Since December 2023, BakerHostetler has welcomed nine new lateral partners in seven offices.
Greg Dillard (Houston) is a nationally recognized leader in catastrophic event response, workplace safety and environmental law. He provides strategic guidance to clients’ legal and executive teams and on-site tactical support for the affected facility and personnel. Greg leads BakerHostetler’s Catastrophic Accident Response team and OSHA Workplace Safety team, which are strategically developed and located to provide rapid response to clients with facilities, assets and personnel across the country.
Todd M. Kegler (Columbus) focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, business, tax, estate planning and general business matters. He advises clients on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, investments and joint ventures across a range of industries that includes manufacturing, healthcare, restaurants, franchising, retail, building and construction materials, technology, advertising and marketing, and professional services.
Melissa A. Leonard (Cleveland) returns to BakerHostetler and concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and financing transactions. Her financing experience includes project and structured financings, senior secured and unsecured financings, mezzanine financings, real estate development financings, debt restructurings and hedging transactions.
George R. McCormick (New York) advises high net worth individuals and their families, entrepreneurs and business owners, family offices and trust companies on U.S. federal tax and estate and trust planning. He provides general estate planning as well as more advanced gift and trust planning advice that includes counseling fund principals with gifting fund interests, creating grantor retained annuity trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, private trust companies and charitable trusts; and advising on the use of life insurance strategies and structures.
Justin P. Murphy (Washington, D.C.) focuses his practice on government enforcement of complex antitrust, fraud and white-collar criminal matters. A former federal prosecutor, he advises corporate and individual clients involved in criminal antitrust investigations, including bid-rigging, price-fixing, procurement fraud, labor market practice and no-poach agreement violations in a broad range of industries. He is the leader of BakerHostetler’s Cartel and Government Antitrust Investigations Task Force.
Salomon Sassoon (New York) focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, investment transactions and corporate finance and on representing operating businesses. He represents both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions in a broad range of industries and contexts and works extensively with private equity firms, family offices and portfolio companies in connection with their acquisitions, dispositions, investments, fund formation, joint ventures, commercial transactions and financings, as well as in securities and corporate governance matters.
Nicholas L. Simon (Cincinnati) advises companies, private equity sponsors and investors on their most important corporate, finance and commercial transactions. A focus of Nick’s practice is the sports industry, where he has experience advising professional sports leagues, teams and their owners, as well as businesses active in professional, youth and amateur sports, on transactional and other matters, including mergers and acquisitions; stadium and team debt financings; equity financings; media, apparel, naming rights, sponsorship, licensing and other commercial agreements; internal investigations; and youth protection and safeguarding matters.
Jennifer G. Solari (Atlanta) is a seasoned prosecutor of federal crimes and focuses her practice on internal investigations, government matters and white-collar defense. She represents corporations, top executives and officers in investigations involving financial fraud, federal tax violations, securities fraud, intellectual property theft, export violations, antitrust compliance, public corruption, money laundering, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Matthew P. Wochok (Washington, D.C.) is an accomplished transactional tax lawyer who represents clients in a wide variety of domestic and international tax matters. Matt focuses his practice on the federal income tax aspects of a wide range of business transactions, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, fund formation and joint ventures.