About Us

Marc-André Blanchard is the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. He was previously the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of McCarthy Tétrault. Mr. Blanchard focused his practice on civil and commercial litigation and has worked on matters involving shareholder disputes, contested mergers and acquisitions, class actions and boards of inquiry. Mr. Blanchard was president of the Québec Liberal Party from 2000 to 2008, an active member in cabinet campaigns of United Way since 2004, and a bo...

Active for more than 25 years in the Luxembourg legal sector, François Brouxel joined Wildgen in 1992 and became Managing Partner, his current role, in 2016. While François focuses on the direction and strategy of Wildgen, he also heads the corporate department and specialises in both cross-border and domestic corporate and financial law. He assists his clients with banking, reinsurance, securitisation, capital markets, and business litigation. With his team, François devotes himself to provi...

Bob is the managing partner of Mintz Levin, and has received awards and national recognition for his innovative approach to management. Bob also is a seasoned trial lawyer with a very active litigation practice and decades of experience covering a number of areas including employment, commercial disputes, private equity, financial services, insurance, securities, real estate, sports law, and banking. Bob has extensive experience defending companies and their directors and officers in securiti...

Chris is a senior member of the firm's litigation group. His practice consists of facilitating the resolution of commercial and intellectual property disputes through negotiation, alternative dispute resolution procedures and, where necessary, through the trial of actions before federal and state courts and arbitration tribunals throughout the United States.

Managing Partner, founder of TARK in 1991. Aare Tark is one of the most recognised and experienced litigation lawyers in Estonia and the Baltics. Aare is a member of corporate and commercial law, dispute resolution and energy law practice group. He has represented the Government of the Republic of Estonia in several civil disputes both as a representative and as an arbitrator in arbitration proceedings.

Peter John Sacripanti represents clients in complex business disputes, including whistleblower actions, products liability litigation, multi-party mass tort matters and bankruptcy litigation. He is co-chair of McDermott and chair of the Firm's Executive Committee. He also serves as liaison counsel to the petroleum industry in various environmental and products liability matters.

Gelu has over 20 years of experience in the legal profession, holds an LL.M awarded with distinction by Warwick University, UK, and is constantly ranked amongst the most prominent lawyers in Romania. Before founding Maravela & Asociatii, Gelu has acted as a judge, attorney at Linklaters` London office and equity partner of Mu?at & Asocia?ii.

Michael Bramnick is Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer with enterprise-wide responsibility for corporate compliance, ethics, and investigations, as well as for regulatory compliance. He also oversees Sustainability and positiveNRG, the company's philanthropic arm. Michael reports to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, as well as to the President & CEO. Immediately prior to rejoining NRG in 2014, Michael served as a member of the senior management team at LRN, ...

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...

In addition to his management responsibilities, James Lehman practices in the areas of business and securities litigation, white collar investigations, and professional liability. Mr. Lehman has also served in senior executive management positions. In 2001, he joined Safety-Kleen as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, which at the time was one of the largest bankruptcies in US history.

Mary is the Chair of the Trans-Tasman IP Attorneys Board. She is a board member of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health Limited and Victorian Legal Admissions Committee. Mary was formerly Chairman of Ashurst Australia and Vice Chairman of Ashurst. She was a partner from 1989-2018. Mary served three terms as Ashurst Australia's (Blake Dawson) elected chairman from 2005-2013 after being an Executive Partner with responsibilit...

Jack H. Olender is president of the malpractice law firm Jack H. Olender and Associates, PC. He has served as president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Trial Lawyers Association, D.C., the American Board of Trial Advocates, D.C., and the George Washington American Inn of Court. He lectures regularly on malpractice and trial law to bar associations and medical societies, and has published extensively on legal and medical issues.