About Us

Pascale Lagesse is a Partner at Bredin Prat. She specializes in the labor and employment issues arising out of mergers and acquisitions and corporate downsizings and restructurings. She is a seasoned litigator and frequently defends corporate clients in complex employment litigation. Ms. Lagesse lectures on a regular basis, notably at the Paris I Sorbonne University, and has authored numerous publications on labor and employment topics. She is the Past Chair of the International Bar Associati...

Peter M. Kellett is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dykema. He previously served as Director of the Litigation Department, and prior to that, served as one of the Firm’s practice group leaders. His practice focuses on class action and commercial litigation; automotive industry litigation, and products liability cases. He has tried to verdict consumer class actions, numerous product liability cases involving catastrophic injury or death, and many business disputes.

Johan Aalto is Hannes Snellman’s senior partner. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and capital markets, with an emphasis on public takeovers. During the last few years, Johan has been involved in some of the largest and most complex transactions in Finland. He also focuses on corporate governance issues and acts as the chairman of general meetings of several listed companies in Finland.

Guido Santiago Tawil is the partner in charge of the Arbitration and Economic Regulation and Administrative Law departments. His work focuses on regulatory practice, complex litigation and international arbitration. In regulatory matters he has represented the most important local and international companies on issues relating to telecommunications, the supply, transport and distribution of electricity and gas, postal services, water providers and waste disposal services, public works, IT, th...

Bob Clifford is the founder of Clifford Law Offices, which concentrates its practice in helping victims of personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters. Bob regularly handles complex damage cases and routinely receives multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements. He's also an advocate for the consumer and has filed several class actions, holding companies accountable for their defective products...

Robert Furter is a partner and member of the Financial Services group as well as the Corporate/M&A group in Zurich. His areas of practice are banking and capital markets as well as corporate and private M&A. In his fields of practice, he advises Swiss and international clients in transactions and on regulatory and governance matters. He is an authorized issuer's representative at the SIX Swiss Exchange. He also sits on the board directors of a number of Swiss corporations.

Along with being Of Counsel at Beiten Burkhardt, Dr. Jack Schiffer is a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. His area of activity comprises mergers & acquisitions, company, transformation and group law, management of annual general meetings, as well as private equity and alternative investments. He particularly advises his national and international clients on cross-border transactions, company law restructurings and corporate litigation. Focus industries are automotive suppl...

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...

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...

Eva Berlaus is an office managing partner of Sorainen Latvia and head of the Corporate and M&A Team. Eva has been practicing law since 1996. Eva has participated as counsel in major cross-border M&A deals in Latvia for both sellers and buyers and on behalf of listed and non-listed companies in business sectors such as banking, media, utilities, food, construction, property development, energy, consumer finance and environment. Eva has sound experience in advising on competition law is...

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.

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...