About Us

Filips K. Klavins is a Founder and Managing Partner of Ellex Klavins, one of the largest firms in Latvia and a member of Ellex, a circle of leading Baltic law firms. He is a Member of the Board of Directors for Arbitration of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Country Representative for Latvia of the American Bar Association Section of International Law and Practice.

Kare Stolt is Senior Partner at Accura. Mr. Stolt also heads the Mergers and Acquisitons team at the firm. Kare was one of the founders of ACCURA in 1999. Previously, he was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and managing director of Tellabs Danmark A/S (formerly DSC Communications A/S).

Pedro Perez-Llorca is senior partner of Pérez-Llorca. He has a strong international corporate practice with concentration on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance and reorganisations. His professional experience as a lawyer focuses on the field of mergers and acquisitions. He has taken part in some of the most important cross-border transactions with a Spanish involvement.

A personal adviser to dozens of the world’s most active and influential business leaders and families, Joseph Shenker has counseled clients on significant transactional matters across a number of practice areas and industry sectors. His practices include M&A, corporate governance, capital markets, tax, sports & entertainment, private equity, financial services, commercial real estate, restructuring, and family business transaction.

Markus Pfenninger is a partner in the Banking & Finance Team. His fields of expertise include capital market transactions, mergers & acquisitions, finance, restructurings, collective investment schemes as well as banking and insurance regulatory matters. He is a member of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Task Force on the Financial Crisis and a past chair of the IBA’s Subcommittee on Legal Opinions as well as a past co-chair of the IBA’s Banking Law Committee.

Deborah Alexander joined Scotiabank in June 2002. As Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Scotiabank, she has responsibility for managing and overseeing globally the Bank’s legal affairs, compliance and regulatory affairs. Deborah also manages and oversees the Corporate Governance Office and the Corporate Secretary’s Department. Deborah is the Chairman of the Reputational Risk Committee and the Disclosure Committee of the Bank. She is a member of the CEO’s Operati...

Michael Bramnick is Senior Vice President & Chief Compliance Officer with enterprise-wide responsibility for corporate compliance, ethics, and investigations, as well as for regulatory compliance. He also oversees Sustainability and positiveNRG, the company's philanthropic arm. Michael reports to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, as well as to the President & CEO. Immediately prior to rejoining NRG in 2014, Michael served as a member of the senior management team at LRN, ...

John Keker, co-founder of Keker & Van Nest, has four decades of trial experience. He largely centers his practice around White Collar Criminal Defense and Intellectual Property Litigation. Mr. Keker is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Negri is a partner of Negri, Busso & Fariña Attorneys, a major Argentine law firm, where he practices in the areas of Domestic and International Banking, Financial Transactions, Privatization, and International Mergers and Acquisitions. He received the Argentine Legal Profession Award granted by the Argentine Press Association and the Argentine Federation of Bar Associations in 1990.

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...

He was Managing Partner of Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados from 1998 to 2000 and is currently a member of the firm's Management Committee. He is Head of the firm's Corporate Practice and is a specialist in Banking Law, Securities Market Law, Collective Investment Institutions, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Family and Private Equity Businesses.

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...