Nelson Mullins
Nelson Mullins is a diversified law firm of more than 800 attorneys, policy advisors, and professionals across 25 offices serving clients in more than 100 practice areas.
-
Our litigators are trial lawyers, serving Fortune 200 clients, litigating high-stakes matters, and participating on national and virtual trial teams.
-
Our corporate and transactional teams provide high quality corporate, securities, finance, venture capital, commercial real estate, real estate capital markets, and technology services.
-
Our government relations team serves clients at the federal, state and local levels and includes former high-ranking government officials.
-
Our intellectual property group has been recognized nationally for IP litigation and provides a full-range of IP services for clients across industry sectors.
-
Our Nelson Mullins Encompass team is a dedicated practice group that provides integrated e-discovery and information governance services to clients on a flexible and scalable basis, serving as Enterprise E-Discovery Counsel for Fortune 200 clients and empowering focused and defensible strategies with law firm accountability
Together, we serve as trusted advisors to clients across a range of business sectors with client relationship fundamentals of quality, dependability, solution-oriented service and value.
Flexibility, practical business sense, and tireless advocacy are among Nelson Mullins’ service hallmarks. Our growth over the past 120 years continues to be client-focused.
Contributing authors from Nelson Mullins:
Matt practices in tax lien, escrow, lost property, and redemption law. He also works in the areas of appellate, business litigation, consumer financial services litigation, and employment...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Weston co-chairs the Energy Industry Group and practices energy, environmental, and appellate law.
Experience
Acted as lead counsel in three avoided cost trials on solar energy pricing and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Kristin has been practicing law in Florida for over 20 years and focuses her practice on employment litigation and compliance and commercial litigation. She serves as counsel to a broad...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Ashley practices in the areas of education law and insurance defense litigation. She represents and provides advice to large school districts in workers' compensation litigation, risk...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Robert focuses his practice in the areas of commercial finance and real estate capital markets. Robert represents national CMBS lenders, commercial banks, and other fixed-income lenders in...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Matt focuses his practice on healthcare and white-collar litigation, using his experience as both an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office, where he was cross–...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Katherine Baker represents businesses and individuals in a wide variety of complex civil litigation and is a trusted advisor in the areas of gaming law, higher education law, and public...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Romain Balard advises clients on a range of health care transactional and regulatory matters. He represents clients in corporate transactions, including but not limited to, complex...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Chelsea focuses her practice in the area of healthcare law and has experience with a variety of matters in the healthcare space, including antitrust and certificate of need. She also has...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
David is a member of the Banking, Bankruptcy, & Creditor’s Rights group.
Previous Professional Experience
Legal Aid Justice Center; post-grad fellow (2013–2014), intern (2010–2013)...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
John focuses his practice on bankruptcy law and consumer financial litigation. He has experience representing both debtors and creditors in chapter 11 proceedings touching on a diverse set...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Jody focuses his practice in the areas of banking, creditors' rights, and bankruptcy.
Jody represents banks in connection with regulatory and compliance issues, vendor relationships and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Kate focuses her practice primarily on civil litigation. Kate has represented clients in state and federal courts throughout the Northeast and has appeared pro hac vice in several other...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Blake's practice primarily focuses on estate planning and asset protection planning for a wide array of affluent individuals and their businesses. He advises individuals owning family...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Erika focuses on helping companies protect their businesses before, during, and after litigation, with experience in resolving business–to–business disputes through litigation, alternative...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Cynthia works with families and individuals to create and execute plans that protect assets and plan for the future. Her practice focuses on estate planning, estate and trust administration...
nelsonmullins.com |
Pages
George practices in the area of creditor bankruptcy law. He is a member of the South Carolina and Florida Bars, and he is a Certified Specialist in Bankruptcy Law by the Supreme Court of...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Bret Cohen chairs the Labor and Employment Practice. His practice covers a range of industries in the drafting and enforcement of non-compete, confidentiality, and other employment-related...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Dan's practice encompasses decades of experience working with educational institutions and their athletics departments.
