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ACIMAN, Carole
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York
+1 212 801 9200
AcimanC@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Technology (New York)
Practice Areas: Intellectual property and
technology transactions and counseling with
emphasis on Internet, e-commerce, and computer,
information, green, clean and wireless
technologies; cross-border and off-shore transactions;
information technology and business
process outsourcing; entertainment and media
transactions; industry/university transactions.
Professional Memberships: Conseiller au
Commerce Exterieur de la France (foreign trade
advisor to the French Government); immediate
Past President, National Conference of
Women’s Bar Associations.
Personal: LLM, New York University School
of Law; Diplome, Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Center for the Study of
European Union Law; Maitrise, Université de
Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne; DESS, with honors,
Université de Nanterre-Paris X.
ALTMAN, Allen D
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Atlanta
+1 678 553 2640
AltmanA@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Tax (Georgia)
Practice Areas: Tax; trusts and estates; corporate
and securities; global benefits and
compensation; estate planning; mergers, acquisitions
and divestitures; taxation; business law;
complex estate, gift and GST tax planning for
high net worth individuals and family units.
Career: Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2007-
10; recognized,‘Georgia’s Legal Elite’, Georgia
Trend, 2008; selected, Super Lawyers magazine
and Georgia Super Lawyers magazine, 2006-10;
rated, AV® Preeminent 5.0 out of 5.
Personal: LLM, Taxation, New York University
School of Law; JD, cum laude, University of
Miami School of Law; BSBA, University of
Florida.
ANNEX, Alan I
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York
+1 212 801 9200
AnnexA@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Corporate/M&A (New York)
Practice Areas: Public and private offerings
of equity and debt; SPAC’s and other alternative
public offerings; Leveraged buy-outs and other
going-private transactions; mergers and acquisitions;
financing transactions; securities
exchange act reporting and compliance obligations;
audit committee issues; general corporate
and contract matters.
Professional Memberships: Member, Executive
Committee of Lawyers Division of The
UJA Federation of New York; Board of Advisors,
NYU Cochlear Implant Center.
Career: Recognized, Super Lawyers magazine,
2007-09; UJA Federation James H. Fogelson
Young Leadership Award, 2000.
Personal: JD, cum laude, New York Law
School; BS, cum laude, State University of New
York at Albany.
PA08219896ATNIPP, Douglas C
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Houston
713 374 3515
AtnippD@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Energy & Natural Resources
(Nationwide)
Practice Areas Co-chair, Energy and Natural
Resources Practice; corporate and securities;
structured finance and derivatives.
Professional Memberships Member, State
Bar of Texas; Member, Houston Bar Association;
Member, American Bar Association;
sustaining life fellow, Houston Bar Foundation;
sustaining life fellow, Texas Bar Foundation;
Member, Texas Tech School of Law Foundation
Board.
Career Listed, Chambers USA; listed, Best
Lawyers in America; selected, Super Lawyers
magazine and Texas Super Lawyers magazine;
listed, Top 100 Lawyers in the City of Houston,
Texas Monthly, 2003-05; rated, AV® Preeminent
5.0 out of 5.
Personal JD, Texas Tech University School of
Law; BA, cum laude, Vanderbilt University.
BACCHUS, James
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Washington, DC
+1 202 530 8530
BacchusJ@gtlaw.com
Recommended in International Trade (Nationwide)
Practice Areas Chair, Global Practice; Chairman,
Global Trade & Investment Practice
Career Former Chairman, Appellate Body of
the World Trade Organisation, court of final
appeal in international trade in Geneva,
Switzerland; former Member, Congress of the
United States; former special assistant to the
United States Trade Representative in the Executive
Office of the President.
Publications ‘Trade and Freedom’, London,
March 2004, by Cameron May.
Personal JD, high honors, Florida State University
College of Law; MA, Yale University; BA,
magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University; Honorary
Doctorates: Rollins College, Sierra
Nevada College, University of Central Florida.
BAGGETT, Fred W
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Tallahassee
850 222 6891
baggettf@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Government (Nationwide)
Practice Areas: Chair, national Governmental
Affairs Practice; gaming; economic crisis and
recovery; American Indian Law; public-private
partnerships (P3).
Professional Memberships : Chairman, Tallahassee/Leon
County Planning Agency;
Chairman, Capital Cultural Center, Tallahassee,
Florida; Secretary, Florida Judicial Council; Secretary,
Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida.
Career : Listed, Best Lawyers in America,
2007-10; Super Lawyers magazine, 2006-09;
and ‘Florida Legal Elite’, Florida Trend magazine,
2006. Recognized Bond Counsel by the
Bond Buyer’s Red Book. Fellow of the American
Bar Foundation; rated AV® Preeminent 5.0
out of 5.
Personal : JD, Florida State University College
of Law, 1970; BA, University of Florida, 1967.
