About Us

Beau Grenier is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. He provides comprehensive legal and strategic counsel on M&A, capital raising, and other business transactions; securities matters; and corporate governance. Beau is a leading corporate and securities lawyer with more than 35 years of experience. For more than 17 years, he also served as the managing partner and board chairman for a diversified AmLaw 200 law firm, guiding the organization through a significant period of growth and...

Thomas S. Heather joined the Firm in 1981 and became a partner in 1982 thru 2005; he rejoined Ritch, Mueller, Heather y Nicolau as a partner in 2013. Mr. Heather has more than 40 years of experience and has earned recognitions and distinctions as a leading lawyer in Mexico and Latin America. He specializes in banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and alternative dispute resolutions. He is currently a director and member of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committees of Grupo Financ...

Fernando Peláez-Pier has been a partner of Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque since 1977. He has been responsible for setting up the London Office and Director of European Offices (Paris and London) of Bomchil, Castro, Goodrich, Claro, Arosemena & Associates, 1972-1976. His areas of practice are contracts, mergers and acquisitions, general counseling, integral patents, prosecution, telecommunications, information technology and e-commerce, trade, investments, finance, exchange control regul...

Svein Gerhard Simonnæs is a partner at BA-HR. His main practice areas are corporate mergers and acquisitions, asset management and private equity. He received his Master's degree in Business at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business administration in 1989.

Mr. Ravi Nath is the Chairman and Managing Partner with Rajinder Narain & Company one of the most respected law firms in India and the first to be established in New Delhi soon after Independence. He was President of the Inter Pacific Bar Association in Tokyo from 2003 to 2004. He is the Chair of a Committee of the International Bar Association in London and Vice President of the Society of Indian Law Firms.

Barton J. Winokur, who joined Dechert in 1965, has been a corporate partner for more than forty years and is the Immediate Past Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the firm. Throughout his career, he has served as chair of Dechert’s mergers and acquisitions and international law groups, and was the resident partner of the London office from 1975 to 1979. He has devoted his practice to the representation of large public and private companies, global leveraged buyout funds, and ventur...

Mr. Husband develops labor and employment solutions to help companies maintain compliance with federal and state laws regulating the employment relationship. He counsels Fortune 500 companies and small businesses alike on matters including wrongful discharge, equal opportunity, trade secrets and covenants not to compete, wage and hour, privacy, disability, occupational safety, affirmative action and collective action, strikes, unions, and collective bargaining.

Michelle C. Ifill is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Verizon’s Services Operations & Technologies units, responsible for primary legal oversight and support of the Verizon Corporate Information Technology Organization and the Chief Administrative Office, including Sourcing, Real Estate and Fleet Management. Ms. Ifill’s team also has primary responsibility for a variety of intellectual property areas, including copyright, trademark, and patent licensing.

Carolina Zang is Partner of Zang, Bergel & Viñes Abogados since 2008 and in May 2013 she was appointed Managing Partner of the firm. Her general corporate practice is focused on capital markets, banking and finance, debt restructuring, M&A, investment funds, real estate, private equity and venture capital transactions.

Alberto Estrella is a Member of the firm and is its Managing Member. Since Alberto joined the firm in 1994, he has been involved in hundreds of trials and earned a reputation as a distinguished and sought-after trial lawyer. He is involved in litigation and asked to advise business clients on a diverse variety of matters, including commercial and contract disputes, complex litigation, premises liability and insurance defense, antitrust and business regulation, federal laws and litigation, tra...

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...

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...