backNEW YORK, December 10, 2024 – King & Spalding has promoted 37 lawyers to partner and five to counsel, the firm announced today. The promotions represent the largest group of partners promoted in the firm’s history and span 14 cities (Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.).
“This talented pool of new partners and counsel embodies the focus on organic talent development, legal excellence, client service and collaboration that is at the heart of our firm culture and our commitment to our clients around the globe,” said Robert D. Hays Jr., chairman of King & Spalding.
The following lawyers will be partners effective January 1, 2025:
- Brian Barnes (Atlanta) focuses on complex commercial litigation, including contract disputes, business torts, and securities and shareholder matters.
- Lohr Beck (Atlanta) focuses on high-stakes business disputes with an emphasis on antitrust and consumer protection matters. She represents clients in relation to high exposure civil litigation (including class actions and multi-district litigation) and government investigations, and counsels clients in relation to antitrust and consumer protection issues.
- Abby Boxer (New York) concentrates her practice in debt finance. She represents investment and commercial banks, private credit funds and private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in a wide range of complex large-cap and middle-market debt finance transactions.
- Tyler Brown (Atlanta) counsels energy clients on regulations impacting the pipeline, oil and gas and electric power industries, as well as commercial matters in the upstream and midstream sectors. Prior to joining the firm, he held in-house counsel positions with natural gas pipeline, oil and gas, and oil pipeline companies.
- Christine Carletta (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the Appellate, Constitutional and Administrative Law team focusing on helping clients navigate complex constitutional and administrative law matters in the financial, life sciences, and healthcare fields. Carletta’s practice extends through all phases of litigation, from pre-trial counselling and strategy through all appeals.
- Almiro Clere (Abu Dhabi) advises on the development of major projects in the infrastructure and energy sectors, with a focus on gigaprojects, renewables and green energy projects.
- Sunandini Das (Dubai) is a cross-border transactional practitioner and focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and growth equity transactions that involve multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., India, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Her practice spans sectors including technology, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing and financial services.
- Brian Donovan (New York) litigates complex commercial disputes principally on behalf of financial institutions and insurers. He has worked extensively on both the plaintiff and defense side in state and federal court, with a focus on antitrust, market manipulation, RICO litigation, class actions and general contractual disputes.
- Luke Fields (Washington, D.C.) focuses his practice on white-collar criminal litigation, government investigations, complex civil litigation, corporate internal investigations and compliance counselling. He has experience defending companies and individuals in investigations, enforcement actions and related administrative matters conducted by the federal and state governments of the United States.
- Daniel Fowler (Atlanta) is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Funds practice. He represents private equity clients in the formation and capitalization of pooled investment vehicles and merger and acquisition activity, including platform acquisitions and bolt-on acquisitions.
- Ariana Fuller (Los Angeles) is a trial lawyer, handling managed care litigation and consumer class action defense on behalf of hospitals and health systems. Her litigation experience includes contract disputes, commercial torts, unfair business practices litigation and complex quantum meruit disputes.
- Carter George (Los Angeles) represents Fortune 100 and other entities in a wide range of complex litigation, including commercial disputes, toxic tort, automotive, and other product liability and tort cases in state and federal courts across the country.
- Serena Granger (New York) represents banks, private credit providers and other market participants in large cap and middle market finance transactions across the capital structure, including acquisition financings, recurring revenue loans, unitranche and multitranche credit facilities, and other debt issuances in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, restructurings and structured credit transactions.
- Brian Hill (Washington, D.C.) handles unfair competition and IP disputes related to imported goods, with an emphasis on Section 337 investigations in front of the International Trade Commission.
- Gregg Jacobson (Atlanta) drafts and negotiates large, complex construction agreements for global owners and developers. His practice focuses on energy facilities (such as oil and gas, hydrogen, battery storage and renewable natural gas facilities), real estate developments and commercial projects, such as manufacturing facilities and hyperscale data centers.
- Alexander Kazam (Washington, D.C.) focuses on appeals, major motions and strategic counseling, especially in matters involving high-stakes issues of constitutional law and administrative law.
- Bailey Langner (San Francisco) is an experienced litigator who defends companies across industries – tech companies, energy sector clients and product manufacturers – facing product liability and personal injury claims. She litigates in federal and state court, predominantly in California, and has substantial experience with federal multi-district litigation and coordinated state proceedings.
- Dounia Mansour (Dubai) focuses on issues related to the structuring, establishment and distribution of investment fund vehicles domiciled in the Middle East or raising capital from Middle Eastern investors across asset classes, including debt funds, private equity funds and real estate funds, as well as funds-of-funds, master-feeder and Shariah-compliant structures.
- Simon Maynard (London) focuses his practice on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, as well as arbitration-related litigation before the English courts, in disputes concerning upstream oil and gas, renewables and the energy transition, mining, aerospace and defense, and financial services.
- Jessica Mendoza (Miami) represents financial institutions, project sponsors, developers and corporate borrowers on lending transactions in Latin America and the United States, including project and corporate finance transactions. She advises clients on all aspects related to the development and financing of projects in the infrastructure, energy and hospitality sectors.
