Holland & Knight Announces 37 New Partners

MIAMI (January 4, 2021) – Steven Sonberg, Managing Partner of Holland & Knight, announced that 37 attorneys in the firm have been elected to partnership effective January 1, 2021. Twenty-four associates and 13 senior counsel and of counsel from various offices throughout the firm have been elevated. They are:

Atlanta
Associates elevated to partnership:
Jake Evans is a member of the firm's Government Section. He represents individuals and companies in matters involving complex litigation and government and regulatory issues at the local, state and national levels, as well as provides general business law advice and counsel. Mr. Evans received a J.D. degree from the University of Georgia School of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Georgia.

Jessica Lynn MacAllister is a member of the firm's Real Estate Section. Ms. MacAllister's practice focuses on the representation of national banks and other financial institutions and funds in connection with construction and permanent loans, unsecured and secured credit facilities, including multifamily, homebuilder, industrial, office and retail, and healthcare projects and portfolios. Her practice has a particular emphasis on financing the acquisition and development of medical office buildings and senior nursing, assisted living and memory care facilities. She earned a J.D. degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Allison Dyer is a member of the firm's Business Section. Ms. Dyer's practice focuses on public finance transactions for multifamily housing, nonprofit hospitals, educational institutions and local governments. She also has extensive experience with economic development and public-private partnership (P3) transactions. Ms. Dyer earned a J.D. degree from the University of Georgia School of Law and a B.A. degree from Northwestern University.

Boston
Associate elevated to partnership:
Andrew Silvia is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. His practice focuses on representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment litigation. He also counsels employers regarding employment policies and compliance with federal, state and local employment laws. Mr. Silvia received a J.D. degree from Suffolk Law School and a B.A. degree from George Washington University.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Gina Fonte is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Ms. Fonte concentrates her practice in the areas of construction litigation and transactions, energy, insurance, commercial litigation and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) workplace safety and whistleblower claims. She also serves as co-chair of the firm's OSHA, Workplace Safety and Whistleblower Claims Team. Ms. Fonte earned a J.D. degree and a B.A. degree from Boston University.

Christopher Iaquinto is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Mr. Iaquinto focuses on civil litigation and white collar defense. He represents clients in healthcare, securities, tax and other government enforcement matters, civil and criminal, as well as data privacy matters, including class action defense. Mr. Iaquinto received a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School, an M.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. degree also from Boston College.

Chicago
Associates elevated to partnership:
William Farley is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Mr. Farley represents businesses in complex commercial disputes covering a broad range of legal issues, including class action litigation, data privacy litigation involving biometric privacy laws, business tort, domestic and international supply chain disputes, and commercial landlord-tenant actions. He earned a J.D. degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan.

Daniel Sylvester is a member of the firm's Financial Services Team. Mr. Sylvester's practice focuses on the representation of borrowers and lenders in senior secured credit facilities, second-lien credit facilities, real estate finance and syndicated credit facilities. He also is co-chair of the firm's Veterans Group. Mr. Sylvester earned a J.D. degree from the DePaul University School of Law and a B.S. degree from Georgetown University.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Phillip Nelson is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency. Mr. Nelson counsels clients in a wide variety of distressed debt, restructuring and insolvency matters and has represented clients in liquidations, corporate reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings. He received a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law and an A.B. degree from Wabash College.

Dallas
Associates elevated to partnership:
Tatyana Rozenberg Bloom is a member of the firm's Business Section. Ms. Bloom represents banks, hedge funds and financial institutions in corporate finance transactions, including specialty finance, healthcare finance, asset-based, cash-flow, re-discount and syndicated facilities across various asset classes. She received her J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Boston University School of Law and a B.A. degree from Cornell University.

Gemma R. Galeoto is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Licensed in four states, she focuses her practice on complex business disputes in a variety of industries, including healthcare, financial institutions, white collar, employment and trade secret litigation. Ms. Galeoto has significant lead counsel trial experience in arbitration proceedings, as well as state and federal courts.  She received a J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, cum laude, and a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.

