Stuyvesant Alumni and friends are invited to attend our Stuy Alumni in Law Panel, to be held on Tuesday, October 6 at 5:30PM at the offices of Lowenstein Sadler LLP, 1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

Composed of Stuyvesant alums, this panel offers a meaningful opportunity for Stuyvesant alumni working across the field of law to connect and exchange perspectives on the role of law in addressing complex, real-world challenges. We are glad to extend this networking opportunity to Stuyvesant alumni and friends.

Please note, this event requires a ticket. Your registration confirmation will serve as your ticket.

Daniel L. Forman ’98
Partner, Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Christina Guerola Sarchio ’87
Partner, Dechert LLP

Chris M. Kwok ’92
Mediator, JAMS: Mediation, Arbitration and ADR Services

Elina Tetelbaum ’03
Corporate Partner and Head of Shareholder Engagement and Activism Defense
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Please RSVP, as your registration confirmation email will serve as your ticket(s).

Daniel L. Forman ’98 represents public and private companies, investment banks, private equity sponsors, and venture funds in a wide range of capital markets transactions, including IPOs, secondary equity offerings, convertible debt offerings, debt offerings, tender offers, debt restructurings, and private placements, as well as related corporate and securities matters. Daniel has deep knowledge of and experience with sophisticated financing transactions, including equity-linked offerings, PIPEs, confidentially marketed offerings, registered direct offerings, reverse mergers and SPACS. Daniel also has significant experience advising public companies both large and small on their SEC reporting obligations and corporate governance matters. He works with clients across numerous industries, including life sciences, technology, retail and consumer brands, industrials and financial institutions, among others.

Daniel maintains an active pro bono practice, including work for the International Refugee Assistance Project, Legal Services NYC, New York Legal Assistance Group, and the Billion Oyster Project. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Legal Outreach, an organization that prepares urban youth from underserved communities in New York City to achieve academic excellence. He graduated from Cardozo School of Law in 2008, The George Washington University in 2002 and Stuyvesant High School in 1998.

Christina Guerola Sarchio ’87 focuses her practice on general commercial litigation, class actions and white-collar defense, with significant experience in the consumer products, financial, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, technology and sports industries. A former prosecutor and an experienced trial lawyer, Ms. Sarchio has successfully tried cases in federal and state courts throughout the country. She also regularly appears before a number of agencies and regulators, including the DOJ, FDA, SEC and various U.S. Attorney offices.

Ms. Sarchio has been recognized as a leading and innovative lawyer by a number of publications, including Forbes Top Women Lawyers for 2026, Forbes Top 200 Lawyers for 2024 and 2025, Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers for 2019-2024, The Legal 500 US for 2017-2026, and among the 2025 Top 250 Women in Litigation by Benchmark Litigation, where she is also listed as a D.C. Litigation Star and National Practice Area Star. Additionally, she was recognized by LMG Life Sciences in 2024 for White-Collar and Government Investigations. The Financial Times commended Ms. Sarchio for Innovation in Dispute Resolution in 2022. Ms. Sarchio was named to Diversity MBA’s Top 100 Under 50 Executive and Emerging Leaders list, selected as a 2018 Woman Worth Watching by The Diversity Journal, and received MCCA’s 2017 Rainmaker Award. Her class action jury win in 2016 was named a Top 10 Defense Verdict by The Daily Journal. Ms. Sarchio has also received a number of community service awards, including the HNBA Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year, George Washington Law School’s Belva Lockwood Award, HBA-DC Hugh Johnson Award, and named by Hispanic Business Magazine to its Top 20 Elite Women and 100 Most Influentials lists. Ms. Sarchio was voted in as the Hispanic National Bar Association’s President for 2024-25.

Ms. Sarchio’s management experience at Dechert also includes overseeing Talent and she is the immediate past chair of the Global Women’s Initiative. Prior to joining Dechert, Ms. Sarchio was a member of the Board of Directors at another international law firm. Her previous experience includes serving as prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office.

Ms. Sarchio has also served as an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association since 2011.

Chris M. Kwok’s ’92 mediation and arbitration work spans Labor & Employment, US- China Cross Border and Trust & Estate disputes. He is an Adjunct Professor at CUNY Hunter and New York Law School, where he teaches courses on Asian Americans.

Elina Tetelbaum ’03 is a partner in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities laws matters. She completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard College and obtained her JD from Yale Law School, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Ms. Tetelbaum served as a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit. She is also the secretary of the First Generation Harvard Alumni, and has previously served as the secretary of the NYC Bar Association’s corporation law committee and the president of The Seneca, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports women at Harvard College.

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to [email protected].