![Greenberg Traurig, LLP Law Firm](https://www.natlawreview.com/sites/default/files/styles/organization_logo/public/organization/%5Buid%5D/GTLogo_Black.jpg?itok=cjYQO9p6)
www.gtlaw.com
Phone: 212-801-9200
Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2750 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 6.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: www.gtlaw.com.
Filter author profiles alphabetically by searching with the first letter of an author's last name or by their full name.
She has advised a wide variety of national and foreign clients principally in labor…
Katie Albanese is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New York office. She is a registered patent agent. Katie focuses her practice on…
Rosemarie Aleman is an associate in the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Miami office. She advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and private offerings.…
Brittany E. Allison focuses her practice on health care and private equity transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other affiliations. She has wide-ranging…
Derek’s oil and gas practice experience covers both domestic and international…
Elliot Anderson is a member of the Appeals & Legal Issues and Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Las Vegas office. He has been involved with cases in many areas of law,…
Lee Ann…
Peter J. Andrews focuses his practice on local government and litigation matters. He is experienced in advising both the legislative and executive sides of local government on various…
Mari Arakawa focuses her practice on finance, financial regulatory, general corporate and gaming regulations.
Prior to join Greenberg Traurig’s Tokyo Law Office, she was a legal apprentice…
Douglas E. Arend focuses his practice on commodity futures, derivatives and securities, with an emphasis on managed funds. He represents registered and exempt investment advisers,…
Peter A. Arhangelsky provides a broad range of businesses with guidance through regulatory and litigation issues at virtually every stage. Many of his clients are FDA-regulated entities.…
Concentrations
Environmental Compliance
Renewable Energy Projects
Carol Barnhart is a corporate attorney and Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig's Miami office who focuses her practice on mergers, acquisitions, and other complex, strategic negotiated deals…
Josiah Beamish is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Denver office.
Capabilities
Litigation
She advises sponsors and…
Within the technology…
Charlie Berk is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New York office.
Capabilities
Litigation
Laura Bottaro Galier handles a wide range of commercial real estate and general corporate transactions, including drafting and negotiating leases, structuring acquisitions and dispositions…
Prior to joining the firm, Caroline was counsel…
Matthew Bromberg is a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group and Financial, Regulatory and Compliance Practice. Matt advises global investment advisers, banks, broker-dealers,…
Miranda R. Carnes focuses her practice on navigating cross-border disputes and compliance, including international litigation and arbitration, International Trade regulation, and public…
Angeles Garcia Cassin focuses her practice on commercial litigation and labor and employment matters. In her preventative employment practice, she advises clients and defends against…
Brett A. Castellat represents government contractors on requests for equitable adjustments and in bid protests. He drafts protests before the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the…
Rubén Ortiz focuses his practice on environmental, energy, regulatory and real state matters.
Rubén has assisted national and foreign clients on matters related to waste management,…
Education
J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law, 2009
Technical…
Areas of Concentration…
Rachel Cohen-Deaño focuses her practice on forming private equity, distressed debt, venture capital and special strategy investment funds, and structuring and negotiating complex corporate…
Brooke Condran focuses her practice on a broad range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, new entity formation and early stage company representation, SEC…
Steven Cowins focuses his practice on private equity and fund formation with a concentration in the real estate sector. He regularly advises clients in establishing real estate funds and…
Chris Cruz is an experienced employment law litigator and counselor who focuses on representing employers in a wide range of complex, single plaintiff and multiparty matters involving wage…
Ellen de Jong - Van den Bogaard represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, and advises on a variety of corporate matters. Ellen has more than 15 years of experience in the legal…
Samantha De Souza concentrates her practice on all types of finance, including general syndicated lending, project finance and leveraged finance. Samantha has acted for a wide range of…
Nicholas “Nick” Diamond focuses his practice on federal and international legal matters within the food, health care, life sciences, medical device, and technology sectors. He helps…
Wendy J. Dickieson is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New York office.
