Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Adam Summers

Mr. Summers is a partner in the Corporate Department and the Finance Practice, resident in Fried Frank's New York office. He focuses his practice on credit and capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience advising investment banking clients, debt funds and other lenders throughout the deal process, from the early stages through closing and funding. He also has represented various corporate clients on a wide range of financing transactions. Additionally, Mr. Summers represents banks and commercial lenders in both syndicated credit facilities and high-yield bond financings related to leveraged buyouts and other acquisitions, and provides ongoing counsel to agents and arrangers under those facilities. He assists clients in understanding and evaluating existing debt capital structures for targets of acquisitions and has particular expertise negotiating commitment letters in connection with acquisition financings. In addition, Mr. Summers has worked on numerous subscription credit facilities for private equity and debt funds.

Adam Shiff

Adam L. Shiff is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Mr. Shiff’s practice focuses on all aspects of restructuring, bankruptcy, insolvency and related litigation. He has thirty years of experience working on all aspects of in-court and out-of-court restructurings including bankruptcy proceedings. He regularly represents distressed businesses, formal and informal committees comprised of hedge funds, private equity funds, financial institutions and other holders of debt and equity securities, trustees, and investors in, and purchasers of, distressed debt, assets and businesses. Mr. Shiff is also the author of numerous articles on these subjects.

Alan Kaden

Tax Partner. Chair of Washington, DC Tax Department and managing partner of the Washington office. Mr. Kaden has experience in all the principal areas of tax law, with particular emphasis on the structuring and negotiation of taxable and tax-free corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-off transactions and dispositions of ongoing business enterprises, the structuring of investment funds, the development of partnership and other joint-venture arrangements for various business ventures and tax planning for financings and other capital formation transactions. He also has extensive tax litigation experience, the combination of which, with his transactional tax work, is a distinguishing element of his practice.

Aleksandr Livshits

Antitrust Special Counsel. Mr. Livshits focuses on mergers and acquisitions, including complex cross-border transactions, criminal and civil antitrust litigation, and antitrust compliance counseling.  He has represented a variety of clients before the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and he has extensive experience in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive, retail, media, and high technology, among others.

Alexander Sutherland

Alexander Sutherland is a partner in the Real Estate Department resident in the New York office. Mr. Sutherland represents developers, lenders, owners and institutional investors in a variety of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development and leasing of commercial, residential, hospitality and mixed-use properties.

Alexander Ginsberg

Partner

Amy Blackman

Amy Blackman is an executive compensation & ERISA partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. She joined the Firm in 2003 and became a partner in 2011. Ms. Blackman has extensive experience advising clients regarding all aspects of executive and director compensation programs, including tax, securities law disclosure requirements, corporate governance and other design and documentation considerations. Her work also includes participation in Fried Frank's transactional corporate practice, advising clients on employee-benefits aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, corporate restructurings, financings and capital markets matters, as well as advising private equity clients regarding the regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. In addition, Ms. Blackman also specializes in advising tax-exempt organizations with respect to corporate governance and compliance matters.

Andrea Gede-Lange

Ms. Gede-Lange represents private equity firms, investors and public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, including leveraged buyouts, stock purchases, asset purchases, divestitures, carve-out transactions, joint ventures and recapitalizations. She also advises clients on corporate governance issues, securities laws compliance and general corporate matters. Also, she is head of the sustainability committee in New York and assists in the M&A knowledge management function at the firm.

Andrew Barkan

Mr. Barkan is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice on corporate finance and capital markets transactions, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in domestic and international public offerings and private placements such as initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary equity offerings, high-yield, investment grade and convertible debt offerings, acquisition financings, debt tender offers and consent solicitations, and related capital market and private equity transactions. He also advises clients on a variety of securities law and corporate governance matters.

Andrew Colosimo

Partner

Barry Nigro

Barry Nigro is Chair of Fried Frank’s Global Antitrust and Competition Department. Mr. Nigro’s practice is focused on the clearance of mergers, antitrust investigations and litigation, grand jury proceedings, and compliance counseling and training. Mr. Nigro rejoined Fried Frank from the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, where as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General he served as the second highest-ranking Division official responsible for overseeing all civil and criminal antitrust enforcement, including all major merger reviews. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General. While serving at the Department of Justice, Mr. Nigro played a critical role in advancing the Department's antitrust enforcement priorities and numerous policy developments, including implementation of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines issued in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission, and modernization of the Department's Merger Remedies Manual and merger review process. He also served as Deputy Director for the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he managed the Bureau’s merger and anticompetitive practices investigations and litigation.

Brad Eric Scheler

Mr. Scheler is a senior partner of the Restructuring and Insolvency Department. In his work, Mr. Scheler leads teams attending to investment in, recourse related to and the financial restructuring and rehabilitation of, complex and often distressed businesses either out-of-court or in connection with formal restructuring and insolvency proceedings in the United States and abroad. Mr. Scheler represents parties seeking to invest in and/or acquire the assets and businesses of financially troubled and other companies, buyers and sellers of distressed securities and businesses, financial institutions that are lenders to and investors in financially troubled companies, and corporate debtors, creditors' committees, bondholders' committees, equity holders' committees and trustees. Drawing upon his substantial experience in corporate boardrooms and judicial proceedings, Mr. Scheler acts as outside general counsel and strategic adviser to financially strong corporate and institutional clients in connection with financings and capital market transactions, including the issuance and exchange of debt and equity securities and the structuring and implementation of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Scheler also represents and provides corporate finance and strategic planning advice to corporate, institutional and governmental clients. Mr. Scheler's experience on some of the largest and most complex transactions — including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and capital markets transactions — has given Mr. Scheler perspective and insight into realizing maximum value from and flexibility for businesses and assets. Mr. Scheler also serves as a trustee of certain complex trusts and as an advisor to such trusts.

Bradford Lucas

Bradford R. Lucas is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's Washington, DC office. Mr. Lucas's practice is focused primarily on asset management work, including the structuring and offering of hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative investment products. In addition, he has worked on a variety of other transactional and securities law matters, including securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions, and has provided general corporate counsel on governance issues.

Brian Murphy

Mr. Murphy is a corporate partner resident in the New York office. He has represented financial institutions and businesses in a wide variety of financing transactions, with a focus on those involving the senior component of the issuer's capital structure (both secured and unsecured). He represents financial institutions in the structuring, documenting, negotiating and closing of senior secured credit facilities for sponsored acquisitions and other leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and spinoffs, and senior syndicated loans to large corporate and middle-market borrowers.

Cameron Cosby

Tax Partner.  For almost 30 years, Mr. Cosby has advised clients on the tax aspects of real estate and partnership transactions. He has worked with real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate companies on all types of transactions, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and going private transactions. Mr. Cosby is a problem solver in complex US tax rules impacting public and private REITs, partnerships, and other real estate companies. He works closely with lawyers in the Corporate Department in representing issuers and underwriters in capital markets transactions, and in public and private mergers and acquisitions.

Carol Rosenthal

Carol E. Rosenthal, a real estate partner, has over 30 years of experience as development and land use counsel to developers, businesses, and non-profit institutions. She has successfully guided clients seeking zoning amendments, special permits, variances, state and city environment quality reviews, landmarked site approvals and other governmental approvals for some of New York City’s most significant development projects.  She has broad-based experience in project development, housing, transportation and joint public-private initiatives, and has represented clients in numerous transactions for the transfer of development rights, government acquisitions, and turn-key developments.

Christopher Roman

Tax Partner. Mr. Roman’s practice focuses on tax aspects of alternative investment funds and fund-related M&A, with significant experience in both corporate transactional work and matters involving real estate and real estate investment trusts (REITs). In addition to representing both sponsors and investors in fund formations, he has extensive experience representing investors in secondary sales of interests in private funds on both the sell-side and buy-side, as well as investors and sponsors in debt and equity co-investment transactions. Mr. Roman also has significant experience involving REITs, including representation of companies and underwriters in REIT formations, securities offerings, debt financings, asset acquisitions, dispositions, M&A and other transactions. Mr. Roman’s practice also focuses on mergers & acquisitions transactions, particularly cross-border transactions, representing clients in a range of industries, including real estate, telecommunications, health care and manufacturing.

Christopher Ewan

Mr. Ewan is a partner and concentrates his practice in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions representing private equity firms and public and private corporations.

Christopher Bell

Litigation associate, Government Contracts Practice. Mr. Bell’s practice focuses on the representation of government contractors, including major defense and aerospace clients, in a wide range of matters involving bid protests and regulatory compliance. Mr. Bell also represents clients in a variety of white-collar criminal investigations and internal investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act qui tam litigation, and other laws. Mr. Bell further represents clients in diverse commercial litigation matters.

Daniel Bursky

Partner

David Shapiro

Tax Partner. Mr. Shapiro is a tax partner and co-chair of the Firm’s Tax Department. His practice spans numerous types of tax issues, including in the areas of fund formation and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly represents leading fund sponsors in fund formation, including funds and funds-of-funds with a focus on equity, mezzanine debt, senior loans, distressed debt and real estate, and also focuses on M&A and other corporate transactions, frequently for fund clients. Mr. Shapiro has also regularly represented public and private companies in a variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, as well as in public and private debt and equity financing transactions. Clients include Bain, BlackRock, Brookfield, Fortress Investment Group, Goldman Sachs & Co., KKR, HPS Investment Partners, Neuberger Berman, and Permira, among others.

David Mitchell

Corporate partner. He is a leading practitioner in commodities, futures and derivatives. He offers his clients a full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation-related advice in connection with product development; structuring funds and other investment vehicles; establishment of electronic trading facilities and clearing solutions for swaps and derivatives; and compliance, investigations and enforcement matters relating to futures, swaps and derivatives.

David Karnovsky

David Karnovsky, a real estate partner, focuses on land use, zoning, real estate development, and environmental review. Since joining the Firm, Mr. Karnovsky has worked on a number of high-profile zoning and land use matters in the Hudson Yards area, Lower Manhattan, and Brooklyn on behalf of Tishman Speyer, Related Companies, and Madison Equities, among others.

Donald Carleen

Mr. Carleen is an executive compensation & ERISA partner and regularly advises corporations, boards of directors, compensation committees and senior executives on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits, including ERISA and tax, employment and securities law matters. Advises in complex M&A, leveraged buyouts, private equity, hedge fund, bankruptcy and restructuring transactions. Specializes in structuring and negotiation of executive employment, severance and equity participation arrangements in M&A transactions.

