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Prior to joining Skadden, Jocelyn’s career took her from tennis courts in Washington, D.C., where she played against the nation’s top justice, to federal court in New York, where she successfully prosecuted Jamaica’s most notorious drug kingpin.

Jocelyn’s clerkship for the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist laid the foundation for her legal career, though many of the most valuable lessons were gleaned in doubles matches with the chief justice and her fellow clerks. As Jocelyn recalls, he was a strong advocate for “work-life balance” long before that became a hot topic. Following her clerkship, Jocelyn held numerous roles at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, including co-chief of the Criminal Division’s Terrorism & International Narcotics Unit. She regularly calls on that prosecutorial experience at Skadden, where she represents companies and individuals in a wide array of criminal and civil enforcement matters.

Steve became hooked on deal-making as a summer associate at Skadden during the M&A boom of the ’80s, receiving his first “tombstone” on a self-tender offer set to close on the same day as the stock market crash now known as Black Monday. The deal didn’t close on schedule, but in the decades since, Steve has become known as a go-to adviser on some of the most high-profile M&A deals in industries such as pharma and biotech, consumer and industrial goods, energy, and TMT. He learned the art of deal-making from Skadden VIPs like Joe Flom and Roger Aaron and has shared that wisdom with others, as leader of the firm’s New York M&A practice, co-head of our global transactions practices, mentor to countless Skadden associates, and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.