About Us

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.

Sietze Hepkema joined SBM as Chief Governance and Compliance Officer in May 2012. Prior to joining SBM, he was a partner of Allen & Overy, a prestigious international law firm, from 1987 to 2011 and before that of Graham & James . Sietze has decades of experience advising companies on matters of coporate governance and corporate finance.

Morten Smordal is Partner at BA-HR. His practice focuses on Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions law, particularly in the Energy and Shipping industries. Previously, he was Legal Director for Kværner Oil & Gas and then for Aker Kværner following a merger.

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...

Thomas S. Heather joined the Firm in 1981 and became a partner in 1982 thru 2005; he rejoined Ritch, Mueller, Heather y Nicolau as a partner in 2013. Mr. Heather has more than 40 years of experience and has earned recognitions and distinctions as a leading lawyer in Mexico and Latin America. He specializes in banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and alternative dispute resolutions. He is currently a director and member of the Audit and Corporate Governance Committees of Grupo Financ...

Widely recognized as a pioneer and a thought leader on data privacy and security law issues, Francoise Gilbert has been advising clients on a wide range of domestic and foreign data protection legal issues for more than 30 years. In the early days of data networks and the Internet, she worked with State and Federal elected officials on the development of the laws and legal structures that would apply to the collection, use and transfer of sensitive personal data. Today, her practice is focuse...

Glenn Hendrix is the Chair of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. He is litigator, with a practice focused on False Claims Act defense and commercial litigation and arbitration, including international arbitration. Glenn is active in the American Bar Association, serving as a member of the ABA’s House of Delegates. He is a past Chair of the ABA’s 24,000-member Section of International Law and continues to serve on the Section’s Council. He has served since 2010 as the ABA’s representative to the U.S. ...

Mr. Marc E. Manly served as an Executive Vice President and President of Commercial Portfolio Organization at Duke Energy Corporation from December 17, 2012 to June 30, 2015.

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...

From 1950 to 1954 he was Advocate for Ministry of Finance in Jeddah and Dammam, Saudi Arabia and from 1954 to 1955 he was Special Counsel to US Aid Mission, Jordan.In 1955-1965 and then again in 1969 he was Deputy Chairman of Cairo Amman Bank.From 1965 to 1969, he was Minister of National Economy, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Jordan’s Governor at the World Bank.In 1971 he established his law practice in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to cover the GCC countries, and fr...

Bruno Cova, European Co-Chair of Restructuring & Insolvency and Compliance Groups, focuses his practice on complex transactions such as cross-border acquisitions and restructuring of distressed companies. He also regularly advises international corporations and financial institutions in dealing with corporate governance and legal risks issues, devising internal controls or contractual mechanisms to minimize those risks, investigating legal and compliance problems, and defending clients be...

Kenneth Siegel is the Managing Partner of Morrison & Foerster's Tokyo office and the head of the office's 50 attorney M&A team. His practice focuses on the representation of high-technology companies in acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Mr. Siegel has been consistently ranked as one of the leading U.S. attorneys in Japan.