About Us

David Frick is Senior Vice President, Corporate Governance, Compliance and Corporate Services on the Executive Board of Nestlé. Prior to joining Nestlé, Mr. Frick was Group General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance at Credit Suisse Group in Zurich. Mr. Frick received a JD degree from Zurich University and a Masters of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Zurich and the New York bar. Mr. Frick is a member of the Boards of economiesuisse, ICC Switzerland and Allianz Su...

Jean-François Bellis is a founding partner of Van Bael & Bellis in Brussels. He has more than 40 years of experience handling complex EU competition and international trade law issues, representing clients in numerous landmark cases before the European Commission and the EU Courts.

Kai Thøgersen has extensive national and international experience with providing corporate and strategic advice, contract drafting and negotiations in mergers, acquisitions, capital market transactions and other major restructuring processes. Thøgersen is also an experienced team and negotiation leader, and for more than eight years he was the Managing Partner of one of Norway's leading law firms.

Colleen Tracy James joined the firm’s New York office in 2018. Colleen “is a top tier litigator. She has great instincts for litigations and is an excellent strategist. I value her insights immensely” Best Lawyers. Representing companies in the Life Sciences Industry, Colleen Tracy James focuses her practice on patent infringement litigation, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, and other complex intellectual property litigation. She has extensive experience litigating against gen...

Mr. Khachaturyan is Senior Partner and Chair of Banking, Finance and Securities of Asters, one of the leading Ukrainian law firms. He has worked as a coordinator of the advisory group at the State Commission of Ukraine on Securities and Stock Market for improvement of capital market regulations and is a member of the National IPO Committee of Ukraine. Armen has extensive banking, finance and project finance experience. His practice areas also include M&A, general corporate advice, currenc...

Steve Humke serves as Ice Miller’s chief managing partner. He has extensive experience in negotiating, managing and completing complex business and financing transactions. Most of Steve’s clients are entrepreneurs, but he also represents several private equity firms, and has played a role in many of the larger business transactions completed in Indiana during the past decade.

Michael Frie provides commercial and dispute resolution advice to Swedish and international clients within primarily the tech & comms, media and sport sectors. He has vast experience in domestic and international disputes and regularly acts as counsel in Swedish and international arbitration successfully. A special area of focus is professional negligence and Michael has acted in the two largest disputes relating to auditors' liability in Sweden. He was Chairman of Bird & Bird's Globa...

Gary Wingens is Chairman and Managing Partner of Lowenstein Sandler. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Public Media of New Jersey and the Council of Trustees of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (where he also serves as outside counsel).

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.

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.

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.

Dan has a nearly 40-year career in law and business, most notably serving from 1997 until 2007 as senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle under Larry Ellison and from 2007 to 2010 as senior vice president and general counsel of Apple under Steve Jobs. With DLA Piper, he continues to focus on issues related to corporate governance and boards of directors, as well as the role of the general counsel and management of global corporate law departments. Dan also serves as a member of th...