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BEST LAWYERS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING

MAY 11 and 12, 2016 Bringing together the distinguished members of the Best Lawyers Advisory Board for discussions about management of law firms and in-house legal departments.

W

elcome to the 2016 Best Lawyers Advisory Board Meeting. We are so pleased you are able to join us for the gathering of this unique group of the world’s preeminent law firm leaders and general counsel—a complete membership list appears in this brochure. For those arriving early May 11, Best Lawyers has organized a special viewing of Sylvia by the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. This showing of Sylvia will feature company leads Isabella Boylston, Alban Lendorf, and Danill Simkin. The performance will be preceded by a discussion about the ballet and followed by a backstage tour of the opera house. The same evening, Best Lawyers will host a dinner where board members can see old friends and meet new ones.

welcome The board meeting will take place May 12 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. The meeting will focus on the challenges faced by law firm leaders and general counsel in our current economic climate. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Linda Klein, the incoming president of the American Bar Association, followed by a panel discussion chaired by former ABA president Carolyn Lamm on the globalization of the market for legal services and the impact of lawyer regulation worldwide. It is my pleasure to host this distinguished group, and I hope you enjoy the meeting. Thank you for your participation on the Best Lawyers Advisory Board.

Steve Naifeh CEO & Co-Founder of Best Lawyers

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MAY 11 Cultural Events 1:00 - 2:00 P.M.

Pre-show Discussion About the Ballet Meet in the Revlon Bar area before the house opens to enjoy a brief discussion about the ballet.

2:00 - 4:00 P.M.

Performance of Sylvia by the American Ballet Theater Sylvia boasts an incomparable role for its heroine showcasing her dramatic range and astonishing technique, performed against a lushly romantic, rococo setting to a GILLIAN MURPHY IN SYLVIA. PHOTO: GENE SCHIAVONE

splendid score by Léo Delibes.

4:00 - 5:00 P.M.

Backstage Tour of the Metropolitan Opera House Experience an exclusive behind-thescenes look at how the Metropolitan Opera House operates.

IMAGE BY ALLEN.G / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM

5:00 - 7:00 P.M.

Dinner at The Grand Tier Restaurant Set within one of the most spectacular cultural destinations in the world, The Grand Tier Restaurant serves contemporary American cuisine by Executive Chef Richard Diamonte.

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MAY 12 Board Meeting Agenda 8:00 - 8:45 A.M.

Arrival and Registration

Breakfast will follow

8:45 - 9:00 A.M. Opening Remarks Steven Naifeh, CEO BEST LAWYERS 9:00 - 9:15 A.M. Welcome Remarks Kenneth M. Doran, Managing Partner GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER LLP 9:15 - 10:00 P.M.



Panel Discussion: The Globalization of the Market for Legal Services and the Impact of Lawyer Regulation

Panel discussion by: Carolyn Lamm, Panel Chair Partner, Co-Chair International Arbitration Americas

WHITE & CASE LLP/WASHINGTON, D.C.

Peter Dwoskin Senior Vice President Strategic Development & General Counsel

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

Andrew Perlman Dean & Professor of Law SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

Jennifer Paradise General Counsel

WHITE & CASE LLP/NEW YORK

David B. Wilkins Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession, & Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

10:00 - 10:15 A.M. 10:15 - 11:00 A.M.

Networking Break Keynote Speech

Linda Klein

President-Elect AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

11:00 - 12:00 P.M. Networking Lunch 12:00 P.M. Closing Remarks Steven Naifeh

KENNETH M. DORAN is the Managing Partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and serves as the Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, leveraged buy-outs and "going private" transactions, cross-border transactions, corporate reorganizations, and other restructurings. Mr. Doran regularly counsels clients regarding corporate governance issues, fiduciary duties, and other compliance matters. Mr. Doran has extensive experience in representing investment bankers, private equity groups, and public and private companies in a wide array of industries, as well as individual investors and owners of closely held businesses.