PA0821923BALLON, Ian C
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Santa Monica
310 586 6575
Ballon@gtlaw.com
Recommended in IT & Outsourcing (California),
Privacy & Data Security (Nationwide)
Practice Areas: Intellectual property litigation;
entertainment litigation.
Professional Memberships : Executive
Director, Stanford University Law School Center
for E-Commerce; Member, GRAMMY®
Foundation’s Entertainment Law Initiative
Advisory Committee.
Career : Named one of the 75 Top IP Litigators
in California by the Daily Journal, 2009;
selected, IAM 250 - The World’s Leading IP
Strategists, 2009; listed, Best Lawyers in America,
2006-10.
Publications : Author, four-volume legal treatise,‘E-Commerce
and Internet Law: Treatise
With Forms,’ LegalWorks/ West Publishing,
2001.
Personal : LLM, Georgetown University Law
Center; JD, with honors, The George Washington
University Law School; BA, magna cum
laude, Tufts University.
PA082193BARGER, David G
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, McLean
+1 703 749 1307
BargerD@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Litigation (Virginia)
Practice Areas: Litigation; white collar criminal
defense; environmental; government
litigation; business immigration and compliance;
commercial and construction litigation,
government investigations, corporate compliance,
criminal and civil tax controversies.
Professional Memberships: American, District
of Columbia and Fairfax Bar Associations;
Society of CPAs.
Career: Rated, AV® Preeminent 5.0 out of 5;
listed, Chambers & Partners USA Guide, 2009;
numerous awards while with the Department
of Justice and the United States Attorneys
Office, EDVA.
Personal: JD, University of Maryland; MSJA,
University of Denver, College of Law; BA, cum
laude, University of Maryland.
PA0821942BARKUS, David A
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami
305 579 0500
BarkusD@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Corporate/M&A (Florida)
Practice Areas: Corporate and securities;
gaming; mergers and acquisitions; private equity;
gaming.
Career : Named, Top Dealmakers Finalist,
Miami Daily Business Review, 2009; listed, Legal
500 US, 2008 edition; member, team ranked as
the No.1 corporate law firm in Miami for the
eighth consecutive year, as selected by corporate
directors, in the annual ‘Legal Industry Research
Study’ by Corporate Board Member magazine,
2008; listed,‘Legal Elite’, Florida Trend magazine,
2007.
Personal : JD, University of Florida Levin College
of Law; BBA, University of Miami.
BARSH, Kerri
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami
305 579 0772
BarshK@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Environment (Florida)
Practice Areas: Co-Chair, national Environmental
and Land Development Practice; energy
and natural resources; public-private partnerships
(P3).
Professional Memberships : Member:
Board of Directors, Women’s Emergency Network;
Executive Council, Miami Bridge.
Career : Listed, Best Lawyers in America,
2007-10; Real Estate, Who’s Who Legal: Florida,
2008; selected, Super Lawyers magazine, 2007-
09; Chambers USA, 2007-09.
Publications : Author,‘Pre-empting Liability
Issues’, Area Development Magazine, September
2003; Author,‘Developer Liability in the
Toxic Mold Arena: Recent Trends and Issues’,
Southeast Real Estate Business Magazine,
August 2003.
Personal : JD, magna cum laude, University of
Miami School of Law; BA, magna cum laude,
University of Missouri.
BASS, Hilarie
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami
305 579 0745
BassH@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Litigation (Florida)
Practice Areas: Litigation.
Professional Memberships : American Bar
Association: Chair, Litigation Section (Induction,
Aug. 2010); Chair, Legal Opportunity
Scholarship Committee, 2005-08; Member,
Task Force on Attorney Client Privilege. The
Florida Bar Foundation, President.
Career : GT Global Operating Shareholder.
Listed, Best Lawyers in America, Chambers &
Partners USA Guide. Awards 2009: Most Effective
Lawyer, Pro Bono, Daily Business Review;
Influential Business Women, South Florida
Business Journal; C. Clyde Atkins Civil Liberties,
ACLU of Florida (Miami); Women Making
History, Miami-Dade Florida Association of
Women Lawyers.
Personal : JD, summa cum laude, University
of Miami School of Law; BA, magna cum laude,
George Washington University.
BECERRA, Jacqueline
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami
305 579 0534
BecerraJ@gtlaw.com
Recommended in Litigation (Florida)
Practice Areas: Litigation.
Professional Memberships : Managing
Director Elect, American Bar Association Section
of Litigation; Member, Miami-Dade
County School Board Ethics Advisory Council;
Member and Former President, Federal Bar
Association, South Florida Chapter; Cuban
American Bar Association.
Career : Listed, Chambers & Partners USA
Guide; listed, Best Lawyers of America; Federal
Bar Association’s Young Federal Lawyers Award,
2000; Director’s Award for Superior Performance,
Executive Office for the United States
Attorneys, 2001; Tim Evans Memorial Award
for Outstanding Performance as an Assistant
United States Attorney, 2001.
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