Julie has extensive experience defending companies against disability access claims brought under Title III of the ADA, the California Unruh Civil Rights Act, the Florida Civil Rights Act, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and other state accessibility statutes, including cases involving mobility and caregiver access and alleged barriers to access.

Hand-in-hand with her litigation practice, Julie advises employers on a range of employment and workplace issues, such as personnel policies and practices, employment contracts, employee separations and terminations and internal investigations.

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• Obtained dismissal of lawsuit alleging discrimination under federal and state law brought by persons with mobility and psychiatric disabilities
• On behalf of leading entertainment companies, prevailed on multiple age, disability and religious discrimination complaints filed with state administrative agencies
• Advised employers in internal workplace investigations involving allegations of sexual harassment and race and sex-based discrimination

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Alex has advised on numerous spinoff transactions, divestitures, public offerings, and US and cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies. He frequently counsels on tax-free reorganizations and optimization of existing operating structures as well as international tax issues, including tax-efficient repatriation strategies, tax basis planning, supply chain planning, principal structures, and foreign tax credit planning.

Additionally, Alex regularly advises on tax structuring and strategies to optimize tax efficiency in US inbound and outbound investments. His experience spans various business contexts, including closely held business and investments of entrepreneurial families as well as cross-border investments by multinationals and private equity funds.

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• Represented Independence Pet Group in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth Inc., its acquisition of the majority interest in Pumpkin Insurance Services Inc., and its acquisition of FIGO Pet Insurance LLC
• Represented National Veterinary Associates in its $1.1 billion acquisition of SAGE Veterinary Partners, its $1.65 billion acquisition of Ethos Veterinary Health, including the subsequent hospital divestitures, and the acquisition of Compassion-First Pet Hospitals
• Represented Keurig Dr Pepper in a number of transactions, including its $863 million investment in Nutrabolt, its $300 million acquisition of a 33% stake in La Colombe, and other partnership ventures
• Represented Chevron Corporation as special tax counsel in its $13 billion acquisition of Noble Energy
• Represented CVS Health in its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna
• Represented Ampersand Capital Partners in its investment in Vivitide and its subsequent merger with Biosynth Carbosynth, a UK-based KKR portfolio company, as well as numerous other cross-border acquisitions and mergers
• Represented Pango Group in its merger with Total Security
• Represented World Kinect Corporation in the sale of Avinode Group and a portfolio of aviation software to Hearst
• Represented WindRose Health Investors in a cross-border business combination of Lykan Bioscience and RoslinCT
• Represented several Fortune 500 companies in numerous internal restructuring transactions

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Rob regularly represents clients in a variety of wholesale and retail energy trading matters, including negotiation of structured physical and financial hedging and other structured energy transactions utilizing bespoke contract forms as well as industry standard energy trading documentation (International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), Edison Electric Institute (EEI), North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) and Western System Power Pool (WSPP) master agreements). Rob also regularly advises clients on energy management agreements, asset management agreements and other agreements related to power production and energy trading.

Rob also provides legal counsel to clients in a variety of federal and state regulatory matters, including issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act and the Commodity Exchange Act as amended by the Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

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• Negotiated a power purchase agreement and related agreements to enable a consumer products company to purchase all of its energy needs from green power sources
• Negotiation of retail electric and natural gas contracts and development of form master agreements in connection with same
• Advise clients on a variety of matters relating to wholesale and retail electric and natural gas issues
• Served as in-house counsel for the energy trading and marketing affiliate of one of the largest privately held financial institutions in the world, and focused on a variety of matters, including negotiating all domestic, European and United Kingdom energy trading documentation for electricity, natural gas, weather and derivatives products, and overseeing Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), energy market, regional transmission organization (RTO) and reliability compliance
• Represented a variety of energy companies and other industry participants on a number of regulatory and transactional matters, including merger and acquisition transactions, electric transmission issues, market-based rate authorizations and compliance matters, and hydroelectric project licensing and compliance matters under Part I of the Federal Power Act

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Steve helps clients prevent and resolve tax problems throughout their life cycle, starting with tax planning, compliance, financial statement implication analysis, audit defense and litigation, legislative monitoring and advocacy, and the formation and leadership of taxpayer coalitions. Steve developed many of these techniques as a litigator for the US Department of Justice, Tax Division, as chief counsel for the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue, and further refined them during his tenure as general counsel for the Council on State Taxation (COST).

