2025 NJ LEEP Gala
Maritime Parc, Jersey City
Honoring Vandana Venkatesh
Executive Vice President Public Policy & Chief Legal Officer, Verizon
June 3, 2025
Pre-Gala Party: 5:30-6:30 pm
For Senior, Graduate, & Professional level sponsors
Gala: 6:30-9:00 pm
For all Sponsors
2025 GALA COMMITTEE
Keira Campbell
American Express
Chief Competition Counsel
Paul Cash
Wyndham
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Jennifer Davenport
PSEG
Vice President. Deputy General Counsel
and Chief Litigation Counsel
Erica Davila
Transcarent
General Counsel
Jack Ewing
Prudential Financial
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, PGIM
Aileen Fair
Bristol Myers Squibb
Senior Corporate Counsel
Matt Farkas
Invesco
Associate General Counsel
John Frantz
DLA Piper
Partner
Alycia Guichard
Verizon
Technology Counsel at Verizon Global Services
Volunteerism & Pro Bono Program Manager Policy, Responsible Business, Legal & Security (PRLS)
Galit Kierkut
Greenberg Traurig
Shareholder
Casey Kobi
Barclays
Managing Director
Marc Merriweather
Wyndham
Group Vice President -Litigation
Chris Miller
Verizon
Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Verizon Global Services
Carlos Pelayo
Mr. Cooper
EVP & Chief Legal Officer
Jodi Singer
Nomura
Executive Director
Joe Urso
Deutsche Bank
Vice President
Megan Vasios
BlackRock
Director, Government Affairs & Public Policy
Eric Zamore
Houlihan Lokie
Senior Vice President, Assistant
General Counsel
2024 GALA VIDEO
2025 GALA SPONSORS
Professional -$75,000
Graduate - $50,000
College Bound -$35,000
Senior -$25,000
Barclays
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Verizon
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Junior - $15,000
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Kerbey Harrington Pinkard LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Lowenstein
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Prudential
SRD Legal Group
Sophomore - $10,000
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Arnold & Porter
Bristol Myers Squibb
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Clifford Chance
Dentons
DLA Piper
Gibbons P.C.
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
K&L Gates LLP
McGuire Woods LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Stradley Ronon
Ultimate Fighting Championship
WilmerHale
Freshman - $5,000
American Express
Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
Catalent
Cole Schotz P.C.
Connell Foley LLP
Cooper Legal Group
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Groom Law Group
Herrick
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Mayer Brown
NJM Insurance Group
O'Toole Scrivo, LLC
Robinson Bradshaw
Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation and Morrison & Foerster LLP
Tullman Family Office
Vedder Price
Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Wong Fleming, P.C.
Wyndham