ArentFox Schiff Elects 18 Attorneys Into Partnership

“I am proud to announce the elevation of 18 attorneys to the partnership at ArentFox Schiff. Their advancement reflects exceptional legal acumen, unwavering client focus, and a sustained commitment to our firm’s values. As partners, they will help lead the firm by deepening client relationships, advancing key practices, and setting an even higher bar for excellence across our platform. I am confident their leadership will strengthen our market position and deliver meaningful value to clients in the years ahead.”

- Brian P. Waldman, Firmwide Managing Partner

The promoted partners and their areas of practice are as follows:

Amy Antoniolli – Environmental, Energy & Cleantech, Chicago

Amy advises energy clients on complex environmental and energy issues including project siting, permitting, and operating requirements for wind, solar, and waste-to-energy facilities, performing due diligence for energy transactions, and advising on day-to-day compliance issues. She regularly represents clients on issues ranging from administrative proceedings in the environmental and energy space, including before the Illinois Pollution Control Board, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), renewable energy project finance, and local government permitting and siting hearings. She also advises clients on zoning and land use issues, as well as compliance with the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, CERCLA, and the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. She co-leads the firm’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) Working Group and counsels clients on ESG-related regulatory and public disclosure matters, setting and meeting greenhouse gas reduction goals, and ESG compliance strategies. Amy earned her JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law, ITT, her certificate in Italian and European Community Law from Università degli Studi di Trento, and her BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Diana S. Bae – Trademark, Washington, DC

Diana’s practice is centered on protecting and strengthening clients’ brands. She represents clients in numerous industries, including hospitality and restaurants, health care services, fashion, financial technology, and media. She manages global trademark portfolios and provides counseling on the best ways for clients to enforce and bolster their intellectual property (IP) rights. Her practice also extends to protecting clients’ rights on the internet and in the marketplace with extensive experience with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)-related takedowns, domain name dispute resolution proceedings, and managing anti-counterfeiting matters. Diana earned her JD from The George Washington University Law School and her BS from Northwestern University.

Andrew Baskin – Complex Litigation, Washington, DC

Andy represents clients in a wide variety of complex litigation matters, including employment, corporate, ERISA, restrictive covenants, and labor relations. He advocates on behalf of employers in state and federal court, during collective bargaining negotiations, and at arbitration hearings. Andy also offers counsel at the administrative level before the EEOC, NLRB, OFCCP, and other state administrative agencies. He also conducts internal investigations involving claims for gender discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and other forms of discrimination. In addition, Andy advises and counsels clients in commercial payer disputes. Andy earned his JD from The George Washington University Law School and his BA from Washington University.

Gary D. Brophy – Automotive, Los Angeles

Gary represents clients in the automotive industry and brings a unique blend of legal and operational experience, drawing on his background as the co‑founder of a successful technology company that served more than 300 dealerships. He advises clients on litigation, risk management, and regulatory compliance, delivering practical, industry‑specific solutions. Gary earned his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law and his BA from Pepperdine University.

Barnabas T. Fekete – Patent, Washington, DC

Barnabas provides comprehensive counsel to start-ups, mid-sized businesses, and Fortune 50 companies on all aspects of patent and intellectual property protection, including domestic and global strategies for patent landscape-based product development; advising clients on patent infringement risks and patent validity in connection with product development, transactions, acquisitions, and mergers; building and managing US and international patent portfolios; evaluating IP portfolios and conducting due diligence; and drafting, negotiating, and assessing license agreements. Barnabas earned his JD from The George Washington University Law School and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University.

Christopher M. Floss – Private Clients, Trusts & Estates, Lake Forest

Chris concentrates his practice on estate planning, estate and trust administration, and income, gift, and estate tax planning for high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners, and family offices. In his work, Chris enjoys helping clients develop and implement planning structures that accomplish well-defined objectives. Whether discerning business succession, intergenerational wealth transfer, or charitable giving, Chris realizes that planning is personal to each client and should reflect the unique traits of the individual, family, or organization. As a writer and public speaker, he routinely contributes thought leadership to various professional sources on topics related to estate planning. Chris earned his JD and LLM (Tax) from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, his MA and STB from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and his BA from Conception Seminary College. As a graduate student in Rome, he served in the US Air Force Reserve’s Chaplain Candidate Program.

Brooke Fodor – Real Estate, Washington, DC

Brooke represents institutional investors, private equity funds, public and private companies, owners, developers, pension funds, and family offices in all phases of multifamily, office, retail, industrial, senior living, hospitality, and mixed-use projects. She handles a wide variety of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and other equity capital arrangements, financings, and development. Brooke also has significant experience advising corporate clients with respect to real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing transactions. Brooke earned her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her BA from Duke University.

Charles Gallaer – Automotive, New York

Charles represents clients in complex automotive dealership transactions and litigation matters. His work includes representing parties in multi-dealership buy/sell transactions, including negotiating and drafting asset purchase agreements, real estate agreements, and corporate governance documents. Charles has also represented clients in complex litigation. Most recently he was the second chair on a trial team that secured a $1.185 million jury verdict in Napa County Superior Court, successfully proving breach of contract after a seller wrongfully terminated a dealership asset purchase agreement. Charles also advises clients on regulatory compliance under applicable law. Charles earned his JD from Brooklyn Law School and his BA from the University of Virginia.

Benjamin M. Greene – Complex Litigation, Boston

Ben is a litigator, representing clients in complex commercial, employment, and real estate matters. His clients include corporations, financial institutions, developers, construction companies, and small businesses. He manages caseloads across jurisdictions and argues motions in state and federal court related to breach of contract, fraud, consumer protection, federal and state regulations, real estate disputes, equitable relief, and common law torts. Ben has successfully briefed cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ben is active in the pro bono community, where he works with indigent tenants facing unlawful evictions. Ben earned his JD from Boston University School of Law, his MA from Jewish Theological Seminary, and his BA from New York University.

