11.09.2023
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SEATTLE (November 9, 2023)—Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that 22 counsel and senior counsel have been promoted to partner effective January 1, 2024. The firm’s new partner class of 2024 includes:
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“We are pleased to welcome this talented group of lawyers to the partnership in recognition of their exceptional legal counsel and service to our clients,” said Firmwide Managing Partner Bill Malley. “Our new partners reflect the growing breadth and depth of our capability to serve entrepreneurs, innovators, and leading companies across all sectors during a period of rapid change. We wish our new partners continued success in their careers at Perkins Coie.”
In total, 54% of the 2024 partner class is diverse and inclusive of women and people of color. The class also includes lawyers who work a flexible schedule.
Perkins Coie 2024 Partner Class
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Steven R. Beigelmacher (Seattle) is a member of the Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Counseling practice. Steven provides strategic portfolio counseling and analysis to technology clients and assists them through all phases of patent procurement. He advises clients on patent analytics, supports inter partes reviews and litigation, and leads efforts involving patent due diligence, valuations for sales and acquisitions, and comparative analyses. Steven is experienced at working on groundbreaking matters covering an array of technologies, including computer architecture and microarchitecture, hardware design, semiconductors, telecommunications, and software. |
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Julien Bowers (Washington, D.C.) is a member of the Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. Julien counsels clients in complex technology and strategic outsourcing transactions and has advised some of the nation’s largest corporations in mitigating risks related to the development and implementation of cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). His practice includes advising both industry-leading technology providers and customers in key transactions including guiding clients through companywide digital transformation efforts. |
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Kyle R. Canavera (San Diego) is a member of the Patent Litigation practice. Kyle counsels clients at all stages of the intellectual property (IP) life cycle and advises clients on a range of related IP issues. At the portfolio development stage, Kyle has written more than 100 patent applications and analyzed portfolios as part of acquisition due diligence. When disputes arise, he represents both plaintiffs and defendants in patent and trade secret litigation in U.S. district courts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the International Trade Commission. |
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Jordon De La Cruz (Dallas) is a member of the Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. Jordon has experience drafting and advising on a variety of contracting agreements including software licensing, cloud computing services, healthcare agreements, financial and payment processing agreements, advertising and marketing agreements, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) agreements, and robotics and automation agreements. He also counsels a diverse array of clients across industries on various privacy and complex technology transactions, ensuring that clients navigate those challenges with confidence. | |
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Andrea Driggs (Phoenix) is a member of the Environment & Natural Resources practice. Andrea represents industrial, commercial, and municipal clients on environmental litigation and regulatory matters. These focus on mining, renewables, groundwater contamination, complex infrastructure siting, and remediation of contaminated sites. Andrea is licensed to practice in Arizona, California, Nevada, and New Mexico, enabling her to advise clients on cross-jurisdictional issues. |
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Nick S. Franzen (Bellevue) is a member of the Real Estate & Land Use practice. Nick counsels homebuilders, technology companies, real estate investors and developers, and other users of commercial and industrial property on complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions, leasing, financings, and other dispositions. Nick also frequently guides the due diligence process and advises on M&A transactions involving real estate assets. | |
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Colleen Ganin (New York) is a member of the Trademark, Copyright, Internet & Advertising practice. Colleen counsels clients on all things trademark and copyright, including clearance, prosecution, licensing, and enforcement. She also advises clients on IP-related agreements and deals, including licenses, releases, acquisitions, and commissions. Colleen also helps clients to secure and enforce trade dress rights as well as copyright in wearable designs. | |
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Matthew L. Goldberg (San Francisco) is a member of the Labor & Employment practice. Matthew has successfully represented clients in wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorney General Act matters, as well as plaintiff retaliation, harassment, and discrimination cases. Matt has significant experience advising clients on independent contractor issues, noncompete/nonsolicitation issues, and compensation and commission plans and rollouts to ensure compliance with California law. He plays a lead role in comprehensive wage-and-hour audits; preparation of employee handbooks, policies and procedures; and workplace trainings. | |
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Michelle Han (Seattle) is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice. Michelle advises repeat strategic acquirors, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, startups, and closely held businesses in acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, majority and minority investments, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and other liquidity events. Michelle represents clients across industries, with a focus on technology, financial services, gaming and entertainment, and consumer. | |
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Laura Hill (Seattle) is a member of the Product Liability practice. Laura is an experienced litigator who represents clients in the aerospace, consumer product, and technology industries, among others. Laura takes pride in helping her clients achieve their litigation goals through strategic, creative, and efficient case management techniques. She has practiced at all levels of state and federal court and maintains a particular focus on high-stakes motions practice and appellate briefing, including before the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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Ananth Iyengar (Seattle) is a member of the Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. Ananth’s practice focuses heavily on data privacy, data security, and product counseling issues. He has spent over a decade helping clients large and small think through some of the most challenging issues relating to data, including regulatory compliance, data monetization, data strategy, product launches, programmatic data governance, and the use of data in developing and training AI/ML products. Ananth has deep experience working closely with clients to operationalize legal requirements and empower businesses to innovate while aligning with regulatory and commercial requirements. | |
