Lisa M. Richman focuses her practice on international dispute resolution matters, with a particular emphasis on international commercial arbitration and public international law.

She has experience representing clients in a broad range of matters, including in the areas of international commercial and investment arbitrations, securities enforcement, securities litigation, general commercial litigation disputes and insurance coverage.

Lisa’s clients have included investors, governments, corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in disputes seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide. Her work has included disputes conducted under ICC, ICSID, ICSID AF, AAA/ICDR, SIAC, HKIAC, JAMS, DIS, LCIA, CPR, Swiss Rules and UNCITRAL Rules as well as pure ad-hoc arbitrations. She has handled disputes in a wide variety of industries with a particular focus on disputes relating to energy, oil and gas, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, licensing, securities, telecommunications, joint ventures and construction.

Lisa also has represented corporations, corporate officers and directors, and individuals in international and domestic arbitrations and litigations in the US and around the world. Complementing her dispute resolution expertise, Lisa has managed internal investigations worldwide and has helped a variety of companies to resolve government investigations, including World Bank Sanctions proceedings. Lisa is listed on the arbitrator list of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), in the LCIA’s database of neutrals and is a member of the SIAC Users Counsel, the ITA Americas Committee and the DIS Rules Revision Committee. She is a native German speaker, and also speaks Spanish and French.

She has received recognition for her expertise as a dispute resolution specialist by, among others, Global Arbitration Review, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation, the Commercial Arbitration Expert Guide, the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, Juve, Super Lawyers and Law360.

While in law school, Lisa was a notes and comments editor for The Tax Lawyer. Following law school, Lisa was a law clerk for the Honorable A. Franklin Burgess, Jr. of the District of Columbia Superior Court.

Leigh-Alexandra Basha focuses her practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning. She counsels an affluent international client base on a wide range of sophisticated matters, including estate and trust administration, family wealth preservation, foreign trust planning, tax compliance, as well as business succession, expatriation, and pre-immigration planning. Leigh is head of the firm’s Washington, DC, Private Client Practice Group.

Leigh was an adjunct professor of wills, trusts and estates at American University Washington College of Law. She lectures and has written extensively about international tax and estate planning issues, and is editor of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Drafting, Compliance, and Administration Strategies, Second Edition.

Kevin Hall concentrates his practice on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions and the formation and operation of private equity funds and family offices. Kevin has extensive experience advising buyers, sellers, and joint venture partners on the tax aspects of complex transactions, with a special emphasis on transactions involving healthcare companies. He also regularly represents fund sponsors in structuring funds across a variety of strategies, including buyout, real estate, credit, growth equity and venture capital, co-investment, fund-of-funds, and secondaries.

Kevin graduated first in his law school class and was a member of the Florida Law Review. He was an adjunct tax professor at the University of Miami School of Law, a Graduate Editor of the Tax Law Review at New York University School of Law, and a legal intern at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel.

Kevin holds an inactive certified public accounting license.

Elizabeth P. Lewis serves as the Firm’s Pro Bono and Community Service Partner. In this role, Elizabeth leads the Firm’s pro bono, community service and charitable giving initiatives. She works closely with the Firm’s Pro Bono and Community Service Committee and senior management to define the Firm’s programmatic mission, identify strategies for growth and launch pro bono and community service initiatives. Elizabeth also regularly collaborates with nonprofit organizations on legal clinics, community service events and other opportunities for social impact.

In addition, Elizabeth regularly represents individual and nonprofit clients on a wide variety of issues ranging from special education, school discipline, family law, tax exemption and a variety of other tax and business law issues, and participates in numerous volunteer and community service activities through the Firm’s Kids First Initiative.

Prior to assuming the role of Pro Bono and Community Service Partner, Elizabeth was a partner in the US and International Tax Group. In that role, she devoted considerable attention to international tax planning for US and non-US-based multinational companies, advising on multi-jurisdictional business structures for US multinationals, focusing on issues that included subpart F and other anti-deferral rules, transfer pricing, sourcing issues, US trade, business or permanent establishment issues, and Section 367.

As one of the Firm’s deputy general counsel, Joshua Rogaczewski focuses his practice on advising McDermott on professional-responsibility, loss-prevention and other compliance-related issues.