Dorothy Mehta

Dorothy D. Mehta is a corporate partner and member of the firm’s Asset Management Practice, resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Dorothy has experience in the structuring, formation and operation (domestically and on a cross-border basis) of a variety of alternative investments products, including US and non-US hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds, funds of funds, collective investment trusts and commodity pools (both privately and publicly offered), and the establishment of separately managed account arrangements. She regularly represents US and non-US investment advisers, wealth management platforms and family offices. Dorothy also advises clients on registration and related compliance requirements of the SEC and CFTC, as well as on matters pertaining to the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act, the Commodity Exchange Act and federal and state securities laws generally.

Emil Buchman

Mr. Buchman is a corporate partner. He advises financial institutions and corporations on numerous types of complex financial transactions. He has substantial experience in representing both lenders and borrowers in connection with the financings of mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and recapitalizations. His work also includes mezzanine financing transactions, private placements and master limited partnership financings. Mr. Buchman has worked on a large number of project finance and lease financing transactions, as well as securitized transactions and sports financing transactions.

Erica Jaffe

Erica Jaffe is a corporate partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity Practice, resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Ms. Jaffe focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, having represented public and private companies, financial sponsors, and investment banking firms across a range of sectors in stock and asset acquisitions, carve-out transactions, joint ventures, divestitures, and investments in hedge fund and private equity fund managers. She also advises clients on corporate governance issues and general corporate matters.

Evan Barr

A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Barr has represented individuals and companies in high-profile and sensitive investigations and prosecutions conducted by the Department of Justice, various US Attorneys' Offices, the SEC, the Internal Revenue Service, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, FINRA, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Over the course of his 20 year career, he has handled matters involving virtually all aspects of white-collar crime.

F. William Reindel

Partner

Fiona Kelly

Fiona J. Kelly is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's New York and London offices and is co-head of the Firm's Corporate Real Estate Transactions Practice. Ms. Kelly advises private equity funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, developers and investors on joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions of interests in private real estate companies and other transactions relating to the real estate industry. Her practice is largely international in nature and she regularly represents clients investing in overseas markets and international clients investing in the United States.

Geoffrey Berman

Partner

George Wolfe

Antitrust Associate.  Mr. Wolfe represents clients in merger control and anticompetitive conduct investigations before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the state attorneys general, as well as in antitrust litigation matters brought by the antitrust regulators and private plaintiffs. Mr. Wolfe also counsels clients on a wide variety of antitrust matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, antitrust compliance and arbitrage opportunities. Mr. Wolfe has experience representing clients in a wide array of industries, including specialized expertise in healthcare and life sciences, ecommerce, chemicals and oil and gas. Mr. Wolfe has litigated merger control and anticompetitive conduct cases with the US federal government.

J. Christian Nahr

Partner

James Wareham

Global Chair of Litigation Department. Substantial experience in both civil and criminal matters. Has served as lead counsel on behalf of multinational public companies, boards of directors, and senior executives in the defense of securities class actions, in connection with cross-border government investigations, and proceedings before the United States Congress. Has also led internal investigations around the globe arising out of bribery allegations, securities and accounting irregularities and related matters.

James McCullough

Litigation Of Counsel and Head of Government Contracts. Mr. McCullough is litigation of counsel and head of the Government Contracts Practice and member of the Aerospace & Defense Practice. His experience spans a broad range of industries and government agencies, with a focus on aerospace and defense companies. Mr. McCullough’s practice includes pre-award litigation and counseling on contract formation issues, post-award disputes and litigation, and the representation of government contractors in various civil proceedings, including Procurement Integrity and Freedom of Information Act disputes, and enforcement matters involving mandatory disclosure and suspension and debarment.  He has been lead counsel in numerous bid protests before the US Government Accountability Office, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and other federal courts.  Mr. McCullough also has extensive litigation experience involving claims and terminations at various Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims.  In addition, he has frequently participated in the resolution of government contract disputes through the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques, including mediation and arbitration, and has frequently participated as government contracts counsel in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and joint venture transactions involving aerospace and defense companies.

Jason Koenig

Jason is a corporate & finance partner. He leads M&A transactions, with a particular focus on sponsor-backed deals, public M&A and distressed transactions. He also has extensive experience with joint ventures, cross-border and restructuring transactions, and matters relating to corporate governance and shareholder activism. Jason has executed transactions across a variety of industries, including health care, energy, technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), and cryptocurrency. To learn more about Jason, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/jason-samuel-koenig.html.

Jeffrey Ross

Mr. Ross is an Executive Compensation & ERISA partner, chair of the department, resident in the Firm’s New York office. He focuses his practice on ERISA fiduciary matters, with particular emphasis on the application of ERISA’s fiduciary and prohibited transaction rules to the structuring, operation and administration of a wide range of private investment funds and investment management arrangements. He counsels extensively regarding ERISA’s “plan asset” regulation and routinely assists clients wishing to operate plan asset hedge funds in compliance with ERISA. More generally, he has experience with a broad variety of benefits and compensation matters and the numerous federal and state laws that govern the field. In this regard, he often assists in the negotiation of employment, non-competition and severance agreements as well as equity-based compensation arrangements. Clients also frequently call upon him to advise on the employee benefits and executive compensation matters arising in connection with mergers and acquisitions and related transactions.

