Job Title Category: Associate

  • Daniela Ordoñez

    Daniela Ordoñez

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    Daniela Ordoñez

    Associate

    New York – 919 Third Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Daniela Ordoñez focuses her practice on employment law. Daniela also maintains an active pro bono practice.

    While earning her law degree, Daniela served as co-president of the Michigan Latinx Law Student Association.

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  • Ruosi Wang

    Ruosi Wang

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    Ruosi Wang

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Ruosi Wang focuses her practice on corporate restructuring and insolvency matters, representing public and private companies, investor groups, and other stakeholders in complex in- and out-of-court proceedings and during periods of financial distress. Her experience includes leveraged recapitalizations, distressed mergers and acquisitions, governance matters, and Chapter 11 cases across a range of industries, including financial services, life sciences, healthcare, industrials, real estate, energy, and consumer products.

    Ruosi began career in banking and finance and practiced at another global law firm prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte. These experiences inform her restructuring practice with a practical, business-oriented understanding of capital structures, risk allocation, and market dynamics. She also maintains an active pro bono practice representing charitable organizations in New York City.

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  • Théo Bertron

    Théo Bertron

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    Théo Bertron

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Théo Bertron focuses his practice on the structuring of alternative investment funds and secondary transactions, including GP‑led transactions.

    He assists management companies with all legal aspects of the legal and tax structuring of investment funds, and advises institutional investors in the context of secondary transactions.

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    Education
    • CY Cergy Paris University, Master’s Degree in Business law (DJCE)
    • University Paris-Panthéon-Assas, BA Laws
    Admissions
    • Paris
    Languages
    • English
    • French
    • Japanese
  • Spencer Thompson

    Spencer Thompson

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    Spencer Thompson

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Spencer Thompson focuses his practice on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. He assists clients in drafting and reviewing employee benefit and equity incentive plan documents and amendments, and counsels on the tax aspects of employment, severance, and incentive compensation arrangements.

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    • Boston College Law School, JD, cum laude
    • Michigan State University, BA, High Honors
    Admissions
    • Massachusetts
  • Christian Ramon Benson

    Christian Ramon Benson

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    Christian Ramon Benson

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Christian Benson focuses his practice on corporate and transactional matters.

    During law school, Christian served as a legal extern for the general counsel’s office of a professional American football team and as a legal intern at a multinational music company.

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    • University of Miami School of Law, LLM
    • University of Miami School of Law, JD, cum laude
    • University of Miami, BS
    Admissions
    • Florida
    Languages
    • English
  • Vera Greco

    Vera Greco

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    Vera Greco

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Vera Greco focuses her practice on corporate and commercial law with particular experience in national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and leveraged buyouts.

    She advises Italian and international clients, including private equity funds and industrial groups, on acquisitions, investments, corporate reorganizations and corporate governance matters.

    Before joining McDermott, Vera worked at several top-tier Italian law firms, advising on sophisticated national and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions for Italian and international clients.

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    • Bocconi University, Law
    • University of Gothenburg School of Business, Economics and Law
    Admissions
    • Milan
    Languages
    • English
    • Italian
  • Vinicius Aquini

    Vinicius Aquini

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    Vinicius Aquini

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Vinicius Aquini focuses his practice on cryptocurrencies, fintech, and financial regulation, with a particular emphasis on blockchain-based financial products and digital asset infrastructure. He advises cryptocurrency platforms, financial institutions, and payment systems on navigating complex regulatory frameworks, including anti-money laundering, sanctions, securities, commodities, banking, and money transmission laws.

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    • New York State Bar Association, International Section, Brazil Chapter, co-chair; International Section, executive committee member; Committee on AI and Emerging Technologies, member
    • New York City State Bar Association, Structured Finance Committee, member
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    Education
    • Cornell Law School, LLM
    • University of Coimbra, PhD
    • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LLM
    • Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, JD equivalent
    Admissions
    • New York
    • Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
    Languages
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
  • Angelica Maggioni

    Angelica Maggioni

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    Angelica Maggioni

    Associate
    Areas of focus

    Angelica Maggioni focuses her practice on banking and finance, advising financial institutions, companies and investment funds across a wide range of domestic and cross border financing transactions, including real estate, acquisition and corporate finance.

    Before joining the firm, she worked within the banking and finance team of a major Italian law firm in Milan and London.

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    • Advised an Italian energy efficiency company controlled by leading infrastructure and energy investment funds, in connection with a financing granted by a pool of financial institutions for, inter alia, capex and corporate acquisition purposes*
    • Advised a pool of banks in connection with a financing transaction involving the reclassification of the financial indebtedness of a company owning a multifunctional center*
    • Advised a leading real estate fund manager, as borrower, on a real estate financing granted by a newly established direct lending fund for the refinancing of acquisition and development costs of a port logistics asset*
    • Advised a pool of financial institutions in connection with a corporate financing granted to a well-known operating holding company specialized in the production of luxury footwear, apparel and accessories*
    • Advised a major Italian bank in the context of a financing in favor of a railway company controlled by one of the main Italian infrastructure fund manager, for the acquisition of a controlling stake in an Italian target company*
    • Provided ongoing assistance to the private wealth management division of a top-tier investment bank in connection with the granting of financing to individuals and corporate borrowers*

    *Matter handled prior to joining McDermott

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    • Law, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
    Admissions
    • Milan
    Languages
    • English
    • Italian
  • Joseph Anderson

    Joseph Anderson

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    Joseph Anderson

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Joseph Anderson focuses his practice on labor and employment law matters. Joseph’s practice balances regulatory compliance, transactional work, executive compensation, restrictive covenants, commercial and single plaintiff litigation, client advisory, workplace investigations and counseling.

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    • Georgetown University Law Center, JD
    • Relay Graduate School of Education, MA
    • New York University, BA
    Admissions
    • New York
    Languages
    • English
  • Gabrielle Albert

    Gabrielle Albert

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    Gabrielle Albert

    Associate

    New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue

    Areas of focus

    Gabrielle focuses her practice on FinTech and blockchain matters, with an emphasis on complex regulatory and litigation issues affecting participants across the digital asset ecosystem. She is part of the industry’s largest crypto‑exclusive legal team, where members spend 100% of their time on crypto‑related matters. Gabrielle brings her strong interest in Web3 to her practice, working closely with clients to navigate emerging technologies within an evolving legal framework.

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    • Seton Hall University School of Law, JD
    • New York University, BA
    Admissions
    • New York
    Languages
    • English