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 2011
B.S., Boston University, 2008
Admitted to…
Merlow Dunham is a member of the Health Care Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Denver office. She has experience working on various legal issues related to health care mergers and…
Hayley Easton focuses her practice on environmental litigation matters. She counsels clients in the natural gas, petroleum, mining, development, underground storage tank, and…
Ben Eaton focuses his practice on the tax aspects of real estate transactions and investment funds. He has deep experience advising on the tax aspects of real estate investment, financing…
She has assisted a wide variety of clients, domestic and international,…
Christoph advises on commercial and regulatory aspects of…
He is consistently recognized as a leader in the legal profession by both business and…
Jack T. LeBris Erffmeyer is a member of the Energy & Natural Resources Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Washington, D.C. office. As a former Assistant Attorney General for the Public…
Nancy Guillén focuses her practice on global energy, including oil and gas, administrative, and environmental law. She advises international companies dedicated to upstream activities,…
Hayde Piraja Faria is an associate in the Immigration & Compliance Group. She advises clients on a variety of employment-based immigration matters, including non-immigrant and…
After completing his academic path, Abram joined Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate Department in November 2021, focusing on Corporate Law, M&A and Bankruptcy Law. He regularly supports the…
Robert J. Finan concentrates his practice on transactional entertainment law. He regularly advises and counsels high-profile multi-platinum recording artists, record producers, personal…
Michael B. Fisco is Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig’s Minneapolis office. Michael has been involved in some of the most complex bankruptcy and reorganization cases in the country…
Thomas Quinn Ford is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Chicago office.
Capabilities
Litigation
Experience
Internship
Judicial Extern, Honorable Jorge L.…
James C. Fraser, a former Associate Chief Counsel for Litigation at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has more than 16 years of experience in life sciences litigation, including FDA…
Edoardo Gambaro focuses his practice on Italian and European antitrust law. He represents Italian and foreign companies in proceedings before the European Commission in the application of…
On the competition side, Mr. Frías has represented clients…
Beth draws upon her deep government experience having previously served in…
Legal Practice Course (LPC), University of Law - London Bloomsbury, 2013
LLB (Hons), University of…
James Gillenwater has represented clients such as Fortune 500 companies, world leaders, and Olympians in high-stakes international disputes, including trials, arbitrations, and complex…
Concentrations
Mergers…
Sean A. Gordon focuses his practice on bankruptcy, commercial loan workouts, creditors’ rights and commercial litigation. He represents lenders, creditors’ committees, trustees,…
Wade Haaland, Ph.D. is a registered patent attorney and focuses his practice on protecting and leveraging the innovative concepts developed by his clients in the life sciences industry. He…
Keith Hammeran is an associate in the litigation practice in Greenberg Traurig’s New York office. Before joining the firm, Keith clerked for Justice Marcy S. Friedman of the Supreme Court…
Douglas W. Hathaway is a member of the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Chicago office.
Somer has assisted in representing hospitals, physicians,…
a broad range of complex environment…
Kady Hircock focuses her practice on real estate finance, acting for bank and non-bank lenders and borrowers. Kady has experience with a broad range of real estate assets, having practiced…
Bethany Histed focuses her practice on commercial litigation, civil fraud, and complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. She has worked on complex contentious cases of significant value…
Alison “Ali” T. Holdway is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Boston office. She represents clients in all phases of litigation, from early-stage investigations…
Caleb…
He advises…
Randi assists clients with…
The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded.
