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Women Leaders at S&C2015

Tracy Richelle High Co-Chair Women’s Initiative Committee

t Sullivan & Cromwell, fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment is vital to providing our clients with the

highest level of service. The deeper the well of background, perspective and life experience from which we have to draw, the broader the lens through which the complex legal issues we work on can be viewed, and the more solutions we can offer to our clients.

Our clients call on us for our commitment, talent, experience and recognized leadership in many different fields of law. S&C’s women lawyers stand out in all of these areas.

The following pages provide more information about the women partners at S&C, the work that they are doing, and some of the leadership roles that they play. As you consider your own career trajectory with S&C, we encourage you to visit our website, www.sullcrom.com, to learn more about the women at S&C and the possibilities open to you.

No matter what your professional interests are—litigation, corporate, tax or estates and personal—the Firm will train you to be a world-class lawyer and provide you with an ideal platform from which to achieve your ambitions. We all look forward to meeting you.

Camille Orme Co-Chair Women’s Initiative Committee

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S &C ’S M A N AGE M E N T C OM M I T T E E

Partners Sharon Nelles, Alison Ressler and Karen Seymour are members of the Firm’s thirteen-person Management Committee—a statistic that distinguishes S&C from peer firms. The three lawyers are at the top of their fields and have received multiple recent accolades for their work both within and outside of the Firm.

Sharon, a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group, was recognized in June 2015 as one of six “Women of Power & Influence” by the National Organization for Women (NOW). In selecting Sharon for the award, NOW noted that in addition to being a “top litigator with a robust and far-reaching practice,” Sharon dedicates significant time to addressing critical women’s issues, especially in her work as co-president of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA) and on the boards of Her Justice and Out in Law. Sharon was also named “Litigator of the Week” by The American Lawyer in 2014.

Based out of the Los Angeles office, Alison was the first partner outside of New York to join the Management Committee. Alison’s recent awards include The American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Week” and “Dealmaker of the Year,” Law360’s 2014 “M&A MVP” and M&A Advisor’s “Legal Advisor of the Year.” She was also named one of the Financial Times’ ten most innovative lawyers in North America in its most recent report, which commended her for “leading by example” throughout her career and noted that “[h]er work on such high-profile deals, her role as leader in the firm and the respect she has earned have had significant influence on women in the profession.”

Former Co-Managing Partner of S&C’s Litigation Group Karen Seymour had an esteemed career in public service before rejoining the Firm in 2004. During her first tenure in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, she prosecuted a wide variety of cases and served as Chief of the General Crimes Unit. From 2002 to 2004, Karen served as the chief of the Criminal Division for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and was lead trial counsel for the government in the prosecution of Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic. Karen has received multiple recognitions for her exemplary commitment to public service, including the Brooklyn Volunteer Lawyers Project’s Dedication to Justice Award and the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest’s Law & Society Award.

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At S&C, we believe that attracting, developing and retaining the finest lawyers of all backgrounds is vital to providing the highest level of service to our clients. For the third consecutive year, S&C was named the U.S. Leading Diversity Law Firm of the Year by Acquisition Finance Magazine.

TRACY RICHELLE HIGH 2015 DIVERSITY TRAILBLAZER

In January 2015, the New York State Bar Association presented Tracy Richelle High with its 2015 Diversity Trailblazer Award. In recognizing Tracy, the State Bar Association highlighted her extensive efforts in promoting diversity and inclusion both at the Firm and in the greater legal community, her mentorship of students and young lawyers and her far-reaching impact through the many boards on which she serves. In addition to serving as Deputy Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group, Tracy co-chairs both the Diversity Committee and the Women’s Initiative Committee, and oversees the Firm’s participation in the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Program, Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, Inc. and Legal Outreach Program.

A Leader in Diversity

Associates Lauren Cooperman and Abbie DeMusis at the Firm’s New York office


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S&C’S WOMEN’S INITIATIVE COMMITTEE

S&C’s Women’s Initiative Committee seeks to enhance the experience of women lawyers at the Firm by supporting our efforts to recruit, retain and advance women lawyers.

The Women’s Initiative Committee hosts a wide range of internal programs, external events and sponsorships that are designed to ensure the Firm’s women lawyers have access to a variety of professional development, networking and mentoring opportunities. As an S&C lawyer, you will be invited to attend a number of these events each year, such as:

� the distinguished lecturer series at the New York City Bar featuring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg;

� informal, small-group mentoring lunches with women partners;

� conversations with notable women, such as Baroness Patricia Scotland, the first woman to be named Queen’s Counsel and attorney general in the United Kingdom;

� programs and receptions benefiting organizations like Dress for Success;

� a panel discussion with distinguished S&C alumnae;

� programs featuring renowned business leaders, such as Carla Harris, vice chairman of global wealth management and senior client advisor at Morgan Stanley and author of Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace;

� regular receptions for women associates; and

� welcome breakfasts with women partners for new women associates joining each fall.