Ashley Ingraham is a member of the firm's Business Section. Ms. Ingraham represents financial institutions, capital companies, business credit divisions and private capital funds in connection with their lending and investment transactions, including asset-based and cash-flow lending, real estate financing and senior debt financing. She received a J.D. degree from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and MPA and B.B.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Jennifer Duplissey is a member of the firm's Real Estate Section. Her practice focuses on commercial and agricultural real estate with a particular emphasis on commercial and agricultural leasing and real estate acquisitions and dispositions. She earned a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School and a B.S. degree from Auburn University.

Jacksonville
Associate elevated to partnership:
Jennifer Kifer is a member of the firm's Business Section. Ms. Kifer helps lead a national team of attorneys, fiduciary accountants and paralegals who advocate on behalf of nonprofit organizations as beneficiaries of matured bequests in both contested and uncontested trust and estate matters. Her practice canvasses the entire nonprofit sector, including charitable, medical, religious and educational organizations, with the ultimate goal of following donor intent to accelerate and increase bequest revenue to those organizations. She earned a J.D. degree from Florida Coastal School of Law and a B.A. degree from Flagler College.

Los Angeles
Of counsel elevated to partnership
Raymond Kim is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. He is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses on consumer class action defense. He received a J.D. degree from the University of California Davis School of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Miami
Associates elevated to partnership:
Pedro Gassant is a member of the firm's Real Estate Section and focuses his practice on land use, zoning and environmental entitlement issues. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Certificate in Business Economics and Public Policy from the Wharton School of Business. Mr. Gassant received a B.A. degree from Florida State University.

Faisal Kraziem is a member of the firm's Business Section. He represents financial institutions, banks, borrowers and other entities in complex domestic and cross-border lending transactions across all industries. Mr. Kraziem earned a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.B.A. degree from Florida International University.

Christopher Marotta is a member of the firm's Business Section. He assists clients with a range of domestic and international tax issues, including in relation to the formation of investment funds, drafting United States tax disclosures for private placement memoranda and public offerings, negotiating and structuring the purchase and sale of businesses, advising insurers on representation and warranty policy coverage, structuring inbound and outbound investments, and other issues relating to mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations. Mr. Marotta received an L.L.M. degree from New York University School of Law, a J.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a B.A. degree from Bowdoin College.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Brandon Williams is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. He focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, class actions and insurance litigation. Mr. Williams received a J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law and a B.S. degree from the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering.

New York
Associate elevated to partnership:
Marie Larsen is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Ms. Larsen represents clients in a broad range of general commercial disputes, judgment recognition and enforcement through asset discovery, restraint and execution, as well as litigation of transportation and maritime matters. She earned a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Southern California.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Manfred Gabriel leads the firm's Legal Support Services organization. In this role, he oversees the firm's eDiscovery and fact-finding unit, which assists clients in managing the risks and costs of eDiscovery. In addition, Mr. Gabriel represents clients in eDiscovery challenges, as an expert on machine learning applications in the law, and has testified as a corporate representative. Mr. Gabriel received a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School and clerked in the District of Connecticut (Hon. Robert N. Chatigny).

Edward Rojas is a financial services attorney and a member of the firm's Public Finance Team. His practice encompasses the full range of tax-exempt bond financings, including healthcare, educational, single family and multifamily housing, tribal bonds, transportation, airport, solid waste, infrastructure, environmental and generation facilities. He received a J.D. degree from Columbia University Law School and an A.B. degree from Harvard College.

Orlando
Associate elevated to partnership:
Barton Morrison is a member of the firm's Real Estate Section who represents publicly traded and privately held national builders, international investors, joint ventures, banks, aircraft lessors and other investors. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to the practice of law, he served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot and officer.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Edward Fitzgerald is a member of the firm's Litigation Section and practices in the area of bankruptcy, creditors' rights and commercial litigation. He focuses on the representation of financial institutions and other creditors, including commercial banks, corporations, commercial landlords and receivers. Mr. Fitzgerald received a J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law and a B.S. degree from the University of Florida.