Greenberg Traurig’s Immigration & Compliance Practice represents businesses, organizations, and individuals from…
Sayaka Ishimoto focuses her practice on general corporate, intellectual property, real estate, gaming regulation, and capital market matters.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, she worked…
Ian Jack advises on a broad range of banking and finance transactions, including project finance, acquisitions finance and property financings, and restructurings. Ian has been recognized…
representing borrowers and lenders in domestic and cross-border bank financings, including acquisition, real estate, DIP and LOC facilities…
Ed describes his practice as helping to improve the lives of busy…
Tina has experience…
Jairo…
Martye Kendrick is a highly accomplished attorney, with deep experience in handling matters relating to tax-exempt bond financings, commercial real estate transactions, structured finance…
Alex has wide-ranging experience in prosecuting patent applications in…
Richard C. Kim focuses his practice on representing private equity sponsors, public and private borrowers, lead arrangers and lenders in connection with syndicated and bilateral loan…
Margaret focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions across a range of industries and…
Christopher has diverse and deep experience at the intersection of legal,…
Concentrations
Mergers and…
Alette Kroese is a prospective civil law notary and focuses her practice on general corporate and securities law, including cross-border mergers, incorporation of private and public…
Vanessa C. Krumbein focuses her practice on counseling employers, in-house counsel, and human resource professionals on a wide range of workplace issues, including employee performance and…
Michele A. Kulerman is a corporate attorney with wide-ranging law firm, in-house and government legal experience. Michele primarily advises clients and provides guidance on the legal and…
Concentrations
Real estate transactions, including…
She advises national and international clients, dealing with M&A transactions.
She has significant experience in corporate…
Steve Lazar focuses his practice on litigation related to claims arising out of federal consumer protection statutes, including the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Truth in Lending…
He advises and…
Noel began…
Her experience includes tax consultancy for individuals in the field of personal income tax and the Polish social security system.
Capabilities
Corporate
Credentials
Admissions
Passed national PRC judicial qualification examination
David represents and counsels clients in a range of complex transactional real estate matters including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leasing, development projects, and joint…
When the stakes are high, Greenberg Traurig is the firm you need. Greenberg Traurig's Litigation Practice has handled some of the most complex litigation in challenging…
Professional & Community Involvement…
Andrea C. Maciejewski advises clients on compliance with local and international data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, CAN-SPAM , TCPA, and state biometric laws. She…
Obi advises companies on a…
Al has been practicing environmental, land use and administrative law in Florida since 1980. He has represented Fortune 500 companies, developers, home builders, small businesses, and…
Justin E. Mann focuses his practice on corporate matters, with an emphasis on transactions involving Delaware corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships. He…
Concentrations
Transactional tax practice…
Nicholas Martin is a registered patent attorney and is actively involved in virtually all aspects of intellectual property counseling. Nick has spent over 18 years procuring, litigating…
Masatoshi Maruoka focuses his practice on real estate, general corporate, litigation. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, he worked at a domestic law firm where he engaged in general…
Yalexa Matos focuses her practice on employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant visas, including H1-B, L-1, TN, and R-1 visas. She represents clients on PERM applications, family-…
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, he worked at a…
Clients bring their most serious government enforcement problems to Carolyn McNiven because she is a strong client advocate, whether the matter is criminal, civil or both. Carolyn’s…
Peter Mezey is a member of the Land Use Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New York office.