Dejan Kezunovic – Complex Litigation, Real Estate, New York

Dejan focuses his practice on complex commercial and real estate litigation. He advises clients in commercial contract, lease, and guaranty disputes, partnership disputes, residential landlord/tenant disputes, condominium and cooperative disputes, construction disputes, and adjoining access disputes. Dejan has also successfully litigated complex insurance and reinsurance matters. Drawing on his broad litigation experience, including a three-year clerkship in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, Dejan provides clients with objective, business-oriented advice and seeks to build leverage in a case early on to help clients achieve cost-effective solutions. Dejan earned his JD from Fordham University School of Law and his BA from Northeastern State University of Oklahoma.

James Kim – International Trade & Investment, San Francisco

James is an international trade attorney who advises clients across the automotive, energy storage, solar, electronics, biotech, agriculture, manufacturing, and e-commerce sectors. His practice spans the full spectrum of import and trade compliance — from granular tariff classification issues to high-stakes litigation and regulatory strategy with bottom-line impact. Known for digging into the details without losing sight of business realities, James works seamlessly with in-house counsel, compliance, procurement, engineering, and C-suite stakeholders. His counsel is grounded in deep legal knowledge, real-world experience, and a focus on what matters most to the business: risk mitigation, cost savings, and long-term strategic positioning. While James is particularly known for his customs practice, he also advises on a broad array of international trade issues. James earned his JD from George Mason University Anton Scalia Law School and his BA from the University of Maryland.

Tyler E. Margolis – Finance, Chicago

Tyler advises institutional investors, including insurance companies, finance companies, and banks on diverse financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border private placements of debt securities. He also represents middle-market lenders in secured and unsecured credit facilities for private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Tyler’s experience spans a number of industries, including REITs, public utilities, electric cooperatives, transportation, higher education, and general corporate finance. Tyler earned his JD from Hofstra University School of Law and his BS from the University of Maryland.

Oliver R. Merrill – Private Clients, Trusts & Estates, Chicago

Olly provides legal advice on a wide range of wealth transfer and tax planning strategies. He counsels individuals, families, and closely held business owners on both the tax and non-tax aspects of their tax and estate planning needs. Olly has significant experience advising private businesses on succession, valuation, and governance matters, and takes pride in working with clients to identify creative and synchronized solutions to their personal and business objectives. Olly earned his JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, his LLM (Tax) from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and his BA from Williams College.

Robert A.H. Middleton – Environmental, Chicago

Robert litigates high stakes commercial disputes. He assists businesses ranging from multinational corporations or small community energy providers navigate environmental laws and regulations including RCRA, CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act. Robert has extensive experience representing solar developers in siting and permitting disputes. Robert litigates both state and federal enforcement actions, as well as actions from private individuals, for both plaintiffs and defendants. In transactional matters, Robert counsels clients on matters involving environmental due diligence and risk management. Robert earned his JD from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and his BA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Sarah M. Roscioli – Private Clients, Trusts & Estates, Chicago

Sarah provides sophisticated estate and tax planning counsel to individuals, families and business owners with respect to wealth preservation and management. This often involves utilizing estate, gift and generation-skipping tax transfer techniques, and structuring trusts and similar estate planning vehicles in accordance with clients’ varied values and priorities. Sarah views each estate plan as an ongoing and evolving long-term relationship. This relationship allows her to work knowledgably, creatively, and efficiently as clients’ objectives and circumstances evolve, and local and federal laws change. Sarah earned her JD from Boston College Law School and her BA from the University of Vermont.

Lauren C. Schaefer – Labor, Employment & OSHA, Boston

Lauren’s practice focuses on the intersection of employment law and complex commercial litigation matters. She provides comprehensive employment law counseling and litigation services to companies, executives, human resources professionals, and in-house counsel. Lauren provides advice and counsel on all stages of the employee life cycle, from posting and hiring, performance management, investigations, wage and hour compliance, navigating leaves of absence and the reasonable accommodation process, and exit strategies. She has extensive experience in employee mobility matters, including restrictive covenant and trade secret counseling, compliance, and litigation. Lauren also regularly represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts across the country. Lauren earned her JD from Boston University School of Law and her BBA from the University of Texas.

Christopher K.S. Wong - Financial Restructuring & Bankruptcy, Los Angeles

Christopher focuses his practice on business and financial restructuring matters, advising companies in navigating the Chapter 11 process, out-of-court workouts, and corporate and debt financing transactions. As trusted counsel to creditor committees, trustees, and institutional clients, he conducts corporate governance and financial mismanagement related investigations of companies in various industries, including sports, nonprofit, retail, entertainment, health and fitness, and technology. In this capacity, Christopher has served as outside counsel to the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee in conducting investigations of national governing bodies on their compliance with the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act and the USOPC Bylaws. Christopher is a Board Member of the Boys and Girls Club, Metro Los Angeles, and he earned his JD from the University of California, San Francisco College of Law and his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brett Young – Labor, Employment & OSHA, Los Angeles

Brett defends employers in single-plaintiff and class action litigation involving federal and state employment laws, including matters relating to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations. Brett has advised clients through all phases of litigation, including trial. He counsels clients on litigation prevention by advising on employment practices, such as new hire issues, internal investigations, employee discipline, and other personnel decisions. Brett also regularly counsels employers on payroll and timekeeping, meal and rest period requirements, compliance issues, and other legal matters. Brett earned his JD from Loyola Law School and his BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.