JAMES ROMO Managing Partner, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud &Romo Cerritos, California School Districts, County Offices of Education, Labor & Employment
JESSE RUIZ Partner Drinker Biddle Chicago Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital and Private Equity Investments jesse.ruiz@dbr.com
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Ruiz counsels clients on business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments. He also represents them in equity and debt offerings, financings, the purchase and sale of assets from bankruptcy estates, and a variety of commercial transactions. Ruiz counsels public and privately held companies and entrepreneurs on strategic initiatives and transactions. In 2016, Jesse became the president of the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners. He currently serves as a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Romo is one of the founding partners of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo and works out of the Cerritos and Pasadena offices. He specializes in collective bargaining, contract administration, employee discipline proceedings, and defending employee discrimination claims. Romo represents public employers in all aspects of labor relations and employment law. Romo has extensive experience handling proceedings before the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, Public Employment Relations Board, and Office of Administrative Hearings.
MANUEL SANCHEZ Partner, Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman LLP. Chicago Product and Professional Liability, Civil Rights MSanchez@SanchezDH.com www.sanchezdh.com/attorneys/ manuel-sanchez www.sanchezdh.com
Sanchez is the founder and managing partner of Sanchez Daniels & Hoffman LLP. He is a highly accomplished trial lawyer, specializing in complex product and professional liability, employment law, civil rights and toxic tort defense (when the plaintiff has been exposed to a dangerous substance). He has been the lead counsel and has successfully tried to verdict more than 75 cases in the Midwest and South. Sanchez has received three gubernatorial appointments and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.