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:

Adil M. Khan, Los Angeles Office

Adil M. Khan is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Litigation practice area.

Mr. Khan focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation disputes and class action defense. He has experience handling a variety of matters including false advertising, unfair competition, product liability, and contract disputes. He has significant experience defending against claims based on so-called “junk fees” and alleged practices involving strikethrough and reference pricing. His practice spans across multiple industries including e-commerce, retail, food service, private equity, nutritional supplements, financial services, homebuilding, and motor vehicle. 

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Steven J. Dollear, Chicago Office

Steven J. Dollear is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Defense practice group.

Mr. Dollear brings over 19 years of experience as a federal prosecutor, offering clients a strategic, insider’s perspective on government investigations, enforcement actions, and high-stakes litigation. Most recently, he served as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he led complex and sensitive matters involving cyber intrusions, theft of trade secrets, economic espionage, export control violations, and national security threats, including a focus on cases where companies were the targets.

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Alexander W. Leonard, New York Office

Alexander Leonard is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group.

Mr. Leonard focuses his practice on employment litigation and workplace counseling matters for large and small companies, and has particular experience working with hospitality and startup companies. He also serves clients in the financial services, technology, entertainment and media, retail and professional services industries.

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Michael Kurzer, New York Office

Michael Kurzer is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property group.

Mr. Kurzer focuses his practice on intellectual property and technology, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence (AI), digital infrastructure and sports technology. He provides his clients practical solutions to their complex issues including the ownership, use and protection of intellectual property and technology-related assets in the context of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments and other strategic transactions.

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Susan B. Niver, New York Office

Susan B. Niver is Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits group.

Ms. Niver focuses her practice on advising compensation, retirement, investment, and audit committees, as well as boards and plan administrators, in a broad range of employment related matters. Her experience spans ERISA, qualified retirement plans, executive compensation, fiduciary responsibilities, health and welfare benefit programs and issues specific to tax exempt organizations.

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John P. Guyette, New York Office

John P. Guyette is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group.

Mr. Guyette is a seasoned litigator who focuses his practice on general employment counseling and training, workplace investigations, and complex litigation of single-plaintiff and multi-plaintiff discrimination matters, wage and hour violations, and wrongful discharge disputes. Mr. Guyette has extensive experience practicing in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies, and in various arbitration panels addressing employment compensation, retaliation, whistleblower and defamation claims. Mr. Guyette is also routinely sought out for his experience in the New York State Court system and extensive experience in the NYCPLR and local rules of practice.

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Robert Salame, New York Office

Robert Salame is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s New York office and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Corporate groups.

Mr. Salame's real estate practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate transactions. This includes, without limitation, representing sponsors and developers throughout the lifecycle of a transaction (e.g., joint venturing, acquisitions, dispositions and financing (both debt and equity), across a wide range of asset classes, such as retail, office, multifamily and hotel and industrial properties. He also routinely represents debt funds and family offices in secured debt, mezzanine loans, note-on-note financing, and preferred equity transactions.

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Kimberley E. Lunetta, Miami Office

Kimberley E. Lunetta is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Miami office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group.

Ms. Lunetta has spent her legal career representing employers in labor and employment matters, including defending employers in jury and bench trials in federal and state courts, in the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and other arbitration forums and before administrative agencies. She defends and counsels clients facing a range of labor and employment issues, with a focus on the financial services, life sciences and telecommunication industries. She also specializes in advising on employee medical leave and disability accommodations and defending against disability discrimination and failure to accommodate claims.

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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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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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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 nearly 30 years, Mr. Ricardo has helped his clients navigate complex business disputes in federal and state courts and arbitration 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 in private equity, financial and professional services, manufacturing, technology, wealth management, insurance broking, accounting, consumer packaged goods, hospitality, retail, brand licensing, and other industries.

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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.

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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.

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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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.

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Daryll V. Marshall, Chicago Office

Daryll V. Marshall is a Shareholder in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Finance & Transactions group.

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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