Job Title Category: Partner

  • Gabriel L. Valdes

    Gabriel L. Valdes

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    Gabriel L. Valdés

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Gabriel L. Valdes focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and venture capital investments and financings involving primarily private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and other private companies.

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    Referenzmandate
    • Represented Validor Capital in its acquisitions of (1) The Marwin Company, an Ohio-based manufacturer of high-quality pressed steel products which provides critical parts for the manufacturing industry throughout the United States and across the world, and (2) The Boehm Pressed Steel Co., a South Carolina-based manufacturer of quality building specialties, including folding attic stairways, bi-fold doors, mirror bi-folds & by-pass units and pocket door frames
    • Represented Capricorn Healthcare & Special Opportunities in its acquisitions of (1) Care Hospice, Inc., a provider of hospice care in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Arkansas, South Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia, (2) Healthy Living at Home, a cooperative of 26 separately owned and operated home health and hospice companies across California, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada, and (3) Altruista Health, Inc., a health care technology company specializing in the design, development, implementation, and sale of population care management solutions and related software tools and data analytics

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    Auszeichnungen
    • Daily Business Review, Dealmaker, M&A, August 12, 2014
    • Daily Business Review, Dealmaker, Finance, May 6, 2014
    • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Kenneth W. Gemmill Prize for the best paper in the field of taxation
    • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • Penn Club of Miami
    • University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD, Certificate in Business and Public Policy, summa cum laude
    • Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, BBA
    • Florida International University
    Zulassungen
    • Florida
    Sprachen
    • Englisch
    • Spanish
  • Roy J. Larson

    Roy J. Larson

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    Roy J. Larson

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Roy J. Larson concentrates his practice in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and routinely advises clients in connection with corporate governance matters, securities issues, spinoffs, joint ventures and equity and debt finance transactions.

    Roy has extensive experience in handling a broad range of transactions in the health care services industry, and has worked with investors and operators of physician practice management companies, primary care providers, physical therapy providers, dental service providers and telehealth companies. Roy’s clients include public companies, private equity investors, venture backed companies and joint venture vehicles.

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    Referenzmandate
    • Represented a public company in connection with the spinoff one of its divisions to a private equity investor.
    • Represented a public company in connection with multiple cross border acquisitions.
    • Represented a gastroenterology platform in connection with its affiliation with a private equity fund.

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    Auszeichnungen
    • Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law (2016-2026), Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2016-2026
    • Chambers USA, Florida, Corporate/M&A & Private Equity, 2016-2019
    • The Legal 500 US, 2019
    • Acritas Stars, listed among independently rated lawyers, 2019-2020
    • Lexology Client Choice Awards, Florida M&A, 2013-2014
    • US News ‒ Best Lawyers®
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • American Bar Association
    • Florida Bar Association
    • New York Bar Association
    • North American Pharmaceutical and Health Care Industry Group, Former Steering Committee Member
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • Columbia University, JD
    • The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, BS
    Zulassungen
    • Florida
    • New York
  • Keith Hagan

    Keith Hagan

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    Keith Hagan

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Keith Hagan represents public and private companies in tax matters involving mergers and acquisitions (M&A), development and infrastructure projects, and private equity.

    He provides practical tax and commercial advice in taxable and tax-free M&A, reorganizations, and restructurings and advises clients through all stages of a transaction, including structuring, tax due diligence, drafting and negotiating documents, and post-closing integration and indemnification.

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    Referenzmandate
    • Represented Fortune 100 company regarding its digital economy and cloud computing platform
    • Advised 10-figure cross-border de-SPAC acquisition of EMEA agricultural technology group.
    • Advised a wind developer in the financing of 300 MW, 200 MW, and 1000 MW wind projects in Oklahoma eligible for production tax credits.

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    Auszeichnungen
    • The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Tax Law, Miami, 2021 to 2024
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • Adjunct Professor, Inbound International Taxation, University of Miami School of Law
    • Florida Bar – Tax Section, member

     

    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of Florida, LLM
    • Vanderbilt University Law School, JD
    • Georgia Institute of Technology, MS
    Courts/Agencies
    • US Tax Court
    Sprachen
    • Englisch
    • Spanish
  • Katharine O’Connor

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    Katharine O'Connor

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Katharine (Kate) O’Connor focuses her practice on complex antitrust litigation, antitrust investigations brought by the US antitrust regulators and state attorneys general, and counseling clients on antitrust compliance questions. She also regularly represents clients before the antitrust regulators related to mergers and acquisitions. Kate has experience representing clients in a wide array of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, food and finance.

