About Us

Tom Minogue is the Chairman of Thompson Coburn. His legal practice is focused on corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions and finance. He has over 30 years of experience in board of director counseling, business acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, shareholder relations and redemptions, private placements, commercial finance, asset securitizations and other types of corporate work. Tom regularly represents both for-profit and not-for-profit businesses. He has successfu...

Mark Wasserman has been the Managing Partner of Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP for 12 years and is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Eversheds Sutherland Limited. He leads the firm’s lawyers and staff in collaborating to provide high quality, efficient and creative service to the firm’s clients.

Patrick L. Vaccaro founded the Law Offices of Patrick L. Vaccaro in 2017. Previously, he was a Principal in the White Plains, New York, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. From 2006 to 2012, he served as the Firm-wide Managing Partner, leading Jackson Lewis through an era of unprecedented growth and success. His practice areas include collegiate and professional sports and labor and preventative practices.

Dr. Bernt Elsner is head of the department for procurement law, EU competition law and public commercial law and head of the CMS-wide Section Procurement. He studied business administration at the University of Vienna Law and at the Vienna University of Economics, was 1993/1994, a researcher at the Austrian Constitutional Court for constitutional judge Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek worked and has 17 years of experience as a lawyer including an activity for Cleary Gott...

Martín Godino Reyes is Managing Partner of Sagardoy Abogados and has been a member of the College of Lawyers of Madrid since 1986. In addition to his strong practice, Mr. Godino has taught and authored as Professor of Employment Law at the University San Pablo-CEU (Madrid), Professor of Corporate Advisory Services of ESIC, and Technical director and professor of the Master Programme in Practice of Employment Law.

Filips K. Klavins is a Founder and Managing Partner of Ellex Klavins, one of the largest firms in Latvia and a member of Ellex, a circle of leading Baltic law firms. He is a Member of the Board of Directors for Arbitration of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Country Representative for Latvia of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice.

Thomas Mason serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.

Andra B. Greene is a partner of Irell & Manella LLP, where she is head of the class action defense practice and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Ms. Greene previously served as Managing Partner of the firm's Newport Beach office. Ms. Greene's practice encompasses a wide range of complex business litigation with an emphasis on class action defense and professional liability defense. Her extensive trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts also extends to commerci...

Pierre-Sébastien Thill is an expert in international taxation. He has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats since July 2016. He was the managing partner of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats's New York office from 1994 to 1997. He was a member of the firm's Management Board from 2000 to 2004 and served as Chairman of the Management Board from 2004 to 2012. He was also Chairman of the CMS Executive Committee from 2003 to 2008 and a member of the Executive Committee f...

Michael S. Goldberg is a senior trial partner at Baker Botts, with extensive trial experience in complex commercial, governmental and international arbitration matters. He is co-chair of the firm’s international dispute resolution section (international arbitration and litigation). His experience extends to a broad array of international matters involving clients, adversaries, and/or issues in Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the ...

Irina Paliashvili began her private practice by co-founding one of the first private law firms in Ukraine, and expanded by founding the Washington-based RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, P.A., where she serves as the President and Senior Counsel. She also serves as the Managing Partner of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Legal Group LLC.

Mr. Holland is a distinguished lawyer with over 25 years finance and project finance experience.