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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...

Valerie Mann is the Chair of the firm's Technology law group and Co-Chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. Her practice is transactional (mergers and acquisitions / corporate finance) as well as advisory. After obtaining an honours bachelor of commerce degree, Valerie worked in marketing management with a large US based consumer packaged goods company, prior to obtaining her law degree. She has been involved in transactions for private and public companies including merg...

Glenn Hendrix is the Chair of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. He is litigator, with a practice focused on False Claims Act defense and commercial litigation and arbitration, including international arbitration. Glenn is active in the American Bar Association, serving as a member of the ABA’s House of Delegates. He is a past Chair of the ABA’s 24,000-member Section of International Law and continues to serve on the Section’s Council. He has served since 2010 as the ABA’s representative to the U.S. ...

Frank Darras has dedicated his life to helping the sick, disabled, and elderly recover their unreasonably delayed and wrongfully denied disability insurance benefits. He has seen, evaluated, litigated, and resolved more disability and long-term care cases than any firm in the United States. Darras' tireless work advocating for the disabled has led to stellar results for his clients and earned him the respect of the insurance industry. His firm DarrasLaw has recovered $800 million in wrongfull...

William B. Solomon, Jr. (Retired) joined Ally Financial in 1999 to serve as general counsel; he was named group vice president in 2004. In this role, he had responsibility for providing all legal services to Ally through the oversight of outside counsel and legal staff. Solomon was also responsible for the secretary’s office, the licensing department and the organization’s record and information management activity. Solomon retired from Ally Financial effective Sept. 30, 2016.

Nils H. Thommessen is Wiersholm's Managing Partner. Thommessen has extensive experience with assisting financial advisors, private equity funds and other financial and industrial investors with acquisitions, mergers and other corporate matters. Thommessen assists in all relevant aspects of transactions, both nationally and internationally. He is widely used as a legal and strategic advisor in the follow-up of clients’ investments.

Robert Hays serves as Chairman of King & Spalding. In this role, he oversees the strategic growth and direction of the firm and focuses on building strong relationships with the firm’s clients. Mr. Hays has amassed extensive experience as lead trial counsel in high exposure product liability and other mass tort litigation, with over 20 years of courtroom experience as lead trial counsel in state and federal courts.

Pascale Lagesse is a Partner at Bredin Prat. She specializes in the labor and employment issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions and corporate downsizings and restructurings. She is a seasoned litigator and frequently defends corporate clients in complex employment litigation. Ms. Lagesse lectures on a regular basis, notably at the Paris I Sorbonne University, and has authored numerous publications on labor and employment topics. She is the Past Chair of the International Bar Associati...

Larry Barden is a partner in the Corporate practice group in Sidley’s Chicago office, and currently serves as chair of the firm’s Management Committee. He has been a member of the firm's Executive Committee since 1999 and its Management Committee since 2011. His principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, securities/corporate finance, strategic counseling/corporate governance and private equity/venture capital.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wegen is a partner with Gleiss Lutz, a leading German law firm with more than 200 lawyers and with offices in Stuttgart, Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels, Prague, and Warsaw. His practice focuses on corporate and M&A. He has an outstanding track record advising international clients in all aspects of cross-border M&A projects. Furthermore Gerhard also participates regularly in international arbitration proceedings as both an arbitrator and a counsel in more than 1...

Rachel is a corporate lawyer with close to 27 years of experience, specializing in corporate advisory, M&A, REITs and funds, listing and corporate governance advisory work. Prior to founding Eng and Co. LLC, Rachel was the deputy chairman of a major Singapore law firm with regional offices in various parts of Asia. Rachel is experienced in corporate advisory and transactional matters. She handles corporate finance transactions and initial public offerings of companies, REITs and business ...

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.