BRYAN CAVE LEIGHTON PAISNER - Key Persons


Adriano Amorese

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Alex Gano

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  • Associate Boulder

Amelia Alvarez

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  • Associate / Irvine

Amy de La Lama

Job Titles:
  • Chairman - Global Data Privacy and Security Boulder

Amy Simpson - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge / Dallas
Amy Simpson's legal practice includes all aspects of commercial real estate and lending, with an emphasis on loan origination and servicing matters related to both CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations. Ms. Simpson's practice includes the representation of lenders, commercial mortgage loan servicers, special servicers, participants, and co-lenders in connection with loan modifications, assumptions, loan workouts, foreclosures and various other servicing matters affecting securitized commercial mortgage loans. Ms. Simpson's practice focuses heavily on CMBS and Freddie Mac securitizations (both the K Series and Small Balance Loan products). Ms. Simpson represents numerous servicers in the Freddie Mac CME program in connection with all servicing matters, including assumptions and loan modifications. In addition, Ms. Simpson's practice includes the representation of institutional lenders in connection with the origination and structuring of loans for sale in commercial mortgage-backed securitization transactions.

Andrea Rastelli

Job Titles:
  • Associate Boulder

Andrew E. Auerbach

Job Titles:
  • Partner and Regional Practice Group Leader - Real Estate US / New York

Andrew Hockley

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  • Australian Registered Foreign Lawyer ( Admitted in England and Wales ) and Global Practice Group Leader - White Collar, Antitrust, and International Trade / Sydney
  • Fantastic' Practice Head
  • Practice Group Leader for White Collar
Andrew Hockley is Practice Group Leader for White Collar, Antitrust & International Trade, and heads the firm's Antitrust & Competition practice. He has extensive experience in the mainstream competition areas of mergers, cartels, abuse of dominance, distribution and other commercial relationships. Andrew advises transaction parties on the application of the UK's National Security & Investment Act and other foreign investment regimes to their transactions. He also advises a number of the UK's leading utilities, their counterparties and investors on issues of economic regulation. Andrew is recognised for building a market leading Competition Litigation practice, advising both defendants and claimants on the most important cases in the UK. Prior to joining Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, Andrew was Competition Counsel at BP plc and responsible for advising all areas of the business on competition law and regulatory matters. Andrew has also worked in private practice in Brussels and London, where he has represented clients on numerous high-profile cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities and regulators around the world. Andrew holds post-graduate qualifications in competition law and economics from Kings College London. He is an English-qualified solicitor, a former member of the Brussels Bar and contributes actively to numerous competition and regulatory law publications, organisations and events. At the present time, Andrew is based primarily in Sydney and registered as an Australian-Registered Foreign Lawyer with the New South Wales Law Society. In addition to maintaining his UK practice, he is active "on the ground" as a representative for BCLP, available to support and facilitate clients' activities with a broad Australian nexus, including in their interactions with our valued network of Australian preferred firms. Further details of BCLP's regional focus in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region are available here. Andrew is a contributing author to Financial Regulation: Emerging Themes in 2021 and BCLP's Competition Collective: Antitrust, Foreign Investment and Trade insights from around the world. Andrew is ranked as one of the UK's leading competition lawyers in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners, and is recognised as a Thought Leader in Global Competition Review's Who's Who Legal 2021. "'Fantastic' practice head Andrew Hockley is praised for his ‘high-calibre, laser-focused, sound and sensible advice'." (Legal 500)

Andrew L. Adams

Job Titles:
  • Attorney St. Louis

Andrew MacGeoch


Angie Ligon

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director of Legal Operations Solutions, Americas / Boulder

Ben Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Boulder

Bethany Cradick

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate London

Brian A. Sher - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge / Chicago

Cara Beveridge

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate, Southampton Southampton

Carolina Carlstedt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Hong Kong

Carsten Bremer - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge, Notary ( Amtssitz Berlin ) Berlin

Celia Berg

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Chris Adams

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Chris de Pury

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Global Department Leader - Real Estate

Christopher M. Hazlitt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel Boulder

Constantin Achillas

Job Titles:
  • Partner in Charge Paris

David Aigner-Kunstler

Job Titles:
  • New York / 1 212 541 1186 / Email

David Anderson - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Office Head
  • Partner in Charge / Brussels
Office head David Anderson is ‘an excellent strategist'; he advised the estate of Michael Jackson on the $750m sale of its interest in the Sony/ATV joint venture to Sony Music.

David G. Andersen

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  • Partner / Los Angeles

Dawn Gillard

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Manager

Edouard Alcouffe

Job Titles:
  • Counsel
  • Counsel Paris

Elizabeth Bradley


Emily Dickson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate ( Australian Solicitor ) London

Emma Lawley

Job Titles:
  • Associate London

Eric P. Schroeder - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge / Atlanta

Eugene P. Balshem

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner Miami

George Chen


Gillian Ward

Job Titles:
  • Global Chief Marketing Officer
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Gregory Hummel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / Chicago

Hannah Kozlova Lindsay - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Chief People Officer
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Heather J. Boelens - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge / Boulder
  • Partner in Charge Boulder / Denver

Heidi Azulay

Job Titles:
  • Partner Chicago

Heike Struck

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  • Business Manager Germany

