Boston, MA. Nixon Peabody LLP is proud to announce the law firm’s 2025 counsel class, promoting 12 attorneys from across the firm’s national markets and a wide range of litigation and transactional practices that represent each of the firm’s three legal departments.
“Our new counsel class brings together a wide variety of skills, practice areas, and backgrounds at Nixon Peabody,” said Stacie B. Collier, Nixon Peabody Chief Talent Officer. “This group of attorneys exemplifies the best of who we are as a firm, providing exceptional service to our clients, colleagues, and communities. We look forward to the many positive contributions they will continue to make in the future.”
Illustrative of how integral the firm’s counsel program has become to attorney development, all of the attorneys in Nixon Peabody’s 2025 partner class were elevated from counsel.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Paul DeTurk, Corporate, Boston
Paul focuses his practice on sophisticated private company transactions and corporate governance. He partners with companies to help them achieve their business goals through the acquisition and disposition of businesses, investment in new technologies, and thoughtful collaboration with third parties. Paul is also experienced in venture capital deals, and represents technology and healthcare companies in their organization, financing, and contracting matters. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Corporate Law.
Ashley Mistretta, Healthcare, Long Island
Ashley works collaboratively with clients and other third-party advisors on corporate transactions across all industries, with a particular focus on healthcare. Representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions, she is experienced in facilitating the sale of closely held and family-owned businesses. Ashley was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the fields of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions.
LITIGATION DEPARTMENT
Neil Diskin, Construction & Real Estate Litigation, New York City
Neil helps clients across a broad range of industries resolve commercial disputes. He is an experienced litigator who represents entities and individuals in federal and state courts in a variety of areas, including commercial lease, financing, and other real estate disputes; partnership disputes and business divorces; labor and employment; class actions; and contractual disputes. Additionally, drawing on his experience with the Legal Aid Society, he assists with internal investigations and represents clients facing criminal charges. Outside his immediate practice, Neil maintains an active pro bono practice. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2024 in the field of Commercial Litigation.
Alexis Grilli, Intellectual Property, Washington, DC
Alexis focuses her practice on all aspects of trademark and copyright law providing a full range of services, including prosecution, enforcement, litigation, and licensing. She advises clients on the selection, clearance, registration, and enforcement of their trademarks. Alexis also helps clients resolve their trademark disputes, including experience handling actions in federal court as well as proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Within the firm, she is a member and prior co-chair of the Washington, DC office Women’s Resource Group.
Kate Letcher, Complex Disputes, Chicago
Kate is a skilled litigator who advises clients from a wide range of industries, such as healthcare and medical device manufacturing, on a variety of litigation matters in both state and federal courts as well as arbitral forums. She represents individuals and entities in a wide range of complex disputes, including lawsuits alleging breach of contract, business torts, trade secret litigation, and product liability. Kate also leverages her experience in sports law to expand our firm’s footprint in the emerging area of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) for NCAA college athletes. Within the firm, Kate serves as associate chair of the Black Resource Group. She was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Commercial Litigation.
Christopher J. Moro, Labor & Employment, Long Island
Chris focuses his practice on representing employers in complex labor and employment litigation matters. He is skilled in defending lawsuits brought under all manner of federal, state, and local employment laws, and has emerged as a thought leader in this space. Chris also devotes a significant portion of his practice to providing preventative advice and counsel to employers of all sizes on compliance and personnel matters. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the fields of Appellate Practice, Labor Employment Law—Management, and Litigation—Labor and Employment.
Aaron Nadich, Labor & Employment, Providence
Aaron focuses his practice on representing companies of all sizes in state and federal court proceedings, as well as before administrative agencies. He advises companies across all industries on a wide variety of employment matters. Aaron has significant experience with restrictive covenant litigation, wage and hour litigation, and defense of workplace discrimination claims. Aaron was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Labor and Employment Law—Management.
Brock Seraphin, Complex Disputes, Los Angeles
Brock is a multifaceted lawyer whose practice intersects complex commercial disputes, labor and employment, and healthcare. He has significant experience litigating commercial disputes involving tort claims, contract disputes, trade secrets, employee mobility, and discrimination and harassment allegations. Brock also serves as a trusted advisor and provides clients with strategic compliance counseling. Outside his immediate practice, he maintains an active pro bono practice. Brock is on the board of advisors of One Justice. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Commercial Litigation.
PROJECT FINANCE, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
Stratton Constantinides, Affordable Housing & Real Estate, Los Angeles
Stratton represents clients seeking to navigate the complex network of state and federal environmental regulations. He has deep experience guiding clients’ efforts to comply with key legislation including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), and various state and local equivalents. Stratton’s practice also includes regulatory compliance work, administrative enforcement, and litigation of civil actions. He has emerged as a thought leader in the environmental space, and was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Environmental Law for the third year in a row.
Andrew Hahn, Affordable Housing & Real Estate, Chicago
Andrew is a skilled advisor, known for his ability to navigate complex transactional matters with precision and strategic insight. With a particular focus on negotiating and drafting critical agreements—ranging from letters of intent and purchase and sale agreements to leases and development documents—he delivers tailored, actionable solutions that drive client success across a variety of industries. Andrew’s extensive experience in commercial real estate has earned a reputation for his comprehensive understanding of all phases of real estate transactions. He works closely with buyers, sellers, investors, developers, and joint ventures, offering expert counsel on deals related to retail, industrial, office, and multifamily housing assets.
Pamela Swanson, Community Development Finance, Boston
Pamela manages complex community development finance transactions, representing investors, syndicators, and lenders on deals that qualify for federal low-income housing tax credits, and other tax benefits. Her work helps lay the foundation for critical affordable housing projects serving populations that sometimes struggle to access secure housing, including the elderly, veterans, and working families. Pamela was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the field of Real Estate Law.
Noah Lebowitz, Project Finance & Public Finance, Washington, DC
Noah serves as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, underwriter’s counsel, disclosure counsel, and bank counsel on a wide range of public finance transactions with an emphasis on tax-exempt municipal bonds. He helps his clients leverage complex financing arrangements and counsels clients with respect to evolving regulatory developments involving primary and secondary market disclosures. Noah draws on prior municipal experience to serve clients such as state and local governments, public authorities, public power utilities, and nonprofit borrowers of tax-exempt debt. Within the firm, he has been recognized as a Nixon Peabody Pro Bono Champion. Noah was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for 2025 in the fields of Corporate Law and Project Finance Law.
