's Monthly (June 5, 1997); "Special Problems in Drafting Class Action Settlement Agreements," 8 The Practical Litigator 69 (January 1997); "Permissible Scope of Indemnification of Corporate Officers and Directors Under Delaware Law," 10 Insights 21 (November 1996) and Directorship (January 1997); "The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: A User's Guide," 24 Securities Regulation Law Journal 143 (Summer 1996); "Liability for Soft Information: New Developments and Emerging Trends," 22 Securities Regulation Law Journal 3 (Spring 1995); "New Developments in Summary Judgment Practice," The Practical Litigator (January and March, 1995); Futures Regulation Committee of Association of the Bar of the City of New York Report, "Secondary and Supervisory Liability Under the Commodity Exchange Act: A Field Guide," 49 The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 51 (1994); "Indemnification of Officers and Directors Under Delaware Law," 4 Corporate Legal Times 43 (June 1994); "New Developments in Summary Judgment Practice," New York Law Journal (July 1, 1993); "Making Discovery Tools Work," 3 The Practical Litigator 51 (November 1992); "Exchange of Information Among Competitors," CMJ Manual on Government Regulation (1987) (with J. Greenfield). Member of Board Editors, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Editions of Resource Materials, Civil Practice and Litigation in Federal and State Courts, American Law Institute/American Bar Association, 1996-1998 (three volumes). Professional Activities: Chair, program on "Legal Ethics and Personal Liability of Corporate Counsel," sponsored by the Directors' Roundtable, New York, New York, September 2003. Panelist on: "Litigation Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley," American Bar Association, Annual Meeting of Litigation Section, Houston, April 2003; "Major Liabilities," Securities Industry Association Law and Compliance Division Annual Meeting, March 2002, April 2003, and March 2004; "Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Impact on Civil Litigation under the Federal Securities Laws," Conference at Fordham Law School sponsored by ALI/ABA, December 2002; "Settling Cases: Confidentiality, Contribution & Indemnity, Ethics, Insurance, Releases," sponsored by the Federal Bar Council, April 2002; "Updates in Corporate and Securities Law," speaking on Selected Issues Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, May 2000; "Protecting Yourself and Your Company from Potential Liability Pitfalls," at conference on "Communicating with Investors, Analysts and the Media," New York, N.Y., March 2000; "New Developments in Securities Litigation," International Bar Association, Paris, September 1995; "Internal Investigations," Futures Industry Association, Law and Compliance Division Annual Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1995; "Enforcement Issues," Chicago/Kent Annual Commodities Law Institute, November 1994; "Securities Litigation Reform: How Will This Affect Investors and Public Companies Alike?" sponsored by New York University Law Review Alumni Association Annual Symposium, May 1996; "Enforcement/Litigation Update" Program, American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Futures Regulation, Annual Meeting, February 1994. Panel Chair, Civil Litigation, Financial Services Convergence Institute, sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Glasser Legal Works, New York, October 2001. Panel Chair, International Symposium on Derivatives and Risk Management 2001, Fordham University School of Law, March 2001. Faculty Member: "Introduction to the Deal: What's Involved Once Your Company Goes Public?," Association of the Bar of the City of New York, January 2001; PLI 29th, 30th, 31st and 32nd Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, 1997-2000; American Law Institute/American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Course