Contributors
Advokatfirman Delphi & Co
Sergels torg 12, PO Box 1432,
SE-111 84 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel +46
8 677 54 00 Fax +46
8 20 18 84
Web www.delphilaw.com
Other
offices Göteborg, Malmö, Linköping,
Uppsala, Norrköping
Per Berglöf
Managing Partner,
Stockholm
Email per.berglof@delphilaw.com
Per Berglöf is Managing Partner in the Stockholm office of Delphi & Co and head of the company’s Corporate Finance Law Department, a team of 30 lawyers handling mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance and corporate law.
He was one of the founding partners and has been partner of the Delphi & Co office in Stockholm since 1984.
For the past 15 years Mr Berglöf has worked as head of projects of acquisitions, as well as financing and corporate law, and has continuously represented major companies listed on the stock exchange – both Swedish and international – in respect of mergers and acquisitions in Sweden. He has also headed major outsourcing projects, principally in respect of business transfers.
Mr Berglöf is a frequent speaker at international conferences, seminars and workshops on corporate law, corporate governance, M&A, due diligence processes and outsourcing, organised by the International Bar Association and other conference institutions.
Practice areas: M&A, Corporate Law, Securities, Corporate Finance.
Christer A Holm
Senior
Partner, Stockholm
Email christer.holm@delphilaw.com
Christer A Holm is a senior partner in the Stockholm office of Delphi & Co, and head of the company’s EU and competition law practice.
He has been partner of the Delphi & Co office in Stockholm since 1985.
Mr Holm has had extensive experience representing a number of multinational companies before the European Commission in proceedings under Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty, and merger regulation and cartel cases, and has similar experience before the Swedish Competition Authority. Together with colleagues at Delphi & Co, he represented one of the defendants in a court case over an alleged cartel among Swedish petroleum companies. He is currently representing a defendant in a newly instigated cartel investigation of construction companies.
Mr Holm additionally advises on international insurance and reinsurance law, and liability law regarding professional practitioners and financial institutions. He also has extensive experience in the financial services sector, the motor industry and a number of consumer goods manufacturing companies, energy and oil companies.
Mr Holm is a frequent speaker at EC and Swedish competition law conferences and seminars.
Helene Palm Andersson
Senior
Associate, Stockholm
Email helene.palm-andersson@delphilaw.com
Helene Palm Andersson is a senior associate in the Stockholm office of Delphi & Co with specialist expertise in competition law and governance issues.
She has extensive experience in representing companies before the Swedish Competition Authority as well as the European Commission. She is currently involved in one of Sweden’s largest cartel litigations to date, and has participated in several cartel investigations and headed numerous competition compliance audits.
Ms Palm Andersson is a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars and workshops on competition law, corporate governance issues and corporate law.
Practice areas: Corporate Law, Competition Law.
Allen & Overy LLP
26, boulevard des Capucines, 75009 Paris,
France
Tel +33
1 40 06 54 00 Fax +33
1 40 06 54 54
Web www.allenovery.com
Other offices Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, People’s Republic of China, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore,
Slovak Republic, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,
United States
Edouard Didier
Senior
Partner
Email edouard.didier@allenovery.com
Edouard Didier has over 25 years’ experience practising corporate law in both the French and international markets. In particular, he is and has been a board member of several French companies and French subsidiaries of UK or US corporations.
Mr Didier has recognised expertise in the field of international mergers and acquisitions and cross-border transactions, for which he has been regularly retained by major listed and unlisted companies seeking to establish specific corporate governance rules in view of the context of each transaction.
He is the author of Les relations financieres avec l’etranger, first published in 1981 and updated on a regular basis.
Practice areas: Corporate, Competition.
Allen & Overy LLP
Apollolaan 15, PO Box 75440,
1070 AK Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tel +31
20 674 1000 Fax +31 20
674 1111
Web www.allenovery.com
Steven Schuit
Partner,
Amsterdam
Email steven.schuit@allenovery.com
Steven Schuit has been a partner with Allen & Overy since January 2000, and is chairman of the International Corporate Governance Team. He has extensive experience of mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, particularly cross-border transactions. In addition, he has extensive experience of corporate governance issues as they relate to large commercial organisations and banks. He also has particular expertise in privatisations, especially in the telecommunications and energy sectors.
Previously, Mr Schuit was a partner in Benelux law firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke from 1974, and served as their resident partner in New York from 1980 to 1990. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, and is also Professor of International Commercial and Financial Law at the University of Utrecht. Mr Schuit is editor in chief of Dutch Business Law, for which he wrote the “Corporations” chapter, and is also the author of M&A in the Netherlands and Corporate Law and Practice of the Netherlands.
Henk Arnold Sijnja
Counsel,
Amsterdam
Email henkarnold.sijnja@allenovery.com
Henk Arnold Sijnja works in Allen & Overy’s Amsterdam office and is a member of the International Corporate Governance Team. Previously, he worked with Loeff Claeys Verbeke prior to their merger with Allen & Overy in January 2000. His practice area is corporate law, in particular mergers and acquisitions, with specialisations in cross-border transactions, public takeovers, joint ventures and private equity transactions.
Mr Sijnja was a member of the Allen & Overy team which submitted a response to the government consultation on mandatory public takeover rules in 2002. He is a lecturer of the LLM Programme for International Company Law at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.
Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City,
Metro Manila, Philippines
Tel +632
632 4444 Fax +632 636
2444
Web www.adb.org
Hamid L Sharif
Assistant
General Counsel, Asian Development Bank
Email hsharif@adb.org
Hamid Sharif is a UK-qualified barrister of Lincoln’s Inn, with a Master in Laws from Cambridge University.
Mr Sharif is currently Assistant General Counsel at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He heads the Special Practice Group on Law and Policy Reform which is responsible for many regional initiatives, including the ADB’s regional initiatives on insolvency and secured transactions. As Assistant General Counsel, he also works on South Asia, leading a team of lawyers drawn from several countries including Bangladesh, Belgium, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore, Pakistan and the United States.
Prior to joining the ADB, Mr Sharif was a partner with a leading Pakistan law firm in Lahore. His areas of practice included banking and corporate law, privatisation and limited recourse financing of infrastructure projects.
Said Zaidansyah
Counsel,
Asian Development Bank
Email szaidansyah@adb.org
Said Zaidansyah is a counsel in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and an Indonesian-qualified lawyer. His area of operation is mainly in South Asia. He joined ADB in July 2002, under the Young Professional Programme.
He obtained his law degree from University of Indonesia and his Master of Laws from University of London (under a British Chevening scholarship) in international banking and finance law. Prior to joining the ADB, he was an associate for Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners, the affiliated firm of Baker & McKenzie in Jakarta. During his student days, he was the Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Law Students Association. He is currently a member of the Indonesian Advocates Association.
Baker & McKenzie
One Prudential Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60601,
United States
Tel +1
312 861 8000 Fax +1 312
861 2899
Web www.bakernet.com
Other offices 68 offices in 38 countries
Craig A Roeder
Partner,
Chicago
Email craig.a.roeder@bakernet.com
Craig Roeder is a partner in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie whose practice focuses on corporate and securities law matters. Mr Roeder received his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver and his JD degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, where he was a Liacos Distinguished Scholar and served on the editorial board of the Boston University Journal of International Law.
Mr Roeder advises clients in a broad range of industries in connection with securities law and corporate governance matters, M&A transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliance arrangements, and other corporate transactional matters.
Practice areas: Corporate and Securities.
Edward A Bibko
Associate,
Chicago
Email edward.bibko@bakernet.com
Edward Bibko is a senior associate in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie and a member of the firm’s International Securities Practice Group. Mr Bibko is admitted to the New York and Illinois Bars and to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and his JD degree from Syracuse University College of Law, where he served as Managing Director of the Syracuse Law Review. Mr Bibko specialises in corporate and capital markets transactions, including international equity and debt offerings with a US component.
Practice areas: Corporate and Securities.
