Bréa Kamtcheu focuses her practice on fund structuring. She advises clients on the legal structuring of various types of investment funds and in secondary transactions.
Bréa advises management companies on regulatory and fundraising issues and assists investors with their primary investments. Her practice also includes advising on secondary transactions involving the sale of an existing fund’s portfolio to new funds.
Houda Bourrich focuses her practice private equity funds structuring and secondary transactions. She also advises management companies, institutional investors, family offices and investment firms on regulatory issues.
Ofir Tzoubari focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and financings.
During law school, Ofir was a primary editor for the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy and served as a teaching assistant for LLM students. Ofir served as a summer judicial intern for the Honorable Magistrate Judge David D. Noce for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Ofir is a recipient of the Dean’s Service Award.
Results
Represented seller in $110 million sale of a multi-parcel shopping center in Illinois*
Represented borrower in a 29-property multi-lender refinance for $262 million*
Represented private equity firm in a series of dispositions of select services hotels
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Nate McKeon focuses his practice on private client and wealth management matters.
Nate advises high-net-worth individuals and families, family offices, and trust companies on wealth transfer planning; estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax issues; charitable planning; and matters related to trust and estate drafting and administration. He drafts customized estate plans, designs and implements wealth transfer techniques, counsels on trust company management and governance, and handles the formation and administration of charitable organizations.
While in law school, Nate served as an extern for the Honorable John Robert Blakey of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was also community editor for the Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy.
Anouk Edelstein provides the Firm’s private clients and their families with a range of services related to trusts and estates. She strategizes and implements tax-efficient plans by crafting primary estate plans, including wills, revocable and irrevocable trust agreements, powers of attorney, and advance directives. These plans integrate international considerations, prenuptial and marital planning, regulatory compliance, life insurance planning, entity formation and management, and account for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxation issues.
Anouk supports clients with their gifting goals, including creating and administering charitable organizations and preparing gift tax returns. Additionally, she assists families with special needs planning and has experience establishing conservatorships. She also facilitates post-mortem administration, completing trust and estate administrations and probating complex estates in California.
As part of the Firm’s Private Client Disputes Group, Anouk represents fiduciaries in contested matters in state and federal court. She has also assisted clients in obtaining favorable rulings from the Internal Revenue Service.
While in law school, Anouk was a judicial extern for Magistrate Judge Beth W. Jantz of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In addition, she was the managing production editor for the Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy and also served as the communications director of the Women’s Leadership Coalition and vice president of the Real Property Trusts & Estates Legal Society.
At the Firm, Anouk is a co-chair of the Bay Area Associates’ Committee and a member of the Bay Area Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Henri Nalbandyan focuses his practice on mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions involving domestic and international listed and non-listed companies, as well as investment funds.
Marius Schüle focuses his practice on international Venture Debt and Corporate Leverage Finance transactions. He is also active in the field of legal tech, with a focus on artificial intelligence, contract automation and blockchain.
Marius studied law at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. Before joining McDermott as an attorney, he worked as a research assistant at an international business law firm in the area of compliance as well as at McDermott in the area of legal tech. He was also a research assistant for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament, focusing on renewable energies.
Vanessa Ferré focuses her practice on corporate and private equity matters with particular expertise in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and other private equity transactions. She advises French, and international companies and private equity funds on all aspects of corporate law.
Prior to joining McDermott, Vanessa was a corporate trainee in several law firms in Paris.
Charlotte Biscotti focuses her practice on labor and employment law.
She advises French and foreign companies on all aspects of individual and collective labor relations, and has keen insight into privacy related matters, as well as negotiated terminations and settlements.
Charlotte also has experience in internal investigations involving compliance issues or claims of moral and sexual harassment.
Oriane Beauvois focuses her practice on corporate tax matters and provides general tax advice to French and foreign companies. She is particularly skilled in private equity transactions and group restructuring, with additional strength within tax dispute resolution.
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