Jeremy counsels employers on a full spectrum of workplace issues, including personnel policies and practices, employee classifications, separations, terminations and layoffs, performance management, internal complaints and investigations, restrictive covenants and dispute resolution measures.

Jeremy also has experience defending companies against lawsuits brought under Title III of the ADA, California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Florida Civil Rights Act, New York State Civil Rights Law and other similar state laws. These matters have involved a broad range of accessibility issues, including but not limited to architectural barriers, mobility devices, websites, service animals and communication technologies.

Jeremy maintains an active pro bono practice, and has represented clients, including disability rights organizations, in various matters.

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• Represented eye care device company in a race and national origin discrimination matter and secured a defense verdict after a two-week jury trial
• Represented national chain of retail stores and defeated a collective action seeking off-the-clock wages under the FLSA
• Represented pharmaceutical company and successfully obtained the district court’s grant of summary judgment of plaintiffs’ wage and hour claims
• Represented life sciences company and successfully defeated class certification of a frequency-of-pay lawsuit
• Represented entertainment company and prevailed in an ALJ hearing involving disability access claims under the Florida Civil Rights Act
• Represented leading cosmetics and skin care company and achieved dismissal of several employment discrimination complaints filed with state administrative agencies

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• Benchmark Litigation 2020: Labor & Employment Star
• Washington Lawyers’ Committee Outstanding Achievement Award 2007 and 2014

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Alex also litigates ERISA cases alleging breach of fiduciary duty, representing 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plan sponsors and fiduciaries in class actions. He has represented clients across industries and the country in vigorously defending claims of alleged fiduciary mismanagement of retirement plans and self-dealing.

Additionally, Alex has extensive experience in product liability and toxic tort litigation. He has served as national coordinating counsel, helping to manage the defense of a significant docket of wrongful death and personal injury cases stemming from legacy asbestos liabilities. As part of this work, Alex develops and implements case strategy and oversight of all aspects of the litigation, including fact investigation and discovery, integration of causation science, motion practice, expert witness development, defense of corporate representative witnesses, mediations and settlement negotiations, trials and appeals.

Alex maintains an active pro bono practice representing clients seeking asylum before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and representing Veterans of the US Military in efforts to obtain disability and other military retirement benefits.

Alex is an active member of the Military Spouse JD Network, a bar association of Military Spouse attorneys advocating for licensing accommodations and employment opportunities for military spouse attorneys. Alex is married to an active-duty United States Marine Corps Officer and has undertaken multiple Permanent Change of Station moves, working in several of the Firm’s offices because of his status as a military spouse.

While at Harvard, Alex was a member of the varsity football team, where he was part of two Ivy League Championship seasons. Alex continues to be involved in football, coaching and refereeing in youth football leagues.

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Kevin is a prolific writer and lecturer on a variety of tax topics, and is an active member of the Firm’s Pro Bono and Community Service Committee. He is an editor of the Firm’s Tax Controversy 360 blog.

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• Growmark, Inc. v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 23797-14)
• Ag Processing, Inc. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 23479-14)
• Print Media LLC, Cerberus YP LLC, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 2716-21)
• Lisa Mather v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 14444-21)
• Prime Healthcare Services – Montclair LLC v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 6721-19 (2019))
• Illinois Tool Works, Inc. v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo. 2018-121)
• Carlos O. Vargas v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 4793-18L)
• YP LLC v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket Nos. 34101-18, 23295-18)
• PDV Holding, Inc. v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 22643-18)
• Uxbridge Solar LLC v. United States, 1:17-cv-00695-CFL (Fed. Cl.)
• CTC MA I, LLC v. United States, 1:17-cv-00498-LKG (Fed. Cl.)
• Kleen Tech Solutions, LLC v. United States, 1:17-cv-00999-SGB (Fed. Cl.)
• DiMare, Inc. v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 24396-13)
• John Hancock Life Ins. Co. v. Commissioner and Manufacturers Investment Corp. v. Commissioner, 141 T.C. No. 1 (2013)
• Mohammad A. Kakeh & Toni L. Kakeh v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 10728-13L)
  
• Goodrich Corp. v. United States, 2012 US Dist. LEXIS 5301 (W.D.N.C. Jan. 18, 2012) and Goodrich Corp. v. Commissioner, No. 29180-09 (Tax Ct. filed December 8, 2009)
• Capital One Fin. Corp. v. Commissioner, 659 F.3d 316 (4th Cir. 2011), aff’g 130 T.C. 147 (2008) and 133 T.C. 136 (2009)
• James Allen Barksdale v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 17696-08)
• Dragon Coeur LLC I-D Partnership; Edward H. Arnold, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner (Tax Court Docket No. 11305-07)