Dan has counseled universities, colleges, medical institutions, and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Axton focuses his practice on products liability and business litigation.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Hannah Levinson Cross focuses her practice in the area of healthcare law and has experience advising and counseling hospital systems, physician practice groups, pharmacies, and other...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Sherry practices in the areas of education law, employment law, and general litigation. She has represented numerous school districts throughout Georgia, ranging from several large urban...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Bart is a first–chair veteran trial lawyer and is past president for the National Association of Former United States Attorneys. His practice focuses on both complex commercial and white...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Elizabeth advises a variety of entities with regulatory and compliance matters related to the consumer finance industry, including state and federal consumer protection laws, regulation and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Lianna Donovan practices in the areas of electronic discovery, records and information governance, cybersecurity and data privacy, and business litigation. Ms. Donovan has experience...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Nate focuses his practice on various types of business transactions, as well as the U.S. federal income tax laws and consequences related to these business transactions, with special...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
John practices corporate law with an emphasis on early and growth-stage technology companies and venture capital investments. John also has experience in M&A transactions and company...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Craig advises clients on reorganization and bankruptcy strategies. His client base includes national financial institutions, asset managers, portfolio managers, international shipping...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Geoffrey has experience advising all types of employers on a variety of benefits matters, including design, implementation, and administration of employee benefit plans such as defined...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Rusty represents traditional and non-traditional lenders in a variety of transactions, including syndicated and single-lender corporate and ABL credit facilities, CMBS loans, bridge loans,...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Jack focuses his practice in the area of litigation.
Experience
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Gary is co-chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and restructuring, receiverships, complex business litigation,...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Candace practices in the areas of healthcare, business litigation, and employment litigation. She has served as trial counsel in employment and healthcare related matters. Candace has...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Franco focuses on representing companies and their principals in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, strategic investments, corporate restructuring, and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Jason is the Chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. Named as one of Washington, DC’s “Top 100 Lawyers” (2011–2013), Jason has more than 30 years of...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Jahmy represents clients in cases that involve many industries and issues, including the automotive industry, healthcare, retail, technology, contract, warranty, tort, securities, false...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Chip Gray is a member of the Corporate Group and focuses his practice on finance and taxation.
Mr. Gray has experience with the legal process, from drafting complaints, briefs, memoranda,...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Neil heads the firm's financial institutions corporate and regulatory practice group, representing primarily financial institutions, fintech companies, and alternative financial services...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Denise is managing partner of the Winston–Salem office and serves as one of two Chief Diversity Partners. She has more than two decades of experience representing clients in a variety of...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Nina focuses her practice on education law, representing public and private educational entities, vendors, and professionals. She works directly with governing boards regarding effective...
www.nelsonmullins.com/people/nina-gupta#main |
Wells Hall advises clients on the federal, state, and multi-state tax aspects of acquisitions, reorganizations, restructuring of business entities, and private equity transactions, and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Carrie is a seasoned healthcare law, biosciences, and antitrust attorney. In her healthcare law and biosciences practice, she assists healthcare systems, surgical centers, physician groups...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Christopher assists clients in tackling their most sophisticated and high-stakes regulatory issues involving medical devices, in vitro diagnostics (IVDs), clinical laboratories, human and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Angela Hart-Edwards focuses her practice in all aspects of employment law with an emphasis on representation of employers in individual and class and collective litigation matters in state...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Drew Hermiller practices with the tax and benefits group and has experience counseling clients on complex domestic and cross border transactional tax matters, including all manner of...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
A member of the Financial Services Corporate and Regulatory (FinCorpReg) practice group, Adele Hogan represents clients in mergers, securities offerings, restructuring/bankruptcies, and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Kelly is a member of the litigation group and has experience in litigation from intake to disposition, including a number of jury and bench trials.
www.nelsonmullins.co |
Maurice Holloway practices in the areas of corporate and business entity law, taxation, estate planning, and business law.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Charles litigates commercial, employment, and labor issues, drafts employment agreements and restrictive covenants, and conducts training on preventing discrimination and harassment and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Ken practices in the areas of executive compensation, taxation, ERISA and employee benefits, and corporate law. He is certified by the Supreme Court of South Carolina as a tax specialist.
