Ice Miller senior counsel Gai Sher has been named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 X Next Generation list under the Corporate, Innovation & Technology practice areas. The Lawdragon editorial team selected the 500 honorees through submissions, journalistic research on the lawyers behind some of the biggest deals and cases, and editorial vetting conducted by a board of peers. These lawyers have typically been out of law school for less than 15 years.

As a member of the firm’s Advertising & Marketing and Business practice groups, Sher is a trusted counselor to businesses and investors navigating high-stakes deals, working to provide strategic guidance to private equity funds, and their portfolio companies, across a wide spectrum of transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and divestitures. Adept at negotiating and structuring joint ventures, sponsorship and endorsement deals, marketing and advertising agreements, IP licensing, rights, talent, and media agreements, her multifaceted experience traverses high-level transactional work and the specific needs of these industries.

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