Bracewell & Patterson, LLP
711 Louisiana, Suite 2900, Houston,
Texas 77002, United States
Tel +1
713 223 2900 Fax +1 713
221 1212
Web www.bracepatt.com
Other offices Washington DC, London, Almaty
John R Brantley
Partner,
Houston
Email john.brantley@bracepatt.com
Mr Brantley is a partner specialising in corporate governance and M&A services to US and international public and private companies. He holds a JD and BBA from St Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas.
Mr Brantley has broad experience in corporate governance matters, advising boards of directors on issues regarding board structure, composition and director independence. He advises boards and special committees regarding their fiduciary duties in a variety of contexts, including negotiated and hostile acquisition and divestiture transactions, as well as anti-takeover defences such as shareholder rights plans. Mr Brantley’s expertise also includes counselling boards of directors regarding Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance issues. He is a frequent speaker and author on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and corporate social responsibility.
Practice areas: Corporate Governance, M&A, SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
CMS Hasche Sigle
Markgrafenstraße 36, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel +49
30 203 60 0 Fax +49 30
203 60 290
Web www.cmslegal.de
Martin Peltzer
Of Counsel
Email Martin.Peltzer@cmslegal.de
Martin Peltzer is Of Counsel to the law firm of CMS Hasche Sigle. With offices in all the country’s major centres, CMS Hasche Sigle is Germany’s largest independent law firm, with over 330 professionals.
Mr Peltzer trained as a banker with Deutsche Bank and then studied law, business administration and languages. He spent his first five professional years as assistant of the legendary HJ Abs, then chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank, looking after his many directorships. Mr Peltzer was then appointed chief financial officer of the second largest German paper and pulp processor, Papierwerke Waldhof/Aschaffenburg. In 1971 he established his own law firm, which in the mid-1990s joined forces with other business-oriented law firms to become CMS Hasche Sigle.
In the 45 years of his professional career, Mr Peltzer has been a member of over 20 supervisory and administrative boards, six of which he chaired.
Coronel & Pérez
9 de Octubre 100 y Malecón, Oficina 2401,
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Tel +593-4-2519900 Fax +593-4-2320657
Web www.coronelyperez.com
Other
office Quito
Xiomara Castro Pazmiño
Associate,
Guayaquil
Email xcastro@coronelyperez.com
Xiomara Castro is an associate in the Guayaquil office of Coronel & Pérez with an extensive corporate practice and special expertise in governance and tax issues. She graduated as an attorney at the Catholic University of Guayaquil and later obtained an LLM in Comparative Law and International Taxation at the University of Florida, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She also obtained a Certificate on European and International Taxation at the University of Münster in Germany.
Ms Castro, who was formerly a senior associate at Price Waterhouse in Guayaquil and a consultant at Deloitte Touche in Philadelphia, advises Ecuadorian and foreign companies doing business in Ecuador on all aspects of corporate law, with particular emphasis on tax issues and relations with shareholders and the authorities. She also teaches International Business Law and Tax Law at the Espíritu Santo University in Guayaquil.
Practice areas: Corporate Law, Taxation, Foreign Investment.
Languages: Spanish and English.
Coudert Brothers LLP
Associated
in Japan with
Yodoyabashi & Yamagami LPC
Coudert Brothers
Atago Toyo Bldg 3F,
1-3-4, Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0002, Japan
Tel +813
5777 6081 Fax +813
3578 8860
Web www.coudert.com
Yodoyabashi & Yamagami LPC
Atago Bengoshi Building 4F, 1-6-7,
Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0002, Japan
Tel +813
5402 7032 Fax +813 3428
0840
Web www.yglpc.com
Barry Metzger
Managing
Partner, Coudert Brothers Tokyo
Email metzgerb@coudert.com
For Mr Metzger’s full profile, please see p343.
Kym Bavcevich
Associate,
Coudert Brothers Tokyo
Email bavcevichk@coudert.com
Kym Bavcevich is an associate in Coudert Brothers’ Tokyo office. She graduated with an LLB and a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Japanese major) from Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, and an LLM from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. She worked for a well-known Australian firm for two years before coming to Coudert Brothers’ Tokyo office in 2002. She deals with a wide variety of issues, assisting both Japanese clients internationally and foreign clients doing business in Japan. She is fluent in Japanese and writes frequently on current legal developments in Japan.
Shintaro Kuroda
Partner,
Yodoyabashi & Yamagami
LPC Tokyo
Email s-kuroda@yglpc.com
Shintaro Kuroda is a partner in the Tokyo office of Yodoyabashi & Yamagami LPC, the leading Osaka and Tokyo law firm with which Coudert Brothers LLP is associated in Japan. Mr Kuroda graduated with an LLB from the University of Tokyo. His practice centres mainly on corporate and commercial law in Japan, and he has particular expertise in advising on M&A transactions and all aspects of securitisation. Mr Kuroda advises foreign clients and domestic Japanese clients with international operations.
Coudert Brothers LLP
Ul Gasheka 7, Moscow 123056, Russia
Tel +7
095 258 5454 Fax +7 095
258 5455
Derek A Bloom
Partner,
Moscow and St Petersburg
Email BloomD@coudert.com
Derek A Bloom practises general corporate law in Russia, specialising in a variety of forms of in-bound investment, including secured lending, the formation of joint ventures and financial leasing transactions. Mr Bloom has been particularly active in recent years in projects to improve corporate governance practices in Russia. He coordinated a consortium of advisers to the Federal Commission for the Securities Market in development of Russia’s Corporate Governance Code, and assists companies in Russia in defence against hostile takeover attempts. Mr Bloom received his LLM from Georgetown University Law Center in 1989, his JD from the Boston University School of Law in 1984 and his BA from Brown University in 1981, and studied at Leningrad State University in 1981. He is admitted to practise in Washington, DC. Mr Bloom speaks English and Russian, and has been practising law in Russia since 1995.
Kirill Y Ratnikov
Associate,
Moscow
Email ratnikovK@coudert.com
Kirill Y Ratnikov works in Coudert Brothers LLP’s Moscow office. Mr Ratnikov received his law degree from Moscow State University and his LLM degree from Yale Law School; he holds a PhD in law. Mr Ratnikov is the author of two books on privatisation and global offerings of securities, as well as several articles on privatisation, project finance, corporate governance and hostile takeovers in Russian and foreign journals. He specialises in privatisations, corporate governance (co-author of Russia’s Corporate Governance Code), investments and their protection, project finance and business restructuring. Mr Ratnikov regularly participates in expert groups under Russia’s Federal Commission for the Securities Market, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Property Relations and the Bank of Russia.
Petr D Baranovsky
Legal
Assistant, Moscow
Email BaranovskyP@Coudert.com
Petr D Baranovsky works in Coudert Brothers LLP’s Moscow office. Mr Baranovsky received his law degree (with honours) from Moscow State Law Academy and currently is a postgraduate student at the Moscow State Law Academy. Recently he participated in writing a chapter on enforcement for the International Financial Corporation Corporate Governance Manual.
Coudert Brothers LLP
1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
New York 10036-7703, United States
Tel +1
212 626 4400 Fax + 1
212 626 4120
Web www.coudert.com
Barry Metzger
Senior partner
Email metztgeb@coudert.com
Barry Metzger is a senior partner of international law firm Coudert Brothers LLP. He returned to the practice of international law after a term as General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank.
Mr Metzger joined Coudert Brothers in 1974 and became a founding member of the firm’s Asian practices. He joined the firm’s New York office as part of its East Asian Group and subsequently served as Managing Partner of the firm’s Hong Kong, Sydney and London practices. In his private practice, most of Mr Metzger’s professional work has focused on cross-border financial transactions and acquisitions in the emerging markets, in particular in the Asia-Pacific region.
At the Asian Development Bank (ADB) from 1994 to 1999, Mr Metzger served as the principal legal adviser to the board of directors and management. As such, he was intimately involved in the ADB’s emergency financial assistance programmes during the Asian financial crisis. He also led a significant expansion of the ADB’s legal technical assistance activities, which assist its developing member countries in effecting legal, regulatory and judicial reforms and in strengthening the professional capabilities of their legal, regulatory and judicial institutions.