on Civil Practice and Litigation in Federal and State Courts, 1990—; Course on "Trial Evidence, Civil Practice and Effective Litigation Techniques," Sponsored by American Law Institute/American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Legal Education, 1990- 2000; Conference on "Canada-U.S. Securities Regulation," speaking on U.S. Securities and derivatives litigation, Toronto, July 1999. Member and Chair, Litigation Subcommittee, Committee on Futures Regulation, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1999—. Member and Chairman, Litigation Subcomittee, Committee on Securities Regulation, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1995-1998. Chairman, Conference on "Corporate Disclosure After the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act," Chicago, May 1996. Lecturer: American Conference Institute on Securities Litigation, 1993-1996; "The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: A User's Guide," sponsored by Association of the Bar of the City of New York, May 1996; Canadian Institute Program on Directors and Officers Liability, Toronto, Canada, September 1996 and April 1993; American Conference of Investment Counsel Annual Meeting, October 1993. Moderator, two panel discussions videotaped for CLE T.V., sponsored by the American Law Institute, on the new discovery rules, Winter 1994; and summary judgment, Spring 1994. Member, Committee on Futures Regulation, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1986-1989 and 1991-1994, and Chairman, Litigation Subcommittee, 1991-1994. Appointed by Chief Judge Brieant of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York as Mediator pursuant to Court's Civil Justice Expense and Delay Reduction Plan, 1993—. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Futures Regulation; Chairman, Litigation Subcommittee, 1986-1989 and 1991-1994; Committee on Securities Regulation, 1995-1998; Chair, Litigation Subcommittee of the City Bar Futures Regulation Committee, 1999-2002). Reported Cases: Rowinski v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc., 2003 WL 22740976 (M.D. Pa. Nov. 20, 2003); Phillips v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter High Income Advantage Trust III, CCH Fed. Sec. L. Rep. ¶92, 205 (S.D.N.Y. 2002); Korsinsky v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc., 2002 WL 27775 (S.D.N.Y. 2002); In re Dean Witter Mortgage Futures Limited Partnership Litigation, 282 A.D. 2d 271, 724 N.Y.S. 2d 149 (1st Dep't 2001); Levy v. Alliance Capital Management L.P, 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16749 (S.D.N.Y. 1998), aff'd (2d Cir. August 20, 1999); Strougo v. Bassini, 2000 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12924 (S.D.N.Y. 2000); The Julien Company v. Rollins Cotton Company, 146 F.3d 420 (6th Cir. 1998); Bibbo v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 151 F.3d 559 (6th Cir. 1998); Castillo v. Dean Witter Discovery & Co., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9489 (S.D.N.Y. 1998); Dean Witter Partnership Litigation, 1998 Del. Ch. LEXIS 133 (Del. Ch. Ct. 1998, aff'd Del. S.Ct. 1998); Fustok v. ContiCommodity Services, Inc., 873 F.2d 38 (2d Cir. 1989); Korwek v. Hunt, 827 F.2d 874 (2d Cir. 1987); Gau Shan Co., v. Bankers Trust Co., 956 F.2d 1349 (6th Cir. 1992); Bellevue South Assocs. v. HRH Construction Corp., 78 N.Y.2d 282 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1991); Continental Grain Co. v. Meridien Int'l Bank, Ltd., 894 F. Supp. 654 (S.D.N.Y. 1995); Waltuch v. ContiCommodity Services, Inc., 833 F. Supp. 302 (S.D.N.Y. 1993) aff'd in part, 88 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 1996). Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Securities Fraud Class Actions; General Commercial Litigation; Complex and Multi District Litigation; Class Action Defense; Commodity Futures Litigation; Derivatives Litigation.Email: Richard A. Rosen