Jamie Billotte Moses is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. She focuses her practice primarily on state and federal appeals. Ms. Moses also has significant experience representing clients in real estate and broker litigation and professional malpractice litigation, along with insurance and bad faith litigation. She earned a J.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School and a B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Philadelphia
Associate elevated to partnership:
Ryan Meadows is a member of the firm's Business Section. Mr. Meadows focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation matters. He represents clients in a wide range of employee benefits matters, including the design, drafting and operation of tax-qualified benefit plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, executive and equity compensation arrangements, and welfare benefit plans. He received an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a J.D. degree from Syracuse University College of Law and a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Valerie Brown is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. Ms. Brown has broad experience representing companies in complex litigation, including a variety of commercial, employment, restrictive covenant and putative class action matters. She received a J.D. degree from Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law and a B.A. degree from The Ohio State University.

San Francisco
Associate elevated to partnership:
Daniel Golub is a member of the firm's West Coast Land Use and Environment Group. Mr. Golub has experience in policy, planning and political organizing, as well as significant experience successfully litigating cases under California’s cutting-edge housing production and streamlining laws. He represents developers, nonprofit organizations and public agencies in the courts and in the permitting and entitlement process. He earned a J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. degree from Vassar College.

Senior counsel elevated to partnership:
Sarah Marsey is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. She is an experienced trial attorney with jury and bench trials in California and Alaska. Ms. Marsey has successfully represented corporations, Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) and individuals in complex commercial disputes, construction litigation, professional liability and tort claims. She received a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School and a B.A. degree from San Francisco State University.

Tampa
Associates elevated to partnership:
Patrick Duffey is a member of the firm's Private Wealth Services Group and concentrates his practice on complex tax, estate planning and fiduciary matters for high-net-worth families. He also acts as outside general counsel to entrepreneurs. Mr. Duffey earned an LL.M. degree in taxation from New York University School of Law, a J.D. degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law and a B.S. degree from the University of Florida.

Anthony Palermo is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. He represents clients in complex commercial disputes, governmental investigations, enforcement actions, and administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and state and federal court litigation. Mr. Palermo also advises clients on regulatory compliance, employment and corporate governance issues with a particular focus on consumer protection and financial services laws and regulations. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tysons
Associates elevated to partnership: 
Lauren Benny is a member of the firm's Business Section. Ms. Benny focuses her practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law and equity financing transactions. She has advised clients, both buyers and sellers, on more than 50 merger, acquisition and disposition transactions in a number of different industries, including government contracting, consulting services, technology, and automotive and transportation. She received a J.D. degree and a B.A. degree from George Washington University.

David Schneider is a member of the firm's Real Estate Section. Mr. Schneider focuses his practice on land use and real estate development, assisting developers and landowners in a wide variety of land use entitlements in jurisdictions throughout Northern Virginia. He earned a J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law and a B.A. degree from Tufts University.

Washington, D.C.
Associates elevated to partnership:
Leila George-Wheeler is a member of Holland & Knight's Litigation Section. She concentrates her practice on white collar defense, government and internal investigations, government contracts disputes and regulatory compliance, as well as complex civil litigation. She represents clients in heavily regulated sectors, including government contracts, healthcare, finance, information technology, transportation and infrastructure. She earned a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School and a B.A. degree from Syracuse University.

Daniel Neustadt is an intellectual property lawyer in the firm's Litigation Section. His practice focuses on trademark and copyright matters and encompasses federal copyright and trademark infringement litigation, administrative proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) arbitrations, global trademark clearance, prosecution and enforcement, and copyright counseling, as well as maintenance and management of international intellectual property portfolios. He earned a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law and B.M. and B.A. degrees from Northwestern University.

West Palm Beach
Associates elevated to partnership:
Caitlin Saladrigas is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. She focuses on investigating and litigating fraud claims in state and federal courts, including healthcare fraud, insurance fraud, corporate theft and Ponzi schemes. She received a J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law and a B.A. degree from Florida Atlantic University.

Seth Welner is a member of the firm's Litigation Section. He represents clients in high-stakes lawsuits, including the defense of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and other civil racketeering claims as well as the prosecution of emergency injunctions to protect businesses from the misuse of confidential and trade secret business information. Mr. Welner earned a J.D. degree from Florida State University College of Law and a B.A. degree from the University of Florida.