Jeffrey Schatz

Jeffrey Schatz is a corporate partner resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Schatz’s practice focuses on asset management work and concentrates on advising investment managers and financial institutions on all aspects of the structuring and formation of domestic and offshore private equity funds, hedge funds, credit funds, GP stake funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and co-investment vehicles. He also advises fund sponsors on negotiating separately managed accounts and funds-of-one. Additionally, he regularly counsels a diverse client base on sponsor-led secondary transactions and the structuring and negotiation of carried interest and other internal economic arrangements.

Jennifer Rodburg

Jennifer L. Rodburg is a restructuring and insolvency partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Ms. Rodburg focuses her practice on the representation of creditors and investors in corporate restructurings both in and out of court. She represents hedge funds, private equity funds, banks, property owners, asset acquirers and other strategic parties in connection with prepackaged and traditional bankruptcy proceedings, DIP and exit financings, Section 363 sales and other distressed situations. She has a broad range of experience in representing official and unofficial creditors' committees and equity committees in connection with chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructuring situations. Ms. Rodburg also counsels investment funds, financial institutions and other clients on issues involved in trading distressed debt, analyzing the risks associated with potential investments and acquiring financially distressed companies.

Jeremy Berry

Jeremy Berry is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Mr. Berry's practice focuses on private investment funds and complex corporate transactions, with a particular focus on private equity and hedge fund formation and other alternative investment matters. Mr. Berry regularly represents some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investment banks, as well as a broad range of other investment management clients. Mr. Berry consistently advises clients on matters involving private equity and hedge fund formation, fund investment, manager-level transactions and other complex transactions. Mr. Berry brings a global perspective to his investment funds work, which includes a growing practice representing many of the world's largest private equity and hedge fund managers. He provides each client with comprehensive representation; from entity formation through the fundraising process to ongoing operational advice, his knowledge across a range of investment funds structures gives him the ability to keep abreast of emerging trends in the private equity, hedge fund and real estate industries, enhancing the value he provides for his clients. In addition, Mr. Berry also represents institutional investors in the acquisition of positions in private equity, real estate, venture capital and hedge funds. In addition to representing investment fund sponsors and investors, Mr. Berry's practice includes advising clients on investment and financing transactions, with particular emphasis on international or otherwise complex transactions.

Jessica Forbes

Jessica Forbes is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Ms. Forbes concentrates her practice on securities regulation, including the regulation of investment advisers, investment companies and broker-dealers, with particular expertise in the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act. She regularly provides advice on trading and credit regulation to hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, broker-dealers, other professional traders and high net-worth individuals. She has extensive experience with the structuring and ongoing operations of hedge funds, private equity funds, business development companies and other alternative investment products. She also regularly advises publicly traded companies and their senior management in connection with trading and hedging activities, such as issuer repurchase transactions, sales of restricted stock and the use of financial derivatives to diversify concentrated stock positions. Ms. Forbes also advises on the regulatory implications of merger and acquisition transactions in the financial services industry.

Jonathan Mechanic

Jonathan Mechanic, a real estate partner and chairman of the Firm’s Real Estate Department, routinely counsels developers, owners, investors, REITs, and lenders in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, disposition and development of office, retail, hotel and mixed-use properties; commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing; acquisition and sale of distressed debt; and joint ventures and restructurings.

Jonathan Adler

Jonathan Adler is a corporate partner and focuses primarily on representing financial institutions and asset managers with respect to large, complex transactions involving alternative investment vehicles, including hedge funds, real estate funds, private equity funds and hybrid funds. In particular, he provides advice regarding fund formation and regulation as well as acquisitions and dispositions of interests in alternative investment managers. He also focuses on areas including Regulation D, Section 13(d), Section 16 and Rule 144.

Joseph Fox

Tax Partner.  Mr. Fox focuses on domestic and cross-border tax issues relating to capital markets, financing and derivatives transactions. He regularly represents US and non-US clients in a variety of contexts, such as equity and debt offerings, bank financing transactions, debt restructurings and derivatives transactions, and is experienced with specialized vehicles and industries, including RICs, REITs, credit funds, real estate funds, insurance companies and shipping companies. He also advises on asset management tax considerations and international tax issues.

Joshua Coleman

Mr. Coleman is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice in corporate finance transactions, including the representation of both issuers and underwriters in high-yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, including acquisition financing commitments, equity offerings and related capital market and private equity transactions. In addition, Mr. Coleman advises clients on a variety of securities law and corporate governance matters.

Joshua Wechsler

Mr. Wechsler is a corporate partner and concentrates his practice in corporate finance and the US securities laws, representing issuers, underwriters and sponsors in a variety of financing transactions, including initial public offerings, private placements, high-yield debt offerings, and cross-border financings. Mr. Wechsler has represented an array of underwriters including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Clarksons Platou, Credit Suisse, Fearnley Securities, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, JP Morgan, KBW, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Wells Fargo. In addition, he has acted for a number of issuers in connection with corporate governance matters and reporting under the US securities laws, including, among others, Extended Stay, Goldman Sachs BDC, Grindrod Shipping, Grupo Televisa, Humana, IDEXX, MasTec, Navios Maritime Holdings (and its related public companies), Perry Ellis, RedBall Acquisition Corp., Seritage, Spanish Broadcasting System, Tapestry (f/k/a Coach), and Viavi. Mr. Wechsler has worked on a number of cross-border transactions in Asia, Canada, Denmark, Europe, Greece, Mexico, Norway, Singapore, and South Africa.

