Joanna is a go-to advisor for boards, special committees, and executives navigating transformative deals across high-growth sectors, including artificial intelligence (AI), digital health, life sciences, FinTech, and professional services. Her strategic acumen has earned her accolades such as “M&A Lawyer of the Year” at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards in 2022.

Beyond her practice, Joanna co-chairs the Women in M&A Subcommittee of the ABA M&A Committee, which focuses on the participation, promotion, and retention of women in the M&A field and frequently speaks and publishes on topics in M&A for the American Bar Association.

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• Represented JLL (NYSE: JLL) in its acquisition of Raise Commercial Real Estate, a technology-powered brokerage firm that provides client solutions via a transformative digital real estate platform
• Represented BDO USA in connection with the establishment of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Represented a Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) in its acquisition of Thirdera, an Elite ServiceNow Partner specializing in advisory, implementation, and optimization solutions related to the ServiceNow platform
• Represented Downtown Music Holdings, a premier music publishing partner for songwriters, storied music catalogues, and emerging artists, in two transformational deals: its acquisition of AVL Digital Group, a leading digital music publishing platform, and its sale of its music catalogue business (more than 145,000 songs by artists including Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Mötley Crüe) to Concord Music Publishing
• Represented BDO USA in its establishment of BDO RISE, its first international joint venture in India
• Represented Enleofen Bio Pte. Ltd in its sale of worldwide exclusive rights to Enleofen’s preclinical interleukin-11 platform to Boehringer Ingelheim
• Represented Hakkoda Inc., a leading global data and AI consultancy, in its sale to IBM Consulting
• Represented DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) in its sale of Vegas Sports Information Network, Inc.
• Represented Ryan LLC, global tax services provider in its acquisition of property tax and transfer pricing product lines from Thomson Reuters
• Represented Dialexa, a Dallas-based digital product engineering services firm, in its acquisition by IBM Consulting
• Represented a private equity firm in its platform acquisition of a technology consulting and digital transformation firm and three subsequent add-on acquisitions, all of which are IT and digital services firms
• Represented a life sciences company in its acquisition of a clinical research software company that developed the clinical trial management system that improves the ease, quality, and efficiency of conducting clinical research at study sites

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During his time as a microbiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Greg routinely advised and trained hospital and public health laboratories in various techniques and best practices, including infection control, quality assurance, quality management systems and compliance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments. He also addressed many national and international hospital outbreaks. Now, clients turn to him for legal counsel on outbreak response and emergency preparedness, clinical laboratory operations and innovative care delivery modalities.

Greg also writes, speaks and advises on quality, access and patient empowerment in the provision of equitable healthcare services, with a particular focus on helping covered entities comply with the nondiscrimination provisions of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Greg works as part of McDermott’s multidisciplinary cannabis industry team to provide clients with regulatory, litigation, intellectual property, trade and tax services concerning their investments and participation in the cannabis sector. He also serves as co-chair of the Firm’s LGBTQ+ Diversity Subcommittee.

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• Advised and coordinated nationwide litigation defense of nursing homes and aging serves providers.
• Counseled many clients, including numerous health systems, a Fortune 50 insurance company and a private university, on compliance with Section 1557 nondiscrimination requirements.
• Served as a member of the MWE team to file an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court on behalf of Freedom For All Americans in the mater of Fulton v. Philadelphia.
• Served as the principal researcher and subject matter expert in the molecular epidemiology and strain characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Diego has advised clients in a wide range of industries, including technology, health care, life sciences, insurance, food and beverage and manufacturing.

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• Represented Sterling Capital Partners in its acquisition of Universidad Latina de Costa Rica (ULatina) and Universidad Americana, Costa Rica (UAM) from Laureate Education, Inc.
• Represented Atlantic Street Capital in the formation and investment in United Veterinary Care, LLC and multiple add-on transactions and financing-related issues
• Represented Great Point Partners, LLC in its growth recapitalizations of Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care and Spine & Sport Physical Therapy
• Represented EPiX Therapeutics Inc. in its sale to Medtronic plc
• Represented Varian Medical Systems, Inc. in its acquisitions of Noona Healthcare Oy and Evinance Innovation, Inc.
• Represented Alliance Pharma plc in its acquisitions of exclusive marketing rights to Nizoral from Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (a member of the Johnson & Johnson group companies) and of the worldwide rights to Vamousse from TyraTech Inc.
• Represented Amulet Capital Partners, L.P. in the formation and investment in Children’s Choice Dental, a California-based dental practice management organization, and multiple add-on transactions and financing-related issues
• Represented Sabre Corporation in its acquisition of the Trust Group of Companies, a central reservations, revenue management and hotel marketing provider
• Represented NORMA Group SE in its acquisition of a leading US water management company
• Represented Trinity Industries, Inc. in its $600 million acquisition of the assets of Meyer Steel Structures, the utility steel structures division of Thomas & Betts Corporation, a member of the ABB Group
• Represented C&C Group plc in an exclusive long-term partnership agreement with Pabst Brewing Company for the sale and distribution of C&C Group’s cider brands in the United States
• Represented Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL) in their corporate, governance and media matters, including the organization of the Copa America Centenario in conjunction with the Confederation of North American, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) and the U.S. Soccer Federation
• Represented Xerox Corporation, n/k/a Conduent, Inc., in its acquisition of ISG Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the health care technology firm ISG Services LLC
• Represented Darling Ingredients, Inc. in its €1.6 billion acquisition of the specialty ingredients division of VION Holding N.V. (member of VION Food Group, a global meat processing and food production company based in the Netherlands), and a related $874 million public common stock offering
• Represented AMR Corporation in the preparation and filing of a registration statement on Form S-4 in connection with its $18 billion merger with US Airways Group
• Represented Nokia Networks, a multinational network and telecommunications company, in its acquisition of a U.S. provider of infrastructure and network deployment solutions
• Represented AmerisourceBergen Corp. in its acquisition of a leading provider of oncology-related informatics solutions