Panel chair, CAROLYN LAMM regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes, cutting-edge cases, successfully resolving significant international arbitrations involving international corporates and sovereign clients. She also serves as lead counsel in arbitration-related litigation matters. Her practice concentrates on international dispute resolution through international arbitration, litigation, and international trade proceedings. She advises clients in matters with ICSID and its Additional Facility, and in other international arbitral proceedings involving States, as well as commercial arbitral fora including AAA/CDR, ICC, Vienna Centre, Stockholm Chamber, Swiss Chamber, and in federal court litigation. She teaches International Investment Arbitration at the University of Miami School of Law in the White & Case LLM program in International Arbitration.

PETER DWOSKIN is the Senior Vice President, Strategic Development and General Counsel for U.S. News & World Report. In addition to his duties as the chief legal officer for U.S. News, Peter has responsibility for evaluating, structuring and negotiating many of U.S. News’s key partnerships and strategic alliances. He also oversees U.S. News’s Specialty Marketing operating unit, whose portfolio includes the licensing of U.S. News’s intellectual property assets. Peter serves on U.S. News’s Executive Committee, which oversees the U.S. News business and maps out U.S. News’s strategic direction. After law school, Peter clerked for the Honorable George C. Pratt, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, after which he was associated with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, focusing on mergers and acquisitions.  He then served as counsel to Reliance Group Holdings, a financial services firm, prior to joining U.S. News.

ANDREW PERLMAN is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. He was the chief reporter of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20, which produced amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct that respond to changes in technology and increased globalization. More recently, he was appointed as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, which is examining how to improve the delivery

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BIOGRAPHIES of, and the public’s access to, legal services. Andy was the founding director of Suffolk’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation as well as the related Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration. In 2015, Andy was recognized by FastCase as one of 50 "entrepreneurs, innovators, and trailblazers...who have charted a new course for the delivery of legal services."

JENNIFER PARADISE is General Counsel of White & Case LLP. As such, she advises the firm's lawyers on issues relating to professional responsibility, multijurisdictional practice, and regulatory compliance in furtherance of the firm's commitment to delivering superior legal services to its clients. Jennifer is also a member of White & Case's Global Risk Management Committee and Global Legal Opinions Committee. Jennifer is active in the legal profession and regularly lectures on issues pertaining to professional responsibility. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and is a liaison to the ABA Section on International Law's Working Group on the Admission to Practice of Lawyers from Outside of the United States. She is also a member of the steering committee for the Firm Counsel Connect, an ABA Business Law Section initiative to raise awareness of risk management issues facing law firms.

DAVID B. WILKINS is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and an International Research Fellow of the Novak Druce Center for Professional Service Firms at Oxford University’s Said School of Business. Professor Wilkins has written more than 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press and is the co-author of several books.

The key note speaker, LINDA KLEIN, senior managing shareholder at Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, assumed the role of presidentelect of the American Bar Association in August 2015 at the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. She will serve a one-year term as president-elect then become ABA president in August 2016. Klein’s practice, based in Atlanta, includes most types of business dispute resolution, including contract law, employment law and professional liability, working extensively with clients in the construction, higher education, and pharmaceutical industries. In June 1997, Klein became the first woman to serve as president of the State Bar of Georgia. During Klein's term, she devised a proposal and advocated for the state to allocate funding for Georgia Legal Services and Atlanta Legal Aid to hire lawyers to help indigent victims of domestic violence. She organized a statewide group of community organizations and local and minority bar associations that together convinced the General Assembly to appropriate $2 million. Since then, the annual appropriations have helped thousands in Georgia with legal issues related to domestic violence.

*2016 BEST LAWYERS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING ATTENDEES

UNITED STATES

Michael V. Ciresi

Adams and Reese LLP New Orleans, Louisiana

Matthew J. Clark

Charles P. Adams, Jr.

Ciresi & Conlin LLP Minneapolis, Minnesota

Robert L. Adler

Arent Fox LLP, Washington, D.C.

Joseph R. Alberts

Clifford Law Offices PC, Chicago, Illinois

Edison International, Rosemead, California The Dow Chemical Company Indianapolis, Indiana

Robert A. Clifford H. Rodgin Cohen

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York

Charla G. Aldous

C. Wade Cooper

John P. Amershadian

Daniel Cooperman

John A. Barbour

John W. Daniels, Jr.