- Agnieszka Opalach (Paris) focuses mainly on M&A and private equity, advising private equity funds and domestic and foreign companies on private and public corporate transactions in various sectors, including healthcare, new technologies, energy and consumer products. She also counsels venture capital funds and start-ups at various stages from incubation to exits.
- Patrick Price (Austin) is a trial lawyer who has represented clients in tobacco, consumer products and other industries in high stakes litigation in the most hostile jurisdictions across the country.
- Sarah Primrose (Atlanta/Miami) represents corporate debtors, institutional banks, private credit funds and other parties in interest in a broad range of matters involving special situations and restructurings ─ including high-profile chapter 11 cases, out-of-court transactions such as liability management exercises, and distressed M&A.
- Luke Roniger (Austin) is a commercial litigator. He has significant experience in complex, commercial litigation in the areas of infrastructure and energy project disputes, fintech, cryptocurrency, securities and data privacy/cyber security. He has experience in international and domestic arbitral venues, as well as state and federal courts across the country.
- Jeff Rosenberg (Washington, D.C.) is a trial litigator whose practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, with emphasis on securities, shareholder and Delaware litigation. He defends a broad spectrum of commercial litigation and has extensive experience representing companies and their officers and directors in shareholder disputes.
- Heather Saul (Atlanta) focuses on government investigations and enforcement actions, as well as crisis management for clients across industries. She also defends executives and companies in white-collar criminal defense matters, including qui tam litigation and other litigation under a variety of statutes.
- Sayf Shuqair (Dubai) advises regional and global clients on various asset management and investment structuring matters. Shuqair guides clients on the structuring, formation and governance of several types of public and private, listed and unlisted investment funds, including private equity, real estate, venture capital, equity and money market investment funds.
- David Stone (Washington, D.C.) represents domestic and multi-national private equity funds, institutional investors and public and private companies with their commercial real estate equity investments, debt transactions and development projects across a broad spectrum of commercial real estate asset classes throughout the U.S. and in the Middle East.
- Oliver Swerdlow (London) represents investment managers, corporates, family offices, banks and alternative lenders on real estate acquisitions and disposals, real estate joint ventures, property developments, lettings and real estate financings.
- Daniel Tsarevsky (New York) represents private equity and strategic sponsors, developers and financial institutions in energy and infrastructure construction and acquisition finance transactions. He has been involved in financing utility-scale wind and solar projects and platforms, innovative energy transition projects, natural gas-fired power plants and oil and gas assets.
- Ted Tuerk (Chicago) represents banks, credit funds, insurance companies, asset managers, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors in leveraged cash flow financings, acquisition financings, asset-based lending transactions, mezzanine and second lien financings, private placement financings and loan workouts and restructurings across a diverse range of industries.
- James Unger (Los Angeles) is a business trial lawyer whose practice focuses on complex litigation including commercial disputes, consumer class actions and high-stakes employment matters. Unger has particular expertise in shareholder disputes, intellectual property litigation, worker misclassification claims and allegations of wrongful termination by senior executives.
- Kaleb Walker (Dallas/Houston) advises owners and developers on their construction projects throughout the U.S. and the world, including both traditional energy projects and energy transition projects, many of which are “first-of-a-kind.” His practice spans the entire energy sector, including LNG, petrochemicals, refineries, conventional power, nuclear power, renewable fuels and others.
- Paul Weeks (Washington, D.C.) focuses on complex civil litigation. He has extensive experience representing clients on both the plaintiff and defense side from industries that include financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and agribusiness. Weeks’ cases have involved contract, antitrust, mass tort, securities and consumer protection claims.
- Jonathan Weinberg (Washington, D.C.) is a trial and appellate litigator specializing in patent and other technology-related matters. He has handled patent, trade secret and copyright cases involving many areas of computer technology, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, operating systems, computer networking, database technology, mobile devices and others.
- William Westbrook (Atlanta) represents private credit funds, banks and other financial institutions and borrowers in leveraged finance and other secured and unsecured lending transactions. Westbrook also advises financial institutions and end-users with respect to various derivatives matters.
- Joe Zales (New York) represents global financial institutions, public companies, investment managers and senior executives in high-risk internal investigations, government investigations and litigation. Zales was employed with Morgan Stanley before law school, and he routinely brings that experience to bear in assisting clients facing financial services-related investigations.
The following lawyers will be counsel effective January 1, 2025:
- Greg Antine (Atlanta) focuses on electronic discovery issues, particularly with respect to the representation of banking, healthcare, medical device, automotive, energy and consumer products clients in government investigations and complex litigation.
- Spencer Diamond (Atlanta) focuses his practice on defending corporations in complex product liability actions through trial in difficult jurisdictions across the country.
- Ariel Emmanuel (Atlanta) is a member of the firm’s Finance and Restructuring practice group. He represents financial institutions, lenders, arrangers, sponsors, borrowers and investors in leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset-based lending and other secured and unsecured lending transactions.
- George Komnenos (New York) represents financial institutions, alternative lenders as well as private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in a wide range of corporate financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings, investment-grade financings, unitranche facilities and asset-based financings.
- Matt Noller (San Francisco) is an appellate litigator who focuses on appeals and case-dispositive briefing. He has worked on high-profile trials in federal and state courts across the country, and on appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeal and the highest courts of several states.
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