Andrew N. Rosenberg (Partner) born New York, New York, October 5, 1963; admitted to bar, 1992, New York. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1985); Duke University (J.D., 1991). Practice Areas: Bankruptcy.Email: Andrew N. Rosenberg

Steven B. Rosenfeld (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, April 12, 1943; admitted to bar, 1967, New York; 1969, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1970, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1971, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, District of Columbia; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia and Sixth Circuits; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit. Education: Columbia University (B.A., cum laude, 1964; LL.B., magna cum laude, 1967). Recent Developments Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1966-1967. Author: "Mandatory Pro Bono: Historical and Constitutional Perspectives," 2 Cardozo Law Review 255, 1981; "Encyclopedia of International Litigation" (U.S. Litigation Chapter) (Kluwer, 1991, rev. 1999); Frequent Contributor to Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation. Law Clerk to Hon. Charles M. Metzner, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1967-1968. Deputy General Counsel, New York State Special Commission on Attica, 1971-1972. Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law School, 1995—. Member, First Department Indigent Defense Oversight Committee, 1995-1999. Trustee, 1970-1978 and Chairman, 1974-1976, Community Law Offices. Director, 1978-1995, Member, Executive Committee, 1981, Vice President, 1985-1989, President, 1989-1991, Legal Aid Society of New York City. Director, 1974-1995, Treasurer, 1976-1977 and Vice-President, 1977-1978, 1980-1983, New York Association for New Americans, Inc. Director, Columbia Law School Alumni Association, 1981-1985. Trustee, New York Theatre Workshop, 1996—. Trustee, The Dalton School, 1988-1994. Trustee, The Putney School, 1995-2001. Chair, New York City Conflicts of Interest Board, 2002—. Chair, Board of Visitors, CUNY Law School, 2003—. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Vice-President, 1998-1999; Chairman, Committee on Federal Legislation, 1978-1981; Member, Special Committee on Lawyers' Pro Bono Obligations, 1978-1980; Chairman, Committee on Corrections, 1982-1984; Member, 1982-1984, 1988-1991; Chairman, 1984-1987, Council on Criminal Justice; Member, Executive Committee, 1992-1996); Chairman, Joint Committee on Fee Disputes and Conciliation, 1996-1999. Member, New York State Bar Association (House of Delegates, 1996-1998). Overseas Member, The Commercial Bar Association (London). Reported Cases: Neubronner v. Milken, 6 F.3d 666 (9th Cir. 1993); Platzer v. Sloan Kettering Institute, 787 F. Supp. 360 (S.D.N.Y.), aff'd, 983 F.2d 1086 (Fed. Cir.), Cert. denied, 113 S. Ct. 1648 (1992); People v. Sloan, 79 N.Y.2d 695 (1992); Bolton v. Tesoro Petroleum Corp., 871 F.2d 1266 (5th Cir.), Cert. denied, 493 U.S. 823 (1989); Greenberg v. Compuware Corp., 889 F. Supp. 1012 (E.D.Mich. 1995). Practice Areas: Class Action Defense; Securities Litigation; Intellectual Property and Entertainment Litigation; International Disputes; International Arbitration; Insurance Litigation and Arbitration; General Commercial Litigation.Email: Steven B. Rosenfeld

Peter J. Rothenberg (Partner) born New York, N.Y., April 3, 1941; admitted to bar, 1965, New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1961; LL.B., 1964). Member, Harvard Law Review, 1962-1964. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Taxation, 1977-1979; Member, Committee on Taxation of International Transactions, 1990-1992); New York State Bar Association (Member, Tax Section Executive Committee, 1980-1987; Chairman, Committee on Depreciation and Investment Credit, 1981-1983; Co-Chairman, Committee on Commodities and Financial Futures, 1984-1986).Email: Peter J. Rothenberg

Jacqueline P. Rubin (Partner) born New York, N.Y., January 21, 1973; admitted to bar, 2001, New York; 2009, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., 1995); Columbia University (J.D., 2000).Email: Jacqueline P. Rubin

Raphael M. Russo (Partner) born 1967; admitted to bar, 1996, New York. Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1989); Harvard University (J.D., 1994).Email: Raphael M. Russo

Jeffrey D. Saferstein (Partner) born Englewood, New Jersey, December 23, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, New Jersey; 1990, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Syracuse University (B.S., 1986); University of Bridgeport (J.D., cum laude, 1989). Phi Beta Phi. Lead Article Editor, Connecticut Probate Law Journal. Co-Author, "Maxwell Communications Corporation: U.K.-U.S. Company with primary filings in both countries" (Turnarounds & Workouts Europe). Frequent lecturer on bankruptcy topics. Member: American Bar Association; American Bankruptcy Institute. Practice Areas: Corporate Restructuring; Workouts; Bankruptcy; Specialized Financings.Email: Jeffrey D. Saferstein