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Clients appreciate Ryan’s courtroom experience ranging from jury and bench trials to Chapter 11 confirmation trials and appeals, as well as his track record of courtroom success. Ryan helped lead a McDermott team that resolved 10,116 cases by first responders, union workers, and volunteer debris removal personnel in In Re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, and then recovered hundreds of millions of dollars in London market coverage for the City of New York’s captive insurer. Ryan’s work for the City’s captive insurer, which Congress formed after 9/11, earned him the prestigious Financial Times Innovative Lawyers award in 2012.

Ryan’s experience covers general liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, employers’ practices liability, cyber, property (including business interruption), marine, inland marine, fiduciary, and crime coverages. Ryan also has reinsurance arbitration, class action defense, and multidistrict litigation experience. He has reconstructed lost insurance programs, tried missing policy cases, and underwritten first-of-kind coverages in the US and international insurance markets. Earlier in his career, Ryan was an editor of the American Bar Association’s Manual on Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation and was named one of five insurance lawyers in the United States to watch.

Ryan represents hedge funds and private equity clients with respect to insurance coverage issues in transactional settings and has helped to underwrite dozens of representations and warranties insurance, tax liability, tail, and other transactional insurance products. He represents two professional sports leagues regarding their league-wide player disability insurance programs and provides insurance counseling for McDermott’s globally acclaimed private family practice.

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• Represented the WTC Captive Insurance Company with respect to its defense and historic $712.5 million settlement of 10,116 bodily injury and medical monitoring lawsuits against the City of New York and 140 of its contractors arising out of the rescue, recovery and debris removal efforts at Ground Zero and elsewhere on and after September 11, 2001 (In re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, Nos. 21 MC 100, 21 MC 102, and 21 MC 103, US District Court for the Southern District of New York); also represented the WTC Captive with respect to its recovery of over $200 million from London Market Insurers following successful coverage litigation (WTC Captive Ins. Co., Inc. v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co., et al., No. 1:07-cv-01209, US District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• Represented a commercial insurer and served as liaison counsel to 12 other insurers of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles with respect to its $660 million settlement of 517 sexual abuse cases, the Archdiocese’s settlement with its insurers, and those insurers’ settlement with approximately thirty of the Archdiocese’s co-defendants and their insurers; lead reinsurance counsel for the commercial insurer with respect to its cessions arising from the settlement (The Clergy Cases I, Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding No. 4286, Los Angeles Superior Court)
• Represented a commercial insurer with respect to a successful petition for writ of mandamus arising out of a failed mediation of 90 clergy sexual abuse cases against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange [County, California] (Travelers Cas. & Surety Co. v. Superior Court, 126 Cal. App. 4th 1131 (2005), cert. denied, No. S132595 (Cal. 2005))
• Represented a national healthcare provider in a bad faith insurance dispute arising out of the defense of a pharmaceutical malpractice case (Young v. HomeChoice Partners, Inc., No. 08C-10957-4, Circuit Court for Gwinnett County, Georgia)
• Represented The Church Insurance Company in insurance coverage, bad faith and fraud litigations and in reinsurance arbitrations arising out of approximately 75 childhood sexual abuse claims (Bd. of Trustees of Porter-Gaud School v. The Church Ins. Co., No. 2-01 0631 18, US District Court for the District of South Carolina)

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• Financial Times, 2012 recipient of Innovative Lawyers award for his work negotiating and drafting a 600-page settlement agreement and 25 administrative process agreements that resolved 10,116 tort cases against the City of New York and 140 of its private contractors in In Re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation by creating a neutral-administered claims evaluation process to distribute fairly and efficiently $712,500,000 million in settlement proceeds to first responders and others alleging injuries due to their work at Ground Zero and elsewhere in Lower Manhattan on and after 9/11
• Law 360, Rising Star and named “one of five insurance attorneys under 40 to watch” in the United States, 2011
• American Bar Association, selected by his peers as an editor of the Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation Handbook, which was published in October 2010

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His track record includes more than a dozen spin-offs for publicly traded companies, along with several for privately held companies. He frequently serves as lead tax counsel on significant public and private M&A transactions.

Tim’s work spans the full spectrum of sophisticated tax planning for public and private multinational enterprises. In addition to third-party transactional matters, he counsels clients on post-acquisition integration and internal cross-border restructuring matters. He regularly assists clients in obtaining private letter rulings and other IRS guidance. He also counsels clients on international tax issues, including tax-efficient repatriation strategies, tax basis planning, supply chain planning, principal structures, and foreign tax credit planning.

