About Us

Russ is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and serves as the firm’s managing partner. Russ engages in the practice of general corporate and contract law, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and initial public offerings (IPO). He acts as general counsel to a variety of public and private corporations. Russ received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and his B.A. from Rutgers University. Russ is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Associ...

Head of the Life Sciences Department of Fieldfisher JAUSAS, with over 20 years’ experience and extensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and related sectors. Advises over 50 companies in the industry on regulatory affairs, market access, advertising, commercial hiring and compliance. Member of Conférence Bleue (European Lawyers’ Conference on Pharmaceutical and Health Care Affairs) since 1997 and co-managing partner of it since 2012.

Mr. Negri is a partner of Negri, Busso & Fariña Attorneys, a major Argentine law firm, where he practices in the areas of Domestic and International Banking, Financial Transactions, Privatization, and International Mergers and Acquisitions. He received the Argentine Legal Profession Award granted by the Argentine Press Association and the Argentine Federation of Bar Associations in 1990.

Bob Clifford is the founder of Clifford Law Offices, which concentrates its practice in helping victims of personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters. Bob regularly handles complex damage cases and routinely receives multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements. He's also an advocate for the consumer and has filed several class actions, holding companies accountable for their defective products...

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.

Gregory S. Gallopoulos is senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary of General Dynamics Corporation, a diversified aerospace and defense company. Prior to joining General Dynamics, Gallopoulos served as Managing Partner of Jenner & Block LLP. Gallopoulos is a director of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a trustee of WETA, Inc., a trustee of The Supreme Court Historical Society, a trustee of Anatolia College, and a trustee of The Foundation for Intern...

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.

Rolandas Valiunas has more than 25 years of experience in advising multiple market leading international and local companies on sophisticated corporate, M&A and capital markets transactions.

Public and private REITs, investment firms, lenders, property management and brokerage firms, retailers and academic hospitals and universities look to Marty Fantozzi for his legal acumen. With more than 20 years of experience, Marty helps clients resolve matters such as disputes among stockholders, partners and members of limited liability companies, land use, zoning, construction and other real property-related disputes, commercial disputes and employment matters.

Founding Partner and Senior Partner of the study, he has been an advisor to the most complex and important transactions related to corporate finance at participating local businesses and / or assets in the country. Since the foundation of the study in 1990, he has represented numerous investment banks and major companies in innovative operations in the area of capital markets and mergers and acquisitions in Argentina.

Kare Stolt is Senior Partner at Accura. Mr. Stolt also heads the Mergers and Acquisitons team at the firm. Kare was one of the founders of ACCURA in 1999. Previously, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and managing director of Tellabs Danmark A/S (formerly DSC Communications A/S).

Lord Brennan QC has been a Queen’s Counsel since 1985 and is a senior associate member of Matrix. His areas of expertise include commercial law, public and private international law and international arbitration. Lord Brennan QC, as an appointed life peer, is active in politics as well as dedicating time to his incredibly varied legal practice. His most notable case during 2009 was the landmark civil Omagh bombing case. The outcome, in favour of his clients – relatives of those ki...