Jeffrey B. Samuels (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, December 15, 1950; admitted to bar, 1982, New York; 1983, U.S. Tax Court. Education: Cornell University (B.A., 1972); Columbia University (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., 1978); New York University (J.D., 1981). Member: New York State Bar Association (Member, Tax Section); NAREIT. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Partnerships; International Taxation; REITS; Real Estate Transactions; Private Equity Funds.Email: Jeffrey B. Samuels

Dale M. Sarro (Partner) born Lawrence, New York, December 7, 1956; admitted to bar, 1985, New York; 1988, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1999, District of Columbia. Education: Amherst College (A.B., magna cum laude, 1979); Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Director, Office of Investment, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1993-1994. Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1989-1993. Practice Areas: International and Domestic Finance; Project Finance.Email: Dale M. Sarro

Terry E. Schimek (Partner) born New York, N.Y., April 29, 1955; admitted to bar, 1982, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1976); Stanford University (J.D., 1979). Member: American Bar Association (Member, Section on Corporation, Banking and Business Law). Practice Areas: Banking; Leveraged Leasing; Corporate Finance; General Corporate.Email: Terry E. Schimek

Kenneth M. Schneider (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, March 26, 1958; admitted to bar, 1985, New York. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1979); Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1984). Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin N. Cardozo Law Review. Practice Areas: Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Restructurings; Distressed Company Investing.Email: Kenneth M. Schneider

Robert B. Schumer (Partner) born New York, N.Y., March 8, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, New York. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., 1979); Columbia University (J.D., 1982). Phi Beta Kappa. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Member: American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Securities.Email: Robert B. Schumer

James H. Schwab (Partner) born New York, New York, February 8, 1963; admitted to bar, 1988, New York. Education: Duke University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1984); New York University School of Law (J.D., 1987). Vice President and Special Counsel to the Chairman, Time Warner Inc., 1991-1992. President, Foundation for Educating Children with Autism, Inc., 1998—. Member: New York State and American (Member, Business Law Section, Former Member, Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions and Editorial Subcommittee) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate.

Stephen J. Shimshak (Partner) born Corpus Christi, Texas, April 5, 1950; admitted to bar, 1980, Wisconsin and U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin; 1983, New York and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; 1998, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado and U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A., 1972; J.D., cum laude, 1980). Note and Comment Editor, Wisconsin Law Review, 1979-1980. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Workouts and Corporate Restructuring.Email: Stephen J. Shimshak

David R. Sicular (Partner) born New York, N.Y., July 17, 1957; admitted to bar, 1984, New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1978; J.D., 1983). Author: "Selected Current Effectively Connected Income Issues for Investment Funds," The Tax Lawyer, Vol. 56, No. 4, Summer 2003. Member: New York State Bar Association (Tax Section, Member, 1984—; Executive Committee, 1995—; Co-Chair, Committees on: Consolidated Returns, 1996-1998; Bankruptcy, 1998-2000; CLE and Pro Bono; U.S. Activities of Foreign Taxpayer, 2000-2001; Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, 2002—); Tax Forum. Practice Areas: Federal Income Tax; Corporate Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions Taxation; Partnerships; Private Investment Funds; International Taxation; Tax Controversies.Email: David R. Sicular