Kabaye Liku

Ms. Liku's practice focuses primarily on commercial real estate finance and development. She has experience representing lenders and institutional investors in the origination and restructuring of mortgage and mezzanine loans for capital markets; syndicate and balance sheet lenders for the acquisition, development and construction of hotels, shopping centers, office buildings and mixed-used projects located throughout the United States; and in the purchase and sale of mortgage and subordinated debt, including the negotiation of intercreditor, participation and co-lender agreements.

Kenneth Rosh

Kenneth Rosh is a corporate partner and head of the Firm’s private equity funds practice group. Mr. Rosh represents clients in a broad range of corporate and securities transactions, with a focus on private equity fund formation counseling, investments, acquisitions and secondary transactions; securities and capital markets; and general corporate matters. Mr. Rosh has represented major private equity fund sponsors for over 25 years. A partial list of his clients include Bain Capital; Goldman Sachs; BlackRock; Brookfield Asset Management; Fortress Investment Group; HPS Investment Partners; Permira; Morgan Stanley, Sixth Street Partners, StepStone Group; and Tapestry.

Laurinda Martins

Ms. Martins has extensive experience with sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, including large-scale acquisitions, joint ventures, and development. She concentrates her practice on commercial mortgage, mezzanine, and construction financing on behalf of lenders and borrowers; joint ventures; acquisitions and dispositions; and loan restructures, workouts, and UCC foreclosures.

Lawrence Barshay

Mr. Barshay is a corporate partner and the founder and head of Fried Frank's Asset Management Practice. He specializes in the structuring and representation of investment funds and other alternative investments. He also has extensive experience in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. His clients include major financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, funds-of-funds and investment management companies. These clients include, among others, Bank of New York, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Citadel LLC, D. E. Shaw Group, EJF Capital, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Libin Zhang

Tax partner. Extensive experience advising on a diverse range of real estate, corporate, and international taxation matters, including REITs, private equity transactions, seed and stake deals, qualified opportunity funds, cross-border joint ventures, spin-offs, and other tax-efficient transactions. Focus on traditional finance, real assets, collectibles, and other actual physical things. Author of BNA Portfolio 549-3rd (Passive Loss Rules) and BNA Portfolio 6215 (Global Intangible Low Taxed Income (GILTI)).

Lisa Schneider

Lisa Schneider is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank's New York office. Ms. Schneider's practice is focused primarily on the structuring and representation of hedge funds and other alternative investment products. She regularly advises major financial institutions and fund sponsors on the structuring of management companies and compensation plans, the establishment of investment funds and accounts, including hybrid funds and bespoke products, day-to-day operational and regulatory matters and seed investments.

Mark Hayek

Mr. Hayek is a partner in the Corporate Department and the Capital Markets and Finance Practices. He represents clients in corporate finance transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged loans and high-yield debt, as well as domestic and international public and private equity and debt securities offerings. He also has substantial experience with syndicated loans as counsel to corporate borrowers, including Merck, Procter & Gamble, T-Mobile and Under Armour. In addition, Mr. Hayek advises clients with respect to periodic reporting, corporate governance and other securities law matters. Representative clients include Bank of America, Barclays, Citadel, Emerald Expositions, Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, JELD-WEN, KKR, Morgan Stanley, the Navios Group, Perrigo, Procter & Gamble, T-Mobile, Under Armour and Wells Fargo.

Mark Lucas

Mr. Lucas regularly acts for industry leading private equity firms and public and private companies on a variety of corporate and M&A transactions across a broad range of sectors including industrials, technology, energy, and infrastructure. He also regularly advises clients on major media, healthcare, consumer, and financial services transactions. Mr. Lucas was previously Vice President & Associate General Counsel of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. He focused on private equity transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and capital raising activities, as well as other principal investments made by Goldman Sachs. Clients appreciate Mr. Lucas's invaluable perspective of having worked on both the client and outside counsel side and across the full life cycle of private equity investing. This skillset, including a profound understanding of the inner workings of sophisticated institutions and the complex regulatory environment in which they operate, allows him to provide tailored client service that addresses the unique needs of each individual client and scenario.

Matthew Joseph

Antitrust and Litigation Associate.  Mr. Joseph's antitrust and competition practice focuses on antitrust investigations and matters relating to the clearance of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and private equity transactions, representing clients before the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Joseph has experience representing clients in matters involving a wide variety of industries, including media, digital commerce, consumer products, food, financial services, aerospace and defense, technology and software, manufacturing, and education.

Matthew Bettinger

Mr. Bettinger advises clients in connection with a broad range of commercial real estate transactions. He regularly advises insurance companies, banks, real estate investment trusts, and other real estate investment funds in the origination, syndication, and restructuring of mortgage and mezzanine term and construction financings, including in connection with multi-tiered intercreditor arrangements and senior/subordinate (A/B) notes and participations.

Melanie Meyers

Melanie Meyers, a real estate partner, focuses on real estate development, with an emphasis on land use, zoning and structuring complex projects, environmental review, public approvals, and private/public partnerships. Her clients include The Georgetown Company, Related Companies, Forest City Ratner Companies, Columbia University, Jamestown Properties, Hospital for Special Surgery, Park Tower Group, Verizon Communications, Rudin Management Company, Inc., Cornell University and Alchemy Properties.

