About Us

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...

Mr. Vives Ruiz has been Managing Partner of Garrigues since September 2009. He is also partner in charge of the Garrigues Corporate/Commercial Law area. In addition to managing the firm and his practice, he is a Lecturer at Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE), Centro de Estudios Garrigues and at ESADE.

Carolina Zang is Partner of Zang, Bergel & Viñes Abogados since 2008 and in May 2013 she was appointed Managing Partner of the firm. Her general corporate practice is focused on capital markets, banking and finance, debt restructuring, M&A, investment funds, real estate, private equity and venture capital transactions.

Mr. Cumaraswamy served as Chair of the Malaysian Bar Council from 1986 to1988. From 1986 to 1989, he was chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Association. He has been a commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists since 1990 and served as its Vice-President from 2004 to 2005. Appointed the UN Special Rapporteur in 1994, he intervened in more than 100 countries and conducted numerous fact-finding missions to investigate attacks on the independence of judge...

Wade Cooper is the firmwide Managing Partner of Jackson Walker. His duties are those of the Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and he chairs two of the major committees of the partnership: the Management Committee and the Compensation Committee. In his legal practice, Mr. Cooper has handled substantial commercial litigation, arbitration, and bankruptcy matters in Texas, and in federal and bankruptcy courts in a number of other states. His clients include telecommunications carriers, nationa...

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...

Mr. Brocker specializes in commercial litigation and arbitration and has acted as counsel in a large number of Swedish and international proceedings. His arbitration experience includes acting as counsel to parties in international ICC Arbitrations, international UNCITRAL and Stockholm Chamber of Commerce arbitrations and in numerous national arbitrations. He is co-chair of the firm’s Shipping and transportation group and has extensive experience in shipping related matters such as joint vent...

Joe Fazio is the Principal and Managing Director of Miller Canfield. Joe’s specific areas of expertise include complex commercial real estate acquisitions and developments, with extensive experience in ground leasing, entity formation, public/private development agreements, as well as conventional, securitized and tax-increment financing. Among his many activities, Mr. Fazio sits on the Board of Trustees for the Legacy Land Conservancy.

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...

Bob Jewell is the Managing Partner Emeritus of the firm, Chair of the Executive Committee, a member of the Policy Committee and co-chair of the Women's Initiative Team. Bob’s principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and foreign), corporate governance and capital markets transactions. In over 35 years of practice, Bob has particular experience relating to the energy services industry, the refining industry, master limited partnerships, real estate investment trus...

Davinder is the Executive Chairman of Davinder Singh Chambers and previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Drew & Napier LLC. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982 and joined the Litigation Department of Drew & Napier thereafter. He has litigated cases in almost every area of the law, including landmark cases. He is widely considered as Singapore's most revered advocate and counsel of choice, recognized time and time again as a top litigator and arb...

Founding Partner and Senior Partner of the study, he has been an advisor to the most complex and important transactions related to corporate finance at participating local businesses and / or assets in the country. Since the foundation of the study in 1990, he has represented numerous investment banks and major companies in innovative operations in the area of capital markets and mergers and acquisitions in Argentina.