About Us

Madeleine McDonough began a five-year term as Chair of Shook, Hardy & Bacon on January 1, 2017. A former clinical pharmacist, she represents multinational companies in a range of industries: pharmaceutical, animal health, medical device, food, cosmetics and beverage. Madeleine advises organizations on preventative litigation approaches, policy and governance issues, emerging international legal developments, creative resolution strategies, risk management, corporate social responsibility ...

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...

Daniel O'Donnell is Chief Executive Officer of Dechert and a member of the firm's Policy Committee. He is a nationally recognized advisor to private equity fund sponsors, corporations, and financial institutions as well as company managements, boards of directors, and special committees. He represents clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions — both domestically and internationally — as well as corporate restructurings and corporate governance matters.

Louis-Bernard Buchman was a partner in the litigation department regulations of Fieldfisher. He is now practicing as an attorney at Lexforce. His areas of expertise are litigation, arbitration and mediation, competition law, intellectual property and international trade agreements. He advises large corporations and medium-sized and large estates holders. It is occasionally appointed as arbitrator. He is the author of several publications and articles on arbitration and mediation, bank guarant...

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...

Dr. Thomas Werlen is the Managing Partner of the Zurich office. Thomas’ practice focuses on white collar and corporate investigations as well as on cross-border litigation, international arbitration, and complex financial disputes. Due to his expertise in developing corporate governance and legal strategies across the globe, Thomas regularly appears as a panelist or keynote speaker at international seminars and conferences, and features on TV and radio shows.

From 1950 to 1954 he was Advocate for Ministry of Finance in Jeddah and Dammam, Saudi Arabia and from 1954 to 1955 he was Special Counsel to US Aid Mission, Jordan.In 1955-1965 and then again in 1969 he was Deputy Chairman of Cairo Amman Bank.From 1965 to 1969, he was Minister of National Economy, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Jordan’s Governor at the World Bank.In 1971 he established his law practice in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to cover the GCC countries, and fr...

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...

Robert I. Komitor serves as lead trial lawyer specializing in products liability, negligence, and personal injury cases involving mesothelioma, hazardous wastes, and pollution. Bob is a former member of the Products Liability Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has co-chaired the New York State Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Committee on Environmental Law. He has also served as chairman of the G-I Holding’s Bankruptcy Creditors’ Committee and serves on the...

Bruce H. Nagel is the founding partner of Nagel Rice, LLP and is one of New Jersey’s premier trial attorneys. He specializes in medical malpractice, class actions, business tort, wrongful birth and catastrophic personal injury. He has achieved numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements, and has appeared 12 times before the New Jersey Supreme Court, molding the law of medical malpractice, class action, wrongful birth and trial practice.

Lord Brennan QC has been a Queen’s Counsel since 1985 and is a senior associate member of Matrix. His areas of expertise include commercial law, public and private international law and international arbitration. Lord Brennan QC, as an appointed life peer, is active in politics as well as dedicating time to his incredibly varied legal practice. His most notable case during 2009 was the landmark civil Omagh bombing case. The outcome, in favour of his clients – relatives of those ki...

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.