Joshua advises the Firm and its professionals in connection with the client-intake process, as issues arise in the course of matters, when and after matters end, and when professionals join or leave the firm. He works with the Firm’s New Business Committee, Client Intake Services, Information Governance, Human Resources, and other departments to minimize McDermott’s risk. Joshua chairs the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee.

In addition to providing in-house training and guidance to the Firm’s professionals, Joshua manages claims against the Firm and the Firm’s responses to subpoenas for documents and testimony of McDermott’s professionals. He also assists in the Firm’s diverse day-to-day compliance efforts.

Prior to joining the General Counsel’s Office, Joshua was a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group, focusing on complex civil litigation in a variety of substantive areas, including retirement-benefit disputes under ERISA and the Labor–Management Relations Act of 1947; challenges to program accessibility under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; trademark disputes; patent-infringement disputes, including those before the U.S. International Trade Commission; challenges to government action under the Administrative Procedures Act; and the False Claims Act. He has experience in both jury and nonjury trials. At the appellate level, Joshua has substantial experience briefing cases for appeal, has argued appeals, and has litigated issues before the Supreme Court.

Joshua current serves as a hearing-committee member for the DC Board of Professional Responsibility, which adjudicates lawyer-misconduct matters for the DC Bar.

William (Bill) P. Schuman focuses his practice on securities and complex commercial litigation, class actions, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) defense litigation, internal investigations and dealer/distributor litigation. Bill also has broad experience representing nonprofits, officers and directors, and attorneys and other professionals in fiduciary duty litigation.

Bill has extensive experience in the field of legal ethics and professional responsibility. He has chaired the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee since 1994 and is an adjunct professor in Legal Ethics at Northwestern University Law School.

Bill also has extensive experience in constitutional law. In 1985, he won an Illinois Supreme Court decision in Sanelli v. Glenview State Bank, regarded as seminal in the area of separation of powers doctrine. In 1993, he won an important decision in the Illinois Appellate Court, on due process grounds, in ChemRex, Inc. v. Illinois Pollution Control Board.

Bill has represented clients in admiralty litigation as well. He was one of the lead counsel representing the ship owner in Grubart v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, where admiralty jurisdiction was upheld in the US Supreme Court in 1995.

Bill has handled litigation in the federal and state courts in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, DC and Wisconsin.

Kristen E. Hazel has extensive experience representing clients in US and international aspects of federal tax matters, including international acquisitions and divestitures, international joint ventures, and capital plan design and implementation, including tax planning with respect to intellectual property. Her work includes both inbound and outbound transactions.

Kristen is the co-head of the Firm’s Captive Insurance Affinity Group. She regularly counsels clients with respect to the tax aspects of organizing, operating and defending captive insurance companies. She is head of the Firm’s New Business Committee and is a member of the Firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee.

Kristen frequently speaks on captive insurance, domestic and international tax topics for various professional organizations.

Kristen is a co-founder of Tax in the City: A Tax Roundtable®, which consists of tax professionals with an interest in discussing substantive tax issues in a collegial and confidential setting.

Advises healthcare providers, from startups to established market leaders, on complex federal and state regulatory and reimbursement matters

Serves as a national authority on the 340B Drug Pricing Program

Counsels clients on fraud and abuse laws, Medicare provider-based and co-location rules, pharmacy laws and licensure, graduate medical education, rural providers, and federally qualified health centers

Advises on the development of innovative healthcare delivery models

Paul F. Lawrence advises for-profit and nonprofit companies in the healthcare services industry on national and regional mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, dispositions and complex business transactions. Paul has developed in-depth knowledge and skill in the representation of for-profit and nonprofit hospitals and health systems, medical groups, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, and governmental and quasi-governmental bodies in the acquisition and divestiture of healthcare services businesses and business lines. Paul’s unique focus on mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry has given him an edge critical to the successful negotiation, documentation and closing of health industry transactions, including the ability to advise clients on current trends and developments. He regularly helps clients navigate the complex healthcare regulatory issues that arise in such transactions. Paul is a practice area lead for McDermott’s health transactions practice.