About Us

Steven J. Gartner is Chairman of the firm, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department. He focuses on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Steve regularly advises boards of directors, board committees and senior management on strategic issues and corporate governance. He has also represented activists in a number of proxy fights and campaigns, as well as companies defending against the activists. Steve ...

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.

Dr. Andreas Urban has been a lawyer and notary of Heuking. Admitted since 1983. His practice areas include employment, corporate/M&A, IP, media & technology, litigation/arbitration, and private clients. He is a member of the Work Group on Employment and Labor Law of the German Bar Association and Work Group for Corporate Counsel of the German Bar Association.

Chief executive of Shepherd and Wedderburn, Stephen is responsible for the management and strategic direction of the business across the UK. He has been deputy CEO since 2009 and in May 2012 was appointed as CEO. Before taking on the role of CEO Stephen's focus was primarily on the renewables, property, drinks and leisure industries.

Bruno Cova, European Co-Chair of Restructuring & Insolvency and Compliance Groups, focuses his practice on complex transactions such as cross-border acquisitions and restructuring of distressed companies. He also regularly advises international corporations and financial institutions in dealing with corporate governance and legal risks issues, devising internal controls or contractual mechanisms to minimize those risks, investigating legal and compliance problems, and defending clients be...

Matt is a partner in the international trade group and a member of the Executive Committee. His practice focuses on adversarial international trade proceedings, including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, and international arbitrations. Over the past 30 years, he has represented major international corporations, governments, and associations in matters arising under the international trade and customs laws of the United States, the WTO Agreements (and before it the GATT), the N...

Guido Santiago Tawil is the partner in charge of the Arbitration and Economic Regulation and Administrative Law departments. His work focuses on regulatory practice, complex litigation and international arbitration. In regulatory matters he has represented the most important local and international companies on issues relating to telecommunications, the supply, transport and distribution of electricity and gas, postal services, water providers and waste disposal services, public works, IT, th...

Christian has 25+ years’ transaction and real estate experience. He assists Danish and international businesses and private equity funds in their acquisition and divestiture of businesses, including real estate-related transactions as well as private equity transactions and capital market transactions. Christian has also contributed to the Danish Bar & Law Society’s guidelines on company and securities law. Christian was elected the first managing partner of the firm with effect from 2009.

Pedro Perez-Llorca is senior partner of Pérez-Llorca. He has a strong international corporate practice with concentration on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance and reorganisations. His professional experience as a lawyer focuses on the field of mergers and acquisitions. He has taken part in some of the most important cross-border transactions with a Spanish involvement.

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.

José Evenor Taboada Arana is the president of Consortium - Taboada & Asociados. His practice areas include banking and financial, corporate law, foreign investment and international commerce, and regulated sector.

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...