Rob Lamkin represents energy trading firms, electric power generators, renewables project developers and other energy industry participants in energy trading and energy regulatory matters, including matters relating to compliance with CFTC regulation of swaps under the Dodd-Frank Act.
- Represented an energy trading and marketing entity in negotiating structured energy trading transactions, including lien-based credit structures and complex hedging arrangements including heat rate call option and revenue put option transactions
- Represented wind farm developer in negotiation of proxy revenue and proxy generation swap transactions and negotiation of lien-based structure in connection with same
- Represented a power producer in the development and negotiation of an energy management agreement governing a significant number of electric generation facilities
- The Best Lawyers in America, Energy Law, 2023-2024
- The Legal 500, Recommended, 2015-2016, 2021, 2023
- Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, JD
- Stanford University, BA
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- New York

Britt Haxton
Britt Haxton focuses her practice on international corporate tax matters. She advises clients on the new international tax provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). Britt has substantial experience advising multinational corporations on post-acquisition integration strategies and implications of the GILTI regime, FDII, section 245A, and foreign tax credit planning under TCJA. She advises clients on the application of the participation exception under section 245A and the impact on repatriation strategies.
- Structured and managed the post-acquisition integration of 20 subsidiaries in 20 different countries to enable implementation of an integrated workforce
- Provided advice and analysis regarding a multibillion-dollar separation of a multinational corporation into three separate publicly traded companies by means of tax-free stock dividends to shareholders
- Legal 500 US, 2022
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2017 to 2021
- McDermott Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Diversity Committee
- McDermott Associate Recruitment Committee
- McDermott Pro Bono Committee
- Georgetown University Law Center, JD, cum laude
- Creighton University, BS, summa cum laude
- District of Columbia

Steffen Woitz
Steffen Woitz berät deutsche und internationale Mandanten zu Fragen des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes, des Kartell- und Wettbewerbsrechts.
Er verfügt über umfangreiche Prozessführungserfahrung vor allen großen deutschen Gerichten und berät bei grenzüberschreitenden Rechtsstreitigkeiten und M&A-Transaktionen. Er vertritt seine Mandanten in Verletzungsverfahren und anderen Streitigkeiten im Marken-, Wettbewerbs-, Patent- und Kartellrecht sowie in sonstigen wirtschaftsrechtlichen Angelegenheiten. Darüber hinaus hat er umfangreiche Expertise in den Bereichen Kartelldeliktsrecht und kartellrechtliche Compliance sowie im Datenschutzrecht.
Steffen Woitz berät zu Kooperations-, Lizenz- und Vertriebsvereinbarungen aus zivil- und kartellrechtlicher Perspektive. Er verfügt über profunde Kenntnisse in Fragen der Einhaltung wettbewerbsrechtlicher Vorschriften und unterstützt Mandanten umfassend bei Fragestellungen zu gewerblichen Schutzrechten, Vertriebs- und Kartellrecht, die im Rahmen nationaler und internationaler M&A-Transaktionen auftreten.
Steffen Woitz beriet:
- Main Capital Partners beim Verkauf der jeweiligen Beteiligungen an der GBTEC Gruppe einschließlich der GBTEC Software AG („GBTEC“) an die Investmentgesellschaft Carlyle
- Einen weltweit führenden südkoreanischen Hersteller von Solarmodulen in einem grenzüberschreitenden Schiedsverfahren
- Die Betreiber weltweit führender und bekannter Health Resorts in einer marken-, urheber- und wettbewerbsrechtlichen Streitigkeit
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, „Einer der führenden Anwälte“ in Deutschland: Konfliktlösung, 2027
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, „Einer der führenden Anwälte“ in Deutschland: Konfliktlösungen und Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz, 2021-2025
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Empfohlen, Deutschland: Intellectual Property: Patent Litigation, 2024
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Empfohlen, Deutschland: Patentrecht, 2021-2023
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Empfohlen, Deutschland: Streitbeilegung, 2021
- AmCham Germany NextGen
- Kammergericht Berlin, Zweites Staatsexamen
- Victoria University of Wellington, LL.M.
- Freie Universität Berlin, Erstes Staatsexamen
- Deutschland
- Deutsch
- Englisch
- Französisch
- Russisch