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Joseph T. Kaempf (Bellevue) is a member of the Trust & Estate practice. Joey counsels individuals, multigenerational families, and family offices on wealth preservation and transfer strategies. He guides his clients through a broad range of planning to achieve their family, business, and charitable objectives. His practice includes fiduciary representation, estate and trust administration, and estate and gift tax return preparation. | |
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Nickolas Kajca (Seattle) is a member of the Financial Transactions practice. Nick represents financial institutions, private funds, and public and private companies in a wide range of debt financing transactions, including senior secured and unsecured credit facilities, domestic and cross-border syndicated credit facilities, venture-backed financings, sponsor financings, acquisition financings, asset-based lending, and all aspects of real estate finance, including acquisition, construction, and permanent loans. Nick’s extensive transaction experience covers an array of industries, including technology, renewable energy, hospitality, real estate, sports and entertainment, and telecommunications. | |
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Andrew Klein (Palo Alto) is a member of the Patent Litigation practice. Andrew litigates high-stakes, complex patent disputes. He represents Fortune 500 and emerging companies in all phases of litigation and in all forums throughout the country, including federal district court, the USPTO, the ITC, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Andrew’s patent litigation experience covers a wide range of technologies, including acoustics, software, computer security, color management, surveillance technology, and telecommunications. | |
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David A. Martinez (Seattle) is a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice. David counsels corporate and private equity clients on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, growth equity and control investments, recapitalizations, restructurings, and joint ventures. He represents clients in a broad range of industries, including in technology, business services, aerospace, agribusiness, industrial, and consumer spaces. David frequently advises boards, special committees, and senior management on governance issues in strategic transactions. | |
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Steven D. Merriman (Seattle) is a member of the Privacy & Security practice. Steve is a fintech compliance lawyer, regulatory advocate, and product strategist. He helps business and technical innovators identify growth opportunities, safeguard their value and reputation, and negotiate the complexities of financial services laws and regulations. Steve’s advising and litigation experience spans rapidly evolving legal issues such as anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, data privacy and security, state money transmitter licensing, and unclaimed property. | |
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Matthew J. Mertens (Portland) is a member of the Business Litigation practice. Matthew focuses his practice on complex business litigation across a variety of industries, including construction, transportation, healthcare, and consumer products. Matt regularly advises senior management and in-house counsel on strategic litigation issues. He has experience overseeing lawsuits from start to finish and has successfully first-chaired multiple trials. | |
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Jessica North (Palo Alto) is a member of the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice. Jessica focuses her practice on representing emerging growth companies, established corporations, and venture capital funds. She represents companies across a wide range of industries, including technology, life science, food and beverage, and entertainment. Jessica’s practice encompasses a wide range of corporate and securities laws, with a primary focus on venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and corporate governance. | |
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Hayden M. Schottlaender (Dallas) is a member of the Privacy & Security practice. Hayden has a nationwide practice advising and litigating on behalf of large technology companies on novel data privacy issues. He defends technology companies in complex class-action cases, including those arising under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, and in individual cases involving free speech issues and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Hayden also routinely advises online platforms on digital search, seizure, and disclosure issues under the Stored Communications Act. | |
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Sopen B. Shah (Madison) is a member of the Appeals, Issues & Strategy practice. Sopen handles appeals in the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts nationwide, and she has received the State Bar of Wisconsin’s biennial best brief award. She also litigates complex and high-stakes trial court cases across multiple areas such as antitrust, class actions, commercial disputes, constitutional law, corporate governance, environmental law, labor and employment, privacy, and regulation. |
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Daniel A. Sito (Seattle) is a member of the Federal Tax practice. His practice focuses on the tax aspects of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investment fund and joint venture formations, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity issuances, and restructurings. Daniel has experience advising private equity, venture capital, emerging company, pension fund, public company, nonprofit, and other businesses and their interest holders on a wide range of transactional and operational tax matters. | |
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Jasmine W. Wetherell (Los Angeles) is a member of the Consumer Products & Services Litigation practice. She advises consumer goods companies, with an emphasis on serving food, dietary supplement, cosmetics, and cannabis businesses. She maintains a civil litigation practice focusing on consumer class-action defense and is experienced in defending claims brought under California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Unfair Competition Law, and False Advertising Law. She has deep knowledge of California’s Proposition 65, providing both compliance advice and litigation defense to product manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. |
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