Ian Cheng

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  • Associate / Hong Kong

Ian Weiskopf


Ilan Freiman

Job Titles:
  • Partner Hong Kong

James Banks

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate London

James P. Maloney

Job Titles:
  • Attorney / Kansas City

Jared Shilling

Job Titles:
  • Business Professionals Recruiting Manager

Jason Alvares

Job Titles:
  • Forensic Technology Sr Manager / London

Jason D. Haislmaier

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner Boulder

Jason DeJonker


Jason Marty

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Global Chief Operating Officer

Jennifer Guirl

Job Titles:
  • Legal Recruiting Senior Manager

Jodi M. Adolf

Job Titles:
  • Partner Kansas City

John P. Barrie

Job Titles:
  • Attorney / New York
  • Attorney New York / Washington

John W. Amberg

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  • Partner / Los Angeles

Katy Ho

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  • Associate / Hong Kong

Kenneth Addly

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director / London

Kenneth M. Achenbach

Job Titles:
  • Partner Atlanta

Kevin M. Abel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / St. Louis

Lee Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Global Department Leader - Disputes and Investigations

Lillian Adetayo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate London

Lindsay Wuller Aggarwal

Job Titles:
  • Partner St. Louis

Lisa Mayhew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - Chair of the Firm

Liz Blackwell


Lucinda A. Althauser

Job Titles:
  • Counsel / St. Louis

Marc Hanson

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Margarita Altankova

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate London

Mark W. Weakley

Job Titles:
  • Partner and Leader, Technology & Commercial Boulder

Micah E. Arbisser

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner New York

Michael G. Biggers

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / St. Louis

Mike Docherty

Job Titles:
  • of Counsel Hong Kong

Mollie Harmon Moylan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Kansas City

Morgan Bassett

Job Titles:
  • Partner New York

Mustafa Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Associate / St. Louis

Nagwa Abuzeid

Job Titles:
  • Associate / Abu Dhabi

Naheed Arzani

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  • Associate Manchester

Nazir Dewji

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Nicholas Myatt


Nicole Bigby - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Compliance Officer for Legal Practice
  • Money Laundering Compliance Officer

Nicole Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Director of Lateral Partner Recruiting

Patrick Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner / Sydney
During 2021, our firm registered an Incorporated Legal Practice with the Law Society of New South Wales in Australia. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Australia) Pty Limited ("BCLP Australia") is staffed by Andrew Hockley, formerly a Partner in our London office, and an English solicitor who leads our firm's White Collar, Antitrust & International Trade Group and Australian-qualified M&A and Corporate Finance Partner Patrick Johnson (who is a Principal of BCLP Australia). Andrew is based primarily in Sydney and Patrick is based primarily in Brisbane. In addition to maintaining active UK antitrust and corporate practices respectively, Andrew and Patrick are present "on the ground" as ambassadors and representatives for our firm in Australia and (together with lawyers across our international offices) are able to support and facilitate the broad activities of our clients and relationship firms. Australian-qualified Daniel Csefalvay, a partner in BCLP's London Financial Services Disputes & Investigations Group, is BCLP Australia's other Principal, based primarily in London.

Patrick Watson


Paul E. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Boulder
  • Partner Boulder / Denver

Paul J. Lopach - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Partner in Charge / Denver

Peter Bates

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate / Manchester

Peyton Turner

Job Titles:
  • Legal Recruiting Manager

Rachelle Williams

Job Titles:
  • Senior Legal Recruiting and Development Specialist

Randy Miller


Rebecca Nelson


Richard Benn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate London

Richard Davies - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Country Managing Partner, Head of Construction Disputes / Abu Dhabi
  • Country Managing Partner, Head of Construction Disputes Abu Dhabi / Dubai

Robert H. Bach

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / Denver

Robert MacGregor


Russel Clifford


Sally Anyon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate ( Due Diligence ) Manchester

Samer Ashur

Job Titles:
  • Junior Associate / London

Sarah Cannady

Job Titles:
  • Recruiting Manager

Sarah Hartley

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Washington
  • Partner Washington / Boulder

Sean Odendahl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Chief Transformation Officer

Shakur Ahmed

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Abu Dhabi

Sharon Chan

Job Titles:
  • Associate / Hong Kong

Sheryl Jones

Job Titles:
  • Legal Recruiting and Development Manager

Simon Barnett

Job Titles:
  • Partner / London

Siobhan Abraham

Job Titles:
  • Associate London

Spencer M. Rubin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Boulder

Stephanie Hosler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Global Department Leader - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Steven B. Becker

Job Titles:
  • Partner and Practice Group Leader - Commercial Construction US Kansas City

Steven J. Alagna

Job Titles:
  • Associate / St. Louis

Steven M. Baumer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - Chair of the Firm

Suzanne M. Berger

Job Titles:
  • Counsel / New York

Tess Hannoun

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administration

Thea R. Hromadka

Job Titles:
  • Associate / St. Louis

Theresa Joo

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Associate London

Thomas Bethany

Job Titles:
  • Associate New York

Thomas Haller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate London

Timothy M. Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Boulder

Tyler Mark

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Boulder
  • Partner Boulder / Denver

Ulrike Merch

Job Titles:
  • Head of HR & Administration Germany

Vincent Alfieri

Job Titles:
  • Senior Counsel / New York

Wanjing Goh

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Wendy Beer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate ( Due Diligence ) Manchester

William Jones

Job Titles:
  • Associate London