James Elliot
James Elliot is a senior attorney and has an extensive litigation practice with a concentration in multi-district litigation. It often involves large-scale mass tort and class action matters, as well as parallel regulatory and government enforcement proceedings. James' business litigation practice includes commercial tort and contract, trade secret, intellectual property, and securities class action matters. He has significant experience in a range of internal investigation, compliance, and regulatory matters as well, particularly in the life sciences sector.
Joseph Sarpong
Joseph Sarpong plays a huge role by assisting our firm with the best accounting and financial advice. He guides the firm and clients with all transaction preparation and transfers.He has served as national coordinating counsel, tried jury cases, argued appeals and successfully resolved many notable multi-district litigation matters throughout the US. His practice ranges across the full spectrum of complex commercial litigation, and he has led teams in trial courts, arbitrations, and appellate courts nationwide.
Kwame Charles
Kwame Charles is with over 20 years of experience in criminal and civil courts in Africa. He worked in the District Attorney’s Office for the 4th Prosecutorial District (Craven, Carteret, and Pamlico Counties) for 10 years. He was then appointed as the Trial Court Administrator for Judicial District 3B, where he managed all civil calendars (District and Superior) for over 12 years. He is the representative for the firm in Africa.
Steven Peters
Steven is a founding member of the Legal Mentor Network, the first non-profit dedicated to mentoring young lawyers and law students, particularly those students from communities who are traditionally underrepresented in the legal industry. He is also a founding board member of the Randy Jones Foundation, a local San Diego charity founded by MLB legend Randy Jones that provides kids from local military families the opportunity to get involved in camps, sporting events, and outdoor activities in addition to providing athletic scholarship for military scholar athletes.
Nelson Franburg
Nelson focuses his practice on SEC reporting and capital markets transactions. Co-chair of the firm's Public Company and Corporate Governance practice, he regularly represents public companies in SEC periodic and current reporting, proxy statements and related corporate and disclosure advice. Nelson has advised in dozens of initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, secondary offerings, PIPEs, SPAC transactions, public and private M&A deals, MJDS and other international transactions, going private transactions and other transactions.
Cecil Hughes
Cecil concentrates in civil trial practice in federal courts with an emphasis on patent litigation and International Trade Commission (ITC) proceedings. Cecil has tried 17 cases, including 15 patent trials in federal district courts and the International Trade Commission. She has handled more than 39 ITC cases. Cecil recently won a defense verdict in a US$500 million patent jury trial and a complete plaintiff's verdict in another jury trial, where the jury deliberated just over two hours. Legal 500 recommends Cecil for her work in US patent litigation.