    As one client has noted, Kate’s “ability to synthesize complex information and prepare a concise synopsis demonstrates mastery of the subject matter.” Clients appreciate that Kate is “methodical, analytical, concise” and “solution-driven,” and one client has asserted, “she is the most efficient attorney I have ever worked with.”

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    Referenzmandate
    • Obtained highly favorable settlement on behalf of large physician practice organization in multiple disputes arising out of payor agreements
    • Obtained summary judgment defeating claims of monopolization, tying and exclusive dealing brought by an ambulatory surgery center against Southern Illinois Healthcare, a health system headquartered in Carbondale, Illinois
    • Counseled several healthcare providers and other healthcare industry participants on antitrust issues arising out of affiliations, joint ventures, competitor collaborations, and mergers and acquisitions across the country, as well as questions surrounding provider and payor contracting

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    Auszeichnungen
    • Crain’s Chicago Business, Women in Law, 2024
    • Chambers USA, Antitrust, 2022-2024
    • The Legal 500 US, Next Generation Partner, Antitrust: Civil Litigation, 2020-2024
    • Global Competition Review, Recommended Lawyer, 2022
    • Benchmark Litigation, 40 & Under Hot List, 2019-2020, Future Star 2021-2022
    • Super Lawyers, Rising Star in Illinois: Antitrust Litigation, 2018-2019
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • American Health Lawyers Association
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, JD, summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • University of Chicago, BA, with honors
    Zulassungen
    • Illinois
    Courts/Agencies
    • US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    • US District Court for the Central District of Illinois
    • US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
    • US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
    • US District Court for the Western District of Michigan
    • US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
    • US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
    Sprachen
    • Englisch
    • Spanish
  • Stephanie M. DeGennaro

    Stephanie M. DeGennaro

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    Stephanie M. DeGennaro

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Stephanie DeGennaro advises healthcare providers and private equity (PE) sponsors on transactional and healthcare regulatory compliance matters to help the achieve their business goals. She counsels her clients through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic contractual arrangements with an eye towards maximizing financial outcomes and reducing state and federal enforcement risk. She is particularly focused on transactions involving physician practice management companies (PPMs), ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and hospital joint ventures.

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    Referenzmandate
    Auszeichnungen
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of Miami School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • University of Miami, BS
    Zulassungen
    • Florida
  • Cristina Delgado

    Cristina Delgado

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    Cristina Delgado

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Cristina Delgado focuses her practice on transactional work, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, recapitalization, and joint ventures involving private equity sponsors and private companies.

    Cristina is also a volunteer attorney for the Clemency Project, in which she represents an incarcerated client, and is appointed as an attorney ad litem by Lawyers for Children America to represent foster youth.

    Cristina earned her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Florida, where she is also admitted to the Order of the Coif.

    Referenzmandate
    • Represented a prominent radiology practice with six locations throughout the Washington, DC metro area, in its reorganization and sale to a private equity portfolio company
    • Represented Capricorn Healthcare & Special Opportunities in its acquisition of Altruista Health, Inc., a health care technology company specializing in the design, development, implementation and sale of population care management solutions and related software tools and data analytics
    • Represented Comvest Partners in its acquisition of D&S Residential Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of residential services and support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky

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    Auszeichnungen
    • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch 2021 and 2022, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of Florida Levin College of Law, JD, cum laude, Order of the Coif
    • University of Miami, BA
    Zulassungen
    • Florida
    Sprachen
    • Englisch
    • Spanish
  • Ibrahim Barakat

    Ibrahim Barakat

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    Ibrahim Barakat

    Partner
    Schwerpunkte

    Ibrahim Barakat focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector and healthcare private equity. He has experience working on domestic and international business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and general corporate and commercial advisory matters. Ibrahim serves as counsel to public and private corporations, private equity funds, physician practices and strategic investors in connection with a wide range of transactional and corporate matters.

