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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.
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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
Beiten Burkhardt, Munich
Dr. Mathias Schwarz Dr. Andreas Urban
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf
Christian von Hammerstein Raue LLP, Berlin
Dr. Gerhard Wegen, LL.M. Gleiss Lutz, Stuttgart
Jaime Carey
GREECE
Carey, Santiago
José María Eyzaguirre Claro y Cía, Santiago
Roberto Guerrero Valenzuela Guerrero Olivos, Santiago
CHINA
Panayotis M. Bernitsas
M & P Bernitsas Law Offices, Athens
Catherine-Marie Karatzas
Karatzas and Partners Law Firm, Athens
GUATEMALA
Jose E. Quiñones
Rocky T. Lee
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Beijing
COLOMBIA
QIL+4 Abogados, S.A., Guatemala City
HUNGARY
Dr. András Szecskay
Darío Cárdenas
Cárdenas & Cárdenas Abogados, Bogotá
Juan Manuel Prieto
Szecskay Attorneys at Law, Budapest
INDIA
Philippi Prietocarrizosa & Uria, Bogotá
Rajesh Bagga
COSTA RICA
Ravi Nath
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