Miami
He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, strategic investments, restructurings, recapitalizations, and reorganizations. In addition, he has represented numerous clients with respect to a wide array of corporate law matters, including corporate governance and takeover preparedness.
Sam began his career at Skadden in New York.
Boston
Taylor represents clients at all stages of their life cycles and in a variety of technology and science-driven industries, including cleantech, SaaS, gaming, energy, hardware, entertainment, Internet, media, semiconductor and media.
Taylor has experience drafting commercial, licensing and other intellectual property and technology agreements. She also assists clients with intellectual property issues in connection with a range of large commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments
San Francisco
San Francisco
New York
New York
Brian is a trial lawyer who specializes in preparing complex cases for trial in an efficient and effective manner. He has prepared dozens of cases for trial in venues across the country in matters involving products liability, shareholder litigation, white collar criminal litigation, and bankruptcy proceedings, many of which have resulted in significant victories before or during the trial. He also is an experienced manager, having led large teams of attorneys and other legal professionals to conduct trials, internal investigations, and e-discovery efforts. Clients have praised Brian for his dedication to the work, substantive excellence, and responsiveness.
Orange County; Santa Monica
Orange County; Santa Monica
Ken guides asset managers and investors on a variety of formation, operational and regulatory matters regarding private funds, including venture capital funds, private equity and debt funds, hedge funds, co-investments and other alternative businesses in the United States and internationally.
Washington, D.C.
Georgia also has extensive experience in assisting clients with product recalls, crisis management and government enforcement. Her practice in this sector includes assisting manufacturers, distributors, retailers and importers on all types of FDA regulated products including pharmaceuticals, medical devices and software, wearables, health and wellness products, cosmetics, cell and plant based foods, conventional foods, ag tech, compounded drugs, and dietary supplements.
Georgia’s deep experience and ability to provide practical guidance in FDA and FDA-adjacent regulatory matters allows her to work closely with innovative companies looking to minimize regulatory burdens and maximize U.S. marketing opportunities in the life science and health tech industry verticals. She also conducts regulatory due diligence for private equity and public company transactions involving life science, medtech and innovative companies.
Georgia is a frequent speaker at conferences and events who contributes regularly to leading trade and consumer media outlets.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Amy currently represents non-parties in multiple competition enforcement actions pending in federal district court, including in: U.S. v. Google, Colorado v. Google as well as FTC v. Facebook. A Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, she was also featured as one of Global Competition Review’s “40 Under 40 – Class of 2016” antitrust lawyers.
Among her notable transactional representations are matters at the intersection of antitrust and technology, such as her key role in Microsoft's acquisitions of LinkedIn and Skype.
Amy regularly advises both on strategic transactions as well as the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Additionally, she counsels on substantive antitrust issues that may arise in commercial relationships and compliance, such as vertical pricing and distribution.
The Legal 500 US 2020 rankings recently recognized Amy both for merger control and cartel investigations with a client testimonial:
“Amy Ray stands out as someone who has worked hard to understand our business and routinely brings her considerable experience and expertise to bear on important issues for us, always with a client-service focus. A true partner.”
Her pro bono matters include a case for which the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs recognized her team for its contribution to fair housing litigation. She also served for several years on the prestigious U.S. National Women's Law Center Leadership Advisory Committee.
Amy was an inaugural board member of the Law360 Competition Editorial Advisory Board and continues in that role today.