About Us

Eugenio J. Torres-Oyola is a Capital Member, Managing Partner of the firm and the Chair of its Intellectual Property Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on intellectual property and technology, and entertainment law. He focuses on intellectual property, advertising, meria and communications law, copyrights, internet & e-commerce law, IP licensing, IP litigation, patents, portfolio management, trade secrets, and trademarks. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Inte...

Colleen Tracy James joined the firm’s New York office in 2018. Colleen “is a top tier litigator. She has great instincts for litigations and is an excellent strategist. I value her insights immensely” Best Lawyers. Representing companies in the Life Sciences Industry, Colleen Tracy James focuses her practice on patent infringement litigation, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and other complex intellectual property litigation. She has extensive experience litigating against gen...

John Keker, co-founder of Keker & Van Nest, has four decades of trial experience. He largely centers his practice around White Collar Criminal Defense and Intellectual Property Litigation. Mr. Keker is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

As founding Partner of the firm, Mr. Morales represents principals in major corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions; equity capital markets transactions, international corporate debt restructurings and public and private securities issuances.

Barton J. Winokur, who joined Dechert in 1965, has been a corporate partner for more than forty years and is the Immediate Past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Throughout his career, he has served as chair of Dechert’s mergers and acquisitions and international law groups, and was the resident partner of the London office from 1975 to 1979. He has devoted his practice to the representation of large public and private companies, global leveraged buyout funds, and ventur...

Steve Kestner is the Chairman of BakerHostetler and chair of the firm's Policy Committee, its governing body. During his 10-year tenure as Executive Partner and Chairman, BakerHostetler has grown by more than 50 percent and experienced significant expansions. Steve concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions, transactions and securities law. He advises and represents clients in the areas of domestic and foreign mergers and acquisitions, and works with public and private companies, p...

Gregory S. Gallopoulos is senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of General Dynamics Corporation, a diversified aerospace and defense company. Prior to joining General Dynamics, Gallopoulos served as Managing Partner of Jenner & Block LLP. Gallopoulos is a director of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a trustee of WETA, Inc., a trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society, a trustee of Anatolia College, and a trustee of The Foundation for Intern...

Thomas J. Bender is Co-President and Managing Director of Littler. He was a founding member of the firm’s Philadelphia office, serving as office managing shareholder for nine years, and was also a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, prior to his election as Co-President and Managing Director. He is an active member of a number of professional organizations including the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Henry Walker serves as the Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. In this role, he serves as the firm’s chief executive officer overseeing the strategic direction and growth of the firm. Mr. Walker leads the firm’s Executive and Management Committees working closely with them to define and execute the firm’s strategic and operational objectives. Prior to his election to Chair, he served as the firm’s Managing Partner.

Joe Fazio is the Principal and Managing Director of Miller Canfield. Joe’s specific areas of expertise include complex commercial real estate acquisitions and developments, with extensive experience in ground leasing, entity formation, public/private development agreements, as well as conventional, securitized and tax-increment financing. Among his many activities, Mr. Fazio sits on the Board of Trustees for the Legacy Land Conservancy.

Marcus V. Brown was named executive vice president and general counsel in 2013. Prior to that, in January 2012, he was named senior vice president and general counsel. In his role as general counsel, Brown is responsible for all legal, ethics and compliance matters affecting Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries, including providing counsel to the chairman and CEO, board of directors, and senior management. Brown also is a member of the Office of the Chief Executive or OCE. The OCE, in con...

Sven Papp is one of the leading and most respected corporate and M&A lawyers in Estonia with uniquely broad domestic and international experience both as an attorney and as general counsel as well as business consultant. Sven has an unrivalled track record having over the past 25 years acted as lead counsel for more than 1,200 landmark local and international M&A transactions across the Baltic and Nordic region. Sven has also served as board member and corporate secretary of a number ...