About Us

Mr. Sorabjee was designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India in 1971. He was the Attorney General for India 1989-90 and 1998-2004. He also served as Vice-President of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association and as a Member of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of International Law Association. He was appointed in 2000 as a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague for six years.

Steven Fineman is Managing Partner of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. In addition to his active litigation practice and management of the firm, he is the President of the Public Justice Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Civil Justice Foundation. He has been appointed to numerous leadership roles in the legal community. He is a long-time member of the board and is a past President of the Public Justice Foundation. He is currently the co-chair of the Securities Lit...

Public and private REITs, investment firms, lenders, property management and brokerage firms, retailers and academic hospitals and universities look to Marty Fantozzi for his legal acumen. With more than 20 years of experience, Marty helps clients resolve matters such as disputes among stockholders, partners and members of limited liability companies, land use, zoning, construction and other real property-related disputes, commercial disputes and employment matters.

In addition to his responsibilities as managing partner, Mr. Pearlman advises and represents clients in private equity transactions, as well as in the corporate aspects of corporate restructuring and bankruptcy. Mr. Pearlman’s private equity experience over the past 35 years has included representing leveraged buyout sponsors, management and providers of debt financing in complex and often high-profile LBO transactions. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions involv...

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...

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...

Manuel Galicia Romero is the Founding Partner of Galicia Abogados, SC specializes in commercial transactions and his practice focuses primarily on issues related to representation of companies and national and foreign financial institutions, counseling for lending, public loans and private securities and credits, finance leases, restructurings, structured projects, programs mortgage loans, high yield issues, exchange of public and private sector debt, advising national and foreign companies a...

Ioana Racoti is a leading corporate finance lawyer, specializing in all aspects of corporate law, including transactions on the capital market, public offerings, company listing and de-listing, private placements. Her experience also includes advising financial institutions and borrowers in complex loan transactions, syndicated facilities, creation and perfection of guarantees and securities, and project finance.

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...

Paul D. Bekman enters his fourth decade of practice as one of the most respected trial attorneys in the state of Maryland. Mr. Bekman is a tenacious and successful advocate for his clients' interests, as demonstrated by the significant number of multi-million dollar awards he has won. The effectiveness of his practice is confirmed year after year by peer professionals. Best Lawyers in America has recognized him as one of the top personal injury lawyers in the country since 1989, and locally, ...

Faiza J. Saeed is Cravath’s Presiding Partner. She advises public companies, boards of directors and special committees in connection with M&A, corporate governance and crisis management.

Dan has a nearly 40-year career in law and business, most notably serving from 1997 until 2007 as senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle under Larry Ellison and from 2007 to 2010 as senior vice president and general counsel of Apple under Steve Jobs. With DLA Piper, he continues to focus on issues related to corporate governance and boards of directors, as well as the role of the general counsel and management of global corporate law departments. Dan also serves as a member of th...