Aldous \ Walker LLP, Dallas, Texas Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, New York

Jackson Walker L.L.P, Austin, Texas DLA Piper, East Palo Alto, California Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephen J. Dannhauser

Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, Illinois

Frank N. Darras

Larry A. Barden Ralph Baxter

Stanford Law School, Stanford, California

Paul D. Bekman

Bekman, Marder & Adkins, LLC Baltimore, Maryland

Thomas J. Bender

Littler Mendelson P.C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Peter J. Beshar

Marsh & McLennan Companies New York, New York

Michael W. Blair

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP New York, New York

DarrasLaw, Ontario, California

Robert M. Dell

Latham & Watkins LLP San Francisco, California

Edward B. Deutsch

McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP Morristown, New Jersey

Janet L. Dhillon

Burlington Stores, Inc., Plano, Texas

Joseph C. Dilg

Greenhill & Co., Inc., Houston, Texas

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, New York

Kenneth M. Doran

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York, New York

Patrick C. Dunican, Jr.

Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

U.S. News & World Report LP New York, New York

Robert I. Bodian

Ralf-Reinhard Boer David Boies

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Armonk, New York

Robert E. Bostrom

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. New Albany, Ohio

Michael Bramnick

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Los Angeles, California Gibbons P.C., Newark, New Jersey

Peter M. Dwoskin Kim F. Ebert

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., Indianapolis, Indiana

F. Samuel Eberts, III

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Burlington, North Carolina

LRN Corporation, Houston, Texas

Martin M. Fantozzi

The Law Offices of Frank L. Branson Dallas, Texas

Joseph M. Fazio

Frank L. Branson

William A. Brewer III

Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors Dallas, Texas

Brad D. Brian

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Los Angeles, California

Marcus V. Brown

Entergy Corporation New Orleans, Louisiana

William T. Burgess

Dickinson Wright PLLC Detroit, Michigan

William R. Caroselli Caroselli, Beachler,

McTiernan & Coleman, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

James P. Carroll

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Charlotte, North Carolina

Goulston & Storrs PC Boston, Massachusetts

Format as: Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan

D. Cameron Findlay

Archer Daniels Midland Company Chicago, Illinois

Steven E. Fineman

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP New York, New York

Avery S. Fischer

Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation New York, New York

David Foltyn

Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP Detroit, Michigan

Austin T. Fragomen, Jr.

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP; New York, New York

Thomas R. Frantz

William J. Casazza

Williams Mullen, Virginia Beach, Virginia

Sabine Chalmers

Viacom Inc., New York, New York

Aetna Inc., Hartford, Connecticut Anheuser-Busch InBev New York, New York

Evan R. Chesler

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLC New York, New York

Morgan Chu

Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California

Michael D. Fricklas Eric J. Friedman

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, New York, New York

Anthony H. Gair

Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf New York, New York

James H. Gallegos

Alliant Energy Corp., Madison, Wisconsin

best lawyers

ADVISORY BOARD Gregory Gallopoulos

Peter J. Kalis

Marialuisa Gallozzi

Brad S. Karp

General Dynamics, Falls Church, Virginia Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.

Elisa D. Garcia C.

K&L Gates LLP, New York, New York Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York

Office Depot, Boca Raton, Florida

John W. Keker

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP New York, New York

Peter M. Kellett

Steven J. Gartner

Herbert E. Gerson

Ford & Harrison LLP, Memphis, Tennessee

Russell M. Gertmenian

Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP Columbus, Ohio

John R. Gibson

American Pacific Corporation Las Vegas, Nevada

Françoise Gilbert

Greenberg Traurig LLP East Palo Alto, California

Robert Giles

Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, Washington

Thomas V. Girardi

Girardi | Keese, Los Angeles, California

Keker & Van Nest LLP San Francisco, California Dykema Gossett PLLC, Detroit, Michigan

Janet Langford Kelly

ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas

R. Steven Kestner

Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Cleveland, Ohio

Linda A. Klein

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Atlanta, Georgia

Alan M. Klinger

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP New York, New York

Robert I. Komitor

Levy Konigsberg, LLP, New York, New York

Jeff S. Korek

Andrew I. Glincher

Gersowitz Libo & Korek, PC New York, New York

Michael S. Goldberg

Mayer Brown, Chicago, Illinois

Nixon Peabody, Boston, Massachusetts Baker Botts, Houston, Texas

Jamie Gorelick

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.