Mr Metzger has been actively involved in international corporate governance reforms. He headed an international team advising the Korean Ministry of Justice on corporate governance reforms, and was the senior member of an international consortium assisting the Federal Commission for the Securities Market of the Russian Federation in the preparation of a Corporate Governance Code. He is a member of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development Asian Corporate Governance Roundtable, the Asian Corporate Governance Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Corporate Governance and United States Foreign Policy. He has also written extensively on the need for legal, regulatory and judicial reforms in emerging markets.
Creel, García-Cuéllar y Müggenburg
Paseo de los Tamarindos No
60, Bosques de las Lomas, 05120 Mexico DF, Mexico
Tel +
52 55 1105 0600 Fax +52
55 1105 0690
Carlos Creel
Managing
Partner
Email carlos.creel@creel.com.mx
Carlos Creel is the Managing Partner of Creel, García-Cuéllar y Müggenburg and co-heads the Financial Services Practice Group. He was born in Mexico City in 1958, obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in 1984 and was a foreign associate at Shearman & Sterling from 1984 to 1985. Carlos has extensive experience advising on all aspects of financial law, particularly acquisitions, corporate and project financings, as well as on corporate governance matters, M&A and private equity transactions.
Samuel García-Cuéllar
Senior
partner
Email s.garcia-cuellar@creel.com.mx
Samuel García-Cuéllar is a senior partner of Creel, García-Cuéllar y Müggenburg and co-heads the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He was born in Mexico City in 1942 and obtained his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho in 1968. Samuel has extensive experience in complex M&A transactions, privatisations and investment fund structures, as well as in securities market law issues.
Davis Polk & Wardwell
450 Lexington Avenue, New York,
New York, 10017, United States
Tel +1
212 450 4000 Fax +1 212
450 3800
Web www.davispolk.com
Other
offices Menlo Park, Washington DC, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Hong Kong,
Tokyo
John H Butler
Partner,
New York
Email john.butler@dpw.com
A partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, Mr Butler focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, restructurings, and general corporate, corporate governance and securities law matters. He graduated, summa cum laude, from Macalester College in 1991 and in 1994 received his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.
Mr Butler joined Davis Polk in 1999 and became a partner in 2002.
Practice areas: Corporate, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Louis L Goldberg
Partner,
New York
Email louis.goldberg@dpw.com
Mr Goldberg is a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, practising in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice, joint ventures, spin-offs, and restructurings and recapitalisations. He also has extensive experience in securities offerings and the formation and structuring of investment and joint venture vehicles. He received his BBusSci LLB, magna cum laude, from the University of Cape Town in 1987 and in 1989 received his LLM, first class, from Cambridge University.
Mr Goldberg joined Davis Polk in 1989 and became a partner in 1997.
Practice areas: Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity.
Edmond T FitzGerald
Partner,
New York
Email edmond.fitzgerald@dpw.com
As a partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell's Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Practice Group, Mr FitzGerald works closely with the firm's Corporate Department on matters involving executive compensation and employee benefits, both in the ordinary course of clients’ business and in the context of mergers and acquisitions, new ventures and restructurings. Mr FitzGerald graduated from Cornell University in 1987 and in 1991 received his JD from Brooklyn Law School, where he was an executive editor of the Law Review.
Mr FitzGerald joined Davis Polk in 1997 and became a partner in 2000.
Practice areas: Corporate, Employment.
Deacons
5th Floor, Alexandra House, 16-20 Chater Road,
Hong Kong
Tel +852
2825 9239 Fax +852 2810
0431
Web www.deacons.com.hk
Other offices Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai
Associated offices Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Kuala
Lumpur, Melbourne, Perth, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei
Simon Lai
Partner, Hong
Kong
Email simon.lai@deacons.com.hk
Simon Lai has been a partner of Deacons since 1993. His main practice areas are corporate and securities laws, particularly corporate finance. He has been involved in various initial public offerings, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions including schemes of arrangement and reconstructions. He has also been extensively involved in advising on regulatory matters. His practice additionally includes direct investment and joint ventures involving parties of multi-jurisdictional background, including investments involving People’s Republic of China entities and businesses.
Mr Lai is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. He is a member of various legal and other technical committees.
Eugene F Collins
Temple Chambers, 3 Burlington Road,
Dublin 4, Ireland
Tel +353
1 202 6400 Fax +353 1
667 5200
Web www.efc.ie
Eileen Grace
Partner
Email egrace@efc.ie
Eileen Grace is a partner specialising in company law, dealing in particular with corporate finance and capital markets, stock exchange and stock exchange regulatory matters and issues relating to public listed companies. She has been involved in bringing companies to the market; numerous fund raisings, both equity debt and also private placements involving mainly venture capital-type investment; private debt placements; and public takeovers. She has particular involvement in the area of corporate governance and directors’ personal liability, heading the Directors’ Advice Group.
Eileen graduated in 1983 from University College Dublin with an Hons B Comm degree and was admitted as a solicitor in 1989. She joined the Corporate and Banking Department of Denton Hall, a London City firm, in 1990, where she specialised in capital markets, and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1991.
She returned to Ireland in 1992 to work with Gerrard Scallan & O’Brien, Solicitors and was appointed a partner there in 1993 before joining Eugene F Collins as a partner in 1999.
European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development
One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN, United
Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7338 6000 Fax +44
20 7338 6100
Web www.ebrd.com
Hsianmin Chen
Counsel,
Office of the General Counsel
Email ChenH@ebrd.com,
hsianmin@ms77.hinet.net
Hsianmin Chen is the capital markets and corporate governance specialist lawyer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He graduated with a BA in political science from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, and with a JD at Syracuse University, College of Law in the United States. Mr Chen is in charge of the EBRD’s legal reform projects (including policy advisory) concerning capital markets/corporate governance in the EBRD countries.
Before joining the EBRD in 1999, Mr Chen worked for a law firm in Taipei, where he gained extensive transactional experience with a particular focus on international banking and syndicated lending, derivatives, securities and bond issues (especially by international financial institutions), foreign investments and joint ventures.
Practice areas: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Corporate, and Joint Ventures.
Fluxmans Inc
11 Biermann Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg,
2196, South Africa
Tel +27
11 328 1700 Fax +27 11
880 2261
Web www.fluxmans.com
Phillip Vallet
Chief
Executive Officer
Email pvallet@fluxmans.com
Phillip Vallet is the Chief Executive Officer of Fluxmans Inc. He graduated with a BA and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has over 30 years’ experience in drafting and advising on all kinds of commercial transactions. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and company listings. He was listed in the Chambers Global directory as one of the top 10 leading individuals in corporate mergers and acquisitions law in South Africa. He is presently a director of several listed companies in South Africa and Chairman of Super Group Limited.
Practice areas: Corporate and Commercial.
Marie-Aurélie Girard
Director
Email mgirard@fluxmans.com
Marie-Aurélie Girard is a senior partner of Fluxmans Inc. She graduated with a BA and LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. She has practised corporate and commercial law for over 10 years. She is involved in various commercial transactions involving joint ventures, partnerships, private and public companies, acquisitions and reorganisation of various legal entities. She is currently a member of the Company Law Committee of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.
Practice areas: Corporate and Commercial.
Jack Phalane
Associate
Email jphalane@fluxmans.com
Jack Phalane is an associate of Fluxmans Inc. He graduated with a BA, LLB and LLM from the University of the Witwatersrand. His work encompasses all aspects of corporate and commercial law. He has drafted and advised on various commercial transactions.
Practice areas: Corporate and Commercial.
