About Us

Julian Yarr is the Managing Partner of A&L Goodbody, a leading Irish law firm providing legal services to the corporate sector across the island of Ireland. The Firm has offices in Dublin and Belfast, London, and New York. Before taking the seat of Managing Partner, Mr. Yarr was head of A&L Goodbody's London office. In addition to leading the firm, his practice focuses on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity law.

Marialuisa (ML) Gallozzi has helped for-profit and nonprofit policyholders develop and execute efficient and practical insurance recovery strategies that have secured over half a billion dollars for complex, high-value claims. She also helps clients to place and renew insurance coverage, transfer risk in contracts and transactions, and prepare for and manage crises.

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.

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.

Dr. Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking, a major German law firm with about 350 lawyers and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Zurich. The firm engages in general corporate and commercial, international arbitration and M&A.

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.

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.

Heleen’s expertise and experience focus on mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate law and corporate governance. She acts on behalf of leading domestic and international clients, both listed and privately held. From 2008 to 2013, Heleen held the position of managing partner in Amsterdam whilst remaining active in her areas of specialism.

Jon Schlosberg is a partner at Bowman Gilfillan. He was previously chairman and head of the firm's Corporate Department. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, banking and finance, corporate governance, capital markets and securities law. Jon led the firm's team in advising Standard Bank on the acquisition by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) of a 20% interest in the bank in what was then the largest direct foreign investment in South Africa and, according to ...

Robert Waldman, Chair of the firm's Business Division, leads the firm's national representation of tax-exempt organizations. His practice includes general representation of numerous foundations, hospitals, educational institutions, trade associations and other charitable entities. He also practices extensively in the areas of philanthropic and estate planning, employee benefits and taxation. Mr. Waldman is the Vice President of the Venable Foundation.

A partner and co-chair of the Antitrust Group, Rick Rule focuses his practice on providing U.S. and international antitrust advice to major corporations in connection with “bet-the-company” matters, particularly high-profile mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Formerly head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Rick currently represents corporate clients in connection with civil and grand jury investigations by the DOJ, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC...

Professor Benoît Chappuis is dedicated to providing high quality legal counsel and acting as arbitrator. He frequently assists, as a senior legal advisor, lawyers appointed to represent clients in judicial proceedings. Prof. Chappuis is independent from any alliance or cooperation agreement with third parties. With over 32 years of experience as a senior partner in the litigation department of a large national law firm as well as teaching activities at the Universities of Geneva and Fribourg,...