On November 4, 2014, S&C hosted the second part of the “Women in Law: Opting Up, Not Out” conference. Led by S&C partners Sharon Nelles, Alexandra Korry and Tracy Richelle High, the program discussed how, when and why women raise careers in the law to the next level, continuing a conversation that began with an event co-sponsored by Chambers in March of 2014.

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C L IE N T HIGHL IGH T: C IC

S&C partners Chun Wei and Alexandra Korry counsel China Investment Corporation, CITIC Capital and Boyu Capital in their equity investment in Alibaba.

In 2012, S&C represented sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation affiliate CIC International and private equity funds CITIC Capital and Boyu Capital as lead investors in the purchase of ordinary shares of Alibaba to help finance Alibaba’s $7.1 billion buy-back from Yahoo! of approximately 523 million of its shares.

The equity portion of the financing, valued at approximately $3.9 billion, reduced Yahoo!’s stake in Alibaba to 23 percent.

Chun Wei and Alexandra Korry


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Chun WeiHong Kong Office

Partner since 1997

Place of Birth Nanjing, China

Background City Nanjing, China

Education Beijing University, LL.B 1983

Columbia Law School, LL.M 1984

Chun is a recognized authority on corporate finance, acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate and financial matters and has worked on numerous China-related transactions. Many of these award-winning transactions were the first of their kind in China. Chun has been recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous well-known legal publications.

What Chun has been working on recently: Represented China Investment Corporation, Boyu Capital and CITIC Capital as the selling shareholders in the IPO of Alibaba Group.

Leadership: Chun is responsible for coordinating the Firm’s practice in Asia and is the Managing Partner of our Hong Kong office, as well as a member of the Managing Partners Committee. She also serves on S&C’s Diversity Committee.

Gwen WongBeijing Office

Partner since 2011

Place of Birth Hong Kong, China

Background City Sydney, Australia

Education University of Sydney, B.Comm. 1998 University of Sydney Law School, LL.B 2000 University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, PCLL 2001 University of New South Wales, M.Comm. 2000

Gwen advises on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions in the Greater China region, including securities offerings (representing issuers and underwriters in IPOs and follow-on offerings) and corporate governance and compliance. She also has extensive experience in M&A, having represented parties on complex cross-border deals, public takeovers, privatizations, private sales and purchases, consortium bids and private equity investments and exits.

What Gwen has been working on recently: Guides several major Asian companies in share placings, capital raisings and initial public offers, including Shengjing Bank Company, Bank of Chongqing, China Shenhua Overseas Capital and China Mengniu Dairy Co.

Leadership: Gwen is Co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s Beijing office.

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Kathryn A. CampbellLondon Office

Partner since 1997

Place of Birth Washington, D.C.

Background City Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey

Education Montclair State University, B.A. 1976

Rutgers School of Law – Newark, J.D. 1981

University of Oxford, B.C.L. 1983

Kathryn has extensive experience with securities offerings and transactions in the United States by non-U.S. companies, representing issuers as well as underwriters. Her experience includes public SEC-registered equity and debt offerings, Rule 144A offerings, private placements and other exempt transactions and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and disposals. In addition, Kathryn works closely with corporate clients, regularly advising on U.S. securities law matters, SEC reporting, NYSE listing and corporate governance matters.

What Kathryn has been working on recently: Advised leading building materials company CRH plc on its €1.6 billion equity placing in connection with its €6.5 billion acquisition of assets from Lafarge and Holcim.

Leadership: Kathryn is a member of the UN Economic Commission for the Europe – Export Group on Resource Classification. She also serves on S&C’s Women’s Initiative Committee.

Vanessa K. BlackmoreLondon Office

Partner since 2006

Place of Birth Bushey, United Kingdom

Background City London, United Kingdom

Education The London College of Law, LL.B. 1986

King’s College, University of London, LL.B. 1985

Vanessa is a partner in the London office and is qualified to practice English law. She has a broad-based domestic and international corporate practice, advising on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and hedge funds, international equity and debt capital markets financings, debt liability management, corporate restructurings, privatizations, joint ventures and on corporate governance and compliance issues. She has considerable experience in complex cross-border transactions and capital markets matters.

