Chicago
Benjamin Paulsen focuses his practice on private client matters and controversies involving trusts and estates. He is experienced in contentious, multimillion dollar proceedings, with experience litigating in both state and federal court.
While in law school, Benjamin was a judicial extern for the Honorable Eric I. Long, Magistrate Judge of the US District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He also served as the editor-in-chief for the University of Illinois Law Review.
- University of Illinois College of Law, Rickert Award for Excellence in Advocacy, 2018
- University of Illinois College of Law, Rickert Award for Excellence in Service
- 2018 World Champion, Brown Mosten International Client Consultation Competition, 2018
- Order of Protection Appeals Project, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services, Volunteer of the Year (2021)
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, JD, Marketing, magna cum laude
- Northeastern Illinois University, BA, cum laude
- Illinois
Adam Long
New York — One Vanderbilt Avenue
Adam Long focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings, leasing, development and joint ventures. He represents institutional and non-institutional investors in numerous transactions across asset classes, including hotels, retail, medical/senior housing, industrial and multi-family properties.
- Represented purchaser of Circus Circus Hotel and Casino*
- Led diligence review team for $1billion+ life insurance company refinance*
- Led acquisition of 11 senior housing facilities in three states with transactional value over $650 million*
- Chambers, “Associate to Watch”, 2021
- CALI award, Secured Transactions, 2014
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois Bar Association
- The Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, JD
- Loyola University Chicago, Certificate in Paralegal Studies
- Taylor University, BA
- New York
- Illinois
- Englisch
Ryan N. Baebler
Ryan N. Baebler focuses his practice on a wide range of real estate and real estate finance transactions. Ryan has substantial experience representing commercial lenders in mortgage, mezzanine, preferred equity, balance sheet, CMBS and bridge financing transactions.
- Represented mortgage lender in 15 property portfolio financing in the amount of $125,000,000*
- Represented mortgage and mezzanine lender in $63,000,000 acquisition loan for Colorado non-flag hotel complex*
- Represented mortgage and mezzanine lender in $82,000,000 New York construction loan (senior, building, project and mezzanine) *
- Hispanic National Bar Association
- University of Miami Rugby Alumni Association
- Washington University School of Law, Jessup International Moot Court Team, advisor
- Washington University School of Law, JD, cum laude
- University of Miami, BA
- New York
- Missouri
- Englisch
- Spanish
Lea Hauser
Köln
Der Tätigkeitsschwerpunkt von Lea Hauser liegt im Bereich Kartellrecht.
Vor ihrer Anstellung bei McDermott sammelte Frau Hauser als Referendarin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin wertvolle kartellrechtliche Erfahrungen bei einer international tätigen Wirtschaftskanzlei sowie beim Bundeskartellamt. Die Wahlstation ihres Referendariats absolvierte Frau Hauser bei einem internationalen Konzern der Kosmetikbranche.
- Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
- Oberlandesgericht Köln, Zweites Staatsexamen
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Erstes Staatsexamen
- Deutschland
- Deutsch
- Englisch
Ming Chuang
Los Angeles
Minghao (Ming) Chuang advises on regulatory and transactional matters affecting a wide range of clients in the healthcare industry, such as health plans, hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, and digital health companies. Ming is experienced assisting clients navigating issues related to the California Knox-Keene Act, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, corporate practice of medicine and Medicare and Medi-Cal regulations.
- American Health Law Association, member
- AHLA/April 21, 2022, Health Care Regulatory Diligence Considerations for Digital Health Transactions, Contributing Author
- Pro Bono Attorney, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles’s Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
- University of San Diego School of Law, JD
- University of California, Los Angeles, BA
- California
- Englisch
- Deutsch
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- Spanish
Jenna Walker
London – 22 Bishopsgate
Jenna Walker focuses her practice on corporate matters and has wide-ranging experience across private equity, private M&A, and corporate restructuring transactions.
She advises listed corporates, private equity funds and their portfolio companies and founder-managed businesses on acquisitions and disposals, incentive plans and general corporate matters.
- Advised senior management of a Nordic debt collection agency on their equity arrangements under their management buy out by a European private equity firm*
- Advised the founders of a global capital markets software company on a strategic seed investment by a leading global bank and their consequential equity arrangements*
- Advised the founders of a financial technology software company on the disposal of their organisation to a regulated challenger bank*
- University of Law, LLM, Upper Second Class (Hons), Distinction
- University of Buckingham, LLB
- England and Wales
- Englisch
- Französisch
Rae Chung
San Francisco
Rae Chung is an employment advisor and litigator. She focuses her practice on employment litigation and counseling and handles a broad range of workplace-related cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and wage and hour claims.
Rae defends single-plaintiff and wage and hour class lawsuits and has experience litigating claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations. She also successfully resolves employee disputes pre-litigation and advises employers on day-to-day employment matters.
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Litigation – Labor and Employment, San Francisco, 2024-2025
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, JD, magna cum laude
- University of California, San Diego, BS
- California
- US District Court for the Central District of California
- Englisch
- Korean
- Japanisch
Anthony Salvador Perez
Los Angeles
Anthony Salvador Perez focuses his practice on private client and wealth management and representing individuals, families, charitable institutions, corporate trustees and fiduciaries in litigation involving complex trusts and estates.
In law school, Anthony served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Kim M. Wardlaw on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Rozella A. Oliver of the Central District of California. He served as staff editor for the UCI Law Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law and was Vice President of Outlaw, UCI Law’s LGBTQ+ student organization. Anthony was a recipient of the 2021 Mexican American Bar Foundation Scholarship and a 2019 judicial fellow for the Mexican American Bar Association. Prior to law school, Anthony worked as a legal assistant in the Immigrants’ Rights Project at Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono law firm.
- University of California – Irvine School of Law, LLM, Tax, cum laude
- University of California – Irvine School of Law, JD, Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
- Middlebury College, BA
- California
- Englisch
- Spanish
- Portuguese
Amanda Sum
Amanda Sum is a member of the Government Investigations & Compliance team. focusing on compliance counselling and complex investigations in the areas of anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money laundering, sanctions, data privacy and cybersecurity.
- Conducted a major investigation into the Malaysian subsidiary of a multinational agriculture and aquaculture corporation in respect of the propriety of certain sales transactions with its major customers, including a review of its internal controls and whether documents were falsified*
- Handled the prosecution of multiple key personnel of a company publicly listed on the Singapore Exchange, for conspiracy to commit forgery and falsification of accounts*
- Acted on behalf of the Australian authorities to obtain restraint/charging orders over properties related to a conspiracy involving the bribery of foreign public officials*
- Singapore Management University, LLB
- Singapore
- Englisch
Fausto Giacomet
London – 22 Bishopsgate
Fausto Giacomet focuses his practice on structured finance and is a member of the Firm’s ESG, Impact and Sustainability group.
He has significant experience in debt securities issuances, repackaging programmes, synthetic securitisations, actively managed certificates, exchange traded products, repos, stock loans and OTC derivatives for private equity funds, pension funds, asset managers and banks.
- Acted as lead associate in the private M&A from a private fund to acquire a stake in, and subscribe for profit participating notes issued by, the parent company of a risk retention holder of a series of securitisations*
- Acted as lead associate in bespoke financing arrangements for a pension fund to acquire exposure to banks’ core lending activities through synthetic securitisations*
- Coordinated the establishment of the first exchange-traded note programme of a boutique asset manager, providing leveraged exposure to specific shares by the use of leveraged indices*
- London School of Economics and Political Science, LLM
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Bachelor of Laws
- England and Wales
- Brazil
- Englisch
- Portuguese