Michael (Mike) Ryan advises manufacturers, healthcare providers, and investors on the legal, regulatory, and reimbursement/market access issues that arise during the development and commercialization of medical devices, clinical laboratory testing services, biological products, and drugs. He helps clinical laboratories and life sciences companies maintain regulatory compliance and evaluate, develop, and implement strategies to optimize coding, coverage, and payment for novel technologies.

Additionally, Mike helps innovative companies identify and navigate applicable Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory requirements for new technologies, particularly in vitro diagnostics and digital health products. He regularly advises clients on the FDA’s evolving requirements for laboratory developed tests (LDTs) and reviews promotional and marketing materials for FDA-regulated medical products.

Mike also counsels clinical laboratories on state and federal compliance issues, including those under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), state laboratory licensure laws, and billing and reimbursement rules.

Michael Roberts advises clients on issues at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technologies, and crisis management. He provides strategic counsel to clients on managing data risks, enhancing data security programs, preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents, and conducting internal investigations and regulatory defense.

With extensive experience guiding companies through matters before US regulators and agencies, Michael has a comprehensive understanding of how investigations and enforcement actions unfold and how best to advocate for clients. He draws on this deep experience in assisting clients with matters before the CFTC, CISA, DOJ, FCC, FINRA, FTC, HHS OCR, NYDFS, SEC, and state attorneys general.

Michael also regularly advises clients on compliance strategies, product design, privacy program development, and risk management with respect to federal and state privacy and data security laws and regulations. He has guided clients through complex issues on an expansive array of counseling matters, including those that involve compliance with CAN-SPAM, COPPA, FCRA, FERPA, the FTC Act, GLBA, HIPAA, NYDFS Part 500, TCPA, and state privacy laws, as well as industry self-regulation on advertising and PCI DSS. Additionally, Michael regularly counsels clients in evaluating and mitigating data-related risks in complex transactions.

Michael frequently contributes to thought leadership on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI legal issues. He has served as the managing editor for the Practising Law Institute’s Privacy Law Answer Book (2023 and 2024 editions). Michael has also co-authored articles in publications including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Cybersecurity Law Report, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computational Law Report, and the Review of Banking & Financial Services.

Dr. Natallia Karniyevich has more than a decade of experience in European cybersecurity and data protection law and advises multinational companies on complex cybersecurity matters. She helps clients navigate rapid technological change and an increasingly demanding regulatory environment.

Natallia focuses on European cybersecurity regulation and resilience. She supports clients across the full cybersecurity lifecycle – from designing and implementing cybersecurity and resilience programs, delivering cybersecurity training and establishing regulatory compliance frameworks to responding to cybersecurity incidents and managing their regulatory aftermath.

One of the key areas of Natallia’s practice is leading complex, multijurisdictional projects on the implementation of the NIS2 Directive and the Critical Entities Resilience Directive. She also advises clients on emerging and evolving cybersecurity requirements, including those under the Cyber Resilience Act, Cybersecurity Act, Cyber Solidarity Act and DORA, as well as on the cybersecurity dimensions of artificial intelligence, including under the EU AI Act. Her clients include operators of data centers and other digital infrastructure, digital service providers, critical infrastructure operators, and leading companies in the manufacturing, automotive, food, transportation and healthcare sectors.

Natallia is a member of the IAPP Cybersecurity Law Center Advisory Board and a frequent author and speaker on cybersecurity law. She is a co-author, among others, of the ninth edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Cybersecurity 2026 and of Casebook European Data Law – Ten Years of the GDPR: A Milestone in EU Data Regulation (Nomos, 2026), and a guest lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Michael Roberts advises clients on issues at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technologies, and crisis management. He provides strategic counsel to clients on managing data risks, enhancing data security programs, preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents, and conducting internal investigations and regulatory defense.

With extensive experience guiding companies through matters before US regulators and agencies, Michael has a comprehensive understanding of how investigations and enforcement actions unfold and how best to advocate for clients. He draws on this deep experience in assisting clients with matters before the CFTC, CISA, DOJ, FCC, FINRA, FTC, HHS OCR, NYDFS, SEC, and state attorneys general.

Michael also regularly advises clients on compliance strategies, product design, privacy program development, and risk management with respect to federal and state privacy and data security laws and regulations. He has guided clients through complex issues on an expansive array of counseling matters, including those that involve compliance with CAN-SPAM, COPPA, FCRA, FERPA, the FTC Act, GLBA, HIPAA, NYDFS Part 500, TCPA, and state privacy laws, as well as industry self-regulation on advertising and PCI DSS. Additionally, Michael regularly counsels clients in evaluating and mitigating data-related risks in complex transactions.