Moses Silverman (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, March 3, 1948; admitted to bar, 1974, New York, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; 1982, District of Columbia; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Colby College (A.B., 1969); New York University (J.D., 1973). Order of the Coif. New York University Law Review, 1971-1973; Research Editor, 1972-1973. Author: Articles on international arbitration in 10 Journal of International Arbitration 113 (1993); 3 The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin 11 (1992); 2 The American Review of International Arbitration 154 (1991). Director, The Legal Aid Society. Peace Corps Volunteer, Istanbul, Turkey, 1969-1970. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Pro Bono and Legal Services); New York State (Member, Executive Committee of Antitrust Law Section) and American Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar. Reported Cases: Department of Commerce v. United States House of Representatives, 525 U.S. 316 (1999); ICC Cases 7385, 7402, 18 ICCA Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration 68 (1993); CPC Intl. Inc. v. McKesson Corp., 70 N.Y.2d 268 (1987); Indium Corp. v Semi-Alloys, Inc., 781 F.2d 879 (Fed. Cir. 1985); In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. Securities Litigation, 126 F. Supp. 2d 1238 (N.D. Cal. 2000); In re Nasdaq Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation, 176 F.R.D. 99 (S.D.N.Y. 1997); In re Agricultural Chemicals Antitrust Litigation, 1995 Dist. Lexis 10791 (N.D. Fla. 1995); Cullman Ventures, Inc. v. Columbian Art Works, Inc., 717 F. Supp. 96 (S.D.N.Y. 1989). Practice Areas: Litigation; Arbitration; Antitrust; International.Email: Moses Silverman

Steven Simkin (Partner) born New York, N.Y., August 6, 1947; admitted to bar, 1974, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.S., cum laude, 1969; M.C.P., 1973; J.D., cum laude, 1973). Pi Gamma Mu; Beta Gamma Sigma; Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1972-1973. Member: Commonwealth Title Insurance Company Advisory Board, 1992—; First American Title Insurance Company Advisory Board, 1993—. Member: New York State Bar Association (Member, Executive Committee, Real Property Law Section, 1988-1990). Practice Areas: Real Estate.Email: Steven Simkin

Joseph J. Simons (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, May 4, 1958; admitted to bar, 1983, District of Columbia; 1984, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia and U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court; 1989, New York; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Education: Cornell University (A.B., 1980); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1983). Editor, Tax Lawyer, 1982-1983. Co-Author: with S. Salop, "A Practical Guide to Mergers Analysis," 29 Antitrust Bulletin 663 (1984); with B. Harris, "Focusing Market Definition," 12 J. Research in Law and Econ. 207 (1989); "Fixing Price With Your Victim: Efficiency and Collusion with Competitor-Based Formula Pricing Clauses," 17 Hofstra L.R. 599 (1989); with John E. Lopatka, "Real Estate Multiple-Listing Services and Antitrust Revisited," Electronic Services Networks: A Business And Public Policy Challenge 206 (Eds. M. Guerin-Calvert and S. Wildman: 1991); with A. Williams and R. McAfee, "New U.S. Merger Enforcement Guidelines: Competitive Effects," 21 International Merger Law 6, May 1992; with R.P. McAfee and M. Williams, "Horizontal Mergers in Spatially Differentiated Noncooperative Markets," 40 Journal of Industrial Economics 349 (1992); with M. Williams, "The Renaissance of Market Definition," 38 Antitrust Bulletin 799 (1993); co-author of chapters on Vertical Mergers, Conglomerate Mergers, and Potential Competition, Mergers and Acquisitions; Understanding the Antitrust Issues (ABA: 2000). Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 2001-2003; Associate Director, Assistant Director and Assistant to the Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 1987- 1989. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association, (Vice Chair, FTC Committee, 1996-1998; Member, Antitrust Law Section); American Economic Association. (Resident, Washington, D.C. Office). Practice Areas: Antitrust; Litigation.

Marilyn Sobel (Partner) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 30, 1953; admitted to bar, 1979, New York; 1989, District of Columbia. Education: Boston University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975); New York University (J.D., 1978). Order of the Coif. Member, New York University Law Review, 1977-1978. Practice Areas: Corporate; Internet; Media and Technology Transactions; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Finance; Investment Funds.Email: Marilyn Sobel

Tarun M. Stewart (Partner) born Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 15, 1970; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1993); Yale University (J.D., 1996). Phi Beta Kappa. (Resident, London, England Office). Practice Areas: Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity Transactions.Email: Tarun M. Stewart

Eric Alan Stone (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, August 5, 1971; admitted to bar, 1998, New Jersey; 1999, New York. Education: Williams College (B.A., 1993); New York University (J.D., 1997). Phi Beta Kappa. Note and Comment Editor, New York University Law Review, 1996-1997. Clerkship, Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton, Eastern District of New York, 1997-1998. Practice Areas: Litigation; Antitrust.

Aidan Synnott (Partner) born Cork, Ireland, July 1, 1964; admitted to bar, 1987, Ireland; 1989, New York; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and U.S. Supreme Court; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Education: National University of Ireland (B.C.L., 1985); The Honorable Society of King's Inns (B.L., 1987); University of Michigan (LL.M., 1989). Associate Editor, Antitrust Law Journal. Member: New York State (Co-Chair, Antitrust Committee and Member, Executive Committee, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section), American (Member: Leadership, Antitrust Section) and Ireland Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Antitrust; Intellectual Property Litigation.Email: Aidan Synnott

Robyn F. Tarnofsky (Partner) born 1969; admitted to bar, 1995, Massachusetts; 1996, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., 1991); Harvard University (J.D., 1995).

Judith Reinhardt Thoyer (Partner) born Mount Vernon, New York, July 29, 1940; admitted to bar, 1966, New York; 1984, District of Columbia. Education: University of Michigan (A.B., with honors, 1961); Columbia University (LL.B., summa cum laude, 1965). Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1962-1963, 1965. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests, 1996—; Committee on Securities Regulation, 1976-1979; Committee on Recruitment of Lawyers, 1980-1982); American Bar Association; New York County Lawyers Association (Member, Committee on Securities and Exchanges, 1982-1998); Member, TriBar Opinion Committee, 1995—; Member, Board of Visitors, Columbia Law School, 1991—; Founding Member: Alumnae of Columbia Law School, 1996—). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Corporate Control Contests; Corporate Governance; Hostile Takeovers; Takeovers; Tender Offers; Business Acquisitions; Business Divestitures; Leveraged Acquisitions; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: Judith Reinhardt Thoyer

Daniel J. Toal (Partner) born New York, N.Y., January 10, 1969; admitted to bar, 1997, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern District of New York; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Dartmouth College (A.B., 1990); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1995). John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, 1995. Administrative Editor, Georgetown Law Journal, 1994-1995. Law Clerk to: the Honorable Helen Gillmor, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, 1995-1996; the Honorable Susan Black, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1996-1997. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Arbitration; Intellectual Property.Email: Daniel J. Toal

Mark A. Underberg (Partner) born Niagara Falls, New York, July 9, 1955; admitted to bar, 1982, New York. Education: Cornell University (A.B., magna cum laude, 1977; J.D., cum laude, 1981). Editor-in-Chief, Cornell Law Review, 1980-1981. Law Clerk to the Hon. Collins J. Seitz, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1981-1982. Associate Attorney, Debevoise & Plimpton, 1982-1987; Executive Officer and General Counsel, The Henley Group, Inc., Abex, Inc. and Fisher Scientific International, Inc., 1987-1997. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Corporate and Securities Section); American Corporate Counsel Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: Mark A. Underberg

Liza Velazquez (Partner) admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Harvard University (B.A.); Harvard Law School (J.D.).Email: Liza Velazquez

Maria T. Vullo (Partner) born Brooklyn, New York, October 4, 1963; admitted to bar, 1988, New York; 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 1995, U.S. Tax Court; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 2000, U.S District Court, Northern District of New York; 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Education: College of Mount Saint Vincent (B.A., summa cum laude, 1984); New York University (J.D., 1987). Senior Editor, NYU Moot Court Board. Order of Barristers. Law Clerk to Judge John A. MacKenzie, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1987-1988. Special Counsel to the House Subcommittee on Employment and Housing Investigating Fraud and Mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1989-1990. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Complex Civil Litigation; Intellectual Property; Investigations; Securities Litigation; Bankruptcy Litigation; Tax Litigation; Environmental Litigation.Email: Maria T. Vullo