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Jessica is a member of the litigation team and concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, products liability, and employment matters. She has experience in all aspects...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Stan practices in the areas of healthcare law, governmental relations and public policy, and administrative law.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Jeffrey focuses his practice in the areas of complex litigation, emerging technology, and outside corporate counsel services. He advocates for companies and individuals faced with...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Megan’s practice includes representing clients in commercial litigation and securities matters.
Previous Professional Experience
Summer associate and law clerk at Nelson Mullins (2018-2019...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Laura serves as senior counsel in the education practice and focuses her practice in education law and policy, focusing on charter schools, special education, student rights, and employment...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Richard is chair of the FinTech and Regulation Practice and was one of the first lawyers to focus on the regulation of blockchain and digital assets. He is considered a thought leader in...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Joshua focuses his practice in the area of litigation.
Following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Matthew represents companies in high-stakes litigation with an emphasis on class action defense in the automotive and financial services industries, including the emerging crypto-currency...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Rob focuses his practice on government investigations and white collar defense, high stakes business litigation and class action defense, and e-discovery and litigation readiness. He...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Bob represents business entities and individuals in government enforcement, white collar criminal defense, and high-exposure civil litigation matters. A former federal prosecutor and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Mark has extensive experience in financial institution regulation, the acquisition and sale of financial institutions and other entities, formation of de novo community banks, and corporate...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Graham focuses his practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights, consumer financial services litigation, and financial institutions.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Brandon draws on his broad experience in education law to represent K-12 school districts, colleges and universities, private schools, charter schools, and education vendors. He focuses his...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Ann practices in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation. She previously served as in–house benefits counsel for a publicly–traded company, so she is able to provide...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Lauren practices in the areas of employment and labor, employee benefits, and executive compensation. She assists clients with all types of HR and benefits-related matters, including those...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Craig Nazzaro advises a variety of entities on all regulatory and compliance issues that impact the financial services industry including banks, non-bank lenders, servicers, investors,...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Brandon focuses his practice on advising businesses and individuals on complex issues, ranging from strategic and risk management advice, crises management, regulatory and internal...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Daniel is an experienced litigator of complex commercial, securities, and construction matters in state and federal courts and before various arbitration forums.
Daniel represents both...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Larry Ostema co-chairs the Energy Industry Group.
He has served as counsel in a range of domestic and international project and corporate financings and mergers and acquisitions in the...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Konnor focuses her practice in the areas of corporate and healthcare law with an emphasis on healthcare compliance and operations.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Lester Perling is a board-certified health law attorney and is certified in healthcare compliance. He has extensive experience in compliance, enforcement, and reimbursement matters. Mr....
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Don's areas of practice include business litigation, construction law, creditor’s rights and insolvency litigation, and consumer financial services litigation.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Keith practices in the areas of bankruptcy and creditors' rights, consumer financial services litigation and financial institutions. He regularly represents committees of unsecured...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Shane is a Vice Chair of the firm's bankruptcy and financial restructuring practice group. He regularly represents committees of unsecured creditors, indenture trustees, secured creditors,...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
George focuses his practice on Georgia government relations, state and local administrative law and regulatory proceedings, and business litigation. Representing education, healthcare,...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Alyssa focuses her practice on employment and labor matters, with experience in litigation. She has routinely counseled companies, including one in the Fortune 500, on RIF, OWBPA, and WARN...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Carl Rosen’s practice primarily focuses on probate, asset protection, business planning, and estate and family “generational” planning for a wide array of affluent individuals and their...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Samer concentrates his practice on corporate and financial regulatory matters. He advises depository institutions, bank holding companies, FinTech companies, and non-bank financial services...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Paul’s practice focuses representing emerging and growth stage companies in corporate and financing matters, with a particular emphasis on venture capital and mergers and acquisitions...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Brian focuses his practice on banking and financial services and advises banks, broker–dealers, financial tech companies and other investment companies on regulatory, compliance, and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Stuart Russell practices with the litigation group where he focuses his practice on commercial litigation, including matters before the North Carolina Business Court. He also handles...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Brad chairs the firm’s Financial Services Regulatory Practice. His career began as a litigator focusing on consumer financial services litigation and defense of regulatory claims against...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Brennan practices with the Financial Regulatory and Corporate team where he focuses in the areas of banking law and corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on corporate finance-...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Partner Adam regularly represents companies and individuals before the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission in investigations and compliance-related matters. His...