Michael Alter

Tax Partner.  Mr. Alter focuses on federal income taxation, with particular emphasis on the structuring and negotiation of taxable and tax-free acquisitions and dispositions, reorganizations and spin-offs, as well as tax planning for debt and equity securities offerings and financings. Mr. Alter's significant representations include Catalent in its acquisitions of MaSTherCell Global, Paragon Bioservices, Cook Pharmica, and Accucaps Industries; CVS in the pending sale of its workers' comp services business; Jacobs Engineering in its acquisition of KeyW, the sale of its energy, chemicals and resources business, and its acquisition of CH2M Hill; Leidos in its acquisition of L3Harris Technologies' security detection and automation businesses, and its sale of its commercial cybersecurity business; Lockheed Martin in its acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft; Media General in its acquisition of LIN Media, its merger with New Young Broadcasting and its merger with Nexstar; Tapestry in its acquisition of Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman; and Tradeweb Markets in its up-C IPO. Additionally, Mr. Alter has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors and funds, including Goldman Sachs, Onex, Stella Point Captial and OMERS, and their portfolio companies.

Michael Anstett

Litigation partner, Government Contracts Practice. Mr. Anstett’s practice focuses on representing government contractors, including aerospace defense and information technology clients, in matters involving mergers, acquisitions, private equity investments, bid protests, claims disputes, regulatory compliance, and suspension and debarment proceedings. Counsels clients on contract formation and post-award disputes, government audits, government contracts due diligence, Procurement Integrity Act and Freedom of Information Act disputes, and voluntary disclosures and also represents government contractors in fraud investigations and False Claims Act qui tam litigation.

Michael Barker

Michael Barker, a real estate partner, has a broad range of experience in mortgage, mezzanine, construction and other financings, domestic and foreign acquisitions, development and construction projects, joint ventures and real estate investment transactions involving commercial, residential, retail and hospitality properties. His diverse client list includes lenders, developers, owners and institutional investors.

Michael Vines

Mr. Vines focuses his practice on commercial real estate finance, including the origination of commercial loans for capital market, syndicate, and balance sheet lenders with a specialty in development, construction, and transitional loans. Mr. Vines has significant experience representing clients in the purchase and sale of mortgage and subordinated debt, including the negotiation of intercreditor, participation, and co-lender agreements. Mr. Vines has represented a wide range of clients in connection with loan restructurings, discounted pay-offs, deed-in-lieu transactions, and foreclosures. His client list includes lenders, investment funds, institutional investors, owners, and developers in complex real estate financing matters.

Michael Werner

Mr. Werner represents clients in the acquisition, disposition and development of office, retail, residential, hotel and mixed-use properties; high-profile commercial leasing; structured and construction financing; ground leases; joint ventures; and debt restructurings. He routinely counsels prominent owners, developers, financial institutions, institutional investors, REITs, and corporations in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, and has worked on many of the industry's highest profile transactions for clients that include Google, Amazon, Tishman Speyer, Global Holdings, Taconic Partners, Brookfield, Vornado, RXR and Gotham, among others.

Michelle Gold

Tax partner. Ms. Gold concentrates her practice in the area of federal income taxation and in particular, partnership transactions. Ms. Gold specializes in the representation of fund sponsors in private equity and hedge fund formations, including funds and fund-of-funds focusing on equity, infrastructure assets, energy assets, distressed debt, and real estate.  Ms. Gold also frequently represents clients investing in, and co-investing with, private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investment vehicles. 

Nathaniel Asker

Antitrust Partner. Mr. Asker is an antitrust and competition partner.  His practice focuses on antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures and represents clients before the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. He has advised clients in a range of industries, including technology and software, aerospace and defense, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, energy, and financial services, among others.

Nathaniel Lifschitz

Mr. Lifschitz counsels financial institutions, owners, developers, REITs, and domestic and offshore investors in a broad range of highly-complex commercial real estate transactions, including representing both borrowers and lenders in connection with mortgage, mezzanine, and construction financings, preferred equity investments, and portfolio loans. He also represents clients in acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures relating to the development of commercial and residential properties. His diverse list of clients includes RXR Realty, Brookfield, The Blackstone Group, JPMorgan Chase, Strategic Hotels and Starwood Property Trust.

Nicholas Williams

Nicholas Williams is a real estate associate in Fried Frank’s New York office. Mr. Williams represents property owners, developers and lenders in connection with New York City land use, zoning, and development matters, including rezonings, special permits, variances, air right transactions, and zoning diligence in connection with acquisitions and financings.

Peter Simmons

Mr. Simmons is a litigation partner with 30 years of experience handling a wide array of complex commercial, financial and securities disputes at both the trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration. He represents financial institutions, corporations and directors in major nationwide class actions and multidistrict litigations; in disputes over corporate governance and fiduciary duties; and in numerous cases arising from public and private M&A transactions and corporate investments. His cases include disputes over accounting fraud, pay-to-play practices, corporate disclosures and omissions, and conflicts of interest.

