About Us

Brad Brian is a national trial lawyer and Co-Managing Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson. He specializes in complex civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Brian has been active in the leadership of the ABA Litigation Section since 1986, and served as the chair of the section in 2005-2006. In addition to his practice, he is current chairman of the RAND Civil Justice Institute and is a past president of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Foundation.

Manuel Galicia Romero is the Founding Partner of Galicia Abogados, SC specializes in commercial transactions and his practice focuses primarily on issues related to representation of companies and national and foreign financial institutions, counseling for lending, public loans and private securities and credits, finance leases, restructurings, structured projects, programs mortgage loans, high yield issues, exchange of public and private sector debt, advising national and foreign companies a...

Panayotis has been the Managing Partner of the Firm since 1984 and is Head of the Land & Property Development Department. He has an active, broad-based commercial practice and is particularly well known for his EU & Competition practice, having represented a number of high profile clients in alleged cartel cases heard before the Hellenic Competition Commission. Panayotis has extensive experience in all types of Dispute Resolution, representing his clients in civil and administrative a...

John Keker, co-founder of Keker & Van Nest, has four decades of trial experience. He largely centers his practice around White Collar Criminal Defense and Intellectual Property Litigation. Mr. Keker is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Chris Ewing is a consultant in the Corporate and Commercial practice.Chris is also Chairman of the Board of DLA Piper Africa.

Morten Smordal is Partner at BA-HR. His practice focuses on Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions law, particularly in the Energy and Shipping industries. Previously, he was Legal Director for Kværner Oil & Gas and then for Aker Kværner following a merger.

From 2009 to 2015, he was Chief Corporate Governance Counsel and member of the Management Board and the Executive Committee of Royal Ahold. At Ahold, his portfolio of responsibilities included legal, governance and compliance; M&A; corporate responsibility and product integrity. He rejoined De Brauw in January 2016. Lodewijk joined De Brauw in 1988, and was a partner from 1994 to 2009. He was resident partner at De Brauw London from 1994 to 1998. From 2005, he was a member of De Brauw’s m...

Larry D. Thompson has served on the University of Georgia School of Law’s faculty as the holder of the John A. Sibley Chair of Corporate and Business Law since 2011, noting he was on a leave of absence from June 2012 through 2014. He is presently a member of the Faculty Division of the law school's Dean Rusk International Law Center Council. From 1982 to 1986, he served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia where he led major political corruption and drug trafficking prosecuti...

Des Williams is the Director and Head of Arbitration practice. His main practice areas are dispute resolution, Africa, arbitration and construction & engineering. He specializes in commercial litigation, arbitration, administrative law, alternative dispute resolution, telecommunications, media/technology law, mining law and dispute resolution in Africa.

Elected co-president and co-managing director in 2012, Jeremy Roth guides the strategic direction and global growth strategy for the world’s largest labor and employment law firm. Jeremy also oversees the management and operations of Littler’s more than 1,000 attorneys and more than 70 offices worldwide. His focus areas are class actions and litigation and trials.

Kye Sung Chung is a senior partner and is the chair of the Finance Department at Kim & Chang. Mr. Chung is also the managing partner of the firm’s Hong Kong office. His practice focuses on financial regulatory matters, corporate finance, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Chung has extensive transactional experience, representing publicly and privately-held multinational and Korean companies in cross-border acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, securities offerings and fin...

Norman Steinberg is currently the Vice Chair of BFL Canada, having acted previously as Global Vice Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright and Chairman of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada. He is also Chair of the Partnership Committee, Chair of the Risk and Audit Committee, a member of the Global Audit Committee and of the Global Supervisory Board. He chairs Canada’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee and is a member of the Global Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council. He focuses on mergers and acquisit...