About Us

Mr. Chen serves as FBC’s Managing Partner and heads the Real Estate and Planning & Zoning Department. He focuses on the planning and execution of large-scale and complex real estate projects, real estate-related financing, and real property tax matters. Mr. Chen is recognized as one of Israel’s leading deal-makers and is consistently ranked by international and domestic indices as one of the pre-eminent Israeli real estate attorneys. He advises and comments upon legislation in the real es...

Ed O’Keefe, former General Counsel of Bank of America Corporation, advises and represents financial institutions. Having also headed or served as a senior executive with the bank’s compliance, technology, human resources and operations functions, Ed’s broad experience includes all aspects of litigation, regulatory compliance, governance, cybersecurity, risk management and compensation, including the structuring and management of pension and equity plans.

Eugenio J. Torres-Oyola is a Capital Member, Managing Partner of the firm and the Chair of its Intellectual Property Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on intellectual property and technology, and entertainment law. He focuses on intellectual property, advertising, meria and communications law, copyrights, internet & e-commerce law, IP licensing, IP litigation, patents, portfolio management, trade secrets, and trademarks. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Inte...

Soren Hornbæk Svendsen is part of Horten Law Firm's management team. He specialises in energy law and in general commercial and contract law advice to companies both inside and outside the energy sector. Before his time at Horten, Svendsen was Head of Legal and Vice President at DONG Energy (2001-2005) and as corporate legal counsel at the Danish industrial conglomerate, FL Smidth (1996-2001).

As a Managing Partner and Senior Lawyer of FINA LLP Law Firm, Nariman Ramazanov participated in various oil and gas related negotiations, provided foreign oil companies conducting their business activity under the specific Azeri PSA (“Production Sharing Agreements) tax regime with consultations on various aspects of the acting Azeri legislation, particularly on the issues of incorporation, taxation and labour. Ramazanov also provided foreign investors with the corresponding legal advice invol...

Louis-Bernard Buchman was a partner in the litigation department regulations of Fieldfisher. He is now practicing as an attorney at Lexforce. His areas of expertise are litigation, arbitration and mediation, competition law, intellectual property and international trade agreements. He advises large corporations and medium-sized and large estates holders. It is occasionally appointed as arbitrator. He is the author of several publications and articles on arbitration and mediation, bank guarant...

Robert M. Dell served as the Global Chair and Managing Partner of Latham & Watkins, and chaired the firm’s Executive Committee for 20 years before retiring at the end of 2014. During Mr. Dell's tenure as Chair and Managing Partner, Latham experienced tremendous success, growing from nearly 600 lawyers practicing in 11 offices, to its current size of more than 2,200 lawyers in 33 offices, including 600 lawyers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Mr. Dell started his law practice in Chicag...

Roxana Kahale is the Founding Partner of Kahale Abogados, a law firm whose members have over 15 years of experience in Argentina counseling local and foreign clients. She practices in Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate, Energy, Entertainment, and Antitrust Law. She was selected Co-Chair of The Women Lawyers International Group of the IBA as of January 1, 2009. In 2007, Apertura Magazine voted her the best woman lawyer in Argentina.

Tom Frantz currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Williams Mullen. Drawing on his tax background, he also maintains a robust corporate legal practice as a Partner representing multi-national corporations, handling major mergers and acquisitions, and advising corporations on a variety of legal matters.

Michael Solow has more than 30 years of experience representing creditors, trustees and governmental agencies and other parties in the bankruptcy and insolvency area. He has represented these clients in cases throughout the United States.

Gary Naftalis is the head of the Litigation Department and firmwide Co-Chair of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. For over 30 years, Mr. Naftalis has represented individuals and corporations in all phases of complex litigation, including bet-the-company in regulatory, criminal and civil matters. He has also counseled numerous corporations through regulatory matters.

Michaëla is co-head of NautaDutilh's Dutch Structured Finance team, including Securitisation, Covered Bonds and portfolio transfer. She was involved in the first ever public securitisation transaction in the Netherlands and has acted in many securitisation transactions since that time. Michaela is (the only Dutch) boardmember of Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) an organization which has been set up to reinforce high quality securitisations and market resilience in Europe. She also chairs...