Paris
Tamila Bellache focuses her practice on employment law and advises on employment contracts, executive hiring, terminations, restrictive covenants, discrimination, working time and trade union matters.
Tamila also assists with the drafting and negotiation of collective agreements and advises on matters involving employee representative bodies.
Her experience encompasses both advisory and contentious employment matters, including proceedings before the French labour courts and she also brings a particular interest in the intersection of employment law, technology and innovation.
- University Paris I Panthéon-Assas, Master 2 Employment Law & Practice
- University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master 1 Employment Law
- University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Law Degree
- Paris
- English
- French
Malachi Clemons
New York – 919 Third Avenue
Malachi Clemons focuses his practice on investment funds.
- Howard University School of Law, JD
- Oberlin College, BA
- New York
- English
Ronak Thakkar
London – 22 Bishopsgate
Ronak advises private equity sponsors (and their portfolio companies), bank lenders, credit funds and corporate borrowers on the financings behind complex transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged and event-driven acquisition financings, infrastructure financings and restructurings.
At McDermott, Ronak is a senior member of the London finance team, working within the firm’s integrated cross-border M&A and finance platform on private equity and corporate transactions.
Prior to joining the firm, Ronak was a senior associate in the finance teams of two leading international law firms in London. He has spent over 7 years advising on Indian law matters relating to cross-border financings, restructuring processes and complex exchange control issues.
Ronak is a registered foreign lawyer in England & Wales and qualified to practice as an advocate in India.
- Advised OpenGate Capital on its carve-out acquisition of Maersk Training A/S, including its subsidiary Maersk H2S Safety Services, from A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S.
- Advised lenders on the financing supporting a £2 billion acquisition of a UK fibre network business, creating a significantly scaled fibre network backed by leading global infrastructure investors. *
- Advised mandated lead arrangers and lenders on the financing for a €1 billion acquisition of a European dental services group, including a €520 million syndicated Term Loan B and €100 million revolving credit facility. *
- Advised financing sources on €730 million of syndicated financing supporting the acquisitions of two European promotional/ fashion products businesses, comprising a €600 million Term Loan B and €130 million revolving credit facility. *
- Advised financing sources on senior and super-senior debt supporting the acquisition of a leading UK and Ireland occupational healthcare services provider by a global private equity sponsor. *
- Government Law College, Mumbai, LLB
- England & Wales
- English
- Hindi
- Gujarati
Noah S. Graves
New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Noah S. Graves focuses his practice on investment funds.
During law school, Noah was a notes editor and staffer for the Columbia Business Law Review.
- Columbia Law School, JD, 2025
- University of Massachusetts Amherst, BA, cum laude, 2020
- New York
- English
Carlos Pozuelo
Chicago
Carlos Pozuelo focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, corporate compliance matters, and data privacy. He represents middle-market private equity firms and public and private companies in domestic and cross-border transactions, advising clients in both Spanish and English across a range of industries.
Carlos regularly drafts and negotiates transaction documents, leads due diligence efforts, and collaborates with lawyers across multiple practice areas to help clients navigate complex business transactions.
Drawing on his prior experience as a cyber liability commercial insurance broker, Carlos also provides practical guidance on data privacy and cybersecurity matters, from negotiating privacy-related contractual provisions to managing data breach response and insurance recovery.
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, 2025-2027
- Association for Corporate Growth, member
- Hispanic National Bar Association, member
- Chicago Bar Association, member
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD
- Miami University, BS
- Illinois
- English
- Spanish
Chiara Carta
Milan
Chiara Carta focuses her practice on both national and cross-border M&A transactions, corporate governance matters and general corporate law. She advises Italian and international clients on a broad range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.
Chiara assists clients throughout all stages of a transaction, from legal due diligence and structuring through negotiation, signing and closing. Her experience includes drafting and negotiating key transaction documents, including share purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements and ancillary transaction documentation.
In addition to her core Corporate M&A practice, Chiara has experience in banking and finance and capital markets matters. She has assisted clients in connection with financings involving Italian and international financial institutions and has gained exposure to transactions involving listed companies.
- Assisting an ICT group in connection with its buy-and-build strategy through the acquisition of companies in Italy and abroad active in artificial intelligence, data and analytics, cybersecurity, digital infrastructure, software development and connectivity
- Assisted a leading Italian engineering and technology group in connection with the establishment of a strategic joint venture with an international company active in advanced nuclear technologies, aimed at developing engineering and technical solutions for next-generation modular nuclear reactors
- Assisted the sellers in connection with the sale of a company managing a leading marina in Sardinia to an international operator active in the development and management of premium marinas
- Assisted a global digital asset company in connection with the acquisition of a strategic minority shareholding in the capital of a leading Italian listed football club
- Assisted a pool of seven leading Italian and international banks in connection with a €550 million financing granted to a real estate investment fund reserved for professional investors and managed by a leading Italian real estate asset management company, comprising a refinancing, a new credit facility and a green facility supporting investments in the fund’s real estate portfolio
- Assisted a pool of leading Italian banks in connection with a €650 million financing granted to a leading Italian investment holding group for the refinancing of its existing indebtedness and to support the potential increase of its shareholding in a leading Italian listed company
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Giurisprudenza, Integrated Master’s Degree in Law
- Italy
- English
- Italian
Nina Oat
Washington, DC
Nina Oat focuses her practice on appellate matters and critical motion practice at the trial-court level. She represents clients across a variety of industries, including tech platforms, financial services, and products liability. She has co-authored several briefs in both state and federal court and has argued in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She also maintains an active pro bono practice.
Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Nina served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael F. Urbanski of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia and to the Honorable Loren L. AliKhan of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- District of Columbia Courts, Capital Pro Bono High Honor Roll, 2025
- District of Columbia Courts, Capital Pro Bono High Honor Roll, 2024
- University of Virginia School of Law, JD
- Tufts University, BA, magna cum laude
- District of Columbia
- US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- English
Kevser Sali
Düsseldorf
Kevser Sali advises clients on employment law matters.
Prior to joining McDermott, she gained practical experience in employment law as a legal and research assistant in renowned commercial law firms and during her legal traineeship while practicing at the labor court. She also worked in the area of white-collar crime and compliance.
- Regional Court of Wuppertal, Second State Exam
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, First State Exam
- Germany
- English
- German
- Turkish
Dr. Leon Balkau
Düsseldorf
Dr. Leon Balkau advises clients on employment law matters.
Prior to joining McDermott, Leon worked as a lawyer at a German commercial law firm. He previously gained practical experience in dispute resolution and commercial litigation, particularly in arbitration proceedings and corporate and contractual disputes. During his doctoral studies, he also worked as a research assistant in the area of Corporate/M&A.
- Higher Regional Court of Celle, Second State Exam
- Osnabrück University, Dr. jur.
- Osnabrück University, First State Exam
- Germany
- English
- German
Mathew Slootsky
Miami
Mathew Slootsky advises clients on domestic, international, and multijurisdictional tax matters. Combining sophisticated tax analysis with practical transaction execution, he develops tax-efficient and income tax planning for families with cross-border interests and investments and provides pre-immigration and expatriation planning strategies.
- The Florida Bar, Tax Section
- International Fiscal Association (IFA)
- University of Miami School of Law, JD, cum laude, LLM in Taxation
- University of Florida, BBA
- Florida
- English