Hergüner Bilgen Özeke
Süleyman Seba
Caddesi, Siraevler 55,
Akaretler 34357 Besiktas, Ïstanbul, Turkey
Tel +90
212 310 18 00 Fax +90
212 310 18 99
Ümit Hergüner
Managing
Partner
Email info@hbo-law.com.tr
Founded in 1989, Hergüner Bilgen Özeke has six partners and 33 associates. It is a general service firm providing legal services to its international and local clientele in all areas of Turkish and international law relevant to their business needs. The majority of its clients are foreign companies doing business in Turkey or Turkish affiliates of multinational companies.
One of Turkey’s largest law firms, Hergüner has played an active role in the establishment and development of corporate governance, in cooperation with relevant associations. Hergüner provides assistance to its clients with respect to all legal aspects of corporate governance.
Hergüner’s lawyers have played a significant role in the drafting of the Best Practices Code of the Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists Association. Managing Partner Ümit Hergüner is among the founding members of the Turkish Corporate Governance Association. The firm has also been active in the development of the Corporate Governance Guide, issued by the Capital Market Board in 2003.
Hermes Pensions Management Ltd
Lloyds Chambers, 1 Portsoken Street,
London E1 8HZ, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7702 0888
Web www.hermes.co.uk
Peter Butler
Corporate
Focus Director,
Hermes Pensions Management
Chief Executive,
Hermes Focus Asset Management
Email p.butler@hermes.co.uk
Peter Butler is Corporate Focus Director, Hermes Pensions Management, and Chief Executive, Hermes Focus Asset Management. He heads a team of 45 responsible for shareholder engagement, corporate governance and voting in the 2,400 public companies in which Hermes clients invest worldwide, and started the Hermes Focus Funds in 1998. With a career in commerce and industry spanning 20 years, he has a wealth of direct business experience to draw on.
Mr Butler has spent seven years developing the shareowners’ agenda and is a specialist in corporate governance, shareholder engagement, strategic and financial engineering and corporate recovery. Early experience involved a strategic review while Group Commercial Manager (Welding) at BOC Group plc, and in the late 1980s, responsibility for strategic assessment at British Sugar. He went on to become Chief Financial Officer at Berisford International, where he was responsible for the restoration of shareholder value, repayment of a £1.4 billion bank debt, and stabilising and restructuring the company.
Mr Butler joined Hermes in 1996 as Corporate Focus Director, responsible for developing Hermes’ role as an active shareholder. He is also overseeing the expansion of Focus Funds operations in Europe, the strategic alliance with Relational Investors in the United States, and the expansion of Hermes Corporate Governance and engagement activities in Asia Pacific. He was a member of the board of governors of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) from 2000 to 2002, is chair of the ICGN nominations committee, and still serves on the ICGN subcommittees on shareholder responsibilities and corporate governance principles. He is also a director of Research Recommendations and Electronic Voting, and is a member of the Corporate Governance Working Group involved in the 2002 Financial Services Authority listing review.
Paul Lee
Shareholder
Engagement Manager
Email p.lee@hermes.co.uk
Paul Lee is Shareholder Engagement Manager at Hermes Investment Management in London. This involves discussing issues of concern with board members of companies in the Hermes core index tracking portfolio, as well as companies within the two Hermes Focus Funds in the United Kingdom. Mr Lee is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance and the Cross-Border Voting Practices Committee of the ICGN. He was also a member of both the Consultative Committee and the Corporate Governance Theme Team for the Financial Services Authority’s recent listing review.
Mr Lee joined Hermes in 2000. Having graduated with a first in law from Oxford University, he spent a decade as a journalist on various specialist legal and financial journals at Euromoney – including five years as editor of the International Financial Law Review – and the Economist Group, most recently as managing editor of CFO Europe. He continues to write, including chapters for various corporate governance and strategy books, and won the PricewaterhouseCoopers European Shareholder Value Award for his article “Not badly paid but paid badly”.
International Corporate
Governance Network
ICSA, 16 Park Crescent, London W1B 1AH, United
Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7580 4741 Fax +44
20 7612 7034
Web www.icgn.org
The International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) was founded in March 1995 by a group of international investors and their advisers. Its purpose has been to bring together expertise in governance from around the world to help in the setting of standards in all jurisdictions, based on experience. The ICGN now includes members from all the developed and many of the emerging markets. It publishes research and discussion documents, and has developed several sets of principles that are widely referred to. The ICGN holds an annual conference (in Rio de Janiero in 2004 and London in 2005) that attracts important speakers from companies and investor groups from around the world. Its members work for investors whose assets total about US$10 trillion. The ICGN is regularly consulted by the regulators and legislators from around the world who are drawing up new codes or laws relating to corporate governance.
Alastair Ross Goobey CBE
Chair
of Board of Governors
Email a.ross.goobey@hermes.co.uk
Alastair Ross Goobey is chair of the board of governors of the ICGN. Between 1993 and 2001 he was Chief Executive of Hermes Pensions Management, the executive arm of the BT Pension Fund, the United Kingdom’s largest, which manages assets, including those of third parties, of over US$80 billion. He now sits on two public company boards, is a governor of the United Kingdom’s largest charity, and advises Morgan Stanley. He also serves as a board member of the Royal Academy of Music, the Almeida Theatre and CancerBACUP.
He was made a CBE in 2000.
International Finance Corporation
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20433, United States
Tel +1
202 473 1000
Web www.ifc.org
Michael Klein
Vice President
for Private Sector Development,
Chief Economist
Email mklein@worldbank.org
Michael Klein is Vice President for Private Sector Development jointly for the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), as well as Chief Economist for the IFC. Prior to this, he was Director of the joint World Bank/IFC Private Sector Advisory Services Department, covering advice on investment climate, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, privatisation transactions and foreign investment. He joined the World Bank in 1982, but has since worked as Chief Economist of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1997-2000), where he advised on worldwide economic developments and industry issues, and as head of the unit for non-OECD economies at the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (1991-1993). Before joining the World Bank, Mr Klein was active in Amnesty International from 1974, and served on its German Board (1977-79) and International Executive Committee (1979-82).
He studied in Bonn, New Haven and Paris, and received his doctorate in economics from the University of Bonn, Germany.
Mierta Capaul is a senior private sector development specialist at the World Bank, specialising in corporate governance. Simeon Djankov is a manager at the World Bank, responsible for the Doing Business project. Tim Harford is an economist at the IFC.
Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman
525 West Monroe Street, Suite 1600,
Chicago IL 60661-3693, United States
Tel +1
312 902 5200 Fax +1 312
902 1061
Web: www.kmz.com
Matthew S Brown
Partner,
Chicago
Email matthew.brown@kmzr.com
Matthew S Brown has a broad corporate law practice and concentrates in venture capital and securities areas, representing both entrepreneurs, investors and major corporations. He has extensive experience in counselling public and private companies in connection with their organisation and operations, mergers and acquisitions, financings and securities offerings. He regularly counsels directors and special committees on governance and in connection with special transactions. Mr Brown has published a number of articles on governance ratings and frequently lectures on governance and disclosure matters. He was appointed by Mayor Richard Daley to serve on the Mayor's Council of Technology Advisers and served for two years as co-chairman of the Access to Capital Working Group. He is currently on the board of directors of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center.
Mr Brown attended Eastbourne College, Sussex, United Kingdom and Connecticut College, graduating magna cum laude in 1975. In 1978 he received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association's Law and Accounting Subcommittee of the Business Law Section.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
919 Third Avenue, New
York City 10023, United States
Tel +1
212 715 9100 Fax +1 212
715 8000
Web www.kramerlevin.com
Other
offices Paris
Kenneth P Kopelman
Partner,
New York
Email kkopelman@kramerlevin.com
Ken Kopelman is a partner in the Corporate Department and co-chair of the Corporate Governance Practice Group. He graduated with an AB in English and Economics from Cornell University and with a JD from Columbia University Law School, and earned a general course certificate from the London School of Economics. He advises on and deals with the full range of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; SEC matters; licensing arrangements; executive compensation matters; joint ventures; and public and private offerings of securities.
