Advisory Board

Roxana Kahale is the Founding Partner of Kahale Abogados, a law firm whose members have over 15 years of experience in Argentina counseling local and foreign clients. She practices in Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate, Energy, Entertainment, and Antitrust Law. She was selected Co-Chair of The Women Lawyers International Group of the IBA as of January 1, 2009. In 2007, Apertura Magazine voted her the best woman lawyer in Argentina.

Thierry Brocas is one of the founders of the firm. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, stock options, LBOs, and acquisition finance and restructurings. He mainly advises French and international groups in connection with the acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies.

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1971, he holds a LLM from Harvard Law School (1970), an advanced degree (DES) in law from the University of Paris (1968) and graduated from the Institute for Political Sciences (IEP Paris, 1967). He started his career at Gide Loyrette Nouel, first as an associate and from 1980 as a partner. He then joined Charles-Henri de Pardieu in 1993 to develop the firm.

Rafael E. Cañas is a founding partner at Sfera Legal, one of Costa Rica’s leading firms. His 20-year legal career focuses on advising U.S. clients in investment and development activities, mainly in complex real estate transactions and development. Rafael is also a trusted corporate counsel to multinational and free trade zone companies based in Costa Rica. He complements his legal practice with leadership roles in several professional, business, and educational organizations.

Gary Sasso represents business clients in securities fraud and consumer fraud class actions and other complex litigation at the trial and appellate level, in the financial services industry, energy sector, products manufacturing industry, and services sector. Mr. Sasso has tried cases in the areas of securities fraud, business contracts, products liability, professional malpractice, employment discrimination and termination, eminent domain, bankruptcy, construction, administrative law, and land use in Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.