New Partners At Paul Hastings: 80 Percent Women

PAUL HASTINGS LLP — MEMORANDUM — NEW PARTNERS

Date: November 17, 2016

To: All Paul Hastings

From: Seth Zachary

Greg Nitzkowski

Stephen H. Harris

Subject: Election Results of Up-From-the-Ranks-Partners

Adding remarkable talent to our partner ranks is core to our future success. We proudly announce this year’s extraordinary group of newly elected partners.

Effective February 1, 2017, the newly elected partners are:

Cameron Fox (ELD/LA)
John Nowak (LIT/NY)
Meagan Olsen (COR/LA)
Nicole Skalla (COR/NY)
Haiyan Tang (LIT/SHA)

Please join us in congratulating our newest partners on their outstanding professional achievement.

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CAMERON W. FOX is of counsel in the Employment Law Department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Fox represents employers in all aspects of employment law and labor relations.

An experienced trial lawyer, Ms. Fox represents employers in litigation involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, breach of employment agreement, violation of invention assignment and confidentiality provisions, and related business torts. She also advises on the drafting and negotiation of nondisclosure agreements, employment agreements, and separations of high-level employees.

Ms. Fox has successfully defended employers in arbitrations, jury and bench trials, and on appeal – not only in cases involving employee mobility issues, but also in cases involving claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. She has tried tens of cases to verdict. In many of her cases that have not gone to trial, it is because she has secured summary judgment wins for her clients.

Ms. Fox has a robust advising practice as well. She counsels employers on a wide variety of labor and employment issues. Ms. Fox has extensive experience advising employers on particularly sensitive issues, such as protecting intellectual property, workplace investigations, workplace violence, and inclusion of transitioning and transgender employees.

Ms. Fox also represents employers in traditional labor matters, including collective bargaining and responding to unfair labor practice charges, election petitions, and organizing campaigns. Ms. Fox has represented clients in multiple unfair labor practices cases before the National Labor Relations Board and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal.

In addition to her private practice work, Ms. Fox is a deputized district attorney for Los Angeles County.

Education

University of California, Davis – School of Law, J.D., 2001
Northwestern University, B.A., 1997

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JOHN NOWAK is of counsel in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.

Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Nowak was the Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section of the United States Attorney’s Office, EDNY. He managed large-scale investigations of white-collar and securities crimes, in multiple domestic and foreign jurisdictions. He supervised fifteen senior prosecutors pursuing cases in insider trading, fraud, extortion, FCPA violations, computer hacking, money laundering and market manipulation. He also gained significant jury trial experience arguing securities and complex white-collar cases and routinely communicated with senior officials at the DOJ, the SEC and other regulatory agencies about policy matters.

He was previously Branch Chief, Enforcement Division at the SEC where he supervised a team of eight attorneys pursuing a variety of securities law matters, including insider trading, best execution and short sale violations, PIPE financings, breaches of fiduciary duties, adviser conflicts of interest, soft dollar arrangements, beneficial ownership disclosures and broker-dealer regulations.

Education

University of Richmond School of Law, J.D., 1997-2000
College of the Holy Cross, B.A. in Mathematics, 1989-1993

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MEAGAN S. OLSEN is of counsel in the Corporate department of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Olsen represents public and private companies in a variety of corporate transactions, including public and private offerings of securities and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Olsen also counsels public companies on corporate governance matters and compliance with securities regulations and SEC reporting requirements. Ms. Olsen practiced in-house at a Fortune 500 company, advising on a wide range of corporate and securities matters.

Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2004
Georgetown University, B.S., 2001

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NICOLE SKALLA is of counsel in the Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the New York office. Her practice focuses on securitization and structured finance, with a particular emphasis on structured credit products and collateralized loan obligation transactions. Ms. Skalla represents investment banks, financial institutions, investment advisors, issuers, investors, and end-users in collateralized loan obligation transactions, cash, hybrid and synthetic CDOs, and other asset-backed securities transactions. She has also represented investment banks and others in connection with credit derivative and other swap transactions and asset repackaging programs.

Education

Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 2005
University of Kansas, B.A. (cum laude), 2002

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HAIYAN TANG is a partner in the Litigation practice of Paul Hastings Shanghai office. Ms. Tang’s practice focuses on government enforcement, investigations, and litigations.

Ms. Tang has advised numerous companies on sensitive enforcement matters involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (“FCPA”) and other corruption enforcement regimes. In addition, she acted as a leading global pharmaceutical company’s Acting Compliance Regional Director in China during a period in which the company was under a DOJ/ SEC self-reporting obligation.

She previously practiced as a litigator at another top international law firm in California for four years and litigation associate in two other international law firms in China for three years. Ms. Tang is admitted in California only.

Education

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2007
Yale University, Ph.D., Neuroscience, 2004
Yale University, M. Phil, Neuroscience, 2002
Nanjing University, B.Sc., Biology, 1996

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