Matthew B. Gorson

Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Miami, Florida

Andra B. Greene

Irell & Manella LLP Newport Beach, California

John Beau Grenier

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP Birmingham, Alabama

Noah J. Hanft

Resolution (CPR), New York, New York

Herbert W. Krueger Debra E. Kuper

AGCO, Duluth, Georgia

W. Mark Lanier

The Lanier Law Firm, Houston, Texas

Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum

Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC New York, New York

Joseph M. Leccese

Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, New York

James K. Lehman

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Columbia, South Carolina

Mark LeHocky

Richard R. Hays

Mediation Offices of Mark LeHocky San Francisco, California

Robert D. Hays

Bryan Cave LLP, St. Louis, Missouri

Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia

Andrew D. Hendry

Colgate-Palmolive, New York, New York

Carrie J. Hightman

Don G. Lents

Andrew J. Levander

Dechert LLP, New York, New York

Robert F. Lewis

NiSource, Merrillville, Indiana

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Los Angeles, California

Blank Rome, LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Fine, Kaplan and Black Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alan J. Hoffman

James R. Hubbard

Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio

Andrew G. Humphrey Faegre Baker Daniels LLP Minneapolis, Minnesota

Roberta D. Liebenberg Stephen C. Mahon

Squire Patton Boggs, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kathy Mahoney

SpartanNash, Minneapolis, Minnesota

John M. Husband

Thomas Malone

Andrei Iancu

Marc E. Manly

Michelle C. Ifill

Craig D. Martin

J. Christopher Jensen

Thomas P. Mason

Holland & Hart LLP, Denver, Colorado

Malone Law, Atlanta, Georgia

Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, California

Duke Energy, Charlotte, North Carolina

Verizon Coporate Services, Inc. Basking Ridge, New Jersey

Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco, California

Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman PC New York, New York

Energy Transfer Partners, Dallas, Texas

Theodore V. H Mayer

Andrews Kurth LLP, Houston, Texas

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP New York, New York

Bunge Limited, Waltham, Massachusetts

Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C.

Quarles & Brady LLP, Naples, Florida

Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP; Chicago, Illinois

Robert V. Jewell

Frank R. Jimenez

Timothy J. Mayopoulos

Kimberly Leach Johnson

Daniel J. McMahon

Patrick T. Jones

Jones Kelleher LLP, Boston, Massachusetts

James Fox Miller

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thomas Minogue

Gregory B. Jordan Adam P. Kahn

Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, Massachusetts

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Hollywood, Florida Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis, Missouri

John T. Montgomery

Sandra H. Robinson

Marko J. Mrkonich

Mark D. Roellig

Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, Massachusetts Littler Mendelson P.C. Minneapolis, Minnesota

Satoru Murase

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP New York, New York

Gary P. Naftalis

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP New York, New York

Bruce H. Nagel

Nagel Rice LLP, Roseland, New Jersey

Larren M. Nashelsky

Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, New York

Robinson Law Firm PLLC, Washington, D.C. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Springfield, Massachusetts

Jeremy Roth

Littler Mendelson P.C., San Diego, California

Charles F. (Rick) Rule

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Washington, D.C.

Thomas Russo

American International Group New York, New York

Casey Ryan

Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Steven Nataupsky

Peter John Sacripanti

Daniel Neff

Ronald S. Safer

Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLC Irvine, California Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz New York, New York

Jonathan D. Niemeyer

Western & Southern Financial Group Cincinnati, Ohio

Jeff Norton

Linklaters, New York, New York

Daniel O'Donnell

Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDermott Will & Emery New York, New York

Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, Illinois

Gary L. Sasso

Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, Tampa, Florida

Donald C. Schiller

Schiller DuCanto & Fleck LLP Chicago, Illinois

Bart R. Schwartz

Assurant, New York, New York

Karen E. Shaff

Terrence O'Donnell

Principal Financial Group Des Moines, Iowa

Edward O'Keefe

Venable LLP, Baltimore, Maryland

Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, D.C. Moore & Van Allen PLLC Charlotte, North Carolina

Jack H. Olender

Jack H. Olender & Associates, P.C. Washington, D.C.

John F. Olson

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Washington, D.C.

James L. Shea

Joseph C. Shenker

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, New York

Marianne D. Short

UnitedHealth Group Minneapolis, Minnesota

Andrew M. Smulian

Akerman LLP, Miami, Florida

John Page

William B. Solomon, Jr.

Brian Panish

Michael B. Solow

Golden State Foods, Irvine, California

Ally Financial Inc., Detroit, Michigan

Panish Shea & Boyle Los Angeles, California

Kaye Scholer LLP, Chicago, Illinois

Thompson & Knight LLP, Dallas, Texas

John J. Soroko

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP New York, New York

Mark S. Stewart

Emily A. Parker

Paul S. Pearlman Arnold E. Perl

Glankler Brown, PLLC, Memphis, Tennessee

Steven Sonberg

Holland & Knight LLP, Miami, Florida Duane Morris LLP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ballard Spahr LLP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William J. Perlstein

Jeffrey E. Stone

Carter G. Phillips

Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.

Kenneth M. Suggs

Goodwin Procter LLP Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin A. Sullivan

BNY Mellon, New York, New York

Regina M. Pisa

McDermott Will & Emery Chicago, Illinois Janet, Jenner & Suggs Columbia, South Carolina

Elliott I. Portnoy

Winstead PC, Dallas, Texas

Timothy A. Pratt

Jones Day, San Diego, California

Dentons, Washington, D.C.

Edward Patrick Swan, Jr.

Boston Scientific Corporation Natick, Massachusetts

Keith A. Teel

Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, Georgia

Mayer Brown, Chicago, Illinois

Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.

Roger K. Quillen

Paul W. Theiss

Karl A. Racine

Larry D. Thompson

Venable, Washington, D.C.

Deborah Z. Read

Thompson Hine, Cleveland, Ohio

Harry M. Reasoner

University of Georgia Law, Athens, Georgia

John C. Tishler

Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP Nashville, Tennessee

Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, Texas

Colleen Tracy James

Regan Zambri & Long PLLC Washington, D.C.

Robert W. Trafford

Patrick M. Regan Thomas J. Reid

David Polk & Wardwell LLP New York, New York

James M. Rishwain, Jr.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Los Angeles, California

Mayer Brown, New York, New York Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Columbus, Ohio

Michael Tyler

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Pasadena, California

Patrick L. Vaccaro

Jackson Lewis P.C., White Plains, New York

best lawyers

ADVISORY BOARD Debra Valentine

Don Boyd

Robert Van Brocklin

John Carrington

RioTinto, Greenwood Village, Colorado Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, Oregon

Kenneth Van Winkle, Jr.

Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP Phoenix, Arizona

Keith W. Vaughan

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Hugh Verrier

White & Case LLP, New York, New York

George H. Vincent

Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, Ohio

Robert L. Waldman

Venable LLP, Baltimore, Maryland

Mark D. Wasserman

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Atlanta, Georgia

Theodore V. Wells Jr.

Norton Rose Fulbright, Brisbane Ashurst LLP, Melbourne

John W.H. Denton AO

Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Melbourne David Fagan Clayton Utz, Melbourne

Mark Green

MinterEllison, Melbourne

Tony Holland

Gilbert + Tobin, Melbourne

Mary Padbury

Ashurst LLP, Melbourne

Michael Rose Allens, Sydney

AUSTRIA

Dr. Albert Birkner

Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati, Vienna

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York

Bernt Elsner

Polsinelli, Kansas City, Missouri

Nariman Ramazanov

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Vienna

W. Russell Welsh

AZERBAIJAN

Keith C. Wetmore

FINA, Baku

Morrison & Foerster LLP San Francisco, California

Benjamin F. Wilson

Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. Washington, D.C.

