Lateral Shareholders Recent Additions
At Vedder Price, we believe in delivering high-value, best in-class legal counsel that is practical, responsive and results-driven.
As an ever-evolving firm, we're excited to continually add talent and depth to growing practice areas and groups.
Meet our most recent lateral shareholders:
Megan L. Jones, Los Angeles Office
Megan Jones is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Tax and Estate Planning group.
Ms. Jones focuses her practice on a broad range of complex tax issues with an emphasis on entities, family offices and individuals. She assists clients in domestic, international and multijurisdictional tax and corporate planning relating to startup company and entity formation, investment entity structuring and the acquisition, disposition and restructuring of businesses, corporations and partnerships.
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Stuart J. Chasanoff, Dallas Office
Stuart J. Chasanoff is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Dallas office and a member of the firm’s Finance & Transactions group.
Mr. Chasanoff focuses his practice on representing a wide range of private equity and mezzanine funds, independent sponsors and institutional investors in fund formation, acquisitions, growth and exit transactions, control and minority equity investments and all aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He also counsels fund portfolio companies, start-ups and other privately held businesses on entity formation and governance and a variety of business and operational matters.
Helen J. Biggin, London Office
Helen Biggin is a Partner in Vedder Price’s London office and a member of the firm’s Litigation practice area.
Ms. Biggin has experience representing corporate clients and financial institutions in complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration, often involving reputationally sensitive matters. Her practice focuses on high-value commercial disputes, breach of contract claims, and fraud-related litigation.
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David R. Paterson, Singapore Office
David Paterson is a Partner in Vedder Price’s Singapore office and a member of the firm’s Global Transportation Finance team.
Mr. Paterson concentrates his practice in transportation finance, with a special focus on aviation finance. He has experience representing financiers, equity investors, leasing companies, operators and export credit agencies primarily on aircraft–backed international finance and leasing transactions.
S. Preston Ricardo, New York Office
S. Preston Ricardo is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Litigation practice area.
For over 25 years, Mr. Ricardo has helped his clients navigate complex business disputes in courts and tribunals around the country. Through tenacious advocacy, pragmatic counsel, and his role as a trusted advisor, he partners with his clients to achieve their business goals in a cost-effective manner. Mr. Ricardo has obtained successful outcomes—at trial, through motion practice, and by thoughtful negotiations— in controversies of all sizes that cover a broad range of substantive areas, as shown under his Representative Experience. Mr. Ricardo has worked with clients across various industries, including private equity, financial and professional services, manufacturing, technology, insurance broking, accounting, hospitality, and brand licensing and operations.
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Daniel R. Alonso, New York Office
Daniel R. Alonso is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office, a member of the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense group and Co-Chair of Latin America Investigations and Litigation.
Mr. Alonso focuses his practice on white collar defense of corporations and individuals, internal investigations, corporate compliance and ethics, and complex civil litigation. He has represented public and private companies across many industries, as well as corporate executives, in matters involving the United States Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, New York State Department of Financial Services, Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and New York and New Jersey Attorney Generals’ Offices, among other enforcement agencies. He also advises clients on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. sanctions regimes administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the False Claims Act, and anti-money laundering under the Bank Secrecy Act, among other matters. He has led numerous investigations and compliance reviews throughout Latin America, as well as in the United Kingdom and Asia.
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Daryll V. Marshall, Chicago Office
With more than 25 years of experience, Mr. Marshall focuses his practice finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate law. He primarily concentrates on private equity sponsors, public and private borrowers in connection with leveraged buyout financings for acquisitions, working capital facilities, recapitalizations and portfolio restructuring transactions across a broad range of business sectors, including technology, apparel, cannabis, transportation, automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing and professional services.
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Tom Geraghty, Chicago Office
Tom Geraghty is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Tax and Estate Planning group.
Mr. Geraghty focuses his practice on a broad range of corporate tax and private equity matters. He advises clients on tax and structuring aspects of complex domestic and cross-border business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (including SPAC and up-C structures), joint ventures, public and private offerings of securities, debt and equity restructurings, real estate transactions, the organization and operation of investment funds and investments in cryptocurrency and digital assets.
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Fernando L. Tamayo, Miami Office
Fernando L. Tamayo is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Miami office and a member of the firm’s Litigation practice area. Mr. Tamayo focuses his practice on government investigations, white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation. He works extensively in anti-corruption, anti-bribery and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance and training and advisory services.
In his government investigations and white collar criminal defense practice, Mr. Tamayo represents clients in a wide variety of matters including domestic and cross-border investigations, federal grand jury proceedings, trial work in federal and state courts and FCPA compliance. He has defended both individuals and corporations against allegations of money laundering, mail and wire fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and other charges. Mr. Tamayo has also spearheaded internal investigations for corporate clients in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. As part of his practice, Mr. Tamayo has also successfully appealed red notice designations to Interpol and defends individuals against extradition to foreign countries. He also has experience representing clients in the appeal of sanctions designations before OFAC, and in the applications for OFAC licenses.
Learn more about Fernando L. Tamayo.