202-689-2872 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Partner In addition to chairing the tax lien and litigation group at Nelson Mullins, his practice focuses on banking, financial services, business, taxation, and real estate matters. He routinely...
304-526-3507 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Partner Cheryl is a transactional attorney who practices in both the public and private sector. She is experienced in a broad range of business transactions, including all areas of commercial real...
404-322-6139 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Partner Rob's practice encompasses a variety of litigation matters, with an emphasis on litigation and counseling on federal and state labor and employment issues.
In the area of employment law,...
617.217.4634 www.nelsonmullins.com |
Partner Scott practices in complex business and securities litigation. He represents public companies, directors, and officers in securities class actions and derivative lawsuits and represents...
404-322-6231 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Partner Woojin Shin serves Korean companies primarily in the infrastructure, automotive, defense, and consumer goods industries. Mr. Shin regularly counsels Korean multinational companies on their...
202-689-2923 www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
![]() Associate Shaniqua represents clients on a broad range of employment, commercial, and business litigation matters. She is also experienced in pre-trial aspects of litigation including deposing...
404-322-6623 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Legislative Consultant Helen is a legislative consultant and Georgia Registered Lobbyist. She is an advocate for various clients including healthcare providers, insurers, and child welfare providers. Helen tracks...
404-322-6170 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Of Counsel Kathy focuses her practice on executive compensation, employee benefits, and ERISA law. She works with public and private companies and their employee benefits needs and has worked as in-...
404-322-6375 www.nelsonmullins.com |
![]() Partner Sue practices in executive compensation and employee benefits law. Sue has spent more than 25 years, including many years with a large international law firm based in New York, counseling...
404-322-6374 www.nelsonmullins.com |
Pages
Greg primarily represents creditors in disputes with debtors arising from both commercial and consumer loans, leases, and other credit relationships. He also regularly represents...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Frank's practice is devoted to a wide range of insolvency matters, including representation of corporate and consumer clients in complex workouts, bankruptcies, assignment for the benefit...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Melanie focuses her practice on internal and governmental inquiries and investigations, high-stakes litigation, and risk counseling and assessments, focusing on the life sciences and...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Dylan focuses his practice in bankruptcy and financial restructuring. He has experience representing Chapter 11 debtors, bankruptcy trustees, major creditors, and other parties in business...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Kevin assists clients in matters related to financial regulatory, FinTech, corporate and securities issues. He gained experience at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., where he...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Alexis “Lexi” Trumble is a member of the school & college law practice and focuses on a variety of aspects of litigation and education law, with an emphasis on the myriad areas of...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Megan Ware-Fitzgerald is a member of the litigation team and focuses her practice on commercial litigation, financial services litigation and tax lien resolution.
Experience
Following is a...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Suzann Wilcox focuses her practice on education law. Ms. Wilcox is committed to developing strong relationships with public school districts and educational professionals in order to assist...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Matt represents healthcare organizations and providers of all types. He counsels clients on regulatory and compliance issues, including institutional compliance, fraud and abuse, HIPAA,...
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Solomon L. Wisenberg is a nationally renowned white-collar attorney who defends business executives, public officials, and everyday people in sensitive legal matters throughout the United...
|
Kyla focuses her practice on assisting healthcare providers with healthcare regulatory compliance in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry and a variety of transactional matters,...
www.nelsonmullins.com/ |
Elaine Yap focuses her practice in the areas of product liability, including pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, and e-discovery.
www.nelsonmullins.com |
Matt Zischke has experience advising all types of employers on a variety of benefits matters, including design, implementation, and administration of employee benefit plans such as defined...
www.nelsonmullins.com |