Allison Wilkerson focuses her practice on employee benefits matters. She has extensive experience handling issues pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).

With respect to ERISA, Allison focuses on compliance issues and the Internal Revenue Code related to employee benefits, including qualified plans, nonqualified plans, and executive and deferred compensation. While advising employers on the design, implementation and administration of tax-qualified retirement plans and nonqualified retirement plans, Allison provides relevant guidance as to administrative and operational matters, and assists clients with various benefit plan correction programs offered by the Department of Labor (DOL) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Allison also has advised employers with respect to issues raised in connection with corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures as they relate to the various benefit plans maintained by the affected corporate entity or entities.

Allison focuses her ESOP practice on the design and implementation of ESOP transactions and provides ongoing legal counsel to ESOP-owned companies. She has been involved in hundreds of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, mergers, acquisitions, and the structuring and financing of ESOPs using private equity. She has advised employers on the implementation of nonqualified plans and executive compensation arrangements that complement the employee ownership structure and culture inherent in an ESOP-owned company. Allison also represents independent fiduciaries in their role as purchaser in an ESOP transaction as to their legal duties with respect to their representation of ESOP participants and beneficiaries.

Allison writes and speaks frequently on ERISA and ESOP issues.

Counsels healthcare and life sciences clients on government investigations, regulatory compliance, and compliance program development  

Represents clients in False Claims Act qui tam matters, government audits, civil monetary penalty and exclusion investigations, and CMS suspension and revocation actions  

Advises on the Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law, and on Medicare and Medicaid coverage and payment rules  

Negotiates and implements corporate integrity agreements and makes government self-disclosures 

Anh B. Lee focuses her practice on corporate finance, with an emphasis on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, alternative and direct lenders, public companies, and other privately held businesses. Her representative matters range from leveraged buyouts, secured bond offerings, working capital financings, restructurings and workouts, recurring revenue financings, special situation transactions, and fund subscription facilities. Anh has negotiated and closed transactions in a diverse group of industries, including healthcare, software, retail, financial services, and industrials. Her transactions span the capital structure and vary in size from lower middle-market deals to transactions valued in the multi-billions.

Crain’s Chicago Business recently included Anh on its list of “Notable Women in Law 2022”.

Anh is a co-partner in charge of the Chicago Transactions practice group and the partner in charge of the Firm’s Associates Committee.

She has an active pro bono practice, having obtained clients U-visas, legal permanent residency and relief under the Violence Against Women Act. She has also successfully assisted several transgender clients with legal name changes.

Byron S. Kalogerou is the founder of the Firm’s Life Science Industry Group and the senior partner in the Boston Corporate Practice. He helps clients execute on their growth strategies by guiding them through complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures and alliances. He also assists early stage life science companies in their capital raising efforts. Byron has extensive industry background in the life science, industrial and manufacturing sectors. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies.

Byron spent 18 years in-house, where he served in various general counsel roles at Tyco International, including as general counsel of its fire and security and telecom businesses, and as general counsel of its international legal department, a function he created. Byron led many of Tyco’s largest acquisitions, including the $12 billion acquisition of AMP Inc. and the $850 million purchase of AT&T Submarine Systems, and handled hundreds of middle-market deals around the globe. Byron also handled Tyco’s initial foray into medical devices and led many of the deals that formed Covidien, now part of Medtronic.

Byron returned to law firm life 18 years ago with a desire to bring his keen sense of the “voice of the customer” to drive predictability, value and efficiency into the deal process. Byron is a legal project management pioneer and co-chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions’ Task Force on Legal Project Management. He is co-editor of the ABA Guidebook “Using Legal Project Management in Merger & Acquisition and Joint Venture Transactions”, now in its third edition. Byron also created the first-of-its-kind web-based collaborative deal management portal, which the Firm adopted and embraced as part of Client Central. He is also one of the Firm’s primary contacts with the Association of Corporate Counsel.

Anthony Paronneau focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, and healthcare sectors.

He has extensive experience representing life sciences companies, private equity funds, and venture capital firms in complex M&A and private equity transactions, including acquisitions, venture financings, joint ventures, and divestitures.

Anthony regularly advises emerging growth companies and VC investors on the structuring and negotiation of early- and late-stage funding rounds, and has acted on numerous high-profile cross-border and domestic transactions involving leading innovators in the healthtech and biotech spaces.

In addition, he counsels life sciences clients on strategic partnerships, collaborations, licensing agreements, and distribution arrangements, supporting their growth and commercialization strategies across all stages of development.

Richard C. Call focuses his practice on a broad range of state and local tax matters, including litigation, advisory, and transactional work. He represents clients in proceedings before administrative bodies, trial courts, and appellate courts across multiple jurisdictions.

Corporate Income Tax Litigation and Transactions: Richard has significant experience with all major areas of corporate income tax, advising clients on complex issues such as nexus, apportionment, addbacks, transfer pricing, and combination . He represents clients on transfer pricing and alternative apportionment issues in various states, including Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina. He also regularly works with clients to evaluate and efficiently structure state income and franchise tax related to mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.

Sales Taxes and Company Business Models: Richard advises clients on sales tax issues that are affecting their overall business models, helping companies structure transactions to mitigate sales tax exposure, which often results in significant savings. As states increasingly expand the taxation of software, digital products, and services, he assists companies in identifying and managing their exposure to such taxes, particularly in advance of mergers, acquisitions, and other liquidity events.

Personal Income Tax Residency: Richard routinely advises clients on residency for various states, including New York, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois

Speeches and Publications: Richard frequently speaks on state and local tax issues and has presented before organizations such as the NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Council On State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, and the Practising Law Institute. He also publishes frequently on state and local tax topics, with articles appearing in several publications, including Tax Notes State, Bloomberg BNA Weekly State Tax Report, Bloomberg BNA Multistate Tax Report, Tax Executive, Journal of State Taxation, Boston Business Journal, and NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation.