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New Talent

Attracting and retaining top talent is an essential element of the Paul Hastings strategy, and many of the world’s best lawyers have chosen to join our firm. The following additions to our team, including our class of newly elected partners, expanded our global reach and augmented our practice capabilities.

Capital Markets, M&A, and Private Equity


Douglas Getten Houston

Focuses on corporate finance and securities, including public and private securities offerings, M&A, divestitures, and other financing activities for publicly traded limited partnerships (MLPs) and royalty trusts, as well as innovative financing structures for energy companies.

David Hernand Los Angeles

Represents clients in public and private M&A transactions, corporate control contests, strategic partnering arrangements, and capital-raising transactions, with a focus on companies at the intersection of entertainment/media and technology.

Advises on SEC-registered and unregistered debt and equity offerings by U.S., Latin American, and other foreign issuers, as well as sovereign, corporate, and infrastructure-related financings, including project bonds.

Scott Oross San Diego

Advises public and private companies on a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and strategic collaborations and business alternatives.

David Shine New York

Represents clients in M&A, private equity investments, and joint venture transactions, with substantial experience in the healthcare, aerospace and defense, energy, telecommunications, and financial services industries.

Focuses on M&A (particularly complex, multi-country acquisitions), joint ventures, corporate governance for U.S. public companies, foreign investment transactions, and commercial agreements.

Samuel Waxman New York

Focuses his practice on M&A, securities offerings, joint ventures, and IP licenses, with a particular emphasis on companies for whom technology or IP is a key asset.

Finance and Restructuring


Represents lenders and borrowers in financings and development of energy, mining, and infrastructure, with a focus on Latin America and other emerging markets.

Advises on high-yield debt offerings, primary and secondary equity offerings, restructurings, acquisition financings, and general compliance issues for international banks and corporations.

Lindsay Sparks Orange County

Represents borrowers in secured lending and other financing matters, including LBO and acquisition financings, cash-flow and asset-based loans, mezzanine and subordinated debt facilities, and private debt offerings.

Sanjay Thapar New York

Represents arrangers, lenders, and borrowers in domestic and international financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged buyout financings, recapitalization transactions, asset-based loans, and debtor-in-possession financings, as well as workouts and restructurings.

Intellectual Property


Yar Chaikovsky Palo Alto

Serves as lead trial counsel for technology companies in all stages of development, from start-ups to established industry leaders, and handles patent litigation across an array of technology fields in both district courts and the ITC.

Andrew Grossman Los Angeles

Focuses on IP litigation, primarily patent litigation, in the electronics, semiconductor, software, medical device, and green technology industries, as well as advising clients on IP strategies in M&A and joint ventures.

Blair Jacobs Washington, D.C.

Focuses on district court and ITC trial work relating to patent litigation and other contentious IP issues, including trade secret, trademark, and unfair competition disputes, as well as appellate litigation, particularly at the Federal Circuit.

Naveen Modi Washington, D.C.

Represents clients in all aspects of patent-related work, including litigation (U.S. district court and U.S. International Trade Commission), post-grant proceedings (inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, and reexaminations), interferences, client counseling, appeals, and opinions.

Joseph Palys Washington, D.C.

Represents clients in patent litigation and post grant proceedings, such as reexamination, post-grant review, and inter partes review, and patent portfolio strategic planning and monetization.

Investigations and White Collar Defense


Kevin Broughel New York

Focuses his practice in the areas of securities and shareholder disputes, regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal investigations, and financial services litigation.

Amy Carpenter-Holmes Washington, D.C.

Represents companies and individuals in cases involving highly complex financial transactions; these cases often involve parallel investigations by multiple government entities and require balancing the conflicting priorities of these government entities.

John (Jay) Darden Washington, D.C.

Focuses his practice on defending individuals and companies in white-collar criminal matters and government investigations, including suspected violations of the FCPA, allegations of health care fraud and abuse, and other criminal matters.

Michael Levy Washington, D.C.

Focuses on white collar defense, investigations, and representation of corporations and individuals in government enforcement initiatives, including representing clients in many of the most prominent white collar matters of the past decade.

Robert Luskin Washington, D.C.

Represents clients in complex criminal and civil litigation, with a focus on representing foreign corporations in multi-jurisdictional, cross-border criminal investigations and cases involving allegations of official corruption.

Kwame Manley Washington, D.C.

Focuses on white-collar criminal matters and complex civil litigation, as well as defending individuals and companies in internal and government investigations and in matters before DOJ, OFAC, SEC, and other federal agencies.

Paul Monnin Atlanta

Defends companies and individuals in a wide variety of criminal matters, administrative enforcement actions, and parallel civil proceedings, as well as maintaining an active commercial litigation practice.

Daniel Prince Los Angeles

Focuses on white collar matters, international arbitration, and complex commercial disputes, including corporate and government investigations and trade secrets cases.

Michael Spafford Washington, D.C.

Represents corporations and individuals in government investigations, enforcement proceedings, and parallel litigation involving federal, state, and local government enforcement entities.

Eric Sussman Chicago

Focuses on representing corporations and executives in white collar criminal defense, securities enforcement matters, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation.

Real Estate


Represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, development, and management, as well as advising non-profits on real estate and other transactional matters.

Lisa Chaney New York

Focuses her practice on corporate and real estate finance, including representing major financial institutions and private equity funds in an array of complex domestic and international commercial transactions.