Steve practices at the forefront of state and local tax issues, including developments in the world of cloud computing, artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT and digital goods and services. He helps clients understand tax threats and opportunities, and develop holistic solutions, no matter the tax issues or jurisdiction. He also brings this same skill set to the highly challenging world of unclaimed property.

Steve represents Fortune 100 companies in litigation while working to address the larger tax policy questions through state legislatures, the US Congress, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Governors Association, the Multistate Tax Commission and the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board. His background has taught him that standalone litigation is not always the most efficient manner of solving a tax problem or preventing its spread – thus, he often works to address problems by taking advantage of tax policy points of entry offered by state and local governments.

Steve has authored articles for professional publications, speaks at national conferences and is interviewed frequently by journalists covering state and local tax developments. He has appeared before the US House Judiciary Committee as an expert on alternative approaches to the Internet Sales Tax issues, and in a similar capacity before other government agencies. Steve serves as outside counsel on state tax and unclaimed property matters for the Entertainment Software Association, the National Retail Federation, the Retail Industry Leaders Association and CompTIA.

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• On behalf of a coalition of Fortune 50 clients, spearheaded termination of a controversial Uniform Law Commission, Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act (UDITPA) revision project
• On behalf of Shell Oil Company, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation and Hess Corporation, obtained a ruling of first impression that non-mutual collateral estoppel applied to the District’s taxing authority
• On behalf of Sunbelt Beverage Company, LLC, won a case at the DC Court of Appeals holding that a standard statute of limitation applies, limiting an audit even if the tax payer filed the wrong return
• On behalf of a coalition, routinely works to block legislation seeking to impose sales tax on digital goods, and advances legislation providing exemption from tax for such goods and services
• On behalf of a Firm client, won a case asserting a taxpayer’s right to flow-up factors from pass-through entities in calculating DC taxable income
• Successfully supported adoption of a resolution by the National Conference of State Legislatures opposing state use of auditors paid on a contingent fee basis

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Over the past 30 years, Ray has successfully defended more than 200 complex mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in the United States, Europe and the Far East for clients such as Amgen, Constellation Brands, Diageo, Health Management Associates, Medtronic, NutraSweet Company, Blackboard, Lockheed Martin, and Martin Marietta.

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• Defended in alleged monopolization of US launch vehicle market (Lockheed Martin Corp. v. Boeing Co. (N.D. Fla.))
• Defended in alleged price-fixing of molybdenum (Erie Forge v. Cyprus Minerals Co. (W.D. Pa.))

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• Who’s Who Legal, Competition, Thought Leader, 2024
• Acritas Stars, listed among independently rated lawyers, 2020
• Benchmark Litigation, Litigation Star, 2020
• Washington, DC Super Lawyer, 2011
• The World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers
• An International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers
• Best of the Best Antitrust/Competition Lawyers

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Marshall advises investors, including private equity, growth equity, and venture capital firms, and their portfolio companies on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and strategic affiliations, and on a wide range of corporate, regulatory, and governance matters. He is also deeply experienced on the company side, representing physician practices and other health organizations to meet their corporate, regulatory compliance, and governance needs. 

Marshall is particularly experienced in the digital health and health tech space at the intersection of healthcare and life sciences, software, analytics, technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and electronic data. He advises investors, healthcare and life sciences companies, and technology companies across the full scope of their transactional opportunities and on sophisticated legal, regulatory, and compliance issues.

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• • Acquisition of Vida Health, a polychronic virtual care platform offering a full range of chronic, mental health, and lifestyle treatment options 

• • Acquisition of Equality Health, a provider of technology, services, and support for Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act Exchange populations 

• • Acquisition of Marathon Health, a provider of primary care and population health management solutions for US employers, and its merger with Everside health 

• • Acquisition of GoodVets, a veterinary care platform  

• • Investment in Restore Hyper Wellness, a provider of proactive wellness solutions 

• Represented A&M Capital Partners in several healthcare and health tech transactions, including its: 

• • Acquisition of Med-Metrix, a leading technology-enabled services platform providing revenue cycle management (and business intelligence for hospitals, health systems, and physician groups across the US 

