New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Brittany is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group. She represents private fund clients including private equity funds and funds of funds, venture capital funds and other pooled investment vehicles in connection with formation, capital raising, structuring, formation, investor negotiations and ongoing operations. Brittany also advises asset managers, sponsors, registered brokers, and advisers on onshore and offshore fund compliance, sponsorship of private funds and regulatory matters.
- New York Women’s Bar Association, events committee member
- ABA Business Law Section, member
- ABA Young Lawyers Division, member
- Drexel University Kline School of Law, JD
- Temple University, BA
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
Cindy D. Ham
New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Cindy D. Ham focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts and arbitration proceedings. She has represented clients in disputes involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, ERISA, antitrust, and securities claims.
Cindy maintains an active pro bono practice involving unemployment insurance appeals and criminal appeal matters.
- New York City Bar Association
- Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York
- Washington University School of Law, JD, cum laude
- New York University, BA
- New York
- US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- US District Court for the Southern District of New York
- US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Cathy Lee
Washington, DC
Cathy Lee focuses her practice on privacy and cybersecurity matters, advising clients on both domestic and international privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and US state data breach notification laws.
- District of Columbia Courts, Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2023
- George Washington University Law School, JD, cum laude
- Johns Hopkins University, BA
- District of Columbia
Ashley Attia
Orange County
Los Angeles
Ashley Attia is an employment advisor and litigator. Her practice includes representing and counseling companies in a wide range of employment-related matters, including litigation and risk management.
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, JD, magna cum laude
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law, BA
- University of San Diego
- California
- California Superior Court
- US District Court for the Central District of California
- US District Court for the Eastern District of California
- US District Court for the Southern District of California
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- English
- Spanish
Taylor Edward Hood
Houston
Taylor Hood assists healthcare providers and investors with structuring and executing a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic arrangements. With a particular focus on the Texas market, he helps clients navigate the unique corporate practice of medicine laws, state licensure issues, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute matters, as well as rules related to government and private reimbursement. In addition to leading transactions involving physician practice management (PPM) companies and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), Taylor also advises healthcare companies on a variety of regulatory and policy matters. He has advised both payors and providers on issues that arise in the managed care sector, including provider payments, health benefits, and insurance practices, and provided counsel to clients in arbitration and before state medical boards, including the Texas Medical Board.
- Legal 500 US, Recommended, 2025
- University of Houston Law Center, JD, cum laude
- Duke University, MS, cum laude
- Texas A&M University, BS
- Texas
- US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Mary Hecht
Paris
Mary Hecht focuses her practice on EU competition and antitrust matters.
Before joining McDermott, Mary worked in a wealth management firm. She was an intern in several French law firms specialized in competition law and also interned at Samsung Electronics and at Euro Disney.
- Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended Lawyer, 2025-2026
- University Paris 5 Descartes, Master 2 Juriste d’affaires, MA
- University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence Droit privé, MA
- University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Licence Droit privé, BA
- Paris
- English
- French
Charlotte Moorhouse
London – 22 Bishopsgate
Charlotte Moorhouse focuses her practice on employment matters. She advises clients across a broad range of industry sectors in all areas of contentious and non-contentious UK employment law.
Charlotte’s practice covers all aspects of UK employment law and day-to-day employment matters, including appointments and terminations, employment status and worker classification issues, employment policies and staff handbooks, disciplinary and grievance issues, restructuring and redundancy exercises, settlement agreements and employee data privacy.
Charlotte advises on the full range of contentious employment matters, including claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract.
As part of her non-contentious work, Charlotte advises on the employment aspects of all types of corporate transactions, including share sales, business transfers and joint ventures.
- Advising a variety of clients in respect of executive terminations, including pre-termination negotiations and the conclusion of settlement agreements
- Advising a leading global manufacturer in respect of a reorganisation of its UK workforce entailing a collective redundancy consultation
- Successfully defending a whistleblowing claim against a senior executive at a preliminary stage of proceedings
- Advising a global healthcare provider on the exits of its senior leadership team
- Legal 500 UK, Recommended, 2025
- Employment Lawyers Association (ELA)
- BPP Law School, LPC
- University of East Anglia, LLB
- England & Wales
Ryan Forman
Miami
Ryan Forman focuses his practice on transactional work, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures involving private equity sponsors and private companies. He also provides corporate counseling to clients and portfolio companies regarding corporate governance and post-merger integration matters. He has represented clients and investors across various industries, including healthcare, transportation and logistics, and industrials.
- Represented H.I.G. Capital, LLC in its:
- Carve-out acquisition of the bone and spine business division of medical device manufacturer ZimVie Inc. (n/k/a Highridge Medical)
- Acquisition of Family Entertainment Group LLC, an industry-leading designer, developer, and operator of amusement facilities that provides turnkey outsourced facility management services of arcade operations for resorts, hotels, casinos, and amusement parks
- Sale of Lipari Foods, a leading specialty food distributor, to Littlejohn & Co.
- Acquisition of Barton Associates, a leading national locum tenens physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, certified registered nurse anesthetist, and dentist staffing and recruiting firm
- Sale of its majority interest in its portfolio company, Milestone Technologies Inc., to The Halifax Group
- New York City Bar Association, member
- New York State Bar Association, member
- New York University School of Law, JD, Robert McKay Scholar, cum laude
- Washington University in St. Louis, BA, summa cum laude
- Florida
- New York
- English
Rafael Calatrava
New York – One Vanderbilt Avenue
Rafael Calatrava is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group. He focuses his practice on advising private fund clients on the structuring, formation and operation of investment funds. Rafael also has a background in corporate advisory matters including mergers & acquisitions and general corporate matters.
- Columbia Law School, LLM
- University of Valencia, LLB
- New York
- Spain
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
Maria Abadia
Miami
Maria Abadia focuses her practice on corporate finance matters. Maria represents private and public corporate borrowers, financial institutions, project sponsors and debt investors in a variety of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Maria’s experience also includes drafting and negotiating a broad range of credit facilities, including term, revolving, asset-based, secured and unsecured, syndicated, senior and subordinated facilities, which encompass a broad spectrum of industries and business sectors.
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, LLM
- Universidad de los Andes, LLM (Tax Law), JD
- Universidad Externado de Colombia
- Universidad de los Andes
- Florida
- New York
- Colombia
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish