WHO WE ARE—AIleen Carpenter

Aileen Carpenter (“Aileen”) is the founder of Carpenter law. She created the firm to directly offer clients efficient and creative litigation and pre-litigation solutions that secure faster results. Equipped with brilliant fluid reasoning, Aileen has turned around cases within weeks before trial and won. She has won appeals with single digit odds of success due to her strong knowledge of complex law and ability to easily uncover what is needed to win a case. She’s a gifted brief writer and has drafted appellate briefs before the Delaware Supreme Court resulting in the reversal of a 26 million dollar judgment. She has never lost a jury trial and attributes her strong presence before a jury to her acting and producing background. As a skilled chess player, Aileen enjoys case strategy. She is always one step ahead and can easily visualize the opposing party’s arguments prior to them being made.

Aileen specializes in defending and prosecuting complex cases involving RICO, unfair competition, trademark infringement, complex breach of contract, securities, conspiracy, and torts such as defamation, and appellate work. As part of her background, Aileen was a key leader at her former in-house position where she handled complex commercial litigation matters, conducted internal investigations, facilitated in the drafting of attorney general complaints, and provided advice regarding white collar crimes and corporate structure. She was also featured on Law360 for filing a complex lawsuit against a competitor. At her prior firm position, Aileen handled both transactional and litigation matters. She has drafted franchise agreements, subscription agreements, and purchase and sale agreements. Aileen is equipped to handle all stages of the litigation process and is no stranger to the court room. She has provided pro bono legal advice for the D.C. Bar’s small business clinic and advises small business owners and prospective entrepreneurs on starting a business, taxation, and other corporate structure issues and remedies. Aileen is a graduate of Emory University school of law where she was recognized as a 2019 graduating woman of excellence.


E-mail: Aileen.Carpenter@thecarpenterlaw.com

Practice Areas:

-Intercompany disputes

-Complex Business Litigation

-Complex Commercial Litigation

-Securities Litigation

-Class Action

-Appellate

Languages: Fluent in German and English

Who We Are—Alexander AnGUEIRA

Alexander Angueira (“Alex”) is of counsel at Carpenter Law and a nationally renowned trial lawyer and business strategist who has garnered respect and acclaim for obtaining great success and achievements on behalf of his clients. Over the last 36 years, Alex has tried over 130 jury and non-jury trials in federal and state courts in the United States, and various international and national arbitrations around the world. Alex brings to his clients a holistic, nontraditional approach that focuses first and foremost on his clients’ needs. Alex began his career as a federal law clerk in the Southern District of Florida. After his clerkship, Alex worked as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Honors Program where he handled a multitude of cases for the United States in federal courts throughout the United States. Following his stint at Main Justice, Alex took his talents to South Beach where he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida where he gained national acclaim as a federal prosecutor trying high profile white collar criminal cases, major narcotics cases and high-level public corruption cases. Later, Alex took a partnership at a 100+ AV preeminently rated law firm where he handled complex business cases and served as counselor to his clients on business transactions. Alex also started his own litigation boutique where he continued to represent his clients in business and white-collar criminal matters. Alex has also served as in-house senior litigation counsel for a billion-dollar sports energy drink company which allowed him to bring a unique perspective to his clients. Alex is an AV preeminent attorney for over a decade and has continually been rated a top 1% business litigator in the American Registry. Alex obtained his law degree from Washington University School of Law – a top 20 rated law school – and his undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Miami, with honors.

E-mail: Alex.angueira@thecarpenterlaw.com

Practice Areas:

-Commercial Transactions

-Complex Business Litigation

-White Collar Criminal Defense

-Government Investigations

-Crisis Management & Strategic Counseling

Languages: Fluent in Spanish and English