When disputes arise, Tim represents clients before the IRS in audits and appeals, navigating issues involving worthless stock losses, foreign tax credits, and transactional matters from third-party and internal transactions. He also advises on tax issues involving private equity funds and regulated investment companies.

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• Represented Chevron Corporation as special tax counsel in its announced acquisition of Noble Energy
• Represented Krispy Kreme in the sale of a majority stake in Insomnia Cookies
• Represented Coty in its disposition of a 60% stake in its professional beauty business to KKR and follow-on dispositions
• Represented Coty in its acquisition of a 20% stake in Kim Kardashian West’s beauty business
• Represented JDE Peet’s as US tax counsel in its initial public offering
• Represented JAB Holding Company in its acquisitions of Compassion-First Pet Hospitals and National Veterinary Associates
• Represented Coty in its $600 million acquisition of a 51% stake in Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics and skin business
• Represented Belden Inc. in the disposition of its Grass Valley media business
• Represented Keurig Green Mountain in its combination with Dr Pepper Snapple Group to form Keurig Dr Pepper
• Represented JAB Holding Company in a number of transactions in the food and beverage industry, including its acquisitions of Panera Bread Company, Keurig Green Mountain, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group
• Represented Dover Corporation in its spin-off of its upstream oil and gas business, Apergy Corporation
• Represented CVS Health in its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna
• Represented Coty in its $12.5 billion “reverse Morris Trust” acquisition of beauty brands from Procter & Gamble
• Represented Tyco International in its merger with Johnson Controls, Inc.
• Represented a Fortune 500 health care company on post-acquisition integration of an acquired business
• Represented D.E. Master Blenders 1753 BV in its global coffee joint venture with Mondelez International
• Represented NACCO Industries, Inc. in its spin-off of Hamilton Beach Brands and Hyster-Yale Materials Handling
• Represented Belden, Inc., in its acquisition of Tripwire for $710 million
• Represented a Fortune 500 consumer products company in the restructuring of foreign holding companies
• Represented a Fortune 500 consumer products company in the structuring of internal transactions preparatory to external spin-off

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• International Tax Review, Tax Impact Deal of the Year, 2021
• The American Lawyer, Dealmaker of the Week
• Law360 Rising Star, 2020
• Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, 2027

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Dale advises international clients on entering the US healthcare market and also works closely with colleagues at McDermott’s European and Asian offices to offer strategic guidance to US-based clients looking to break into new markets. He also assists US health systems in addressing issues related to their international patient programs.

Recently, Dale served as lead transaction counsel for a top health system in a collaboration arrangement with a prominent life sciences firm that enabled sharing health data for research and development and to improve health system laboratory functions. He also recently led a team to assist a health system in the acquisition of a financially distressed municipal hospital. Dale also advised a leading health system in establishing telemedicine-based health programs in Asia and South America.

Together with a noted trade association, Dale assisted in the development of white papers and guiding principles for virtual care and related subjects. Additionally, he serves on the advisory council of the Children’s Health Fund.

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• Facilitated a noted trade association in the development of white papers and guiding principles for virtual care and related subjects.
• Advised a leading health system in establishing telemedicine-based health programs in Asia and South American.

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• Advised the shareholders of La Compagnie des Desserts in its sale to PAI
• Advised Sensorion (Euronext Growth) in its private placement to US and EU investors
• Advised Maat Pharma (Euronext) in its IPO and subsequent private placements
• Advised DBV Technologies (Euronext and Nasdaq) in multiples private placements
• Advised the Engie Group in multiple investments and divestments
• Advised the Madrigall Group (including Gallimard and Flammarion) in multiple investments and divestments (including the acquisition of Les Editions de Minuit)
• Advised the Pierre Fabre Group in multiple investments and divestments (including the sale of Galenic and Elancyl)
• Advised the acquirer of Corsica Ferries
• Advised Scor in the sale of one of its subsidiaries
• Advised Engie in the sale of multiple solar plants to a German fund
• Advised the Argos Wityu funds in the acquisition of Juratoys
• Advised the Argos Wityu funds in the acquisition of La Compagnie des Desserts
• Advised Rougier Group in the sale of one of its subsidiary in a restructuring context
• Advised Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on its joint bid with Siemens to create a partnership with Alstom in the energy field
• Advised Colliers on the acquisition of a control stake of AOS Studley

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