About Us

As founding Partner of the firm, Mr. Morales represents principals in major corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions; equity capital markets transactions, international corporate debt restructurings and public and private securities issuances.

Matt Feeney is the Chair of Snell & Wilmer, one of the largest law firms in the Western United States, with offices in Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and Los Cabos, Mexico. His practice is concentrated in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, SEC reporting and compliance, and corporate governance matters, including advising corporate boards and board committees.

Rolandas Valiunas has more than 25 years of experience in advising multiple market leading international and local companies on sophisticated corporate, M&A and capital markets transactions.

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.

Satoru Murase advises global corporations regarding cross-border investments and disputes in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He is well known for his representation of major Japanese and Asian corporations in their overseas operations and disputes, as well as major U.S. and European corporations operating in Asia. He provides advice regarding mergers and acquisitions, finance, litigation, corporate governance, compliance, crisis management, employment, and government rel...

Mr. Zuklie serves as the global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Orrick. He is an experienced business and legal advisor who has completed hundreds of venture capital financings and numerous public offerings, mergers, acquisitions and licensing transactions. He counsels technology companies at all stages of their life cycles, as well as their founders, advisors and investors.

Richard Hays is the managing partner of Alston & Bird LLP. He previously served as financial partner on the firm’s management committee and chaired the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. Mr. Hays received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1982, his M.Sc. in law from Edinburgh University in 1984 as a Rotary Scholar and his J.D. in 1986 from Vanderbilt School of Law, where he was an editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review.

Fernando Peláez-Pier has been a partner of Hoet Peláez Castillo & Duque since 1977. He has been responsible for setting up the London Office and Director of European Offices (Paris and London) of Bomchil, Castro, Goodrich, Claro, Arosemena & Associates, 1972-1976. His areas of practice are contracts, mergers and acquisitions, general counseling, integral patents, prosecution, telecommunications, information technology and e-commerce, trade, investments, finance, exchange control regul...

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...

Paul Theiss is Chairman of Mayer Brown. He has served on the firm’s Management Committee since 2009 and previously served as a co-leader of the firm’s global Corporate & Securities practice. He joined Mayer Brown in 1985. Paul practices corporate law focusing on a broad spectrum of mergers and acquisitions and capital markets work. He advises clients on both public and private mergers and acquisitions, and serves as general outside counsel to numerous companies as they develop...

Pedro Freitas has extensive experience advising on corporate law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and infrastructure, and deep specific knowledge about the mining, construction, project finance, energy and natural resources, acquired in years of practice as a consultant internal and external. Pedro Freitas joined Odebrecht as Legal Director of the construction industry, working in the areas of regulatory law, public procurement, corporate, litigation estratégivo financing and c...

Jaime Carey is Managing Partner of Carey y Cía, the largest law firm in Chile. He was also Chair of the World Services Group 2004-2005. Mr. Carey practices in the areas of corporate law, leases and leasing, banks and banking, mergers and acquisitions, and taxation.