About Us

Daniel A. Neff is the co-chairman of the Executive Committee and partner in the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which he joined in 1977. He is a corporate and securities lawyer, and has focused on mergers and acquisitions and advice to boards of directors and board committees. During his more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Neff has been extensively involved in negotiated as well as hostile acquisitions, and has represented bidders and targets, public and private companies, privat...

Casey Ryan represents employers in a wide variety of employment-related disputes, including harassment, retaliation, discrimination, wrongful discharge, equal pay and breach of contract litigation. She has successfully litigated in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and routinely appears before both federal and state agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and various state human relations commissions. She also has successfully defended employers in...

Hugh MacKinnon is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bennett Jones and a member of the firm's Partnership Board. He is also Chair of the Board of the C.D. Howe Institute, Co-Chair of the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C., Chairman of the Collegium of the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, Vice-Chair of the Board of the Ontario Brain Institute, and a member of the Foundation Board of Bethlehem University and the Advisory Bo...

Philippe Dupont is a Founding Partner of Arendt & Medernach law firm and head of the firm’s Banking and Finance business unit. He specialises in banking and finance and has considerable experience in bank regulatory matters as well as capital markets, lending, securities and structured finance transactions and litigation in finance matters. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1986. He is a Conciliator and Arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investme...

Mr. Zuklie serves as the global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orrick. He is an experienced business and legal advisor who has completed hundreds of venture capital financings and numerous public offerings, mergers, acquisitions and licensing transactions. He counsels technology companies at all stages of their life cycles, as well as their founders, advisors and investors.

Stanley Twardy, Day Pitney's Managing Partner, is a leading corporate litigator. He helps clients with criminal, civil and regulatory investigations conducted by federal and state agencies. Clients have included Fortune 500 companies, their executives and others involved in federal and state criminal, regulatory and SEC investigations. Stan has argued many civil and criminal cases in federal and state appellate courts, and been counsel of record before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Chair of the firm since 2008, Brad Karp is one of the country’s leading litigators and corporate advisers. Brad has extensive experience successfully defending financial institutions and other companies in “bet the company” litigations and regulatory matters. Prior to being named chair of Paul, Weiss, Brad chaired the firm’s Litigation Department. - See more at: https://www.paulweiss.com/professionals/partners-and-counsel/brad-s-karp.aspx#sthash.zzg7vs1h.dpuf

Bob Van Brocklin is a partner and immediate past Managing Partner of the firm (2008-2015). Prior to becoming Firm Managing Partner, Bob chaired Stoel Rives' Land Use, Environmental, Natural Resource, and Real Estate practice group firm wide. He concentrates his practice in real estate and energy development, including on complex project siting and administrative law and policy matters. Bob has represented industrial, commercial, retail, public institutions, private colleges, mixed use, natura...

Edward B. Deutsch is the Managing Partner of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP. He is a Civil Trial Attorney, Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He has been a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1992, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. In October 2009, Mr. Deutsch was selected as an honoree of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey and received the Trial Bar Award. This prestigious award recog...

José María Eyzaguirre García de la Huerta is currently the senior partner of the firm and the head of the Litigation practice. Mr. Eyzaguirre has an extensive experience in Litigation and Arbitration matters. He has acted in many of the most renowned litigation and arbitral cases in Chile in the last 30 years. He has been chosen by Chambers and Partners as one of the most reputed litigators in Chile continuously for the past years.

Catalin Baiculescu has advised on many high-profile mergers & acquisitions and Romanian privatisations, and is recognised as an expert in the due diligence process, the negotiation of assets and share-purchase agreements, as well as post-acquisition restructuring matters. As recognition for his legal publishing activity, Catalin Baiculescu has been admitted as Honorary Fellow of the Centre for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria. Prior to becoming an attorney, he was a Parliame...

Satoru Murase advises global corporations regarding cross-border investments and disputes in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He is well known for his representation of major Japanese and Asian corporations in their overseas operations and disputes, as well as major U.S. and European corporations operating in Asia. He provides advice regarding mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate governance, compliance, crisis management, employment, and government rel...