What Vanessa has been working on recently: Represented hedge fund management company Pershing Square Holdings in its inaugural offering of $1 billion senior notes, listed on the Global Exchange Market of the Irish Stock Exchange.

Leadership: Vanessa is a visiting lecturer and an external examiner for the LLM in International Finance at King’s College, University of London. She previously served as co-managing partner of S&C’s London office.

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Rita-Anne O’NeillLos Angeles Office

Partner since 2013

Place of Birth Flushing, New York

Background City Manhasset, New York

Education Wellesley College, B.A. 1993

Boston College Law School, J.D. 2004

Rita is a partner in the Firm’s General Practice Group whose practice includes M&A, securities offerings, leveraged finance transactions and providing general corporate advice on disclosure and governance. She has advised clients in a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, semiconductors, financial institutions, apparel, chemical distribution and pharmaceuticals.

What Rita has been working on recently: Advised Dutch technology giant Philips in its $1 billion acquisition of Volcano Corporation; Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s acquisitions of PODS (Portable On Demand Storage) and SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd.

Leadership: Rita serves on the American Bar Association’s Women in M&A Task Force.

Diane L. McGimseyLos Angeles Office

Partner since 2011

Place of Birth Las Vegas, Nevada

Background City Las Vegas, Nevada

Education Claremont McKenna College, B.A. 1999

UC Berkeley School of Law, J.D. 2002

Diane is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Group. She has represented numerous clients in shareholder litigation, including M&A litigation arising from The Blackstone Group’s buyout of Hilton Hotels, Mitsubishi’s buyout of UnionBanCal and shareholder litigation arising from a three-way proxy contest among Amylin Pharmaceuticals and certain activist shareholders.

What Diane has been working on recently: Several high-profile banking cases, particularly cases related to the 2008 global financial crisis and Bernard L. Madoff’s historic $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Leadership: Diane is co-head of clerk recruiting for S&C.

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Melissa Sawyer and Alison Ressler


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T HE P R E SC R IP T ION F OR SUC C E S S : S &C ’S HE A LT HC A R E DE A L M A K E R S

With the booming M&A market returning to activity levels not seen since 2007, the Healthcare industry has led the pack.

As the target industry with the highest volume of M&A deals in 2014 and 2015 per Thomson Reuters, Healthcare has accounted for over $1 trillion in announced M&A matters worldwide. Sullivan & Cromwell’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Group—including partners Alison Ressler, who is also a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, and Melissa Sawyer, a member of S&C’s Recruiting Working Group, an Associate Development Partner, and a co-coordinator of S&C’s summer program—has been at the forefront of this record Healthcare M&A activity bringing its creativity, culture of collaboration and deal expertise to advise an assortment of clients across the Healthcare spectrum on some of the biggest and most significant matters. Since 2014, the group has advised on a staggering $300 billion in announced transactions worldwide, including many multi-billion-dollar transformative, cross-border matters spanning multiple jurisdictions. Included in S&C’s notable roster of client representations is AbbVie’s $55 billion proposed acquisition of Shire; Bayer’s $14.2 billion acquisition of the consumer care business of Merck; CVS Health’s $12.7 billion acquisition of Omnicare; Idenix Pharmaceutical’s $3.8 billion acquisition by Merck; LabCorp’s $6.1 billion acquisition of Covance; Synageva BioPharma’s $8.4 billion acquisition by Alexion; Teva Pharmaceutical’s $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan’s generic drug business and $50.5 billion proposed unsolicited acquisition of Mylan; UnitedHealth’s $12.8 billion pharmacy care business combination with Catamaran Corporation; and Valeant’s $15.8 billion acquisition of Salix and $56 billion proposed acquisition of Allergan.

It’s no wonder that The American Lawyer has recognized several members of S&C’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice recently, including Melissa Sawyer as “Dealmaker of the Week” for her work with UnitedHealth’s bid for Catamaran Corp., a transaction with tremendous benefits of scale for UnitedHealth, which now fulfills more than a billion patient prescriptions a year. The American Lawyer also recognized Alison Ressler’s efforts on behalf of longtime client Valeant Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition of Salix, an extraordinary feat, given that it took merely a month from start to signing.

Together, these lawyers have helped clients of all sizes, from start-ups to investment funds to the largest global healthcare businesses, on complex transactions from both sides of the table. Their expertise extends across the sector, from over-the-counter medications to early-stage drug development to medical devices to health insurance. S&C’s client work has been critical for the companies’ growth and has brought cutting-edge technology and care to patients around the world.