Mr Kopelman has advised boards and board committees for over 25 years. He is a member of both the American Society of Corporate Secretaries and the National Association of Corporate Directors, where he has led panels and lectured on a variety of governance topics. In addition, he has served as corporate secretary of a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) company, and has ongoing service as a director of two public companies, one an S&P 500 consumer products company listed on the NYSE, and the other a technology company listed on NASDAQ.
Practice areas: Corporate, Securities, Corporate Governance, Technology and Intellectual Property.
Liedekerke Wolters
Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
Boulevard de l’Empereur 3, 3 Keizerslaan,
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel +32
2 5 51 1515 Fax +32 2
5 51 1414
Web www.liedekerke-law.be
Christel Van den Eynden
Partner,
Brussels
Email c.vandeneynden@liedekerke-law.be
Christel Van den Eynden is a partner in the corporate group. She specialises in mergers and acquisitions, issues of general corporate law, corporate governance and directors’ liability.
In addition, Ms Van den Eynden has gained special expertise in international contracts, particularly in the logistics sector.
Ms Van den Eynden earned her law degree from the University of Antwerp, and completed a two-year Masters of Arts in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University, Paul H Nietze School of Advanced International Studies (in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC).
She joined Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick in September 1993, after three years at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, and Brussels.
Practice areas: Corporate/M&A, international commercial contracts.
Lombard Investments, Inc
36th Floor, 600 Montgomery Street,
San Francisco, California 94111, United States
Tel +1
415 397 5900 Fax +1 415
397 5820
Peter H Sullivan
Managing
Director, San Francisco
Email psullivan@lombardinvestments.com
Peter H Sullivan is a Managing Director of Lombard Investments, Inc, a private equity firm with offices located in San Francisco, Hong Kong and Thailand. Lombard and its affiliates invest in selected private equity transactions in the Asia-Pacific region and in North America. Prior to joining Lombard in 2000, Mr Sullivan served for more than 25 years with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral financial institution promoting economic growth, development and good governance in Asia and the Pacific. Mr Sullivan held various management positions during his career with the ADB, including Vice President (Region East), Vice President (Operations) and General Counsel.
Mr Sullivan is Chairman of the board of directors of Lombard Investments, Inc, and is a board member of the Pacific Pension Institute and several other corporations and entities in the United States and Asia.
Mr Sullivan began his career as a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University (AB) and Yale Law School (JD).
Geoffrey Lim
Associate,
Hong Kong
Email geoffrey@lapic.com
Geoffrey Lim is an associate at Lombard. Mr Lim has been closely involved in the firm’s investment activities in Greater China and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Lombard, Mr Lim was an associate in the Private Equity Group of SG Cowen Securities in New York, where he focused on late-stage transactions in the North American technology and healthcare sectors.
Mr Lim began his career in the M&A research business of Thomson Financial in New York.
Mr Lim received his BA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and an MBA from Cornell University.
McKinsey & Company, Inc
1 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 4UH,
United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7839 8040 Fax +44
20 7339 6206
Web www.mckinsey.com
Paul Coombes
Adviser and
former director, London
Email treasa_cox@mckinsey.com
Paul Coombes, formerly Director of the corporate governance practice in the London office of McKinsey, is now an adviser to the firm. While at McKinsey, Mr Coombes served clients around the world on a wide range of governance-related issues, including board effectiveness, chairman/chief executive relationships and top team alignment.
He also led a number of McKinsey research initiatives on governance practices in different geographies and was responsible for developing the widely quoted McKinsey’s Global Investor Opinion survey on corporate governance. His experience includes working with family-owned firms, private equity companies, state-owned enterprises and mutual organisations, as well as with large quoted corporations. He is a frequent speaker on governance-related topics.
Mr Coombes was a member of the firm’s Organisation Practice Leadership group and, as a director of the firm, was involved for many years in leading McKinsey’s Insurance Practice in Europe and serving a wide range of financial services clients on issues of strategy and organisation.
Simon Wong
Consultant,
London
Email simon_wong@mckinsey.com
Simon C Y Wong is a consultant in the London office of McKinsey & Company. Simon is one of McKinsey’s leading experts on corporate governance, and has served companies and governments in a number of developed and emerging markets on corporate governance and financial regulatory matters. In addition to his client work, Simon has published articles and delivered presentations on these topics. He has also advised several international organisations, including the International Finance Corporation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), on a variety of policy issues.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Simon served as Counsel and Principal Administrator in the Corporate Affairs Division of the OECD in Paris, France, where he focused on corporate governance, company law and insolvency reform matters. Simon is admitted to the New York Bar and started his professional career as a securities lawyer at Shearman & Sterling and Linklaters.
McMillan Binch LLP
BCE Place, Suite 4400, Bay Wellington Tower,
181 Bay Street Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M5J 2T3
Tel +1
416 865 7000 Fax +1 416
865 7048
Web www.mcmillanbinch.com
Robert McDermott
Partner
Email robert.mcdermott@mcmillanbinch.com
Robert McDermott is a partner practising business law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, mining, securities and corporate finance. Mr McDermott advises boards and special committees of public companies on a variety of corporate governance matters. From 1997 to 2001 he was a director and senior officer, and de facto member of the audit committee, of Boliden Limited, an international mining company whose shares were listed on the Stockholm and Toronto Stock Exchanges.
Mr McDermott is a member of McMillan Binch’s Public Markets and Corporate Governance Practice Groups.
Sean Farrell
Partner
Email sean.farrell@mcmillanbinch.com
Sean Farrell is a partner practising business law with a particular emphasis on domestic and cross-border offerings of securities and mergers and acquisitions. Mr Farrell is a former director and chair of the audit committee of Credit Suisse First Boston Canada.
Mr Farrell is also a member of McMillan Binch’s Public Markets and Corporate Governance Practice Groups.
Miranda, Correia,
Amendoeira & Associados
Rua Soeiro P Gomes, 1, 2nd Floor,
1600-196 Lisbon, Portugal
Tel +351
21 781 48 00 Fax +351
21 781 48 02
Web www.Mirandalawfirm.com
Other
offices Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Rui Amendoeira
Partner,
Portugal
Email Rui.Amendoeira@Mirandalawfirm.com
Rui Amendoeira is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group with expertise in issues relating to the governance of companies and directors’ duties. He is a graduate of Lisbon University Law School (1992) and attended a postgraduate course in civil law. Mr Amendoeira was admitted to the Portuguese Bar in 1993.
Areas of particular experience include advice to several Fortune 500 companies and international banks on investor rights and duties, conflicts of interest and disclosure. He has dealt with very complex issues arising from corporate social responsibility in his own jurisdiction and in Angola.
Practice areas: Corporate, Company/Commercial and Oil & Gas.
Languages: English and French.
Misick & Stanbrook
Richmond House, PO Box 127,
Leeward Highway, Providenciales,
Turks & Caicos Islands, British West Indies
Tel +1
649 946 4732 Fax +1 649
946 4734
Web www.misickstanbrook.tc
In association with Stanbrook & Hooper, Brussels
Owen Foley
Partner
Email owen@misickstanbrook.tc
Owen Foley is a graduate of University College Dublin and has been admitted to practice in Ireland (1982), Australia (Victoria) (1985) and the Turks & Caicos Islands (1988).
Mr Foley practises extensively in the area of corporate and commercial law and international trusts. He has been a frequent speaker at international conferences on Turks & Caicos Islands corporate and trust matters, and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
Moody’s Investors Service
99 Church Street, New York, NY, 1007,
United States
Tel +1
212 553 1658
Web www.moodys.com
Kenneth A Bertsch
Vice
President/Director
Email kenneth.bertsch@moodys.com
Kenneth A Bertsch is Vice President and Director, Corporate Governance, which is part of Moody’s Investors Service North American Credit Policy Group. He received a BA from Williams College in 1978, and did graduate studies in political theory at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Currently, he is a JD candidate at the Fordham University School of Law. He is responsible for assessments of corporate governance, with the purpose of incorporating such analysis into overall credit research.
Prior to joining Moody’s Investors Service, Mr Bertsch was Director, Corporate Governance, for TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund), a leading financial services organisation, major institutional investor and the world’s largest private retirement system. He coordinated TIAA-CREF’s Corporate Assessment Programme, reviewing governance structures and practices of US portfolio companies, and discussing concerns with selected companies.
Practice areas: Corporate Governance.
Mark Watson
Vice President
Email mark.watson@moodys.com
Mark Watson is Vice President, Corporate Governance, which is part of Moody’s Investors Service North American Credit Policy Group. He holds a BA (Hons) Public Administration, summa cum laude, from Manchester Metropolitan University (1995). He is responsible for assessments of corporate governance, with the purpose of incorporating such analysis into overall credit research.
Prior to joining Moody’s Investors Service, Mr Watson was a senior expert at McKinsey & Company, where he helped establish its global corporate governance practice. He has written extensively on corporate governance, specialising in the role of the board of directors and related areas. Mr Watson also co-authored the oft-quoted McKinsey Investor Opinion surveys.
Practice area: Corporate Governance.
NASDAQ
NASDAQ Listing Qualifications,
9600 Blackwell Road, Rockville, MD 20850 United States
Tel +1
877 536 2737
Web www.NASDAQ.com
Michael Emen
Senior Vice
President,
Listing Qualifications Department
Email michael.emen@nasdaq.com
Mr Emen graduated from Cornell University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and received the degree of Juris Doctor in 1974 from the New York University School of Law. He has been involved in the securities industry since 1975 working at the New York Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the American Stock Exchange and now with The NASDAQ Stock Market, where he serves as Senior Vice President in charge of the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Department. Mr Emen has participated in numerous programmes, including those sponsored by the comptroller general, the University of Michigan, Yale University, Women in Housing and Finance, the National Investor Relations Institute, the North American Securities Administrators’ Association and various bar associations, law and accounting firms and continuing education providers.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD)
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Cedex 16 Paris, France
Tel +33
1 4910 4342 Fax +33 1
4910 4347
Web www.oecd.org/daf/corporate-affairs/
Grant Kirkpatrick
Senior
Economist
Email grant.kirkpatrick@oecd.org
Mr Kirkpatrick is presently Senior Economist in the Corporate Affairs Division of the OECD’s Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, where he is responsible for overseeing the review of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. He is also involved in the review process of experiences gained from the OECD’s Regional Corporate Governance Roundtables organised in cooperation with the World Bank.
Prior to his responsibilities with Corporate Affairs, Mr Kirkpatrick was head of both the Japan and German Desks in the Economics Department of the OECD, duties which involved a considerable amount of structural policy analysis and advice, in addition to macroeconomic analysis. From 1989 to 1995 he worked in most of the European transition economies for the OECD, contributing to a wide range of the organisation’s publications. Before joining the OECD, Mr Kirkpatrick worked at universities and research centres in Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Pavia e Ansaldo
Via del Lauro 7, 20121 Milan, Italy
Tel +39
02 855 81 Fax +39 02
855 82871
Web www.pavia-ansaldo.it
Other
offices Rome, Padua, Turin, Moscow
Maurizio Bernardi
Partner,
Milan
Email maurizio.bernardi@pavia-ansaldo.it
Maurizio Bernardi is a partner in the Corporate, M&A and Private Equity Group, with specialist expertise in corporate governance, financial regulations and shareholder agreements. He graduated in law summa cum laude from Università degli Studi, Milan. Mr Bernardi is also licensed as foreign legal consultant in New York, United States.
Areas of particular experience include the right and duties of institutional investors, leveraged transactions, directors’ duties and responsibilities in corporate reorganisations.
Areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, financial transactions, corporate reorganisations.
Languages: English and French.
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Rua Boa Vista, 254, 9º andar, São Paulo,
SP 01014-907, Brazil
Tel +55
11 3247 8400 Fax +55
11 3247 8600
Web www.pinheironeto.com.br
Other
offices Rio de Janeiro, Brasília
Henrique Silva Gordo Lang
Partner,
São
Paulo
Email hlang@pinheironeto.com.br
Henrique Lang is a partner in the Corporate Group with specialist expertise in corporate governance issues. He has an LLB from the São Paulo Catholic University School of Law and worked as a foreign associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York (1996). He is fluent in Portuguese and English. He deals with a broad range of boardroom matters, and has assisted the World Bank in corporate governance and capital market assessments programmes in Brazil.
Areas of particular experience include mergers & acquisitions, capital markets and private equity.
Practice areas: Corporate.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
1 Embankment Place, London, WC2N 6RH, United
Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7583 5000 Fax +44
20 7822 4652
Web www.pwc.com
David M H Phillips
ValueReporting® Partner
Email david.michael.phillips@uk.pwc.com
David Phillips is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Assurance Practice and is the UK Leader of ValueReporting. He is a graduate of Nottingham University where he read industrial economics, and is a chartered accountant.
Mr Phillips is a founding member of the team which developed PricewaterhouseCoopers’ ValueReporting conceptual model over six years ago. He has led a large proportion of the research work undertaken in 14 countries and across six industry groups, into the information needs of the investment community. He has written a number of research papers, including “Reporting Gaps in the United Kingdom: The Chief Executive’s Perspective”.
Mr Phillips is co-author of the book The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game, published in March 2001. He was also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ steering group which wrote the discussion paper “Inside Out – Reporting on Shareholder Value”, published in 1999.
In addition, he has worked with a number of leading companies to enhance their corporate reporting processes and help them determine the information that needs communicating externally.
He is also the inspiration behind and editor of Trends in Corporate Reporting, an annual publication looking at the progressive steps being taken by the world’s leading companies to enhance communications.
Alison Thomas
ValueReporting® Director
Email alison.thomas@uk.pwc.com
Dr Alison Thomas joined the ValueReporting team in September 2000 as Director of Research. In this role she aims to further the profession’s understanding of the relationship between corporate reporting and economic returns.
She brings to PricewaterhouseCoopers a depth of expertise in corporate reporting which spans from the practical (as the former Director of Global Research at Baring Asset Management) to the theoretical (as the former Management Fellow at St Catherine’s College, Oxford). She has published numerous academic articles, contributes regularly to business journals and is a co-author of the recently published Questions of Value (Ed Andrew Black, Prentice Hall). She has also acted as an adviser to a number of international working groups, including the European Union’s Prism project on intangible assets, the United Kingdom’s Operating and Financial Review working party, the metrics subcommittee of the Global Reporting Initiative, Tomorrow’s Company’s Research Committee and the Extended Business Reporting working group of the AICPA.
Roschier Holmberg, Attorneys Ltd
Keskuskatu 7 A, 00100 Helsinki,
Finland
Tel +358
20 506 6000 Fax +358
20 506 6100
Web www.roschier.com
Carita Wallgren
Partner,
Helsinki
Email carita.wallgren@roschier.com
Carita Wallgren is a transactional partner of Roschier Holmberg, with her main areas of practice in cross-border M&A and international arbitration. Ms Wallgren heads the firm’s Corporate Advisory practice stream (public M&A). She has been involved in many of the major cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including public tender offers, involving Finnish companies, often consisting in boardroom advisory work.
Ms Wallgren regularly serves as counsel in mainly international arbitrations, as both party-appointed and institutionally appointed arbitrator. She is a mediator accredited by the Finnish Bar Association.
Practice areas: Corporate Advisory, Dispute Resolution, Cross-Border M&A.
Salans
Salans D Oleszczuk Kancelaria
Prawnicza Spk
Warsaw Financial Centre,
ul Emilii Plater 53,00-113 Warszawa, Poland
Tel +48
22 520 6300 Fax +48 22
520 6400
Web www.salans.com
Email warsaw@salans.com
Other
offices Almaty, Baku, Bratislava, Bucharest, Istanbul, Kyiv, London, Moscow,
New York, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, St Petersburg
Tomasz Daþbrowski
Partner,
Warsaw
Email tdabrowski@salans.com
Tomasz Daþbrowski is a partner in the Corporate Group with specialist expertise in governance issues and directors’ duties. He graduated from the Warsaw University (Master of Laws, 1992) and was admitted as a legal adviser in Poland in 1996. He deals with a broad range of corporate governance matters, including directors’ duties, shareholder action, accountability and audit-related matters.