Michael frequently contributes to thought leadership on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI legal issues. He has served as the managing editor for the Practising Law Institute’s Privacy Law Answer Book (2023 and 2024 editions). Michael has also co-authored articles in publications including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Cybersecurity Law Report, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computational Law Report, and the Review of Banking & Financial Services.

Advises on the structuring, formation and operation of private equity funds, including buyout funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds and litigation financing funds.

Phyllis represents both fund sponsors and investors. In addition to assisting fund sponsors with their internal management arrangements, succession planning, capital call borrowing facilities and formation of co-investment vehicles, she has extensive experience with institutional investors and regularly advises clients on market terms of investment funds. She also advises private equity funds in connection with their capital call credit lines and investments in, and dispositions of, portfolio companies.

Phyllis is recognized as a leading investment management lawyer by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers (Investment Funds, Private Equity) and the Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law (Investment Funds).

A member of New York’s Private Investment Fund Forum, Phyllis frequently shares her insights on effective fund formation strategies at industry conferences and seminars. She recently discussed compliance concerns for co-investments and issues related to fund restructuring and secondary transactions.

Interviewed by Private Funds Management in the article “Ringing the Changes,” Phyllis is also the co-author of Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (Practising Law Institute), which is considered the leading treatise on the subject. She has also contributed to the Fund Formation and Incentives Report (Private Equity International in association with Schulte) as well as a chapter on “Advisers to Private Equity Funds – Practical Compliance Considerations” in Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation, Volume 2 (Practising Law Institute).

Litigates high-stakes antitrust, unfair competition, and consumer protection disputes in court and in government investigations 

Defends class actions and multidistrict litigation 

Represents clients in Federal Trade Commission, US Department of Justice, and California Attorney General’s Office investigations and litigations 

Applies deep experience in California antitrust and unfair competition law, including the Cartwright Act 

Michael Roberts advises clients on issues at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technologies, and crisis management. He provides strategic counsel to clients on managing data risks, enhancing data security programs, preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents, and conducting internal investigations and regulatory defense.

With extensive experience guiding companies through matters before US regulators and agencies, Michael has a comprehensive understanding of how investigations and enforcement actions unfold and how best to advocate for clients. He draws on this deep experience in assisting clients with matters before the CFTC, CISA, DOJ, FCC, FINRA, FTC, HHS OCR, NYDFS, SEC, and state attorneys general.

Michael also regularly advises clients on compliance strategies, product design, privacy program development, and risk management with respect to federal and state privacy and data security laws and regulations. He has guided clients through complex issues on an expansive array of counseling matters, including those that involve compliance with CAN-SPAM, COPPA, FCRA, FERPA, the FTC Act, GLBA, HIPAA, NYDFS Part 500, TCPA, and state privacy laws, as well as industry self-regulation on advertising and PCI DSS. Additionally, Michael regularly counsels clients in evaluating and mitigating data-related risks in complex transactions.

Michael frequently contributes to thought leadership on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI legal issues. He has served as the managing editor for the Practising Law Institute’s Privacy Law Answer Book (2023 and 2024 editions). Michael has also co-authored articles in publications including the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, the Cybersecurity Law Report, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computational Law Report, and the Review of Banking & Financial Services.

Ted Becker is co-head of McDermott Will & Schulte’s ERISA Litigation practice and a Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel.  He focuses his practice on litigation under ERISA and related federal and state actions, and defense of government investigations and audits relating to employee benefit, health and welfare, and retirement plans brought by the US Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and the US Department of Justice. He is a leading voice and nationally recognized practitioner in this complex practice area.

He has represented public and private companies that sponsor employee benefit, health and welfare, and retirement plans governed by ERISA, and their directors and officers and plan fiduciaries, as well as service providers to ERISA plans and plan sponsors. He has extensive experience in Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) and has defended some of the highest profile lawsuits involving ESOPs, helping to define the landscape of the evolving law relating to ESOPs.

Ted has a considerable experience in trial and appeals courts, including arguing before the United States Supreme Court and several United States Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also has represented clients in arbitration proceedings. He has represented clients across the full spectrum of litigation, from avoidance, dispute resolution and pre-litigation planning, through dispositive motions, discovery, trial and appeal.

Ted’s clients include a number of Fortune 500 companies. He represents both public and private organizations, as well as non-profit organizations.

Asset-backed lending and securitization

Warehouse facilities and secured financings

Specialty finance and esoteric asset transactions

Portfolio acquisitions and financings for investors and lenders

Structured finance, CLOs and alternative assets