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Whitney A. ChatterjeeNew York Office

Partner since 2010

Place of Birth Concord, Massachusetts

Background City Pepperell, Massachusetts

Education Hamilton College, B.A. 1997

Columbia Law School, J.D. 2001

Whitney is co-head of the Alternative Investment Management Group and a member of the Firm’s Financial Institutions Group. Her practice focuses on advising hedge fund managers, private equity funds and financial services companies on a wide variety of matters, including transactional, regulatory, compliance and corporate governance issues. Whitney has extensive experience providing advice regarding various aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act, including the Volcker Rule and the Investment Advisers Act.

What Whitney has been working on recently: Represented UBS Global Asset Management in the sale of its Alternative Fund Services business to Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services.

Leadership: Whitney is co-head of the Alternative Investment Management Group and a member of the Firm’s Managing Partners Committee. She sits on the Firm’s Diversity and Women’s Initiative Committees.

Alison S. ResslerLos Angeles Office

Partner since 1991

Place of Birth New York, New York

Background City New York, New York

Education Brown University, A.B. 1980


Recently recognized as American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Week” and “Dealmaker of the Year,” and as Law360 ’s 2014 “M&A MVP,” Alison is a leading authority on M&A, corporate governance and capital markets. She provides advice to domestic and international corporations, private equity investors, boards of directors and financial advisers for a wide range of transactions in regulated and unregulated industries.

What Alison has been working on recently: Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s $15.8 billion acquisition of Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and $56 billion proposed acquisition of Allergan, Inc.; ATL Investco’s acquisition of the Atlanta Hawks; Endo International plc’s $2.6 billion acquisition of Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s acquisition of PODS (Portable On Demand Storage).

Leadership: Alison is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, serves as co-head of the Global Private Equity Group and is responsible for the Firm’s practice in California. She is also on S&C’s Business Development, Diversity and Women’s Initiative Committees.

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Audra D. CohenNew York Office

Partner since 2004

Place of Birth Brooklyn, New York

Background City Seattle, Washington

Education University of Washington, B.A. 1989

George Washington University Law School, J.D. 1992

Audra is a partner in the Firm’s M&A Group. She represents buyers, sellers, boards of directors and financial advisers in a broad range of M&A transactions, including public company mergers, negotiated sales of private companies (including subsidiaries and divisions), spin-offs and complex corporate restructurings.

What Audra has been working on recently: Kraft Foods Group’s $55 billion merger with H.J. Heinz Company to create The Kraft Heinz Company.

Leadership: Audra is co-head of the Consumer & Retail Group and co-head of the Associate Experience Committee.

Catherine M. ClarkinNew York Office

Partner since 2005

Place of Birth Mount Vernon, New York

Background City Yorktown Heights, New York

Education American University, B.A. 1992

Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, J.D. 1995

Cathy is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate and Finance and Financial Institutions Groups with a focus on capital market transactions, especially in the financial services sector. She has extensive experience in SEC-registered and exempt equity and debt financings by U.S. and non-U.S. issuers. Cathy also regularly advises a variety of corporate clients on non-transactional matters such as corporate governance, disclosure matters and SEC requirements. In addition, she regularly represents large financial institutions in the development and structuring of hybrid securities and equity, currency and commodity-linked structured products.

What Cathy has been working on recently: Represented bank and wealth management company First Republic Bank in connection with multiple debt, equity and hybrid securities offerings.

Leadership: Cathy serves on S&C’s Knowledge Management and Women’s Initiative Committees.

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SP O T L IGH T ON A N T I - MONE Y L AUNDE R ING

Bank compliance issues are at the heart of S&C partner Beth Davy’s practice. As a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Financial Services Group, she advises clients on bank regulation and supervision, compliance issues and regulatory enforcement matters. Beth is widely recognized as a leading expert in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions compliance and enforcement. She has represented numerous financial institutions in high-profile global investigations involving multiple U.S. government agencies, and on public and non-public regulatory enforcement matters. Hear from Beth about what we can expect in 2015 in this rapidly evolving area.

What are some of the highlights of working in S&C’s AML practice?

We do a lot of work with banks on their governance and compliance models, helping them build a global enterprise-wide approach to money laundering and sanctions risk management. It’s strategic work that brings us right into the executive-level suite. We have a lot of discussions with organizations’ leadership about the right way to approach these things and how the banks can best protect themselves. It can be very challenging and interesting, particularly where a new approach requires significant changes in culture across many jurisdictions.

How do you expect S&C’s AML practice to evolve in the next few years?

We don’t see government enforcement activity slowing down anytime soon. We will continue to face policy questions about what the banks’ obligations should be and the right way to encourage good compliance. As it has in the past, our practice will continue to adapt to the needs of our clients, helping them understand the latest developments in the law and how to make sure their businesses continue to comply appropriately with government standards.


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Ann Bailen FisherNew York Office

Partner since 1984



Education Radcliffe College, Harvard University, A.B. 1973

Harvard Law School, J.D. 1976

Ann is a member of the Firm’s General Practice Group. She has extensive experience in domestic and international securities transactions. Over the past 10 years, Ann has handled numerous securities transactions for foreign issuers. In addition, she has handled well over 100 ADR transactions throughout the world, including Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Venezuela.

What Ann has been working on recently: Sovereign offerings for Mexico, Colombia and Panama.

Leadership: Ann serves as co-coordinator of the Firm’s sovereign issuers practice. She is a member of the Diversity and Women’s Initiative Committees.

Elizabeth T. DavyNew York Office

Partner since 2004


Background City Westfield, New Jersey

Education Kenyon College, A.B. 1979

American University Washington College of Law, J.D. 1986

Beth is a member of the Financial Institutions Group and is particularly active in the areas of banking regulation, supervision and enforcement. She advises clients on numerous bank regulatory and compliance issues, including issues relating to anti-money laundering compliance, including compliance with the USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC sanctions compliance, permissible investments and activities for bank holding companies and trading activities.

What Beth has been working on recently: Serving as a subject matter expert and thought leader on economic sanctions. Represents multiple financial institutions in the resolution of multiagency criminal and regulatory investigations relating to their compliance with economic sanctions and anti-money laundering regulations.

Leadership: Beth is a frequent speaker on issues relating to AML and sanctions and is a member of S&C’s Managing Partners Committee.

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Tracy Richelle HighNew York Office

Partner since 2008

Place of Birth Washington, District of Columbia

Background City Washington, District of Columbia

Education Yale University, B.A. 1996


Tracy is Deputy Managing Partner of S&C’s Litigation Group, and a member of both the Firm’s Labor and Employment Law Group and Criminal Defense and Investigations practice. Her practice focuses on representing financial institutions and other corporations in complex civil litigation, including shareholder derivative and class action suits, regulatory enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations.

What Tracy has been working on recently: Worked on a team representing Barclays in its $2.4 billion settlement with government authorities in the United States and United Kingdom, related to foreign exchange (FX) sales and trading practices.

Leadership: In addition to serving as Deputy Managing Partner of S&C’s Litigation Group and as a member of the Managing Partners Committee, Tracy serves as co-chair of the Diversity and Women’s Initiative Committees, and is active in S&C’s Recruiting Working Group as a hiring partner.

Suhana S. HanNew York Office

Partner since 2008

Place of Birth Seoul, Republic of Korea

Background City Tamuning, Guam

Education The University of Chicago, B.A. 1994



Suhana’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, including securities, contract and employment disputes. She has also represented clients in regulatory and white-collar investigations before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the New York State Banking Department, the National Association of Securities Dealers and the Office of the New York State Attorney General.

What Suhana has been working on recently: Represented Porsche in a high-profile federal securities litigation brought by a group of hedge funds seeking more than $2.5 billion in connection with Porsche’s acquisition of a stake in Volkswagen. Also represents on a pro bono basis a death row inmate in his challenge to Alabama’s lethal injection procedures.

Leadership: Suhana serves on S&C’s Diversity and Women’s Initiative Committees.


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Marion C. LeydierNew York Office

Partner since 2010

Place of Birth Lyon, France

Background City Lyon, France

Education ESSEC Business School, M.B.A. 1997 Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Matrise

2000 Columbia Law School, J.D. 2001 Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, D.E.A. 2001

Marion is a member of the Firm’s Insurance and Financial Institutions Groups. Her practice focuses on insurance companies and other domestic and cross-border securities, M&A, private equity and restructuring transactions involving financial institutions, including regulatory approvals.

What Marion has been working on recently: Advising MetLife on the SIFI (systemically important financial institutions) designation process, and a successful appeal to the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to pay rental assistance to S&C pro bono client Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn (Marion is a member of Unity’s Board of Trustees).

Leadership: Marion is the co-coordinator of S&C’s insurance practice.

Alexandra D. KorryNew York Office

Partner since 1994

Place of Birth London, United Kingdom

Background City Stonington, Connecticut

Education Harvard University, A.B. 1980

London School of Economics and Political Science, M.Sc. 1981

Duke University School of Law, J.D. 1986

Alexandra is a partner in the Firm’s M&A Group. She has extensive experience in representing U.S. and non-U.S. clients in a wide variety of M&A transactions, including public and private acquisitions, start-ups, up-C structures, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, derivatives, corporate governance and strategic investments. Her practice spans a host of industries, including technology/media, financial services, energy, and consumer and retail.

What Alexandra has been working on recently: Advised UBS AG in the sale of its global alternative fund services business to Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services.

Leadership: Alexandra serves on S&C’s Managing Partners and Diversity Committees. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, as well as Chair of the New York Bar Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests and the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.

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Inosi M. NyattaNew York Office

Partner since 2011

Place of Birth Kisumu, Kenya

Background City Nairobi, Kenya

Education University of Nairobi, LL.B 1998

New York University School of Law, LL.M 2000

University of Oxford, B.C.L. 2001

Inosi is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate and Finance Group. She advises clients on a broad range of financing transactions, including project financings, capital markets offerings and cross-border and multijurisdictional corporate and structured financings.

What Inosi has been working on recently: Two of the five U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects to achieve financial close to date, both of which were among the largest single project financings ever to sign in the U.S.

Leadership: Inosi is the Associate Development Partner for the Firm’s Corporate and Finance Group and co-coordinator of its Africa practice. She also serves on S&C’s Diversity Committee.

Sharon L. NellesNew York Office

Partner since 2003

Place of Birth Brookline, Massachusetts

Background City Sherborn, Massachusetts

Education Mount Holyoke College, A.B. 1987

Boston College Law School, J.D. 1993

New York University, M.A. 1990

Sharon represents leading global companies and financial institutions in securities, antitrust and other complex commercial litigation, as well as in regulatory and criminal investigations. Sharon’s practice focuses on the interplay among investigations, enforcement proceedings and the civil lawsuits that follow.

What Sharon has been working on recently: Obtained a landmark victory for Standard Chartered Bank in the New York Court of Appeals confirming that the “separate entity rule” remains a valid rule of law. As a result, restraining notices served on the New York branches of international banks cannot reach assets held in accounts located at foreign branches.

Leadership: Sharon is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Managing Partners Committee, as well as its Diversity, Pro Bono and Women’s Initiative Committees. She is also Co-President of the Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA).


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Yvonne S. QuinnNew York Office

Partner since 1984

Place of Birth Spring Valley, Illinois

Background City Henry, Illinois

Education University of Illinois, B.A. 1973

University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 1976

University of Michigan, M.A. 1977

Yvonne is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Group. She has extensive experience in antitrust litigation, merger analysis and review and counseling work. Yvonne’s clients include leading commercial banks, equity funds, investment banks, insurance companies, cable TV operators, television programming suppliers, newspapers, publishers, sports franchise owners, advertising sales and healthcare companies, pharmaceutical and chemical companies and many others.

What Yvonne has been working on recently: Representing Barclays with respect to criminal and civil issues arising out of the DOJ’s investigation into Euribor and Forex practices; advising insurance provider ACE Limited in its $28.3 billion acquisition of The Chubb Corporation; representing Bright House in the Charter-Time Warner-Bright House transaction.

Leadership: Yvonne is co-coordinator of the Firm’s Antitrust Group and a member of the Women’s Initiative Committee.

Camille L. OrmeNew York Office

Partner since 2009

Place of Birth Logan, Utah

Background City Atlanta, Georgia

Education University of Georgia, A.B. 1996

The University of Chicago Law School, J.D. 2000

Camille is a partner in the Firm’s Financial Services Group. She represents a variety of U.S. and non-U.S. clients on a range of regulatory, corporate and transactional matters. Her areas of focus include advising financial institutions on regulatory requirements post-financial crisis, the interplay of U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory changes and restructuring global businesses in light of shifting regulatory requirements and standards.

What Camille has been working on recently: Advising CIT Group and IMB Holdco, as joint regulatory counsel, in connection with CIT Group’s $3.4 billion merger with IMB Holdco, and the related merger of OneWest Bank with CIT Bank.

Leadership: Camille serves as Co-Chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee and as an Associate Development Partner for the Firm’s Financial Services Group. She is also a Co-Chair of the ABA Banking Law Committee International Banking Subcommittee and a member of the Banking Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

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Karen Patton SeymourNew York Office

Partner since 2000

Place of Birth Big Spring, Texas

Background City Fort Worth, Texas

Education Southern Methodist University, B.A./B.S. 1983

The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. 1986

University of London, LL.M 1987

Karen’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations. Karen also represents clients in complex federal and state civil litigation. She has represented individuals, corporations and financial institutions in state and federal investigations and proceedings involving allegations of obstruction of justice, insider trading, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OFAC sanctions, healthcare fraud and criminal antitrust violations.

What Karen has been working on recently: BNP Paribas on the resolution of high-profile multiagency criminal and regulatory investigations relating to their compliance with economic sanctions.

Leadership: Karen is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and was formerly the Co-Managing Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group. She is also on S&C’s Diversity, Pro Bono and Women’s Initiative Committees.

Melissa SawyerNew York Office

Partner since 2009

Place of Birth Otway, Ohio

Background City Athens, Ohio

Education Washington and Lee University, B.A. 1997

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 2000

Melissa is a partner in the Firm’s General Practice Group. Her practice has focused on a variety of corporate governance, M&A and private equity matters. Among other things, Melissa is experienced in takeover offense and defense, poison pills, asset sales, auctions and joint ventures. Her experience spans multiple industries, including consumer and retail, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, financial services and manufacturing.

What Melissa has been working on recently: UnitedHealth Group’s $12.8 billion combination with Catamaran Corporation, an Illinois-based pharmacy benefit management company.

Leadership: Melissa is a member of S&C’s Recruiting Working Group and has served as an Associate Development Partner for both associates and summer associates. She is a co-coordinator of S&C’s summer program. Melissa is also currently a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.


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P R AC T IC E HIGHL IGH T: C R IM IN A L DE F E NSE A ND IN V E S T IG AT IONS

When the world’s leading corporations and financial institutions face critical investigations and litigation, they turn to the seasoned team at Sullivan & Cromwell, including S&C partner and member of the Firm’s Management Committee, Karen Patton Seymour.

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number, complexity and stakes of criminal and regulatory enforcement investigations of financial institutions, other global companies and their executives.

Lawyers in the Criminal Defense and Investigations Group (CDIG) represent individual and corporate clients around the world in matters relating to all manner of white-collar criminal defense and regulatory enforcement matters, including those involving alleged violations of the securities and commodities laws, anti-money laundering and economic sanctions, tax and antitrust.

The team includes lawyers who know best how the law enforcement and regulatory systems work: eight former federal and state prosecutors (including Karen); former bank regulatory counsel; and leading practitioners in banking, securities and commodities regulation and enforcement. Over the course of more than 125 criminal trials in federal and state courts, S&C lawyers have amassed sophisticated knowledge and broad experience in dealing with the most high-stakes issues facing its clients.

The CDIG team works closely with its clients to navigate this constantly changing legal landscape. By getting to know their clients’ businesses and working closely with Firm lawyers from other disciplines, CDIG lawyers successfully handle the most sensitive, franchise-threatening matters.Time and again, S&C has earned the trust of the world’s most sophisticated clients by successfully navigating multi-faceted, multi-billion-dollar challenges.

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Rebecca J. SimmonsNew York Office

Partner since 2000

Place of Birth Boston, Massachusetts

Background City Kensington, Maryland



Rebecca is a partner in the Firm’s Corporate and Finance and Financial Services Groups. She represents clients in the structuring and development of financial products, novel securities and structured transactions; in insolvency-related matters and resolution planning, including living wills; and in regulated transactions such as the development of new lines of business and corporate acquisitions.

What Rebecca has been working on recently: Bank regulatory matters for First Tennessee Bank NA in connection with its $400 million senior notes offering pursuant to an exemption under Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

Leadership: Rebecca chairs S&C’s Resolution Planning and Payment Systems practices. She is the former chair of the Business Law Section and the former chair of the Committee on Futures Regulation of the New York State Bar Association.

Penny ShaneNew York Office

Partner since 2000



Education Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A. 1985

NYU School of Law, J.D. 1988

Penny’s practice focuses on litigation involving financial institutions, including class actions and state and federal governmental investigations arising out of the issuance and trading of securities and alleged fraudulent or unfair practices.

What Penny has been working on recently: Penny recently went to trial in Delaware Chancery Court in litigation over corporate governance and other issues at a privately held company. Penny also has been representing financial institutions accused of wrongdoing in connection with mortgage-backed securities and Treasury securities.

Leadership: Penny serves on S&C’s Women’s Initiative Committee.


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Stephanie G. WheelerNew York Office

Partner since 2003

Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Background City Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Education University of Virginia, B.A. 1990


Stephanie is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. She has a broad litigation practice that includes civil litigation and white-collar and regulatory investigations. Stephanie’s civil litigation practice focuses on complex securities, antitrust, intellectual property and commercial litigation. She also has extensive experience representing clients in white-collar and regulatory investigations before numerous governmental agencies.

What Stephanie has been working on recently: Representing an investment bank in investigations led by the Department of Justice and New York State Attorney General relating to residential mortgage-backed securities.

Leadership: Stephanie co-coordinates associate training and development initiatives at S&C.