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From 2018 to 2021, Wilson served as chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Mergers and Acquisitions Committee, the largest group of its kind in the world. As the creator of the Committee’s influential M & A Deal Points Studies and founding co-chair of the ABA’s Market Trends Subcommittee, Wilson is widely recognized for his thought leadership that continues to shape M&A. And to promote experiential learning by law students in real-world M&A, Wilson founded “The MAC Cup,” the Committee’s national mock M&A negotiation tournament.

Wilson is also a founding co-chair of the University of Texas Mergers and Acquisitions Institute, the US’s leading private company M&A conference since 2005; the founding chair of the International Financial Law Review/Inter-Pacific Bar Association’s Asia M&A Forum in Hong Kong (2005 to 2020), Asia’s leading M&A law conference; and founding chair of the Dallas Bar Association’s Mergers & Acquisitions Section.

Wilson’s leadership extends to diversity in the legal profession, with several transformative “firsts,” including founding/cofounding the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s:

• 50×25 Initiative (to have 50 Asian American general counsels (GCs) in the Fortune 500 by 2025)
• Pipeline Program (to curate and cultivate senior Asian American in-house counsel who are “ready soon” to become Fortune 1000 GCs)
• Partners Committee
• Best Lawyers Under 40 Award.

He is also a founding co-chair of the Texas Minority Counsel Program.

From 2010 to 2023, Wilson taught M&A as an adjunct professor of law at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. He is also a member of (and served in various leadership roles at) the New York-based Committee of 100.

Wilson is a co-founder of The Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc., a national coalition of law firms and Fortune 1000 GCs working to stand up for victims and prevent future acts of anti-Asian violence. In its first two years, the Alliance delivered more than $10 million in pro bono services to victims across the country, including a groundbreaking lawsuit against the San Francisco District Attorney, who was later successfully recalled and removed in 2022.

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• Chambers USA, Texas Technology: Corporate/Commercial
• Texas Lawyer, Diversity and Inclusion Champion, 2022
• Who’s Who Legal, Global Leader: M&A and Governance, 2022
• D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas, 2011-2012; 2014-2022
• Who’s Who Legal, Thought Leader: M&A, 2021
• Texas Super Lawyers, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2003-2020
• Acritas Star Lawyer

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• Representing Border Control Solutions in its negotiations with various governments for the supply of border control technology and the management of the process at entry ports
• Acted for the Government of Dubai on the Dubai Support Fund related sukuk and EMTN transactions
• Acted for Stoke Mandeville Hospital NHS Trust and South Manchester Healthcare Limited on substantial PFI transactions for the DBFO of various hospitals and related services
• Acted for an Asian Sovereign Wealth Fund on the financing and establishment of a major industrial park
• Acted for Circle Holdings Plc in relation to an investment from a leading PE house and the establishment of various hospital developments
• Notable clients have included Guildhouse Holdings, Conundrum Capital Corporation, Olympus, various Sovereign Wealth Funds and Sandbox Industries

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James also helps clients with employment tax issues (including the taxation of equity incentives), and tax aspects of private equity transactions. He has experience advising on the negotiation of the tax provisions of numerous mergers and acquisitions transactions.

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• Advised UK inbound investors on thin capitalisation, treaty relief and arbitrage issues and negotiating thin capitalisation agreements with Her Majesty’s (HM) Revenue and Customs
• Negotiated advance rulings with HM Revenue & Customs on the tax consequences of inward investment into the UK
• Advised clients on a number of international corporate restructurings, disposals and acquisitions
• Advised clients on investment management structures for funds
• Advising clients on appropriate responses to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative

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