Brent K. Yamashita, San Francisco Office
Brent K. Yamashita is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property group. Mr. Yamashita is a seasoned litigator with over 25 years of experience representing technology companies of all sizes. He has tried eight patent cases and argued thirteen claim construction hearings in the federal district courts and the United States International Trade Commission (ITC). He has argued as lead counsel in numerous inter partes review (IPR) proceedings in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He specializes in cases and technologies involving circuit design, computer hardware and software, wireless communication and networking.
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Misha Daha, New York Office
Misha Daha is a Shareholder at Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Finance & Transactions group. Ms. Daha represents closed-end funds as borrowers and as lenders and investment and commercial banks in domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has extensive experience advising her clients in high profile, high value transactions and on a variety of finance matters including net-asset value facilities, subscription/capital call facilities, hybrid and umbrella financings for funds and other secured and unsecured lending transactions. Ms. Daha also advises lenders and insurers or re-insurers in a wide variety of letter of credit facilities and revolving credit facilities including “Funds at Lloyd’s (FAL)” facilities.
Javier A. Lopez, Miami Office
Javier "Javy" Lopez is a Shareholder in Vedder Price's Miami office and a member of the firm's Litigation practice area. Mr. Lopez focuses his practice on complex commercial, business and civil litigation in U.S. federal and state courts. He has extensive experience representing high-profile companies and individuals in a wide range of legal matters, including contract and business disputes, commercial transactions, intellectual property matters, fraud, defamation, class actions and shareholder disputes. Mr. Lopez is a seasoned trial lawyer and was lead counsel in securing one of the top 10 largest jury verdicts in the State of Florida and one of the highest settlements in the United States in 2022
Tomasz Kulawik, Washington, DC Office
Tomasz Kulawik is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Washington, DC office and a member of the firm’s Finance & Transactions group. Mr. Kulawik focuses his practice on leveraged finance and all types of secured lending, including acquisition financings, asset-based lending and refinancings in both the syndicated and direct lending spaces, both domestically and in Europe and in Latin America.
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James P. Looby, Chicago Office
James P. Looby is a Shareholder at Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Area. Mr. Looby focuses his practice on high-stakes and complex employment cases throughout the United States, including matters involving wage and hour disputes, independent contractor and joint employment issues, discrimination, and retaliation.
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Jason DuVall, Dallas Office
Jason DuVall is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Dallas office and a member of the firm’s Finance & Transactions group. Mr. DuVall has extensive experience in corporate M&A matters, having represented numerous financial institutions, private equity funds, mezzanine funds, agent banks, borrowers and other institutional investors. Transactions he has worked on have involved senior and subordinated debt, asset-based lending, equipment and project financings, secured and unsecured lending, structured financings, health care financings and other forms of debt and equity financing.
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Christopher K. Buch, Chicago Office
Christopher K. Buch is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice area in Chicago. Mr. Buch has a multidisciplinary practice that focuses on a variety of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), executive compensation and employee benefits matters. He leverages a seasoned perspective to clients’ business challenges and the development of business strategies.
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Hoyoon Nam, New York Office
Hoyoon Nam is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Global Transportation Finance (GTF) team in the firm's New York office. Mr. Nam frequently represents banks, investment funds, corporate borrowers and financial sponsors in connection with financing and restructuring transactions. He also works on direct lending and other private credit matters, representing private debt providers in connection with acquisition debt, special situations, rescue and bridge financings as well as working capital and liquidity-enhancing credit transactions.
Kate F. Buckley, New York Office
Kate F. Buckley is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Finance & Transactions group in the firm's New York office. Ms. Buckley represents equity funds, portfolio companies and public and private companies in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of mergers and acquisitions (buy-and sell-side), debt and balance sheet restructurings, joint ventures, roll-over transactions, divestitures, secured lending facilities and structured investments and formations.
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Jeremy M. Alexander, Washington, DC Office
Jeremy M. Alexander is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Washington, DC office and Chair of the Health Care & Life Sciences practice group. Mr. Alexander focuses his practice on managing intricate regulatory, transactional and enforcement issues for health care providers and suppliers. These include physician practices, outpatient rehabilitation therapy providers, home health care providers, behavioral health providers, hospitals, and medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. He also represents a variety of health industry-focused private equity companies.
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Rich Tilghman, Chicago Office
Rich Tilghman is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm's Litigation group. Mr. Tilghman focuses his practice on complex business litigation and arbitration matters, with an emphasis on the pharmaceutical, health care, and life sciences industries. Mr. Tilghman regularly represents clients in the defense of privacy claims and class actions. He also frequently represents businesses in matters involving trade secrets, confidential information, and restrictive covenants.
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Christine De Pree, Miami Office
Christine De Pree is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Investment Services group in the firm’s Miami office. Ms. De Pree focuses her practice on disclosure document and prospectus review, as well as proxy statements. Additionally, she has extensive knowledge in counseling investment companies and investment advisers in connection with regulatory, compliance and transactional issues.
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Todd F. Lurie, Washington, D.C. Office
Todd F. Lurie is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Investment Services group in the firm’s Washington, DC office. He focuses his practice on cleared and non-cleared derivatives, and investment management advising, including fund formation and regulation. Before entering private practice, Mr. Lurie was Vice President and Associate General Counsel for MetLife, where he was responsible for strategic advisory for MetLife’s global derivatives platform, including documentation, transactional review and engagement with state, federal and global regulators. Over the course of his career, Mr. Lurie has also spent several years working for corporate financial institutions.