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. Kalis is Chairman and Global Managing Partner of K&L Gates. After law school, Mr. Kalis served as law clerk to the late J. Skelly Wright, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and for the late Associate Justice Byron R. White of the US Supreme Court.

A partner and co-chair of the Antitrust Group, Rick Rule focuses his practice on providing U.S. and international antitrust advice to major corporations in connection with “bet-the-company” matters, particularly high-profile mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Formerly head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Rick currently represents corporate clients in connection with civil and grand jury investigations by the DOJ, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC...

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...

Sabine Chalmers is our Chief Legal Officer. Sabine is a US citizen of German and Indian origin and holds an LL.B. from the London School of Economics. She is qualified to practice in England and New York State. Sabine joined us in January 2005 from Diageo plc where she was General Counsel of the US and Latin American businesses. Prior to Diageo, she was an associate at the law firm of Hogan Lovells in London, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. She is a member of the Advisory Board of D...

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.

Mr. Dannhauser is now retired. He joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in 1975. He was named as the Firm's Executive Partner in 1989, becoming Chairman in 2002, a position he held through the end of 2012. Mr. Dannhauser continued in a consulting capacity through 2015 endeavoring to expose his client and community relationships to the Firm. He played a key role in crafting and executing the business strategies that catapulted Weil into the top tier of international law firms, expanding from i...

Kenneth Van Winkle is a member of the firm's Real Estate Transactional Group and focuses his practice on real estate leasing; real estate equity and debt financing; and real estate sales and acquisitions. He has represented many institutional clients in acquiring and disposing of developed and undeveloped multifamily residential, single family residential, commercial, retail and industrial real estate. He has experience handling the joint venture and purchase and sale of multifamily products,...

Larry Barden is a partner in the Corporate practice group in Sidley’s Chicago office, and currently serves as chair of the firm’s Management Committee. He has been a member of the firm's Executive Committee since 1999 and its Management Committee since 2011. His principal areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, securities/corporate finance, strategic counseling/corporate governance and private equity/venture capital.

Guy Tremblay is a Consulting Partner at BCF. Over the years, Mr. Tremblay has built a reputation for excellence in labour and employment law. His extensive experience was acquired before the Quebec Labour Relations Board, grievance arbitration boards and common law courts. He has been at the heart of many significant court cases that have shaped labour law. A seasoned negotiator and shrewd strategist, he has been a key player in many labour disputes affecting private companies, and regularly ...

Mr. Ravi Nath is the Chairman and Managing Partner with Rajinder Narain & Company one of the most respected law firms in India and the first to be established in New Delhi soon after Independence. He was President of the Inter Pacific Bar Association in Tokyo from 2003 to 2004. He is the Chair of a Committee of the International Bar Association in London and Vice President of the Society of Indian Law Firms.