About Us

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...

Daniel A. Neff is the co-chairman of the Executive Committee and partner in the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which he joined in 1977. He is a corporate and securities lawyer, and has focused on mergers and acquisitions and advice to boards of directors and board committees. During his more than 30 years of practice, Mr. Neff has been extensively involved in negotiated as well as hostile acquisitions, and has represented bidders and targets, public and private companies, privat...

Dale Ponder is Managing Partner and chief executive of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and also serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee. As a senior member of the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice, she has had extensive experience throughout her career leading transactions relating to public and private merger and acquisition matters and advising boards of public companies. Dale’s practice background has focussed on M&A, securities regulation and corporate governance. She has rep...

Mathias Schwarz advises national and international clients from the film, television, publishing and e-commerce industries in issues related to their strategic orientation. This includes his advice on contract structuring and drafting, as well as providing legal project appraisals and claim enforcement assistance. He also focuses on project financing and funding issues. His clients particularly esteem his decades of experience in all media sectors especially with regard to strategic projects ...

Keith Vaughan is the Chair Emeritus of Womble Bond Dickinson, having served as the firm’s Chairman and Managing Partner from 2002 through 2015. He will retire from the firm on January 1, 2018, concluding almost 43 years in the practice of law – all at Womble Bond Dickinson.

Creighton Condon is the firm’s Senior Partner. Formerly European Managing Partner and co-head of the firm’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group, he represents multinational corporations in acquisitions and sales of public and private companies and in joint ventures and regularly provides advice regarding issues of corporate governance and control and shareholder activism. Mr. Condon also represents the mergers and acquisitions groups of a number of investment banks. Mr. Condon joined the ...

John Tishler has over 25 years of experience. An insolvency and restructuring attorney by trade, John deals in both the transactional and litigation arenas. He focuses mainly on corporate insolvency/board advice, creditor's rights, financial services, and defaulted bonds.

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...

Eric J. Friedman has served as Skadden’s Executive Partner since 2009, furthering the firm’s mission to provide the highest quality legal service to clients, attract and develop top legal talent, and maintain our deeply rooted commitments to pro bono and diversity and inclusion. In 2011, the firm received the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s first-ever Law Firm of the Year Award, for our commitment to public service and diversity; and in 2012, Mr. Friedman received...

Tom Frantz currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Williams Mullen. Drawing on his tax background, he also maintains a robust corporate legal practice as a Partner representing multi-national corporations, handling major mergers and acquisitions, and advising corporations on a variety of legal matters.

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.

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...