Daniel N. Zucker
Daniel N. Zucker focuses his practice on federal and state tax matters, with particular emphasis on structuring mergers and acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations, tax-free spin-offs and split-offs, and restructurings of financially troubled companies. He also advises closely held businesses on tax planning issues with a special focus on Subchapter S corporations. Daniel is co-head of the Tax Acquisitions & Restructurings practice.
- Represented Rogers Corporation (NYSE: ROG) in its $157 million acquisition of Arlon, LLC, a subsidiary of Handy & Harman Ltd. (NASDAQ: HNH)
- Represented H.I.G. Capital and its affiliated in connection with the $125 million acquisitions of Fox River Fiber Company, LLC
- Represented Comvest Partners in connection with the acquisition of McKesson Corporation’s care management business
- Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2013-2026
- Turnaround & Workouts, Bankruptcy Tax Specialists in the Nation’s Major Law Firms, 2022-2025
- Super Lawyers Business Edition 2015
- American Registry 2014, named a „Best Attorney in Chicago“
- World Tax, International Tax Review 2017
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, JD, cum laude
- University of Minnesota, BS, with high distinction
- Illinois

Kristina G. White
Kristina Gordon White focuses her practice on all aspects of estate planning and trust and estate controversy. She advises high-net-worth individuals and families on wealth transfer planning, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, trust and estate administration, and charitable planning. Her practice includes designing and implementing complex wealth transfer techniques and customized estate plans, as well as providing counsel on the formation and operation of private trust companies. Kristina has significant experience appearing in court on behalf of individual and corporate fiduciaries for probate, estate, trust and guardianship administration.
- McDermott Will & Emery Chicago Pro Bono and Community Service Award
- Paul Faherty Tax Law Writing Competition Award
- Chicago Bar Association
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD, cum laude
- Washington University in St. Louis, BA, with honors
- Illinois
- US Tax Court
- Supreme Court of Illinois

Dr. Carsten Böhm
Dr. Carsten Böhm berät Mandanten bei nationalen und internationalen Transaktionen in den Bereichen Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) und Venture Capital sowie allen damit zusammenhängenden gesellschaftsrechtlichen Fragen, einschließlich Umstrukturierungen, Fragen des Personengesellschaftsrechts und Corporate Governance, sowie in Belangen des allgemeinen Wirtschaftsrechts und in insolvenznahen Situationen.
Carsten Böhm beriet:
- Die britische börsennotierte discoverIE Group plc, ein internationaler Entwickler und Hersteller von kundenspezifischer Elektronik für die Industrie, beim Erwerb der burster präzisionsmesstechnik gmbh & co kg, ein in Deutschland ansässiger Entwickler und Hersteller von Spezialsensoren
- Die Gesellschafter der Filtertechnik Jäger GmbH, einem deutschen Spezialisten für Filtrationstechnik, beim Verkauf der Gesellschaft an die schwedische Industrieholding Amplex AB
- Den CEO eines Herstellers von Tiefkühlkost, der von einem deutschen Private Equity-Haus gehalten wird, im Zusammenhang mit seiner (signifkanten) Managementbeteiligung sowie zu Finanzierungsthemen und Geschäftsführerhaftung-/pflichten; sowie den CFO der Unternehmensgruppe beim Ausstieg aus dem Managementbeteiligungsprogramm
- Die Gesellschafter der MPR China Certification GmbH, einem Zertifizierungsexperten für den Zugang zu asiatischen Märkten, beim Verkauf der Gesellschaft an Certania, einem Portfoliounternehmen von Greenpeak Partners
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™ , „Einer der führenden Anwälte“ in Deutschland: Gesellschaftsrecht und Fusionen und Übernahmen, 2013-2026
- JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien, Empfohlen: M&A sowie Private-Equity-Transaktionen, 2022-2026
- The Legal 500 EMEA, Empfohlen, Deutschland: Private-Equity-Transaktionen, Unternehmen und M&A, 2022-2024
- Universität Regensburg, Dr. jur., Erstes und zweites Staatsexamen
- Universität Regensburg, Vordiplom in Betriebswirtschaft
- Universität Regensburg
- Deutschland
- Englisch
- Deutsch