Norman R. Miller advises public and private companies and funds on a broad range of corporate and securities matters. He focuses his practice on capital raises, including IPOs,…
Tayanah (“Tay”) Miller represents corporate clients in a variety of labor and employment matters, including complex wage and hour collective and class actions, traditional labor matters,…
An…
Pietro focuses his practice on European Union law and competition law, covering litigation on state aid, antitrust, and merger control before the European Commission and the Italian…
Kyle Montour focuses his practice on American Indian law related to advising clients on governmental, transactional, and business matters, including tribal code drafting, entity formation…
Samuel L. Moultrie focuses his practice on complex litigation involving corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, books and records demands, and securities law in Delaware state and…
Danielle K. Muenzfeld focuses her practice on government contracts litigation and counseling. Danielle advises on a broad spectrum of government procurement issues including bid protests,…
Credentials
Education
LPC, University of Law, 2020
LL.M., University of Law, 2020
Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL…
Caterina…
Samuel is a Shareholder in the firm's corporate law practice. Samuel advises corporates, financial institutions and private capital players on virtually all aspects of M&A and…
Ben Nipper is a member of the Health Care & FDA Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Houston office. Ben focuses his practice on telehealth and fraud and abuse. He also has experience…
Macy Nix focuses her practice on corporate and transactional matters. She has experience representing private and public companies in a variety of corporate transactions, including mergers…
Blakeley Oranburg focuses her practice on complex litigation matters. She handles virtually every phase of litigation, including research, drafting and argument of substantive and…
Daniel E. Parga is an associate in the International Trade and the International Arbitration & Litigation groups. Daniel focuses his practice on many aspects of international trade and…
Langley Perry focuses his practice on federal and state regulatory compliance and state…
Richard has wide-ranging experience in tax planning for real…
Significant Representations
Advised Amaya Gaming Group…
Prior to joining…
In the administrative context, Michael has…
Katie is an Assistant Director in the Government Law and Policy Practice of Greenberg Traurig’s Washington, D.C. office. She represents clients before the House and Senate on issues…
Gustavo Ribeiro is an associate in the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Boston office. Prior to joining the firm, Gustavo served as a law clerk for the Honorable William G. Young…
Tom Richardson focuses his practice on aviation finance and general corporate matters. Tom represents owners, operators, manufacturers, captive lenders, hard money lenders, private equity…
Jennifer Riso is a member of the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on domestic and international corporate and securities matters.…
Mike…
He is…
Prior to joining the firm, Brenda served as a trial attorney at the National Labor Relations Board, Region 32, in the…
Concentrations
Negotiation of…
Education
J.D., cum laude, University of Florida Levin College…
Concentrations
Advising clients on antitrust pre-merger notification…
He advises national and international companies on IP-related transactional matters,…
Steven C. Russo chairs the firm’s New York Environmental Practice. He focuses his practice on environmental law and litigation, environmental permitting, National Environmental Policy Act…
Jonathan S. Sack focuses his practice on a wide-range of labor & employment law issues, including traditional labor, employee discipline and terminations, workplace investigations,…
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, she worked in a prominent law firm in…
Guillermo Sánchez Chao focuses his practice on international trade, customs, supply chain, regulatory, and administrative litigation. Guillermo counsels domestic and multinational…
Hector D. Sanchez Fernandez focuses his practice on general corporate and securities, compliance, and global energy and infrastructure matters, including energy and natural…
Joshua R. Sanderlin serves in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as an associate in the Litigation and the Government Law & Policy practice groups. He advocates for…
Andrew W. Scher has wide-ranging experience advising clients on large and complex corporate transactions. He has primarily counseled companies in the electric and gas industries, leading…
Concentrations
General (cross-border) bank and…
Concentrations
Group reorganizations
International tax structuring…
Sarah Seedig focuses her practice on a broad range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, regulatory licensing, SEC and state…
Based in the firm’s Houston office, J. Scott Sheehan is a business lawyer with a national practice in banking and financial institutions, money service businesses, as well as…
Ji min (Peter) Shin has wide-ranging business immigration experience. He prepares non-immigrant visa petitions for H-1B, O-1A, O-1B, E-2, L-1A, L-1B, TN, E-3 as well as immigrant visa…
Priya Singh is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s San Francisco office.
