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As a Senior Client Advisor within Perkins Coie’s Client Advantage team, Mark leverages his wide-ranging experience to help his general counsel clients innovate, solve problems, understand trends in legal services and bring value to the law firm-client relationship. Clients in both public and private sectors turn to Mark Roellig for his decades of experience at the highest levels of Fortune 500 companies. Armed with best practices and deep knowledge, he advises general counsel and their senior...

Prof. Dr. M. Fadlullah Cerrahoglu was born in 1941 and was graduated from the University of Istanbul, Faculty of Law in 1965. In 1971, he completed his PhD at Marmara University (Istanbul) and became a full professor in 1980.

As Managing Partner, Steven Sonberg is the chief executive officer of the firm, overseeing the strategic growth and direction of the firm and the management of all aspects of the firm's operations. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Sonberg is a corporate lawyer whose practices have focused on the areas of securities law and mergers and acquisitions. His practice has included the representation of domestic and international businesses in public and private offerings of debt and equity...

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...

Rachel is a corporate lawyer with close to 27 years of experience, specializing in corporate advisory, M&A, REITs and funds, listing and corporate governance advisory work. Prior to founding Eng and Co. LLC, Rachel was the deputy chairman of a major Singapore law firm with regional offices in various parts of Asia. Rachel is experienced in corporate advisory and transactional matters. She handles corporate finance transactions and initial public offerings of companies, REITs and business ...

For over 25 years, Ricardo has practiced complex commercial litigation and corporate counseling primarily in federal courts and international arbitration proceedings involving First Amendment defense, product liability, lender's liability, distribution, franchising and trade regulation issues. Since 1987, Ricardo has appeared as lead counsel, primarily for the defense, for many Fortune 500 companies in approximately 50 reported federal cases, that comprise 18 appeals successfully argued or br...

Jose Quiñones has extensive local and international experience advising foreign financial institutions in structured finance deals, sovereign bond offerings in international capital markets, cross-border transactions and its tax implications, mergers and acquisitions and complex project finance deals involving local and foreign banks and financial institutions and/or borrowers. He is often retained to advice on business and corporate strategy, serves as advisor to boards of financial institut...

Carrie Hightman serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for NiSource Inc. She is responsible for all legal and corporate secretary functions, as well as corporate governance, ethics and compliance, business continuity, records management, privacy and unregulated real estate investments. She also serves as the NiSource Executive Inclusion and Diversity Champion. Prior to joining NiSource, Hightman served as President of AT&T Illinois (formerly SBC).

David Frick is Senior Vice President, Corporate Governance, Compliance and Corporate Services on the Executive Board of Nestlé. Prior to joining Nestlé, Mr. Frick was Group General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance at Credit Suisse Group in Zurich. Mr. Frick received a JD degree from Zurich University and a Masters of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Zurich and the New York bar. Mr. Frick is a member of the Boards of economiesuisse, ICC Switzerland and Allianz Su...

Stephen C. Mahon is global managing partner of Squire Patton Boggs. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and hedge fund investing and corporate financing activities. He also provides advice on matters such as corporate governance, securities law, strategic investments and joint ventures. Prior to becoming the firm’s managing partner, Mr. Mahon served as Squire Sanders’ global business practice leader, as a member of the firm’s management committee and as chair of t...

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.