Thomas W. France is a partner in the Business Transactions group of Venable LLP, a full-service law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. His practice focuses on public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, franchise transactions, corporate reorganizations, compliance with the reporting obligations under the federal securities laws, and general corporate matters. His clients include public and private companies, with a particular emphasis on companies in the technology, government contracts, and hospitality industries. Mr. France has been recognized as one of the leading business transactions lawyers in the United States by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Brett Goldblatt is a partner in the Global Corporate Department of the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Mr. Goldblatt specializes in transactions involving complex limited partnerships and limited liability companies. He represents clients in the formation and structuring of private equity funds, hedge funds, funds-of-funds, and other pooled investment vehicles, as well as joint ventures and development companies. In his fund practice, he represents funds and fund sponsors (including U.S. and non-U.S. banks, investment banks, and high-net-worth individuals) in their structuring, formation, fund raising, and investment activities, investors making investments in pooled investment vehicles, and senior executives negotiating employment and equity participation terms with fund management companies. His joint venture clients include traditional financial and strategic joint venture participants, as well as development companies and management and investment teams sponsored by private equity funds or other financial investors. While his clients are engaged in a wide variety of industries, he has extensive experience with companies in the renewable energy sector. Mr. Goldblatt also specializes in restructuring distressed companies both in and outside of bankruptcy, representing debtors, lenders, preferred and common equity holders, acquirers, and official and unofficial creditors’ committees. Mr. Goldblatt has been teaching corporate transactions as an adjunct professor at the University of California Los Angeles Law School since 2002. He also authored an article on exit strategies in Chapter 11 bankruptcies (American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, October 2004). Mr. Goldblatt is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of New York. He is also a member of the American Bar Association. Mr. Goldblatt received his law degree in 1997 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he graduated with honors. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in philosophy and psychology from Rutgers College at Rutgers University.
Jane Greyf practices in Butzel Long’s New York office, where she serves as the assistant office managing shareholder. She graduated from Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1998), where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and New York University (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1995). Ms. Greyf’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, representing both acquiring and selling entities in various private and public leveraged buyout, merger and acquisition, and investment transactions. Ms. Greyf has significant experience representing leveraged buyout sponsors, hedge funds, venture capital funds, and other private equity investors in various acquisitions, dispositions, investments, joint ventures, buyouts, tender offers, co-investments, and leveraged finance transactions. She also represents public and private companies in connection with various corporate and securities law issues, including corporate governance and takeover defenses and general corporate matters. Ms. Greyf has significant experience in acquisitions and financings focused in the energy industry, including tax credit-based equity financings of renewable energy assets. Ms. Greyf’s practice includes significant financial advisory representations. Prior to joining Butzel Long, Ms. Greyf practiced with Nixon Peabody and Latham & Watkins. Ms. Greyf is fluent in Russian.
Paul Johnson’s practice focuses on securities offerings and compliance, startup companies, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and general business counseling. Mr. Johnson has counseled public companies in corporate governance, SEC and NASDAQ compliance matters, public and private securities offerings, and acquisitions. He has also guided a number of companies and investors through venture capital financings. Mr. Johnson has also assisted a number of public and privately held companies in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Johnson has been a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP for more than two years, and prior to joining Procopio, was a partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, where he practiced corporate and securities law, first in Palo Alto, California, and then for the following seven years in that firm’s San Diego office.
Alonzo L. Llorens is a partner in the Atlanta office of Adorno & Yoss LLP, where he specializes in securities law. With more than 250 attorneys in eleven states, Adorno & Yoss is the largest certified minority-owned law firm in the country providing a full range of legal services on a national basis. Mr. Llorens represents clients in securities transactions, including private placements, venture capital, private equity, and initial public offerings. He also represents clients in merger and acquisition transactions and counsels clients with respect to compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, corporate governance, general corporate advice, and minority certification. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Llorens was a staff attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance. He started his legal career in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Honors Program. Mr. Llorens received his B.S. degree in international trade and finance from Louisiana State University, and his J.D. degree from Howard University School of Law, where he was managing editor of the Howard Law Journal.
Craig D. Miller is a partner with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP in San Francisco. Mr. Miller’s practice focuses on representing public and private corporations and financial institutions in a wide range of sophisticated corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, and corporate governance issues, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He regularly represents venture capital funds and private companies in venture fund formation and equity offerings. Mr. Miller previously served as an adjunct assistant professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, where he taught corporations.
C. William Thomas Jr. is a partner in the Corporate Department of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C., office. His practice emphasizes the formation and operation of domestic and international private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, mezzanine funds, real estate funds, and funds of funds. Mr. Thomas has broad experience representing fund sponsors, as well as institutional investors and joint venture partners. Mr. Thomas has been ranked as a leading lawyer for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds in the 2008 guide of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Mr. Thomas is a member of the District of Columbia, New York, and Massachusetts bars. He received his law degree from Harvard University in 1998, magna cum laude. While at Harvard, he served as books editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Mr. Thomas received his master of arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University in 1998 and a bachelor of arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1992, summa cum laude.
Thomas Yadlon is a partner with Kaye Scholer LLP. He focuses his practice on corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, equity and debt offerings, and liquidations into and out of bankruptcy. Mr. Yadlon also counsels clients on general corporate matters, including governance and securities laws compliance. He represents a variety of domestic and foreign companies, including private equity sponsors, financial institutions, and publicly and privately held companies in various industries. Mr. Yadlon has substantial experience in the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations, mergers, strategic investments, restructurings, and dispositions.
