About Us

Jose Quiñones has extensive local and international experience advising foreign financial institutions in structured finance deals, sovereign bond offerings in international capital markets, cross-border transactions and its tax implications, mergers and acquisitions and complex project finance deals involving local and foreign banks and financial institutions and/or borrowers. He is often retained to advice on business and corporate strategy, serves as advisor to boards of financial institut...

Because of his expertise in personal injury, wrongful death, mass tort and product liability cases, Brian Panish has been appointed to serve on the Plaintiffs’ Steering and Executive committees in numerous high profile mass torts and major disaster cases. He is a member of the American Bar Association (formerly a Litigation Section Board Member), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (formerly on the Board of Governors), and the Consumer Attorneys of California (formerly on ...

Frank R. Jimenez is vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Raytheon Company. He is a member of Raytheon's senior leadership team and participates in the operational management and strategic planning of the company. Jiminez provides leadership for the company's legal and regulatory affairs, ethics and compliance programs, and corporate governance activities. He is also responsible for corporate staff activities in the areas of real estate, risk management, and safety and en...

Beau Grenier is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. He provides comprehensive legal and strategic counsel on M&A, capital raising, and other business transactions; securities matters; and corporate governance. Beau is a leading corporate and securities lawyer with more than 35 years of experience. For more than 17 years, he also served as the managing partner and board chairman for a diversified AmLaw 200 law firm, guiding the organization through a significant period of growth and...

Stephen Matthews’ practice centers on banking and finance, technology transfer, telecommunications, construction, and international investment, especially cross-border business ventures in Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. He has worked on contracts and financings for many infrastructure projects in the region, including oil refineries, petrochemical plants, pipelines, manufacturing plants, defense projects and telecommunications networks.

In addition to his responsibilities as managing partner, Mr. Pearlman advises and represents clients in private equity transactions, as well as in the corporate aspects of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy. Mr. Pearlman’s private equity experience over the past 35 years has included representing leveraged buyout sponsors, management and providers of debt financing in complex and often high-profile LBO transactions. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions involv...

Steven Wright is senior vice president and general counsel at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. A distinguished Boston-area attorney, Steve has served as lead counsel and strategic advisor for several Fortune 500 companies, addressing complex commercial, corporate, intellectual property, litigation and regulatory matters. He is named in “Best Lawyers in America” for commercial litigation, a member of Best Lawyers National Advisory Committee and a “Super Lawyer” for business and corporate law. I...

Nils H. Thommessen is Wiersholm's Managing Partner. Thommessen has extensive experience with assisting financial advisors, private equity funds and other financial and industrial investors with acquisitions, mergers and other corporate matters. Thommessen assists in all relevant aspects of transactions, both nationally and internationally. He is widely used as a legal and strategic advisor in the follow-up of clients’ investments.

Julian Yarr is the Managing Partner of A&L Goodbody, a leading Irish law firm providing legal services to the corporate sector across the island of Ireland. The Firm has offices in Dublin and Belfast, London, and New York. Before taking the seat of Managing Partner, Mr. Yarr was head of A&L Goodbody's London office. In addition to leading the firm, his practice focuses on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity law.

John Tishler has over 25 years of experience. An insolvency and restructuring attorney by trade, John deals in both the transactional and litigation arenas. He focuses mainly on corporate insolvency/board advice, creditor's rights, financial services, and defaulted bonds.

Jamie Gorelick was one of the longest serving Deputy Attorneys General of the United States, the second highest position in the Department of Justice. She was also a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission").

Larry D. Thompson has served on the University of Georgia School of Law’s faculty as the holder of the John A. Sibley Chair of Corporate and Business Law since 2011, noting he was on a leave of absence from June 2012 through 2014. He is presently a member of the Faculty Division of the law school's Dean Rusk International Law Center Council. From 1982 to 1986, he served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia where he led major political corruption and drug trafficking prosecuti...