Justin provides sophisticated transactional counsel to diverse clients, including public and private companies, investment funds, and financial institutions. He regularly advises on multibillion-dollar mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, drawing on his substantial experience across a broad array of industries, such as media, sports, and entertainment, as well as technology, financial services, consumer products, healthcare, and real estate.

Sarkis has been repeatedly recognized as one of the country’s leading practitioners in mergers and acquisitions. He focuses his practice primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and shareholder activism defense.

Eric is one of the nation’s most active physician group, health plan and hospital M&A and joint venture lawyers, having advised on over 85 hospital mergers, acquisition and/or joint venture projects, over 85 health plan merger and acquisition projects, and many of the largest physician services transactions nationally, including a majority of all major managed care physician group transactions in the Western U.S. in the past ten years.

Award Winner: Sheppard Mullin healthcare team won several awards at the at the prestigious Americas M&A Atlas Awards (New York) including the coveted “Healthcare M&A Law Firm of the Year” as well as Eric and the team for advising VillageMD acquisition of Summit Health-CityMD deal award.

Tracy represents clients in a wide array of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, recapitalization, restructuring and corporate finance transactions. He has led hundreds of M&A transactions, both domestic and international, involving tens of billions of dollars in trade value.

Lisa acts as the principal lawyer for private equity funds during the full life cycle of their portfolio company investments, from acquisition through disposition. During her nearly 20 years of practice at Jones Day, she has worked on a wide variety of deal structures in jurisdictions around the globe. Lisa's extensive experience also includes the representation of privately held businesses and other strategic buyers and sellers in connection with their M&A activity.

Dan is a trusted advisor to strategic and financial dealmakers as they pursue their most significant transactions. His practice focuses on complex business transactions for both private and public companies, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and strategic investments. During his career, he has advised on hundreds of transactions worth more than $25 billion and spanning a broad range of industries.

Award Winner: Dan at team won several awards at the prestigious M&A Atlas Awards (New York) including winning the “Global Private Equity Deal” accolade for representing Blucora, Inc. sale of its tax software business, TaxAct, Inc to Cinven.

Richard “Rick” has been a business lawyer with DLA Piper for more than 20 years, assisting clients with cross-border and domestic acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and investments. He has represented companies and investors in many different sectors, including manufacturing, technology, hospitality, education, and healthcare.

Award Winner: DLA team won several deal honors at the prestigious M&A Atlas Awards (New York) including transaction advised by Rick - AMTIVO Group, a portfolio company of Charterhouse Capital Partners acquires Orion Registrar.

Katie is chair of Wilson Sonsini's board of directors, where she practices corporate and securities law. She has extensive experience in representing public companies. Her practice includes all aspects of company representation, including corporate governance, SEC compliance, 1934 Act issues, public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions.

Jim also leads Pillsbury’s Semiconductor Industry Group. He advises a global clientele on transformative corporate, securities and finance deals. Jim has managed complex cross-border M&A transactions for both public and private buyers and sellers, including buyers and sellers located in the UK, China, Israel, Korea and the Philippines, across a variety of industries.

Award Winner: Pillsbury team won several honors at the prestigious M&A Atlas Awards (New York) including transaction advised by Jim - Tremor International (Nexxen) acquires Amobee from Singtel.

Gino’s middle market M&A and private equity practice spans four decades. Closing deals on the buy and sell side amid both bull and bear markets, he understands how to navigate different environments to get deals done. His grit and problem-solving skills allow him to get even the most complex transactions done.