THE PARTNERSHIP
Three partners. Three meridians. One firm.
Northline Counsel is a three-partner firm by design. The partnership is the practice — every mandate is led by a named partner from the founding group, with full accountability from pitch to closing.
ON PARTNERSHIP
The partnership is small by design, not by circumstance.
We do not intend to be a large firm. Our mandates are complex, cross-jurisdictional, and regulatorily dense \u2014 the kind of work that does not delegate well. A senior partner leads every engagement personally, from the initial scoping call through to closing and beyond. This is the commercial model of traditional Wall Street boutique practice, updated for the sectors and jurisdictions we work in.
Over time we expect to add senior counsel, associates, and support staff in each of our three offices. But the partnership will remain small. We measure capacity in mandates, not in headcount.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Click a partner for full profilePaul F. Jannuzzo
Founding Partner · Atlanta
Paul leads the firm's U.S. practice and the defense-industrial, export-controls, and industrial-greenfield disciplines. He advises from Atlanta.
- Georgia State Bar, active
- New Jersey State Bar
- Villanova University · J.D. Vermont Law
Nikoletta Bielut
Founding Partner · Warsaw
Nikoletta leads the firm's European practice and the corporate, investment-structuring, and cross-border transactional disciplines. She advises from Warsaw.
- Polish Bar Council (Adwokacka Rada)
- EU Commercial & Regulatory
- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law
Maksym Kovalenko
Founding Partner · Kyiv
Maksym leads the firm's Ukrainian practice and the infrastructure, energy, critical-materials, and reconstruction disciplines. He advises from Kyiv.
- Ukrainian National Bar (NAAU)
- Infrastructure & Energy Law
- Kyiv National University, Faculty of Law