Philip Richter

Partner

Rachel Perez

Rachel Perez is a special counsel and focuses on representing investment fund managers and sponsors in connection with the formation and negotiation of illiquid private funds, with a focus on private equity, infrastructure funds, secondaries, funds-of-funds and related co-investments and separately managed accounts. She has extensive experience advising clients on drafting private placement memoranda, subscription documents, side letters, partnership agreements, advisory and ancillary service-related agreements, management/profit-sharing documents, executive compensation agreements and other governing documents. Ms. Perez also advises clients on regulatory and compliance issues including matters involving the SEC, Volcker Rule, Bank Holding Company Act, FATCA, AIFMD and Custody Act.

Rami Turayhi

Rami Turayhi is a corporate partner, resident in the Firm’s New York office. He focuses his practice on asset management, representing fund managers in the structuring, formation and operation of private equity funds, including buyout funds, real estate funds, energy and infrastructure funds, family office vehicles, and co-investment funds, as well as hedge funds and managed accounts. Mr. Turayhi advises on securities law matters such as registration and compliance under Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He also has broad experience dealing with ESG and impact and sustainability matters. Mr. Turayhi regularly represents social impact funds and small businesses in a pro bono capacity, and previously was an Attorney Volunteer at the DC Bar Pro Bono Center from 2011 through 2021.

Randi Lally

Ms. Lally has significant experience in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions, having represented private equity firms and public and private companies in mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, carve-out transactions, recapitalizations, and other corporate and governance matters. She also regularly advises the Firm's investment management clients on acquisitions and dispositions of interests in hedge fund and private equity fund managers and frequently counsels industry leading public and private companies as well as private equity firms and their portfolio companies. She regularly advises clients such as AEA Investors, Dyal Capital Partners, Genesys, Goldman Sachs, Permira Advisers, among others.

Rebecca Neuschatz Zelenka

Ms. Zelenka is a corporate partner, resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. Her practice focuses on asset management work, concentrating on the structuring and offering of private equity funds and other alternative investment structures. She advises on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing operations of funds and their managers. Ms. Zelenka's broad range of fund experience includes private equity/buyout, credit (including direct lending, mezzanine and others), real estate, special situations, infrastructure, regional-focused,‎ life sciences, funds-of-funds (primary, secondary, and industry-focused), employee and others. In addition, she advises clients on fund and manager-related matters such as employee incentive arrangements, stake investments; spin-out transactions; fund restructurings and reorganizations; GP-led secondaries; placement agent arrangements; and regulatory matters.

Richard Ansbacher

Richard Ansbacher is a corporate partner resident in Washington, DC. Mr. Ansbacher has spent over 25 years on the formation and structuring of international and domestic investments and advising clients with regard to other aspects of asset management. He has extensive experience in global private equity funds, and has represented fund sponsors regarding regulatory compliance, tax structuring, employee compensation and general corporate matters. Mr. Ansbacher has also represented sponsors of and cornerstone investors in the formation of hedge funds, real estate funds, various types of "hybrid" funds, funds-of-funds and investment management companies. Mr. Ansbacher regularly works on various fund products, fund investments and fund-related transactions for Permira, Neuberger Berman, (including Dyal, Almanac and the Private Credit Groups), BlackRock, Goldman Sachs (including as placement agent for third-party funds), Point72, BentallGreenOak, Orangewood, and SquareMile.

Robert Schwenkel

Partner, global head of M&A and private equity practice. Diverse transactional practice focused on private equity and M&A. Clients include Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Permira Advisors LLP; KKR; RedBird Capital Partners; Appaloosa Management LP; and Citadel Investment Group. Also represents various infrastructure funds, private equity portfolio companies and private equity sponsors in "club" transactions.

Robert McLaughlin

Mr. McLaughlin is a corporate partner and head of the Firm’s Derivatives Practice. He is a leading practitioner in derivative transactions of all types, including futures, over-the-counter derivatives and cleared swaps, as well as related collateral, guarantee, custody and other credit support arrangements. He also maintains a leading practice in repurchase, securities lending and prime brokerage and other types of trading agreements, as well as structured products, synthetic equity and fund-linked investments, credit extensions, loan trading and derivatives claim trading. His clients include hedge funds, private equity funds, investment management firms, investment and commercial banks, mutual funds, individual investors, corporations and government-sponsored entities. Mr. McLaughlin regularly advises market participants on legislative and regulatory developments concerning futures, derivatives, cleared swaps, bankruptcy and insolvency safe harbors, and market structure and facilities.

Robin Henry

Robin Henry is a litigation partner resident in the New York office. Her practice emphasizes complex commercial and financial disputes. She has represented many of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions and businesses in their most difficult and high stakes matters, both in the United States and abroad. Ms. Henry's experience runs the gamut; she is an experienced and effective advocate for plaintiffs and defendants both inside and outside the courtroom. She has successfully represented clients in a broad range of matters involving a wide range of financial products, including mortgage-backed securities, CLOs, CDOs, currency and credit default swaps, asset-backed commercial paper and financial insurance on structured products. Ms. Henry has handled insurance coverage disputes, material adverse change and business interruption cases, claims of fraudulent conveyance, common law and securities fraud claims, claims of attorney and auditor malpractice, claims of tax fraud and improper tax treatment, and claims brought under the RICO statute. She also regularly conducts internal investigations and handles matters before regulatory bodies.

