Chicago
Teal Trujillo focuses her practice on employee benefits and executive compensation matters for public and private companies. She regularly leads due diligence and advises on liability related to retirement plans, health and welfare plans and executive compensation in stock purchase and asset purchase transactions.
- Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2024–2025
- Cook County Minority Bar Association
- Notre Dame Law School, JD, cum laude
- Saint Louis University, BA, summa cum laude
- Illinois
Michael J. Tang
Los Angeles
Orange County
Michael J. Tang advises high-net-worth individuals, closely held businesses, and family offices on all aspects of income, gift, and estate tax planning. He helps wealthy families and family offices optimize the investment and deployment of family capital in both public and private markets across a variety of asset classes.
- Represented a family in the purchase of a controlling interest of a professional sports franchise across multiple professional sports leagues
- Prepared straightforward and complex estate plans for individuals and families
- Successfully defended a private foundation in an audit performed by the California attorney general involving self-dealing issues
- Implemented multiple gift and generation-skipping tax transfers to irrevocable trusts involving cryptocurrency and unique asset classes
- Asian Pacific American Bar Association, secretary and Executive Committee member of the Board of Governors
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, volunteer
- New York University School of Law, LLM, Tax
- Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law, JD, cum laude
- University of Southern California, BS, cum laude
- California
- English
- Chinese (Cantonese)
Isabelle R. Cunningham
Boston
Isabelle R. Cunningham focuses her practice on regulatory matters, particularly in the area of alcohol and distribution.
Isabelle concentrates her work on tied house law, alcohol distribution issues, franchise law, alcohol advertising, and commercial agreements related to the production, sale and marketing of alcohol products. Additionally, Isabelle advises in-house teams on trade practice issues, new product launches, pre-market label review and wholesaler relations. As an in-house attorney, Isabelle advised senior leadership on supplier’s rights under distribution agreements, wholesaler consolidation efforts and the termination of wholesaler contracts. Isabelle also negotiated commercial agreements related to the marketing and promotion of alcohol products.
- Assisted a senior leadership team managing the Boston Beer and Dogfish Head merger, including nationwide wholesaler consolidation efforts
- Launched products in new and innovative categories
- Reviewed and negotiated large sponsorship and advertising agreements, ensuring compliance with state and federal alcoholic beverage laws
- Northeastern University School of Law, JD
- University of Missouri, BA
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
Daniel A. Fernández
Miami
Daniel (Danny) A. Fernández advises clients on corporate and transactional matters, with a focus on cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures for private equity sponsors and private companies. Danny also provides general corporate counseling to clients and portfolio companies regarding corporate governance and post-merger integration matters. Danny has represented clients and investors across a variety of industries, including healthcare, technology, automotive, transportation & warehousing and retail trade.
- Columbia Law School, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Florida International University, BA
- Florida
- Spanish
- English
Rode Carpio
Miami
Rode Carpio focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation matters. Rode has experience representing plan sponsors, plan trustees and fiduciaries, and employee benefits services providers in disputes related to employee benefits issues, including ERISA class action matters. She frequently assists with coordinating discovery and researching and drafting motions, briefs, pleadings and memoranda.
- Representing an ESOP trustee in an ERISA class action matter involving claims of alleged prohibited transactions and breach of fiduciary duty
- Obtained dismissal of a Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) class action lawsuit on behalf of a large COBRA administrator
- Represented ERISA trustees in connection with multiple Department of Labor investigations into regulatory compliance issues
- University of Miami School of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
- University of Miami, BBA, magna cum laude
- Florida
- US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- US District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- English
- Spanish
Paul-Henry de Laguiche
Paris
Paul-Henry de Laguiche focuses his practice on tax matters, with particular experience in transactional tax, private client and audits. He advises clients in a diverse range of sectors including life sciences, real estate, venture capital and private equity.
- King’s College London, LLM, International Tax
- Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, MA, Business Law & Taxation
- Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, BA, Private Law
- Paris
- English
- French
Marisa E. Poncia
Washington, DC
Marisa (Reese) E. Poncia focuses her practice on antitrust matters and competition law, including antitrust litigation and compliance matters, consumer protection, internal and government investigations, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions.
- The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2023-2025
- US Supreme Court of Virginia Pro Bono Service Honor Roll, 2024-2025
- District of Columbia, Capital Pro Bono High Honor Roll, 2023
- Georgetown University Law Center, JD, cum laude
- Wake Forest University, BS, cum laude
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- English
- Spanish
Thomas Claeßens
Cologne
Düsseldorf
Thomas Claeßens focuses his practice on real estate law. He advises national and international corporations on real estate transactions, project developments and commercial lease agreements including questions of asset and facility management.
As a legal trainee Thomas worked, inter alia, for the German Embassy in Beijing and a leading international law firm in Cologne.
- Regional Court of Aachen, Second State Examination
- University of Cologne, First State Examination
- University College London
- Germany
- German
- French
- English
Halle Strongin
New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Halle Strongin focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation matters in federal and state courts, as well as arbitration proceedings, across the country. Her work includes representing clients in disputes involving ERISA, breach of contract, and common-law theories.
Prior to joining the Firm, Halle was a law clerk to the Hon. Frederic Block of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and to the Hon. Robert A. Richardson of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut.
- Representing a leading health insurer against multiple hospitals alleging improper reimbursement of certain out-of-network emergency claims in the Southern District of Florida; successfully narrowed the hospitals’ causes of action through multiple rounds of motion to dismiss
- Representing a leading health insurer against a group of New Jersey chiropractors in the District of New Jersey alleging violations of ERISA; successfully narrowed the plaintiffs’ causes of action and won dismissal of the associational plaintiff through multiple rounds of motions to dismiss
- Representing a leading health insurer against hospitals alleging improper reimbursement of certain out-of-network emergency claims implicating both Affordable Care Act and ERISA plans in Tennessee federal court
Education
Brooklyn Law School, JD, summa cum laude, 2018
University of Michigan, BA, 2016
Courts/Agencies
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Admissions
New York
Jannika Glendon
London – 22 Bishopsgate
Jannika Glendon focuses her practice on commercial High Court litigation and international arbitration matters, and has experience in contractual disputes, as well as enforcement proceedings, particularly in the energy industry. She also has some experience in private client disputes, including acting for high-net-worth individuals in private trust disputes and contested estate disputes.
- Representing a UAE-based IOC in two PCA-administered ad hoc arbitrations against a Middle-East NOC in relation to its total failure to supply pursuant to a long-term gas supply agreement, including:
- Successfully defending the US$2.4 billion award in challenges to the English High Court and Court of Appeal pursuant to ss.67, 68 and 69 Arbitration Act 1996, as well as obtained a favourable finding pursuant to s.423 of the Insolvency Act 1986.
- Acted in ongoing second arbitration with claims of up to US$30 billion.
- Advising a Balkan State and two government-owned entities in relation to two related LCIA arbitrations regarding a contract dispute in connection with an investment in the tourism sector.
- Advising a healthcare company in two parallel LCIA arbitrations for breach of warranty, including against the W&I Insurer.
- Representing healthcare companies in public procurement challenges against NHSE.
- The Best Lawyers in United Kingdom, “Ones to Watch” in Trusts and Personal Tax Law, 2024-2025
- The Legal 500 UK, Recommended Lawyer in Contentious Trusts and Probate, 2023
- Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales, 2026
- Co-head of the McDermott Diversity Committee Mentoring Working Group
- Member of the Justice, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Committee
- University of Law, LPC 2017
- University of Essex, LLB (Hons)
- England and Wales