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Pat Nash is a partner in the Restructuring Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He represents a variety of clients in complex business reorganizations, troubled company M&A, debt restructurings, and financing matters. He has counseled companies experiencing financial difficulties, purchasers of and investors in distressed companies, and lenders to and creditors of such companies. Pat also has extensive cross-border insolvency experience. Described as “very commercial, very smart and v...

Kathryn Siegel is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Employment Law - Management. Kathryn practices law in Chicago, Illinois Best Lawyers has recognized Kathryn Siegel since 2023. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Kathryn Siegel is held by other lawyers.

Gary D. Blachman is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law. Gary D. practices law in Chicago, Illinois Best Lawyers has recognized Gary D. Blachman since 2024. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Gary D. Blachman is held by other lawyers.

Wes is a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice group. He provides comprehensive legal services and advice to asset managers, proprietary trading firms, single-family offices, multifamily offices, and wealth management advisors. Wes counsels them on a wide range of transactional and regulatory issues, including corporate formation, structure and succession planning, operational and administrative matters, securities, futures, and derivatives matters, brokerage and derivatives docu...

James P. Chivilo is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Construction Law. James P. practices law in Chicago, Illinois Best Lawyers has recognized James P. Chivilo since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which James P. Chivilo is held by other lawyers.

Kerry R. Peck is the managing partner of the Chicago law firm Peck Ritchey, LLC. He is the past President of the 22,000 lawyer Chicago Bar Association. His clients include families, hospitals, banks, the State of Illinois, County of Cook, and City of Chicago. For over ten consecutive years, he has been selected by his peers in statewide surveys of Illinois attorneys as a “Super Lawyer”, an attorney to whom other attorneys would refer their family, and he was named a member of the ...

Floyd Mandell is the national co-chair and founder of the firm's Intellectual Property department. He has represented some of the world’s most recognizable companies in intellectual property litigation. Few other lawyers have handled as many high-profile cases over the past 20 years involving copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, trade dress, false advertising and defamation. He has been lead counsel in more than 40 published decisions, many involving novel or cutting-edge issues. On m...

Wilber (Bill) Boies focuses his practice on business dispute counseling and business litigation throughout the countr Please view further details of Bill's biography here: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/b/boies-wilber-h

For more than 30 years, Craig Tobin has been recognized for his precedent-setting civil and criminal trial work and is nationally recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in America, regularly voted by his peers to “The Best Lawyers in America,” “Leading Lawyers” and “Leading American Lawyers.” . Throughout his career, Mr. Tobin has guided many clients through high-profile cases which attract intense media attention and have either changed or defined the...

Stephan D. Blandin is a principal and partner in Romanucci & Blandin LLC, a Chicago-based personal injury firm. Since co-founding the firm in 1998, Mr. Blandin has focused his practice on catastrophic plaintiff’s personal injury and wrongful death cases involving motor vehicle and airplane crashes, medical negligence, product liability and workplace accidents. He also has a particular passion for birth injury cases in Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. At Romanucci & Blandin, Mr. ...