Russel Perkins

Russel G. Perkins is a partner in the Corporate Department and Asset Management Practice, resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Perkins’ practice is focused on a wide variety of fund formation, governance and compliance issues relating to private credit funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, funds of funds, secondaries funds and other private funds. He has extensive experience representing fund sponsors, asset managers and institutional investors in all stages of private funds, including managed accounts and other investment vehicles, both domestically and internationally. Additionally, he counsels clients in connection with venture capital and M&A transactions, with a particular focus on investment manager seed, joint venture and spinout transactions. Mr. Perkins also regularly advises on issues relating to the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act and ERISA. Mr. Perkins has devoted a significant amount of time to pro bono work, including social impact funds and the Innocence Project.

Scott Luftglass

Mr. Luftglass is a litigation partner and focuses on representing corporations, boards of directors, special committees, financial advisors, senior management, and private equity funds in connection with corporate governance matters, significant corporate transactions, hostile and friendly takeovers, shareholder and derivative litigation, and crisis management.  Mr. Luftglass also represents clients in complex civil litigation, internal investigations, and regulatory matters.

Shane Hoffmann

Tax partner. Mr. Hoffmann focuses on federal income taxation, with particular emphasis on the structuring and negotiation of taxable and tax-free corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, spinoffs, and dispositions of ongoing business enterprises.

Stephen Juris

Mr. Juris has extensive experience litigating complex commercial disputes and representing corporate and individual clients in connection with government investigations and regulatory enforcement matters. Mr. Juris has represented clients in sophisticated commercial and appellate litigation in state and federal courts, and has also conducted internal investigations across a diverse range of industries.

Steve Epstein

Mr. Epstein is a partner in the corporate department and co-head of the Firm's mergers & acquisitions practice. His diverse transactional practice includes representing both public and private companies, investment banking firms and financial sponsors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and corporate governance matters. Mr. Epstein also has extensive experience working with corporate boards and has been recognized by NACD as both a Corporate Governance Fellow and a member of their Directorship 100.

Steven Witzel

Global Head of White Collar Defense, Regulatory Enforcement & Investigations Practice. Represents public companies, audit committees, private equity firms and senior executives in criminal and regulatory investigations, and parallel civil litigation. Practice includes investigations into allegations of domestic and international accounting frauds, antitrust conspiracies, financial crimes and FCPA violations.

Steven Steinman

Mr. Steinman is a partner and co-head of Fried Frank's private equity transactions group. Mr. Steinman has a diverse transactional corporate practice concentrating in private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Stuart Barr

Mr. Barr is a corporate partner in the Capital Markets Practice and head of the Firm's REIT Practice. Mr. Barr has led many of the largest and most complex REIT capital markets and M&A transactions. He has advised on three of the five largest REIT IPOs and has led multi-billion public mergers and going-private transactions. He also regularly advises corporate clients on general corporate matters, including corporate governance, SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley matters, and investment banking clients on securities-law matters. Clients rely on Mr. Barr to lead highly complex transactions and develop transaction structures to address complicated or novel situations and to help negotiate large multifaceted transactions. Within the REIT industry, Mr. Barr has substantial experience with various asset classes, including owners and operators of hotels, office buildings, data centers, multifamily properties, triple-net lease, and self-storage companies. In addition, Mr. Barr has advised on offerings involving companies from a variety of industry sectors.

Valerie Kelly

Valerie Kelly, a real estate partner, represents prominent private and public commercial real estate investors and developers, office and retail tenants, investment funds, banks and other financial institutions in a broad range of real estate transactions. She advises her clients on all aspects of commercial real estate with a particular emphasis on large commercial leases for both landlords and tenants. Ms. Kelly also has worked extensively on acquisitions and dispositions of office buildings, apartment complexes and hotels, as well as joint ventures and real estate lending.

Walid Khuri

Mr. Khuri is a corporate partner, resident in Washington, DC. His practice focuses primarily on fund-related work, including the structuring and offering of hedge funds, funds-of-funds, and other alternative investment products. He also regularly advises hedge funds and other clients on trading and operational issues, including advice regarding swaps and other derivative products.

Wesley O'Brien

Wesley O'Brien

Mr. O'Brien regularly advises leading real estate owners and developers as well as major institutions such as hospitals, non-profits, and cultural institutions in connection with the zoning, land use, and environmental matters for transformative development projects in New York City. He also regularly advises financial institutions in the zoning diligence for large-scale real estate project loans.

William Breslin

Mr. Breslin is a corporate partner in the Firm's Asset Management Group. His practice concentrates on derivatives, futures and commodities. Mr. Breslin advises a wide range of clients, including hedge fund managers, private equity managers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, futures commission merchants, commercial end-users, and other businesses on regulatory and transactional issues related to derivatives, commodities and securities law matters. He also assists clients on their compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, the applicable requirements of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Futures Association and the rules and regulations of various clearinghouses and exchanges. He also specializes in negotiating and documenting over-the-counter and exchange traded and cleared derivatives.

Zachary Bernstein

Zachary Bernstein, a real estate partner, specializes in land use practice. He represents a range of clients including private developers, not-for-profits and religious organizations. His experience includes transactions for the purchase and sale of development rights, analysis of development potential and applications with governmental agencies including the New York City Planning Commission, the Board of Standards and Appeals, the Department of Buildings and the Landmarks Preservation Commission. His clients include SL Green Realty Corp., Boston Properties, Vornado Realty Trust, Trinity Church, Hines, Rockefeller Group, Rockrose, Google, and Oxford Properties Group.