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 ...

Emily Parker represents taxpayers in IRS audits and appeals proceedings, state tax audits and hearings, and federal and state tax refund and deficiency litigation. She also advises on federal income tax and Texas tax planning, with expertise in taxation of natural resources and partnership and corporate transactions involving the petroleum industry. She has represented clients in a number of precedent-setting cases that decided important industry issues and developed previously unsettled issu...

Benjamin F. Wilson is the Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. He has been lead counsel in many complex environmental litigation and regulatory matters for major consumer products corporations, retailers, oil and gas companies, municipalities, and developers. He has represented financial bodies on a wide variety of environmental issues pertaining to the sale and ownership of real property, and on wetlands and Endangered Species Act litigation, as well as several complex commerc...

Roger Quillen is the full-time Chairman and Managing Partner of Fisher Phillips. He is effectively the CEO of an organization with 350 attorneys and an additional support staff of more than 300 people. Roger has continuously led the firm for 15 years. The firm has tripled in size under Roger’s leadership and is consistently recognized as one of the country’s elite labor and employment law firms. He practices appellate practice, employee benefits litigation, railway labor act, reta...

Sietze Hepkema joined SBM as Chief Governance and Compliance Officer in May 2012. Prior to joining SBM, he was a partner of Allen & Overy, a prestigious international law firm, from 1987 to 2011 and before that of Graham & James . Sietze has decades of experience advising companies on matters of coporate governance and corporate finance.

Mr. Foltyn has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Honigman since 2008. Under his guidance, the firm has instituted innovative strategies to become a "value leader" in the legal marketplace by implementing processes, technology and staffing models to increase value and maintain the high quality of its legal services. In addition, Mr. Foltyn has enhanced the recruitment and development functions of the firm by providing a wide variety of internal and external too...

Jean-François Bellis is a founding partner of Van Bael & Bellis in Brussels. He has more than 40 years of experience handling complex EU competition and international trade law issues, representing clients in numerous landmark cases before the European Commission and the EU Courts.

Elisabeth is Chief Negotiator and Chief Legal Counsel of Sierra Oil and Gas. She is a senior energy negotiator and lawyer with significant experience in the upstream and midstream business in Latin America. Ms. Eljuri's legal practice is focused on corporate, M&A, project finance and energy matters. She heads the corporate and oil and gas practice of her firm in Caracas. She Chairs the firm's Latin American Practice Group. Elisabeth was President worldwide of the Houston-based Association...

Pat Swan is a trial lawyer and represents clients in complex civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts throughout California and the United States. He has extensive experience in intellectual property, trade secrets, business, environmental, securities, fraud, personal injury, product liability, white-collar fraud, false claims, and commercial law matters. Pat also served as a federal criminal prosecutor for eight years and has substantial grand jury, jury trial, and appellate...

Jeff, head of the U.S. banking practice, has over 30 years of experience leading complex domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Jeff’s practice focuses primarily on acquisition finance including syndicated senior and junior debt and bridge loan financings and high yield issuances in the U.S., Europe and Asia including numerous U.S. and European TLB and Yankee loan transactions. He also advises clients on restructurings, liability management transactions and general finance matters....

Debra Kuper joined Kubota in 2016 as Vice President, General Counsel. As a member of the senior executive team, Kuper will preside over corporate governance, regulatory/compliance, data security and legal business strategies. With extensive legal knowledge and industry experience, she will oversee and direct the company’s risk management and compliance initiatives. Kuper is an industry veteran, having previously held in-house corporate counsel positions at several Fortune 500 companies within...

Uriel F. O´Farrell, Estudio O´Farrell’s Senior Partner practice focuses on corporate work, mergers & acquisitions and energy transactions regulation and disputes. He is a Partner of the firm since 1982. Mr. O´Farrell advised numerous domestic and foreign companies in corporate matters and in the energy and infrastructure sectors including oil production and exploration; natural gas production and distribution and electricity generation, transmission, marketing and distribution. In the abo...