About Us

Julian Yarr is the Managing Partner of A&L Goodbody, a leading Irish law firm providing legal services to the corporate sector across the island of Ireland. The Firm has offices in Dublin and Belfast, London, and New York. Before taking the seat of Managing Partner, Mr. Yarr was head of A&L Goodbody's London office. In addition to leading the firm, his practice focuses on corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity law.

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.

Philippe Thomas focuses his practice on employment matters. He has extensive experience in the transfer of personnel and other employment law aspects of national and international mergers and acquisitions. He regularly advises on restructuring issues with or without reductions in headcount. He assists clients on works councils consultations, harmonization of employee status as well as senior employee terminations. He litigates regularly on post-termination issues.

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...

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.

Peter John Sacripanti represents clients in complex business disputes, including whistleblower actions, products liability litigation, multi-party mass tort matters and bankruptcy litigation. He is co-chair of McDermott and chair of the Firm's Executive Committee. He also serves as liaison counsel to the petroleum industry in various environmental and products liability matters.

Jeff S. Korek has been a partner at Gersowitz Libo & Korek, P.C. since 1992 and is a leading litigator in medical malpractice, product liability and construction accident cases for the firm. Mr. Korek is a Past President of both the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the New York City Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been appointed by the past three consecutive Presiding Justices of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, to the Committe...

Emily Parker represents taxpayers in IRS audits and appeals proceedings, state tax audits and hearings, and federal and state tax refund and deficiency litigation. She also advises on federal income tax and Texas tax planning, with expertise in taxation of natural resources and partnership and corporate transactions involving the petroleum industry. She has represented clients in a number of precedent-setting cases that decided important industry issues and developed previously unsettled issu...

Cristian Mitrani is an expert in international business law, with particular emphasis on M&A, joint ventures, various types of business transactions, corporate governance, international arbitration, competition law and white collar crime. He has acted as lead counsel in record-setting privatizations, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances in various countries. He assists clients on corporate investigations, on the implementation of procedures for the prevention of white coll...

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...

Jan Fougner specializes in litigation and employment law and has extensive experience from a number of high-profile cases involving legal, political and reputational risks. He has litigated about 20 cases in the Supreme Court. Besides working Jan Fougner with contract law, petroleum law, administrative law, environmental law and torts. He is Adjunct Professor of Labour Law at BI and author of several textbooks. He lectures regularly and has extensive experience in public and private boards, c...

Lee Eng Beng has an active practice in commercial litigation and arbitration, with emphasis on banking and financing disputes, debt enforcement and insolvency litigation, shareholders' and joint venture disputes and general commercial disputes. He has also handled a wide range of insolvency and banking advisory work, and the debt restructuring of large businesses and public listed companies. He has published widely in the field of insolvency law and commercial law generally and his articles a...