    Referenzmandate
    • Represented Team Health Holdings, Inc., in various acquisitions of anesthesiology and emergency medicine physician practice and management groups
    • Represented the physician owners of an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in a sale to a leading provider of comprehensive pain management treatment services
    • Represented a leading global provider of spa services and operations in its US$175 million acquisition of a personal care company with more than 120 locations specializing in laser hair and tattoo removal, and ultrasound skin lifting

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    Auszeichnungen
    • The Best Lawyers in America, Healthcare Law, Miami, 2023 to 2024
    • Super Lawyers, Rising Star, M&A, 2017 – 2018
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • Cornell Law School, JD, cum laude
    • University of Miami, BBA
    Zulassungen
    • Florida
    Sprachen
    • Arabic
    • Englisch
    • Spanish
  • Diane M. Morgenthaler

    Diane M. Morgenthaler

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    Diane M. Morgenthaler

    Partnerin
    Schwerpunkte

    Diane M. Morgenthaler focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation. She represents clients in matters before the US Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

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    Referenzmandate
    • Represented a Fortune 500 company in its $8.5 billion tax-free spin-off
    • Represented a company in one of the year’s largest private transactions
    • Negotiated multiemployer pension plan withdrawal

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    Auszeichnungen
    • BTI Client Service All-Star, 2020
    • Chambers USA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, 2017 to 2024
    • Legal 500 US, 2019, 2022 to 2024
    • The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Chicago, 2021 to 2024
    • Leading Lawyers 2020 to 2023, Leading Lawyer for Employee Benefits Law

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    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • Worldwide Employee Benefits Network, past president
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • Boston University School of Law, JD
    • Bryn Mawr College, AB
    Zulassungen
    • Illinois
  • Li Wang

    Li Wang

    People

    Li Wang

    Partner

    New York — One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Schwerpunkte

    Li Wang focuses her practice on health information privacy and cybersecurity matters. She has experience with matters related to HIPAA, privacy and security compliance program design and implementation, and data breach and cybersecurity incident response and remediation. Li represents clients in investigations conducted by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general regarding cyberattacks and data breaches.

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    Referenzmandate
    Auszeichnungen
    • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Healthcare Law, 2025
    • Super Lawyers, Health and Healthcare Law, New York Metro Rising Star 2022–2023; Southern California Rising Star 2021–2022
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Los Angeles, pro bono advisory council member, 2018-2020
    • Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance, treasurer, 2018-2020
    • Western Center on Law & Poverty, advisory board member, 2019-2020
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, JD, magna cum laude
    • Hofstra University, BBA
    Zulassungen
    • California
    • New York
    Sprachen
    • Englisch
    • Hungarian
    • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • Michelle S. Strowhiro

    Michelle S. Strowhiro

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    Michelle S. Strowhiro

    Partnerin

    Los Angeles

    Orange County

    Schwerpunkte

    Michelle S. Strowhiro is an employment counsel, litigator and M&A transaction advisor. She leads McDermott’s Transactions and Executive Contracts Employment Subgroup and co-leads McDermott’s COVID-19 Employment Task Force and advises clients on pandemic response and preparedness, including COVID-19 policymaking and legal compliance (including vaccination, safety and paid leaves) and remote work and return-to-work considerations.

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    Referenzmandate
    • Advised private equity and strategic buyers and sellers on labor and employment matters in transactions across industries such as healthcare (including primary care, pediatrics, hospice, home health, dermatology, dentistry, ophthalmology, therapy, surgery centers, rehab, diagnostic imaging, assisted living and hospitals), packaging, insurance and technology industries
    • Defended national technology company in numerous individual and class complaints in pre-litigation, in administrative proceedings and in court; consistently achieved dismissals, judgments in company’s favor and aggressively low settlements
    • Defended against and won summary judgment for national retail client in a novel associational disability discrimination case alleging nine causes of action, resulting in judgment entered in favor of client and dismissal of plaintiff’s case with prejudice

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    Auszeichnungen
    • Legal 500 US, Recommended Lawyer, 2023
    • American Lawyer, Trailblazers: West, 2021
    • Benchmark Litigation, Labor & Employment Star, 2020
    Praxisgruppen und Fokusthemen
    Internationale Märkte
    Organisationen & Mitgliedschaften
    • One Justice, volunteer
    • Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles Domestic Violence Clinic, volunteer
    Qualifikationen
    Ausbildung
    • Loyola Law School, JD, with honors
    • University of California, Los Angeles, BA
    Zulassungen
    • California