In this area, particular experience includes directors’ duties, rights of minority shareholders, ‘hostile’ changes in governing bodies, shareholders’ litigation and conflicts of interest.
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, Company/ Commercial, Banking and Asset Finance.
Pawel Grabowski
Associate,
Warsaw
Email pgrabowski@salans.com
Pawel Grabowski is an associate in the Corporate Group. He graduated from Harvard Law School (LLM, 2001) and Warsaw University, Faculty of Law and Administration (Master of Laws, summa cum laude, 2000). Mr Grabowski is admitted to practise as a solicitor in England and Wales (2004) and as an attorney at law in the state of New York (2002). He is a member of the Law Society, the American Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.
His practice includes advising on the structuring of M&A transactions, foreign investment, institutional financing and real property developments, as well as on various matters relating to corporate governance both in the United States and in Poland.
Practice areas: Corporate, M&A, Company/ Commercial, Banking and Asset Finance.
Schellenberg Wittmer
Loewenstrasse 19, PO Box 6333,
8023 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel +41
1 215 52 52 Fax +41 1
215 52 00
Web www.swlegal.ch
Other offices Geneva
Lorenzo Olgiati
Partner,
Zurich
Email lorenzo.olgiati@swlegal.ch
Lorenzo Olgiati is a partner in Schellenberg Wittmer’s Corporate and Finance Team in Zurich.
He advises national and international clients on corporate and securities laws, mergers and acquisitions and international business transactions. Areas of special expertise include advice on all aspects of corporate governance issues for listed and non-listed companies.
Mr Olgiati is a graduate of the University of Zurich (lic iur 1989, Dr iur 1995) and holds an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC (1997). During the past few years Mr Olgiati has authored several articles and lectured on corporate governance issues in Switzerland.
Schellenberg Wittmer is one of the leading business law firms in Switzerland, with major offices in Zurich and Geneva. With over 90 lawyers, the firm offers its clients in-depth professional expertise on all aspects of Swiss and international business law.
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20549, United States
Tel +1
202 942 7040
Web www.sec.gov
Ethiopis Tafara
Director,
Office of International Affairs
Email tafarae@sec.gov
Ethiopis Tafara is Director of the Office of International Affairs at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Prior to joining the SEC, Mr Tafara was an attorney at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and counsel to CFTC Chairman Brooksley Born. He started his legal career with the law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Brussels, Belgium, and is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Princeton University.
Robert J Peterson
Senior
Counsel, Office of International Affairs
Email robertp@sec.gov
Robert J Peterson is Senior Counsel in the Office of International Affairs at the SEC. Before joining the SEC, Mr Peterson was an attorney in private practice at the law firm Fulbright & Jaworski in Washington, DC, and a management consultant with AT Kearney in Chicago. He received a law degree and a Masters in International Relations from the University of Chicago.
Shook Lin & Bok
20th Floor, AmBank Group Building,
55 Jalan Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel +603
2031 1788 Fax +603 2031
1778
Web www.shooklin.com.my
Patricia Sharmilla David
Senior
Partner
Email patdavid@shooklin.com.my
Patricia David is a partner in the Corporate Department. She graduated with an LLB (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore, and has been with the firm for more than 23 years and a partner for more than 15 years. Her experience includes advising on Malaysian and international transactions involving, among other things, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, directors’ responsibilities, shareholders’ rights, due diligence exercises, the issuance and offering of debt and other securities, and compliance with Malaysian corporate and securities laws generally.
Practice areas: Corporate and Corporate Finance.
Simmons & Simmons
CityPoint, One Ropemaker Street,
London EC2Y 9SS, United Kingdom
Tel +44
20 7628 2020 Fax +44
20 7628 2070
Web www.simmons-simmons.com
Other
offices Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Lisbon, London,
Madeira,
Madrid, Milan, New York, Oporto, Padua, Paris,
Qatar, Rome, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Tokyo
Stuart Evans
Partner,
London
Email stuart.evans@simmons-simmons.com
Mr Evans is an experienced corporate lawyer and specialises in cross-border transactions. He advised Lloyd’s Members’ Agents on the £448 million formation of the Bermudan insurance company Aspen Holdings and its subsequent initial public offering; Interbrew SA on its £2.7 billion acquisition of the beer businesses of Whitbread and Bass; Pacific Century Cyberworks on its US$35.9 billion merger with Cable & Wireless HKT; and Wal-Mart on its £6.8 billion offer for Asda Group.
He contributes the chapter on transactions for the annual publication A Practitioner’s Guide to the FSA Listing Rules, and wrote the chapter on mergers and acquisitions in A Practitioner’s Guide to the FSA Regulation of Investment Banking.
Chambers Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2003-2004 says of Mr Evans: “Quiet, intelligent and innovative… [he is] a match for any other lawyer in the land.”
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP
4900 Key Tower, 127 Public Square,
Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1304, United States
Tel +1
216 479 8500 Fax +1 216
479 8780
Web www.ssd.com
Other offices Cincinnati, Columbus, Houston,
Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, Phoenix,
San Francisco, Tampa, Tysons Corner, Washington DC,
Rio de Janeiro, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow,
Prague, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo
Associated offices Bucharest, Dublin, Kyiv and Taipei
Gordon S Kaiser Jr
Partner,
Cleveland
Email gkaiser@ssd.com
Gordon Kaiser is co-leader of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP’s corporate practice and has extensive experience in corporate governance, US securities law, international mergers and acquisitions, public utility law and complex finance. He graduated with a BA from Baldwin-Wallace College and a JD from Case Western Reserve University.
Mr Kaiser’s international experience includes structuring transactions with Japanese companies and representing the Czech electric utility in the first public bond offering in the Czech Republic since the 1989 change in government, as well as complex cross-border M&A activity. Particularly proficient in electric utility industry matters, he also is active in both regional and cross-border work arising from the chemical, automotive, aerospace and paper industries.
Mr Kaiser is often quoted in the US press concerning corporate governance issues, especially as they relate to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and initial public offerings.
Practice areas: Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Taboada & Asociados
Del Hospital Militar 1 cuadra al norte,
Avenida Bolívar # 1947, Managua, Nicaragua
Tel +505
254 5454 Fax +505 254
5295
Web www.taboadalaw.com
José Evenor Taboada Arana
Chairman
Email jetaboada@taboadalaw.com
Taboada & Asociados is led by José Evenor Taboada, a former President of the Central Bank of Nicaragua and member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the International Trademark Association. He graduated as a Doctor of the Science of Law from Cornell University, with a JD in Legal and Social Sciences from Universidad de Chile, and has completed postgraduate studies at prestigious universities such as the Georgetown Law Center and Harvard Law School (PIL Programme).
He has experience in corporate law and contracts, as well as in the telecommunications and energy sectors. He has worked on a vast number of international cases in different areas of practice, such as international lending, privatisation and financial institutions.
Practice areas: Banking Law, Finance, Contracts, Energy and Telecommunications.
Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP
125 High Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02110-2704, United States
Tel +1
617 248 7000 Fax +1 617
248 7100
Web www.tht.com
Jocelyn M Arel
Partner
Email arel@tht.com
Jocelyn Arel is a partner in the Business Practice Group and serves as co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Finance and Securities Group. Ms Arel has specialist expertise in corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on securities offerings. She graduated with a BA from Fordham University, MScEcon from the London School of Economics and JD, cum laude, from Washington College of Law at the American University.
She represents issuers in a wide range of capital market transactions, including initial and follow-on public offerings, private placements of debt and equity, alternative financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. She also serves as counsel to underwriters in both initial and follow-on public offerings. A significant portion of Ms Arel’s practice includes counselling clients on ongoing reporting requirements of public companies, corporate governance matters and various other matters affecting public companies, their officers and directors.
