Job Title Category: Associate

  • Galen Spielman

    Galen Spielman

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    Galen Spielman

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Galen Spielman focuses his practice on executive compensation matters. His experience includes advising clients on the compensation-related aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions, including tax, securities law, corporate governance, and disclosure considerations. He has also assisted with the drafting, design, negotiation, and implementation of employment, separation, retention, change-in-control contracts, and cash and equity incentive plans and award agreements.

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    Credentials
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    • New York University School of Law, LLM
    • Washington University School of Law, JD
    • Duquesne University, BM
    Admissions
    • Texas
    Languages
    • English
  • Alan Feinsod

    Alan Feinsod

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    Alan Feinsod

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Alan (Avi) Feinsod focuses his practice on litigation matters. While earning his law degree, he interned at the Office of the Federal Defender for the District of Connecticut.

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    • Yale Law School, JD
    • Touro College Graduate School of Social Work, MSW, honors with distinction
    • Yeshivath Shaar Hotorah – Grodno, BA, Rabbinic Ordination
    Admissions
    • New York
  • Alexis Biegen

    Alexis Biegen

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    Alexis Biegen

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Alexis Biegen focuses her practice on corporate advisory and transactional matters.

    While in law school, Alexis was a summer associate at McDermott. She was also a volunteer student mediator and a senior editor for the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law.

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    • New York University School of Law, JD, with honors
    • Brown University, BA
    Admissions
    • New York
    Languages
    • English
  • Tyler Barton

    Tyler Barton

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    Tyler Barton

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Tyler Barton is a member of the Health & Life Sciences Practice Group, where she focuses her practice on healthcare transactions and regulatory matters.

    While in law school, Tyler served as a certified student attorney at the Boston College Law School Civil Rights Clinic.

    Prior to attending law school, Tyler was an analyst at a public policy think tank, where she worked on issues related to child nutrition, Medicaid financing, telehealth, and rural health.

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    • Boston College Law School, JD
    • George Washington University, MPH
    • University of Maryland, BA
    Admissions
    • New York
  • Marcia Sousa Pereira

    Marcia Sousa Pereira

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    Marcia Sousa Pereira

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Marcia Sousa Pereira focuses her practice on corporate transactions, with an emphasis on private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Marcia advises French, and international companies, private equity funds, as well as managers on all aspects of corporate and financial law.

    Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Marcia was a corporate trainee at several international law firms in Paris and she gained in-house experience at a French investment firm and a global investment management firm.

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    • HEC Paris, LLM, Law & International Management
    • University of Poitiers, Master’s, Business and Contract Law
    • University of Bordeaux, Master’s, Business Law
    • University of Bordeaux, Law & Political Sciences Degree with Law & Languages
    Admissions
    • Paris
    Languages
    • English
    • French
    • Portuguese
    • Spanish
  • Samantha Smart

    Samantha Smart

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    Samantha Smart

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Samantha (Sam) Smart works with clients on identifying, evaluating, and managing global privacy and information security risks and compliance issues. She regularly handles matters related to compliance with US state and federal privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Sam has experience drafting online and offline privacy policies, procedures, and notices, and supports clients in cybersecurity incident response and preparedness activities.

    In her active pro bono practice, Sam has provided legal services to veterans and assisted minors in immigration court matters.

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    • Columbia Law School, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    • Johns Hopkins University, BA
    Admissions
    • New York
    • Texas
  • Maud Moriceau

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    Maud Moriceau

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Maud Moriceau focuses her practice on a broad range of corporate matters related to private equity and M&A transactions, accompanying private equity funds and managers in LBOs.

    Maud has an experience as corporate trainee at several French and international law firms, both in Paris and globally.

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    • University of Rennes
    • Toulouse Capitole University
    • Nantes University
    Admissions
    • Paris
    Languages
    • English
    • French
    • Spanish
  • Ernesto Maria Costantini

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    Ernesto Maria Costantini

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Ernesto Maria Costantini focuses his practice on tax matters. He has a wealth of experience in both tax litigation and taxation surrounding M&A transactions, as well as in depth knowledge of wealth taxation and tax considerations for the energy sector.

    Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Ernesto gained experience working in major Italian tax law firms.

    Results
    • Assisted an international investment fund in acquiring real estate complexes

    *Matter handled prior to joining the firm.

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    Credentials
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    • 24ORE Business School, MA, Tax
    • Libera Università degli Studi Sociali LUISS, BA, Law
    Admissions
    • Milan
    Languages
    • English
    • French
    • Spanish
  • Joshua C. Lee

    Joshua C. Lee

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    Joshua C. Lee

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Joshua C. Lee represents private and public companies, creditors, and investors in complex corporate restructuring and insolvency matters, including bankruptcy proceedings, out-of-court reorganizations, and bankruptcy-related litigation.

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    Results
    • Represented a publicly traded telecommunications company and certain of its affiliates and subsidiaries in connection with their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware*
    • Represented a global financial institution as a debtor-in-possession financing lender in connection with the prepackaged chapter 11 cases of a manufacturer and certain of its affiliates in the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware*
    • Represented a multinational technology company and certain of its subsidiaries in their successful chapter 11 proceeding, including multiple 363 sale processes and a plan of reorganization, allowing the company to continue as a global business on a debt-free basis*

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    Recognitions
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    Credentials
    Education
    • Fordham University School of Law, JD
    • Denison University, BA, cum laude
    Admissions
    • New York
    Languages
    • English
  • Matthew J. Blaney

    Matthew J. Blaney

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    Matthew J. Blaney

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Matthew J. Blaney focuses his practice on federal tax controversy and tax litigation matters. He represents multinational corporations and family offices at all stages of federal tax controversies, including audits, administrative appeals, alternative dispute resolution proceedings, and litigation.

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    Results
    • Advised multinational corporations and family offices in audits
    • Represented a European multinational corporation before the IRS Independent Office of Appeals
    • Represented the estate of a real estate developer in the US Tax Court in a dispute over the inclusion of property in the decedent’s estate

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    Recognitions
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    Credentials
    Education
    • Washington University School of Law, JD
    • Benedictine College, BA
    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Courts/Agencies
    • US Tax Court
    • Supreme Court of Illinois