John P. Tamisiea
We are saddened by the passing of John Tamisiea.
John P. Tamisiea represents private and public companies, family-owned businesses and private equity funds in transactional matters. John concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and alliances, securities offerings, venture capital investing and family office and general corporate counseling. John has also served as outside general counsel and an advisor to boards of directors for a number of clients. His clients include privately-held, publicly-traded and family-owned companies, private equity funds and investments banks.
- Represented Option Care Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPCH), the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, in its entry into a definitive merger agreement to combine with Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading provider of home health, hospice and high-acuity care.
- Represented Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) (now Veradigm) in the sale of its CarePort Health business to WellSky Corp., a global health and community care technology company, for $1.35 billion.
- Represented Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, a global leader in Healthcare IT creating healthier lives by generating and providing insights that change the delivery of care, in its acquisition of Babel Health, Inc., a health data management company offering risk adjustment and encounter submission software tools on a single, cloud-based platform.
- The Legal 500 US, 2019-2022
- IFLR1000, M&A, 2022-2023
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Regina Dominican High School Board 2015 – 2022, Chairman of the Board 2021-2022
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD, with highest distinction
- University of Iowa, BBA in Accounting
- Illinois

Nicole Yoon
Nicole Yoon advises clients on corporate and transactional matters, with a focus on cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for public and private companies, private equity sponsors and other investment funds. Nicole also provides general corporate counseling to clients and portfolio companies regarding corporate governance and post-merger integration matters. In her practice, she has represented clients and investors across a variety of industries, including healthcare, biotech, chemicals, metals and mining, energy and software.
While in law school, Nicole served as an article editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2026
- M&A Advisor Awards, M&A Deal of the Year ($500 MM – $1B), 2021
- M&A Advisor Awards, Cross Border Deal of the Year; Materials Deal of the Year ($500 MM – $1B), 2020
- New York University School of Law, JD, cum laude
- Georgetown University, BA
- New York
Jeffrey B. Steiner
Jeffrey Steiner brings more than 30 years of experience to all areas of real estate finance, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions and leasing for the full spectrum of public, private, institutional and non-institutional clients. In particular, Jeff’s practice focuses on structuring, restructuring and managing complex real estate debt and equity investments and investment vehicles in the US and worldwide.
- Represented a New York family office in its repositioning of the landmark office building at 11 Madison Avenue, including US headquarters leases for two major tenants and numerous others, and the subsequent sale of the property for more than $2.6 billion in what was then that largest single-office sale in US history*
- Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, 2021-2027
- Legal 500 US, Recommended, 2022-2024
- IFLR1000, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate Acquisitions, 2022-2023
- Chambers USA
- Super Lawyers, Top Rated Real Estate Attorney in New York, 2006-2017
- National Law Journal, Most Influential Lawyers in Real Estate, 2011
- The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, member
- New York State Bar Association, member
- Fordham University School of Law, JD
- McGill University, BA
- New York

Alexandra C. Scheibe
Alexandra C. Scheibe is head of the Firm’s FinTech and Blockchain Practice. Alexandra is widely recognized in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. Alexandra focuses her practice on representing cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, as well as financial institutions and fintech companies in all aspects of regulatory and transaction matters in the fintech, blockchain and derivatives and structured finance markets. Alexandra is a recognized leader in the field of blockchain and cryptocurrency and focuses on first-of-their-kind structures and products and has a team that works with her on all crypto and regulatory issues.
- The Best Lawyers in America, Derivatives and Futures Law and FinTech Practice, 2019-2024
- Chambers FinTech Guide, Notable Practitioner, 2023
- The Legal 500 US, Recommended, 2023
- Citywealth, Top 20 USA Crypto Powerwomen, 2022
- New Jersey Digital Assets Working Group
- Fordham University School of Law, JD
- Dartmouth College, AB
- New York