Gary M. Wingens

Lowenstein Sandler LLP, New York, New York

Barton J. Winokur

Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Steven H. Wright

BAHRAIN

Hatim Sharif Zu'bi

Zu'bi & Partners, Manama

BELARUS

Konstantin Mikhel

Vlasova Mikhel & Partners, Minsk

BELGIUM

Jean-Pierre Blumberg

Holland & Knight LLP Boston, Massachusetts

Linklaters LLP, Antwerp

Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, Texas

Anne De Wolf

Frost Brown Todd, Cincinnati, Ohio

Paul Hermant

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Menlo Park, California

Patrick Hofströssler

Peter Callens

Scott N. Wulfe

Loyens & Loeff, Brussels

George E. Yund

Institut des juristes d'entreprise, Brussels

Mitchell Zuklie

Bird & Bird, Brussels

INTERNATIONAL ARGENTINA

Enrique Bruchou

Bruchou, Fernández Madero & Lombardi Buenos Aires

Esteban Buljevich

Pastoriza Eviner Cangueiro Ruiz Buljevich Buenos Aires

Eubelius, Brussels

Michael Schütte

Dr. Michael Schütte and Shuette Law SPRL, Brussels

Maura Abeln Smith

Delhaize Group SA, Brussels

BRAZIL

Paulo Cezar Aragão

Barbosa, Müssnich Aragão, São Paulo

Roxana Kahale

Ricardo Barretto Ferreira da Silva

Pablo G. Louge

Alexandre Bertoldi

Cristian J.P. Mitrani

José Luis De Salles Freire

Kahale Abogados, Buenos Aires

Barretto Ferreira and Brancher, São Paulo

Allende & Brea Abogados, Buenos Aires

Pinheiro Neto Advogados, São Paulo

Mitrani, Caballero, Ojam & Ruiz Moreno Buenos Aires

Juan Javier Negri

Negri & Pueyrredon Abogados, Buenos Aires Santiago María J. A. Nicholson Nicholson & Cano, Buenos Aires

TozziniFreire, São Paulo

Pedro Freitas

Veirano Advogados, Rio de Janeiro

Fernando Koury Lopes

Koury Lopes Advogados, São Paulo

Antonio Corrêa Meyer

Alfredo M. O'Farrell

Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados, São Paulo

Uriel F. O'Farrell

BULGARIA

Avelino Rolón

Penkov, Markov & Partners, Sofia

Marval O'Farrell Mairal, Buenos Aires Estudio O'Farrell, Buenos Aires

Vladimir P. Penkov

Baker & McKenzie, Buenos Aires

CANADA

M. & M. Bomchil, Buenos Aires

Scotiabank, Toronto

Guido Santiago Tawil Carolina Zang

ZBV Abogados, Buenos Aires

AUSTRALIA

Gavin Bell

Deborah M. Alexander Norman Bacal Dentons, Toronto

Jean-Paul (J-P.) Bisnaire

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Sydney

The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, Toronto

5 Wentworth Chambers, Sydney

McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Montréal

David Bennett AC QC

Marc-André Blanchard

Michel A. Brunet

FRANCE

David N. Corbett

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, Paris

Thierry Brocas

Dentons, Montréal

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto

Robert M. Granatstein

Louis-Bernard Buchman Fieldfisher, Paris



Blake, Cassels & Garydon LLP, Toronto

Xavier de Kergommeaux

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto

Pascale Lagesse

McMillan LLP, Toronto

Pierre-Sébastien Thill

Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Philippe Thomas

Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver

GEORGIA

Clay M. Horner

Andrew J.F. Kent

Hugh L. MacKinnon Valerie C. Mann

Timothy John Murphy McMillan LLP, Toronto

Christopher E. Pinnington

Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris Bredin Prat, Paris

CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, Paris Dechert LLP, Paris

Lasha Gogiberidze

BGI Legal, Tbilisi

Dentons, Toronto

GERMANY

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto

Noerr LLP, Munich

The Manufacturers Life Insruance Company, Toronto

Blaum Dettmers Rabstein, Hamburg

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Montréal

Dr. Jack Schiffer

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Montréal

SKW Schwarz, Munich

Dale R. Ponder

Tobias Bürgers

Stephen P. Sigurdson

Dr. Peter M. Kleinschmidt

Norman M. Steinberg

Pierre-André Themens Guy Tremblay

BCF Business Law, Montréal

Sean Weir

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto

CHILE

Dr. Dieter Schenk Noerr LLP, Frankfurt

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