Diana Clarkson focuses her practice on federal and state tax aspects of corporate transactions, including entity planning, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, tax-free spin-offs, and restructurings. Her significant tax background adds value to the counsel she gives businesses and their…

Adria Crowe focuses her practice on transactional risk insurance matters. As underwriting counsel, Adria actively handles all aspects of the underwriting diligence process, including advising on pre-indication submissions, the due diligence phase, and policy negotiation. Adria advises transactional…

Serving as office managing partner of Akerman's Wilmington office, Andrew Dupre guides clients in navigating the complexity of Delaware corporate law and the Delaware Court of Chancery. A corporate litigator with national and international experience representing limited partnerships, limited…

Angelica Fortney works with public and private companies on the design and implementation of tax-qualified and 403(b) retirement plans, health and welfare plans, cafeteria plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Her experience includes preparing plan documents, amendments, and summary…

A versatile tax lawyer, Stefi George advises clients in tax planning, compliance, controversy, tax insurance underwriting and litigation. Stefi’s practice encompasses all areas of state and local tax controversy and planning, including income tax, gross receipts, payroll, and sales and use tax.…

William "Bill" Helmstetter is a partner in Akerman’s Corporate Practice Group where he serves as lead counsel on transactions where technology, data, and privacy considerations constitute key components of the deal. Bill has significant experience negotiating complex, high-profile deals across…

Christine Kim focuses her practice on transactional risk liability insurance matters. As coverage counsel, Christine represents domestic and international insurers in representations and warranties, indemnification and warranties, contingent risk, trade credit, and political risk matters. She also…

Melissa Koch is a business and technology lawyer with more than 25 years of experience advising tech and tech-enabled companies across industries. As a former in-house counsel, she brings exceptional depth and breadth of strategic legal expertise. In her transactional practice, Melissa structures,…

Lisa Kolieb focuses her practice on land use and real estate development matters, guiding clients through the land use entitlement process from initial site diligence to ultimate project approval, construction and operation, and advising clients on the government and regulatory aspects of real…

Erika Labelle represents public and private businesses in transactional tax, REIT, and controversy matters. She focuses her practice on corporate and partnership tax planning and structuring, including taxable and tax-free corporate mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, reorganizations,…

Amanda K. Leech focuses her practice on general corporate counseling of both privately held and public companies. She counsels boards of directors on corporate governance and compliance and has extensive experience representing special committees of boards with independent reviews and…

Gabe Marinaro focuses his practice on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation. He regularly counsels publicly traded and privately held companies, tax-exempt organizations, and governmental entities on a variety of employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Gabe…

LaKeisha Marsh serves as the chair of Akerman’s Government Strategies Practice Group. She leads a team of professionals providing strategic counsel on policy and regulatory issues in the United States. With a comprehensive legal background serving the higher education sector, including as an NCAA…

Kourtney Mulcahy focuses her practice on IP counseling and managing domestic and international trademark portfolios. She regularly implements cost-effective trademark clearance, procurement, and protection strategies for her clients. Kourtney has experience in all areas of trademark law, including:…

International Trade and Customs Felicia Leborgne Nowels is Board Certified in International law, and focuses her practice on international trade and customs law. Felicia assists domestic and foreign companies with cross-border movement of goods and services. Whether drafting international…

Kevin Platt focuses on a broad range of federal and state income tax planning matters, including tax issues related to M&A, joint ventures, dispositions, financings, reorganizations, restructurings, partnership transactions, and private equity transactions. Kevin routinely drafts and…

Paul Rutigliano serves as chair of Akerman's Transactional Risk Practice, which focuses on representing underwriters in connection with transactional risk insurance policies, including representations and warranties insurance, tax insurance, and contingent risk insurance policies. As…

With more than 20 years of experience, Mary Samsa, chair of Akerman's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice, focuses her practice on executive compensation matters and tax-qualified retirement programs for a wide range of organizations. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies,…

Sarah Campbell Smith focuses on a variety of environmental and energy law matters, with emphasis on the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions. She represents real estate developers, corporations, private equity funds, and financial institutions in environmental site…

David Thompson is a corporate attorney who guides private equity sponsors and public and private company clients in complex business transactions in an array of sectors. He focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, private equity investments, joint ventures, restructurings,…

Ken Wiggins serves as co-chair of Akerman’s M&A and Private Equity Practice. Ranked by Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500, Ken represents public and private companies, private equity funds, and individuals in a variety of complex corporate transactions and general…