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William B. Farrell

William B. Farrell

Chief Financial Officer

As head of the firm's finance department, Bill brings experience, perspective, and leadership to his role as Chief Financial Officer. A k...

Denise E. Panzer

Denise E. Panzer

Pro Bono Administrative Specialist

Denise Panzer has more than ten years of experience connecting marginalized communities with essential legal support. As the Pro Bono Adm...

Jamelle R. Straker

Jamelle R. Straker

Administrative Director, Bankruptcy

Jamelle oversees the administrative functions of the firm's bankruptcy department. She supervises the paralegals and support staff in the...

Daniel D. Sierchio

Daniel D. Sierchio

Senior Counsel

Daniel Sierchio is a registered patent and intellectual property lawyer who advises large clients and early-stage/startup clients on pate...

Kannan  Narayanan

Kannan Narayanan

Counsel

Drawing upon 18 years of experience in the information technology and semiconductor industries, Kannan Narayanan builds, manages, and pro...

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Practices & Sectors

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Advisory

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues potentially affect every business. With investors and activists, regulators, business partners, employees, customers and clients, and other key stakeholders focused on ESG issues, companies and co...

Venture M&A

Consistently ranked as one of the country’s leading firms for mergers and acquisitions generally and in the technology sector in particular, Lowenstein’s Venture M&A team possesses incomparable experience and insight into how venture-backed bu...

Bankruptcy & Restructuring Litigation

In a typical bankruptcy and restructuring practice, litigators are brought in from a wide array of practice areas on an ad hoc basis. That approach fails to appreciate the technical and specialized nature of bankruptcy law; it also views litigatio...

Multi-State Securities, Money Transmitter Licensing & Lending Regulatory Group

Lowenstein Sandler’s Multi-State Securities, Money Transmitter Licensing & Lending Regulatory Group is dedicated to helping clients navigate the complex patchwork of state financial regulation. As financial innovation accelerates—particularly...

Global Trade & National Security

Lowenstein Sandler’s Global Trade & National Security practice helps clients navigate today’s dynamic regulatory environment to promote their cross-border interests and achieve their business objectives. Our team helps U.S. and foreign compani...

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Newsletter

Crypto Brief - October 2, 2025

Crypto Brief - September 25, 2025

Crypto Brief - September 18, 2025

Crypto Brief - September 11, 2025

Crypto Brief - September 4, 2025

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News & Insights

February 2026

AI Assets in Bankruptcy: Legal-Tech Fusion Expertise Is Needed for the Next Evolution of Restructurings

Between 2023-25, venture capital funding for artificial-intelligence (AI) companies surged well into the billions. This investment has produced two distinct categories of companies that could be vulnerable to bankruptcy: (1) those AI-washing (infl...

February 2026

A FRIGID TALE: A Bankruptcy Court’s Recent Rejection of Defendant’s Ordinary Course of Business and Contemporaneous Exchange for New Value Preference Defenses

Creditors supplying inventory under consignment arrangements might assume that preference risk can be mitigated by the buyer’s payment of an invoice for consigned goods on the same day as issuance because that transaction can be cha...

January 30, 2026 | Supreme Court To Define ‘Consumer’ Under the VPPA: What’s at Stake for Privacy Litigation

Introduction On January 26, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global (d/b/a 247Sports), No. 25-459, to decide a threshold question under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA): who qualifies as...

January 29, 2026 | On-chain or Off-chain, Federal Securities Laws Remain Un-chain-ged.

On Jan. 28, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, and Division of Trading and Markets (collectively referred to as Staff), released a joint staff statement (Statement) su...

January 29, 2026 | World Trademark Review 1000 Lists Lowenstein’s Trademark Practice for 15th Consecutive Year

Lowenstein Sandler and two of its trademark partners, Vanessa A. Ignacio and Matthew P. Hintz, have been included in the 2026 edition of World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals (WTR 1000) in the top “Gold” categor...

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Podcasts

Employment Considerations for Early-Stage Companies
August 21,2025 | Employment Considerations for Early-Stage Companies

In this episode of Just Compensation, Jessica I. Kriegsfeld, Amy C. Schwind, and Adam Dickson discuss employment considerations for early-stage companies, including best practices to be compliant with applicable employment laws and to build a...

From the Field to the Firm: How Competitive Sports Prepare Attorneys for their Careers
July 24,2025 | From the Field to the Firm: How Competitive Sports Prepare Attorneys for their Careers

In this episode of Real Talk, Megan Monson chats with Lowenstein attorneys Melissa K. Parres and Bonnie E. Schipper about the valuable, transferrable skills women learn from playing competitive sports. Melissa and Bonnie share their personal team...

Tips for Engaging Temporary Workers
July 17,2025 | Tips for Engaging Temporary Workers

In this episode of Just Compensation, Megan Monson, Julie Levinson Werner, and Jessica I. Kriegsfeld delve into considerations associated with engaging temporary workers, particularly through a staffing agency. They discuss the benefits of engagin...

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Videos

Agentic AI is Knocking on your Company’s Door: Are you Prepared to Deploy It?
June 04,2025 | Agentic AI is Knocking on your Company’s Door: Are you Prepared to Deploy It?

Counsel Diane Moss and senior manager of information security Ken Fishkin discuss the benefits of agentic AI, such as increased efficiency, as well as how to manage some of the risks inherent in this innovative technology. They address some of the...

J&J Bankruptcy Filing Dismissed: The Third Time’s Not A Charm
May 23,2025 | J&J Bankruptcy Filing Dismissed: The Third Time’s Not A Charm

In this episode of the Lowenstein Bankruptcy Lowdown, Colleen M. Restel and Eric James Seltzer unpack the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson’s third attempt to resolve talc-related claims through bankruptcy. Judge Lopez of the Southern District of...

Impacts of Market Volatility on Employee Incentives (Video)
May 22,2025 | Impacts of Market Volatility on Employee Incentives

Please join Lowenstein Sandler's Darren Goodman, James E. Gregory, Christine Osvald-Mruz, and Zachary Bocian as they discuss the impact of market volatility on employee incentives, including stock options and other equity, and equity-based awards....

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