Lawrence G. Wee (Partner) born Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 19, 1970; admitted to bar, 1995, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., summa cum laude); Harvard Law School (J.D.). Practice Areas: Corporate; Capital Markets; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions.Email: Lawrence G. Wee

Theodore V. Wells, Jr. (Partner) born Washington, D.C., April 28, 1950; admitted to bar, 1977, New Jersey; 2001, New York and District of Columbia. Education: College of the Holy Cross (B.A., 1972); Harvard University (M.B.A., 1976; J.D., 1976). Comments Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, 1975-1976. Law Clerk to Hon. John J. Gibbons, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1976-1977. Adjunct Faculty, Trade Regulation, Seton Hall University School of Law, 1980-1981. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. Former Co-Chair of the White-Collar Criminal Section of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Faculty Member, Practising Law Institute Trial Advocacy Program. Teaching Member, Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop and Lecturer at the Securities Regulation Institute. Practice Areas: Business Crimes; White Collar Defense; Securities; Antitrust; Environmental; Entertainment; Complex Commercial Litigation.Email: Theodore V. Wells, Jr.

Steven J. Williams (Partner) born 1968; admitted to bar, 2000, New York. Education: New York University (B.A., 1990; M.A., 1994); Columbia Law School (J.D., 1999). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Lawrence I. Witdorchic (Partner) born New York, N.Y., May 28, 1966; admitted to bar, 1996, New York. Education: Harvard University (A.B., 1988); Fordham University (J.D., 1995). Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Employee Benefits.

Jordan E. Yarett (Partner) born New York, N.Y., February 26, 1953; admitted to bar, 1978, Pennsylvania; 1980, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1984, New York. Education: Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1978). Phi Beta Kappa. Associate Editor, 1976-1977 and Comment Editor, 1977-1978, University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Law Clerk to Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1978-1980. Member: American Bar Association (Member, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section); Public Securities Association (Lecturer); National Association of Bond Lawyers. Practice Areas: Structured Finance; Financial Restructuring of Bond Issues.Email: Jordan E. Yarett

Kaye Naoko Yoshino (Partner) admitted to bar, 1998, New York; 2001, qualified in Japan as a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi. Education: Harvard University (B.A., J.D.). Member: American Bar Association. (Resident, Tokyo, Japan Office). Languages: Japanese and English. Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Securities; Private Equity.Email: Kaye Naoko Yoshino

Alfred D. Youngwood (Partner) born New York, N.Y., April 27, 1938; admitted to bar, 1962, New York; 1964, U.S. Tax Court; 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1970, District of Columbia. Education: Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1959); Harvard University (LL.B., magna cum laude, 1962). Member, Harvard Law Review, 1960-1962. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Taxation, 1973-1976); New York State Bar Association (Member, Executive Committee, 1971 —, Chair, 1978-1979, Tax Section). Practice Areas: Corporate Tax Planning; Corporate Taxation; International Corporate Taxation; Leveraged Leasing; Mergers and Acquisitions; Partnership Taxation; Tax Litigation.Email: Alfred D. Youngwood

Tong Yu (Partner) born New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 30, 1970; admitted to bar, 1997, New York. Education: Yonsei University (B.A.); Harvard Law School (J.D.). Practice Areas: Corporate; Capital Markets; Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity Transactions.Email: Tong Yu

Tracey Zaccone (Partner) admitted to bar, 1998, New York. Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.A., magna cum laude, 1994); Boston University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1997). Practice Areas: Securities.

T. Robert Zochowski, Jr. (Partner) born New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, New Jersey; 1990, New York. Education: Georgetown University (B.S., 1986); New York University (J.D., 1989). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Corporate Finance.

