Provides multijurisdictional counsel on IP portfolio strategy, including patent prosecution, transactions, and disputes

Focuses on biomedical engineering and life sciences technologies

Handles transactional IP matters, including transaction structuring; portfolio due diligence; and negotiation of collaboration, license, and joint venture agreements

Supports transatlantic disputes, including US district court cases, PTAB proceedings, reexaminations, EPO oppositions, and UPC litigation

Daniel (Danny) J. Bell focuses his practice on domestic and international estate, gift and income tax planning. He has assisted clients with cutting-edge estate, income and gift tax mitigation strategies, including domestic and offshore tax compliance, tax controversy and litigation, pre-immigration, expatriation and business succession planning, estate and trust administration, as well as family multigenerational wealth preservation. Danny has also advised high-net-worth individuals with sophisticated tax and wealth transfer planning and implementation.

Sebastian Orozco advises high-net-worth individuals, families, and fiduciaries on sophisticated US and cross-border estate, gift, and income tax matters. His practice encompasses international estate planning, foreign and domestic trust planning, structuring US and foreign investments, wealth preservation, and U.S. tax compliance. 

Sebastian has particular experience with preimmigration and expatriation planning. He counsels clients on trust classification and distribution issues, restructuring strategies involving gifts, grantor and nongrantor trusts, and cross-border holdings, and expatriation tax consequences. He also assists US beneficiaries and families with foreign trusts, foreign estates, reporting obligations, and the tax-efficient transfer of wealth across generations and borders. 

Sebastian writes and speaks on cross-border private client planning, pre-immigration and expatriation. Prior to McDermott, he served as a judicial law clerk at the US Tax Court. He earned an LL.M. in Taxation with honors from Georgetown University. 

Raminta Dereskeviciute focuses her practice on product compliance, trade regulation (sanctions and export controls) and ESG. She has significant experience in advising on EU and UK chemical legislation (REACH), product safety and liability rules and frequently represents clients before the European Chemicals Agency Board of Appeal. Raminta also advises businesses on the implications Brexit has in relation to a range of regulatory compliance issues.

Raminta counsels clients on the EU and the UK sanctions regimes and export controls, including in higher risk jurisdictions such as Russia and Iran. Her experience covers the review and design of compliance programs, including giving training to client teams on controlled goods, prohibited jurisdictions, persons and activities. Raminta assists companies in liaising with regulators when assessing whether their activities are in breach of EU or UK sanctions regimes, or whether authorisations / licenses from the national authorities are appropriate. Raminta has participated as a chair and speaker on sanctions related panels at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime.

Raminta has a peerless grasp of EU chemicals, metals and mining policy, including conflict minerals legislation and the issues surrounding ethical supply chain management for these industries. She also advises companies and trade associations on the European Commission’s Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, building upon her long standing experience on legislative developments in the field of chemicals (REACH, CLP, GHS, WFD, Seveso III, RoHS, WEEE and others).  Raminta devises compliance and crisis management programs and assists global industrial products manufacturers with international product recalls. Raminta featured  in Chemical Watch, Bloomberg Environment and numerous other publications discussing EU chemicals and environmental policy, industry compliance and Member State enforcement as well as implications that Brexit will have on various stakeholders. She is a contributor to the most comprehensive book published on REACH, “Best Practice Guide to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006”, by Beck/Hart.

Provides multijurisdictional counsel on IP portfolio strategy, including patent prosecution, transactions, and disputes

Focuses on biomedical engineering and life sciences technologies

Handles transactional IP matters, including transaction structuring; portfolio due diligence; and negotiation of collaboration, license, and joint venture agreements

Supports transatlantic disputes, including US district court cases, PTAB proceedings, reexaminations, EPO oppositions, and UPC litigation

Christopher (Chris) Gladbach is the global co-head of the firm’s Energy & Project Finance Group. He counsels clients on energy mergers and acquisitions (M&A), project development, tax equity, private credit, and project finance transactions.

Chris works with energy clients in structuring complex equity and debt investments. He advises both buyers and sellers in the power sector on M&A, joint ventures, and the development of large-scale energy projects.

Chris leads a task force focused on private credit lending to energy platforms and portfolios. He represents market-leading private credit funds, private equity funds, and institutional investors in portfolio and platform lending and equity transactions and understands the unique challenges and opportunities these clients face.

Chris is recognized nationally for his work in the energy sector. He frequently speaks and writes on topics related to M&A, private equity, and institutional investments in power assets.