Practice areas: Corporate, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital.
Jeffrey M Held
Counsel
Email held@tht.com
Jeffrey M Held is counsel to the Business Practice Group and specialises in securities laws and corporate governance matters. He graduated with a BA, cum laude, from Tufts University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.
His practice emphasises counselling clients on ongoing reporting requirements of public companies and corporate governance matters. He also represents issuers in a wide range of transactions, including initial and follow-on public offerings, private placements of debt and equity and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents venture capital funds as investors and in fund formations. He is active in the American Bar Association, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, and teaches, speaks and writes about regulatory matters concerning securities laws and corporate governance.
Practice areas: Corporate, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital.
Vellani & Vellani
148, 18th East Street, Phase I, Defence
Officers' Housing Authority, Karachi-75500, Pakistan
Tel +92
21 580 1000 Fax +92 21
580 2120
Web www.vellani.com
Fatehali W Vellani
Senior
Partner
Email fatehali@vellani.com
Fatehali W Vellani is a graduate in economics of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple (London). He was called to the Bar in 1956 and commenced legal practice at Karachi immediately thereafter.
Mr Vellani is the senior partner of the firm and has been practising as an advocate since his return to Pakistan in 1956. His legal practice has concentrated on commercial matters, including corporate work, mergers, demergers, reconstructions, acquisitions, disinvestments, antitrust matters and monopolies, corporate finance, project finance, infrastructure projects, building and construction contracts, turnkey contracts and taxation. His experience has included litigation in the courts up to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, as well as appearances before specialised tribunals and arbitrators.
Badaruddin F Vellani
Partner
Email bfv@vellani.com
Badaruddin F Vellani is an honours graduate in chemical engineering from the Loughborough University of Technology, Leicestershire and Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple (London). He was called to the Bar in July 1982 and commenced legal practice at Karachi immediately thereafter.
Mr Vellani’s legal practice has concentrated on commercial matters, including corporate work, mergers, demergers, reconstructions, acquisitions and disinvestments, antitrust matters and monopolies, corporate finance, project finance, infrastructure projects, building and construction contracts and taxation, and has included litigation in the courts up to the High Court. He also advises on intellectual property matters including registration, assignment and licensing of patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, licensing and franchising, and litigation in each of these specialised areas of work.
Webster Dyrud Mitchell
Victoria House, PO Box 58, The Valley,
Anguilla, British West Indies
Tel +1
264 497 2060 Fax +1 264
497 3096
Web www.websterdyrud.com
Palmavon J Webster
Partner,
Anguilla
Email pwebster@websterdyrud.com
Palmavon Webster is a graduate of the University of the West Indies (LLB Hons, 1984), and is admitted to practise in Anguilla (1986), the British Virgin Islands (1992), Granada (1998) and St Kitts-Nevis (2000).
She has expertise in the areas of company law, bankruptcy law, construction law, real estate and property insurance, and government relations.
She is a member of the Anguilla Financial Services Association (she served as Chairman of the Marketing Committee from 1995 to 1996), the Government of Anguilla Offshore Promotion Agency and the International Fiscal Association, among other bodies.
White & Case LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas,
New York NY 10036-2787, United States
Tel +1
212 819 8200 Fax +1 212
354 8113
Web www.whitecase.com
Maureen S Brundage
Partner,
New York
Email mbrundage@whitecase.com
Maureen S Brundage is the co-head of White & Case’s Worldwide Securities Practice Group and head of White & Case’s New York Securities Section. Ms Brundage represents US and non-US issuers as well as underwriters in offerings of a wide variety of debt and equity securities. She also advises issuers and other market participants on US securities law issues including ongoing disclosure obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the preparation of annual reports and other periodic Securities and Exchange Commission filings, as well as proxy statements. In addition, she assists companies in dealing with corporate law questions regarding matters such as required shareholder approvals and corporate governance issues. Her issuer clients include a number of Fortune 500 manufacturing, mining and other industrial firms, as well as companies in the food retail, telecommunications and technology fields.
Oliver C Brahmst
Partner,
New York
Email obrahmst@whitecase.com
Oliver C Brahmst is a partner in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group of White & Case, and is resident in the New York office. Mr Brahmst's extensive experience includes counselling public and private companies in domestic and cross-border acquisitions and divestitures. He has particular experience in the area of leveraged acquisitions. Mr Brahmst regularly represents multinational corporations, merchant banks, private equity firms, retail conglomerates, and global manufacturing and construction companies in high-profile transactions.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
650 Page Mill Road, Palo
Alto, California 94304-1050, United States
Tel +1
650 493 9300 Fax +1 650
493 6811
Web www.wsgr.com
Other offices Austin, Reston, New York,
Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle
Larry W Sonsini
Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Palo Alto
Email lsonsini@wsgr.com
Larry W Sonsini is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. He specialises in corporate law, corporate governance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions.
He joined the firm in 1966 upon receiving his JD from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. He has been a member of the faculty at Boalt Hall School of Law since 1985.
From 2001 to 2003 Mr Sonsini served on the board of directors of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). During that period he was also a member of the NYSE’s Corporate Accountability and Listing Standards Committee, and the NYSE/National Association of Securities Dealers Initial Public Offering Advisory Committee.
He has also served on a number of other advisory boards and committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes, and the American Bar Association Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities.
Mr Sonsini is a director of five public companies, including Echelon Corporation, PIXAR, Inc and Silicon Valley Bancshares.
David J Berger
Partner,
Palo Alto
Email dberger@wsgr.com
David Berger specialises in the areas of corporate governance, fiduciary duties of directors, and M&A and securities litigation. The companies he has represented in this context include Hewlett-Packard, JD Edwards, Hasbro, Quickturn Design Systems and Hoover's. He has also represented a number of institutional and other investors, as well as directors in proxy contests and other challenges arising out of control issues.
Mr Berger is a frequent author and lecturer on corporate governance and control issues. He has been a faculty member of the Stanford Director’s College and the Duke Director Institute, as well as numerous professional programmes. He also serves as a director to a number of public service organisations, including the San Francisco Legal Aid Society and the Firearms Law Center.
Mr Berger obtained his JD from Duke University School of Law (1987). He began his career at New York’s Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he worked on a number of leading takeover cases in the late 1980s.
Winston & Strawn LLP
200 Park Avenue, New York NY 10166-4193,
United States
Tel +1
212 294 6700 Fax +1 212
294 4700
Web www.winston.com
Robert E Bostrom
Head
of Financial Services Practice, New York
Email rbostrom@winston.com
Bob Bostrom heads the firm’s Financial Services Practice and is a member of the firm’s executive committee.
Prior to rejoining Winston & Strawn in 1996, he served as Executive Vice President, Legal and Regulatory, and General Counsel of National Westminster Bancorp, a $32 billion bank holding company. He was responsible for legal, regulatory and compliance affairs, including regulatory examinations and supervisory relationships. He was a member of the office of the chief executive, the management committee and the risk policy committee. He also served on the board of directors of NatWest Bank (Delaware) and Coutts International.
Mr Bostrom has represented clients in connection with acquisitions, internal investigations, board of director and audit committee issues, regulatory examinations, internal controls and compliance issues, risk management, corporate governance and strategic planning.
Woo Yun Kang Jeong & Han
Textile Centre 12F, 944-31 Daechi-dong,
Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-713, Korea
Tel +82
2 528 5204 Fax +82 2
528 5300
Web www.wooyun.co.kr
Young-Cheol Jeong
Partner
Email ycjeong@wooyun.co.kr
Young-Cheol Jeong is a partner in the Corporate and Finance Group. He graduated with a BA in law and LLM from Seoul National University, and with an LLM and a JD at Columbia Law School. He deals with a broad range of corporate and finance matters, including directors’ duties, accountability and audit-related matters.
Practice areas: Corporate (Mergers & Acquisitions, Infrastructure including Power and Telecommunications), International Trade & Investment, Privatisation and Antitrust.