Ruben Sislyan focuses his practice on California state and local tax controversies at the audit, administrative, and judicial levels. He has broad experience representing Fortune 500 and…
Rafał Siwek focuses his practice on real estate. He advises international investors on real estate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of commercial properties (shopping…
Marc Snell advises fund managers, investors, financial institutions and family offices on fundraisings and investment management, with a particular focus on the real assets sector. Marc…
Julia Sorrentino concentrates her practice on international trade regulation with a focus on compliance with U.S. export controls and economic sanctions. Julia works with …
Greg Sperla represents businesses and trade associations with regulatory compliance, litigation, and government affairs. He regularly represents national consumer product…
Oscar’s practice…
Mona Mehta Stone represents both public and private entities and nonprofits throughout the country, ranging from small businesses to multibillion-dollar companies. Serving as…
William Stroever is of counsel in the firm's Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. William has extensive experience in trademark and brand development and…
Gregory T. Sturges has 10 years’ experience in commercial and mass tort litigation representing industrial companies, financial institutions, tech companies, education companies, and…
Tim Swickard focuses his practice on federal and state environmental regulatory compliance and litigation, real estate development, land use entitlement, environmental compliance,…
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, he…
Karoline was seconded to the…
Linda Thonen focuses her practice on corporate law, corporate governance, and related notarial law. She handles matters related to international acquisition structures, joint ventures,…
Matt counsels clients on a range of natural resources and environmental matters,…
Jennifer Tomsen focuses on litigation, including commercial and securities litigation in state and federal courts and securities arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory…
For more than 20 years, Loretta has worked in the arena of federal Indian law…
Stephen C. Tupper focuses his practice on EU and competition law. He has been practising law for more than 30 years, including working in New York, Washington, D.C. and in…
Christopher T. Turek is a member of Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate Practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on general and transaction matters.
Concentrations…
Gergana Tzekova represents multinational corporations on corporate U.S. immigration matters providing insight on the overarching immigration process, including nonimmigrant visas,…
Prior to joining the firm, she worked for a law firm in London assisting Japanese…
Thomas van der Vliet is a Co-Managing Shareholder of the Amsterdam office. As attorney-at-law, he focuses his practice on international tax structuring related to domestic and cross-border…
He has advised a…
Concentrations
Tax…
His practice is mainly focused on…
Ryan A. Wagner focuses his practice on Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations, restructurings, workouts, distressed M&A, corporate and energy reorganizations and liquidations,…
Concentrations
International tax planning structures…
Mian R. Wang focuses her practice on commercial litigation matters. She represents public and private corporations, financial institutions, and individuals before state and federal courts…
Mian R. Wang focuses her practice on commercial litigation matters. She represents public and private corporations, financial institutions, and individuals before state and federal courts…
St. John's
University
School of Law in New York. Prior to joining the St. John's …
Emily M. Wassermann is a member of the Corporate Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Miami office.
Capabilities
Corporate
Latin America Practice
Labry Welty focuses his practice on real estate, oil and gas, and corporate joint ventures and transactions. He regularly structures and negotiates complex joint ventures throughout the…
Draeke Weseman counsels clients on the strategic development, maintenance, and enforcement of trademark rights. He works with brands to pursue their legal and business objectives by…
Matt has counseled fintech and payment…
Rachel Whittaker is a commercial real estate lawyer with deep experience on a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including acting for institutional landlords on major lettings,…
Jonathan Widjaja is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's Los Angeles office.
…
Eric frequently advises…
The National Law Review names Greenberg Traurig, LLP a Go-To Thought Leader in the field of immigration law for their ongoing coverage of the latest EB-5 classification news and updates. In 2022, Greenberg Traurig authors have written on topics such as Congress’ EB-5 reform, the EB-5 regional center extension, and the EB-5 adjudication process. Regular contributors include (but are not limited to): Kate Kalmykov, Jennifer Hermansky, Dillon R. Colucci, Laura Foote Reiff, and others.
The National Law Review recognizes Greenberg Traurig, LLP as a Go-To Thought Leader for their coverage and analysis of Anti-Money Laundering Legislation. Of special note is the firm's articles on the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, which resulted in significant changes to the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. Contributing authors include Claudio J. Arruda, Carl A. Fornaris, Kyle R. Freeny, Benjamin G. Greenberg, Marina Olman-Pal and Kevin P. Ray.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has been selected for a 2018 NLR Go-To Thought Leadership Award for their coverage of Business Immigration changes, and Immigration law in general. With the current tumultuous landscape and immigration issues being top of mind for many, Greenberg Traurig's attorney-authors provide the information NLR Readers want, and in a timely manner, ensuring their articles are well-read and frequently cited by other publications.