Yolanda focuses her practice on U.S. and international capital markets transactions. She advises corporate and sovereign issuers, financial sponsors and investment banks on a broad range of offerings, including initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, and investment-grade debt offerings under Rule 144A, Regulations S and other private placements as well as SEC-registered offerings.
In addition to transaction work, Yolanda counsels clients on U.S. securities law compliance, including SEC periodic reporting, Section 13 requirements, securities transfer issues and corporate governance matters. Her experience spans various industries and geographies, providing clients with comprehensive legal support in navigating complex capital markets.
Committed to pro bono work, Yolanda has devoted her time to matters involving voting rights and election protection as well as international human rights matters for displaced persons.
Education
- JD, New York University Scholl of Law
- BA, Harvard University, cum laude
Keyashia concentrates her practice on restructuring, bankruptcy, and creditors’ rights and commercial litigation matters. She has gained wide-ranging experience through judicial clerkships in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois, as a staff attorney for a not-for-profit legal services organization, a law clerk, and a summer associate at Barclay Damon.
Bar Associations
- Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association, Trustee
- Central New York Women's Bar Association, Board of Directors
- Northern District of New York Federal Court Bar Association
Selected Memberships & Affiliations
- Barclay Damon’s Women’s Forum
- Syracuse University College of Law, Black Law Students Association, Former President and Vice President
- Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Member
Education
- Syracuse University College of Law, JD
- Virginia State University, BS, Magna Cum Laude
Practices & Industries
Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights
Commercial Litigation & Complex Trials
Admitted to Practice
New York
Court Admissions
- US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York
- US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York
- US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York
- US Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York
- US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- US District Court for the Northern District of New York
- US District Court for the Southern District of New York
- US District Court for the Western District of New York
Jheanelle focuses her practice on representing companies and financial institutions in civil and criminal litigation and investigations.
Prior to attending law school, Jheanelle worked at the Georgia Innocence Project, where she worked with attorneys to help wrongfully convicted men and women in the state of Georgia.
During her time at Howard, Jheanelle served as a teaching assistant for Torts and as a student attorney in the Reentry and Trademark I clinics. In the Reentry Clinic, Jheanelle advocated for the funding of the Second Chance Act and assisted clinic clients in their pursuit of record sealing and expungement. In the Trademark I Clinic, Jheanelle assisted small business owners in filing trademark applications.
Simone represents major corporations and financial institutions in various complex commercial disputes, including antitrust litigation, securities litigation, and M&A litigation.
She also represents major corporations and financial institutions in connection with investigations before government agencies.
She has experience with litigating disputes before federal and state trial courts, as well as arbitration panels. Simone has also prepared appellate briefs before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Prior to joining the firm, Simone served as a law clerk to the Honorable Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, a circuit court judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Wilmington Delaware. She also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Steve C. Jones, a district court judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Rudi Miller is an Associate in Orrick’s Los Angeles office who focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation in the financial services industry.
Rudi has experience representing large commercial clients in complex and high-value litigation in federal and state courts across the country. She has advised clients in all stages of litigation from receipt of pre-litigation demands through discovery, expert work, summary judgment, trial preparation, and trial.
Rudi also completed a client secondment at Goldman Sachs in New York in their Litigation and Regulatory Compliance Group.
In her pro bono practice, Rudi has provided services to ICE detainees and low-income veterans.