Zena M. TamlerNew York Office

Partner since 2010

Place of Birth Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Background City Delran, New Jersey

Education University of Pennsylvania, B.A. 1997


Zena is a partner in the Firm’s Estates and Personal Group. She represents high-net-worth individuals and families in connection with their personal legal matters, with particular focus on sophisticated tax and estate planning matters and the structuring of family business affairs.

What Zena has been working on recently: Trust, personal and charitable planning matters for a wealthy Latin American family with family members and substantial assets in numerous jurisdictions.

Leadership: Zena serves on S&C’s Associate Experience Committee, Recruiting Working Group and Technology Committee. She is also a member of the Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation and a past member of the Committee on Trusts, Estates & Surrogate’s Courts of the New York City Bar Association.

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Sarah P. PaynePalo Alto Office

Partner since 2010

Place of Birth Mariemont, Ohio

Background City Ridgefield, Connecticut

Education Yale University, B.A. 1998

UC Berkeley School of Law, J.D. 2001

Sarah has a broad-based corporate practice advising clients on a wide range of transactions, including public and private securities offerings, acquisitions of public and private companies and takeover defenses, as well as on corporate governance and regulatory compliance issues.

What Sarah has been working on recently: Part of the S&C team advising the underwriters in Alibaba Group’s $25 billion SEC-registered initial public offering (the largest ever IPO).

Leadership: Sarah is co-head of the Firm’s Technology M&A and Finance Group, and serves on the Opinion Practice and Women’s Initiative Committees. Sarah also serves on the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California.

Laura Kabler OswellPalo Alto Office

Partner since 2014

Place of Birth Alamogordo, New Mexico

Background City Olympia, Washington

Education University of Southern California, B.S. 1999

Stanford Law School, J.D. 2005

Laura is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Group. She has worked on a variety of matters, including transaction-related disputes, securities litigation, white-collar criminal defense, antitrust litigation and trademark litigation.

What Laura has been working on recently: Part of the S&C team that obtained a complete and unanimous victory for Canadian energy giant Enbridge, which was facing conspiracy charges brought by a significant competitor, in a five-week jury trial in state court in Dallas, Texas.

Leadership: Laura co-coordinates the Firm’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act practice.

P A L O A L T O O F F I C E

C L IE N T HIGHL IGH T: E NBR IDGE

Billions at stake on a petition brought in Texas State Court by a significant competitor. What to do?

When faced with this issue, Enbridge selected S&C. That choice proved to be correct when the S&C team, including partner Laura Kabler Oswell, mounted a vigorous defense and achieved a complete and unanimous victory for Enbridge after a five-week jury trial in Dallas.

Enbridge placed its confidence in Sullivan & Cromwell, understanding that S&C’s creativity in its litigation approach and its extensive experience in working with the oil and gas industry would give them an edge, even litigating in Texas State Court.

When the jury came back, Enbridge’s confidence in Sullivan & Cromwell paid off. Enbridge achieved a unanimous jury verdict, exonerating it from any liability. By contrast, Enbridge’s co-defendant was ordered to pay more than $500 million in the largest civil judgment ever awarded by a Dallas state court judge.

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Amanda Flug DavidoffWashington, D.C. Office

Partner since 2012

Place of Birth Washington, District of Columbia

Background City Washington, District of Columbia


Yale Law School, J.D. 2003

Amanda is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. She represents clients in a wide range of civil litigation matters at both the trial and appellate level, with a focus on complex securities and antitrust class actions and derivative litigation.

What Amanda has been working on recently: Advised the Vanguard Board of Trust in a derivative action brought by investors in two Vanguard equity funds for purportedly causing the funds to violate federal anti-gambling law.

Leadership: Amanda is the Associate Development Partner for S&C’s Litigation Group.

Julia M. JordanWashington, D.C. Office

Partner since 2007

Place of Birth Cleveland, Ohio

Background City Cleveland, Ohio

Education Georgetown University, B.A. 1992

Case Western School of Law, J.D. 1996

Julie is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. She has a broad litigation practice that includes securities, class action, antitrust, commercial, insurance, white-collar criminal defense and investigations and regulatory enforcement matters.

What Julie has been working on recently: Part of the team serving as lead trial counsel to FXI Holdings, Inc., a manufacturer of furniture, bedding, carpet cushion and automotive foam products, in an 11-year price-fixing multi-district litigation pending in the Northern District of Ohio and brought by plaintiffs pursuant to Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Leadership: Julie is a member of S&C’s Women’s Initiative Committee, and was recently elected co-head of the Litigation Section of the D.C. Bar.

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