• • Acquisition of Nevada Heart & Vascular Center, the largest cardiology practice in Nevada 

• • Acquisition of various orthopedic physician practices and merger with United Musculoskeletal Partners 

• Represented PPC Enterprises in various transactions, including its:  

• • Acquisition of OrthoMed Anesthesia, an anesthesia services platform focused on ambulatory surgery centers and hospitals across several states 

• • Acquisition of Accurate Neuromonitoring, a leading provider of intraoperative neuromonitoring services 

• Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners in its acquisition of HBox, a remote patient monitoring company 

• Represented Sunstone Partners in its acquisition of Tellihealth, a remote care company 

• Represented Brydon Group in its acquisition of (and subsequent add-ons to) Theraplan, a revenue cycle management and therapy practice technology company 

• Represented Lorient Capital in its investment in PeterMD, a direct-to-consumer health optimization platform   

• Represented IDEOlogy Health, an omnichannel medical education company, in its sale to Lockwood Group 

• Represented Verified Clinical Trials, a provider of clinical trial participant enrollment solutions, in its recapitalization by WindRose Health Partners 

• Represented Chicago Speech Therapy, a Chicago-based pediatric therapy provider, in its sale to Golden Bear Partners.  

Regulatory counseling 

• Counseled hundreds of clients on launching and operating telemedicine programs, including licensure, practice standards, scope of practice, informed consent, prescribing, and reimbursement issues 

• Served as partner and trusted advisor to national digital health and health tech companies, and remote patient monitoring and virtual care platforms on building practical, efficient “friendly PC” structures that comply with corporate practice doctrines across multiple licensed professions 

• Advised clients on a broad range of regulatory matters, including Medicare and Medicaid; state and federal fraud and abuse authorities, including the Stark physician self-referral law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and False Claims Act; corporate practice of medicine and licensure; managed care contracting; and telemedicine and digital health initiatives 

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Her experience encompasses a wide variety of substantive legal issues, including matters involving federal practice and jurisdiction, constitutional law, preemption, administrative law, the False Claims Act, intellectual property, antitrust, the Federal Arbitration Act, insurance and taxation.

Sarah has particular experience handling appeals and dispositive motions on legal issues affecting healthcare and life sciences companies, including Medicare, ERISA and FEHB preemption and coverage issues, intellectual property disputes, challenges to regulations, antitrust issues and False Claims Act cases. She also advises technology companies with regulatory challenges, licensing disputes, intellectual property and state taxation.

Sarah is a visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, where she co-directs the Yale Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic.

Previously, Sarah clerked for Judge Michael S. Kanne of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. While in law school, she was the symposium editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

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• Secured dismissal with prejudice of appeal from an order granting motion to dismiss insurance-coverage claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Won vacatur of an order denying motion to compel arbitration against state insurance liquidator (Atkins v. CGI Technologies and Solutions Inc. (6th Cir.))
• Won affirmance of district court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s Lanham Act false-advertising claims with prejudice (Wysong Corp. v. Mars Petcare US. (6th Cir.))
• Won before the en banc Third Circuit and the Eighth Circuit a holding that the government has waived sovereign immunity for certain intentional torts committed by Transportation Security Officers (Pellegrino v. Transportation Security Administration (3d Cir.); Iverson v. United States (8th Cir.))
• Won before the en banc Fourth Circuit vacatur of a Board of Immigration Appeals decision denying asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture relief (Portillo Flores v. Garland (4th Cir.))
• Supported trial team in securing a multimillion-dollar verdict, the first jury verdict under the new federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (Dalmatia Import Group v. FoodMatch Inc. (E.D. Pa.))

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Laurent teaches a course in public contracts and administrative law (Theory of Administrative Law and Public Service Concessions) in the Magistère degree of Law and Economic Activities, and a course on hydroelectric power law in the Energy Law Master, at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Laurent is the author of a book entitled “Droit de la concurrence et secteur public” (Antitrust Law and the Public Sector) published by LexisNexis, is a contributor to the annual chronicle on state aids and subsidies in the Quarterly European Law Review, and is a regular contributor to the “Concurrence, Régulation et Secteur Public” chronicle of the Contrats, Concurrences, Consommation law review. He has also authored numerous articles on government contracts.

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