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S. Brian Farmer

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:15 +0000

Brian is a partner in the Global Corporate Group and serves as managing partner of Reed Smith’s Richmond office.

His practice focuses on the investment management industry, serving both institutional investors and investment managers. Brian advises universities, hospitals, state and corporate pension plans, fund of funds and family offices regarding their investments in private funds and other alternative investments. His manager-side representation includes hedge and real estate fund managers, outsourced chief investment officers and high-net worth wealth managers.

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Jonathan M.A. Melmed

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:36 +0000

Jonathan Melmed is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Corporate Department as well as its Global Private Equity and M&A practice with over 25 years of experience. Jonathan represents private equity funds, pension plans, sovereigns, family offices, hedge funds, corporate clients and investment banks re U.S. and international M&A, private equity and complex corporate transactions. Jonathan has extensive M&A and PE experience across many sectors, including in the energy, power, infrastructure, financial services, media, telecommunications, fiber, telecom, technology, life sciences, health care, pharma, and real estate/REIT sectors. Jonathan is also the Co-Chair of the firm’s Global Energy Power & Infrastructure practice, leads our Canada practice and co-leads our Energy Transition practice. Jonathan has one of the most active renewable energy/clean tech and digital infra Private Equity and M&A practices in the world. Jonathan has served on the firm’s policy/management committee.

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Max Schleusener

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:35 +0000

Max delivers pragmatic counsel to public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He combines extensive transactional experience and a commercial approach to provide business-oriented solutions.

Max regularly guides clients on US and cross-border transactions spanning multiple industries, leveraging Latham’s global platform and wealth of experience to address any issue that may arise.

He brings particular experience to navigating thorny governance issues arising in connection with conflict of interest and take-private transactions. Additionally, Max counsels clients on shareholder activism and defense.

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Kristen P. Poole

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:10 +0000

Kristen P. Poole is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity.

Kristen represents both public and private companies, as well as financial sponsors, in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, restructurings, and other complex corporate transactions. She also advises clients with respect to general corporate governance matters and shareholder activism matters.

Kristen received her Juris Doctor in 2010 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was an Articles Editor for the Virginia Journal of International Law. She received her Bachelor of Science degree, magna cum laude, in Business Finance from Virginia Tech in 2006.

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John-Paul Motley

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:42 +0000

John-Paul is a partner in Cooley’s public companies group. His practice focuses on advising public and private companies and their boards of directors on a wide range of transactional and corporate governance matters. John-Paul represents clients in debt and equity capital markets transactions, ranging from IPOs and secondary offerings to high-yield, convertible and investment grade debt issuances. In addition, John-Paul advises public company clients on Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and disclosure issues and compliance matters, and he regularly acts as the outside corporate counsel for his clients. John-Paul has been recognized by Chambers USA for his Capital Markets: Debt & Equity practice since 2015 where clients describe him as “extremely knowledgeable, responsive and personable” particularly noting his “strong deal sense” and “good business instincts.”

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Patrick Gadson

tthorp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:59:42 +0000

Patrick Gadson is Co-Head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Shareholder Activism Practice and a partner in the Firm’s M&A Group. Patrick’s principal areas of practice are private equity, mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism. He also counsels senior management, boards of directors, investment managers and both private equity and strategic investors in a wide variety of complex business transactions, corporate governance matters, strategic investor relations and other special situations. His experience includes advising clients in connection with shareholder activism-related investments, hostile takeovers, public and private M&A transactions, strategic minority investments and corporate capital investments.

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Denise A. Carkhuff

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:11 +0000

Denise Carkhuff has been the lead lawyer on M&A and private equity transactions for more than 26 years. Her experience includes diverse industries, jurisdictions, and deal structures. Denise has experience in the full life cycle of a company (from formation, capital raising, dividend recapitalizations, IPOs, sales, and dissolutions). Denise’s main focus is representing private equity funds. She has served in a general counsel function for countless private companies, including portfolio companies of private equity funds.

Denise has worked with many private equity funds, including Blue Point Capital Partners, Centre Lane Partners, Cortec Group, Morgan Stanley Private Equity, The Riverside Company, and Wellspring Capital. She also represents private companies or their management teams in their ultimate sale and has been involved with many complex M&A transactions involving public and private clients.

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Catherine Rossouw

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:08 +0000

Cathy Rossouw is a transactional private equity and corporate attorney and a partner in Chapman’s Special Situations and Restructuring Group. Cathy’s diverse practice covers traditional mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, as well as early-stage equity financings, lender equity kickers, secondary market transactions, and general corporate advice. Her approach to advising clients is practical, collaborative, and results oriented.

Cathy regularly represents hedge funds, private equity funds, alternative lenders, banks, and other financial institutions in complex equity transactions and portfolio company acquisitions and works closely with corporate clients and start up companies on everyday corporate matters, including commercial contracts, stockholder agreements, LLC operating agreements, equity incentive programs, and strategic investments.

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Alfred Browne

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:06 +0000

Alfred Browne is co-chair of Cooley’s private equity practice group. He is a member of Cooley’s M&A group and co-chair of the firm’s fintech practice. His clients include private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions.

Al has experience representing a broad range of technology companies, including financial technology, software, healthcare IT, telecommunications and services companies.

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Thomas M. Devaney

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:05 +0000

Tom Devaney has served as a trusted advisor to private fund sponsors and institutional investors for more than two decades. His experience includes a distinguished track record of forming private funds and negotiating sophisticated seed and anchor investor arrangements, management team and portfolio “spin out” transactions, complex limited investor side letters, as well as joint venture arrangements for jointly managed fund platforms, many in excess of $1 billion. He is highly versed in U.S. securities laws, including the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Tom counsels sponsors and management teams of private funds on transactional matters and U.S. securities laws and regulations related to the formation of private funds, their fundraising and subscription phases, and ongoing administration and operations, including co-investment structures and related registered investment advisor (RIA) compliance. In addition, Tom is highly knowledgeable about regulatory developments that impact registered investment advisers and has advised on the design and implementation of compliance programs for numerous private fund sponsors.

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