OF COUNSEL

Neale M. Albert (Of Counsel) born New York, N.Y., December 18, 1937; admitted to bar, 1961, New York; 1970, District of Columbia. Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1958); Yale University (LL.B., 1961). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Note and Comment Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1960-1961. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committees on: Corporation Law, 1967-1970 and 1987-1990; Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization, 1972-1974, 1977-1980 and 1992-1993; Art Law, 1977-1978, 1980-1986 and 1993-1996 Chair, 1983-1986). Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Corporate Law; Art Law.Email: Neale M. Albert

David C. Brodhead (Of Counsel) born Madison, Wisconsin, September 16, 1934; admitted to bar, 1959, Wisconsin; 1960, New York; 1970, District of Columbia. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.S., 1956; LL.B., 1959). Order of the Coif; Delta Theta Phi. Editor-in-Chief, Wisconsin Law Review, 1958-1959. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; State Bar of Wisconsin; The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Letters of Credit; General Corporate; Acquisitions and Mergers.

Joseph E. Browdy (Of Counsel) born Brooklyn, New York, July 23, 1937; admitted to bar, 1962, New York. Education: Oberlin College (B.A., 1958); New York University (LL.B., 1961). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Articles and Survey Editor, New York University Law Review, 1960-1961. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Real Estate, New York University, 1976-1986. Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Real Property Law, 1969-1972, 1989-1992); American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Practice Areas: Real Estate.Email: Joseph E. Browdy

Jerome Alan Cohen (Of Counsel) born Elizabeth, New Jersey, July 1, 1930; admitted to bar, 1955, Connecticut; 1957, District of Columbia; 1982, New York. Education: Yale University (A.B., 1951; LL.B., 1955). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Yale Law Journal, 1954-1955. Editor: Contemporary Chinese Law, Research Problems and Perspectives, 1970; The Dynamics of China's Foreign Relations, 1970; China's Practice of International Law, Some Case Studies, 1972. Co-editor, Essays on China's Legal Tradition, 1981. Author: "Contract Laws of the People's Republic of China," 1988; "The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963," 1968. Co-Author: with Hungdah Chiu, "People's China and International Law," 1974; "Taiwan and American Policy," 1971; with Joan Lebold Cohen, "China Today," (3rd ed.), 1986. Lecturer, Harvard Law School, 1981-1989. Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies and Associate Dean, Harvard Law School, 1964-1981; Professor of Law, University of California (Berkeley), 1959-1964; Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, 1990—. Law Secretary for the U.S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1955-1956 and under Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1956-1957. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, 1958-1959. Consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 1959. Chairman, China Council of the Asia Society, 1975-1977. Trustee, The Asia Society, 1984-1990. Chairman, New York-Beijing Sister-City Committee, 1983-1989; Trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chairman, Special Committee on Asian Affairs, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1989-1992. Senior Fellow for Asian Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, 1996—. Trustee, China Institute in America, 1998-2002. Languages: Chinese (Mandarin), French and Spanish. Practice Areas: International Transactions with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, North and South Korea; Public International Law Relating to Asia; Arbitration of International Disputes; Criminal Justice in East Asia.Email: Jerome Alan Cohen

Edward N. Costikyan (Of Counsel) born Weehawken, New Jersey, September 14, 1924; admitted to bar, 1949, New York; 1950, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1963, U.S. Supreme Court; 1970, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University (A.B., 1947; LL.B., 1949). Recipient, Ordronaux Prize in Law. Research Editor, Columbia Law Review, 1949. Law Clerk to Judge Harold R. Medina, 1949-1951. County Leader, Democratic County Committee of New York County, 1962-1964. Director, 42nd Street Development Corporation, 1977. Trustee, Columbia University, 1981-1993. Trustee, Emeritus, 1993—. First Recipient of William J. Brennan, Jr. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse, 1997. Special Advisor to New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Education Decentralization and Borough Governance, 1994-1996. C