About Us

Lasha Gogiberidze is a founding partner of BGI Advisory Services Georgia and the director of BGI Legal. Earlier, he served as a director of corporate practice in Ernst & Young's Georgian office and was a leading attorney in the Georgian Consulting Group. Together with his colleagues at BGI, he has been involved in nearly every major transaction in Georgia over the past decade.

Maura Abeln Smith is the founder of Maura A. Smith Law Offices LLC, a boutique law firm that opened in 2016. Offices are located in New Canaan, CT, and New York City, NY. Previously, Ms. Smith was Executive Vice President, General Counsel and General Secretary of Delhaize Group before she left the firm in 2013 to start her own practice.

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...

Steve Goldman is the managing partner of the firm and a nationally recognized trial lawyer with over 35 years of experience litigating and trying a diverse range of cases throughout the United States.

Bob Giles served as the firm’s managing partner from 1986 through 2014, overseeing the firm's growth to more than 1,000 attorneys in 19 different offices. He continues to assist on a number of administrative and special projects. Bob began at Perkins Coie in 1974. He focused his practice in the areas of partnerships, tax planning, real estate syndications and general corporate practice.

Geir Steinberg specializes in change processes and restructuring in industry and commerce and in government administration, with focus on changes in corporate structures, shareholder structure, formation of corporations as well as downsizing and restructuring. Geir has extensive management experience both as Managing Partner/Chairman of the Board of Haavind from 2004 to 2013 and from several directorships. He advises boards and executives on strategic issues and different leadership challenge...

In addition to his management responsibilities, James Lehman practices in the areas of business and securities litigation, white collar investigations, and professional liability. Mr. Lehman has also served in senior executive management positions. In 2001, he joined Safety-Kleen as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, which at the time was one of the largest bankruptcies in US history.

Keith served as chair and chief executive partner of Morrison & Foerster from 2000–2012, serving four three-year terms, the longest tenure of any chair in the modern era. As such, he took the lead in setting policy and providing strategic direction to the 1,000-lawyer global law firm. During his tenure, the firm more than doubled its revenue and tripled its net income without increasing attorney headcount. He was personally engaged in virtually every lateral hire at the firm. He also led ...

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...

Kriton is an expert in Intellectual Property Law and Antipiracy issues, as well as in International Corporate Litigation, White Collar Crime and Asset Recovery. He has represented in many occasions MPAA, the Greek Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Association, major film studios, Dassault Systemes, Warner the International Amnesty a.o. He has also been representing many major players of the Greek entertainment industry and prominent Greek authors, composers, directors and artists.

Karim Anjarwalla is the Managing Partner and heads the firm’s Corporate Department at Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K), one of Kenya’s premier law firms and one of the largest in East Africa. Karim has a wide array of experience advising domestic, regional and international clients on capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity investments.

Mr. Ravi Nath is the Chairman and Managing Partner with Rajinder Narain & Company one of the most respected law firms in India and the first to be established in New Delhi soon after Independence. He was President of the Inter Pacific Bar Association in Tokyo from 2003 to 2004. He is the Chair of a Committee of the International Bar Association in London and Vice President of the Society of Indian Law Firms.